Analyzing the features of the chromosomes can be very useful for diagnosis of many genetic disorders or prediction of possible abnormalities that may occur in the future generations. For this purpose, karyotype is often used, for which to be made, it is necessary to identify each one of the 24 chromosomes from the microscopic images. Definition and extraction of the morphological and band patte...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the use of a single-portal endoscopic desmotomy of the PAL with the use of Arthrex - Centerline™. Ten horse distal front limbs from horses free of PAL disease were prepared for tenoscopy of the digital flexor tendon sheath (DFTS). A dual-port endoscopic desmotomy with a hook knife was performed in 5 specimens (Group A) and single port Arthrex-Centerline™ De...

Synthetic Vision (SV) and Enhanced Flight Vision Systems (EFVS) may serve as game-changing technologies to meet the challenges of the Next Generation Air Transportation System and the envisioned Equivalent Visual Operations (EVO) concept – that is, the ability to achieve the safety and operational tempos of current-day Visual Flight Rules operations irrespective of the weather and visibility co...

In this work, analysis of transient three-dimensional heat transfer in a slab with internal heat generation and heated by a point moving heat source along its axis is carried out using integral transforms methods. The heat input into slab or workpiece by the moving heat source is considered in the model. From the results, it was established that the temperature of the material during the heat t...

Subtle alterations in cerebral blood flow can impact the health and function of brain cells and are linked to cognitive decline and dementia. To understand hemodynamics in the three-dimensional vascular network of the cerebral cortex, we applied two-photon excited fluorescence microscopy to measure the motion of red blood cells (RBCs) in individual microvessels throughout the vascular hierarchy...

Extraction of geometrical features of biological structures is an active research topic. Accurate tracking algorithms provide valuable quantitative data which not only helps reduce manual labor, but also helps biologists answer a range of basic-science questions. This thesis presents a hybrid algorithm for the centerline extraction of axons in a stack of cross-sectional images acquired from a l...

An integrated method for road centerline extraction has been proposed in this paper which consists of four main steps. First, the Graph Cut algorithm using proposed similarity function is employed to segment the image, and the segmented image is thresholded to initial binary skeleton. Second, the road skeleton is refined by using a series of morphology operations and shape features. Third, the ...

Near-field acoustical holography has been shown to be a useful tool for visualizing jet noise fields. It has been applied to a full-scale jet on an installed military aircraft with promising results, but the source characteristics in the extreme near field have been difficult to characterize because of the interference of acoustic reflections off the rigid reflecting plane beneath the jet. To p...

In this paper we present a new approach to the processing of molecule dynamics. The method performs the tracking of a channel in a sequence of molecule snapshots which represent atom positions in the molecule in certain time intervals. The centerline of the tracked channel is refined using the Delaunay triangulation from the actual snapshot resulting in a new optimized centerline. This method a...