The stimulus display duration required for subjects to accurately compare the length of two line lengths (known as Inspection Time: IT), reliably correlates around 0.5 with general intelligence. It is not clear, however, if this correlation reflects general “speed of processing”, or some other element of the task. There is a consequent need for new experimental paradigms. We describe a novel IT...

Pleural thickenings are caused by asbestos exposure and may evolve into malignant pleural mesothelioma. An early diagnosis plays a key role towards an early treatment and an increased survival rate. Today, pleural thickenings are detected by visual inspection of CT data, which is time-consuming and underlies the physician's subjective judgment. A computer-assisted diagnosis system to automatica...

This paper presents the design and integration of a vision-guided robotic system for automated and rapid vehicle inspection. The main goal of this work is to scan and explore regions of interest over an automotive vehicle while a manipulator’s end effector operates in close proximity of the vehicle and safely accommodates its curves and inherent surface obstacles, such as outside mirrors or doo...

We present a method that flattens a curved surface and its neighborhood to create effective, uncluttered visualizations by applying standard flow visualization techniques in the deformed space. Level sets of the distance from the curved surface are mapped to parallel planes. Data fields are mapped accordingly. Our method eases the visual inspection and analysis of a curved surface’s vicinity by...

Automated inspection using multiple views (AMVI) has been recently developed to automatically detect flaws in manufactured objects. The principal idea of this strategy is that, unlike the noise that appears randomly in images, only the flaws remain stable in a sequence of images because they remain in their position relative to the movement of the object being analyzed. This investigation propo...

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...

In order to assure appearance quality of an industrial product, sensory inspection by human vision (visual inspection) is implemented in many manufacturing industries. This study focuses on the fact that the frequency of occurrence of defective products varies each time in production processes, and also considers the relationship between the mixing rate of the defective product and defect detec...

different software tools for quantification of myocardial perfusion spect (mps) studies are routinely used. several perfusion parameters can be computed automatically.  interpretation of the mps should start with visual inspection of the rotating planar images, visual analysis of reconstructed spect slices and then quantitative analysis to confirm the visual impression. quantification should be...

Dynamic breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) commonly acquires T1and T2-weighted images. Joint inspection of both sequences in particular allows to distinguish between benign cyst-type and malignant lesions. However, in routine diagnostics both images are regarded independently, and immediate correlation is prevented by patient motion and tissue deformations. Differences in resolution and in...