Image zooming is one of the current issues of image processing where maintaining the quality and structure of the zoomed image is important. To zoom an image, it is necessary that the extra pixels be placed in the data of the image. Adding the data to the image must be consistent with the texture in the image and not to create artificial blocks. In this study, the required pixels are estimated ...

Analogous to the cubic Bézier curve, a quartic trigonometric Bézier curve with a shape parameter is presented in this paper. Each curve segment is generated by four consecutive control points. The shape of the curve can be adjusted by altering the values of shape parameters while the control polygon is kept unchanged. These curves are closer to the control polygon than the cubic Bézier curves, ...

The average pulmonary blood volume in normal persons was 211 ml./m.2, in patients with mitral regurgitation 266 mnl./m2, and in those with mitral stenosis 419 ml./m.2 In patients with mitral stenosis the pulmonary blood volume could be related to pulmonary symptoms like exertional dyspnoea, haemoptysis, and paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnoea. Pulmonary blood volume could also be related directly to ...

Level set methods are effective for image segmentation problems. However, the methods suffer from limitations such as slow convergence and leaking problems. As such, over the past two decades, the original level set method has been evolved in many directions, including integration of prior shape models into the segmentation framework. In this paper, we introduce a new prior shape model for leve...

BACKGROUND The severity of epicardial coronary stenosis can be assessed by invasive measurements of trans-stenotic pressure drop and flow. A pressure or flow sensor-tipped guidewire inserted across the coronary stenosis causes an overestimation in true trans-stenotic pressure drop and reduction in coronary flow. This may mask the true severity of coronary stenosis. In order to unmask the true s...

PURPOSE We aimed to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) for dysfunctional femoral arteriovenous graft and analyze clinical or anatomic predictors of graft patency. METHODS The records of 45 patients who underwent PTA or thromboaspiration for dysfunctional or thrombosed femoral arteriovenous graft from 2005 to 2012 were reviewed retrospectively....

Abstract The steady flow of Jeffrey fluid through a tube with both constrictions and dilatations have been studied. The expressions for velocity, pressure drop, volumetric flow rate, resistance to the flow, wall shear stress have been derived by assuming that the stenosis is mild. It is found that the resistance to the flow increases with the height of the stenosis and decreases with post steno...

Coronary arterial flow can be described in terms of an intramyocardial pump that displaces blood backward and forward during systole and diastole, which is termed diastolic predominant flow. When the diastolic predominant flow runs through the stenotic arteries, the geometric characteristics and mechanical properties of these arteries may influence the flow. We have developed an experimental sy...