An accurate method for T2-weighted MRI segmentation according to tissue transversal magnetization decay rates is presented. By means of a sequence of geometric image filters a classification of the pixels’ intensity decay curves is provided. This can be done through a double strategy: First a log-convexity filter is applied in order to regularize image intensity decay by adjusting its geometric...

The aim of this article is to introduce a new class SO(2)equivariant transversal maps T R(cl(Ω), ∂Ω) and to define degree theory for such maps. We define degree for SO(2)-equivariant transversal maps and prove some properties of this invariant. Moreover, we characterize SO(2)-equivariant transversal isomorphisms and derive formula for degree of such isomorphisms.

Brylawski [2] has shown that loopless principal transversal matroids have critical exponent at most 2. Welsh [4] asks if a similar result holds for all transversal matroids. We answer in the affirmative by proving that all loopless transversal matroids have critical exponent at most 2. The terminology used here for matroids will in general follow Welsh 131. A rank r transversal matroid M is rep...

Implementing an idea due to John Baez and James Dolan we define new invariants of Whitney stratified manifolds by considering the homotopy theory of smooth transversal maps. To each Whitney stratified manifold we assign transversal homotopy monoids, one for each natural number. The assignment is functorial for a natural class of maps which we call stratified normal submersions. When the stratif...

We classify positive transversal torus knots in tight contact structures up to transversal isotopy.