MANAJEMEN PENDIDIKAN ISLAM DI PESANTREN: PERSPEKTIF EPISTEMOLOGI

Management of Islamic education in pesantren needs to return to its historical roots in order to confirm the identity, character, distinctiveness and uniqueness. There is a spirit that is timeless, even the underlying model of ideal education in the contemporary era. Development of Islamic epistemology for education should be able to give birth to a generation of Muslims who worships in the field of religion and experts in the field of science and technology. Pesantren as an educational institution of Islam with a good management should be able to play its role to achieve this goal. Whereas in fact there who think that pesantren have not been able to put its strategic position in the development of science in accordance with the times. Nevertheless, the existence of Islamic educational institutions such as pesantren is evidence that pesantren have been organized in a good management so that it can survive in changing times from time to time. More precisely knowing Islamic education management in pesantren from the perspective of epistemology may illustrate that pesantren will continue to be needed to confront the changing times.

Registration of Medical Images Based on Common Subregions

Registration is an important and fundamental medical image analysis technique for the alignment of two or more images of the same organ into a single more informative and ideal image for receiving precise and complementary information. The high quality and more informative images help surgeons to accurately locate region of interest while the surgery is in progress. Reliable, accurate, robust and computationally efficient image registration is necessary and is always required in clinical practices. However, the development of more accurate and efficient registration techniques in clinically acceptable time-frames is always a challenge. Most of the registration approaches consider entire image content and global features for the alignment of two or more images. Such approaches are tend to be computationally intensive and inaccurate because it requires full image matching. In medical image registration, computational efficiency and high accuracy may be achieved by restricting the registration process to subregions within the image being registered. Registration based on subregions and local features consider salient regions (interested regions) in the whole medical image. These approaches are computationally efficient and accurate because the registration needs to be performed only for the specific region. Automatic detection and extraction of interested subregions in medical images is always required in IGS and radiotherapy. However, automatic detection and registration of interested subregions in medical images is difficult and prone to errors due to complex and non-linear nature, and the availability of limited features for registration. This work presents an automatic feature based approaches for the rigid and deformable registration of medical images with the aim of high accuracy and computational efficiency. Instead of globally registering one image (moving image or source image) to another image (fixed image or target image), interested common subregions in two images are first automatically detected. After the detection of interested common subregions in both images, the detected common subregions are registered with local transformation parameters. The obtained local transformation parameters are then applied on source image, which recovers it according to the coordinates of target image. Finally, the obtained recovered source image is aligned with fixed target image with global transformation and correct registration with high efficiency is therefore achieved. All the experiments are performed on real 2D brain MRI images of patients with tumor. To demonstrate the computational efficiency, accuracy, reliability and robustness of the proposed approaches, extensive experiments are performed and the results are compared with existing standard registration methods. The performance of the proposed methods is evaluated using popular statistical metrics i.e. mutual information (MI), mean square error (MSE), peak signal to noise ratio (PSNR), sum of square differences (SSD), cross correlation (CC) and computation time. The experimental results sows that the obtained values of MI, PSNR and CC for the proposed methods are high than existing methods. Similarly, the obtained values of MSE, SSD and computational time for the proposed methods are low compared to existing methods. Thus it is obvious from the experiments that the proposed registration approaches outperform than the existing registration approaches in terms of computational efficiency and registration accuracy. Moreover, the proposed approaches automatically detect the desired common subregions in rigid and deformable medical images and perform successful registration on it.