A healthy adult volunteers to serve as a control subject in an fMRI study. The subject provides informed consent, and a tailored protocol designed for the particular study then is executed. In most cases, the research subject altruistically assumes that the result will benefit science in some way. However, does science owe the volunteer a fair assessment of the information not relevant to the f...

SUMMARY After describing our design goals, we give a short overview over pdelib, our tool box for the numerical simulation of partial diierential equations. We try to explain some parts of the design of the tool box using the methodology of design patterns.

A difficulty with research in computational design methods is in evaluating the capabilities and merit of the fundamental research output beyond initial benchmark tests that compare to theoretical examples. While this is a necessary step in method development, issues involving integration of computational methods within the design process are often overlooked. This need for better integration o...

FDG PET CT scan is considered to be a sensitive tool to detect skeletal metastasis in known malignancies. However, it’s high sensitivity and low specificity may account for false positive diagnosis in cases of trauma, infection, inflammation and other benign conditions. Skeletal hemangioma is one of the common benign conditions which are typically ametabolic on FDG PET CT with no uptake on bone...

Fetal MRI is a rapidly emerging diagnostic imaging tool. Its main focus is currently on brain imaging, but there is a huge potential for whole body studies. We propose a method for accurate and robust localisation of the fetal brain in MRI when the image data is acquired as a stack of 2D slices misaligned due to fetal motion. We first detect possible brain locations in 2D images with a Bag-of-W...

This paper aims to discuss the requirements of safe and smooth trajectory planning of transporter mobile robots to perform non-prehensile object manipulation task. In non-prehensile approach, the robot and the object must keep their grasp-less contact during manipulation task. To this end, dynamic grasp concept is employed for a box manipulation task and corresponding conditions are obtained an...