CBIR systems designed for medical applications often require that a human in the loop demarcate the pathology bearing regions in the image, since fully automatic extraction of such regions is still not possible. In our CBIR system for the domain of HRCT images of the lung, physicians did not find this interaction too onerous since the boundary surrounding a pathology bearing region did not have...

A Correction to this paper has been published: 10.1007/s00013-020-01457-0

In this paper we propose an iterative graph cuts based active contours approach to segment an object boundary out of background. Given an initial boundary nearby the object, the graph cuts based active contour can iteratively deform to the object boundary even if there are large discontinuities and noise. In each iteration, the area of interest is a certain neighborhood of the previously estima...

Since the traditional deterministic method and classical statistical energy have little room for improvement, more researches gradually turn to combination of two methods solve low medium frequency "acoustic vibration" problem. However, in application mixed FE-SEA model, researchers found that when coupling interface between FEA substructure SEA is form continuous interface, a very large finite...

Current dosimetry protocols require geometrical reference conditions for the determination of absorbed dose in external radiotherapy. Whenever these geometrical conditions cannot be maintained the application of additional corrections becomes necessary, in principle. The current DIN6800-2 protocol includes a corresponding factor k(NR), but numerical values are lacking and no definite informatio...

Thank you very much for publishing our manuscript entitled: "Quantification and comparison of bone-specific alkaline phosphatase with two methods in normal and paget's specimens" in the latest issue of the journal (Caspian Journal of Internal Medicine, Summer 2012 3(3):478-483). Unfortunately, we noticed the mistake in the date of our study after its publication in your latest revised manuscrip...

A film model is described for free convective heat transfer u [ms1] and friction in the presence of wall suction or injection. The analysis v [ms1] yields a thermal correction factor, which appears to be the classical x [In] (Ackermann) expression, and a novel friction correction factor, y [m] derived here for the first time. Both correction factors are applied to free convection along a vertic...

Two-phase outflows refer to situations where the interface formed between two immiscible incompressible fluids passes through open portions of the domain boundary. We present several new forms of open boundary conditions for two-phase outflow simulations within the phase field framework, as well as a rotational pressure correction based algorithm for numerically treating these open boundary con...

We discuss a quantum extension of the holographic RG flow equation obtained previously from the classical Hamiltonian constraint in the bulk AdS supergravity. The WheelerDeWitt equation is proposed to generate the extended RG flow and to produce 1/N subleading corrections systematically. Our formulation in five dimensions is applied to the derivation of the Weyl anomaly of boundary N = 4 SU(N) ...

In this paper the isogeometric Nyström method is presented. It’s outstanding features are: it allows the analysis of domains described by many different geometrical mapping methods in computer aided geometric design and it requires only pointwise function evaluations just like isogeometric collocation methods. The analysis of the computational domain is carried out by means of boundary integral...