We describe ATLAS II, an optimized version of the ATLAS I ATM switch. While in ATLAS I we concentrated on correctness, in ATLAS II we concentrate on optimizing the area and the performance of the switch. To achieve these goals we utilize improved design techniques and circuitry, and we eliminate functionalities of marginal benefit. Our results show that we can achieve significant performance an...

The observation and measurement of missing transverse energy in an event is a key signature in SUSY searches. This paper describes the reconstruction and calibration of missing transverse energy in ATLAS, and addresses the quality of the measurement in a variety of simulated processes which contain physical missing transverse energy such as Z → τ + τ − , A 0 /H 0 → τ + τ − , t ¯ t, and SUSY as ...

In the field of diffusion weighted imaging (DWI), it is common to fit one of many available models to the acquired data. A hybrid diffusion imaging (HYDI) approach even allows to reconstruct different models and measures from a single dataset. Methods for DWI atlas construction (and registration) are as plenty as the number of available models. Therefore, it would be nice if we were able to per...

We present a general scheme for automatically building a morphometric anatomical atlas. We detail each stage of the method, including the non-rigid registration algorithm, three-dimensional line averaging and statistical processes. We apply the method to obtain a quantitative atlas of skull crest lines. Finally, we use the resulting atlas to study a craniofacial disease; we show how we can obta...

This paper describes the widely-used ATLAS (Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software) project as it stands today. ATLAS is an instantiation of a paradigm in high performance library production and maintenance, which we term AEOS (Automated Empirical Optimization of Software); this style of library management has been created in order to allow software to keep pace with the incredible rate of...

Hypertext atlas of fetal and neonatal pathology is a free resource for pregraduate students of medicine, pathologists and other health professionals dealing with prenatal medicine. The atlas can be found at http://www.muni.cz/atlases. The access is restricted to registered users. Concise texts summarize the gross and microscopic pathology, etiology, and clinical signs of both common and rare fe...

Despite the known morphological differences (e.g., brain shape and size) in the brains of populations of different origins (e.g., age and race), the Chinese brain atlas is less studied. In the current study, we developed a statistical brain atlas based on a multi-center high quality magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) dataset of 2020 Chinese adults (18-76 years old). We constructed 12 Chinese brai...

Multi-atlas based methods have been recently used for classification of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and its prodromal stage, that is, mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Compared with traditional single-atlas based methods, multiatlas based methods adopt multiple predefined atlases and thus are less biased by a certain atlas. However, most existing multiatlas based methods simply average or concatena...

In this paper, we present a new method for creating shadow texture atlas with which we can represent the self-shadow. Shadow texture atlas is a texture atlas with shadow information in each texel. Shadow texture is effective to represent high-quality shadow using the graphics hardware because it stores shadow information as color unlike shadow map which stores depth. However, it cannot represen...

While modern imaging technologies such as fMRI have opened exciting possibilities for studying the brain in vivo, histological sections remain the best way to study brain anatomy at the level of neurons. The procedure for building histological atlas changed little since 1909 and identifying brain regions is a still a labor intensive process performed only by experienced neuroanatomists. Existin...