computer tomography for virtual models in dental imaging

... materials with interesting results To begin with, some simplifying assumptions were made Phonetic data were treated as a linear string by simply ignoring their very real grouping properties Furthermore, ... languages in Lower California and around the Colorado River delta His list of around 600 words collected in Paipai was prepared for process- 74 ing Phonetic symbols were transliterated into strings in ... is long A change in the pattern-recognizing approach is being considered to segregate phones at particular positions in syllables, syllables in feet, and feet in contours The intermediate storage...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 19:20

... extraordinarily suitable for non-invasive breast tissue examination and diagnoses 33    • First of all, the optical imaging is a very safe and very comfort imaging modality for breast imaging Using low dose ... bilateral imaging capability for both breasts imaging The total imaging time can be reduced to about 30 minutes compared from 60 minutes required by conventional MRI which utilizes lateral imaging ... promising results on breast cancer imaging, they are still unable to match the performance of X-ray mammography for routine screening [60] In more cases, these imaging modalities play a supporting...

Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2015, 11:35

... frameworks in spatial statistics, increasing domain asymptotics and fixed domain asymptotics or called in ll asymptotics (Cressie, 1993) In increasing domain asymptotics, the distance between neighboring ... observation increases In fixed domain asymptotics, the number of observations increases in a given fixed and bounded domain so that the 1.1 Mat´rn Class e observations will be increasingly dense ... ∣𝑎(𝑥)∣ ≤ 𝐶2 ∣𝑏(𝑥)∣ for all possible 𝑥 𝑝 −→ a.s −→ 𝑑 −→ converges in probability converges almost sure converges in distribution CHAPTER Introduction Computer modeling is having a profound effect...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 10:01

... person on request in order to maintain the transparency within the system All the above information providers require the information and resource maintainers who would maintain the information and ... structuring the course The prime responsibility of the maintainer is to maintain the proper information in a proper channel No wrong information or pseudo information should be available for the ... responsible for all the information which is carried out in that laboratory, and they have to maintain the secrecy and privacy about some confidential information Support for Information Management In Virtual...

Ngày tải lên: 20/12/2013, 19:15

... ”want in answer ”adenocarcinoma” in question ”was” in question ”live” in answer Q avg pos votes ”would” in answer ”answer” in question ”just” in answer ”me” in answer ”be” in answer in the” in ... 2000 Information retrieval on the web ACM Computing Surveys, 32(2) Y Liu, J Bian, and E Agichtein 2008 Predicting information seeker satisfaction in community question answering In Proceedings ... by information gain for ASP (trained for all askers) and ASP Group (trained for the group of askers with 20 to 29 questions) Conclusions We have presented preliminary results on personalizing...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 09:20

... al., 1999) In the current paper, we use an exemplar model for computing distributional representations for word meaning in context, using the context to activate relevant exemplars Comparing representations ... are more informative and noisier, while syntax-based representations deliver sparser and less noisy information Following the hypothesis that richer, topical information is more suitable for exemplar ... significance testing W Daelemans, A van den Bosch, and J Zavrel 1999 Forgetting exceptions is harmful in language learning Machine Learning, 34(1/3):11–43 Special Issue on Natural Language Learning K Erk...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 21:20

... 27 in turn indicates that compartmental analysis, in the restricted form in this chapter, can only treat systems that can be approximated by models that are linear in the engineering sense Before ... modeling as presented in this text can be considered an essential part of a program in health computer sciences The modeling techniques included in mathematical biology are intimately involved in ... arrangements to find forward solutions that conform increasingly well to the requirements of the X-ray diffraction pattern In mathematical modeling the iterative process of refining an inverse solution...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 16:42

... developed for providing exposure therapy for patients with dizziness that is increased in similar Figure environments Virtual Grocery Store developed for providing exposure therapy for patients ... serve as a foundation for future work that examines the incidence of symptoms while performing coordinated eye and head movement tasks within a virtual grocery store, or using a head mounted display ... discomfort, increased salivation, sweating, nausea, difficulty concentrating, stomach awareness, burping), oculomotor stress (general discomfort, fatigue, headache, eyestrain, difficulty focusing,...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20

... is inherent to the development of an item bank for CAT aiming at covering the whole continuum of fatigue • Response format: As the project aimed at developing CAT for the QLQ-C30 the response format ... item list comprising 44 items for field testing within phase IV is shown in Table Discussion The main objective of this study was to develop an item bank for computer- adaptive testing of the fatigue ... development for electronic patient-reported outcome assessment including CAT administration has been given increasing attention within the EORTC Quality of Life group and software for CAT administration...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... efficient strategy for data dissemination towards mobile sinks [6] In this article, we investigate the use of virtual infrastructures to support mobile sinks in WSNs Once a virtual infrastructure ... are mainly static, and there are multiple sinks moving randomly in the sensor field Sinks are equal from the information point of view; it does not matter to which sink a data packet is sent In the ... turning point towards the sink If the packet is still on the border line, I is increased by ks − in line 11 When the packet reaches the cell which is on the same line (i.e., line s parallel to line...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 20:20

