Hypoparathyroidism, sensorineural deafness, and renal dysplasia (HDR) syndrome is a rare autosomal dominant disease caused by GATA3 mutations. Although several cases with variable renal features have been reported, the presence of histological changes within the glomeruli in adult patients is unclear. We herein report an adult case of HDR syndrome with a novel p.C288W (TGC>TGG) missense mutatio...

This paper introduces a lossless color filter array (CFA) image compression scheme capable of handling high dynamic range (HDR) representation. The proposed pipeline consists of a series of pre-processing operations followed by a JPEG XR encoding module. A deinterleaving step separates the CFA image to sub-images of a single color channel, and each sub-image is processed by a proposed weighted ...

Shadow often interferes with accurate image analysis. To mitigate shadow effects in near-earth imagery (2 m above ground level), we created high dynamic range (HDR) nadir images and used them to measure grassland ground cover. HDR composites were created by merging three differentially exposed images spanning a wide exposure range and resulted in lightened shadows. HDR images showed more detail...

Background: The purpose of this study was to determine if stereotactic body radiosurgery (SBRT) using volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) can be used to deliver a boost to the vaginal cuff in patients with gynecological cancer as an alternative to high dose rate (HDR) brachytherapy. Methods: Between January and July 2009, five patients with gynecological cancer were treated with postoperati...

The real world encompasses a high range of luminances. In order to capture and represent this range correctly, High Dynamic Range (HDR) imaging techniques are introduced. Some of these techniques are based on constructing an HDR image from several Low Dynamic Range (LDR) images with different exposures. In the capture and reconstruction phases, the HDR reproduction techniques must resolve the d...

The development of high dynamic range (HDR) display arouses the research of inverse tone mapping methods, which expand dynamic range of the low dynamic range (LDR) image to match that of HDR monitor. This paper proposed a novel physiological approach, which could avoid artifacts occurred in most existing algorithms. Inspired by the property of the human visual system (HVS), this dynamic range e...

In this paper, we present work in progress towards the generation of a ground truth data set for High Dynamic Range (HDR) stereo matching. The development and evaluation of novel stereo matching algorithms that are tailored to the characteristics of HDR images would greatly benefit from the availability of such reference data. We describe our laboratory setup and processing steps for acquiring ...

In this paper, a tone mapping algorithm is proposed to produce LDR (Limited Dynamic Range) images from HDR (High Dynamic Range) images. In the approach, nonlinear functions are applied to compress the dynamic range of HDR images. Security tools will be then applied to the resulting LDR images and their effectiveness will be tested on the reconstructed HDR images. Three specific examples of secu...

High-dynamic-range (HDR) images are superior to conventional images. The experiments in this paper measure camera and human responses to calibrated HDR test targets. We calibrated a 4.3-log-unit test target, with minimal and maximal glare from a changeable surround. Glare is an uncontrolled spread of an image-dependent fraction of scene luminance in cameras and in the eye. We use this standard ...

High dynamic range (HDR) imaging is becoming an increasingly popular practice in computer graphics, bringing unprecedented levels of realism to computer-generated imagery and rich detail preservation to photographs and films. HDR imagery can embrace more accurately the wide range of light intensities found in real scenes than its counterpart, low dynamic range (LDR), which are tailored to the l...