| This paper presents an overview of the current state of the art in lossless and quasi-lossless image coding research. Emphasis is put on two important application areas, in which high quality coding is essential: medical imaging and the pre-press industry. The paper brieey discusses the basic principles of the most important techniques and compares these techniques from the point of view of c...

s 61 Advanced X-Ray and CT Techniques 62 Image Analysis, Bioinformatics, Computational Modeling 72 Magnetic Resonance Research 88 Molecular Imaging 133 Publications and Presentations 167 Peer-Reviewed Presentations at Scientific Meetings 168 Other Scientific Meeting Presentations 177 Published Papers 185 Books & Book Chapters 194 Papers Submitted or in Press 196 Funded Research Projects 209 NIH...

The objective of this paper is to outline the current use of herbicide-resistant soybean and corn in the United States and describe the ramifications of utilizing these crops derived from biotechnology. The popular press and news articles detail the positions of consumers, environmental advocates, and the agriculture industry. Recent concerns expressed by consumers throughout the world have aff...

Most visualizations produced in academia or industry have a specific niche audience that is well versed in either the often complicated visualization methods or the scientific domain of the data. Sometimes it is useful to produce visualizations that can communicate results to a broad audience that will not have the domain specific knowledge often needed to understand the results. In this work, ...

Java has entered the software arena in unprecedented fashion, upstaging languages and technologies that are longstanding players in the industry. Almost unheard of before 1995, the language and its surrounding technology are attracting increasing attention not merely in the hardware and software communities but also among lay users and in the popular press. This phenomenon has not escaped the a...

Introduction: Obese individuals have elevated levels of inflammatory and cell adhesion molecules that can critically induce the occurrence of atherosclerosis. Aerobic exercise training reduces biochemical markers and anthropometric characteristics involved in atherosclerosis. However, little is known about the effect of resistance exercise training on these biomarkers. This study aimed to inves...

Information security and privacy in the healthcare sector is an issue of growing importance. The adoption of digital patient records, increased regulation, provider consolidation and the increasing need for information exchange between patients, providers and payers, all point towards the need for better information security. We critically survey the literature on information security and priva...

s 59 Advanced X-Ray and CT Techniques 60 Image Analysis, Bioinformatics, Computational Modeling 68 Magnetic Resonance Research 88 Molecular Imaging 124 Publications and Presentations 147 Peer-Reviewed Presentations at Scientific Meetings 148 Other Scientific Meeting Presentations 157 Published Papers 164 Books & Book Chapters 181 Papers Submitted or In Press 184 Funded Research Projects 195 NIH...

Electronic marketplaces are a popular phenomenon, both for academics and for practitioners. During the last two to four years we have seen several emarketplaces trying to find their niches. One of the most discussed e-marketplace, especially in the business press, is Covisint, the “big” e-marketplace of the car industry. Because Covisint is so well known, it has become an example and a model fo...

# Takanobu Tabata , Nobuyoshi Kikuma , Tomohisa Wada 3, 5 Satoshi Hori , Mitoshi Fujimoto , Hirokazu Asato 5 1 15 Hirokuden, Ukigai, Miyoshi-cho, Nishikamo-gun, Aichi, 470-0207 Japan, Kojima Press Industry Co.,Ltd., [email protected] 2 Gokiso-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi, 466-8555 Japan, Nagoya Institute of Technology 3 1 Senbaru Nishihara Okinawa, 903-0213 Japan, University of the Ryuk...