Healthcare Design Innovations, a Hit-or-Miss Proposition.

The TARGET trial: hit or miss?

Over the past 8 years large-scale, placebo-controlled trials have established the efficacy of intravenous platelet glycoprotein (GP) IIb/IIIa inhibitors at reducing the 30-day composite of death, myocardial infarction, and urgent target vessel revascularization associated with percutaneous coronary angioplasty, atherectomy, and stent placement. Using abciximab, tirofiban, or eptifibatide, each ...

A hit-or-miss transform for multivariate images

The hit-or-miss transform (HMT) is considered to be among the fundamental operations in the morphological toolbox. Initially, it was defined for binary images, as a morphological approach to the problem of template matching, whereas its extension to grey-level data has been problematic, leading to multiple definitions, that have been only recently unified by means of a common theoretical founda...

HIT or Miss - Studying Failures to Enable Success.

Hit-or-Miss Dependence of Random Closed Sets

The notion of hit-or-miss dependence is introduced to describe spatial dependence of random closed sets, and its closure properties under various set operations are derived. The hit-or-miss dependence is then applied to Boolean germ-grain models to study local interactions within each grain. The dependence comparison results obtained not only show how local interactions of Boolean germ-grain mo...

Morphological hit-or-miss transformation for shape recognition