Hereditary or acquired immunodeficiencies often predispose to fatal infections by otherwise harmless microorganisms 16,17. On the other hand, overt and uncontrolled immune responses can cause ...

Figure 1: Eggs laid by hosts of the brood parasitic common cuckoo. Thus, SIFT evaluates patterns in a way that is neurobiologically plausible, not just for primates but also for birds, providing a ...

CATALOG DESCRIPTION: Fundamental and advanced topics in statistical pattern recognition including Bayesian decision theory, Maximum-likelihood and Bayesian estimation, Nonparametric density estimation ...

The susceptibility of adopted children to infection correlates more with the susceptibility of their biologic parents than with that of their adoptive parents. 1 This suggests that genetic factors can ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has made remarkable strides in recent years, particularly in its ability to reason. At the heart of this evolution are new technologies like neural networks and large ...

The International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) has awarded its 2020 King-Sun Fu Prize to Concordia’s Ching Yee Suen. Suen earned the honour for his pioneering research and exceptional ...

The further out you go in a weather forecast, the harder it is for meteorologists to know what’s going to happen. So how do they get an idea of what’s coming down the pipe several days or weeks ahead ...

We all live with computers… but getting the most out of them… getting them to do what you need… can be kind of difficult. But if you can understand how they ...

One of the great myths in the technosphere is that musicians make good programmers because music is like math. I disagree. Music is not enough like math for any relevant or significant skill transfer.