(a) Background: Region of interest (ROI) image coding allows for encoding the ROIs in an image with better quality than the background (BG). It is very useful for visual communication applications ...

For reabstracting, we retrieved 957 medical records from a total of 5,462. These were selected using the probability proportional to size method, stratified by topology, sex, and registered year. The ...

Polar codes are a channel coding technology and all channel coding technology works in basically a quite similar way. Communication links are susceptible to errors due to random noise, interference, ...

Forty years ago, a Canadian bank pioneered a brand new computer system that allowed non-programmers to help write code. The paradigm was so disruptive that it was ignored by computer scientists for ...

First, the good news: around 57 percent of software firms practice some form of secure coding in the development of their products. But the bad news is that 43 percent are still not using formal ...