Introduction: Radiation therapy planning (RTP) is one of the clinical applications in which both CT scan and MRI are used. MR and CT images are applied to determine the target volume and calculation of dose distribution, respectively. In addition, using two imaging modalities increases the department workload and cost. In this study, an algorithm was presented to create synthet...

Multifilter rotating shadowband radiometers are deployed in the United States, Canada, and New Zealand by the USDA (United States Department of Agriculture) UV-B (ultraviolet-B) Monitoring and Research Program to measure UV-B irradiances at seven discrete wavelengths. A synthetic model is used to construct the continuous spectral distribution, from which irradiance integrals can be performed fo...

A system is presented enabling blind people to understand and ll in printed forms. Text and graphic components are separated from each other, the rst one presented by a Braille-line or alternatively via synthetic speech and the second one by a special swelling paper supplemented with markers for text events and markers for recognized ll in places. Furthermore a new method for the interpretation...

The intellegibility and naturalness of synthetic speech strongly depends on its prosodic quality. Departing from works by Mixdorff on a linguistically motivated model of German intonation based on the Fujisaki model, the current paper presents statistical results concerning the relationship between linguistic and phonetic information underlying an utterance and its prosodic features. Statistica...

Jitter is a fundamental metric of voice quality. The majority of jitter estimators produce an average value over a duration of several pitch periods. This paper proposes a method for short-time jitter measurement, based on a mathematical model which describes the coupling of two periodic phenomena. The movement of one of the two periodic phenomena with respect to the other is what is considered...

Mapping land cover change is an important problem for the scientific community as well as policy makers. Traditionally, bi-temporal classification of satellite data is used to identify areas of land cover change. However, these classification products often have errors due to classifier inaccuracy or poor data, which poses significant issues when using them for land cover change detection. In t...

In this paper we describe work on a system for modeling errors in the output of OCR systems. The project is motivated by the desire to evaluate the performance of various text analysis systems under varying, yet controlled conditions. We describe a set of symbol and page models which are used to degrade an ideal text by introducing errors which typically occur during scanning, decomposition and...

Accuracy assessment of a global digital elevation model (DEM) is an important and challenging task primarily because of the difficulties and costs associated with securing a reliable and representative reference dataset. In this article, we report on the vertical accuracy assessment of the WorldDEMTM, the latest global DEM using the synthetic aperture radar interferometry (InSAR) method, based ...