1 Despite the promising results of numerous applications, the hitherto proposed snake techniques share some common problems: snake attraction by spurious edge points, snake degeneration (shrinking and attening), convergence and stability of the deformation process, snake initialization and local determination of the parameters of elasticity. We argue here that these problems can be solved only ...

Corresponding to each ”rectangular” double product [5] in the form of a formal power series R[h] with coefficients in the tensor product T (L) ⊗ T (L) with itself of the Itô Hopf algebra, we construct ”triangular” elements T [h] of T (L) satisfying ∆T [h] = T [h](1)R[h]T{h](2). In Fock space representations of T (L) by iterated quantum stochastic integrals when L is the algebra of Itô different...

7 Incorrect snake identification from the observable visual traits is a major reason of death resulting from snake bites. So far no automatic classification method has been proposed to distinguish snakes by deciphering the taxonomy features of snake for the two major species of snakes i.e. Elapidae and Viperidae. We present a parallel processed inter-feature product similarity fusion based auto...

Snake bite injuries and death are socio-medical problems of considerable magnitude. In India a large number of people suffer and die every year due to snake venom poisoning. Snake venom, though greatly feared, is a natural biological resource, containing several components that could be of potential therapeutic value. Use of snake venom in different pathophysiological conditions has been mentio...

Stroop interference and skin conductance responses (SCRs) for words related to snakes, spiders, flowers, and mushrooms were studied in a group of women (n=40) with snake phobia who were randomised to a stress or no-stress condition. The 21 low-stress snake phobics showed Stroop interference for unmasked (but not for masked) snake words, compared with 21 age- and sex-matched controls. Stroop int...

A Snake is an active contour for representing object contours. Traditional snake algorithms are often used to represent the contour of a single object. However, if there is more than one object in the image, the snake model must be adaptive to determine the corresponding contour of each object. Also, the previous initialized snake contours risk getting the wrong results when tracking multiple o...

Image Segmentation based on Snake model is one of the hottest research fields of image processing. The Snake model integrates the characteristics of the lower layer of images and the prior knowledge of the upper layer. It can effectively implement medical image segmentation for the unique of medical images using the restriction of the lower layer of images to the prior knowledge of the upper la...

We have investigated experimentally the magnetoresistance of strongly asymmetric double-wells. The structures were prepared by inserting a thin Al0.3Ga0.7As barrier into the GaAs buffer layer of a standard modulation-doped GaAs/Al0.3Ga0.7As heterostructure. The resulting double-well system consists of a nearly rectangular well and of a triangular well coupled by tunneling through the thin barri...

BACKGROUND Snake bite is a neglected public health problem in the world and one of the major causes of mortality and morbidity in many areas, particularly in the rural tropics. It also poses substantial economic burdens on the snake bite victims due to treatment related expenditure and loss of productivity. An accurate estimate of the risk of snake bite is largely unknown for most countries in ...

abstract cancer is the leading cause of death worldwide. current anticancer drugs involve various toxic side effects; efforts are ongoing to develop new anticancer agents especially from the screening of natural compounds. present study investigated cytotoxic effects and mode of cell death induced by the caspian cobra venom in some human cancer cell lines. cytotoxic effects of snake venom toxin...