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| Author | Naila Murray; Maria Vanrell; Xavier Otazu; C. Alejandro Parraga | ||||
| Title | Low-level SpatioChromatic Grouping for Saliency Estimation | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2013 | Publication | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | Abbreviated Journal | TPAMI |
| Volume | 35 | Issue  |
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| Abstract | We propose a saliency model termed SIM (saliency by induction mechanisms), which is based on a low-level spatiochromatic model that has successfully predicted chromatic induction phenomena. In so doing, we hypothesize that the low-level visual mechanisms that enhance or suppress image detail are also responsible for making some image regions more salient. Moreover, SIM adds geometrical grouplets to enhance complex low-level features such as corners, and suppress relatively simpler features such as edges. Since our model has been fitted on psychophysical chromatic induction data, it is largely nonparametric. SIM outperforms state-of-the-art methods in predicting eye fixations on two datasets and using two metrics. | ||||
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| ISSN | 0162-8828 | ISBN | Medium | ||
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| Notes | CIC; 600.051; 600.052; 605.203 | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | Admin @ si @ MVO2013 | Serial | 2289 | ||
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| Author | Antonio Hernandez; Miguel Reyes; Victor Ponce; Sergio Escalera | ||||
| Title | GrabCut-Based Human Segmentation in Video Sequences | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2012 | Publication | Sensors | Abbreviated Journal | SENS |
| Volume | 12 | Issue |
11 | Pages | 15376-15393 |
| Keywords | segmentation; human pose recovery; GrabCut; GraphCut; Active Appearance Models; Conditional Random Field | ||||
| Abstract | In this paper, we present a fully-automatic Spatio-Temporal GrabCut human segmentation methodology that combines tracking and segmentation. GrabCut initialization is performed by a HOG-based subject detection, face detection, and skin color model. Spatial information is included by Mean Shift clustering whereas temporal coherence is considered by the historical of Gaussian Mixture Models. Moreover, full face and pose recovery is obtained by combining human segmentation with Active Appearance Models and Conditional Random Fields. Results over public datasets and in a new Human Limb dataset show a robust segmentation and recovery of both face and pose using the presented methodology. | ||||
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| Notes | HuPBA;MILAB | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | Admin @ si @ HRP2012 | Serial | 2147 | ||
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| Author | Fahad Shahbaz Khan; Jiaolong Xu; Muhammad Anwer Rao; Joost Van de Weijer; Andrew Bagdanov; Antonio Lopez | ||||
| Title | Recognizing Actions through Action-specific Person Detection | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2015 | Publication | IEEE Transactions on Image Processing | Abbreviated Journal | TIP |
| Volume | 24 | Issue |
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| Abstract | Action recognition in still images is a challenging problem in computer vision. To facilitate comparative evaluation independently of person detection, the standard evaluation protocol for action recognition uses an oracle person detector to obtain perfect bounding box information at both training and test time. The assumption is that, in practice, a general person detector will provide candidate bounding boxes for action recognition. In this paper, we argue that this paradigm is suboptimal and that action class labels should already be considered during the detection stage. Motivated by the observation that body pose is strongly conditioned on action class, we show that: 1) the existing state-of-the-art generic person detectors are not adequate for proposing candidate bounding boxes for action classification; 2) due to limited training examples, the direct training of action-specific person detectors is also inadequate; and 3) using only a small number of labeled action examples, the transfer learning is able to adapt an existing detector to propose higher quality bounding boxes for subsequent action classification. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to investigate transfer learning for the task of action-specific person detection in still images. We perform extensive experiments on two benchmark data sets: 1) Stanford-40 and 2) PASCAL VOC 2012. For the action detection task (i.e., both person localization and classification of the action performed), our approach outperforms methods based on general person detection by 5.7% mean average precision (MAP) on Stanford-40 and 2.1% MAP on PASCAL VOC 2012. Our approach also significantly outperforms the state of the art with a MAP of 45.4% on Stanford-40 and 31.4% on PASCAL VOC 2012. We also evaluate our action detection approach for the task of action classification (i.e., recognizing actions without localizing them). For this task, our approach, without using any ground-truth person localization at test tim- , outperforms on both data sets state-of-the-art methods, which do use person locations. | ||||
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| ISSN | 1057-7149 | ISBN | Medium | ||
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| Notes | ADAS; LAMP; 600.076; 600.079 | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | Admin @ si @ KXR2015 | Serial | 2668 | ||
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| Author | Alejandro Gonzalez Alzate; David Vazquez; Antonio Lopez; Jaume Amores | ||||
