This paper describes a technique for accurately estimating the area and contour length of a planar non-polygonal region in the scene. The approach taken is to formulate a continuous model of the boundary of the region in the scene and use the image data to estimate the parameters of the model. The required information is then extracted from the model parameters. A high order trigonometric polyn...

Computed tomography (CT) images have been widely used for diagnosis of liver disease and volume measurement for liver surgery or transplantation. Automatic liver segmentation and volume measurement based on the segmentation are the most essential parts in computer-aided diagnosis for liver CT as well as computer-aided surgery. However, liver segmentation, in general, has been performed by outli...

This paper deals with the estimation of the contour of heavy plates during the hot rolling process. Asymmetric rolling conditions lead to a non-rectangular contour. The reasons for this effect, e.g., temperature gradients or nonhomogeneous input thickness profiles, are hard to predict in a real rolling mill. Hence, feedforward compensation of these disturbances is difficult, whereas feedback co...

PURPOSE The dynamic contour tonometer is a nonapplanation contact tonometer designed to be largely independent of the structural properties of the cornea. Theoretically, it may measure intraocular pressure most accurately in abnormally thinner corneas. This study compares intraocular pressure measurements by dynamic contour tonometry with Goldman applanation tonometry in eyes with normal cornea...

We determined the shape of membrane cylinder adherent to a flat support and derived the relationship between the energy of membrane adhesion and the geometncal charactenstics of membrane contour The obtained theoretical results allow an altemative method of adhesion energj measurement in addition to the method which includes the measurement of contact angle Two different cases are analytically ...