Oak gallwasps are cyclically parthenogenetic insects that induce a wide diversity of highly complex species- and generation-specific galls on oaks and other Fagaceae. Phylogenetic relationships within oak gallwasps remain to be established, while sexual and parthenogenetic generations of many species remain unpaired. Previous work on oak gallwasps has revealed substantial intra-specific variati...

Self Organizing Maps are efficient and usual for dimension reduction and data clustering. In our present work, we propose the use of Kohonen Topologic Map for fingerprint pattern classification. The learning process takes into account the large intra-class diversity and the continuum of fingerprint pattern types. After a brief introduction to fingerprint domain-specific knowledge and the expert...

In contrast to paraffin sections, frozen sections can be quickly generated during surgical interventions. This procedure allows surgeons wait for histological findings the intervention base intra-operative decisions on outcome of histology. However, compared quality is typically lower, leading a higher ratio miss-classification. this work, we investigated effect section type automated decision ...

Ultrasound-based shear wave elastography (SWE) has recently gained substantial attention for non-invasive assessment of liver fibrosis. The purpose of this study was to perform an intra-individual comparison between 2-D shear wave elastography (2-D-SWE with a GE system) and Virtual Touch Tissue Quantification (VTTQ with a Siemens system) to assess whether these can be used interchangeably to gr...