Human Identification Model Considering Biometrics Features

In the medical field, brain classification is an effective technique for identifying a person through his brain print based on the hidden biometrics of high specificity included in the magnetic resonance images(MRI) of the brain, as this privacy strongly contributes to the issue of verification and identification of the person. In this paper, the brain print is extracted from the MRI obtained from 50 healthy people, which were passed through several pre-processing techniques in order to be used in the classification stage through convolutional neural network model, among those pre-classification stages, data collection after extracting the influential features for each image, which was based on linear discrimination analysis (LDA). The experimental results showed the importance of using LDA for feature extraction and adoption as input for K-NN and CNN classifiers. The classifiers proved successful in the classification if the features extracted with the help of LDA were adopted. Where CNN had the ability to classify with an accuracy of 99%, 82% for K-NN. The final stage in identifying a person through a brain fingerprint relied mainly on the model's success in classifying and predicting the remaining data in the testing stage

Passively mode-locked laser using an entirely centred erbium-doped fiber

This paper describes the setup and experimental results for an entirely centred erbium-doped fiber laser with passively mode-locked output. The gain medium of the ring laser cavity configuration comprises a 3 m length of two-core optical fiber, wherein an undoped outer core region of 9.38 μm diameter surrounds a 4.00 μm diameter central core region doped with erbium ions at 400 ppm concentration. The generated stable soliton mode-locking output has a central wavelength of 1533 nm and pulses that yield an average output power of 0.33 mW with a pulse energy of 31.8 pJ. The pulse duration is 0.7 ps and the measured output repetition rate of 10.37 MHz corresponds to a 96.4 ns pulse spacing in the pulse train

Medical imaging analysis with artificial neural networks

Given that neural networks have been widely reported in the research community of medical imaging, we provide a focused literature survey on recent neural network developments in computer-aided diagnosis, medical image segmentation and edge detection towards visual content analysis, and medical image registration for its pre-processing and post-processing, with the aims of increasing awareness of how neural networks can be applied to these areas and to provide a foundation for further research and practical development. Representative techniques and algorithms are explained in detail to provide inspiring examples illustrating: (i) how a known neural network with fixed structure and training procedure could be applied to resolve a medical imaging problem; (ii) how medical images could be analysed, processed, and characterised by neural networks; and (iii) how neural networks could be expanded further to resolve problems relevant to medical imaging. In the concluding section, a highlight of comparisons among many neural network applications is included to provide a global view on computational intelligence with neural networks in medical imaging

Computerized Analysis of Magnetic Resonance Images to Study Cerebral Anatomy in Developing Neonates

The study of cerebral anatomy in developing neonates is of great importance for the understanding of brain development during the early period of life. This dissertation therefore focuses on three challenges in the modelling of cerebral anatomy in neonates during brain development. The methods that have been developed all use Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI) as source data. To facilitate study of vascular development in the neonatal period, a set of image analysis algorithms are developed to automatically extract and model cerebral vessel trees. The whole process consists of cerebral vessel tracking from automatically placed seed points, vessel tree generation, and vasculature registration and matching. These algorithms have been tested on clinical Time-of- Flight (TOF) MR angiographic datasets. To facilitate study of the neonatal cortex a complete cerebral cortex segmentation and reconstruction pipeline has been developed. Segmentation of the neonatal cortex is not effectively done by existing algorithms designed for the adult brain because the contrast between grey and white matter is reversed. This causes pixels containing tissue mixtures to be incorrectly labelled by conventional methods. The neonatal cortical segmentation method that has been developed is based on a novel expectation-maximization (EM) method with explicit correction for mislabelled partial volume voxels. Based on the resulting cortical segmentation, an implicit surface evolution technique is adopted for the reconstruction of the cortex in neonates. The performance of the method is investigated by performing a detailed landmark study. To facilitate study of cortical development, a cortical surface registration algorithm for aligning the cortical surface is developed. The method first inflates extracted cortical surfaces and then performs a non-rigid surface registration using free-form deformations (FFDs) to remove residual alignment. Validation experiments using data labelled by an expert observer demonstrate that the method can capture local changes and follow the growth of specific sulcus

Analysis of Deep Learning Techniques for Brain Tumour Classification from CT & MRI Images

Brain tumour detection in an initialpoint is a critical step to saving human life. Computed Tomography (CT) and Magnetic Resonance Image (MRI) provide very detailed information about brain tumour tissues. So the segmentation of tumour region is possible from pancreatic CT and brain MRI. CT and MRI is a non-invasive technique and it does not produce any harmful radiation to the patient. The patient suspected of tumour undergoes radiological evaluation such that the area, location and grade of the tumour can be predicted from the CT and MRI analysis. This critical information helps the doctors to decide about further treatment like chemotherapy, surgery, or radiation. The diagnosis requires an accurate and very fast segmentation and classification of CT and MRI images. But nowadays radiologists are doing this task manually and it is a tedious and time-consuming procedure. Also, there is a chance of variation in the result from one expert to another. Here comes the significance of automatic segmentation and classification of tumour types with the help of computers.The proposed work aims to develop an efficient system that can detect pancreatic and brain tumour and can classify the pancreatic CT and brain MRI into normal, benign or malignant. This work can be categorized into two approaches. Thus the dataset prepared for this research work contains CT and MRI images.The first approach proposes traditional machine learning technologies to achieve the goal. Image pre-processing, feature extraction, segmentation and classification are the various steps of the traditional machine learning method. A detailed investigation is performed through various feature extraction techniques and classification techniques for pancreatic (CT) and brain MRI. Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) feature, Grey Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM) feature, Gabor feature, Tamura features and Edge Orientation Histogram (EOH) features and their combinations are used for the extraction of CT and MRI features. Benign tumours are non-cancerous, but malignant tumours are cancerous. In the first approach, the Support Vector Machine (SVM) is the main classifier used for pancreatic CT and brain MRI classification as normal, benign or malignant.In this technology, a huge amount of data and machines with high computational capabilities like Graphic Processing Unit (GPU) are available. Thus the second approach of this paper is to exploit all these available resources to produce accurate results. In this part, deep learning, the latest fast growing technology introduced in 2015 is used for the classification of brain MRI. A Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNN) model is proposed to perform the classification task efficiently. The CNN results are compared with the results of a simple neural network classifier. This method provides accurate and it shows that deep learning based classification outperforms traditional machine learning techniques which produce an accurate result only. This research work again concentrates on the Transfer Learning (TL) methods to classify pancreatic CT and brain MRI