Synthetic and natural peptide assemblies can possess transport or conductance activity across biomembranes through the formation of nanopores. The fundamental mechanisms of membrane insertion necessary for antimicrobial or synthetic pore formation are poorly understood. We observe a lipid-assisted mechanism for passive insertion into a model membrane from molecular dynamics simulations. The ass...

This paper presents a novel image matching method for multi-source satellite images, which integrates global Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) data and image segmentation to achieve robust and numerous correspondences. This method first generates the epipolar lines as a geometric constraint assisted by global SRTM data, after which the seed points are selected and matched. To produce more...

A 59-year-old man with a history of prostate cancer and clear-cell renal-cell carcinoma of the kidney underwent a combined robot-assisted laparoscopic partial nephrectomy and radical prostatectomy. We describe the initial report of a combined robot-assisted operation for both procedures concurrently with a port strategy allowing reuse of ports.

This paper presents a brief history of computer-assisted diagnosis, including challenges and future directions. Some ideas presented in this article on computer-assisted diagnostic decision support systems (CDDSS) derive from prior work by the author and his colleagues (see list in Acknowledgments) on the INTERNIST-1 and QMR projects. References indicate the original sources of many of these id...

Alborz is a user assisted reverse engineering tool designed for analyzing and recovering the architecture of a software system in the form of cohesive modules and subsystems. The tool’s operation is based on techniques from the area of data mining, pattern matching, and clustering (Figure 1).

We present a GPU-based approach to geometric pattern matching. We reduce this problem to nding the depth (maximally covered point) of an arrangement of polytopes in transformation space and describe hardware assisted (GPU) algorithms, which exploit the available set of graphics operations to perform a fast rasterized depth computation.

This paper presents a method named Depth-Assisted Rectification of Patches (DARP), which exploits depth information available in RGB-D consumer devices to improve keypoint matching of perspectively distorted images. This is achieved by generating a projective rectification of a patch around the keypoint, which is normalized with respect to perspective distortions and scale. The DARP method runs...