Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) imaging constitutes a widely used technique for coronary heart disease diagnosis and management of arterial atherosclerosis. The identification of lumen and media-adventitia boundaries in IVUS images is necessary for an efficient quantitative assessment of atherosclerotic plaques. In this paper, a new automated approach for lumen border detection is proposed. Thi...

the phenomenon of western sufi teachers is unique, not just because of the individuals themselves, though they are certainly fascinating, but because of what they represent: the flowering of the western genius, which has discovered eastern traditions, absorbed them and in the process changed them and been changed by them. this paper is a primary outline of the main contours of this phenomenon, ...

This paper reviews neuro-fuzzy systems, which combine methods from neural network theory with fuzzy systems. Such combinations have been considered for several years already. However, the term neuro-fuzzy still lacks proper deenition, and still has the avour of a buzzword to it. Surprisingly few neuro-fuzzy approaches do actually employ neural networks, even though they are very often depicted ...

Many handheld force-feedback devices have been proposed to provide a rich experience with mobile devices. However, previously reported devices have been unable to generate both constant and translational force. They can only generate transient rotational force since they use a change in angular momentum. Here, we exploit the nonlinearity of human perception to generate both constant and transla...

Interpretation of MRI images is difficult due to inherent noise and inhomogeneity. Segmentation is considered as vitally important step in medical image analysis and classification. Several methods are employed for medical image segmentation such as clustering method, thresholding method, region growing etc. In this paper, attention has been focused on clustering method such as Fuzzy C-means cl...

The aim of this paper is to define the productoperation on a family of interval valued events and the notion ofjoint interval valued observable. We show the connection betweenproduct operations for interval valued events and intuitionisticfuzzy events, too. We display the relation between joint intervalvalued observable and joint intuitionistic fuzzy observable. We...

A half-car model with four DOF was established to simulate the system. On the basis of this model, Selfadapt Parameters Fuzzy-PID control method of the active suspension system is described. In such a model, vehicle speed, vehicle body vertical acceleration, suspension dynamic deflection, the body vertical acceleration and suspension dynamic deflection integrated feedback were used respectively...