20th anniversary of the Medical Image Analysis journal (MedIA).

Iranian Journal of Basic Medical Sciences comes of age on the 20th anniversary of publication

Bioethics: why philosophy is essential for progress.

It is the JME's 40th anniversary and my 20th anniversary working in the field. I reflect on the nature of bioethics and medical ethics. I argue that both bioethics and medical ethics together have, in many ways, failed as fields. My diagnosis is that better philosophy is needed. I give some examples of the importance of philosophy to bioethics. I focus mostly on the failure of ethics in researc...

Exploring 70 Years of the British National Health Service through Anniversary Documents

The British National Health Service (NHS) celebrates its 70th birthday on July 5, 2018. This article examines this anniversary through the lens of previous anniversaries. It examines seven documents close to each anniversary over a period of some 60 years, drawing on interpretive content analysis, based on the narrative dimensions of context (structure and finance); success or achievements; pro...

Similarity measurement for describe user images in social media

Online social networks like Instagram are places for communication. Also, these media produce rich metadata which are useful for further analysis in many fields including health and cognitive science. Many researchers are using these metadata like hashtags, images, etc. to detect patterns of user activities. However, there are several serious ambiguities like how much reliable are these informa...

The 20th Anniversary of the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

THE year 2010 marks the 30th anniversary of the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), although the precise timing is a matter of some debate (overly meticulous readers might point out that the first issue appeared in January 1979). However, it is indisputable that TPAMI celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2000, and I will follow this tradition and declare this y...