... action in the proposed distributed wireless network as a virtual cooperation without broadcasting information from one link to the other links The network throughput in this paper is defined in two ... decoding delay constraint, that is, decoding must be performed over each separate block, and a single-layer code is used In this case, as the transmitter does not have any information about the interference ... dx + βmin x (E.15) −n log βmin − βmin = Θ(1), EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 17 where the last line follows from the fact that < βmin ≤ Substituting the above equation in (E.11)...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 08:20

... eventually translate QDs for use in clinical applications such as in vivo imaging in human subjects Modeling studies have revealed that two spectral windows exist for QD imaging in living subjects, one ... NIR region In a recent study, QDs were linked to anti-AFP (alphafetoprotein, a marker for hepatocellular carcinoma cell lines) antibody for in vivo tumor targeting and imaging [174] No in vitro ... exhibited high affinity integrin avb3 specific binding in cell culture and ex vivo In vivo NIR fluorescence (NIRF) imaging was carried out on athymic nude mice bearing subcutaneous integrin avb3-positive...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 18:20

... permit binding of proteins and nucleic acids that can be used for cellular and intracellular targeting Nanoparticles for Imaging in Fixed Cells New developments in nanoparticle technology in recent ... be transformed into a non-fluorescent state upon initial illumination (termed blinking) This blinking may result in a false negative fluorescence reading during shorter periods of illumination ... can be exploited for use in a variety of different applications including cellular imaging and delivery The major types of nanoparticles that have been used for cellular imaging include polymer/biomacromolecular...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 18:20

... appropriate for Pinus pinaster in Galicia In Figure the observed dominant heights are plotted against the predicted dominant heights obtained in a cross-validation Ecoregional site index models for Pinus ... variability in site index models for even-aged stands of stone pine (Pinus pinea L.) in Spain, Ann For Sci 60 (2003) 259–269 [13] Carmean W.H., Site index curves for upland oaks in the Central States, For ... the models were Ecoregional site index models for Pinus pinaster 121 Figure Relative error in dominant height predictions related to choice of reference age for reduced, full and different models...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 00:21

... site index can be obtained from the models using iterative techniques [35] It is critically important to have good growth and yield information for sustainable forest management of ponderosa pine ... that for model (5) Therefore, I recommend the use of model (4) for estimating the height of ponderosa pine in British Columbia The models cannot be algebraically inverted to predict site index ... value for φ for the 80 plots for models (1), (2), (3), and (4) are shown in Table II The mean error for model (1) indicates that it is slightly biased, but the mean error for the other models...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 01:22

... alternative mode of imaging is the use of single photon imaging of γ-emitting isotopes like 11 1In or 99Tc Imaging of γ-emitting isotopes is referred to as single photon emission commuted tomography This ... rheumatologists interested in surgical procedures for in vivo imaging, there is a rich arsenal of procedures for imaging within almost all major organs of mice or rats Almost all were developed originally for ... yield surprising results and will be highly informative in the effort to cure arthritis Competing interests None declared Acknowledgements The author thanks his laboratory group for inspiring discussions...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:22

... to include new modalities in treatment planning The use of these complementary imaging modalities in treatment planning and assessment may allow more accurate targeting of tumor, improved sparing ... radiation treatment planning for GBM is based on landmark studies demonstrating predilection for central recurrence and data correlating pathologic findings with imaging abnormalities [2-5] Contemporary ... data comparing the dosimetric and clinical impact of using these imaging sequences for radiotherapy planning, we aimed to evaluate the differences in terms of treatment volumes, changes in dose...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:20

... achieved using interval mapping [17] and further, for inbred and outbred populations, accounting for all marker information on the corresponding chromosome [10, 11, 13] Because the within-sire allele ... concerning the rejection threshold when testing in this multi-QTL context, as compared to the single QTL case [17, 23! In developing software for analysing data from QTL detection designs in livestock, ... all the information on marker allele transmission: only unambiguous segregation information was included in our likelihood A more exhaustive use of this information has been proposed, using Monte...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 18:21

... likelihood Estimating the sire marker genotypes by using only the previous likelihood function means neglecting information contained in p(hs Alternatively, ) i M il the within sire conditional ... marker information, The full maximum is obtained after a search on a continuous space i rj for the QTL location and effect, within sire mean and variance parameters and on a discrete space for the ... the model, Genet Sel Evol (1999) in press [5] Haley C.S., Knott S.A., A simple regression method for mapping quantitative trait loci in lines crosses using flanking markers, Heredity 69 (1992)...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 18:21