Introduction: In orthodontic diagnosis and treatment planning an accurate evaluation of sagittal jaw relationship is important. To assess the antero-posterior jaw discrepancy between maxilla and mandible, numerous angular and linear measurements have been in corporate so as to reach correct diagnosis. So the purpose of this study is to compare ANB angle, Wits appraisal, Beta angle and W angle u...

Classical Geostatistics methods have been designed to use mainly statistical knowledge about natural variables and they lack the ability to incorporate important forms of knowledge like physical laws and scientific theories into the mapping process. On the other hand, the powerful and versatile Bayesian maximum entropy (BME) method of Modern Geostatistics can accomplish such a task, rigorously ...

Recently, controversy has erupted over whether gas-rich spiralspiral mergers are capable of forming m∗ ellipticals. Measurements of σ◦ from the 2.29μm CO band-head for local LIRG/ULIRGs, suggest they are not. IRbright mergers are often cited as the best candidates for forming massive ellipticals, so the recent observations have raised doubts about both the Toomre Merger Hypothesis and the funda...

A robust and accurate image recognizer for cephalometric landmarking is presented. The recognizer uses Support Vector Machine (SVM) to model discrimination boundaries between different landmarks and also between the background frames. Large Margin Classification with non-linear kernels allows to extract relevant details from the landmarks, approaching human expert levels of recognition. In conj...

An investigation of body height and cephalic measurements was performed among five groups of first-year medical students of the University of Rijeka School of Medicine (Rijeka, Croatia). Body height and different cephalic measurements showed normal distribution, both in male and female students. Differences between measured variables were statistically analyzed by ANOVA. No significant differen...

Cephalograms are clinically useful for cephalometric diagnosis and superimposition. The measurements for cephalometry has always been done manually in practice. The purpose of this paper is to develop a cephalometric analysis system which can be used to improve the measurements by computer software. The software was developed as a Multi-Document Interface(MDI) application under the environment ...

Aim: Film digitization is generally used to prevent potential damage or loss of original films. The method of film processing has been changing from wet to dry processing due to recent trends toward digitization of medical imaging. Materials & Methods: 50 Lateral cephalometric radiograms were used in this study. All radiographs were viewed under standardized conditions& traced. Eleven landmarks...