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A graph-based mathematical morphology reader
This survey paper aims at providing a "literary" anthology of mathematical
morphology on graphs. It describes in the English language many ideas stemming
from a large number of different papers, hence providing a unified view of an
active and diverse field of research
The Spine of the Cosmic Web
We present the SpineWeb framework for the topological analysis of the Cosmic
Web and the identification of its walls, filaments and cluster nodes. Based on
the watershed segmentation of the cosmic density field, the SpineWeb method
invokes the local adjacency properties of the boundaries between the watershed
basins to trace the critical points in the density field and the separatrices
defined by them. The separatrices are classified into walls and the spine, the
network of filaments and nodes in the matter distribution. Testing the method
with a heuristic Voronoi model yields outstanding results. Following the
discussion of the test results, we apply the SpineWeb method to a set of
cosmological N-body simulations. The latter illustrates the potential for
studying the structure and dynamics of the Cosmic Web.Comment: Accepted for publication HIGH-RES version:
http://skysrv.pha.jhu.edu/~miguel/SpineWeb
Voids in cosmological simulations over cosmic time
We study evolution of voids in cosmological simulations using a new method
for tracing voids over cosmic time. The method is based on tracking watershed
basins (contiguous regions around density minima) of well developed voids at
low redshift, on a regular grid of density field. It enables us to construct a
robust and continuous mapping between voids at different redshifts, from
initial conditions to the present time. We discuss how the new approach
eliminates strong spurious effects of numerical origin when voids evolution is
traced by matching voids between successive snapshots (by analogy to halo
merger trees). We apply the new method to a cosmological simulation of a
standard LambdaCDM cosmological model and study evolution of basic properties
of typical voids (with effective radii between 6Mpc/h and 20Mpc/h at redshift
z=0) such as volumes, shapes, matter density distributions and relative
alignments. The final voids at low redshifts appear to retain a significant
part of the configuration acquired in initial conditions. Shapes of voids
evolve in a collective way which barely modifies the overall distribution of
the axial ratios. The evolution appears to have a weak impact on mutual
alignments of voids implying that the present state is in large part set up by
the primordial density field. We present evolution of dark matter density
profiles computed on iso-density surfaces which comply with the actual shapes
of voids. Unlike spherical density profiles, this approach enables us to
demonstrate development of theoretically predicted bucket-like shape of the
final density profiles indicating a wide flat core and a sharp transition to
high-density void walls.Comment: 13 pages, 13 figures; accepted for publication in MNRA
Identification of Individual Glandular Regions Using LCWT and Machine Learning Techniques
A new approach for the segmentation of gland units in histological images is proposed with the aim of contributing to the improvement of the prostate cancer diagnosis. Clustering methods on several
colour spaces are applied to each sample in order to generate a binary
mask of the different tissue components. From the mask of lumen candidates, the Locally Constrained Watershed Transform (LCWT) is applied
as a novel gland segmentation technique never before used in this type
of images. 500 random gland candidates, both benign and pathological,
are selected to evaluate the LCWT technique providing results of Dice
coefficient of 0.85. Several shape and textural descriptors in combination
with contextual features and a fractal analysis are applied, in a novel
way, on different colour spaces achieving a total of 297 features to discern between artefacts and true glands. The most relevant features are
then selected by an exhaustive statistical analysis in terms of independence between variables and dependence with the class. 3.200 artefacts,
3.195 benign glands and 3.000 pathological glands are obtained, from a
data set of 1468 images at 10x magnification. A careful strategy of data
partition is implemented to robustly address the classification problem
between artefacts and glands. Both linear and non-linear approaches are
considered using machine learning techniques based on Support Vector
Machines (SVM) and feedforward neural networks achieving values of
sensitivity, specificity and accuracy of 0.92, 0.97 and 0.95, respectivelyThis work has been funded by the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness under the SICAP project (DPI2016-77869-C2-1-R). The work
of Adri´an Colomer has been supported by the Spanish FPI Grant BES-2014-067889.
