567e Breast augmentation is the most common aesthetic surgical procedure, with more than 300,000 performed in 2011.1 Choices of incisions, pocket plane, and implant characteristics, including shape, texture, filler, and volume, constitute the key decisions in surgical planning. Thoughtful analysis of physical characteristics and patient participation in the process are the most important factor...

In this paper a combined statistical and structural approach has been employed for texture representation. A set of Texture Primitives has been suggested. These primitives are basically tested for the presence of texture by conducting a suitable statistical test called Nair’s test. The set of universal primitives are labeled as local descriptor and the frequency of occurrences of these primitiv...

A regular texture contains a periodic arrangement of a determinable pattern. Motifs of a regular texture are the minimal parallelogrammic sub-regions that can reproduce the texture by tiling. A motif extracted from a regular texture can be used for texture reproduction, texture recognition, and texture compression. However, it is not simple to accurately capture a motif of a regular texture, as...

It is known that the human visual system, unsurpassed in its ability to reconstruct surfaces, employs different cues to solve this difficult task. The prevailing method in digital photogrammetry is stereopsis. However, texture may provide valuable information about the shape of surfaces. In this paper we employ Laws' method of texture energy transforms to extract texture information from digita...

This paper describes a decision support system based on GIS and satellite remote sensing analysis. Damage triggered by the 2004 Niigata-ken Chuetsu Earthquake was detected using NDVI from SPOT images and texture analysis. Then the emergency transportation route was selected by a cost-based GIS analysis. As the result of the analysis, large-scale damage could be detected with high accuracy. From...

The external appearance of brood fish has long been used to assess the stage of sexual development. In some species, males change in appearance during the spawning season (e.g., vivid breeding colors in cichlids, hooked jaw in salmon, and roughened texture of the pectoral fins or head of cyprinids). These physical changes make it relatively easy to identify sexually mature males. However, secon...

Abstract An efficient technique to visualize primary and secondary results for combined FEM/BEM models as contours is presented. The technique is based on dividing higher-order surfaces into triangles and on using texture interpolation to produce contour plots. Since results of high accuracy with significant gradients can be obtained using sparse meshes of boundary elements and finite elements,...

Flavor Processing in the Primate Brain 1 Pathways 1 The Primary Taste Cortex 1 The Secondary Taste Cortex 1 Representation of Flavor: Convergence of Olfactory and Taste Inputs 2 Representation of Flavor: Convergence of Visual Inputs With Taste, Olfactory, and Oral Texture Inputs 4 Representation of the Pleasantness and Reward Value of Flavor in the Brain 4 Cognitive Effects on Representations o...

Microstructure evolution of commercial pure titanium is investigated by interrupted in situ electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) measurement during tensile deformation along transverse direction at room temperature. After 24 pct elongation, the split basal texture initial material weakened and rotated around 90 deg normal (ND). $${{11}\bar{2}{{2}}}$$ - $${{10}\bar{1}{{2}}}$$ double twin main...

An 8-year-old, castrated male, Schnauzer dog was presented for evaluation of gradually worsening erythematous papules. Physical examination revealed multiple erythematous papules having a firm, gritty texture located in bilateral ears, dorsal midline, perianal and inguinal area. Skin biopsy revealed aberrant structure, characterized by atrophic epidermal-dermal layer structure with granular mat...