PURPOSE Breast ultrasound (US) is recently becoming more and more popular for detecting breast lesions. However, screening results in hundreds of US images for each subject. This magnitude of images can lead to fatigue in radiologist, causing failure in the detection of lesions of a subtle nature. In this study, an image stitching technique is proposed for combining multipass images of the whol...

The growth of a diffusion limited aggregation (DLA) cluster with mass M and radius of gyration R is described by a set of growth probabilities {pi}, where pi is the probability that the perimeter site i will be the next to grow. We introduce the joint distribution N(α, x,M), where N(α, x,M)dαdx is the number of perimeter sites with α-values in the range α ≤ αi ≤ α + dα (“αsites”) and located in...

Introduction: Automatic 3D face synthesis plays a crucial role in many applications. One example is real-time 3D model-based video coding. Here, a generic 3D face model should ideally be adapted automatically to a human face in the first video frame. Additionally, facial texture should be acquired without supervision. However, the time-consuming 3D scanner [1] is not accepted for such an automa...