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This article takes the complex uncertainty in the carrying process of water resources system as the research object. Firstly, the water resources carrying capacity system is divided into three sub-systems: bearing support capacity, bearing pressure and bearing regulation capacity. System analysis methods based on wireless sensor network and image texture of feature extraction for correlation analysis, gray correlation analysis, and multi-dimensional conditional cloud algorithm are introduced into the field of water resources carrying capacity evaluation research. Moreover, combine it with the subtraction set opposition, the effect partial bias connection number, and the risk matrix. Finally, three types of models for water resource carrying capacity evaluation and trend analysis were constructed. The evaluation results of water resources carrying capacity are consistent with the actual process, and the overall development trend is gradually improving. The application results of the evaluation model of water resource carrying capacity are established. The calculation results of the image texture feature of extraction model are similar to the overall change trend of the model before the improvement. The trend of change is more obvious. It can not only describe the water resource carrying level as a whole, but also characterize the reliability of the calculation results and the bearing risk caused by the uncertainty of the water resource carrying system. The water resources carrying capacity evaluation and trend analysis of calculation results are reasonable and feasible. The research results can provide a reasonable and effective decision-making basis for the systematic analysis of the bearing boundary issues between regional complex water resources systems and human water activities, and then propose adaptive risk prevention and control strategies for water resources carrying capacity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The traditional image texture extraction algorithm, most of the lifting of the texture is a single scale and direction of the texture. When you change the scale and direction, the corresponding texture will change as well. This is the lack of the traditional texture extraction method. In this paper, aiming at the single direction of the traditional texture extraction, a novel image texture feature extraction algorithm based on Gabor filter and CS-LBP operator is proposed. The extracted frequency components are transformed to the time domain to achieve the texture extraction. Based on the principle of polarization, the curvature factor is introduced based on the traditional Gabor model, which solves the problem that the Gabor filter can’t extract the local image warp and distant scene blurred. The experimental results show that the proposed method uses the Gabor filter and the LBP operator to extract the polarized image texture effectively than the traditional image texture extraction algorithm. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Surface roughness and image texture features of milled surfaces are key parameters to study the surface characteristics of end milled AA 6061 alloy. A Machine vision system is employed to capture and store the images of the end milled workpieces. The stylus type instrument is used measure the surface roughness values of various milled workpieces for different cutting conditions such as speed, feed and depth of cut. The Grey Level Cooccurance Matrix [GLCM] is introduced to extract the image texture features of the end milled surfaces. Four Matrices about different sampling orientations are builtup to determine the various image texure features such as contrast, homogenity, correlation and energy. A regression analysis is performed between image texture features and surface roughness values of the machined surfaces. Finally, the relationship between surface roughness and image texture features has been established. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• A new feature extraction method based on Discrete Modal Decomposition is proposed. • Modal features can firstly be computed as the DMD coordinates of the image. • Modal features can secondly be computed using the DMD as a local transform process. • Experimental tests show the relevance of the method on a texture classification task, with lower extraction times than state-of-the art methods. Feature extraction is a key step in image processing for pattern recognition and machine learning processes. Its purpose lies in reducing the dimensionality of the input data through the computing of features which accurately describe the original information. In this article, a new feature extraction method based on Discrete Modal Decomposition (DMD) is introduced, to extend the group of space and frequency based features. These new features are called modal features. Initially aiming to decompose a signal into a modal basis built from a vibration mechanics problem, the DMD projection is applied to images in order to extract modal features with two approaches. The first one, called full scale DMD, consists in exploiting directly the decomposition resulting coordinates as features. The second one, called filtering DMD, consists in using the DMD modes as filters to obtain features through a local transformation process. Experiments are performed on image texture classification tasks including several widely used data bases, compared to several classic feature extraction methods. We show that the DMD approach achieves good classification performances, comparable to the state of the art techniques, with a lower extraction time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents an image texture and hue statistical projection based retrieval. First the image is converted to HSI color model, the gray value of the image extraction, and Robert algorithm to extract the texture, then the image is divided into blocks and extracts the main color block, the main color image blocks are respectively projected in the horizontal and vertical direction of 2, get 2 projection histogram, the 2 projection histograms of the first three order center extraction distance and Robert algorithm as the features of texture, image similarity calculation. Make a very full pave the way for future Canny edge processing algorithm research of image retrieval. