The Study of the Intensity-Curvature Term: Applications in Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Human Brain

Authors

  • Carlo Ciulla University of Information Science and Technology “St. Paul the Apostle” Faculty of Information Systems Multimedia Visualization and Animation, Partizanska BB, 6000 Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia
  • Ustijana Rechkoska Shikoska University of Information Science and Technology “St. Paul the Apostle” Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, Partizanska BB, 6000 Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia
  • Vasko Reckoski University “St. Clement Ohridski”, FTU, “Kej Makedonija” 95, 6000 Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia
  • Dimitar Veljanovski Skopje City Hospital 8-mi Septemvri, Boulevard 8th September, Department of Diagnostic Radiology, 1000 Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
  • Filip A. Risteski Skopje City Hospital 8-mi Septemvri, Boulevard 8th September, Department of Diagnostic Radiology, 1000 Skopje, Republic of Macedonia

Keywords:

Intensity-curvature term, Intensity-curvature measurement approaches, Classic-curvature, Intensity-curvature functional, Signal resilient to interpolation, Resilient curvature

Abstract

This paper presents an overview of the characteristics of the intensity-curvature term with applications in image processing and also in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) of the human brain. The intensity-curvature term is the key concept that merges together the value of the signal with the value of the classic-curvature, which is the sum of the second order partial derivatives of the model function fitted to the signal. The model function fitted to the signal needs to have the property of second order differentiability, and also to have at least one non null second order partial derivative calculated at the origin of the coordinate system of the pixel. The mathematical meaning of the intensity-curvature term is the mapping of the signal into a novel domain where each value of the signal is multiplied by the arctangent of the angle subtended with the horizontal, by the tangent to the first order derivative of the model function. The mapping merges the value of the signal intensity and the classic-curvature of the signal. Hence, the resulting intensity-curvature term embeds information about both signal intensity and concavity-convexity of the model function. In addition to the classic-curvature, and consequential to the mapping, the intensity-curvature term allows the calculation of three supplementary intensity-curvature measurement approaches (ICMAs): (i) the intensity-curvature functional, (ii) the signal resilient to interpolation, and (iii) the resilient curvature. This paper reviews the implications of the intensity-curvature term with specific focus on the meaning and the nature of the ICMAs, which provide additional imaging of the human brain MRI.

Author Biographies

Carlo Ciulla, University of Information Science and Technology “St. Paul the Apostle” Faculty of Information Systems Multimedia Visualization and Animation, Partizanska BB, 6000 Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia

University of Information Science and Technology “St. Paul the Apostle”

Faculty of Information Systems Multimedia Visualization and Animation, Partizanska BB, 6000 Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia

Ustijana Rechkoska Shikoska, University of Information Science and Technology “St. Paul the Apostle” Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, Partizanska BB, 6000 Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia

University of Information Science and Technology “St. Paul the Apostle”

Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, Partizanska BB, 6000 Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia

Vasko Reckoski, University “St. Clement Ohridski”, FTU, “Kej Makedonija” 95, 6000 Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia

University “St. Clement Ohridski”, FTU, “Kej Makedonija” 95, 6000 Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia

Dimitar Veljanovski, Skopje City Hospital 8-mi Septemvri, Boulevard 8th September, Department of Diagnostic Radiology, 1000 Skopje, Republic of Macedonia

Skopje City Hospital 8-mi Septemvri, Boulevard 8th September, Department of Diagnostic Radiology, 1000 Skopje, Republic of Macedonia

Filip A. Risteski, Skopje City Hospital 8-mi Septemvri, Boulevard 8th September, Department of Diagnostic Radiology, 1000 Skopje, Republic of Macedonia

Skopje City Hospital 8-mi Septemvri, Boulevard 8th September, Department of Diagnostic Radiology, 1000 Skopje, Republic of Macedonia

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Published

2017-03-24

How to Cite

Ciulla, C., Shikoska, U. R., Reckoski, V., Veljanovski, D., & Risteski, F. A. (2017). The Study of the Intensity-Curvature Term: Applications in Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Human Brain. Science & Technology Asia, 22(1), 27–44. Retrieved from https://ph02.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/SciTechAsia/article/view/80881

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Engineering