BACKGROUND Advancement in technology of computer tomography (CT) and introduction of new medical imaging softwares enables easy and rapid assessment of muscle cross-sectional area (CSA) and attenuation. Before using these techniques in clinical studies there is a need for evaluation of the reliability of the measurements. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the inter- and intra-observer re...

The segmentation of unconstrained handwritten text lines into words is an important stage in word recognition systems. This paper addresses a methodology to overcome the challenges, which are amplified by the non-uniform spaces between words and overlapping components by using a few statistical approaches. The system was developed using Java 2 and ImageJ tool. In this approach, a text line imag...

The aim of the present work was to study the shrinkage phenomenon during convective drying of papaya cubes and relate its extension with glass transition. A convective tray dryer was used for the experiments, which were carried out at air temperatures of 40 and 70°C and air velocity of 1.0m/s. The shrinkage behaviour was accomplished by total area and apparent volume alterations along drying. S...

Three dimensional digital model of a representative human kidney is needed for a surgical simulator that is capable of simulating a laparoscopic surgery involving kidney. Buying a three dimensional computer model of a representative human kidney, or reconstructing a human kidney from an image sequence using commercial software, both involve (sometimes significant amount of) money. In this paper...

Pectoral muscle identification is often required for breast cancer risk analysis, such as estimating breast density. Traditional methods are overwhelmingly based on manual visual assessment or straight line fitting for the pectoral muscle boundary, which are inefficient and inaccurate since pectoral muscle in mammograms can have curved boundaries. This paper proposes a novel and automatic pecto...