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Source camera identification enables forensic investigator to discover the probable source model that are employed to acquire the image under investigation. It is important whenever digital content is presented as a silent witness. In this paper, we present a source camera identification method via image texture features that are extracted from well selected color model and color channel. Except to distinguish source camera models from images whatever they are captured via same or different brand cameras, the main contributions of the proposed method are as follows: (1) It can distinguish imaging device individuals from images even if they are taken by using same brand and model of devices. (2) It is robust for content-preserving manipulations or geometric distortions, such as JEPG compression, adding noise, and rotation and scaling. The experimental results demonstrate that the performance of the proposed method is satisfactory. Compared with the state-of-the-art methods, the proposed method is superior in both detection accuracy and robustness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Raveling is one of the critical and pervasive modes of failure observed in asphalt pavement road. Automatic detection of raveling based on image samples is a challenging task due to the complex texture of asphalt pavement. This study constructs and investigates the capability of an image processing based approach for raveling recognition. Image texture based features extracted from statistical properties of color channels and the Gray-Level Co-Occurrence Matrix are employed as input variables to characterize the state of pavement. The Stochastic Gradient Descent Logistic Regression (SGD-LR) is used to classify image samples into two categories of non-raveling and raveling based on a set of extracted features. A SGD-LR based raveling detection program has been developed in Visual C#.NET to facilitate its implementation. Experimental outcome shows that the newly constructed approach can attain a good predictive performance with a classification accuracy rate of roughly 88%. Therefore, this approach can be a helpful tool to assist transportation authorities in the task of surveying asphalt pavement condition. The Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) algorithm Graphical user interface of the SGD-LR program used for pavement raveling detection. Unlabelled Image • Image processing based raveling detection is proposed. • Image texture analysis is used in feature extraction phase. • Stochastic Gradient Descent Logistic Regression is used for classification. • The software has been developed in Visual C#.NET. • The program has achieved good detection accuracy of 88.12%. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• An almost complete review of current methods for feature extraction from underwater acoustic signals. • Developing a reliable and accurate model for distinguishing Underwater vessel-radiated acoustical noise (UVRAN), which is robustness to noise. • Converting complex marine signals to images using the Gramian angular field (GAF) technique and extracting second-order image statistics by image texture analysis for the first time. • extracting more discriminative information from the UVRAN by signal-to-image transformation. • Designing a parameter called spectral amplitude mean difference function (SAMDF) that is more suitable for encoding to an image than the original signal. Underwater vessel-radiated acoustical noise (UVRAN) is a major factor for classification in the sea by the SONAR. Due to unsteady and complex maritime ambient, analyzing underwater sound signals is a challenging issue that has lately received attention in the marine field. In the conventional feature extraction methods, to reduce the effect of ocean noise, the de-noising procedure is performed before complexity measurement by mode decomposition techniques. Based on this, we propose a novel insight for the first time to distinguish the objects which made the underwater noises as the hydro-acoustic signature, using a signals-to-image conversion without noise removal. After pre-processing, the spectral amplitude mean difference function is encoded into an image using Gramian angular field (GAF) technique. Subsequently, image texture analysis is performed in which GAF images are subjected to the gray-level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM). Finally, the second-order image statistic (i.e., 2-D permutation entropy) is calculated. Compared with other methods, results demonstrate that the proposed method has a high degree of separation and stability between the various kinds of underwater targets, suggesting that the methodology is superior to the existing methods. Moreover, our model is robust to noise. The approach perhaps opens an alternative path for UVRAN discrimination. