PURPOSE To determine the effect of ranibizumab on visual acuity (VA) following a 3-year treatment period for patients diagnosed with wet age-related macular degeneration. To establish whether baseline VA and injection frequency influence visual outcomes. PATIENTS AND METHODS Retrospective review of 70 patients (76 eyes) treated with 0.5 mg intravitreal ranibizumab for 3 consecutive months, an...

Similarity search is one of the typical query type for multimedia retrieval, data mining and decision support systems. Many similarity measures transform objects into points in a high-dimensional vector space and deene similarity of two objects with respect to their distance in the vector space. Data-partitioning index methods for such spaces like R-tree or X-tree are known to deteriorate with ...

An auto-segmentation based endpointing algorithm for robust ASR is proposed. The algorithm consists of two successive steps: (1) homogeneous segment partitioning and (2) segment clustering. The first step, due to its self-segmentation nature, does not need a noise model, and is applicable to different noises at various SNR’s. The dynamic programming based segment partitioning, which can generat...