Abstract: Deformable models have been quite popular in medical image analysis, particularly in image segmentation. However, when applied to 3D volumetric data, their high computational cost can be a ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig—a first-year graduate student—copied two problems ...

Three downhill races this season, three medals for Lindsey Vonn. Vonn edged Ilka Stuhec for the bronze medal in the downhill Saturday in Val d'Isere, France, finishing 0.04 seconds ahead of the ...