Image registration is a useful technique to measure the change between two or more images. Lung CT image registration is widely used an non-invasive method to measure the lung function changes. Non-invasive lung function measurement accuracy highly depends on lung CT image registration accuracy. Improving the registration accuracy is an important issue. In this thesis, we propose incorporating ...

This paper presents a control and controllability approach for a copier paperpath. The paperpath transports sheets from the feeder to the image transfer section. At arrival time, every sheet must synchronize with the photo-receptor. The hybrid character of the system makes classical control approaches diicult. A control scheme that controls intersheet spacings is proposed. A controllability ana...

This study focusses on techniques for computer-based detection and recognition of notes in a musical composition. In the first part, suggestions about the note analysis of a musical score using image processing techniques will be presented. The second part covers approaches to the determination of tonal information in an audible music file via audio processing methods. Information on musical no...

This report, prepared by the Center for Competitive Analysis of the University of Missouri Outreach and Extension (UO/E), provides an overview of some important aspects of the Sheet Metal Work industry (“sheet metal industry”), Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) code 3444. Its primary intended audiences are UO/E, which may consider educational programming designed to assist business owner...

I recently read the “Alberta Health Services Information Sheet On Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and Chronic Cerebrospinal Venous Insufficiency (CCSVI)” which was prepared by members of your department and made available to the public on August 6, 2010. I found this report to contain numerous factual errors, misleading statements and half truths. It also included blatant, fear mongering and an incredi...

Automated information extracted from topographic sheet plays an important role in assisting researchers to extract identifiable features in the field of remote sensing and geographical information system. Extraction and representation of morphological patterns pertaining to an aspect of interest plays a pivotal role while making a quality assessment of the same. The confidence of the assessment...

Today, the majority of all new HIV infections occur among children and young people under 25 years of age, the people who were born and who have grown up during the AIDS epidemic. The epidemic is straining resources in already impoverished communities and creating new obstacles to the realization of children's rights to survival, development, and protection. The failure to ensure children's rig...

Information technology (IT) systems have been described as brittle and prone to automation surprises. Recent reports of information system failure, particularly computerized physician order entry (CPOE) systems, shows the result of such IT failure in actual practice. Such mismatches with healthcare work requirements require improvement to IT research and development. Resilience is the feature o...

Adequate patient information with particular emphasis on the fact that participation in the study is voluntary is a particular concern of the ‘Declaration of Helsinki’ [1] and Guidelines on Good Clinical Practice. Great care must therefore be taken in formulating and adapting a written patient information sheet to the particular requirements of a given study. The written patient information mus...