| Title | On-Board Object Detection: Multicue, Multimodal, and Multiview Random Forest of Local Experts | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2017 | Publication | IEEE Transactions on cybernetics | Abbreviated Journal | Cyber |
| Volume | 47 | Issue |
11 | Pages | 3980 - 3990 |
| Keywords | Multicue; multimodal; multiview; object detection | ||||
| Abstract | Despite recent significant advances, object detection continues to be an extremely challenging problem in real scenarios. In order to develop a detector that successfully operates under these conditions, it becomes critical to leverage upon multiple cues, multiple imaging modalities, and a strong multiview (MV) classifier that accounts for different object views and poses. In this paper, we provide an extensive evaluation that gives insight into how each of these aspects (multicue, multimodality, and strong MV classifier) affect accuracy both individually and when integrated together. In the multimodality component, we explore the fusion of RGB and depth maps obtained by high-definition light detection and ranging, a type of modality that is starting to receive increasing attention. As our analysis reveals, although all the aforementioned aspects significantly help in improving the accuracy, the fusion of visible spectrum and depth information allows to boost the accuracy by a much larger margin. The resulting detector not only ranks among the top best performers in the challenging KITTI benchmark, but it is built upon very simple blocks that are easy to implement and computationally efficient. | ||||
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| ISSN | 2168-2267 | ISBN | Medium | ||
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| Notes | ADAS; 600.085; 600.082; 600.076; 600.118 | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | Admin @ si @ | Serial | 2810 | ||
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| Author | Marçal Rusiñol; J. Chazalon; Katerine Diaz | ||||
| Title | Augmented Songbook: an Augmented Reality Educational Application for Raising Music Awareness | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2018 | Publication | Multimedia Tools and Applications | Abbreviated Journal | MTAP |
| Volume | 77 | Issue |
11 | Pages | 13773-13798 |
| Keywords | Augmented reality; Document image matching; Educational applications | ||||
| Abstract | This paper presents the development of an Augmented Reality mobile application which aims at sensibilizing young children to abstract concepts of music. Such concepts are, for instance, the musical notation or the idea of rhythm. Recent studies in Augmented Reality for education suggest that such technologies have multiple benefits for students, including younger ones. As mobile document image acquisition and processing gains maturity on mobile platforms, we explore how it is possible to build a markerless and real-time application to augment the physical documents with didactic animations and interactive virtual content. Given a standard image processing pipeline, we compare the performance of different local descriptors at two key stages of the process. Results suggest alternatives to the SIFT local descriptors, regarding result quality and computational efficiency, both for document model identification and perspective transform estimation. All experiments are performed on an original and public dataset we introduce here. | ||||
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| Notes | DAG; ADAS; 600.084; 600.121; 600.118; 600.129 | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | Admin @ si @ RCD2018 | Serial | 2996 | ||
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| Author | Xim Cerda-Company; Xavier Otazu; Nilai Sallent; C. Alejandro Parraga | ||||
| Title | The effect of luminance differences on color assimilation | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2018 | Publication | Journal of Vision | Abbreviated Journal | JV |
| Volume | 18 | Issue |
11 | Pages | 10-10 |
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| Abstract | The color appearance of a surface depends on the color of its surroundings (inducers). When the perceived color shifts towards that of the surroundings, the effect is called “color assimilation” and when it shifts away from the surroundings it is called “color contrast.” There is also evidence that the phenomenon depends on the spatial configuration of the inducer, e.g., uniform surrounds tend to induce color contrast and striped surrounds tend to induce color assimilation. However, previous work found that striped surrounds under certain conditions do not induce color assimilation but induce color contrast (or do not induce anything at all), suggesting that luminance differences and high spatial frequencies could be key factors in color assimilation. Here we present a new psychophysical study of color assimilation where we assessed the contribution of luminance differences (between the target and its surround) present in striped stimuli. Our results show that luminance differences are key factors in color assimilation for stimuli varying along the s axis of MacLeod-Boynton color space, but not for stimuli varying along the l axis. This asymmetry suggests that koniocellular neural mechanisms responsible for color assimilation only contribute when there is a luminance difference, supporting the idea that mutual-inhibition has a major role in color induction. | ||||
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| Notes | NEUROBIT; 600.120; 600.128 | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | Admin @ si @ COS2018 | Serial | 3148 | ||
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| Author | Cristhian A. Aguilera-Carrasco; C. Aguilera; Angel Sappa | ||||
| Title | Melamine Faced Panels Defect Classification beyond the Visible Spectrum | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2018 | Publication | Sensors | Abbreviated Journal | SENS |
