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Abstract: Discovery of the Unicist Ontology of Health

January 29, 2015 in B) Lifesciences / The Unicist Research Institute / Unicist Cobots tagged Conceptual Life Sciences / Peter Belohlavek / The Unicist Research Institute / Unicist Evolutionary Approach / Unicist Healthcare Confederation / Unicist Ontology of Health by Unicist Press Committee

The research on the unicist ontology of health, which began in 2001, was focused on finding the essential structure of health that allows understanding the multiple medical specialties and medical approaches that deal with “the art of healing”. This research was developed at The Unicist Research Institute and was led by Peter Belohlavek.

Paradoxically, it could be finished after the ontological structures of healthcare were discovered. This research integrated health and medical approaches in a “unified field”. The previous researches that sustained this discovery were:

-The Unified Field of Healthcare
-Homology between Concepts and Stem Cells
-The Ontogenetic Intelligence of Nature
-The Fallacy of Organs and Chronic Diseases
-The Unicist Structure of Viruses
-The Ontogenetic Map of Chronic Diseases
-The Ontogenetic Map of Addictions
-The Ontogenetic Map of Stress
-The Ontogenetic Map of Cures
-The Ontogenetic Map of Immune Systems
-The Ontogenetic Map of Therapeutics
-The Ontogenetic Map of Diseases

Health can be defined as the integration of organic functionality, psychic functionality and the functionality of the inner energy flow.

The organic functionality is defined by the functionality of organs which, working as complex adaptive systems, can only be measured based on the consequences of their function. Organic functionality also includes the functionality of inner systems, although they cannot be considered as organs (e.g: the immune system). The fallacy of organs functionality is a proof of the limits of the possibilities of organic functionality.
http://www.unicist.org/healthcare/unicist-ontology-of-health-the-fallacies-of-organs/

The psychic functionality is defined by the functionality of the instinctive, spiritual and psychological processes whether they are conscious or unconscious that allow individuals to adapt to the environment. The psychic functionality deals with the interpersonal and intrapersonal adaptive processes and with the meaning of life.

The energy-flow functionality can only be measured by the consequences of its lack of functionality. It implies that the human being considered as a system flows internally in a harmonic way. This allows individuals to live and adapt to the environment.

Fostering health requires ensuring that the psychic functionality, which is the active function of health, maintains and does not hinder the energy flow that sustains the functionality of organs. Fostering health requires stimulating a meaningful life where the interpersonal and intrapersonal adaptation conflicts can be managed.

Unicist Press Committee

NOTE: The Unicist Research Institute was the pioneer in using the unicist logical approach in complexity science research and became a private global decentralized leading research organization in the field of human adaptive systems. It has an academic arm and a business arm.
https://www.unicist.org/healthcare/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/turi.pdf

Adaptive clinical trials: An upgrade and energy saving methodology

October 27, 2014 in D) Research / The Unicist Research Institute / Unicist Cobots tagged Adaptive clinical trials / Complexity Sciences / Peter Belohlavek / The Unicist Research Institute / Unicist Evolutionary Approach by Unicist Press Committee

The discovery of the unicist ontological structure of complex systems developed at The Unicist Research Institute provided the final input to develop a methodology for adaptive clinical trials. The unicist ontology of health that was discovered provided the basic background for this methodology: http://goo.gl/Ruwsr3

This approach is based on the integration of aspects of traditional clinical trials, the concept of the “learn and confirm” standard and the unicist approach to complexity sciences.

This approach is based on the use of destructive tests, which are a special kind of falsification test (Karl Popper), to sustain the Phase I and Phase II clinical trials.

The objective of destructive tests is to confirm the limits of the functionality that is being tested.

They are necessary in the previous research work but their application in these phases allows providing a safe input to develop the following phases. Destructive tests are based on universal experimenting and on the knowledge of the conceptual foundations of what is being researched.

Phase III and IV are approaches that use non destructive tests that are analogous to the traditional clinical trials but with the inclusion of a quality assurance process that triggers a “learning” process when predefined limits are exceeded.

The “learn & confirm” methodology introduced at Wyeth changed the paradigms of clinical trials and introduced a conceptual simplification in the R&D processes that could not expand massively because of the non-evident economic benefits of this technology.

