The stimulus display duration required for subjects to accurately compare the length of two line lengths (known as Inspection Time: IT), reliably correlates around 0.5 with general intelligence. It is not clear, however, if this correlation reflects general “speed of processing”, or some other element of the task. There is a consequent need for new experimental paradigms. We describe a novel IT...

Pleural thickenings are caused by asbestos exposure and may evolve into malignant pleural mesothelioma. An early diagnosis plays a key role towards an early treatment and an increased survival rate. Today, pleural thickenings are detected by visual inspection of CT data, which is time-consuming and underlies the physician's subjective judgment. A computer-assisted diagnosis system to automatica...

Efficient inspection and maintenance of complex industrial systems subject to degradation effects, such as corrosion, is important for safety and economic reasons. With appropriate statistical modelling, the utilisation of inspection resources and the quality of inferences can be greatly improved. We develop a suitable Bayesian spatio-temporal dynamic linear model for problems such as wall thic...

A major problem in noisy image processing is the segmentation of its components. Many computer vision tasks analyze regions after segmenting a given image, then minimize the segmentation error to build a good automatic inspection system. In this paper, we propose a novel segmentation scheme for noisy images which consists of a new denoising method and a modified active contour model. The method...

Software engineering staff understand software inspection as a rather formal and disciplined process in general. Unfortunately this formality also detracts from its popularity among software practitioners. If we could add flexibility in the form of virtual meetings, for example, we could remove the barriers to including inspection in the development process. The present paper discusses alternat...

National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) has signed an MoU with Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) for design and development of automated boiler tube inspection system for vertical water wall tubes. A vertical climbing robot has been developed for this purpose at Division of Remote Handling & Robotics (DRHR), BARC. Recently, an Electromagnetic Acoustic Transducer (EMAT) has been integrated ...

Inspection is a fundamental means of achieving software usability. Past research showed that the current usability inspection techniques were rather ine ective. We developed perspective-based usability inspection, which divides the large variety of usability issues along di erent perspectives and focuses each inspection session on one perspective. We conducted a controlled experiment to study i...

Port state control (PSC) inspection contributes a lot to improving maritime safety and protecting the marine environment. After selecting ships coming port for inspection, one critical challenge faced by PSC authorities is deciding what deficiency items should be inspected sequence of these is. To address this problem, two innovative high-efficient schemes describing specific are proposed inspe...

This research is derived an integrated model of economic production quantity, inspection and preventive maintenance to incorporate rework, minimal repair and inspection time for an imperfect production system. Some proportions of non-conforming items are assumed scrap before the rework process start and others are reworked. The rework process is imperfect that is a proportion of the reworked it...