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We applied the bag of visual words model for visual texture to a dataset of realistic powder micrograph images drawn from eight closely related particle size distributions. We found that image texture based powder classification performance saturates at 89 ± 3 % with 640 training images (80 images per class). This classification accuracy is comparable to classification using conventional segmentation-based particle size analysis. Furthermore, we found that particle size distributions obtained via watershed segmentation are generally not statistically equivalent to the ground truth particle size distributions, as quantified by the two-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov test for distribution equivalence. We expect image texture classification methods to outperform particle size analysis for more challenging real-world powder classification tasks by capturing additional information about particle morphology and surface textures, which add complexity to the image segmentation task inherent in particle size distribution estimation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Skin melanoma is a potentially life-threatening cancer. Once it has metastasized, it may cause severe disability and death. Therefore, early diagnosis is important to improve the conditions and outcomes for patients. The disease can be diagnosed based on Digital-Dermoscopy (DD) images. In this study, we propose an original and novel Automated Skin-Melanoma Detection (ASMD) system with Melanoma-Index (MI). The system incorporates image pre-processing, Bi-dimensional Empirical Mode Decomposition (BEMD), image texture enhancement, entropy and energy feature mining, as well as binary classification. The system design has been guided by feature ranking, with Student's t-test and other statistical methods used for quality assessment. The proposed ASMD was employed to examine 600 benign and 600 DD malignant images from benchmark databases. Our classification performance assessment indicates that the combination of Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Radial Basis Function (RBF) offers a classification accuracy of greater than 97.50%. Motivated by these classification results, we also formulated a clinically relevant MI using the dominant entropy features. Our proposed index can assist dermatologists to track multiple information-bearing features, thereby increasing the confidence with which a diagnosis is given. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• We first noticed the importance of similar and heterogeneous pixel gradients in feature extraction. • Introducing clustering algorithms into the field of image fusion to improve feature extraction capabilities. • Using source image gradients instead of the clustering base layer of traditional algorithms. Image fusion is performed to merge the information of different source images into one image. In this study, a fusion algorithm based on the pixel mean shift and source image gradient was proposed to make the background of the fused image clear and the target prominent. First, a pixel spatial average kernel function was designed to separate the image texture and the significant target during pixel density migration. In this study, a novel approach is presented that distinguishes itself from other methods in two distinct ways. Firstly, it segregates the texture details of dissimilar pixel regions and captures the texture characteristics of analogous pixel regions. Secondly, by utilizing the discrepancy between the minimum and maximum values of infrared and visible images, the proposed technique incorporates the source graph into the fusion process, thereby improving the precision of the information. Additionally, the feature reconstruction function was designed based on the layer features, which could adaptively concentrate the source image information on one image and further improve the clarity and information retention of the fused image. Finally, the results of the qualitative and quantitative comparison of our proposed method with other state-of-the-art methods available, obtained by applying them to public datasets, demonstrated the advantages of our algorithm. Our results retained more appearance details and significantly more target information. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In view of the fact that the existing defog methods often ignore the key atmospheric light estimation, a method based on quadtree decomposition is proposed, which avoids the influence of bright white area on atmospheric light estimation and accurately estimates atmospheric light in the sky region. In order to avoid the limitation of manual feature extraction, three convolution scales are used to check the original fog image for convolution operation, and the propagation map to be refined is obtained after a series of feature learning of the network, and then the image fusion method is used to refine it. Finally, the estimated parameters are brought into the atmospheric scattering model to deduce a clear image. The quantitative and qualitative experimental results of synthetic and real-world grain depot fog and dust images show that the algorithm has a good effect on image texture details and sky region processing, and has high robustness and universality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• Pavement raveling detection based on image processing is proposed. • Texture analysis techniques are employed for feature extraction. • Two scenarios of GLCM and LBP-GLCM are utilized in the feature extraction stage. • XGBoost classifier is employed for the classification of raveling and no-raveling images. • The results of LBP-GLCM feature extraction achieved better performance for raveling detection. The raveling of asphalt pavement is the primary cause of decreasing road safety, comfort, and service life. Because of the asphalt's complex texture, automatic raveling detection from image samples is a challenging operation. In this study, a computer vision technique, based on image texture features, for automatic detection of asphalt pavement raveling is proposed and verified. Two scenarios are taken into account for feature extraction. First, texture features from images are extracted using the