| Volume | 18 | Issue |
11 | Pages | 1-10 |
| Keywords | industrial application; infrared; machine learning | ||||
| Abstract | In this work, we explore the use of images from different spectral bands to classify defects in melamine faced panels, which could appear through the production process. Through experimental evaluation, we evaluate the use of images from the visible (VS), near-infrared (NIR), and long wavelength infrared (LWIR), to classify the defects using a feature descriptor learning approach together with a support vector machine classifier. Two descriptors were evaluated, Extended Local Binary Patterns (E-LBP) and SURF using a Bag of Words (BoW) representation. The evaluation was carried on with an image set obtained during this work, which contained five different defect categories that currently occurs in the industry. Results show that using images from beyond the visual spectrum helps to improve classification performance in contrast with a single visible spectrum solution. | ||||
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| Notes | MSIAU; 600.122 | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | Admin @ si @ AAS2018 | Serial | 3191 | ||
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| Author | Razieh Rastgoo; Kourosh Kiani; Sergio Escalera | ||||
| Title | Multi-Modal Deep Hand Sign Language Recognition in Still Images Using Restricted Boltzmann Machine | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2018 | Publication | Entropy | Abbreviated Journal | ENTROPY |
| Volume | 20 | Issue |
11 | Pages | 809 |
| Keywords | hand sign language; deep learning; restricted Boltzmann machine (RBM); multi-modal; profoundly deaf; noisy image | ||||
| Abstract | In this paper, a deep learning approach, Restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM), is used to perform automatic hand sign language recognition from visual data. We evaluate how RBM, as a deep generative model, is capable of generating the distribution of the input data for an enhanced recognition of unseen data. Two modalities, RGB and Depth, are considered in the model input in three forms: original image, cropped image, and noisy cropped image. Five crops of the input image are used and the hand of these cropped images are detected using Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). After that, three types of the detected hand images are generated for each modality and input to RBMs. The outputs of the RBMs for two modalities are fused in another RBM in order to recognize the output sign label of the input image. The proposed multi-modal model is trained on all and part of the American alphabet and digits of four publicly available datasets. We also evaluate the robustness of the proposal against noise. Experimental results show that the proposed multi-modal model, using crops and the RBM fusing methodology, achieves state-of-the-art results on Massey University Gesture Dataset 2012, American Sign Language (ASL). and Fingerspelling Dataset from the University of Surrey’s Center for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing, NYU, and ASL Fingerspelling A datasets. | ||||
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| Call Number | Admin @ si @ RKE2018 | Serial | 3198 | ||
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| Author | Zhijie Fang; Antonio Lopez | ||||
| Title | Intention Recognition of Pedestrians and Cyclists by 2D Pose Estimation | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2019 | Publication | IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems | Abbreviated Journal | TITS |
| Volume | 21 | Issue |
11 | Pages | 4773 - 4783 |
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| Abstract | Anticipating the intentions of vulnerable road users (VRUs) such as pedestrians and cyclists is critical for performing safe and comfortable driving maneuvers. This is the case for human driving and, thus, should be taken into account by systems providing any level of driving assistance, from advanced driver assistant systems (ADAS) to fully autonomous vehicles (AVs). In this paper, we show how the latest advances on monocular vision-based human pose estimation, i.e. those relying on deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), enable to recognize the intentions of such VRUs. In the case of cyclists, we assume that they follow traffic rules to indicate future maneuvers with arm signals. In the case of pedestrians, no indications can be assumed. Instead, we hypothesize that the walking pattern of a pedestrian allows to determine if he/she has the intention of crossing the road in the path of the ego-vehicle, so that the ego-vehicle must maneuver accordingly (e.g. slowing down or stopping). In this paper, we show how the same methodology can be used for recognizing pedestrians and cyclists' intentions. For pedestrians, we perform experiments on the JAAD dataset. For cyclists, we did not found an analogous dataset, thus, we created our own one by acquiring and annotating videos which we share with the research community. Overall, the proposed pipeline provides new state-of-the-art results on the intention recognition of VRUs. | ||||
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| Notes | ADAS; 600.118 | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | Admin @ si @ FaL2019 | Serial | 3305 | ||
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| Author | Mohammad Naser Sabet; Pau Buch Cardona; Egils Avots; Kamal Nasrollahi; Sergio Escalera; Thomas B. Moeslund; Gholamreza Anbarjafari | ||||
| Title | Privacy-Constrained Biometric System for Non-cooperative Users | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2019 | Publication | Entropy | Abbreviated Journal | ENTROPY |
| Volume | 21 | Issue |
11 | Pages | 1033 |
