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A technique for automated analysis of multimedia, such as, for example, a news broadcast. A Broadcast News Editor and Broadcast News Navigator system analyze, select, condense, and then present news summaries. The system enables not only viewing a hierarchical table of contents of the news, but also summaries tailored to individual needs. This is accomplished through story segmentation and proper name extraction which enables the use of common information retrieval methodologies, such as Web browsers. Robust segmentation processing is provided using multistream analysis on imagery, audio, and closed captioned stream cue events according to a finite state model indicative of the presentation class.

In a method and a medical telemetry system for communication between an external monitoring device and an implantable medical device of the medical telemetry system at a transmitting end, an implantable medical device frame layer packet is segmented into one or more data blocks of a radio packet. The data blocks are transmitted in the communication between the external monitoring device and the implantable medical device. A start of the implantable medical device is indicated in the frame layer packet by including in a first data block of the radio packet a segmentation and reassembly indicator having a first value. At the transmitting end, the data blocks are transmitted over a short-range medical radio link. At the receiving end, the data blocks are reassembled into the originally transmitted implantable medical device frame layer packet.

Representations of a segmented, contoured organ or lesion are obtained from two-dimensional or three-dimensional images. A contour within the image of the lesion or organ of interest is used to identify a region around the initial contour and transform it into a boundary image comprising sampling lines that contain points identifying the organ boundary.

An image processing method, comprising acquiring an image of a 3-D tubular object of interest to segment; computing a 3-D path that corresponds to the centerline of the tubular object and defining segments on said 3-D path; creating an initial straight deformable cylindrical mesh model, of any kind of mesh, with a length defined along its longitudinal axis equal to the length of the 3-D path; dividing this initial mesh model into segments of length related to the different segments of the 3-D path; computing, for each segment of the mesh, a rigid-body transformation that transforms the initial direction of the mesh into the direction of the related segment of the 3-D path, and applying this transformation to the vertices of the mesh corresponding to that segment. The method comprises avoiding self-intersections in the bent regions of the tubular deformable mesh model and sharp radius changes from one segment of the mesh model to the other, by adapting or modulating the radius of the cylindrical deformable mesh model according to the local curvature of the 3-D path, sample distance of the path points and a predefined input radius.

The method comprises:generating a set of cost functions for foreground, background and shadow segmentation classes or models, where the background and shadow segmentation models are a function of chromatic distortion and brightness and colour distortion, and where said cost functions are related to probability measures of a given pixel or region to belong to each of said segmentation classes; andapplying to pixel data of an image said set of generated cost functions;The method further comprises defining said background and shadow segmentation cost functionals introducing depth information of the scene said image has been acquired of.The system comprises camera means intended for acquiring, from a scene, colour and depth information, and processing means intended for carrying out said foreground segmentation by hardware and / or software elements implementing the method.

Disclosed is a systematic way of automatically segmenting lung regions. To increase the efficiency of a lung segmentation technique, a region-based technique, such as region growing, is performed by a computer on a middle slice of the CT volume. A contour-based technique is then used for a plurality of non-middle slices of the CT volume. This allows the implementation to be multithreaded and results in an improvement in the segmentation algorithm's efficiency.

The invention discloses a liver multi-phase CT image fusion method which comprises the steps of firstly performing coarse registering on a source image sequence according to a multi-resolution CT image registering method based on a combined histogram, then realizing automatic liver image dividing according to a region growing algorithm in combination with confidence connection and liver image dividing based on a gradient vector flow snake model, and effectively extracting the edge information of the liver; performing blood vessel extraction based on a directional region growing algorithm on the liver image, performing free deformation transformation based on a B spline and liver non-rigid registering based on space weighting mutual information on a liver essential image, thereby accurately finding an image pair at a same position of a space; and finally performing image fusion based on wavelet transformation. The liver multi-phase CT image fusion method aims at the characteristics of a liver CT image. An image separation process and an image registering process are combined with the image fusion process, thereby greatly improving fusion precision.

A system and method for semantic segmentation using hybrid dilated convolution (HDC) are disclosed. A particular embodiment includes: receiving an input image; producing a feature map from the input image; performing a convolution operation on the feature map and producing multiple convolution layers; grouping the multiple convolution layers into a plurality of groups; applying different dilation rates for different convolution layers in a single group of the plurality of groups; and applying a same dilation rate setting across all groups of the plurality of groups.

A system method for occluding contour detection using a fully convolutional neural network is disclosed. A particular embodiment includes: receiving an input image; producing a feature map from the input image by semantic segmentation; applying a Dense Upsampling Convolution (DUC) operation on the feature map to produce contour information of objects and object instances detected in the input image; and applying the contour information onto the input image.

A method is disclosed for determining a sought object contour in a digital microscope image, which includes a plurality of image elements and reproduces a biological material. The method includes assigning edge values to at least a first subset of the image elements in the image; assigning values of a first gradient vector component whose values each includes a first linear combination of edge values of some surrounding image elements to at least a second subset of the image elements in the image; assigning values of a second gradient vector component whose values each include a second linear combination of edge values of some surrounding image elements to at least a third subset of the image elements in the image; and calculating an estimate of the sought object contour based upon values of the first and second gradient vector components.

The invention discloses a brain glioma segmentation method based on a cascaded convolutional neural network, and the method comprises the steps: carrying out the primary coarse segmentation of a braintumor region, and extracting the approximate position information of a tumor; expanding 10 pixels for each dimension on the basis of coarse segmentation and taking the 10 pixels as input of a fine segmentation network; improviing the fine segmentation network, so as to enable the fine segmentation network to combine the advantages of dense connection, an improved loss function and multi-dimensional model integration; designing an integrated model of three directions (2D, 2.5 D and 3DCNN models), and respectively considering all information of different resolutions corresponding to each direction; integrating post-processing operation condition random fields in a segmentation algorithm, and optimizing continuity of segmentation results in appearance and spatial positions. According to themethod, the brain glioma is segmented through the two-step cascaded convolutional neural network, the advantages of dense connection, a new loss function and multi-dimensional model integration are combined, an integration model in multiple directions is designed, and finally a segmentation result is optimized through a conditional random field.