traditional GLCM (Gray-Level Co-occurrence Matrix) algorithm. Second, the images are subjected to LBP (Local Binary Pattern) and then GLCM is employed to extract texture features. Utilizing the eXtreme Gradient Boost (XGBoost) technique, two models are built using the mentioned feature extraction scenarios and then compared. The results indicate that compared to the first scenarios prediction performance (Accuracy, Precision, Recall, and F1-Score are all approximately equal to %81), the second feature extraction scenario can offer higher prediction performance (Accuracy, Precision, Recall, and F1-Score are all approximately equal to %97). In order to demonstrate the model's generalizability, a separate dataset is tested. Due to the acceptable performance values for this dataset (with more than %97 in terms of Accuracy, Precision, Recall, and F1-Score), the suggested model can be beneficial for transportation agencies to enhance the efficiency of road inspection activities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Distinguishing malignant from benign lesions has significant clinical impacts on both early detection and optimal management of those early detections. Convolutional neural network (CNN) has shown great potential in medical imaging applications due to its powerful feature learning capability. However, it is very challenging to obtain pathological ground truth, addition to collected in vivo medical images, to construct objective training labels for feature learning, leading to the difficulty of performing lesion diagnosis. This is contrary to the requirement that CNN algorithms need a large number of datasets for the training. To explore the ability to learn features from small pathologically-proven datasets for differentiation of malignant from benign polyps, we propose a Multi-scale and Multi-level based Gray-level Co-occurrence Matrix CNN (MM-GLCM-CNN). Specifically, instead of inputting the lesions' medical images, the GLCM, which characterizes the lesion heterogeneity in terms of image texture characteristics, is fed into the MM-GLCN-CNN model for the training. This aims to improve feature extraction by introducing multi-scale and multi-level analysis into the construction of lesion texture characteristic descriptors (LTCDs). To learn and fuse multiple sets of LTCDs from small datasets for lesion diagnosis, we further propose an adaptive multi-input CNN learning framework. Furthermore, an Adaptive Weight Network is used to highlight important information and suppress redundant information after the fusion of the LTCDs. We evaluated the performance of MM-GLCM-CNN by the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) merit on small private lesion datasets of colon polyps. The AUC score reaches 93.99% with a gain of 1.49% over current state-of-the-art lesion classification methods on the same dataset. This gain indicates the importance of incorporating lesion characteristic heterogeneity for the prediction of lesion malignancy using small pathologically-proven datasets. • We propose an adaptive multi-input CNN model for a polyp classification task. • Our strategy uses texture descriptors to explore the voxel heterogeneity of polyps. • We use multi-scale and multi-level GLCM fusion to enhance classification performance [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• Image processing tehnique for water surface velocity prediction. • Temporal feature extraction for dynamic image sequence using XOR operator. • Machine learning method for image texture analysis. Water surface velocity (WSV) is one of the critical parameters in hydrology. The development of non-intrusive measurement of this parameter using cameras is increasing. Traditionally, measuring WSV using a camera utilizes tracking of moving objects on the water surfaces. Recently, another method has emerged that utilizes the movement of water ripples to estimate the WSV. This paper proposes a novel method for estimating WSV based on camera measurements. The authors call this method Temporal Gray-scale Pattern Image (TGPI) since it extracts Gray-scale patterns of pixels of water flow video in the temporal domain using the XOR operator and create new image. The new image pattern formed is then used to predict WSV using predictor. There are four predictors being compared, namely Multiple Input Linear Regression (MILR), Multiple Input Logistic Regression (MILgR), Convolutional Neural Network Regression (CNN-R), and Convolutional Neural Network Classification (CNN-K). CNN-R and CNN-K predict WSV directly from the results of TGPI. Meanwhile, MILR and MILgR predict WSV from five TGPI features. The five features are the Mean and Median of the Histogram, Mean and Median of the Histogram of Oriented Gradient (HOG), and the Maximum Mid-Value of the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT). MILR and CNN-R are predictors for regression problems, so the testing metrics for them are Trend-Line equation and R2 from the predicted WSV and actual values graph. Meanwhile, for MILgR and CNN-K, which are predictors for classification problems, the testing metrics are Confusion Matrix (CM), Accuracy, Precision, Recall, and F1-Score. To test the four methods without distinguishing their predictor types, a 2-dimensional histogram graph is used. The data-set used for training and testing is video footage of water flow with known WSV. The WSV measurement points used in this study are 1.7 m/s, 3.1 m/s, and 4.2 m/s. The video dataset and these three points are generated by the Mini Open Channel Water Flow Simulator (MOCWFS) developed by the author in this study. From the comparison results, it can be seen that the classification type predictor is superior to the regression type. For the regression type predictor, MILR is better than CNN-R. Meanwhile, for the classification type, CNN-K is superior to MILgR. The