The unicist approach to adaptive clinical trials is an approach based on the complexity science research methodology developed at The Unicist Research Institute that simplified the discovery-learn-confirm method introduced by Wyeth and provides a secure approach to life-sciences.

A research consortium, coordinated by Peter Belohlavek, is being organized to develop this solution in real application fields. It is expected that this methodology becomes a standard within the next two years based on the shortening of the R&D processes and the saving of up to 50% of the costs.

Learn more about “What are complexity sciences” at:
http://www.unicist.org/repo/#Unicist

Unicist Press Committee

Logical Management Tools: Unicist Reflection for Problem Solving

August 14, 2014 in The Unicist Research Institute / Unicist Binary Actions / Unicist Cobots tagged Complex Problem Solving / Logical Management Tools / Peter Belohlavek / The Unicist Research Institute / Unicist Evolutionary Approach / Unicist Logical Approach / Unicist Reflection by Diego Belohlavek

Unicist reflection is an approach to complex human adaptive systems to understand their nature, define the possibilities to influence them, apprehend the algorithms that allow exerting influence and generate added value.

Unicist reflection has no relationship with other introspective approaches like religious introspection, transcendent meditation, yoga or other technologies that have been developed for different purposes.

Unicist Reflection has been developed to deal with complex human adaptive systems, such as businesses, to develop scenarios, diagnoses and strategies to achieve possible results.

Reflection covers five stages before reaching the environment adaptation and the influence upon it.

1) It reflects outside
Projecting the prejudices we have onto reality.
2) It reflects inside
Introjecting the reality elements we try to exert some influence upon.
3) The outside vanishes
Focusing on the reality we try to exert some influence upon.
4) The inside vanishes
Making the specific reality universal.
5) All is one

The “reflecting outside” stage deals with the projection of our own preconceptions and implies comparing them with the reality facts or with other people’s preconceptions.

Reality is introjected to be able to influence the environment. The aim is to develop a strategy which allows influencing while being influenced.

Once we are in peace with the environment we start to focus on the influence we try to exert.

When we have developed a diagnosis, it has a universal implicit character. This means that it responds to universal elements. This allows transferring the knowledge to other homologous fields and originates the conceptual “benchmarking”.

When this level is reached, we will comprehend the universality of concepts.

The Unicist Reflection process can be synthesized in the following steps:

0 – Focus on the solution
1 – Dealing with projections
– Destructive pilot tests
2 – Dealing with Introjections
– Non-destructive – Destructive pilot tests
3 – Dealing with integration
– Non-destructive pilot tests
4 – Dealing with communion
– Results validation
5 – Dealing with the unified field

A Unicist Reflection process implies leaving behind the labyrinth of one’s opinions and operational shortcuts. It requires knowledge, courage and humbleness.

Learn more about the Logical Management Tools at:
http://www.unicist.net/management-tools.php

Diego Belohlavek

Unicist Ontology of Health: The Fallacies of Organs

June 19, 2014 in B) Lifesciences / The Unicist Research Institute / Unicist Cobots tagged Adaptive systems / The Fallacies of Organs / The Unicist Research Institute / Unicist Evolutionary Approach / Unicist Healthcare Confederation / Unicist Ontology of Health by Peter Belohlavek

The unicist ontology of fallacies and a particular case of the fallacies of organs will be introduced following a synthetic description on the fallacious behavior of the kidneys and its consequences in the human body.The case of the fallacious behavior of kidneys will be presented as an example for its consequences in the human body.

The fallacies of organs are either movement or inaction fallacies. They are natural responses when the survival of the object-organ is being threatened by the “system” that pretend to ensure the survival of the organ in spite of the consequences on the whole body.

The synthetic description of the case of kidney fallacies will provide the understanding of how the fallacious behavior occurs.

Fallacy of Kidney’s Behavior

The kidney generates fallacious responses when it is threatened by dysfunctional blood flow. The kidney decides to survive itself in spite of the consequences on the organism.

Pre renal kidney failure is caused by conditions or substances that interfere with blood flow to the kidneys. Conditions that may leave the kidneys with insufficient blood flow or blood supply include:

Low blood pressure: Low blood pressure can be caused by severe bleeding, infection, dehydration, or shock.

Reduced blood flow: Reduced blood flow to the kidney can be caused by a weak heart, heart attack, or congestive heart failure.

