Based on the terminology used for the construction of the right to one's own image, the author critiques the current state of affairs by proposing the foundations for a new understanding of creating portraits in Chilean ...

In this paper, a robust algorithm to segmenting food image from a background is presented using colour images. The proposed method has three steps: (i) computation of a high contrast grey value image from an optimal linear ...

Background and objectives: Because skin cancer affects millions of people worldwide, computational methods for the segmentation of pigmented skin lesions in images have been developed in order to assist dermatologists in ...

In magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), there is always a drive toward reducing the acquisition time. In volume imaging, time is often spent in acquiring data where there exists no signal because the imaging volume is larger ...

Image assessment of the arterial system plays an important role in the diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases. The segmentation of the lumen and media-adventitia in intravascular (IVUS) images of the coronary artery is the ...