This paper presents an automatic method for the surveying of cutaneous hemangiomas by means of a fully automatic hemangioma segmentation and a ruler visible in the images to be examined. The spatial resolution of the images is determined by computing the maximum Euclidean distance between two marks of the ruler. The segmentation of regions belonging to the hemangioma is accomplished with a pre-...

although our religious doctrines have given special importance to the execution of legal punishments and penalties for their conventional outcomes, the execution of legal punishments or their suspension in the age of occultation of the infallible imam (a.s.) has been one of the controversial issues in jurisprudence, to the extent that it has created two conflicting fronts; one, a group of disti...

For specific radiation therapy (RT) treatments, it is advantageous to use the isocenter-to-couch distance (ICD) for initial patient setup.(1) Since sagging of the treatment couch is not properly taken into account by the electronic readout of the treatment machine, this readout cannot be used for initial patient positioning using the isocenter-to-couch distance (ICD). Therefore, initial patient...

In this thesis we explore two methods of computing lower bounds. We first discuss the Lagrangian Relaxation as it applies to the Golomb ruler problem, and then we explore adding multi-valued decision diagrams to an additive bounding scheme. The Golomb Ruler Problem asks to position n integer marks on a ruler such that all pairwise distances between the marks are distinct and the ruler has minim...

Caspases are proteases involved in cell death, where caspase-3 is the chief executioner that produces an irreversible cutting event in downstream protein substrates and whose activity is desired in the management of cancer. To determine such activity in clinically relevant samples with high signal-to-noise, plasmon rulers are ideal because they are sensitively affected by their interparticle se...