A new cell shape index is defined for use with atomic force microscopy height images of cell cultures. The new cell shape index reveals quantitative cell spreading information not included in a conventional cell shape index. A supervised learning-based cell segmentation algorithm was implemented by texture feature extraction and a multi-layer neural network classifier. The texture feature sets ...

In two experiments, the active haptic identification of three-dimensional mathematically well-defined objects is investigated. The objects, quadric surfaces, are defined in terms of the shape index, a quantity describing the shape, and curvedness, a quantity describing overall curvature. Both shape index and curvedness are found to have a significant influence on haptic shape identification. Co...

OBJECTIVE The oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) is used to define the status of glucose tolerance based on the plasma glucose level at 120 min. The purpose of the present study was to identify parameters that determine the shape of the plasma glucose course measured at 0, 30, 60, 90, and 120 min during an OGTT. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS OGTT data from 551 subjects (485 with normal glucose ...

this paper illustrates the use of radial facial curves on 3D meshes to mode facial deformation caused by expression, occlusion and variation in poses and to recognize faces despite large expression, in presence of occlusion and pose variations. Here we represent facial surface by indexed collection of radial geodesic curves on 3D face meshes emanating from nose tip to the boundary of mesh and c...

Efficient retrieval by content of visual information requires that visual content descriptors and similarity models are combined with efficient index structures. This problem is particularly challenging in the case of retrieval by shape similarity. The paper discusses retrieval by shape similarity, using local features and effective indexing. Shapes are partitioned into tokens following curvatu...

Coastline change reflects the dynamics of natural processes and human activity, and influences the ecology and environment of the coastal strip. This study researched the change in coastline and sea area of the Bohai Sea, China, over a 30-year period using Landsat TM and OLI remote sensing data. The total change in coastline length, sea area, and the centroid of the sea surface were quantified....

Using a novel paradigm to engage the long-term mappings between object names and the prototypical colors for objects, we investigated the retrieval of object-color knowledge as indexed by long-term priming (the benefit in performance from a prior encounter with the same or a similar stimulus); a process about which little is known. We examined priming from object naming on a lexical-semantic ma...

In this paper we focus of the clustering of citation contexts in scientific papers. We use two methods, k-means and hierarchical clustering to better understand the phenomenon and types of citations and to explore the multidimensional nature of the elements composing the contexts of citations in different sections of the papers. We have analyzed a data set of seven peer-reviewed academic journa...

We present a method for object categorization in real-world scenes. Following a common consensus in the field, we do not assume that a figure-ground segmentation is available prior to recognition. However, in contrast to most standard approaches for object class recognition, our approach automatically segments the object as a result of the categorization. This combination of recognition and seg...