Pulmonary embolism is a common cardiovascular emergency with approximately 600,000 incidents and 200,000 deaths occurring annually in the United States. CT pulmonary angiography (CTPA) has become the reference standard for pulmonary embolism diagnosis, but this technique has several issues with interpretation of the intricate branching structure...

The exponential growth of the Internet over the last few decades provides testament to the extreme success of the internet protocol (IP), the primary protocol responsible for delivering data packets between hosts across the heavily trafficked internet. Notwithstanding this success, IP address space is rapidly running out. Consequently, the more...

The primary cause of performance degradation in modern integrated circuit (IC) systems is manufacturing process variations. Specifically, variations in IC components (e.g. CMOS devices, metal interconnects, etc.) result in performance uncertainties and inconsistencies. For example, metal interconnect thickness is dependent upon the slurry thickness...

There is increasing need for better methods of data storage and sharing between computers. Likewise, in order to accommodate the growing use of mobile computing devices, there is increasing need to make consistent the data to which these devices have access. It is impractical and inconvenient to increase storage space on individual machines, as...