A Tribute to Tham Cheok Fai, "Founding Father" of Singapore Neurosurgery.

Dr Tham Cheok Fai: "father"of neurosurgery (8 October 1925 - 4 December 2013).

How His Legacy Began Although not the fi rst neurosurgeon in Singapore, Dr Tham is acknowledged as the “father” of Singapore neurosurgery. Dr Tham was already a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at “C” Orthopaedic Unit, Singapore General Hospital (SGH), with a special interest in spinal surgery when Dr Tseng Yuen Lin, the fi rst fully trained neurosurgeon in Singapore, passed away. In 1962, he was...

A tribute to Dr. Fedor A. Serbinenko, founder of endovascular neurosurgery.

From humble beginnings in the former Soviet Union, Fedor A. Serbinenko, M.D., Ph.D., became a leading figure at Moscow's famed Burdenko Neurosurgery Institute. While there, he invented and perfected the technique of balloon embolization, which was destined to change the practice of neurovascular surgery forever. We present the life and achievements of the father of endovascular neurosurgery.

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Connection set-up and QoS monitoring in ATM networks

This paper describes a system for creating virtual connections based on QoS requirements and providing basic QoS routing functionality. It effectively bridges the gap between complex protocols like PNNI and tedious manual set-up of virtual connections. 1 Laboratories for Information Technology, Singapore. (email: [email protected] ) 2 National University of Singapore, Singapore. (email: e...

Automatic glaucoma diagnosis through medical imaging informatics

Department of Ocular Imaging, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore, Singapore Department of Neural & Biomedical Technology, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore, Singapore Department of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore, Singapore Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore National Univer...