OBJECTIVE To characterize en face features of the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) and choroid in eyes with chronic central serous chorioretinopathy (CSCR) using a high-speed, enhanced-depth swept-source optical coherence tomography (SS-OCT) prototype. DESIGN Consecutive patients with chronic CSCR were prospectively examined with SS-OCT. PARTICIPANTS Fifteen eyes of 13 patients. METHODS T...

BIRDSHOT RETINOCHOROIDITIS: THE ORIGINS OF THE DISEASE NAME Birdshot retinochoroiditis (BRC) is a uveitis predominantly affecting the posterior segment of the eye with dual, independent retinal and choroidal inflammation and almost only seen in Caucasians. 2 Ryan and Maumenee first described the bilateral retinochoroidal inflammatory disease in early 1980, reporting on 13 patients. These author...

Transpupillary thermotherapy (TTT) of choroidal neovascularization is a developing treatment modality. It uses large spot size, low irradiance and long exposure times with infrared laser to deliver hyperthermia to the choroid and retinal pigment epithelium. TTT has been originally used in the treatment of ocular tumors such as choroidal melanoma and choroidal hemangioma. Histologic studies show...

This follow-up on my prior self-play contributions to the ICGA Journal and elsewhere discusses a variety of topics related to self-play research in general and my own self-play experiment with FRITZ 6 in particular. The text covers issues of comparability as for search depths, the detection of duplicate games, the usage of opening books and other databases, the intention of calibration matches,...

Yan Ke Xue Bao 2016;31(4):243-245 ykxb.amegroups.com Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) has been classified in two groups, neovascular and non-neovascular, which historically has been synonymous with exudative and non-exudative, respectively. Neovascular AMD occurs when pathologic blood vessels, choroidal neovascularization (CNV), arise from the choroid and extend above Bruch’s membrane tow...

Genetic Algorithm Schema Theory Read/Download A central problem in the theory of genetic algorithms is the characterization of problems Schemas. This note argues this popular approach appears unlikely. Presentation on theme: "Genetic Algorithms IntroductionIntroduction Representing The Schema Theory Can we characterize mathematically the evolution. The schema I envisage is based on the genetic ...

Theorem-proving is a one-player game. The history of computer programs being the players goes back to 1956 and the ‘LT’ LOGIC THEORY MACHINE of Newell, Shaw and Simon. In game-playing terms, the ‘initial position’ is the core set of axioms chosen for the particular logic and the ‘moves’ are the rules of inference. Now, the Univalent Foundations Program at IAS Princeton and the resulting ‘HoTT’ ...

DeepMind’s recent spectacular success in using deep convolutional neural nets and machine learning to build superhuman level agents — e.g. for Atari games via deep Q-learning and for the game of Go via other deep Reinforcement Learning methods — raises many questions, including to what extent these methods will succeed in other domains. In this paper we consider DQL for the game of Hex: after s...

Many variants of evolutionary algorithms have been designed and applied. The experimental knowledge is immense. The rigorous analysis of evolutionary algorithms is di/cult, but such a theory can help to understand, design, and teach evolutionary algorithms. In this survey, 0rst the history of attempts to analyse evolutionary algorithms is described and then new methods for continuous as well as...