best accuracy produced by CNN-K is 98.4%. Although there are shortcomings, the TGPI method is quite feasible for predict Water Surface Velocity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Highlights • Propose texture features based on a modified version of the local binary pattern (LBP) descriptor. • To improve the texture discrimination ability, the local spatial information of the image is taken into account in the LBP code computation. • For each pixel, the scale parameter and the threshold value of the LBP code are determined using bilateral filter-based multi-scale image analysis. • The effectiveness of the proposed strategy is supported by the analysis of different texture patterns. Graphical abstract Abstract Texture characterization aims at describing the spatial arrangement of local structures within an image. However, mixed pixels that are generally located near boundaries of the regions represent challenge to perform accurate image texture discrimination. To address this problem, this paper proposes a robust discriminating texture features relying on an efficient Local Binary Pattern (LBP) descriptor, where the spatial information within image is taken into account. To determine for each pixel both a proper scale parameter and a threshold value to compute the LBP code, an efficient way relying on bilateral filter-based multi-scale image analysis is used. First, the difference of Gaussian operator is used to determine the corresponding scale. Second, key points based-approach is used to identify the threshold value of each pixel. This provides the ability to deal with mixed pixels. Then, LBP code is computed to characterize the texture information for each pixel. Experimental results, using both synthetic and real images, show that the proposed appropriate-scale-threshold selection strategy demonstrates a significant improvement in texture discrimination ability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• Asphalt paving segregation detection using image texture features. • Texture feature extraction algorithm combining uniform pattern LBP and GLCM. • Asphalt paving segregation detection based on uniform pattern LBP-GLCM. • The support vector machine classifier is used to detection whether paving segregation occurs. The segregation of asphalt pavement is the main reason for the decrease of safety, comfort and actual service life of the road, and the paving segregation is the main inducement for asphalt pavements segregation. Thus, a kind of effective paving segregation detection method can reduce the occurrence of asphalt pavement segregation. The traditional asphalt segregation detection methods are mainly divided into contact detection and non-contact detection. The contact detection method can only detect the segregation of pavement after paving or in use, and the non-contact detection method is also generally limited by the noise and expensive equipment. In recent years, the rapid development of image processing technology has provided a new research direction for asphalt paving segregation detection, but the accuracy and efficiency of the existing image-based asphalt paving segregation detection methods are insufficient. In order to solve these problems, this paper proposes an asphalt paving segregation detection method based on image texture features. Firstly, based on the traditional algorithms LBP (Local Binary Pattern) and GLCM (Gray-level Co-occurrence Matrix), a new texture feature extraction algorithm uniform pattern LBP-GLCM is proposed. Secondly, a detection method based on uniform pattern LBP-GLCM in combination with SVM (Support Vector Machine) is proposed. Then, the detection method proposed is validated using Kylbery texture dataset, the result show that this detection methods has great accuracy and efficiency in the classification of targets with similar texture features, it also means the texture feature extract method based on uniform pattern LBP-GLCM can combine the advantages of LBP and GLCM to achieve improvement of feature extraction's performance and efficiency. Finally, the detection method is applied to the diagnosis of asphalt paving segregation, and the accuracy of diagnosis achieves 94%. Compared with the existing algorithms, detection method based on uniform pattern LBP-GLCM has higher diagnostic accuracy and efficiency. Specifically, detection method with uniform pattern LBP-GLCM can improve accuracy in comparison with single asphalt pavement paving segregation detection method, and it can improve efficiency in comparison with existing hybrid asphalt pavement paving segregation detection method. The results of this study can potentially be used for real-time detection of asphalt paving segregation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• ECG data have been exploited for the detection of cardiovascular morbidity in two-dimensional space. • The sub-images have been constructed by projecting the 12-ECG signal vector as a row of the image. • Cardiovascular defects have been detected with the classical image texture methods. • Two-dimensional features in the images contain determinative indicators of various diseases. • The proposed system has provided fast and largely accurate results. Electrocardiography has been employed successfully in medicine for many years to provide vital knowledge about the cardiovascular system. Although processing and evaluation of electrocardiogram (ECG) signals provide helpful information in the detection of anomalies in the vessel, diagnosis of heart defect, and treatment of diseases, multi-channel ECG signals have been started to be employed in order to achieve higher success. Utilizing a multi-channel ECG signal instead of a one-channel ECG signal yields more adequate achievements but require higher complexity in analysis and higher computational cost. To achieve faster and accurate