objective(s):neurotoxicity of anticancer drugs complicates treatment of cancer patients. vinblastine (vbl) is reported to induce motor and cognitive impairments in patients receiving chronic low-dose regimen. materials and methods: the effects of vbl treatment on motor, learning and memory functions of male and female wistar rats were studied by behavioral related tests. animals were given chro...

In this paper we present a novel approach employing a radial basis function (RBF) network to implement binary neighbourhood operations such as dilation, erosion, opening and closing. The network used is a parallel electronic hardware device (ZISC Neuroboard 576) designed by IBM Microelectronics Division. Despite increases in serial processor speed, neighbourhood operations have proven to be com...

An improvement of the majority gate algorithm suitable for grey scale morphological operations is presented in this letter. The redundancy of temporal signals led to a simplified hardware implementation. It is shown that max/min operators can be computed by the same circuit. A new pipelined systolic array architecture based on this circuit is illustrated for dilation/erosion operations. 2 Intro...