The Semiotics of Medical Image Segmentation

The notion of the computer as a blind symbol-processing engine is under-prepared to describe the complexity of modern computational systems and tasks. The idea that any communication with a computer must be symbolic (thus limiting the tool-set used to investigate it) by virtue of the computer's processor operating, on the lowest level, upon zeros and ones is philosophically naive and denies the flexibility of modern input and output methods (both physical and abstract) and their suitability for particular interfaces.

Source: Medical Image Analysis - November 20, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: John SH Baxter, Eli Gibson, Roy Eagleson, Terry M. Peters Source Type: research