PURPOSE To characterize rod and cone distribution, organization, and phagocytosis in the diurnal mouse-like rodent Arvicanthis ansorgei. METHODS Retinas of adult A. ansorgei were processed for histology, electron microscopy and immunohistochemistry using rod- and mouse cone-specific antibodies. For phagocytosis studies, retinas were sampled every 3 hours under a 12-hour light-dark cycle and p...

Correspondence: [email protected] UMIACS, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-3275, USA Full list of author information is available at the end of the article †Equal contributor Abstract Shearlets have emerged in recent years as one of of the most successful methods for the multiscale analysis of multidimensional signals. Unlike wavelets, shearlets form a pyramid of well-localize...

Corresponding Author: Thayammal, S. Department of ECE Dhanalakshmi College of Engineering, Chennai-601 301, Tamil Nadu, India Email: [email protected] Abstract: The motivation of the proposed compression method is to reduce the bit rate for image transmission or memory requirement for image storage while maintaining image quality. The edges are one of the prominent features in an image a...

We have investigated the effects of light and dark adaptation on the overall morphology of bipolar cell (BC) terminals in sublaminae a and b of the inner plexiform layer after labelling with Lucifer Yellow (LY) and PKC immunostaining using confocal laser scanning microscopy and serially sectioned material for electron microscopy. Three-dimensional reconstructed terminals showed marked adaptatio...

Decomposition spaces are a class of function constructed out “well-behaved” coverings and partitions unity set. The structure the covering determines properties decomposition space. Besov spaces, shearlet mo

We examine the temporal nature of adaptation at different stages of the S-cone color system. All lights were restricted to the S-cone-only (a constant L and M) cardinal axis in color space passing through mid-white (W). The observer initially adapted to a steady uniform field with a chromaticity on the -S end of the axis or on the +S end of the axis or a complex field composed of chromaticy -S ...

Title: Abstract: I will discuss a new decomposition of the 3D X-ray transform based on the shearlet representation, a multiscale directional representation which is optimally efficient in handling 3D data containing edge singularities. This decomposition yields a highly effective reconstruction algorithm providing a near-optimal rate of convergence in estimating piecewise smooth objects from 3D...

In this chapter, we illustrate the properties of the continuous shearlet transform with respect to its ability to describe the set of singularities of multidimensional functions and distributions. This is of particular interest since singularities and other irregular structures typically carry the most essential information in multidimensional phenomena. Consider, for example, the edges of natu...