To avoid motion artefacts when merging multiple exposures into a high dynamic range image, a number of HDR deghosting algorithms have been proposed. However, these algorithms do not work equally well on all types of scenes, and some may even introduce additional artefacts. As the number of proposed deghosting methods is increasing rapidly, there is an immediate need to evaluate them and compare...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE High dose rate (HDR) brachytherapy is a highly extended practice in clinical brachytherapy today. Quality dose rate distribution datasets of the HDR sources used in a clinical treatment are required. Because of the different source designs, a specific dosimetry dataset is required for each source model. In the recently published BRAPHYQS-ESTRO Report, an overview of avail...

The dynamic range of real-world scenes is broad in the natural world. The high-dynamic-range (HDR) image has pixel values that represent the whole range of real-world scenes. For the reproduction of HDR image, the images having the various exposure times are fused to one HDR image. Many HDR images were rendered by iCAM06 technique, the representative rendering algorithms. Because of the discret...

High dynamic range (HDR) displays use local backlight modulation to produce both high brightness levels and large contrast ratios. Thus, the display rendering algorithm and its parameters may greatly affect HDR visual experience. In this paper, we analyze the impact of display rendering on perceived quality for a specific display (SIM2 HDR47) and for a popular application scenario, i.e., HDR im...

In Japan, radiotherapy with high dose rate remote after loading system (HDR-RALS) for intracavitary brachytherapy is the standard treatment for more than 30 years. This report showed the usefulness of HDR-RALS for uterine cervical cancer. From 1980 through 1999, 442 patients with uterine cervical cancers (stage I: 66, stage II: 161, stage III: 165, stage IV: 50) were treated. Radiotherapy was p...

In this paper, we introduce a new method for compressing high dynamic range (HDR) imageries. Our method exploits the fact that tone mapping is a necessary operation for displaying HDR images on low dynamic range (LDR) reproduction media and seamlessly integrates tone mapping with a well-established image compression standard to produce a HDR image compression technique that is backward compatib...

BACKGROUND Although radical prostatectomy for localized disease is considered as a standard of care, external-beam radiotherapy and brachytherapy are equally effective. We report on the technique and preliminary results of high-dose-rate (HDR) brachytherapy using a temporary iridium-192 implant technique. METHODS The authors reviewed the literature on the techniques, treatment protocols, and ...

High Dynamic Range (HDR) displays and cameras are paving their ways through the consumer market at a rapid growth rate. Thanks to TV and camera manufacturers, HDR systems are now becoming available commercially to end users. This is taking place only a few years after the blooming of 3D video technologies. MPEG/ITU are also actively working towards the standardization of these technologies. How...

The mammary gland undergoes significant proliferative stages after birth, but little is known about how the developmental changes impact DNA double-strand break (DSB) repair. Mutations in multiple genes involved in homology-directed repair (HDR), considered a particularly accurate pathway for repairing DSBs, are linked to breast cancer susceptibility, including BRCA2. Using reporter mice that e...

In video games, High Dynamic Range (HDR) rendering is commonly used and allows us to render more photo-realistic looking images. HDR rendering uses a tone-mapping process to achieve a Low Dynamic Range (LDR) rendering result for a display. The process compresses or clamps HDR color information to fit LDR devices which typically have an 8-bit color resolution. There are a lot of tone-mapping alg...