Humanities and Digitalization

Automatic structural scene digitalization

In this paper, we present an automatic system for the analysis and labeling of structural scenes, floor plan drawings in Computer-aided Design (CAD) format. The proposed system applies a fusion strategy to detect and recognize various components of CAD floor plans, such as walls, doors, windows and other ambiguous assets. Technically, a general rule-based filter parsing method is fist adopted t...

Influence of Digitalization

THE hemodynamic consequences of acute digitalization in man have been reported in a few studies with controversial results. It has been stated that digitalis has little or no effect on the cardiovascular events in the absence of manifestations of heart failurel-' while it significantly improves cardiac function in the failing heart.'2 This paper describes the effect of acute digitalization on t...

Effects of Acute Digitalization

Basic hemodynamic data and the pulmonary blood volume (PBV) were determined in 23 patients before and after intravenous administration of acetyl strophanthidin during right and left heart catheterization. These patients were divided into two groups depending upon whether or not digitalization produced a significant fall in left ventricular end-diastolic pressure (LVD). Group I consisted of 11 p...

Seizing the Digitalization Opportunity

Book Review: 'Health Humanities and Applied Literature'

Health Humanities written by Paul Crawford, Brian Brown, Charley Baker, Victoria Tischler, and Brian Adams was first published in 2015 by Palgrave Macmillan, UK. The book is a result of many years of experience of work in the field and comes at a right time after the successful organisation of some international conferences on health humanities by Professor Paul Crawford, et al. in the precedin...