Abstract:
The memory cell of the present invention has two independent storage regions embedded into two opposite sidewalls of the control gate respectively. In this way, the data storage can be more reliable. Other features of the present invention are that the thickness of the dielectric layers is different, and the two independent storage regions are formed on opposite bottom sides of the opening by the etching process and form a shape like a spacer. The advantage of the aforementioned method is that the fabricating process is simplified and the difficulty of self-alignment is reduced.
Abstract:
A high voltage metal oxide semiconductor includes a doped substrate, two first isolation structures, a gate structure, a source region, a drain region, two second isolation structures, and two drift regions. The two first isolation structures are respectively disposed in the doped substrate. The gate structure is disposed between parts of the two first isolation structures on the doped substrate. The source region and the drain region are respectively disposed beside one side of each of the two first isolation structures in the doped substrate. The top surface of the second isolation structure is smaller than the bottom surface of the first isolation structure. The two drift regions are respectively disposed in the doped substrate, enclosing the source region and the drain region, the two first isolation structures and the second isolation structures.
Abstract:
Single-shot methods suitable for determining capillary pressure and relative permeability curves are proposed. For steady-state gas flow, with stationary water or oil remaining in a porous rock core and the outflow boundary condition (capillary pressure is zero) is maintained by washing the outlet face of the core with the stationary phase, the gas pressure distribution, P(x), is determined by SPRITE (Single-Point Ramped Imaging with T1 Enhancement) MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) spin density imaging of flowing gas, since the spin density of gas is directly proportional to the pressure of the gas phase. Water or oil saturation distribution, S(x), at the present of steady-state flowing gas, is measured with MRI. The combination of P(x) and S(x) yields a capillary pressure curve, Pc(S) and relative permeability curve of flowing gas phase, Krg(S) can be determined with differential form of Darcy's law and ideal gas equations for gas flowing at steady-state. Some embodiments include the steps of providing a porous rock core having a length, an inlet face, and an outlet face; saturating the porous rock core with a first fluid; displacing the first fluid by applying a second fluid to the inlet face of the porous rock core; washing the outlet face of the porous rock core with said second fluid so as to maintain an outflow boundary condition; determining that a substantially steady-state condition has been reached whereat the fluid saturation distribution and pressure distribution along the length of the core do not substantially change with time; performing a single-shot measurement of at least one of a fluid saturation distribution measurement of the porous rock core and a pressure distribution measurement of the porous rock core; and determining a property of the porous rock core by using the single-shot measurement.
Abstract:
Ultrasonic signals obtained at a range of angles are fit to a material independent model to derive both axial and lateral strain and thus parameters dependent on lateral strain including Poisson's ratio and shear strain.
Abstract:
A method of handling resonance effects on disc drives includes the steps of monitoring a position error signal (PES) for an actuator arm of a disc drive, generating a feedforward compensation signal from the PES using a bandpass filter, and applying the compensation signal to a servo control signal. The bandpass filter has a center frequency set to a known resonance frequency. A disc drive includes an actuator assembly including an arm for carrying a head in a transducing relation with respect to a disc in response to a control signal, and a controller that monitors a PES for the arm and generates the control signal. The controller includes a servo controller that generates a servo control signal from the PES, and a feedforward compensation element which bandpass filters the PES to generate a compensation signal which is combined with the servo control signal to generate the control signal.
Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for smart interpolation of annotations on tomographic images. The method includes receiving 3D images obtained by a CT, MRI or PET system, receiving label with contours of regions-of-interest (ROIs) if label is available for the received 3D images either from automatic segmentation algorithm or manual segmentation, creating an empty label if label is not available, recording user changes on each 2D slices of the label, finding two neighboring 2D slices that the user has edited, running interpolation on the user changes, applying the interpolated changes to each 2D slices not edited by the user, and performing post-processing to output the final 3D segmentation of ROIs.
Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for robust and automatic face de-identification from CT and MRI. The method includes: receiving DICOM files of patient bodies obtained by a CT or MRI system; normalizing the images; extracting the heads from bodies; creating face masks; and writing DICOM files back with de-identified faces.
Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for training a convolutional neural network (CNN) that is robust to missing input information. The method includes: receive a plurality of three-dimensional (3D) images per case obtained from a CT, an MRI, or a PET system or the combination thereof; receive accompanying metadata for each received 3D images, comprising pixel spacing, slice thickness, and matrix size; processing the received 3D images per case utilizing the received metadata of each 3D images to generate 4D images containing complimentary information from received imaging modalities, wherein the generated 4D images may miss a plurality of imaging modalities; further process the generated 4D images if the generated 4D images miss a plurality of imaging modalities, wherein the step comprises: fill the generated 4D images with a fixed value for all pixels of missed imaging modalities; build an adaptable deep learning framework using CNNs for image segmentation that utilizes the generated 4D images as input; train the CNNs with the generated 4D images to obtain segmentation labels for each region-of-interest (ROI) by emulating missing modality, wherein the step of emulating missing modality in training comprises: randomly decide whether or not to emulate; if decide to emulate, randomly select a plurality of input modalities to emulate as missing and fill the images with a fixed value for all pixels of the selected input modalities; and deploy the trained CNNs on 4D images generated from 3D images for each new testing case employing the steps of receiving and processing 3D images described above to obtain segmentation labels for each ROI, wherein the step of deployment comprises: accommodate missing modalities in generated 4D images by filling the images with the same fixed value used in training for missed modalities.
Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for robust and automatic face de-identification from CT and MRI. The method includes: receiving DICOM files of patient bodies obtained by a CT or MM system; normalizing the images; extracting the heads from bodies; creating face masks; and writing DICOM files back with de-identified faces.