1 College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China 2Department of Environmental Chemistry, Institute of Analytical and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Copenhagen University, 2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark 3 Research Center for Environmental Quality Control, Kyoto University, Otsu, Kyoto 520-0811, Japan 4 Institute of Biology, Irkutsk State University, Irkutsk 664003, ...

AIMS The aim of this study was to evaluate seven methods for quantifying myocardial oedema [2 standard deviation (SD), 3 SD, 5 SD, full width at half maximum (FWHM), Otsu method, manual thresholding, and manual contouring] from T2-weighted short tau inversion recovery (T2w STIR) and also to reassess these same seven methods for quantifying acute infarct size following ST-segment myocardial infa...

AIMS The four most promising semiautomated techniques (5-SD, 6-SD, Otsu and the full width half maximum (FWHM)) were compared in paired acute and follow-up cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR), taking into account the impact of microvascular obstruction (MVO) and using automated extracellular volume fraction (ECV) maps for reference. Furthermore, their performances on the acute scan were com...

Numerous algorithms have been developed to automate the process of delineating water surface maps for flood monitoring and mitigation purposes by using multiple sources such as satellite sensors digital elevation model (DEM) data. To better understand causes inaccurate mapping information, we aim demonstrate advantages limitations these through a case study 2022 Madagascar flooding event. The H...

From the Department of Medicine, Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu, Shiga, Japan; Department of Clinical Pathological Biochemistry, Doshisha Women’s Collage Liberal Arts, Kyotanabe, Kyoto; Division of Metabolism and Biosystemic Science, Department of Medicine, Asahikawa Medical College, Asahikawa, Hokkaido, Japan; and Division of Endocrinology & Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Kanaz...

Motivated by the need for more flexible decision-making mechanisms in the European Union, the paper proposes a simple but novel voting scheme for binary decisions taken by committees that meet regularly over time. At each meeting, committee members are allowed to store their vote for future use; the decision is then taken according to the majority of votes cast. The possibility of shifting vote...

Forest fires can destroy millions of acres land at shockingly fast speeds. The forest fire points identification algorithm is the most critical step in monitoring process. Most traditional methods use fixed thresholds, ignoring background pixels, and have low recognition rates, which could lead to many problems, such as false reporting rate. This paper proposes tests an adaptive using Himawari-...

The segmentation process is the separation of parts object area from background in an image, so that segmented objects can be processed for other purposes such as pattern recognition. results must accurate, if it not accurate separating image will affect further processing. carried out using Otsu Thresholding method on sandalwood leaf images by first applying Median filter to reduce noise. Afte...