In region-based image segmentation, two models dominate the field: the Mumford-Shah functional and statistical approaches based on Bayesian inference. Whereas the latter allow for numerous ways to describe the statistics of intensities in regions, the first includes spatially smooth approximations. In this paper, we show that the piecewise smooth Mumford-Shah functional is a first order approxi...

The Mumford-Shah model has been one of the most powerful models in image segmentation and denoising. The optimization of the multiphase Mumford-Shah energy functional has been performed using level sets methods that optimize the Mumford-Shah energy by evolving the level sets via the gradient descent. These methods are very slow and prone to getting stuck in local optima due to the use of the gr...

A diverse body of research has demonstrated that people update their beliefs to a greater extent when receiving good news compared to bad news. Recently, a paper by Shah et al. claimed that this asymmetry does not exist. Here we carefully examine the experiments and simulations described in Shah et al. and follow their analytic approach on our data sets. After correcting for confounds we identi...

Soft Ionic Electroactive Actuators with Tunable Non-Linear Angular Deformation Wangyujue Hong, Abdallah Almomani, Yuanfen Chen, Reihaneh Jamshidi, Reza Montazami 1 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames IA 50011, USA 2 Department of Aerospace Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames IA 50011, USA 3 Ames Laboratory, Department of Energy, Ames, IA 50011, USA * Correspon...

CHECKLIST ACCORDING TO PRACTICE-BASED EVIDENCE Ahmad Ghadami, Ali reza Irajpour, Sorour Mosleh, Fereshteh Baradaran Fard, Maryam Azari, Shokouh Sajadi, Mohammad Reza Sanaei. Assistant Professor, Ulcer Repair Research Center, Department of Operating Room, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran; Associate Professor, Department of Adult Nursing, Scho...

In this paper we investigate the image of the l-adic representation attached to the Tate module of an abelian variety over a number field with endomorphism algebra of type I or II in the Albert classification. We compute the image explicitly and verify the classical conjectures of Mumford-Tate, Hodge, Lang and Tate, for a large family of abelian varieties of type I and II. In addition, for this...

In this paper it is shown that any regular critical point of the Mumford-Shah functional, with positive definite second variation, is an isolated local minimizer with respect to competitors which are sufficiently close in the L1 -topology.

Mohammad Hasan Imani Nasab, Hesam Seyedin, Reza Majdzadeh, Bahareh Yazdizadeh, Masoud Salehi. Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Lorestan University of Medical Sciences, Khorramabad, Iran; Health Management and Economics Research Center, School of Health Management and Information Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; Knowledge Utilization Research Center, Sch...