Applications such as modelling and animation of water runoff are becoming more and more important, and demand better surface orientation information than is available from traditional interpolation techniques and grids. Despite modern data acquisition techniques, contour maps are still the most available form of elevation information. Recent work on the automatic reconstruction of curves from p...

Understanding how protein folds into a functional and structural configuration is arguably one of the most important and challenging problems in computational biology. Currently, the protein folding mechanism is often characterized by calculating the free energy landscape versus the reaction coordinates such as the fraction of native contacts, the radius of gyration, the principal components an...

Good quality terrain models are becoming more and more important, as applications such as runoff modelling are being developed that demand better surface orientation information than is available from traditional interpolation techniques. A consequence is that poor-quality elevation grids must be massaged before they provide useable runoff models. This paper describes improved methods for extra...

The paper describes the modelling of the average rainfall rate distribution measured at different locations in South Africa. There are three major aspects this paper addresses: to develop a rainfall rate model based on the maximum likelihood method (ML); to develop contour maps based on rainfall rate at 0.01% percentage of exceedence; and re-classification of the ITU-R and Crane rain zones for ...

An olive-shaped probe (25 X 12 mm) with 41 evenly distributed recording electrodes on its surface was introduced into the left ventricles of seven open-chest dogs via the left atrium. In two other dogs a cylindrical probe (40 X 3 mm) was used. Electrical stimuli were delivered at 66 endocardial, midwall, or epicardial sites in the left and right ventricular walls and the septum. Mechanical stim...

Polo-like kinase 1, an important enzyme with diverse biological actions in cell mitosis, is a promising target for developing novel anticancer drugs. A combined molecular docking, structure-based pharmacophore modeling and three-dimensional quantitative structure-activity relationship (3D-QSAR) study was performed on a set of 4,5-dihydro-1H-pyrazolo[4,3-h]quinazoline derivatives as PLK1 inhibit...

Keywords: Noise mapping Grid refinement Uncertainty Interpolation GIS Noise maps are usually represented as contour or isolines maps describing the sound levels in a region. Using this kind of representation the user can easily find the noise level assigned to every location in the map. But the acoustic calculations behind the map are not performed for every single location on it; they are only...

Lymph node segmentation is an important yet challenging problem in medical image analysis. The presence of enlarged lymph nodes (LNs) signals the onset or progression of a malignant disease or infection. In the thoracoabdominal (TA) body region, neighboring enlarged LNs often spatially collapse into “swollen” lymph node clusters (LNCs) (up to 9 LNs in our dataset). Accurate segmentation of TA L...

We propose spectral analysis to investigate the correlation between accuracy and resolution of segmentation maps for semantic segmentation. The current networks predict on down-sampled grid images alleviate computational cost. Moreover, these can be trained by weak annotations that utilize only coarse contour maps. Despite successful achievement works utilizing low-frequency information maps, h...