Novel Approach for Diagnosis of Brain Diseases byUsing Mixed Scheme on MRI and CT Images

Now days, multimodal medical image has growing interest in the field of analysis and diagnosis of brain diseases. In order to obtain complementary information from multimodal input images, multimodal image fusion become widely popular. Here fusion of the input multimodal images is done either by Spatial Domain or by Transform Domain method. Limitations of Spatial domain method force us to use transform domain fusion method. Discrete Wavelet Transform is one of the popular real valued wavelet transform method of transform domain fusion, but it has disadvantages like shift sensitivity and lack of phase information. These disadvantages motivate us to use the complex Wavelet Transform. In the present work we prefer New Daubechies Complex Wavelet Transform (DCxWT) Method for multimodal image fusion.shift invariance and availability of phase information properties of DCxWT create an output fused image of greater quality. In this work we apply two separate image fusion rule for approximation and detailed coefficient

Multiscale Medical Image Fusion in Wavelet Domain

Wavelet transforms have emerged as a powerful tool in image fusion. However, the study and analysis of medical image fusion is still a challenging area of research. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a multiscale fusion of multimodal medical images in wavelet domain. Fusion of medical images has been performed at multiple scales varying from minimum to maximum level using maximum selection rule which provides more flexibility and choice to select the relevant fused images. The experimental analysis of the proposed method has been performed with several sets of medical images. Fusion results have been evaluated subjectively and objectively with existing state-of-the-art fusion methods which include several pyramid- and wavelet-transform-based fusion methods and principal component analysis (PCA) fusion method. The comparative analysis of the fusion results has been performed with edge strength (Q), mutual information (MI), entropy (E), standard deviation (SD), blind structural similarity index metric (BSSIM), spatial frequency (SF), and average gradient (AG) metrics. The combined subjective and objective evaluations of the proposed fusion method at multiple scales showed the effectiveness and goodness of the proposed approach

DSmT Decision-Making Algorithms for Finding Grasping Configurations of Robot Dexterous Hands

In this paper, we present a deciding technique for robotic dexterous hand configurations. This algorithm can be used to decide on how to configure a robotic hand so it can grasp objects in different scenarios. Receiving as input, several sensor signals that provide information on the object’s shape, the DSmT decision-making algorithm passes the information through several steps before deciding what hand configuration should be used for a certain object and task

Special Libraries, September 1976

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Teaching Speculative Fiction in College: A Pedagogy for Making English Studies Relevant

ABSTRACT Speculative fiction (science fiction, fantasy, and horror) has steadily gained popularity both in culture and as a subject for study in college. While many helpful resources on teaching a particular genre or teaching particular texts within a genre exist, college teachers who have not previously taught science fiction, fantasy, or horror will benefit from a broader pedagogical overview of speculative fiction, and that is what this resource provides. Teachers who have previously taught speculative fiction may also benefit from the selection of alternative texts presented here. This resource includes an argument for the consideration of more speculative fiction in college English classes, whether in composition, literature, or creative writing, as well as overviews of the main theoretical discussions and definitions of each genre. In addition, this work includes a short history of speculative fiction, bibliographies of suggested sample themes for each genre, sample course syllabi and assignment/activity suggestions, and strategies for obtaining and using hard-to-find texts for prospective teachers

Ouida: journalism, cosmopolitanism and the aesthetics of place

The popular novelist and journalist Ouida (18391908) lived in Italy from 1871, with only one brief visit to London in 1886-7. While she had participated in public debates in the press since the late 1860s, from 1878 her sustained engagement with protest journalism began with articles in the Whitehall Review and letters in The Times about what we now call conservation and heritage, particularly of the modernisation of Florence (on the outskirts of which she lived) and of Rome. Her impact was substantial enough to generate numerous replies in the Times and elsewhere, and even a cartoon in Fun lampooning her insistence on the need for urban beauty and the preservation of history. Ouida believed she was arguing at root for individual happiness and pleasure over managerial and corporate efficiency and profit; however, she is not known to have written about the modernisation of London (or, say, Paris), so the question suggests itself of what her relationship to place in this journalism might be: how far can her rejection of Italian modernisation be linked to the imperial tourist gaze towards an aestheticized South, where peasants, decay and slums are merely opportunities for the generation of picturesque and sentimental narratives and points of view that would be untenable for Italians? This paper will seek to answer that question by examining the responses to Ouida’s denunciation of modernisation in English and Italian, while at the same time looking at her vexed relationship to cosmopolitanism. How far is it possible to argue that Ouida was arguing not from a northern imperialist perspective or indeed from a local one determined to save specific Italian antiquities for Italians, but from a feeling that the preservation of heritage was essential for a post-national, cosmopolitan, future history

Machine

In today’s society of humans and machines, automation, animation, and ecosystems are terms of concern. Categories of life and technology have become mixed in governmental policies and drive economic exploitation and the pathologies of everyday life. This book both curiously and critically advances the term that underlies these new developments: machine. Contents: Introduction: Un/Civil Engineering (Thomas Pringle); Animation of the Technical and the Quest for Beauty (Gertrud Koch); For a Neganthropology of Automatic Society (Bernard Stiegler); The Ecosystem Is an Apparatus: From Machinic Ecology to the Politics of Resilience (Thomas Pringle)