Application of Gaussian mixture field and wavelet-domain hidden Markov model to medical image denoising

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhuofu Liu ◽  
Zhenpeng Liao ◽  
Enfang Sang
Author(s):  
XIAOYUAN YANG ◽  
XUDONG ZHANG ◽  
ZHIPIN ZHU

Wavelet-domain hidden Markov models (HMMs), and in particular, hidden Markov tree (HMT), have been recently proposed and applied to image denoising. In this paper, we present the hidden Markov model and corresponding algorithm based on frame-domain. This model can effectively capture the correlation of wavelet frame coefficients, and we apply this model for image denoising. Furthermore, two new algorithms are developed for denoising. We demonstrate the performance of our new method on some text images with very encouraging results.


Author(s):  
ZHIWU LIAO ◽  
Y. Y. TANG

This paper presents a new framework for signal denoising based on wavelet-domain hidden Markov models (HMMs). The new framework enables us to concisely model the statistical dependencies and non-Gaussian statistics encountered in real-world signals, and enables us to get a more reliable and local model using blocks. Wavelet-domain HMMs are designed with the intrinsic properties of wavelet transform and provide powerful yet tractable probabilistic signal models. In this paper, we propose a novel wavelet domain HMM using blocks to strike a delicate balance between improving spatial adaptability of contextual HMM (CHMM) and modeling a more reliable HMM. Each wavelet coefficient is modeled as a Gaussian mixture model, and the dependencies among wavelet coefficients in each subband are described by a context structure, then the structure is modified by blocks which are connected areas in a scale conditioned on the same context. Before denoising a signal, efficient Expectation Maximization (EM) algorithms are developed for fitting the HMMs to observational signal data. Parameters of trained HMM are used to modify wavelet coefficients according to the rule of minimizing the mean squared error (MSE) of the signal. Then, reverse wavelet transformation is utilized to modified wavelet coefficients. Finally, experimental results are given. The results show that block hidden Markov model (BHMM) is a powerful yet simple tool in signal denoising.


Author(s):  
Li Zhao ◽  
Laurence Rilett ◽  
Mm Shakiul Haque

This paper develops a methodology for simultaneously modeling lane-changing and car-following behavior of automated vehicles on freeways. Naturalistic driving data from the Safety Pilot Model Deployment (SPMD) program are used. First, a framework to process the SPMD data is proposed using various data analytics techniques including data fusion, data mining, and machine learning. Second, pairs of automated host vehicle and their corresponding front vehicle are identified along with their lane-change and car-following relationship data. Using these data, a lane-changing-based car-following (LCCF) model, which explicitly considers lane-change and car-following behavior simultaneously, is developed. The LCCF model is based on Gaussian-mixture-based hidden Markov model theory and is disaggregated into two processes: LCCF association and LCCF dissociation. These categories are based on the result of the lane change. The overall goal is to predict a driver’s lane-change intention using the LCCF model. Results show that the model can predict the lane-change event in the order of 0.6 to 1.3 s before the moment of the vehicle body across the lane boundary. In addition, the execution times of lane-change maneuvers average between 0.55 and 0.86 s. The LCCF model allows the intention time and execution time of driver’s lane-change behavior to be forecast, which will help to develop better advanced driver assistance systems for vehicle controls with respect to lane-change and car-following warning functions.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 3138
Author(s):  
Mingchi Zhang ◽  
Xuemin Chen ◽  
Wei Li

In this paper, a deep neural network hidden Markov model (DNN-HMM) is proposed to detect pipeline leakage location. A long pipeline is divided into several sections and the leakage occurs in different section that is defined as different state of hidden Markov model (HMM). The hybrid HMM, i.e., DNN-HMM, consists of a deep neural network (DNN) with multiple layers to exploit the non-linear data. The DNN is initialized by using a deep belief network (DBN). The DBN is a pre-trained model built by stacking top-down restricted Boltzmann machines (RBM) that compute the emission probabilities for the HMM instead of Gaussian mixture model (GMM). Two comparative studies based on different numbers of states using Gaussian mixture model-hidden Markov model (GMM-HMM) and DNN-HMM are performed. The accuracy of the testing performance between detected state sequence and actual state sequence is measured by micro F1 score. The micro F1 score approaches 0.94 for GMM-HMM method and it is close to 0.95 for DNN-HMM method when the pipeline is divided into three sections. In the experiment that divides the pipeline as five sections, the micro F1 score for GMM-HMM is 0.69, while it approaches 0.96 with DNN-HMM method. The results demonstrate that the DNN-HMM can learn a better model of non-linear data and achieve better performance compared to GMM-HMM method.


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