results in multi-channel ECG signals, an artificial intelligence-based automatic diagnosis system employing the texture features of two-dimensional images, which are constructed by projecting the ECG signal vector as a row of the image, is proposed. The hypothesis proposed in this study conjectures that these texture features in the images contain determinative indicators of various diseases (cardiovascular abnormalities/disturbance) even for the short-time intervals. Accordingly, the main contribution of this study is to expose that detection of cardiovascular defects can be done with the classical image texture methods by utilizing multi-channel biomedical signals in a sufficiently short-time-interval. The methodology has been implemented in different time intervals of a large dataset constructed from a diverse population that is labeled as one normal sinus rhythm type and eight abnormal types of ECG signals. The accuracy of this hypothesis has been proven by achieving high detection rates of identifying cardiac abnormalities and reduced the computational load of the processing system without any sacrificing accuracy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Motivated by researching new image texture modeling that improves state-of-the-art LBP variants and non-LBP descriptors, this paper proposes a novel approach for constructing local image descriptors, which are suitable for histogram based image representation. Instead of heuristic code constructions, the proposed approach is based on local concave-and-convex characteristics, which have high ability to extract discriminative and stable texture representation. Different from the majority of descriptors that only encode relationships between the pixels in doublets around central pixel (within 3  ×  3 neighborhood), the proposed approach encodes relationships between the pixels in triplets by including the central pixel in the modeling. We build two distinct descriptors by dividing local features into two distinct groups, i.e., local concave and convex microstructure patterns (LCvMSP and LCxMSP), according to relationships between the pixels inside the triplets, formed along closed path around the central pixel of a 3 × 3-grayscale image patch. To make the descriptors more insensitive to noise and invariant to monotonic gray scale transformation, two supplementary triplets are added in the modeling. These triplets are formed using the central pixel and four virtual pixels set to the median of the grey-scale values of the 3 × 3 neighbourhood and the whole image and the average local and global gray levels respectively. The histograms obtained from the single scale descriptors LCvMSP and LCxMSP are concatenated together to build multi-scale histogram feature vector referred to as local concave-and-convex micro-structure pattern (LCCMSP), that is expected to better represent salient local texture structure. We evaluated the effectiveness of the proposed methods on thirteen challenging representative widely-used texture datasets, and found that the proposed LCvMSP, LCxMSP and LCCMSP operators achieve performances that are competitive or better than a large number of recent most promising state-of- the-art LBP variants and non-LBP descriptors. Statistical comparison based on Wilcoxon signed rank test demonstrated that the proposed methods are the top three over all the tested datasets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Classification of histopathologic images and identification of cancerous areas is quite challenging due to image background complexity and resolution. The difference between normal tissue and cancerous tissue is very small in some cases. So, the features of the tissue patches in the image have key importance for automatic classification. Using only one feature or using a few features leads to poor classification results because of the small difference between the textures. In this study, the classification results are compared using different feature extraction algorithms that can extract various features from histopathological image texture. For this study, GLCM, LBP, LBGLCM, GLRLM and SFTA algorithms which are successful feature extraction algorithms have been chosen. The features obtained from these methods are classified with SVM, KNN, LDA and Boosted Tree classifiers. The most successful feature extraction algorithm for histopathological images is determined and the most successful classification algorithm is determined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents alternative solutions for classifying concrete spall severity based on computer vision approaches. Extreme Gradient Boosting Machine (XGBoost) and Deep Convolutional Neural Network (DCNN) are employed for categorizing image samples into two classes: shallow spall and deep spall. To delineate the properties of a concrete surface subject to spall, texture descriptors including local binary pattern, center symmetric local binary pattern, local ternary pattern, and attractive repulsive center symmetric local binary pattern (ARCS-LBP) are employed as feature extraction methods. In addition, the prediction performance of XGBoost is enhanced by Aquila optimizer metaheuristic. Meanwhile, DCNN is capable of performing image classification directly without the need for texture descriptors. Experimental results with a dataset containing real-world concrete surface images and 20 independent model evaluations point out that the XGBoost optimized by the Aquila metaheuristic and used with ARCS-LBP has achieved an outstanding classification performance with a classification accuracy rate of roughly 99%. • Propose a computer vision method for classifying concrete spall severity. • Extreme Gradient Boosting Machine and deep neural networks are employed. • Use local binary pattern variants as image texture descriptors. • The boosting machine is finetuned by the Aquila optimizer. • The proposed method achieves a high classification accuracy rate = 0.99. