the quantitative analysis of cardiac motions in echocardiography images is a noteworthy issue in processing of these images. cardiac motions can be estimated by optical flow (of) computation in different regions of image which is based on the assumption that the intensity of a moving pattern remains constant in consecutive frames. however, in echocardiographic sequences this assumption may be v...

background: a pressure ulcer is a complication related to the need for the care and treatment of primarily disabled and elderly people. with the decrease of the blood flow caused by the pressure loaded, ulcers are formed and the tissue will be wasted with the passage of time. objective the aim of this study was to construct blood flow monitoring system on the heel tissue which was under externa...

ABSTRACT: In this paper, the thermal characteristics of single and double flow plane solar heaters with radiating working gas were analyzed and compared by numerical analysis for the first time. The laminar mixed convection gas flow in the heaters was numerically simulated by the CFD method using the finite volume technique. The set of governing equations included the conservation of mass, mome...

Accurate estimation of motion from time-varying imagery has been a popular problem in vision studies, This information can be used in segmentation, 3D motion and shape recovery, target tracking, and other problems in scene analysis and interpretation. We have presented a dynamic image model for estimating image motion from image sequences, and have shown how the solution can be obtained from a ...

the aim of this research was to construct an equipped hive with the acquisition, communication and analysis systems to send images on-line, wirelessly. this system could be used to evaluate density of bee colonies and also work as bait box to eliminate bee pest, if necessary. in this study, two methods, optical flow and neighborhood gray-tone difference matrix, were used to determine hive condi...

Optical tweezers were ®rst realized 15 years ago by Arthur Ashkin and co-workers at the Bell Telephone Laboratories. Since that time there has been a steady stream of developments and applications , particularly in the biologica l ®eld. In the last 5 years the ̄ow of work using optical tweezers has increased signi®cantly, and it seems as if they are set to become a mainstream tool within biologi...