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Neural Motifs: Scene Graph Parsing with Global Context
We investigate the problem of producing structured graph representations of
visual scenes. Our work analyzes the role of motifs: regularly appearing
substructures in scene graphs. We present new quantitative insights on such
repeated structures in the Visual Genome dataset. Our analysis shows that
object labels are highly predictive of relation labels but not vice-versa. We
also find that there are recurring patterns even in larger subgraphs: more than
50% of graphs contain motifs involving at least two relations. Our analysis
motivates a new baseline: given object detections, predict the most frequent
relation between object pairs with the given labels, as seen in the training
set. This baseline improves on the previous state-of-the-art by an average of
3.6% relative improvement across evaluation settings. We then introduce Stacked
Motif Networks, a new architecture designed to capture higher order motifs in
scene graphs that further improves over our strong baseline by an average 7.1%
relative gain. Our code is available at github.com/rowanz/neural-motifs.Comment: CVPR 2018 camera read
Role of magnetic resonance imaging in the detection and characterization of solid pancreatic nodules: an update
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma is the most common malignant tumor of the pancreas. The remaining pancreatic tumors are a diverse group of pancreatic neoplasms that comprises cystic pancreatic neoplasms, endocrine tumors and other uncommon pancreatic tumors. Due to the excellent soft tissue contrast resolution, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is frequently able to readily separate cystic from noncystic tumors. Cystic tumors are often easy to diagnose with MRI; however, noncystic non-adenocarcinoma tumors may show a wide spectrum of imaging features, which can potentially mimic ductal adenocarcinoma. MRI is a reliable technique for the characterization of pancreatic lesions. The implementation of novel motion-resistant pulse sequences and respiratory gating techniques, as well as the recognized benefits of MR cholangiopancreatography, make MRI a very accurate examination for the evaluation of pancreatic masses. MRI has the distinctive ability of non-invasive assessment of the pancreatic ducts, pancreatic parenchyma, neighbouring soft tissues, and vascular network in one examination. MRI can identify different characteristics of various solid pancreatic lesions, potentially allowing the differentiation of adenocarcinoma from other benign and malignant entities. In this review we describe the MRI protocols and MRI characteristics of various solid pancreatic lesions. Recognition of these characteristics may establish the right diagnosis or at least narrow the differential diagnosis, thus avoiding unnecessary tests or procedures and permitting better management
Uniqueness and the Image of God: A Theological and Philosophical Justification of the Value of Diversity
In Christian education, cultural diversity is valued. But what is the theological basis for that value? While our commonality as human persons is rooted in the image of God, what about the diversity of human beings and the cultural diversity flowing from it? This essays argues that although the image of God is common to us all, there is an account of the image of God that provides for uniqueness as well and that individual uniqueness is at the core of human being as we participate in our cultural forms of life
Search for Tidal Dwarf Galaxies Candidates in a Sample of Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies
(ABRIDGED) Star-forming small galaxies made out of collisional debris have
been found in a variety of merging systems. So far only a few of them are known
in ULIRGs although they show clear signs of interactions. Whether external star
formation may take place in such objects is an open question. The aim of this
paper is to identify and characterise the physical and kinematic properties of
the external star forming regions in a sample of ULIRGs, including TDG
candidates, using optical IFS and high angular resolution HST imaging. We have
found that the presence of external star-forming regions is common with 12
objects being identified in 5 ULIRGs. These regions show a large range of
dynamical mass up to 1x10^{10} M_sun, with average sizes of ~750 pc. In
addition, the line ratios, metallicities and H\alpha equivalent widths are
typical of young bursts of star formation (age ~ 5-8 Myr), and similar to those
of other TDG candidates. Their extinction corrected H\alpha luminosities lead
to masses for the young stellar component of ~2x10^6 - 7x10^8 M_sun. The
likelihood of survival of these regions as TDGs is discussed based on their
structural and kinematic properties. Most of these systems follow the relation
between effective radius and velocity dispersion found for globular clusters
and Ellipticals, which suggests they are stable against internal motions. The
stability against forces from the parent galaxy have been studied and a
comparison of the data with the predictions of dynamical evolutionary models is
also performed. Five regions out of twelve show High-Medium or High likelihood
of survival. Our best candidate, which satisfy all the utilized criteria, is
located in the advanced merger IRAS15250+3609 and presents a velocity field
decoupled from the relatively distant parent galaxy.Comment: 14 pages, 7 figures; A&A accepte
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