We gratefully acknowledge the support of NVIDIA Corporation with the donation of
the Titan Xp GPU used for this researchGarcía-Pardo, JG.; Colomer, A.; Naranjo Ornedo, V.; Peñaranda, F.; Sales, MÁ. (2018). Identification of Individual Glandular Regions Using LCWT and Machine Learning Techniques. En Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning – IDEAL 2018. Springer. 642-650. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03493-1_67S642650Gleason, D.F.: Histologic grading and clinical staging of prostatic carcinoma. In: Urologic Pathology (1977)Naik, S., Doyle, S., Feldman, M., Tomaszewski, J., Madabhushi, A.: Gland segmentation and computerized gleason grading of prostate histology by integrating low-, high-level and domain specific information. In: MIAAB Workshop, pp. 1–8 (2007)Nguyen, K., Sabata, B., Jain, A.K.: Prostate cancer grading: gland segmentation and structural features. Pattern Recogn. Lett. 33(7), 951–961 (2012)Kwak, J.T., Hewitt, S.M.: Multiview boosting digital pathology analysis of prostate cancer. Comput. Methods Programs Biomed. 142, 91–99 (2017)Ren, J., Sadimin, E., Foran, D.J., Qi, X.: Computer aided analysis of prostate histopathology images to support a refined gleason grading system. In: SPIE Medical Imaging, International Society for Optics and Photonics, p. 101331V (2017)Soille, P.: Morphological Image Analysis: Principles and Applications. Springer, Berlin (2013)Nguyen, K., Sarkar, A., Jain, A.K.: Structure and context in prostatic gland segmentation and classification. In: Ayache, N., Delingette, H., Golland, P., Mori, K. (eds.) MICCAI 2012. LNCS, vol. 7510, pp. 115–123. Springer, Heidelberg (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33415-3_15Beare, R.: A locally constrained watershed transform. IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell. 28(7), 1063–1074 (2006)Gertych, A., et al.: Machine learning approaches to analyze histological images of tissues from radical prostatectomies. Comput. Med. Imaging Graph. 46, 197–208 (2015)Ojala, T., Pietikainen, M., Maenpaa, T.: Multiresolution gray-scale and rotation invariant texture classification with local binary patterns. IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell. 24(7), 971–987 (2002)Guo, Z., Zhang, L., Zhang, D.: A completed modeling of local binary pattern operator for texture classification. IEEE Trans. Image Process. 19(6), 1657–1663 (2010)Huang, P., Lee, C.: Automatic classification for pathological prostate images based on fractal analysis. IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging 28(7), 1037–1050 (2009)Ruifrok, A.C., Johnston, D.A., et al.: Quantification of histochemical staining by color deconvolution. Anal. Quant. Cytol. Histol. 23(4), 291–299 (2001
Public participation in watershed management:international practices for inclusiveness
This paper outlines a number of examples from around the world of participatory processes for
watershed decision-making, and discusses how they work, why they are important, their social and ecological potential, and the practical details of how to start, expand and develop them. Because of longstanding power differentials in all societies along gender, class and ethnic lines, equitable public participation requires the recognition that different members of society have different kinds of relationships
with the environment in general, and with water in particular. From a range of political perspectives,
inclusive participatory governance processes have many benefits.
The author has recently completed a 5 year project linking universities and NGOs in Brazil and Canada
to develop methods of broadening public engagement in local watershed management committees, with
a special focus on gender and marginalized communities. The innovative environmental education and
multi-lingual international public engagement practices of the Centre for Socio-Environmental Knowledge
and Care of the La Plata Basin (which spans Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Bolivia) are
also discussed in this paper.This research was supported by the International Development Research Centr
A Cosmic Watershed: the WVF Void Detection Technique
On megaparsec scales the Universe is permeated by an intricate filigree of
clusters, filaments, sheets and voids, the Cosmic Web. For the understanding of
its dynamical and hierarchical history it is crucial to identify objectively
its complex morphological components. One of the most characteristic aspects is
that of the dominant underdense Voids, the product of a hierarchical process
driven by the collapse of minor voids in addition to the merging of large ones.
In this study we present an objective void finder technique which involves a
minimum of assumptions about the scale, structure and shape of voids. Our void
finding method, the Watershed Void Finder (WVF), is based upon the Watershed
Transform, a well-known technique for the segmentation of images. Importantly,
the technique has the potential to trace the existing manifestations of a void
hierarchy. The basic watershed transform is augmented by a variety of
correction procedures to remove spurious structure resulting from sampling
noise. This study contains a detailed description of the WVF. We demonstrate
how it is able to trace and identify, relatively parameter free, voids and
their surrounding (filamentary and planar) boundaries. We test the technique on
a set of Kinematic Voronoi models, heuristic spatial models for a cellular
distribution of matter. Comparison of the WVF segmentations of low noise and
high noise Voronoi models with the quantitatively known spatial characteristics
of the intrinsic Voronoi tessellation shows that the size and shape of the
voids are succesfully retrieved. WVF manages to even reproduce the full void
size distribution function.Comment: 24 pages, 15 figures, MNRAS accepted, for full resolution, see
http://www.astro.rug.nl/~weygaert/tim1publication/watershed.pd
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