In this work, we report the set-up and results of the Liver Tumor Segmentation Benchmark (LiTS), which was organized in conjunction with the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) 2017 and the International Conferences on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2017 and 2018. The image dataset is diverse and contains primary and secondary tumors with varied sizes and appearances with various ...

Dans les années qui ont précédé son invasion de l’Ukraine, la Russie a renforcé sa présence sur le continent africain. Cette influence évolue aujourd’hui en lien étroit avec la guerre et ses conséquences politiques et économiques à l’échelle mondiale.

Moscow’s presence on the African continent increased in the years preceding its invasion of Ukraine. Now, this presence is intimately linked to the war and to the political and economic struggle that it has caused globally.

Digital health and digital pharma are considered supportive tools for patients and healthcare providers (HCPs), making the market highly attractive for industry players. Not surprisingly, Tech Giants have started to move into this area. We utilized established management models and publicly available information sources, such as annual company reports, and performed a thorough analysis to uncover the underlying business models of Alphabet, ...

This report compares the assessment of nine European countries of five cross-border risks: An electricity supply shortage, a nuclear accident, a pandemic, severe space weather, and a volcanic outbreak. Even though the selected countries have correlated risk profiles for these hazards, the report finds some significant differences in their likelihood and impact estimations. For example, for a severe nuclear accident scenario the likelihood ...