Non-rigid registration finds a dense correspondence between a pair of images, so that analogous structures in the two images are aligned. While this is sufficient for atlas comparisons, in order for registration to be an aid to diagnosis, registrations need to be performed on a set of images. In this paper we describe an objective function that can be used for this groupwise registration. We vi...

Flagella and cilia are structurally polarized organelles whose lengths are precisely defined, and alterations in length are related to several human disorders. Intraflagellar transport (IFT) and protein signaling molecules are implicated in specifying flagellar and ciliary length, but evidence has been lacking for a flagellum and cilium length sensor that could participate in active length cont...

The appliance of the minimum description length (MDL) principle to the field of theory mining enables a precise description of main characteristics of a dataset in comparison to the numerous and hardly understandable output of the popular frequent pattern mining algorithms. The loss function that determines the quality of a pattern selection with respect to the MDL principle is however difficul...

An algorithm is described that takes an ordered set of genomic mapping clones andfragment measurements from a restriction digest of each clone, ana’ stochastically produces a contig restriction map of the clones. This is done by defining a map representation in terms of those pairs of fragments that coincide in the map. The fragment pairing is performed stochastically according to similarity be...

Many techniques for building genetic physical maps of genomes involve collecting and characterising large numbers of genomic extracts. Errors and uncertainties in the data mean that many plausible maps can ofren be constructedfrom such data. This paperpresents a model, based on minimum message length ptinciples, that can be usedfor representing such maps. The model is designed to handle fragmen...

Six Hakea species varying greatly in seed size were selected for cotyledon damage experiments. The growth of seedlings with cotyledons partially or completely removed was monitored over 90 days. All seedlings perished by the fifth week when both cotyledons were removed irrespective of seed size. Partial removal of cotyledons caused a significant delay in the emergence of the first leaf, and red...

laparoscopic and open ovariohysterectomy were compared for the following parameters: surgical time, incision length, suture number, saturation of oxyhemoglobin (spo2), heart rate, complications,cbc findings, melbourne pain scale (mps) and gross pathology. mps pain scores were evaluated using mann-whitney u test. other parameters were evaluated using studen's t test. there were no significa...

Simulation of large scale networks can be very time and resource-consuming. It is hard to predict when the amount of data collected from a simulation is enough and the measurement is accurate enough for the parameter of interest. In this paper, we study the planning of simulation run length, and investigate how many cycles of overflow / non-overflow are needed for the packet loss probability to...

In this paper, the author presented a modified Chen and Chung’s model considering that the process mean may not be equal to the target value when the process is in the in-control state. Taguchi’s asymmetric quadratic quality loss function will be applied in evaluating the product quality. Subsequently, the modified economic manufacturing quantity (EMQ) model based on modified the Chen and Chung...

Many common approaches to detecting changepoints, for example based on statistical criteria such as penalised likelihood or minimum description length, can be formulated in terms ofminimising a cost over segmentations. We focus on a class of dynamic programming algorithms that can solve the resulting minimisation problem exactly, and thus find the optimal segmentation under the given statistica...