The Philips SUSI system is a set of modules for the construction of automatic inquiry systems such as the train timetable information system TABA and the Philips Automatic Directory Information System (PADIS). These systems conduct a dialogue in continuous spontaneous speech with the user, giving access to information in a database. To improve the system behaviour we have extended the knowledge...

INTRODUCTION Cartilage thickness from MR images has been identified as a possible biomarker in knee osteoarthritis (OA) research. The ability to acquire MR data at multiple centers by using different vendors' scanners would facilitate patient recruitment and shorten the duration of OA trials. Several vendors manufacture 3T MR scanners, including Siemens, Philips Medical Systems, and GE Healthca...

The trends toward product line development and toward adopting more 3rd-party software are hard to combine. The reason is that product lines demand fine control over the software (e.g., for diversity management), while 3rd-party software (almost by definition) provides only little or no control. A growing use of 3rd-party software may therefore lead to less control over the product development ...

PURPOSE Prior to the implementation of arterial spin labeling (ASL) in clinical multi-center studies, it is important to establish its status quo inter-vendor reproducibility. This study evaluates and compares the intra- and inter-vendor reproducibility of pseudo-continuous ASL (pCASL) as clinically implemented by GE and Philips. MATERIAL AND METHODS 22 healthy volunteers were scanned twice o...

Nearly three billion people use solid fuels for cooking and heating, which leads to extremely high levels of household air pollution and is a major cause of morbidity and mortality. Many stove manufacturers have developed alternative cookstoves (ACSs) that are aimed at reducing emissions and fuel consumption. Here, we tested a traditional clay chulha cookstove (TCS) and five commercially availa...

Electrocardiogram (ECG) databases play an important role in medical research, pharmaceutical research, medical education and health care. Due to growing demands in research, training, and health care, designing and managing such ECG databases has become a complex problem. This paper reports on the new design approach and the new application model of the Philips ECG Management System (EMS). The ...

Libavcodec is an open source software library that contains many different audio/video codecs. In this work, it is optimised and parallelised for the Philips Wasabi chip multiprocessor, which is currently being developed at Philips. Wasabi contains several DSPs and one or more general-purpose processors. The TriMedia-style optimisations (in particular utilising the SIMD custom operations) impro...

In late September 2012, I travelled from Sydney to the small village of Valoka in West New Britain province of Papua New Guinea to set up an ultrasound service there. In early 2011 I had replied to a post on the ASA website from the Kimbe Assistance project, who are supplying much-needed equipment and consumables to the small rural clinic on the west coast island province of New Britain. A Phil...

The climate of the Murray-Darling Basin (MDB) has been simulated using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model. WRF was implemented using a 10km horizontal grid and integrated for 24 years from 1985 through 2008. The model simulated climate was evaluated against gridded precipitation and temperature observations from the Australian Water Availability Project (AWAP) and found to perform...