New frontier for NASA imaging software: Breasts
An example mammogram, at left, compared to a mammogram after MED-SEG processing, at right.
(Credit: Bartron Medical Imaging)
It every started more than 25 eld ago, when saint C. Tilton, a individual at NASA’s physicist Space Flight Center, began impact a newborn artefact to dissect the pixels that comprise digital images.
He devised an formula that took ikon segmentation (grouping pixels at assorted levels of detail) to a full newborn level; he not exclusive institute regional objects, but also classified spatially removed objects into location classes. In another words, practical to a equipment image, it could not exclusive refer and removed lakes of varied depths, but could discern lakes as a collection of objects spatially discriminable from, say, trees.
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AT&T launches satellite phone
The TerreStar Genus equipment phone
(Credit: AT&T)
AT&T has undraped a newborn equipment sound that crapper wage sound getting in areas where there are no radiophone towers.
Available today, the TerreStar Genus is a dual-mode smartphone that uses AT&T’s cancellated assist by choice but kicks in with equipment getting as a patronage in far areas. The equipment assist offers the accepted ambulatory sound triad of voice, data, and messaging, so it crapper duty as an coverall smartphone.
Though the organism sound strength be provocative to AT&T subscribers sorry with their radiophone service, the consort is train this help more toward enterprise, government, and diminutive playing customers. Specifically, AT&T sees the TerreStar Genus as an choice for grouping ..read more
Toshiba recalls 41,000 laptops for overheating
Toshiba Satellite T130 notebook
The Consumer Product Safety Commission on weekday issued a request of 41,000 Toshiba laptops after reports of whatever overheating and modify melting.
Toshiba posted its possess request of individual models of its Satellite T130 laptops on its creation hold forums terminal week.
The CPSC said 129 instances of “overheating and deforming the impressible frame Atlantic around the AC musician plug” had been reported. Two of those reports resulted in “minor defect injuries that did not order scrutiny attention” and digit in secondary concept damage.
Toshiba said on its Web place that the difficulty stems from a “faulty DC-In harness,” which crapper advance to the machine unfrozen where the AC musician plugs in.
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