BACKGROUND As imaging centers produce higher resolution research scans, the number of man-hours required to process regional data has become a major concern. Comparison of automated vs. manual methodology has not been reported for functional imaging. We explored validation of using automation to delineate regions of interest on positron emission tomography (PET) scans. The purpose of this study...

The current practice of manual inspection of solder joints in electronic manufacturing is very costly and not very effective. It has been anticipated that automated inspection systems would be developed for this application that would yield great productivity gains, coupled with substantial cost savings over manual inspection. However, the few automated systems for this task that have been plac...

The enzymatic method for the determination of ammonia with glutamate dehydrogenase has been adapted to the AutoAnalyzer. The automated method was applicable for NH(3) measurement in sheep rumen samples, swine gut fluid samples, and bovine plasma. Results were compared with those of the Conway diffusion method and the manual enzymatic method. The automated method allows 30 samples per h to be an...

The question often arises of whether or not a given security system requires some form of automated key management, or whether manual keying is sufficient. This memo proposes guidelines for making such decisions. The presumption is that when symmetric cryptographic mechanisms are used in a protocol, then automated key management is generally but not always needed. If manual keying is proposed, ...

The growing interest of the requirements engineering (RE) community to elicit user requirements from large amounts of available online user feedback about software-intensive products resulted in identification of such data as a sensible source of user requirements. Some researchers proposed automation approaches for extracting the requirements from user reviews. Although there is a common assum...

OBJECTIVES To assess whether automated screening in the cytologic examination of Papanicolaou smear slides results in smaller margins of error than manual screening. METHODS We compared cytotechnologists' performance and reproducibility of manual and automated screening of 10,165 consecutive cervical cytology slides examined at Barretos Cancer Hospital using the FocalPoint system. RESULTS I...