Biomedical images of the human body are an invaluable source of information that clinicians can use in order to make a correct and final diagnosis. Computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) is used by radiologists as a second opinion has become one of the major research areas in medical imaging. The computer assisted diagnosis need not be comparable to that of physicians, but is surely complementary. PACS...

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Historical perspective It is only 50 years since ultrasound was first introduced to medical diagnosis; an astonishingly short period bearing in mind the impact this technique has exerted on all aspect of medical practices, including ophthalmology. In our field, the early pioneers of ophthalmic ultrasound include Mundt and Hughes, Oksala and Lehtinen, and Gernet. Those workers are credited with ...

Recent developments in entertainment and communications technology have created challenges for those who make classification decisions and who enforce censorship law. High speed private internet access, DVD technology, mobile telephony and advances in video gaming have all created challenges for censorship legislation originally designed to deal with films, videos and paper publications. The la...

Computer technology has been rapidly advancing over the past two decades, mostly due to the high demand for personal and institutional computers. While this trend is expected to continue for a few years, Personal Computers (PCs) will slowly lose their position as the main driving factor behind the computer technology. This article starts by introducing the new devices that are likely to join or...

Dr. David Greenberg’s discussion focused on novel technologies that could improve the immunogenicity achieved with influenza vaccines as well as increase vaccination rates among both older and younger adults. Dr. Greenberg initially focused on results of studies with a high-dose intramuscular vaccine tested on older adults. Older adults’ declining humoral and cellular immunity, due to immunosen...

There has been no fundamental change in the dynamic indexing methods supporting database systems since the invention of the B-tree twenty-five years ago. And yet the whole classical approach to dynamic database indexing has long since become inappropriate and increasingly inadequate. We are moving rapidly from the conventional one-dimensional world of fixed-structure text and numbers to a multi...