This paper proposes a method for local deformation analysis of the heart's left ventricle (LV) which is of an utmost interest in characterizing the myocardium disease extent and severity. Our method is based on regional curvature variation calculation using the Hotelling T2 two samples difference metric. Our approach is validated on real data obtained from myocardial scintigraphy imaging techni...

1. The ability of crystalline ribonuclease to hydrolyze proteins is due to impurities present in the preparations and not to an intrinsic property of the ribonuclease molecule. The amounts of these impurities vary enormously with different preparations. 2. The dangers inherent in the use of crystalline enzymes as specific tools, without assaying them for all possible interfering impurities, are...

The Hotelling's  control chart, is the most widely used multivariate procedure for monitoring  two or more related quality characteristics, but it’s power lacks the desired performance in detecting small to moderate shifts. Recently, the variable sampling intervals (VSI) control scheme in which the length of successive sampling intervals is determined upon the preceding values has been proved t...

conclusions in the case of existence gaussian noise, the results confirm that denoising is not effective on the measurement of t2* value. in the case of image distortion by rician noise, a predictor model is proposed to estimate the original t2* value. the predictor model is used to estimate the t2* value of new patients. the predicted t2* values were in good agreement with the corresponding or...