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As the digital images produce a lot of information about the pixels, there is a need to find alternative methods to reduce the image feature dataset for faster and automatic classification of plants through digital leaf images. In the present work, the leaf image texture features have been extracted through Gabor based techniques and then subjecting them to PSO-CFS based search method for identifying the best set of features from the complete feature set and then classifying them using four classification algorithms like KNN, J48, CART and RF. Another objective of this work is to utilize the two faces available on the plant leaves (Dorsal and Ventral), instead of one (i.e. Dorsal) for classification of plants on the basis of digital leafimages and to analyse the effects on classification accuracy values for dorsal and ventral sides of leaf images. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Interpretation of long-term Electroencephalography (EEG) records is a tiresome task for clinicians. This paper presents an efficient, low cost and novel approach for patient-specific classification of long-term epileptic EEG records. We aim to achieve this with the minimum supervision from the neurologist. To accomplish this objective, first a novel feature extraction method is proposed based on the mapping of EEG signals into two dimensional space, resulting into a texture image. The texture image is constructed by mapping and scaling EEG signals and their associated frequency sub-bands into the gray-level image domain. Image texture analysis using gray level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM) is then applied in order to extract multivariate features which are able to differentiate between seizure and seizure-free events. To evaluate the discriminative power of the proposed feature extraction method, a comparative study is performed, against other dedicated feature extraction methods. The comparative performance evaluations show that the proposed feature extraction method can outperform other state-of-art feature extraction methods with a low computational cost. With a training rate of 25%, the overall sensitivity of 70.19% and specificity of 97.74% are achieved in the classification of over 163 h of EEG records using support vector machine (SVM) classifiers with linear kernels and trained by the stochastic gradient descent (SGD) algorithm. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With recent improvements in instrumentation and computer infrastructure, machine vision technologies have produced innovative approaches for controlling and monitoring mineral flotation process. In order to efficiently analyze froth image, froth texture is used to accurately and rapidly extract froth characteristics based on the statistics of image pixels. The characterization and identification of texture require a method that can express the context surrounding each pixel by combining local and global texture characteristics. To extract the distinctive froth texture features in different production states, a novel complex networks-based texture extraction and classification method for froth imaging is proposed in this paper. A network model is constructed by expressing pixels as network nodes and similarities between pixels as network links. This method automatically sets the optimal algorithm parameters for the complex network modeling of the froth images according to bubble sizes by using the Minkowski distance. Energy and entropy measurements are used to quantify the properties of the connectivity and topology of the froth-image network model. Copper froth images at different production states extracted from the flotation monitoring system in a flotation plant are used to test the froth-image network model. The experimental results show that the proposed method accurately describes the froth image texture and also robustly classifies the different production states. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Fatty Liver Disease (FLD) is a progressively prevalent disease that is present in about 15% of the world population. Normally benign and reversible if detected at an early stage, FLD, if left undetected and untreated, can progress to an irreversible advanced liver disease, such as fibrosis, cirrhosis, liver cancer and liver failure, which can cause death. Ultrasound (US) is the most widely used modality to detect FLD. However, the accuracy of US-based diagnosis depends on both the training and expertise of the radiologist. US-based Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD) techniques for FLD detection can improve accuracy, speed and objectiveness of the diagnosis, and thereby, reduce operator dependability. In this paper, we first review the advantages and limitations of different diagnostic methods which are currently available to detect FLD. We then review the state-of-the-art US-based CAD techniques that utilize a range of image texture based features like entropy, Local Binary Pattern (LBP), Haralick textures and run length matrix in several automated decision making algorithms. These classification algorithms are trained using the features extracted from the patient data in order for them to learn the relationship between the features and the end-result (FLD present or absent). Subsequently, features from a new patient are input to these trained classifiers to determine if he/she has FLD. Due to the use of such automated systems, the inter-observer variability and the subjectivity of associated with reading images by radiologists are eliminated, resulting in a more accurate and quick diagnosis for the patient and time and cost savings for both the patient and the hospital. