Purpose. Thorough understanding of biliary anatomy is required when performing surgical interventions in the hepatobiliary system. This study describes the anatomical variations of right bile ducts in terms of branching and drainage patterns, and determines their frequency. Methods. We studied 73 samples of cadaveric material, focusing on the relationship of the right anterior and posterior seg...

Geographical information system (GIS) has emerged as an efficient tool in delineation of drainage pattern and ground water potential and its planning. GIS and image processing techniques can be employed for the identification of morphological features and analyzing properties of basin. The morphometric parameters of basin can address linear, areal and relief aspects. The present study deals mai...

Inspired by the idea of the S-Tree Coding (STC) and by extending the popular Gouraud shading approach, in this paper, we propose a new image representation method using the Nonoverlapping Non-symmetry and Antipacking Model (NNAM) for medical images, which is called the NNAM method. Also, a raster-first strategy for searching a rectangle subpattern in the NNAM method is put forward. During the p...

BACKGROUND Lymphatic drainage to multiple basins (MLBD) is frequently observed in patients with primary melanoma located in the trunk. Conflicting data regarding the prognostic impact of MLBD are reported. OBJECTIVE AND METHODS We reviewed our case series of 352 patients with trunk melanoma to evaluate the pattern of basin drainage and to analyse whether different basin drainages may have dif...

A proximity drawing of a graph is a straight-line drawing where adjacent vertices are represented by points that are deemed to be close according to some proximity measure. A rectangle of innuence drawing is a proximity drawing where the measure is based on the concept of rectangle of innuence. Given two points u and v, the rectangle of innuence of u and v is the axis-aligned rectangle having u...

Digital elevation models of the bed and surface of Unteraargletscher, Switzerland, are used to reconstruct the theoretical pattern of basal water drainage for the years 1927, 1947, 1961 and 1997, during which period the glacier was thinning and receding. The theoretical drainage pattern for 1997 compares well, in a broad sense, with the locations of active moulins and the hydraulic connection s...

This paper describes a hardware oriented algorithm and its conceptual implementation for real-time traffic signs detection system on automotive oriented FPGA. The speed limit sign area on a grayscale video frame is detected through a two-stage simple computation process. Rectangle Pattern Matching roughly detects global luminosity sharing feature between rectangle and circle for Region of Inter...