A non-parametric segmentation methodology for oral videocapillaroscopic images

We aim to describe a new non-parametric methodology to support the clinician during the diagnostic process of oral videocapillaroscopy to evaluate peripheral microcirculation. Our methodology, mainly based on wavelet analysis and mathematical morphology to preprocess the images, segments them by minimizing the within-class luminosity variance of both capillaries and background. Experiments were carried out on a set of real microphotographs to validate this approach versus handmade segmentations provided by physicians. By using a leave-one-patient-out approach, we pointed out that our methodology is robust, according to precision–recall criteria (average precision and recall are equal to 0.924 and 0.923, respectively) and it acts as a physician in terms of the Jaccard index (mean and standard deviation equal to 0.858 and 0.064, respectively).     

Some general Tauberian conditions for the weighted mean summability method

In this paper, we obtain some new Tauberian theorems for the weighted mean summability method via a weighted general control modulo analogous to the one defined by Dik [M. Dik, Tauberian theorems for sequences with moderately oscillatory control moduli, Math. Morav. 5 (2001) 57–94].     

Automatic information timeliness assessment of diabetes web sites by evidence based medicine

Studies on health domain have shown that health websites provide imperfect information and give recommendations which are not up to date with the recent literature even when their last modified dates are quite recent. In this paper, we propose a framework which assesses the timeliness of the content of health websites automatically by evidence based medicine. Our aim is to assess the accordance of website contents with the current literature and information timeliness disregarding the update time stated on the websites.     

Desorption kinetics of thick zeolite coatings prepared by induction heating for adsorption heat pump applications

Journal of Porous Materials - Zeolite coatings were directly crystallized on stainless steel substrates, which included double layer wire mesh cylinders and tubes, by induction heating. X-ray...