| Keywords | biometric recognition; multimodal-based human identification; privacy; deep learning | ||||
| Abstract | With the consolidation of the new data protection regulation paradigm for each individual within the European Union (EU), major biometric technologies are now confronted with many concerns related to user privacy in biometric deployments. When individual biometrics are disclosed, the sensitive information about his/her personal data such as financial or health are at high risk of being misused or compromised. This issue can be escalated considerably over scenarios of non-cooperative users, such as elderly people residing in care homes, with their inability to interact conveniently and securely with the biometric system. The primary goal of this study is to design a novel database to investigate the problem of automatic people recognition under privacy constraints. To do so, the collected data-set contains the subject’s hand and foot traits and excludes the face biometrics of individuals in order to protect their privacy. We carried out extensive simulations using different baseline methods, including deep learning. Simulation results show that, with the spatial features extracted from the subject sequence in both individual hand or foot videos, state-of-the-art deep models provide promising recognition performance. | ||||
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| Call Number | Admin @ si @ NBA2019 | Serial | 3313 | ||
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| Author | Cristhian A. Aguilera-Carrasco; Cristhian Aguilera; Cristobal A. Navarro; Angel Sappa | ||||
| Title | Fast CNN Stereo Depth Estimation through Embedded GPU Devices | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2020 | Publication | Sensors | Abbreviated Journal | SENS |
| Volume | 20 | Issue |
11 | Pages | 3249 |
| Keywords | stereo matching; deep learning; embedded GPU | ||||
| Abstract | Current CNN-based stereo depth estimation models can barely run under real-time constraints on embedded graphic processing unit (GPU) devices. Moreover, state-of-the-art evaluations usually do not consider model optimization techniques, being that it is unknown what is the current potential on embedded GPU devices. In this work, we evaluate two state-of-the-art models on three different embedded GPU devices, with and without optimization methods, presenting performance results that illustrate the actual capabilities of embedded GPU devices for stereo depth estimation. More importantly, based on our evaluation, we propose the use of a U-Net like architecture for postprocessing the cost-volume, instead of a typical sequence of 3D convolutions, drastically augmenting the runtime speed of current models. In our experiments, we achieve real-time inference speed, in the range of 5–32 ms, for 1216 × 368 input stereo images on the Jetson TX2, Jetson Xavier, and Jetson Nano embedded devices. | ||||
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| Notes | MSIAU; 600.122 | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | Admin @ si @ AAN2020 | Serial | 3428 | ||
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| Author | Javier Selva; Anders S. Johansen; Sergio Escalera; Kamal Nasrollahi; Thomas B. Moeslund; Albert Clapes | ||||
| Title | Video transformers: A survey | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2023 | Publication | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | Abbreviated Journal | TPAMI |
| Volume | 45 | Issue |
11 | Pages | 12922-12943 |
| Keywords | Artificial Intelligence; Computer Vision; Self-Attention; Transformers; Video Representations | ||||
| Abstract | Transformer models have shown great success handling long-range interactions, making them a promising tool for modeling video. However, they lack inductive biases and scale quadratically with input length. These limitations are further exacerbated when dealing with the high dimensionality introduced by the temporal dimension. While there are surveys analyzing the advances of Transformers for vision, none focus on an in-depth analysis of video-specific designs. In this survey, we analyze the main contributions and trends of works leveraging Transformers to model video. Specifically, we delve into how videos are handled at the input level first. Then, we study the architectural changes made to deal with video more efficiently, reduce redundancy, re-introduce useful inductive biases, and capture long-term temporal dynamics. In addition, we provide an overview of different training regimes and explore effective self-supervised learning strategies for video. Finally, we conduct a performance comparison on the most common benchmark for Video Transformers (i.e., action classification), finding them to outperform 3D ConvNets even with less computational complexity. | ||||
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| Notes | HUPBA; no menciona | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | Admin @ si @ SJE2023 | Serial | 3823 | ||
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| Author | Ruben Tito; Dimosthenis Karatzas; Ernest Valveny | ||||
| Title | Hierarchical multimodal transformers for Multipage DocVQA | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2023 | Publication | Pattern Recognition | Abbreviated Journal | PR |
| Volume | 144 | Issue |
