Author: Scott Acton
Publisher: Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Keywords: image, amp, multimedia, processing, video, synthesis, analysis, segmentation, biomedical, lectures
Number of Pages: 140
Published: 2007-07-01
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 1598290207
ISBN-13: 9781598290202

The sequel to the popular lecture book entitled Biomedical Image Analysis: Tracking, this book on Biomedical Image Analysis: Segmentation tackles the challenging task of segmenting biological and medical images. The problem of partitioning multidimensional biomedical data into meaningful regions is perhaps the main roadblock in the automation of biomedical image analysis. Whether the modality of choice is MRI, PET, ultrasound, SPECT, CT, or one of a myriad of microscopy platforms, image segmentation is a vital step in analyzing the constituent biological or medical targets. This book provides

Author: Mary Acton
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: art, modern, learning
Number of Pages: 334
Published: 2004-08-16
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 0415238110
ISBN-13: 9780415238113

This companion volume to the author’s Learning to Look at Paintings addresses some of the questions most commonly asked about modern art: why does it appear so different from the art of the past? Why is it so difficult to understand? How should we approach it? Mary Acton suggests that the best way to understand modern art is to look closely at it, and to consider the different elements that make up each art work - composition, space and form, light and color and subject matter. Her engaging and beautifully-written guide to art of the modern and postmodern period covers key art movements

Author: Mary Acton
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: art, modern, learning
Number of Pages: 334
Published: 2004-08-05
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0415238129
ISBN-13: 9780415238120

This companion volume to the author’s Learning to Look at Paintings addresses some of the questions most commonly asked about modern art: why does it appear so different from the art of the past? Why is it so difficult to understand? How should we approach it? Mary Acton suggests that the best way to understand modern art is to look closely at it, and to consider the different elements that make up each art work - composition, space and form, light and color and subject matter. Her engaging and beautifully-written guide to art of the modern and postmodern period covers key art movements

Author: Acton Figueroa
Publisher: Rosen Publishing Group
Keywords: families, famous, iglesias, enrique, julio
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2004-10
List price: $26.50
ISBN-10: 1404202609
ISBN-13: 9781404202603

Author: Acton Figueroa
Publisher: HarperCollins
Keywords: read, book, hero, everyday, man, spider
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2004-05
List price: $3.99
ISBN-10: 0060573635
ISBN-13: 9780060573638

Being a hero isn’t easy. As Peter Parker, I have to make time for school and work.#160;But it is up to me, as Spider-Man, to help people#160;in need. With great power comes great responsibility ...

Author: Mary Acton
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: paintings, learning
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2008-10-16
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0415435188
ISBN-13: 9780415435185

Learning to Look at Paintings is an accessible guide to the study and appraisal of paintings, drawings and prints. Mary Acton shows how you can develop visual, analytical and historical skills in learning to look at and understand an image by analysing how it works, what its pictorial elements are and how they relate to each other. This fully revised and updated new edition is illustrated with over 100 images by a wide range of Western European and American artists, ranging from Rembrandt, Van Gogh and Botticelli to Picasso, Matisse and Rothko, and now includes modern and contemporary artist

Author: Christopher Acton Shelley
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Keywords: healing, trauma, repudiation, transpeople
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2008-08-02
List price: $30.95
ISBN-10: 0802095399
ISBN-13: 9780802095398

Transgendered people face an array of interpersonal repudiations in their everyday lives, emanating from the political right through to the left, from social conservatives, various leading psychiatrists, radical feminists, as well as many lesbians and gays. In Transpeople, Christopher Shelley examines why so many transpeople are treated with such prejudice from a broad range of the socio-political spectrum, and how society can - and must - improve its understanding of transpeople and trans-related issues. Shelley’s study of discrimination and acceptance uses an interdisciplinary appro