The cardiovascular system
7 The cardiovascular system CHAPTER CONTENTS The heart Heart rate and rhythm Blood pressure Animal and ex vivo studies Convulsants Calcium channel blockade Undefined mechanisms Human oral studies Inhalation effects…
GENERAL SURGERY
The urinary system
8 The urinary system CHAPTER CONTENTS Nephrotoxicity Acute dosing Subacute and subchronic dosing Chronic dosing Species-specific effects Antinephrotoxicity Diuresis Conclusions Summary The kidneys, which form part of the urinary system,…
Introduction
1 Introduction This book provides a framework of reference for those interested in the safe and effective use of essential oils in a cosmetic or therapeutic context. The information and…
Evolutionary Integral Models for Image Restoration
(1) (2)where , and are, respectively, the gradient and Hessian matrices of u with respect to the space variable ; is a bounded domain (typically a square) with boundary ;…
2D Feature Tracking based on an Affine Photometric Model
with in image , e.g. based on computing the cornerness of each pixel (see [5]). At this stage each feature point is typically assigned with some kind of a descriptor…
GPU Accelerated Algorithm for Blood Detection inWireless Capsule Endoscopy Images
, Isabel N. Figueiredo1 , Carlos Graca2 and Gabriel Falcao2 (1) CMUC, Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal (2) Instituto de Telecomunicações, Department of Electrical and Computer…
Study of a Firefly Meta-Heuristics for Multithreshold Image Segmentation
order, where d and n are the number of thresholds and histogram bins respectively. It is computationally expensive to calculate the results for . One important issue is to define…
Influence on the Trabecular Bone Elasticity and Mechanical Competence
, plays a fundamental role to the TB quality. On the other hand, the connectivity of the trabecular bone network, which can be estimated, for instance, through the Euler-Poincaré characteristic,…
Image Quantisation using KM and KHM Clustering Techniques with Outlier-Based Initialisation
) colour spaces and additionally by the loss of colourfulness (). 1 Introduction True colour images acquired by a camera contain only a small subset of all possible 16.7 million colours….
Mechanics Meets Echocardiographic Imaging: Investigation on the Principal Strain Lines in Human Left Ventricle
. From a mechanical point of view, the most intense work is performed along the pattern from point 2 to point 3, that is, along the systolic phase, when pressures…
