background: role of information source, perceived benefits and risks, and destination image has significantly been examined in travel and tourism literature; however, in medical tourism it is yet to be examined thoroughly. the concept discussed in this article is drawn form well established models in tourism literature. methods: the purpose of this research was to identify the source of informa...

This paper presents a new method for detecting scale invariant interest point from region of interest on NBI endoscopy images. This work is related to design of decision support systems in the area of gastrointestinal endoscopy with image classication facility. The use of a computer-based system could support the doctor when making a diagnosis and help to avoid human subjectivity. Our method is...

In this paper, we prove unique fixed point theorem for weakly inward contractions on 2-Banach space and introduce the concept of fixed point curve in 2-Banach space. 2010 AMS Classication: 41A65, 46B20,47H10, 54H25.

improving the quality of medical images at pre and post-surgery operations are necessary for beginning and speeding up the recovery process. partial differential equations (pdes)-based models have become a powerful and well known tool in different areas of image processing such as denoising, multiscale image analysis, edge detection and other fields of image processing and computer vision. in t...

Features derived from the trispectra of DFT magnitude slices are used for multi-font digit recognition. These features are insensitive to translation, rotation, or scaling of the input. They are also robust to noise. Classication accuracy tests were conducted on a common data base of 256256 pixel bilevel images of digits in 9 fonts. Randomly rotated and translated noisy versions were used for t...

Within recent years the use of medical images for diagnosis purposes has become necessity. The limitation in transmission and storage space also growing size of medical images has necessitated the need for efficient method, then image Compression is required as an efficient way to reduces irrelevant and redundancy of the image data in order to be able to store or transmits data. It also reduces...

introduction: content based image retrieval (cbir) is a method of image searching and retrieval in a  database. in medical applications, cbir is a tool used by physicians to compare the previous and current  medical images associated with patients pathological conditions. as the volume of pictorial information  stored in medical image databases is in progress, efficient image indexing and retri...

We also thank the anonymous referees for their valuable comments. 1 Summary Scientic database systems for the analysis of genes and proteins are becoming very important these days. We have developed a deductive database system PACADE for analyzing the three dimensional and secondary structures of proteins. In this paper, we describe the statistical data classication component of PACADE. We impl...