Removal of random value impulse noise is essential to help successive process like image segmentation, analysis, pattern recognition etc. To remove uniform/randomvalued impulse noise without compromising the image detail information such as sharp edges, Modified Directional Weighted Median Filter (MDWMF) is proposed. The proposed filter utilizes the second order difference (SOD) along with a th...

We give the n! permutations of [n] = {1,2, . . . , n} a cyclic order inspired by the children’s game of Hot Potato. Our order is a transposition Gray code, meaning that consecutive permutations differ by a single transposition. Furthermore, each transposition is restricted in two ways: (1) It must transpose value n (the “hot potato”); (2) It must transpose positions that are circularly adjacent...

BACKGROUND The cone-beam computerized tomography (CBCT) has become widely used for oral and maxillofacial imaging, providing a good spatial resolution, gray density range, and contrast, as well as a good pixel/noise ratio. In the CBCT the dimensional accuracy is also comparable with Computer Tomography (CT), but in contrast to the CT, the gray density values of the CBCT images (voxel value [VV]...

In gray level images discontinuities in image intensity profiles is called edges. Detection of these discontinuities is essential steps in many machine vision tasks such as object recognition, motion analysis etc. In this paper, various morphological operators are used on MRI images and a new algorithm is applied to give better result. Keywords-Morphological operators, MRI images and threshold ...

This paper presents a new automatic image enhancement method by modifying the gamma value of its individual pixels. Most of existing gamma correction methods apply a uniform gamma value across the image. Considering the fact that gamma variation for a single image is actually nonlinear, the proposed method locally estimates the gamma values in an image using support vector machine. First, a dat...

This study reported the multi-component decaying behavior on high-b-value diffusion-weighted MR images. Signal intensity was measured in different regions of the brain. Results showed that gray matter and cerebrospinal fluid exhibited single exponential decaying characteristics while multi-component decaying behavior was observed in some white matter areas with complicated neural fiber orientat...

It is shown that dark solitons display an inherent instability for a strong saturation of the nonlinear refractive index provided that the background intensity exceeds a certain critical value. Such an instability manifests itself as a drift of a black soliton that transform into a gray soliton and radiation.

The value of ultrasound (US) in the diagnosis of prostate cancer has dramatically increased in the past decade. This is mainly related to the increasing incidence of prostate cancer, the most common cancer in men and one of the most important causes of death from cancer in men. The value of conventional gray-scale US for prostate cancer detection has been extensively investigated, and has shown...