in the last two decades, the trend in healthcare information technology has been towards digital and multimedia concepts. the next generation of healthcare information systems will consist of a vast network of heterogeneous, autonomous and distributed imaging scanners, hospital information systems (his), medical information from clinical departments such as radiology information systems (ris), ...

This paper presents the image retrieval techniques tested by the MIRACLE (Multilingual Information RetrievAl for the CLEf campaign) research group as part of the ImageCLEF 2004 initiative. Two main lines of research continuing the past year's experiments were considered: the application of linguistic techniques to improve retrieval performance and the combination of textual and content-based im...

Purpose This study aims to explore whether expected image outcomes (risk and gain) represent a mechanism through which perceived organizational climates, in the dimensions of tradition reflexivity, affect key components innovation process (idea generation idea realization). Design/methodology/approach Structural equation models have been conducted empirically analyse 3 waves longitudinal survey...

Imaging flow cytometry and high speed microscopy have shown immense promise for clinical diagnostics, biological research, and drug discovery. They enable high throughput screening and sorting using biological, chemical, or mechanical properties of cells. These techniques can separate mature cells from immature ones, determine the presence of cancerous cells, classify stem cells during differen...

Medical Image Analysis, Surgery Simulation, and Medical Robotics are young scientific fields with huge potential applications and many challenging research problems. I will present a list of such problems including rigid and deformable registration of multimodal brain images, motion analysis from dynamic sequences of cardiac images, and soft-tissue modeling for liver surgery. I will also discus...

This study aimed to examine the relationship between perceived corporate image and organizational commitment levels of nurses midwives working in a public hospital. A descriptive information form, Perceived Corporate Image Scale (based on Model Organizational Identification), Commitment Questionnaire were used collect data from sample 225 midwives. Data analyzed using numbers, percentages, mean...

The swelling/shrinkage of spruce wood samples (Picea Abies) is documented with high resolution XRay Tomography and advanced image analysis tools. We report the reversible moisture-induced global and local deformations at the cellular and sub-cellular scales. In particular, we present sophisticated methods for detecting local deformations in the cell wall. Insight is given on the hygromechanical...