The Geneva Vision System

The Value of Engaging the Public in CHATing About Healthcare Priorities: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Swiss-CHAT: Citizens Discuss Priorities for Swiss Health Insurance Coverage

Background As universal health coverage becomes the norm in many countries, it is important to determine public priorities regarding benefits to include in health insurance coverage. We report results of participation in a decision exercise among residents of Switzerland, a high-income country with a long history of universal health insurance and deliberative democracy.   Methods We adapted the...

An Intelligent Vision System on a Mobile Manipulator

This article will introduce a robust vision system which was implemented on a mobile manipulator. This robot has to find objects and deliver them to pre specified locations. In the first stage, a method which is named color adjacency method was employed. However, this method needs a large amount of memory and the process is very slow on computers with small memories. Therefore since the previou...

Future vision and challenges for hospital pharmacy.

Malebona Precious Matsoso, b.PharM., is Director, Public Health Innovation and Intellectual Property, World Health Organization, Avenue Appia 20, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland (matsosom@ who.int). The author has declared no potential conflicts of interest. Copyright © 2009, American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, Inc., and International Pharmaceutical Federation. All rights reserved. 1079-...

Identification of Houseplants Using Neuro-vision Based Multi-stage Classification System

In this paper, we present a machine vision system that was developed on the basis of neural networks to identify twelve houseplants. Image processing system was used to extract 41 features of color, texture and shape from the images taken from front and back of the leaves. The features were fed into the neural network system as the recognition criteria and inputs. Multilayer perceptron (MLP) ne...