The present work aims to explore the performance of fuzzy system-based medical image processing for brain disease prediction. The imaging mechanism of NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) and the complexity of human brain tissues cause the brain MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) images to present varying degrees of noise, weak boundaries, and artifacts. Hence, improvements are made over the fuzzy clustering algorithm. While ensuring the model safety performance, a brain image processing and brain disease diagnosis prediction model is designed based on improved fuzzy clustering and HPU-Net (Hybrid Pyramid U-Net Model for Brain Tumor Segmentation). Brain MRI images collected from the Department of Brain Oncology, XX Hospital, are employed in simulation experiments to validate the performance of the proposed algorithm. Moreover, CNN (Convolutional Neural Network), RNN (Recurrent Neural Network), FCM (Fuzzy C-Means), LDCFCM (Local Density Clustering Fuzzy C-Means), and AFCM (Adaptive Fuzzy C-Means) are included in simulation experiments for performance comparison. Results demonstrated that the proposed algorithm has more nodes, lower energy consumption, and more stable changes than other models under the same conditions. Regarding the overall network performance, the proposed algorithm can complete the data transmission tasks the fastest, basically maintaining at about 4.5 seconds on average, which performs remarkably better than other models. A further prediction performance analysis reveals that the proposed algorithm provides the highest prediction accuracy for the Whole Tumor under the DSC coefficient, reaching 0.936. Besides, its Jaccard coefficient is 0.845, proving its superior segmentation accuracy over other models. To sum up, the proposed algorithm can provide higher accuracy while ensuring energy consumption, a more apparent denoising effect, and the best segmentation and recognition effect than other models, which can provide an experimental basis for the feature recognition and predictive diagnosis of brain images.

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Fuzzy System Based Medical Image Processing for Brain Disease Prediction

This paper introduces sparsity in the traditional fuzzy clustering framework and presents two novel clustering methods. The first one is called deviation-sparse fuzzy c-means (DSFCM). When spatial correlation is encountered, the second method is proposed, which is called deviation-sparse fuzzy c-means with neighbor information constraint (DSFCM_N). The contributions of this paper are threefold. First, the theoretical values of data, estimated from the measured values, are utilized in the clustering process. This could acquire more accurate cluster centers than the traditional fuzzy c-means. Second, by imposing sparsity on the deviations between measured values and theoretical values, DSFCM and DSFCM_N could identify noise and outliers. Finally, with the constraint of neighbor information, the estimation of the deviations between measured values and theoretical values of data would be more reliable than only considering the data itself. Experiments performed on artificial and real-world images show that DSFCM_N is effective and efficient, and thus more competitive than other fuzzy clustering methods.

Deviation-Sparse Fuzzy C-Means With Neighbor Information Constraint

Regional parallel structure based CNN for thermal infrared face identification

A novel thermal infrared pedestrian segmentation algorithm based on conditional generative adversarial network (IPS-cGAN) is proposed for intelligent vehicular applications. The convolution backbone architecture of the generator is based on the improved U-Net with residual blocks for well utilizing regional semantic information. Moreover, cross entropy loss for segmentation is introduced as the condition for the generator. SandwichNet, a novel convolutional network with symmetrical input, is proposed as the discriminator for real–fake segmented images. Based on the c-GAN framework, good segmentation performance could be achieved for thermal infrared pedestrians. Compared to some supervised and unsupervised segmentation algorithms, the proposed algorithm achieves higher accuracy with better robustness, especially for complex scenes.

Thermal Infrared Pedestrian Segmentation Based on Conditional GAN

Near infrared nighttime road pedestrians recognition based on convolutional neural network

In this paper, an intuitionistic center-free fuzzy c-means clustering method (ICFFCM) is proposed for magnetic resonance (MR) brain image segmentation. First, in order to suppress the effect of noise in MR brain images, a pixel-to-pixel similarity with spatial information is defined. Then, for the purpose of handling the vagueness in MR brain images as well as the uncertainty in clustering process, a pixel-to-cluster similarity measure is defined by employing the intuitionistic fuzzy membership function. These two similarities are used to modify the center-free FCM so that the ability of the method for MR brain image segmentation could be improved. Second, on the basis of the improved center-free FCM method, a local information term, which is also intuitionistic and center-free, is appended to the objective function. This generates the final proposed ICFFCM. The consideration of local information further enhances the robustness of ICFFCM to the noise in MR brain images. Experimental results on the simulated and real MR brain image datasets show that ICFFCM is effective and robust. Moreover, ICFFCM could outperform several fuzzy-clustering-based methods and could achieve comparable results to the standard published methods like statistical parametric mapping and FMRIB automated segmentation tool.

Intuitionistic Center-Free FCM Clustering for MR Brain Image Segmentation

Pedestrian detection in infrared images is always a challenging task. Segmentation is an important step of pedestrian detection. An accurate segmentation could provide more information for further analysis. In this paper, an improved Fuzzy C-Means clustering method, which incorporates geometric symmetry information, is proposed for infrared pedestrian segmentation. In the proposed method, symmetry information is introduced by Markov random field theory. Moreover, a new metric is utilized to handle the weak symmetry of pedestrian. In addition, a whole procedure is proposed to extract infrared pedestrians. The experimental results indicate that our method performs better for infrared pedestrian segmentation and obtains better segmentation results compared with other state-of-the-art methods.

Yingfan Wang

Papers

Intuitionistic Center-Free FCM Clustering for MR Brain Image Segmentation

Symmetry Information Based Fuzzy Clustering for Infrared Pedestrian Segmentation