“I wanted the algorithm to make all the features important to radiologists degrade at the same rate - both the edges of large tumors and the smallest calcium deposits. I tried several approaches and eventually got a balance that seemed reasonable, based on what radiologists tell me they want.”
Bradley J. Lucier
“Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me”
Walt Whitman
“The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.”
William Blake
“Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?”
Patrick Henry
“The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest”
Henry David Thoreau
“I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.”
Christopher Hampton
“Color is made to obscure the brightest endowments, to degrade the fairest character, and to check the highest and most praiseworthy aspirations.”
Charles Lenox Remond