Low blood volume: Low blood volume can be caused by severe dehydration and an excessive loss of fluid, which decreases the volume of blood and the amount of blood available to the kidneys.

High blood pressure makes the heart work harder and, over time, can damage blood vessels throughout the body. If the blood vessels in the kidneys are damaged, they may stop removing wastes and extra fluid from the body. The extra fluid in the blood vessels may then raise blood pressure even more. It’s a dangerous cycle.

High blood pressure is one of the leading causes of kidney failure, also called end-stage renal disease (ESRD). People with kidney failure must either receive a kidney transplant or have regular blood-cleansing treatments called dialysis. Every year, high blood pressure causes more than 25,000 new cases of kidney failure in the United States.

The fallacies of the kidney drive to chronic diseases or to destroying the organism and dying with it.

Conclusion

One of the consequences of systematic fallacious behavior is the generation of chronic dysfunctions of the organ. If the problem of blood pressure is not equilibrated, the kidney will tend to change its functionality which will hinder the fulfillment of its purpose.

Peter Belohlavek

The Organization of Patient Centered Management R&D Groups

January 23, 2014 in The Unicist Research Institute / Unicist Binary Actions / Unicist Cobots tagged Adaptive Automation / Healthcare R&D Groups / Patient Centered Management / R&D Groups / Research and Development / The Unicist Research Institute / Unicist Evolutionary Approach by The Unicist Research Institute

We are installing Patient Centered Management in Healthcare Organizations. This implies a re-launching of the applied research activities of The Unicist Research Institute that will be developed as in-company research groups or outsourced activities. The organization of these groups will be adapted to the legal regulations of each country.

To request more information please contact: n.i.brown@unicist.org

Applied Research Committee

Our best wishes for 2014: Happy New Year!

December 30, 2013 in The Unicist Research Institute / Unicist Cobots / Unicist Functional Design tagged The Unicist Research Institute / Unicist Confederation / Unicist Corporate University / Unicist Evolutionary Approach by The Unicist Research Institute

“Cooperation in Diversity” is much more than our motto. It is a way of living.

Make your wishes come true.
Have a happy New Year!

The Unicist Research Institute

The Unicist Double Dialectical Logic to deal with Complexity

November 3, 2013 in D) Research / E) Complexity in Healthcare / The Unicist Research Institute / Unicist Cobots tagged Complex Adaptive Systems / Complexity Sciences / The Unicist Research Institute / Unicist Corporate University / Unicist Double Dialectical Logic / Unicist Evolutionary Approach / Unicist Healthcare Confederation / Unicist Logical Approach by Peter Belohlavek

Complexity in Businesses

It is necessary to define complexity in the field of business. It needs to be understood to develop and use adaptive systems:

When you have to add 1 + 1 the problem is simple; 1 + 1 = 2. There is only one possible solution and all you have to do is follow a method.

But the problem becomes complex if you reverse the equation (2 = ???) because you need to produce a result. In this case there are infinite solutions and the problem is complex because you have to find the equation that optimizes the process of producing results. That is why using methods is simple but ensuring results is complex.

We define a complex system as an open system, which defines the functionality of a unified field through the conjunction of objects and/or subsystems.

Complexity Science Organizations

There are three main organizations in the world that are fully focused on complexity science and its application in the field of human complex adaptive systems.

We strongly recommend comparing their approaches to choose the one that is functional to your needs. We suggest beginning by accessing their institutional page to apprehend the concept of adaptiveness they manage:

Santa Fe Institute – Empirical approaches
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Santa-Fe-Institute/125124501057

New England Complex Systems Institute – Empirical approaches
https://www.facebook.com/pages/New-England-Complex-Systems-Institute/112297818808432

The Unicist Research Institute – A unicist logical approach (based on a pragmatic, structuralist and functionalist framework)
https://www.facebook.com/unicist

Dealing with Businesses as Complex Adaptive Systems

Businesses are typical adaptive systems. Businesses need to adapt to the environment in order to achieve their goals.

The Unicist Logical Approach allows emulating the dynamics of a business in mind that allows managing it as an adaptive system. Thus this approach permits defining reliable scenarios, develop diagnoses, build strategies and design business architectures.

The more adaptive a system is, the less energy it consumes to generate a predefined value. Adaptive systems require using predictors to deal with the adaptive aspects of the reality that is being managed. This requires using a unicist logical approach to define the rules that regulate adaptiveness and allow designing the architecture of the system.

