Abstract: It is challenging for active contour models (ACMs) to segment weak-edge and noisy images efficiently and accurately. To solve this problem, a novel ACM is proposed in this work. The proposed ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. President Donald Trump has pushed GOP-controlled states to redraw their voting maps, ...

Abstract: Medical image segmentation is highly challenging due to the uncertainties caused by the inherent ambiguous regions and expert knowledge variations. Some recent works explore the ...

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GoPro Inc. owes $8.2 million for infringing one patent claim in a long-running dispute with Contour IP Holdings LLC, as a federal jury found most of the company’s Hero-series action cameras don’t ...

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New Delhi: With the 2025 fall deadline for the India-US bilateral trade agreement (BTA) approaching, the two sides have intensified activity to bridge differences on a bunch of issues. Commerce ...

I read George Eliot’s “Middlemarch,” sometimes hailed as the greatest British novel, in a rain forest in western Indonesia. I was there as a graduate student, spending my days slogging through mud and ...

Correspondence to Dr Xiao Yang, Sun Yat-Sen University Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China; Yangx_zoc{at}163.com; Dr Zhouyue Li; lizhouyue{at ...

A recent Cabinet paper proposes removing shoplifting from the category of theft and creating a new “shoplifting infringement” offence. Photo / Getty Images Theft in New Zealand requires proving four ...

A massive tanker ship, the Diamond Gas Crystal, departed Kitimat this week loaded with tonnes of liquefied natural gas bound for customers in Asia. It was the 16th tanker load since production began ...