Thousands of medical images are saved in databases every day and the need for
algorithms able to handle such data in an unsupervised manner is steadily increasing. The …

Objectives: One-lung ventilation (OLV) during thoracoscopic surgery is associated with a
significant decline in arterial PO 2 in patients with severe pulmonary emphysema and patients …

Volumetric blood flow (Q) determination requires simultaneous assessment of mean blood
flow velocity and vessel cross-sectional area. At present, no method provides both values. …

We report on a novel procedure for invasive volumetric blood flow measurements using a
commercially available Doppler flow wire system, which could, until now, only measure flow …

To the Editor: When exposed to hypoxia at high altitude without acclimatization, susceptible
individuals may develop pulmonary edema. Although the mechanisms are not completely …

The analysis of texture in video-stored echocardiographic images is an established method
to characterize myocardial pathologies. We investigated whether or not texture parameters …

EDITORIAL ORIGINAL ARTICLES Page 1 EDITORIAL Hyperthermia After Cardiac Surgery:
Mechanism and Importance Daniel I. Sessler, MD 423 ORIGINAL ARTICLES Postoperative …

This work traces the migration of several female images and feminine situations from their
early appearances in biblical writings to their incarnations in modern Hebraic literature. …

In the medical field various motion tracking techniques like block matching, optical flow, and
histogram of oriented optical flow (HOOF) are being experimented for the abnormality …

Rarely is there such synergy between literary texts and a critic's personal convictions as there
is in Yael Feldman's latest book. Strong positions and emotional ties often prove a double-…