We propose a novel approach to image segmentation, called feature and spatial domain clustering. The method is devised to group pixel data by taking into account simultaneously both their feature space similarity and spatial coherence. The FSD algorithm is practically application independent. It has been successfully tested on a wide range of image segmentation problems, including grey and colo...

With the development of graphic accelerated hardware and 3D modeling tools, 3D models will be as prevalent as other multimedia data in the future. Thus, effective content-based 3D model retrieval systems are required for emerging needs. Many 3D model retrieval methods have been proposed in recent years. Shape distributions showed superiority over others due to rotation invariance and ease of co...

The attenuated total reflection-Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR) was employed to acquire the infrared spectra of Radix Bupleuri and its unofficial varieties: the root of Bupleurum smithii Wolff and the root of Bupleurum bicaule Helm. The infrared spectra and spectra of Fourier self-deconvolution (FSD), discrete wavelet transform (DWT), and probability neural network (PNN) of t...

Throughout this paper all codes are assumed to be binary. A linear code C is formally self-dual (fsd) if C and its dual C have the same weight enumerator. While self-dual codes contain only even weight vectors, formally self-dual codes may contain odd weight codewords as well. Many authors consider only even formally self-dual codes because their weight enumerators are combinations of Gleason p...

News portals, such as Yahoo News or Google News, collect large amounts of documents from a variety of sources on a daily basis. Only a small portion of these documents can be selected and displayed on the homepage. Thus, there is a strong preference for major, recent events. In this work, we propose a scalable and accurate First Story Detection (FSD) pipeline that identifies fresh news. In comp...

We analyzed the characteristics of degraded bone matrix-delivering vesicles along the transcytotic route from the ruffled border to the functional secretory domain (FSD) in bone-penetrating osteoclasts. Cells of rat or human origin were cultured on bovine bone slices and analyzed via confocal microscopy. Helix pomatia lectin binding indicated that transcytotic vesicles expose aberrant N-acetylg...

Introduction Double Inversion Recovery (DIR) [1] and Flow Sensitive Dephasing (FSD) [2] have been used to suppress arterial signal in vessel wall imaging. However, the “black blood” effect of DIR and FSD depends on blood flow, which makes these techniques less effective with slow or in-plane flow. In this work, T1 and T2 differences between blood and vessel wall were exploited using a T2-prepar...

We have shown previously that liquid extraction surface analysis of dried blood spots coupled to high resolution top-down MS may be applied for the diagnosis of hemoglobin (Hb) variants FS, FAS, FC, FAC, FAD in newborn samples. The objective of the current work was to determine whether the structural variant HbE, compound heterozygote variants FSC and FSD, and β-thalassemia were amenable to dia...

We still know very little about how the environment influences coevolutionary dynamics. Here, we investigated both theoretically and empirically how nutrient availability affects the relative extent of escalation of resistance and infectivity (arms race dynamic; ARD) and fluctuating selection (fluctuating selection dynamic; FSD) in experimentally coevolving populations of bacteria and viruses. ...

This paper presents a concept of automatic needle placement for brachytherapy. For the success of this minimally invasive treatment, a precise and safe placement of needles inside soft tissue is fundamental. The presented concept incorporates information about the needle as well as the tissue to find a suitable needle trajectory. A patientspecific tissue model is derived from different imaging ...