Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide.
Exposure to cigarette smoke (CS) is a major risk factor for developing this chronic airflow …

Preclinical imaging allows pulmonary researchers to study lung disease and pulmonary
drug delivery noninvasively and longitudinally in small animals. However, anatomically …

Chronic lung disease is a major worldwide health concern but better tools are required to
understand the underlying pathologies. Ventilation/perfusion (V/Q) single photon emission …

Using a comprehensive sample of say-on-pay recommendations from the two largest proxy
advisors over the period 2012–2019, I document that proxy advisors fail to filter out industry-…

… iris images and can be exploited to assist in the iris recognition under such nonideal scenarios.
Our analysis of such iris … region of interest, where the iris recognition can benefit from a …

… Iris segmentation plays a vital role in the iris recognition system. However, it faces many …
the iris segmentation performance for possible mobile devices, this paper presents a light iris …

… of iris images of Asian and non-Asian subjects), coarse-to-fine iris identification (classification
of all iris … This paper proposes a general framework for iris image classification based on …

… Typically, iris segmentation and iris recognition are the two main tasks of the iris recognition
system [… Its goal is to normalize the iris region into rectangles to prepare for iris recognition. …

… The focus state of the iris image is based on the characteristics of gray iris image in this
study, and the clarity of the iris image is evaluated with the average height H of the pupil edge, …

… In our recent work, a liquid iris … iris whose aperture can be tuned electrically based on
electrowetting. In comparison with previous liquid irises, the shape of the employed liquid in the iris …