Europe creates diagnostics centre

Conference Book for the Semantic Interoperability Centre Europe

Precision medicine, technologies, and molecular diagnostics

Introduction: Genetics, cellular and molecular medicines are cutting-edge sciences and technologies that play an important role in improving human health and quality of life. In addition, medical and biological sciences have clearly shown that the onset of diseases differs from person to person due to their different genetic profiles and variations in molecular basis. Therefore, it is feasible ...

Smoothing images creates corners

The isophote curvature times the gradient magnitude to some power has been studied in the literature as a measure of cornerness in images. Stability in terms of sampling noise has been proposed by selecting corners at high scale and locating them at fine scale. We will examine the problem of tracking extrema of these measures in the Linear Scale-Space using catastrophe theory. This enables us t...

Reward creates oculomotor salience

Wouldn’t that be a good way of studying evolution in action over a few generations? One would think so. In particular, it is possible to measure all three components of the breeder’s equation, and see directly whether R = h2S. But, quite often, it appears that R does not equal h2S. For example, a study on antler size in red deer showed that red deer with larger antlers had more offspring than r...

Noise creates polarization artefacts.

The accuracy of calculations of both the degree and angle of polarization depend strongly on the noise in the measurements used. The noise in the measurements recorded by both camera based systems and spectrometers can lead to significant artefacts and incorrect conclusions about high degrees of polarization when in fact none exist. Three approaches are taken in this work: Firstly, the absolute...