The Office of Graduate Studies has verified and approved the above named committee members. iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank my thesis advisor Dr. Simon Foo for his constant guidance and advice. I would also like to thank him for being my advisor during the course of my degree. I would like to thank Dr. Uwe Meyer-Baese for his encouragement and support during the research. I am gratef...

Many of today’s scientific advancements in the field of medicine get their start in radiology. “Research and development in radiology will continue to transform and revolutionize medicine through better and faster disease detection, diagnosis and treatment,” said John Renz, MD, RSNA Technical Exhibits Committee chair. “So much of what is changing and improving patient care and healthcare is a r...

Whether the machine intelligence can surpass the human intelligence is a controversial issue. On the basis of traditional IQ, this article presents the Universal IQ test method suitable for both the machine intelligence and the human intelligence. With the method, machine and human intelligences were divided into 4 major categories and 15 subcategories. A total of 50 search engines across the w...

We propose a Dynamic Face Recognition Committee Machine (DFRCM) consisting of five well-known state-of-the-art algorithms in this paper. In previous work, we have developed a static committee machine which outperforms all the individual algorithms in the experiments. However, the weight for each expert in the committee is fixed and cannot be changed once the system is trained. We propose a dyna...