Often in neurosurgical planning a dual echo acquisition is performed that yields proton density (PD) and T2-weighted images to evaluate edema near a tumor or lesion. The development of vessel segmentation algorithms for PD images is of general interest since this type of acquisition is widespread and is entirely noninvasive. Whereas vessels are signaled by black blood contrast in such images, e...

menting other scheduling objectives, such as the minimization of buffering requirements, in a manner that is guaranteed not to interfere with code compaction goals. We have defined a class of SDF graphs called tightly interdependent graphs. Schedules for arbitrary SDF graphs can be constructed such that each block that is not contained in a tightly interdependent subgraph appears only once, and...

In the current era of exponentially growing demand for user connectivity, spectral efficiency (SE), and high throughput, performance goals have become even more challenging in ultra-dense 5G networks. The conventional orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) tech-niques are mature but not proven sufficient to address data rates increased capacity. Therefore, achieve an improved thr...

The design of an industrial incinerator must center around the energy converter of the system or the combustion process. Combustion is the principal function of an incinerator. Although other aspects such as the waste handling, gathering, ash disposal, and controls are important, it is the combustion process that is paramount. There are two ways that the combustion process can be designed. Eith...

In the previous work the problem of nding gate delays to eliminate glitches has been solved by lin ear programs LP requiring an exponentially large number of constraints By introducing two additional variables per gate namely the fastest and the slow est arrival times besides the gate delay we reduce the number of the LP constraints to be linear in circuit size For example the gate c circuit re...