68 research outputs found
Tailored Chip Breaker Development for Polycrystalline Diamond Inserts: FEM-based Design and Validation
Ferromagnetism without flat bands in thin armchair nanoribbons
Describing by a Hubbard type of model a thin armchair graphene ribbon in the
armchair hexagon chain limit, one shows in exact terms, that even if the system
does not have flat bands at all, at low concentration a mesoscopic sample can
have ferromagnetic ground state, being metallic in the same time. The mechanism
is connected to a common effect of correlations and confinement.Comment: 37 pages, 12 figures, in press at Eur. Phys. Jour.
The Liver Tumor Segmentation Benchmark (LiTS)
In this work, we report the set-up and results of the Liver Tumor
Segmentation Benchmark (LITS) organized in conjunction with the IEEE
International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) 2016 and International
Conference On Medical Image Computing Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI)
2017. Twenty four valid state-of-the-art liver and liver tumor segmentation
algorithms were applied to a set of 131 computed tomography (CT) volumes with
different types of tumor contrast levels (hyper-/hypo-intense), abnormalities
in tissues (metastasectomie) size and varying amount of lesions. The submitted
algorithms have been tested on 70 undisclosed volumes. The dataset is created
in collaboration with seven hospitals and research institutions and manually
reviewed by independent three radiologists. We found that not a single
algorithm performed best for liver and tumors. The best liver segmentation
algorithm achieved a Dice score of 0.96(MICCAI) whereas for tumor segmentation
the best algorithm evaluated at 0.67(ISBI) and 0.70(MICCAI). The LITS image
data and manual annotations continue to be publicly available through an online
evaluation system as an ongoing benchmarking resource.Comment: conferenc
Exact solution of the Falicov-Kimball model with dynamical mean-field theory
The Falicov-Kimball model was introduced in 1969 as a statistical model for
metal-insulator transitions; it includes itinerant and localized electrons that
mutually interact with a local Coulomb interaction and is the simplest model of
electron correlations. It can be solved exactly with dynamical mean-field
theory in the limit of large spatial dimensions which provides an interesting
benchmark for the physics of locally correlated systems. In this review, we
develop the formalism for solving the Falicov-Kimball model from a
path-integral perspective, and provide a number of expressions for single and
two-particle properties. We examine many important theoretical results that
show the absence of fermi-liquid features and provide a detailed description of
the static and dynamic correlation functions and of transport properties. The
parameter space is rich and one finds a variety of many-body features like
metal-insulator transitions, classical valence fluctuating transitions,
metamagnetic transitions, charge density wave order-disorder transitions, and
phase separation. At the same time, a number of experimental systems have been
discovered that show anomalies related to Falicov-Kimball physics [including
YbInCu4, EuNi2(Si[1-x]Gex)2, NiI2 and TaxN].Comment: 51 pages, 40 figures, submitted to Reviews of Modern Physic
Integration of machining mechanistic models into CAM software
Due to the increasing requirements of 5-axis machined products, collision simulation is not enough to ensure final quality. Hence, machining simulation models have been developed and commercialized in the last years. Mechanistic (semiempirical) models give approximate estimations of cutting forces during a whole tool path and, even not being very accurate, they are very useful to detect critical tool path steps, adapt cutting parameters and avoid machine overload. The main problem of most of these models is the fact that they work isolated from CAM programs and so, all the required information must be manually imported and refreshed. This paper presents the integration of an open programmed mechanistic model into commercial CAM software. CAM simulates material removal process, while the model calculates and plots cutting efforts, and power. The whole simulation is performed into CAM environment and any kind of change in the process (tool, material, tool path, cutting speed, etc.) is automatically transferred to the mechanistic model. In the end, the user gets a CNC code that ensures not only collision avoidance, but also adequate process conditions
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