Designing adaptive systems implies dealing with the complexity of such systems and developing operational solutions that can be managed by everyone to expand businesses and save energy. Complexity science can be defined as the scientific approach to complex adaptive systems.

The Unicist Logical Approach to Complexity Sciences

Learn about the Unicist Logical Approach at: http://www.unicist.net/clipboard

The unicist logical approach manages the adaptive aspects of business as unified fields based on the knowledge of their ontogenetic maps.

The knowledge of the ontogenetic map of a business, its market and the context allowed managing the fundamentals that define the possibilities of business actions.

The future scenario building became possible based on the knowledge of the ontology of evolution and the ontogenetic maps of a business and its restricted and wide contexts.

This knowledge allowed defining synergic maximal strategies, to expand beyond the boundaries of a business, and minimum strategies to work within them.

Adaptive business processes became reliable based on the use of ontology based business objects. The use of objects upgraded the role of human work in business.

The integration of fundamental analysis and technical analysis allowed building reliable business knowledge, transforming uncertainty into risk and integrating the knowledge of the possibilities of success with its probabilities.

All the solutions, business objects, technologies and knowledge provided by The Unicist Research Institute are based on the unicist logical approach and generate significant energy saving effects.

Steps to Manage Businesses as Adaptive Systems:

Forecast the future of the adaptive system that is being influenced.
Diagnose adaptive systems to define the possibilities of what can be achieved and how to do it.
Develop the necessary strategies that allow developing both maximal strategies to expand the boundaries of the system and minimum strategies to ensure survival.
Design the architecture of the solution in order to obtain the results that are necessary and possible to be achieved.

This requires having a conceptual approach to apprehend the unified field of the business and being able to transform adaptive aspects into operational solutions.

The Unicist Healthcare Confederation is now expanding worldwide providing unicist object driven technologies to deal with the adaptive aspects of businesses. www.health.unicist.net

Peter Belohlavek

NOTE: The Unicist Research Institute was the pioneer in complexity science research and became a private global decentralized leading research organization in the field of human adaptive systems.
https://www.unicist.org/healthcare/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/turi.pdf

Adaptive EHR: simplifying medical practice as a complex system

October 3, 2013 in D) Research / E) Complexity in Healthcare / The Unicist Research Institute / Unicist Binary Actions / Unicist Cobots tagged Adaptive systems / B) Conceptual Life Sciences / Diana Belohlavek / Diego Belohlavek / E) Complexity in Healthcare / Healthcare Cybernetics / Medical Cybernetics / The Unicist Research Institute / Unicist Evolutionary Approach by Peter Belohlavek

We would like to introduce adaptive EMR/EHR as a way to materialize Patient Centered Management as a solution to sustain the upgrade introduced in Healthcare in the US.

This implies dealing with predictive interfaces transforming operational EMR/EHR into adaptive systems. We would like to discuss with colleagues the possibility of introducing these alternatives considering medicine as the most complex professional field.

Please access the approach to complexity: “Applying Complexity Science to Health and Healthcare” of the University of Minnesota:
http://goo.gl/C3pcb9

and the Unicist Logical Approach to complexity you can find at:
www.unicist.net/clipboard/

The basics of medicine are patient centered. That is why the regulation of the activity focusing on patients is just a back to basics. Patient Centered Management is an object driven solution to structure patient orientation.

Electronic Patient Records are the paradigmatic sign of this approach. Electronic Healthcare records are their natural complement in order to include the aspects that deal with the diseases that are being considered.

Electronic Medical Records, being focused on medical activity, allow putting this patient orientation into action. The EMR are the natural step to start with a structured patient orientation.

The debate I suggest is about alternatives to simplify complexity in medical practice with people who might be interested in this approach.

Peter Belohlavek

NOTE: The Unicist Research Institute was the pioneer in complexity science research and became a private global decentralized leading research organization in the field of human adaptive systems. https://www.unicist.org/healthcare/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/turi.pdf

Unicist Education: Dealing with enterprises as adaptive systems

October 1, 2013 in The Unicist Research Institute / Unicist Cobots tagged Adaptive systems / Teaching Hospitals / The Unicist Research Institute / Unicist Corporate University / Unicist Education / Unicist Evolutionary Approach / Unicist Healthcare Confederation / Unicist Logical Approach by Peter Belohlavek

The unicist logical approach allowed managing the adaptive aspects of businesses by using unicist logical tools and business objects. This approach provides cross-cultural solutions based on the researches made at The Unicist Research Institute. To access the basics that sustain unicist education please access:
www.unicist.org/sdp.shtml

Complex adaptive aspects of businesses need to be learned in their dynamics which implies that they need to be learned making real applications based on the knowledge of their dynamic structure.

