objective: after introduction of digital radiography into dentistry several methods of image acquisition were accessible in the field of dentistry. in many instances it is necessary to digitize analog images. there is no overall acceptable method for image digitization so all different types of images can be comparable. the objective of this study was to compare the diagnostic accuracy of diffe...

Over the last two decades, robust optimization has emerged as a popular means to address decision-making problems affected by uncertainty. This includes single-stage and multi-stage involving real-valued and/or binary decisions exogenous (decision-independent) endogenous (decision-dependent) uncertain parameters. Robust techniques rely on duality theory potentially augmented with approximations...