Studying the changes of shape is a common concern in many scientific fields. We address here two problems: (1) quantifying the deformation between two given shapes and (2) transporting this deformation to morph a third shape. These operations can be done with or without point correspondence, depending on the availability of a surface matching algorithm, and on the type of mathematical procedure adopted. In computer vision, the re-targeting of emotions mapped on faces is a common application. We contrast here four different methods used for transporting the deformation toward a target once it was estimated upon the matching of two shapes. These methods come from very different fields such as computational anatomy, computer vision and biology. We used the large diffeomorphic deformation metric mapping and thin plate spline, in order to estimate deformations in a deformational trajectory of a human face experiencing different emotions. Then we use naive transport (NT), linear shift (LS), direct transport (DT) and fanning scheme (FS) to transport the estimated deformations toward four alien faces constituted by 240 homologous points and identifying a triangulation structure of 416 triangles. We used both local and global criteria for evaluating the performance of the 4 methods, e.g., the maintenance of the original deformation. We found DT, LS and FS very effective in recovering the original deformation while NT fails under several aspects in transporting the shape change. As the best method may differ depending on the application, we recommend carefully testing different methods in order to choose the best one for any specific application.
Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine - The aim of the study is to compare structure tensor imaging (STI) with diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) of the sheep heart... 相似文献
This review documents the uses of quantitative MS applied to colorectal cancer (CRC) proteomics for biomarker discovery and molecular pathway profiling. Investigators are adopting various labeling and label-free MS approaches to quantitate differential protein levels in cells, tumors, and plasma/serum. We comprehensively review recent uses of this technology to examine mouse models of CRC, CRC cell lines, their secretomes and subcellular fractions, CRC tumors, CRC patient plasma/serum, and stool samples. For biomarker discovery these approaches are uncovering proteins with potential diagnostic and prognostic utility, while in vitro cell culture experiments are characterizing proteomic and phosphoproteomic responses to disrupted signaling pathways due to mutations or to inhibition of drugable enzymes. 相似文献
This paper reports results of research into the definition of requirements for new consumer products––specifically, electro-mechanical
products. The research dealt with the derivation of design requirements that are demonstrably aligned with stakeholder needs.
The paper describes a comprehensive process that can enable product development teams to deal with statements of product requirements,
as originally collected through market research activities, in a systematic and traceable manner from the early, fuzzy front
end, stages of the design process. The process described has been based on principles of systems engineering. A case study
from its application and evaluation drawn from the power sector is described in this paper. The case study demonstrates how
the process can significantly improve product quality planning practices through revision of captured product requirements,
analysis of stakeholder requirements and derivation of design requirements. The paper discusses benefits and issues from the
use of the process by product development teams, and identifies areas for further research. Finally, the conclusions drawn
from the reported research are presented.
Gold‐coated nanodisk arrays of nearly micron periodicity are reported that have high figure of merit (FOM) and sensitivity necessary for plasmonic refractometric sensing, with the added benefit of suitability for surface‐enhanced Raman scattering (SERS), large‐scale microfabrication using standard photolithographic techniques and a simple instrumental setup. Gold nanodisk arrays are covered with a gold layer to excite the Bragg modes (BM), which are the propagative surface plasmons localized by the diffraction from the disk array. This generates surface‐guided modes, localized as standing waves, leading to highly confined fields confirmed by a mapping of the SERS intensity and numerical simulations with 3D finite element method. The optimal gold‐coated nanodisk arrays are applied for refractometric sensing in transmission spectroscopy with better performance than nanohole arrays and they are integrated to a 96‐well plate reader for detection of IgY proteins in the nanometer range in PBS. The potential for sensing in biofluids is assessed with IgG detection in 1:1 diluted urine. The structure exhibits a high FOM of up to 46, exceeding the FOM of structures supporting surface plasmon polaritons and comparable to more complex nanostructures, demonstrating that subwavelength features are not necessary for high‐performance plasmonic sensing. 相似文献
Tracking soft tissues in medical images using non-linear image registration algorithms requires methods that are fast and
provide spatial transformations consistent with the biological characteristics of the tissues. LogDemons algorithm is a fast
non-linear registration method that computes diffeomorphic transformations parameterised by stationary velocity fields. Although
computationally efficient, its use for tissue tracking has been limited because of its ad-hoc Gaussian regularisation, which hampers the implementation of more biologically motivated regularisations. In this work, we
improve the logDemons by integrating elasticity and incompressibility for soft-tissue tracking. To that end, a mathematical
justification of demons Gaussian regularisation is proposed. Building on this result, we replace the Gaussian smoothing by
an efficient elastic-like regulariser based on isotropic differential quadratic forms of vector fields. The registration energy
functional is finally minimised under the divergence-free constraint to get incompressible deformations. As the elastic regulariser
and the constraint are linear, the method remains computationally tractable and easy to implement. Tests on synthetic incompressible
deformations showed that our approach outperforms the original logDemons in terms of elastic incompressible deformation recovery
without reducing the image matching accuracy. As an application, we applied the proposed algorithm to estimate 3D myocardium
strain on clinical cine MRI of two adult patients. Results showed that incompressibility constraint improves the cardiac motion
recovery when compared to the ground truth provided by 3D tagged MRI. 相似文献
The Quality Department of the French National Space Agency (CNES, Centre National d’Études Spatiales) wishes to design a writing guide based on the real and regular writing of requirements. As a first step in this project, the present article proposes a linguistic analysis of requirements written in French by CNES engineers. One of our goals is to determine to what extent they conform to several rules laid down in two existing Controlled Natural Languages (CNLs), namely the Simplified Technical English developed by the AeroSpace and Defense Industries Association of Europe and the Guide for Writing Requirements proposed by the International Council on Systems Engineering. Indeed, although CNES engineers are not obliged to follow any controlled language in their writing of requirements, we believe that language regularities are likely to emerge from this task, mainly due to the writers’ experience. We are seeking to identify these regularities in order to use them as a basis for a new CNL for the writing of requirements. The issue is approached using natural language processing tools to identify sentences that do not comply with the rules or contain specific linguistic phenomena. We further review these sentences to understand why the recommendations cannot (or should not) always be applied when specifying large-scale projects. 相似文献
There is wide interpatient variability in toxicity to chemotherapeutic drugs and a lack of routine clinical tests for prospectively identifying patients at risk of developing toxicity from chemotherapy. An empirically driven MS strategy has been developed to monitor liver-derived plasma proteins as potential biomarkers of early toxicity. Multiple reaction monitoring (MRM) has been used to assess 46 candidate peptides from 18 liver-derived proteins. Following an iterative process of assay design, optimisation and assessment we selected 29 MRM assays (median CV 4.6%, range 1.2-11.6%) and monitored changes in levels of plasma proteins from a small number of colorectal cancer (CRC) patients undergoing chemotherapy. We demonstrated MRM assay robustness, and show that patients undergo minor elevation in plasma proteins when profiled on Day 3 of the chemotherapeutic regime. The MRM assays were in general agreement with 2-D DIGE-based quantitation from the same patient samples. The data supports the application of MRM-based methods as facile, highly reproducible, medium-throughput techniques that warrant expanded investigation for clinical utility in identifying patients at risk of developing chemotoxicity. 相似文献