Gaussian scale-space is considered to be a modern bottom-up tool in computer vision. The Amer-ican and European vision community, however, is unaware of the fact that Gaussian scale-space has already been axiomatically derived in 1959 in a Japanese paper by Taizo Iijima. This result formed the starting point of an entire world of linear scale-space research in Japan ranging from various axiomat...

IAEA BULLETIN, 42/1/2000 N uclear applications in health care have a timehonoured record of being highly cost-effective in addressing important health problems such as malnutrition, cancer, infectious and circulatory diseases. Today they are providing lasting benefits for patients, physicians, medical researchers, and health care practitioners throughout the world. Many nuclear applications hav...