Microscopic changes occur in plant food materials during drying significantly influence the macroscopic properties and quality factors of the dried food materials. It is very critical to study microstructure to understand the underlying cellular mechanisms to improve performance of the food drying techniques. However, there is very limited research conducted on such microstructural changes of p...

A novel approach is proposed in this paper for automatic forest fire detection from video. Based on 3D point cloud of the collected sample fire pixels, Gaussian mixture model is built and helps segment some possible flame regions in single image. Then the new specific flame pattern is defined for forest, and three types of fire colors are labeled accordingly. With 11 static features including c...

Pagellus acarne is found in coastal waters worldwide and it includes important species of commercial recreational fisheries. In this study, 16 morphometric variables the sagittal otolith, including six characters, shape indices, four ecomorphological indexes, were investigated for first time among P. stocks collected from Aegean Marmara Seas coasts Turkey. Statistically significant differences ...

This paper describes the design of multi-category support vector machines (SVMs) for classification of bags. To train and test the SVMs a collection of 120 images of different types of bags were used (backpacks, small shoulder bags, plastic flexible bags, and small briefcases). Tests were conducted to establish the best polynomial and Gaussian RBF (radial basis function) kernels. As it is well ...

Pathological diagnosis of prostate adenocarcinoma often requires complementary methods. On prostate biopsy tissue from 39 patients including benign nodular hyperplasia (BNH), atypical adenomatous hyperplasia (AAH), and adenocarcinomas, we have performed combined histochemical-immunohistochemical stainings for argyrophilic nucleolar organizer regions (AgNORs) and glandular basal cells. After asc...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of an iterative reconstruction method (IR) on shape reproducibility in three-dimensional (3D) computed tomography images. We used an IR (sinogram-affirmed iterative reconstruction: SAFIRE) implemented in a 64-channel multi slice computed tomography system (Siemens, SOMATOM Definition AS). We scanned a simulated vessel phantom with 180-HU vess...

In order to obtain basic information on the improving the surface integrity of machined surfaces, the relationship between the residual stress of cut surfaces and the cutting edge shapes of cutting tools was examined. Dry facing on a lathe was performed with cutting tools that had various nose radiuses and cutting edge roundnesses. The residual stresses of the cut surfaces were measured by X-ra...

Peripheral arterial disease (PAD), which affects ~10 million Americans, is characterized by atherosclerosis of the noncoronary arteries. PAD produces a progressive accumulation of ischemic injury to the legs, manifested as a gradual degradation of gastrocnemius histology. In this study, we evaluated the hypothesis that quantitative morphological parameters of gastrocnemius myofibers change in a...

In this paper, based on the as-cast CuSn10P1 alloy. Semi-solid alloy billet was prepared by cold-rolled isothermal treatment strain-induced melting activation (CRITSIMA). The effects of cold-rolling reduction, temperature, and time microstructure semi-solid copper were studied metallographic microscope Image-Pro Plus software. changes primary elements in analyzed briefly a scanning electron (SE...