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nnSAM2: nnUNet-Enhanced One-Prompt SAM2 for Few-shot Multi-Modality Segmentation and Composition Analysis of Lumbar Paraspinal Muscles

Zhongyi Zhang, Julie A. Hides, Enrico De Martino, Abdul Joseph Fofanah, Gervase Tuxworth · 2025

Purpose: To develop and validate No-New SAM2 (nnsam2) for few-shot segmentation of lumbar paraspinal muscles using only a single annotated slice per dataset, and to assess its statistical comparabilit…

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Towards Population Scale Testis Volume Segmentation in DIXON MRI

Jan Ernsting, Phillip Nikolas Beeken, Lynn Ogoniak, Jacqueline Kockwelp, Tim Hahn, Alexander Siegfried Busch, Benjamin Risse · 2024

Testis size is known to be one of the main predictors of male fertility, usually assessed in clinical workup via palpation or imaging. Despite its potential, population-level evaluation of testicular …

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Significance of Medium-Wave AM Radio Broadcasting for Enhanced Disaster Resilience in Japan: A Case Study in the Kanto Region and Fukui using Nonpowered HOOPRA

Eiichi Shoji · 2023

On the occasion of centenary anniversary of the Great Kanto Earthquake and commencement of radio broadcasting in Japan, this study reiterates the paramount importance of medium-wave (MW) AM broadcasti…

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Robot Grasping and Manipulation: A Prospective

Claudio Zito · 2023

``A simple handshake would give them away''. This is how Anthony Hopkins' fictional character, Dr Robert Ford, summarises a particular flaw of the 2016 science-fiction \emph{Westworld}'s hosts. In the…

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Listen2Scene: Interactive material-aware binaural sound propagation for reconstructed 3D scenes

Anton Ratnarajah, Dinesh Manocha · 2023

We present an end-to-end binaural audio rendering approach (Listen2Scene) for virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) applications. We propose a novel neural-network-based binaural sound propa…

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Swap-Free Fat-Water Separation in Dixon MRI using Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks

Nicolas Basty, Marjola Thanaj, Madeleine Cule, Elena P. Sorokin, Yi Liu, Jimmy D. Bell, E. Louise Thomas, Brandon Whitcher · 2021

Dixon MRI is widely used for body composition studies. Current processing methods associated with large whole-body volumes are time intensive and prone to artifacts during fat-water separation perform…

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A leak in PRNU based source identification. Questioning fingerprint uniqueness

Massimo Iuliani, Marco Fontani, Alessandro Piva · 2020

Photo Response Non-Uniformity (PRNU) is considered the most effective trace for the image source attribution task. Its uniqueness ensures that the sensor pattern noises extracted from different camera…

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Image Processing and Quality Control for Abdominal Magnetic Resonance Imaging in the UK Biobank

Nicolas Basty, Yi Liu, Madeleine Cule, E. Louise Thomas, Jimmy D. Bell, Brandon Whitcher · 2020

An end-to-end image analysis pipeline is presented for the abdominal MRI protocol used in the UK Biobank on the first 38,971 participants. Emphasis is on the processing steps necessary to ensure a hig…

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Large-scale inference of liver fat with neural networks on UK Biobank body MRI

Taro Langner, Robin Strand, H{aa}kan Ahlstrom, Joel Kullberg · 2020

The UK Biobank Imaging Study has acquired medical scans of more than 40,000 volunteer participants. The resulting wealth of anatomical information has been made available for research, together with e…

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Stability analysis of a Boeing 737-800

Blessed Arthur Ngwenya, Bob Osano · 2019

The Anthena Vortex Lattice (AVL) [1] program describes aerodynamic and flight-dynamic analysis of rigid aircraft of arbitrary configuration and we use it to analyse the stability modes of a Boeing 737…

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INTEL-TAU: A Color Constancy Dataset

Firas Laakom, Jenni Raitoharju, Alexandros Iosifidis, Jarno Nikkanen, Moncef Gabbouj · 2019

In this paper, we describe a new large dataset for illumination estimation. This dataset, called INTEL-TAU, contains 7022 images in total, which makes it the largest available high-resolution dataset …

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Robot Vision: Calibration of Wide-Angle Lens Cameras Using Collinearity Condition and K-Nearest Neighbour Regression

Jacky C.K. Chow, Ivan Detchev, Kathleen Ang, Kristian Morin, Karthik Mahadevan, Nicholas Louie · 2018

Visual perception is regularly used by humans and robots for navigation. By either implicitly or explicitly mapping the environment, ego-motion can be determined and a path of actions can be planned. …

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Repeatability and comparability of automated keratometry: the Nikon NRK-8000, the Nidek KM-800 and the Bausch and Lomb keratometer.

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This study assessed the repeatability of the Nikon NRK-8000, the Nidek KM-800 and the Bausch and Lomb keratometer. In addition, the comparability of the Nikon NRK-8000 and the Nidek KM-800 are evaluat…

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