Background: Temporomandibular joint disorder (TMD) might be manifested as structural changes in bone through modification, adaptation or direct destruction. We propose to use Local Binary Pattern (LBP) characteristics and histogram-oriented gradients on the recorded images as a diagnostic tool in TMD assessment.Material and Methods: CBCT images of 66 patients (132 joints) with TMD and 66 normal...

Blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is conventionally done by reconstructing 2 -weighted images. However, since the images are unitless they are nonquantifiable in terms of important physiological parameters. An alternative approach is to reconstruct 2 maps which are quantifiable and have comparable BOLD contrast as 2 -weighted images. However, conve...

In remote sensing images the gapping is a known phenomenon. There are several reasons for image gaps, e.g. shadowed area for SAR data sets, cloud coverage for optical imagery and instrument errors such as SLC-off failure. On May 13, 2003 the Scan Line Corrector (SLC) of Landsat 7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) sensor failed permanently causing around 20% of pixels per scene not scanned wh...

Five sprites produced above the stratiform region and one sprite convective in mesoscale system (MCS) were observed on 22 July 2013 from summit of Mt. Fuji. Four five occurred after was cut off region. The sprite-producing +CGs (SP + CGs) close to these cells with low lightning activity, although in-cloud locations extensively spread out This suggests that positive charges sufficient produce SP...

Standard direct image registration consists in estimating the geometric warp between a source and a target images by maximizing the photometric similarity for the pixels of a Region of Interest (ROI). The ROI must be included in the real overlap between the images otherwise standard registration algorithms fail. Determining a proper ROI is a hard ‘chicken-and-egg’ problem since the overlap is o...

This paper proposes a method for generating realistic calligraphic Kanji character images from on-line data. The proposed method is an improvement of our former method presented in [1]. Our new method can cope also with connected on-line strokes, i.e., stroke number variations, which were not correctly painted in our previous method. The new method decomposes strokes into three different parts ...

Blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) functional MRI (fMRI) imaging is conventionally done by reconstructing T ∗ 2 -weighted images. However, since the images are unitless they are nonquantifiable in terms of important physiological parameters. An alternative approach is to reconstruct R∗ 2 maps which are quantifiable and have comparable BOLD contrast as T ∗ 2 -weighted images. However, conventio...

Retinal ganglion cells that respond selectively to a dark spot on a brighter background (OFF cells) have smaller dendritic fields than their ON counterparts and are more numerous. OFF cells also branch more densely, and thus collect more synapses per visual angle. That the retina devotes more resources to processing dark contrasts predicts that natural images contain more dark information. We c...

1 Introduction Images are all around us! Inexpensive digital cameras, video cameras, computer web-cams, satellite imagery, and images off the Internet give us access to spatial imagery of all sorts. The vast majority of these images will be of scenes at human scales — pictures of animals / houses / people / faces and so on — relatively complex images which are not well described statistically o...

Although cooperation can lead to mutually beneficial outcomes, cooperative actions only pay off for the individual if others be trusted cooperate as well. Identifying trustworthy interaction partners is therefore a central challenge in human social life. How do people navigate this challenge? Prior work suggests that rely on facial appearance judge trustworthiness of strangers. However, questio...