Current longitudinal image registration methods rely on the assumption that image appearance between time-points remains constant or changes uniformly within intensity classes. This assumption, however, is not valid for magnetic resonance imaging of brain development. Registration methods developed to align images with non-uniform appearance change either (i) locally minimize some global simila...

Content based image retrieval CBIR has been one of the most important research area in the field of computer science. There were many CBIR techniques have been proposed in the last decade. In this paper we propose a CBIR method which is modified form of color averaging technique. In previous color averaging techniques e.g. row mean, column mean ,forward diagonal mean, backward diagonal mean, su...

The idea that physical activity differentially impacts upon performance of various cognitive tasks has recently gained increased interest. However, our current knowledge about how cognition is altered by acute physical activity is incomplete. To measure how different intensity levels of physical activity affect cognition during and after 1 bout of physical activity, 30 healthy, young participan...

OBJECTIVE To describe how vestibular rehabilitation influences pain and range of motion among patients with whiplash-associated disorder and dizziness, and to describe whether pain or range of motion correlated with balance performance or self-perceived dizziness handicap. SUBJECTS A total of 29 patients, 20 women and 9 men, age range 22-76 years. METHODS Patients with whiplash-associated d...

PURPOSE The primary assessment tool used by hospitals to measure the outcomes of pain management programs is the 0-10 numerical pain rating scale. However, it is unclear if this assessment should be used as the sole indicator of positive outcomes by pain management programs. Although it is assumed that pain intensity scores would be correlated with patient satisfaction, few studies have evaluat...

To design successful new products and services, managers need to measure consumer preferences relative to product attributes. Many existing methods use ordinal measures. Intensity measures have the potential to provide more information per question, thus allowing more accurate models or fewer consumer questions (lower survey cost, less consumer wearout). To exploit this potential, researchers m...

the aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of different intensities of short-term exercise on leptin, insulin, cortisol and lipid profiles in overweight and obese children. 24 overweight and obese boys (mean age 15.5±0.65 years old and bmi: 30.09+2.47 kg/m2) participated in this study. all subjects participated in a graded breath to breath gas-analyzer testing by bruce protocol to measure...