The number of uploading video clips to video sharing Web sites has been explosively increasing. Then, it is not easy for users to find their preferable video clip. In this paper, we propose several methods to generate a fifteen-second thumbnail video clip from an original video clip based on analysis of viewer’s responses and analysis of audio features. We clear the advantage and characteristic...

The Sundt encircling clip was developed to repair defects of the vessel wall. With the advent of microvascular techniques, most parts of the damaged vessel wall during aneurysm surgery can be repaired by primary closure or by the bypass technique. However, these methods are not always successful. Here, we illustrate two cases of surgical clipping with the Sundt encircling clip in the ruptured i...

This extended abstract details our submission to the Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX) 2011 for the audio training\test task. First of all, we extract a fixed-length feature vector (composed of some timbral as well as modulation spectrum features) from each training clip. Then, by representing a fixed-length feature vector (extracted from a test clip) as a linear combinati...

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) has become the ‘gold standard’ for symptomatic gallstones. Although the overall complication rate after LC is less than the traditional open approach, intra-abdominal abscesses following LC are rarely encountered. Also, intra-operative stone spillage and dropping of the surgical clips do occur. An abscess secondary to a dropped surgical clip is an uncommon even...

PURPOSE To evaluate the magnetic characteristics, artifact formation, and implant safety of titanium aneurysm clips for use in MR imaging. METHODS Aneurysm clips made of titanium alloy TiAl6V4 were tested in a magnetometer to determine their magnetic susceptibility and in a 1.5-T MR imager using both a geometric phantom and an animal model. A commercially available alpha-Phynox clip served as...

This paper presents an approach to extracting dominant feature vectors from an individual audio clip and then proposes a new similarity measure based on the dominant feature vectors. Instead of using the mean and standard deviation of frame features in most conventional methods, the most salient characteristics of an audio clip are represented in the form of several dominant feature vectors. Th...

AIM The OTSC Proctology is a surgical device for anorectal fistula closure. It consists of a super-elastic nitinol clip, which is placed (with the aid of a transanal applicator) on the internal fistula opening to achieve healing of the fistula track. A prospective, two-centre clinical pilot study was undertaken to assess the efficacy and safety of the OTSC Proctology in patients with a complex ...