In this paper, we analyze Markov Random Field (MRF) as a spatial regularizer in fMRI detection. The low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in fMRI images presents a serious challenge for detection algorithms, making regularization necessary to achieve good detection accuracy. Gaussian smoothing, traditionally employed to boost SNR, often produces over-smoothed activation maps. Recently, the use of MRF...

For many years, vehicle tracking in traffic images has suffered from the problems of occlusions and sudden variations in illumination. In order to resolve these occlusion problems, we have been proposing the Spatio-Temporal Markov Random Field model(S-T MRF) for segmentation of spatio-temporal images. This S-T MRF optimizes the segmentation boundaries of occluded vehicles and their motion vecto...

This paper evaluates the potential of novel steel column bases to reduce residual drift risk buildings located at near-fault regions when installed post-tensioned self-centering moment-resisting frames (SC-MRFs). To this end, a prototype building is designed that consists either conventional (MRFs) or SC-MRFs equipped with base (SC-MRF-CBs). The MRFs and are used as benchmark frames. modelled i...

در این مقاله چند نمونه از یک نوع انژکتور جریان چرخشی با چهار ورودی­ مماسی که به روش بایول طراحی و با روش تراشکاری ساخته شده است تست شده است. این انژکتور به صورت جریان چرخشی می­باشد و به سبب افت فشار در محور میانی انژکتور، هوای بیرون به داخل انژکتور مکیده شده و یک حفره هوا در مرکز انژکتور شکل می­گیرد. بنابراین افشانکی یک پایه اما با عملکرد دوفازی می­باشد و از این­رو چتر پاششی به صورت یک مخروط تو...

Science and society would benefit enormously from comprehensive phylogenetic knowledge of the Tree of Life (ToL), a framework that includes above 1.7 million species on Earth. ToL shows how living things have evolved since the origins of life billions of years ago. With existing computational approaches, we cannot produce a global estimate of evolutionary history from molecular data of all thes...

BACKGROUND The prevalence of metabolic syndrome has increased over the last few decades in adolescents and has become an important health challenge worldwide. This study analyzed the relationships between metabolic risk factors (MRF) and physical activity (PA) and physical fitness (PF) in a sample of Azorean adolescents. METHODS A cross-sectional school-based study was conducted on 417 adoles...

Image segmentation is an important task in image processing and computer vision which attract many researchers attention. There are a couple of information sets pixels in an image: statistical and structural information which refer to the feature value of pixel data and local correlation of pixel data, respectively. Markov random field (MRF) is a tool for modeling statistical and structural inf...

Several segmentation techniques were evaluated for their effectiveness in distinguishing lesion from background in dermatoscopic images of pigmented lesions (moles and melanomas). These included 5 techniques previously used for segmentation of pigmented lesions, and several new techniques based on stabilized inverse diffusion equations (SIDE) and Markov random fields (MRF). Novel multiresolutio...