On the Definition of Categories for Image Classification Evaluation

Author(s):  
Simone Santini
Author(s):  
Jay Iyer ◽  
Ajay Rane

According to the most recent definition of the International Continence Society, urinary incontinence (UI), a symptom of impaired storage, is ‘the complaint of any involuntary leakage of urine’. A condition that primarily affects women, UI is not a lethal condition; however, it significantly affects quality of life. Three types of incontinence are generally distinguished: stress urinary incontinence, urgency urinary incontinence, and mixed urinary incontinence, which associates with the first two. Prevalence varies significantly due to variations in definitions and measurement, methodology of data collection, lack of self-reporting, and sampling/non-response issues. Age, parity, vaginal childbirth, and body mass index are important factors that affect the prevalence of urinary incontinence. In 2005, the ‘Evaluation of the Prevalence of urinary InContinence’ (EPIC) study, which was the largest population-based survey of 19,165 individuals, was conducted in five developed countries to assess the prevalence of lower urinary tract symptoms in men and women. Prevalence of overactive bladder overall was 11.8%; rates were similar in men and women and increased with age. Overactive bladder was more prevalent than all types of UI combined (9.4%). Besides the obvious issue of hygiene, UI results in ramifications that extend to the sufferer’s social and sexual life. This chapter focuses on mainly three types of female urinary incontinence commonly encountered in clinical practice—stress urinary incontinence, urgency urinary incontinence, and mixed urinary incontinence—and discusses the anatomy and physiology of the continence apparatus, and the classification, evaluation, and management of urinary incontinence.


Author(s):  
Kanishk Bansal ◽  
Amar Singh Rana

Recognizing landmarks in images with machine learning is an excellent topic for research today. Landmark recognition is an important field in computer vision. In this field, we train the machine learning models to identify and recognize the closed distinctly distinguishable objects in a digital image. In general, if we consider a digital image to be a set of coordinates of different pixels, a landmark is said to be enclosed in that closed polygon formed by the pixels that may be considered as a distinct and distinguishable thing in one or the other sense. Landmark recognition is an important subject area of image classification since it is considered as one of the first steps towards reaching complete computer vision. The extremely broad definition of a landmark makes it eligible to be considered as one of the leading problems in image classification tasks. Since the task is considered to be a very broad one, the solutions to the task hold no easy procedures. This chapter explores landmark recognition using ensemble-based machine learning models.


1966 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 3-5
Author(s):  
W. W. Morgan

1. The definition of “normal” stars in spectral classification changes with time; at the time of the publication of theYerkes Spectral Atlasthe term “normal” was applied to stars whose spectra could be fitted smoothly into a two-dimensional array. Thus, at that time, weak-lined spectra (RR Lyrae and HD 140283) would have been considered peculiar. At the present time we would tend to classify such spectra as “normal”—in a more complicated classification scheme which would have a parameter varying with metallic-line intensity within a specific spectral subdivision.


1975 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 21-26

An ideal definition of a reference coordinate system should meet the following general requirements:1. It should be as conceptually simple as possible, so its philosophy is well understood by the users.2. It should imply as few physical assumptions as possible. Wherever they are necessary, such assumptions should be of a very general character and, in particular, they should not be dependent upon astronomical and geophysical detailed theories.3. It should suggest a materialization that is dynamically stable and is accessible to observations with the required accuracy.


1979 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 125-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
David A. Allen

No paper of this nature should begin without a definition of symbiotic stars. It was Paul Merrill who, borrowing on his botanical background, coined the termsymbioticto describe apparently single stellar systems which combine the TiO absorption of M giants (temperature regime ≲ 3500 K) with He II emission (temperature regime ≳ 100,000 K). He and Milton Humason had in 1932 first drawn attention to three such stars: AX Per, CI Cyg and RW Hya. At the conclusion of the Mount Wilson Ha emission survey nearly a dozen had been identified, and Z And had become their type star. The numbers slowly grew, as much because the definition widened to include lower-excitation specimens as because new examples of the original type were found. In 1970 Wackerling listed 30; this was the last compendium of symbiotic stars published.


Author(s):  
K. T. Tokuyasu

During the past investigations of immunoferritin localization of intracellular antigens in ultrathin frozen sections, we found that the degree of negative staining required to delineate u1trastructural details was often too dense for the recognition of ferritin particles. The quality of positive staining of ultrathin frozen sections, on the other hand, has generally been far inferior to that attainable in conventional plastic embedded sections, particularly in the definition of membranes. As we discussed before, a main cause of this difficulty seemed to be the vulnerability of frozen sections to the damaging effects of air-water surface tension at the time of drying of the sections.Indeed, we found that the quality of positive staining is greatly improved when positively stained frozen sections are protected against the effects of surface tension by embedding them in thin layers of mechanically stable materials at the time of drying (unpublished).


Author(s):  
W. A. Shannon ◽  
M. A. Matlib

Numerous studies have dealt with the cytochemical localization of cytochrome oxidase via cytochrome c. More recent studies have dealt with indicating initial foci of this reaction by altering incubation pH (1) or postosmication procedure (2,3). The following study is an attempt to locate such foci by altering membrane permeability. It is thought that such alterations within the limits of maintaining morphological integrity of the membranes will ease the entry of exogenous substrates resulting in a much quicker oxidation and subsequently a more precise definition of the oxidative reaction.The diaminobenzidine (DAB) method of Seligman et al. (4) was used. Minced pieces of rat liver were incubated for 1 hr following toluene treatment (5,6). Experimental variations consisted of incubating fixed or unfixed tissues treated with toluene and unfixed tissues treated with toluene and subsequently fixed.


Author(s):  
J. D. Hutchison

When the transmission electron microscope was commercially introduced a few years ago, it was heralded as one of the most significant aids to medical research of the century. It continues to occupy that niche; however, the scanning electron microscope is gaining rapidly in relative importance as it fills the gap between conventional optical microscopy and transmission electron microscopy.IBM Boulder is conducting three major programs in cooperation with the Colorado School of Medicine. These are the study of the mechanism of failure of the prosthetic heart valve, the study of the ultrastructure of lung tissue, and the definition of the function of the cilia of the ventricular ependyma of the brain.


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