Feature extraction is a key step of image retrieval and image registration, but the single feature can not express the information of medical images efficiently. To overcome this shortcoming, a new algorithm for medical image retrieval combining global features with local features was proposed based on the characteristics of medical images. First, after studying the medical image retrieving techniques with single feature, a new retrieval method was proposed by considering global feature and relevance feedback. Then to optimize the Scale-Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) features, an improved SIFT features extraction and matching algorithm was proposed. Finally, in order to ensure the accuracy of the results and improve the retrieval result, local features were used for stepwise refinement. The experimental results on general Digital Radiography (DR) images prove the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.
This paper proposed a liner programming model to deal with the Quay Crane (QC) allocation and scheduling problem for single ship under the circumstance of fixed berth allocation. With the aim of minimizing the working time of the ship at berth, the model considered not only the disruptive waiting time when the quay cranes were working, but also the workload balance between the cranes. And an Improved Ant Colony Optimization (IACO) algorithm with the embedding of a solution space split strategy was presented to solve the model. The experimental results show that the proper allocation and scheduling of quay cranes from the model in this paper can averagely save 31.86% of the crane resource compared with full application of all available cranes. When comparing to the solution solved by Lingo, the results from IACO algorithm have an average deviation of 5.23%, while the average CPU (Central Processing Unit) computational time is reduced by 78.7%, which shows the feasibility and validity of the proposed model and the algorithm.
Most existing cloud storage systems are based on the model, which leads to a full dataset scan for multi-dimensional queries and low query efficiency. A KD-tree and R-tree based multi-dimensional cloud data index named KD-R index was proposed. KD-R index adopted two-layer architecture: a KD-tree based global index was built in the global server and R-tree based local indexes were built in local server. A cost model was used to adaptively select appropriate R-tree nodes to publish into global KD-tree index. The experimental results show that, compared with R-tree based global index, KD-R index is efficient for multi-dimensional range queries, and it has high availability in the case of server failure.
In the recent years, the computer image understanding has wide and profound applications in intelligence traffic, satellite remote sensing, machine vision, image analysis of medical treatment, Internet image search and etc. As its extension, the image holistic scene understanding is more complex and integrated than basic image scene understanding task. In this paper, the basic framework for image understanding, the researching implication and value, typical models for image holistic scene understanding were summarized. The four typical holistic scene understanding models were introduced, and the model frameworks were thoroughly compared. At last, some research insufficiency and future direction in image holistic scene understanding were presented, which pointed out some new insights for the further research in this area.