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| Abstract | Existing work on DocVQA only considers single-page documents. However, in real applications documents are mostly composed of multiple pages that should be processed altogether. In this work, we propose a new multimodal hierarchical method Hi-VT5, that overcomes the limitations of current methods to process long multipage documents. In contrast to previous hierarchical methods that focus on different semantic granularity (He et al., 2021) or different subtasks (Zhou et al., 2022) used in image classification. Our method is a hierarchical transformer architecture where the encoder learns to summarize the most relevant information of every page and then, the decoder uses this summarized representation to generate the final answer, following a bottom-up approach. Moreover, due to the lack of multipage DocVQA datasets, we also introduce MP-DocVQA, an extension of SP-DocVQA where questions are posed over multipage documents instead of single pages. Through extensive experimentation, we demonstrate that Hi-VT5 is able, in a single stage, to answer the questions and provide the page that contains the answer, which can be used as a kind of explainability measure. | ||||
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| Call Number | Admin @ si @ TKV2023 | Serial | 3836 | ||
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| Author | Laura Igual; Joan Carles Soliva; Antonio Hernandez; Sergio Escalera; Xavier Jimenez ; Oscar Vilarroya; Petia Radeva | ||||
| Title | A fully-automatic caudate nucleus segmentation of brain MRI: Application in volumetric analysis of pediatric attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2011 | Publication | BioMedical Engineering Online | Abbreviated Journal | BEO |
| Volume | 10 | Issue |
105 | Pages | 1-23 |
| Keywords | Brain caudate nucleus; segmentation; MRI; atlas-based strategy; Graph Cut framework | ||||
| Abstract | Background
Accurate automatic segmentation of the caudate nucleus in magnetic resonance images (MRI) of the brain is of great interest in the analysis of developmental disorders. Segmentation methods based on a single atlas or on multiple atlases have been shown to suitably localize caudate structure. However, the atlas prior information may not represent the structure of interest correctly. It may therefore be useful to introduce a more flexible technique for accurate segmentations. Method We present Cau-dateCut: a new fully-automatic method of segmenting the caudate nucleus in MRI. CaudateCut combines an atlas-based segmentation strategy with the Graph Cut energy-minimization framework. We adapt the Graph Cut model to make it suitable for segmenting small, low-contrast structures, such as the caudate nucleus, by defining new energy function data and boundary potentials. In particular, we exploit information concerning the intensity and geometry, and we add supervised energies based on contextual brain structures. Furthermore, we reinforce boundary detection using a new multi-scale edgeness measure. Results We apply the novel CaudateCut method to the segmentation of the caudate nucleus to a new set of 39 pediatric attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) patients and 40 control children, as well as to a public database of 18 subjects. We evaluate the quality of the segmentation using several volumetric and voxel by voxel measures. Our results show improved performance in terms of segmentation compared to state-of-the-art approaches, obtaining a mean overlap of 80.75%. Moreover, we present a quantitative volumetric analysis of caudate abnormalities in pediatric ADHD, the results of which show strong correlation with expert manual analysis. Conclusion CaudateCut generates segmentation results that are comparable to gold-standard segmentations and which are reliable in the analysis of differentiating neuroanatomical abnormalities between healthy controls and pediatric ADHD. |
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| Call Number | Admin @ si @ ISH2011 | Serial | 1882 | ||
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| Author | P. Canals; Simone Balocco; O. Diaz; J. Li; A. Garcia Tornel; M. Olive Gadea; M. Ribo | ||||
| Title | A fully automatic method for vascular tortuosity feature extraction in the supra-aortic region: unraveling possibilities in stroke treatment planning | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2023 | Publication | Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics | Abbreviated Journal | CMIG |
| Volume | 104 | Issue |
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| Keywords | Artificial intelligence; Deep learning; Stroke; Thrombectomy; Vascular feature extraction; Vascular tortuosity | ||||
| Abstract | Vascular tortuosity of supra-aortic vessels is widely considered one of the main reasons for failure and delays in endovascular treatment of large vessel occlusion in patients with acute ischemic stroke. Characterization of tortuosity is a challenging task due to the lack of objective, robust and effective analysis tools. We present a fully automatic method for arterial segmentation, vessel labelling and tortuosity feature extraction applied to the supra-aortic region. A sample of 566 computed tomography angiography scans from acute ischemic stroke patients (aged 74.8 ± 12.9, 51.0% females) were used for training, validation and testing of a segmentation module based on a U-Net architecture (162 cases) and a vessel labelling module powered by a graph U-Net (566 cases). Successively, 30 cases were processed for testing of a tortuosity feature extraction module. Measurements obtained through automatic processing were compared to manual annotations from two observers for a thorough validation of the method. The proposed feature extraction method presented similar performance to the inter-rater variability observed in the measurement of 33 geometrical and morphological features of the arterial anatomy in the supra-aortic region. This system will contribute to the development of more complex models to advance the treatment of stroke by adding immediate automation, objectivity, repeatability and robustness to the vascular tortuosity characterization of patients. | ||||
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| Call Number | Admin @ si @ CBD2023 | Serial | 4005 | ||
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