Title of Dissertation: REGISTRATION METHODS FOR QUANTITATIVE IMAGING Gustavo Kunde Rohde, Doctor of Philosophy, 2005 Dissertation directed by: Professor Carlos A. Berenstein and Professor Dennis M. Healy Jr. Department of Mathematics At the core of most image registration problems is determining a spatial transformation that relates the physical coordinates of two or more images. Registration m...

Practicing engineers often find the tools and techniques used for investigating alternative system designs to be cumbersome or complicated. This article will show that these systems engineering tools and techniques are in fact quite simple and can provide critical insight into how stakeholder requirements drive the engineering design process. This helps ensure that customer requirements are sat...

Carcass evaluation has a relatively long history in the animal and meat science scientific literature and one of the first studies to cover the composition of farm animals was reported by Lawes and Gilbert (1860) almost 130 years ago. These workers completed a large number of chemical analyses and found a relationship between fat and maturity (age and weight); a finding that has been repeated b...

Quantitative nation comparisons pose inevitable trade-offs. One is that much of the contextual reality of individual nations is sacrificed for the sake of broader generalization. We fail to capture the uniqueness that defines a nation’s culture, historical heritage, and endemic logic. The interpretation of a variable may, indeed, only be possible when its is studied contextually (Ragin, 1987; a...

Measurement and comparison of medical images is of growing importance for several reasons: (1) as medical imaging becomes ever more digital, and networks and archives of images proliferate, the opportunity will create the need; (2) automated approaches to treatment design (as in beam therapy), dose measurement (as when using monoclonal antibodies to deliver radiation), and surgery planning (e.g...