Moving forward to meet new challenges

Proceedings B: moving forward to meet new challenges.

Challenges Moving Forward for Arterial Imaging

Coronary angiography has been the gold standard of coronary artery imaging for more than half a century. Its ability to identify and quantify the extent of obstructive disease has been widely used to characterize the factors that promote the natural history of atherosclerosis and to triage patients to a range of medical and revascularization therapies. However, the fact that conventional angiog...

Reforming Medicare: Adapting a Successful Program to Meet New Challenges

Evolving GATE to meet new challenges in language engineering

In this paper we present recent work on GATE, a widely-used framework and graphical development environment for creating and deploying Language Engineering components and resources in a robust fashion. The GATE architecture has facilitated the development of a number of successful applications for various language processing tasks (such as Information Extraction, dialogue and summarisation), th...

Ethical challenges in biobanking: moving the agenda forward in India.

There is no agreement on the typology and definition of biobanks.The present regulations across countries, including India, focus ongenomic and genetic databases and DNA and cell line biobanking.It is unclear how the range of the holdings of biological samples in diagnostic and research laboratories fall under these regulatory frameworks. Biobank-related research has become very attractive beca...