ACMQ President’s New Year’s Wishes for 2020

Automated Cardiac Motion Quantification (aCMQ)

To measure the strain, the tissue motion is tracked over a cardiac cycle using a speckle tracking algorithm. Similar to MRI tagging, speckle tracking follows features within the image as they move. Each sub-region of the ROI is divided into blocks, which allows the speckle structure in each block to be tracked. The measured deformation for each sub-region is a weighted combination of the displa...

Best wishes for a happy and prosperous New Year

Wishes for object-oriented languages

For a long time, I have liked to compare the parameter-passing modes of Algol 60 (some of you are probably old enough to remember) with speakers at scientific conferences. Namely, call by value vs. call by name in Algol, and authors of regular papers vs. invited speakers at conferences. This time I am lucky enough to be in the latter category; I also used to say that these are sometimes people ...

Presidents, Vice Presidents, and Death: Closing the Constitution's Succession Gap

Ten years to VISION 2020: why information matters

Why do we collect information in our eye care programmes? One important reason is that we use information to enhance our knowledge and then apply that knowledge to improve what we do. Information is the first step in a process of learning and improvement that enables us to make better decisions, improve the systems and places we work in, and enhance the quality of our own individual work. Infor...