From time to time it is worth pausing and remembering those who have been our teachers and mentors. In this instance I honor and remember Vladimir Nigrovic – a Croatian physician who was a gentleman, a scholar, and a widely recognized authority on diuretics and neuromuscular blockade (Figure 1). He was a teacher and mentor who made a difference in my life and to those in the Anesthesiology and ...

We present a new multiple-instance (MI) learning technique (EMDD) that combines EM with the diverse density (DD) algorithm. EM-DD is a general-purpose MI algorithm that can be applied with boolean or real-value labels and makes real-value predictions. On the boolean Musk benchmarks, the EM-DD algorithm without any tuning significantly outperforms all previous algorithms. EM-DD is relatively ins...