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• An automated, machine-learning based, material-testing fracture characterization process is elaborated. • Image-based, highly-significant texture features are identified and classified. • Neural network, high accuracy material-testing fracture classifiers are trained. • The applicability of the methodology in different ductile fracture experiments is illustrated. Correctly determining the onset of fracture is crucial when performing mechanical experiments. Commonly carried out by visual inspection, here an image-based machine learning approach is proposed to classify cracked and un-cracked specimens. It yields the potential to objectify and automate crack detection, thereby removing sources of uncertainty and error from the post-processing of experiments. More than 30'000 speckle-pattern images obtained from 77 experiments on three specimen geometries are evaluated. They comprise uniaxial tension, notched tension as well as axisymmetric V-bending experiments. Statistical texture features are extracted from all images. They include both first-order (variance, skewness, kurtosis) and higher-order statistical texture features, i.e. Haralick features. The discriminatory power of the texture information is evaluated based on the Fisher's Discriminant Ratio and feature correlations are identified and quantified. Image texture feature subsets of high discriminatory power are used to parse neural network architectures of different complexities from simple perceptron to feed-forward and cascade neural networks. It is found that a small subset of the investigated texture features is highly significant for all experiments. Using this feature subset in conjunction with multi-layer, non-linear and low complexity feed-forward network architectures classification accuracies in the order of 99% are obtained. At the same time, it is shown that linear classifiers are not sufficient to robustly distinguish the state of the specimens, even when high discriminatory power features are used. Graphical Abstract: [Display omitted] [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the process of chemical production and biopharmaceutical, with the complex reaction, the products will overlap or adhere to each other. Effectively distinguishing the overlap and adhesion of crystals is of great significance for the statistics of different morphological characteristics such as the number and size of crystals. This paper proposes a crystal texture recognition system based on image analysis, which mainly includes image pre-processing, feature extraction and texture classification. Firstly, the crystal images are pre-processed to eliminate the influence of water droplets, particle shadows and uneven illumination. Secondly, the Improved-Basic Gray Level Aura matrix (I-BGLAM) is used to extract texture features of the crystals to determine the focus state of crystals. Finally, the texture features are classified by back propagation neural network (BPNN) to effectively distinguish agglomerates and pseudo-agglomerates. The case study and experimental results of cooling crystallization of l-glutamic acid show that the texture recognition system can effectively distinguish the adhesion and overlap of crystals, and effectively analyze the agglomerates, and has good experimental accuracy. • We propose an image preprocessing method which can effectively remove various interferences caused by invasive imaging system. • We use image texture to analyze the focus state of the crystals and to determine the adhesion and overlap of the crystals. • We propose using BPNN to classify the texture and determine the crystal type. • We teste the discriminating effect of various feature extractors, and finally used I-BGLAM to identify agglomerations according to the experimental results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• The function of the thyroid gland could be disrupted if it produces too much or too little hormones. • The visual interpretation of the ultrasound thyroid images is challenging and time-consuming. • Bayesian network inference can estimate textural features with significant conditional dependencies for classification. • A novel texture feature engineering algorithmic model can differentiate the benign and malignant thyroid nodules. The thyroid is the chief hormonal gland that controls the growth, metabolism, and maturation of the body. However, the function of the thyroid gland could be disrupted if it produces too much or too little hormones. Furthermore, there could be abnormal growth in thyroid cell tissue, leading to the formation of a benign or malignant thyroid lesion. Ultrasound is a typical non-invasive diagnosis approach to check for cancerous thyroid lesions. However, the visual interpretation of the ultrasound thyroid images is challenging and time-consuming. Hence, a feature engineering model is proposed to overcome these challenges. We propose to transform image pixel intensity values into high dimensional structured data set before fitting a Regression analysis framework to estimate kernel parameters for an image filter model. We then adopt a Bayesian network inference to estimate a subset for the textural features with a significant conditional dependency in the classification of thyroid lesions. The analysis of the proposed feature engineering model showed that the classification performance had an overall significant improvement over other image filter models. We achieve 96.00% classification accuracy with a sensitivity and specificity of 99.64% and 90.23% respectively for a filter size of 13 × 13. The analysis of results indicate that the diagnosis of ultrasound images thyroid nodules is significantly boosts by adaptively learning filter parameters for feature engineering model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]