(Commentary on Chapter 11: " The perception of shading and reflectance, EH Adelson and AP Pentland) Adelson & Pentland use an engaging metaphor to illustrate their position on scene analysis: interpretations are produced by a workshop that employs a set of specialists, each concerned with a single aspect of the scene. The authors argue that it is too expensive to have a supervisor coordinate th...

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The Global Initiative — Vision 2020: The Right to Sight was officially launched on 18 February 1999 with the endorsement of Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland, Director-General, World Health Organization. The mission of Vision 2020 is to eliminate the main causes of blindness in order to give all people of the world, particularly the millions of needlessly blind, the right to sight by the year 2020. In t...

AIM To compare absolute values of regional cerebral tissue oxygenation (cStO2 ) during haemodynamic transition after birth and repeatability during steady state for two commercial near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) devices. METHODS In a prospective observational study, the INVOS 5100C and FORE-SIGHT were compared on 12 term newborns delivered by elective caesarean section. During the 10 min fo...