This is analogous to medical residencies in teaching hospitals where graduated physicians learn to manage a specialty. It has to be considered that medicine is a paradigmatic case of complexity:
http://www.massgeneral.org/education/

The Future Scenario: Static vs. Dynamic Learning Processes

The superior education in business management provided an empirical operational and analytical framework for business management that upgraded professionalism in the XXth century.

The static empirical model that permitted administrating businesses provided the knowledge that allowed developing the necessary information technology that became redundant with the superior educational programs. Simultaneously, the explosive R&D capacity to release new products shortened their lifecycle.

These two situations, the redundancy of operational an analytical knowledge and the acceleration of business processes, made the static empirical approach to business become functional to business operation but dysfunctional to business management.

This scenario opened new demands for superior education in businesses that are still unsatisfied.
http://www.unicistinstitute.net/blog/the-10-year-scenario-for-superior-education-in-business/

The Next Step: “teaching hospitals” in the business field

Unicist education is based on learning processes that are analogous to “teaching hospitals” based on real complex problem solving. The unicist educational model is a postgraduate model that deals with the learning of logical tools and business objects. You can access a white paper at:
www.unicist.org/deb_wpue.php

It requires having the necessary technical-analytical knowledge learned in graduate or undergraduate programs.

It requires the learning of:

1) The building of future scenarios

2) Diagnosing businesses

3) Developing Unicist Strategies

4) Building Business Architectures

The difference between the Unicist Education and the Professional Education can be synthesized in:

Aspect	Unicist Education	Professional Education
Educational Framework	Teaching Hospital / Clinics	Workshops / Seminars / Courses
Educational Model	Complex Problem Solving	Systemic Problem Solving
Learning Approach	Action-Reflection-Action	Theory-Practice
Problem Solving Approach	Results Driven	Tasks Driven
Future Forecasting	Logical Inferences / Delphi Groups	Projections / Delphi Groups
Knowledge	Logical & Empirical Approach	Empirical Approach
Type of Tools	Unicist Logical Tools	Operational-analytical tools
Business Planning	Strategic approach	Analytic approach
Dominant type of Analysis	Fundamental Analysis	Technical Analysis
Risk Management	Ambiguity	Certainty
Business Processes	Adaptive Systems	Operational Systems

Educational Alternatives

We propose you compare the differences between unicist education and professional education by accessing the information on the unicist logical approach and the approaches to cross-cultural businesses of four major Global MBAs (2 in the USA and 2 in the EU).

We recommend beginning with the social communication of the different proposals.

1) Harvard Business School
https://www.facebook.com/HarvardBusinessSchool

2) Stanford Graduate School of Business
https://www.facebook.com/StanfordGSB

3) London Business School
https://www.facebook.com/LondonBusinessSchool

4) Insead – The Business School for the World
https://www.facebook.com/insead

5) Unicist Corporate University – The Unicist Research Institute
https://www.facebook.com/unicist

What is the Unicist Logical Approach to Businesses?

Learn about the Unicist Logical Approach at: http://www.unicist.net/clipboard

The unicist logical approach manages the adaptive aspects of business as unified fields based on the knowledge of their ontogenetic maps.

Unicist Active Business Library

The knowledge of the ontogenetic map of a business, its market and the context allowed managing the fundamentals that define the possibilities of business actions.

The future scenario building became possible based on the knowledge of the ontology of evolution and the ontogenetic maps of a business and its restricted and wide contexts.

This knowledge allowed defining synergic maximal strategies, to expand beyond the boundaries of a business, and minimum strategies to work within them.

Adaptive business processes became reliable based on the use of ontology based business objects. The use of objects upgraded the role of human work in business.

The integration of fundamental analysis and technical analysis allowed building reliable business knowledge, transforming uncertainty into risk and integrating the knowledge of the possibilities of success with its probabilities.

All the solutions, business objects, technologies and knowledge provided by The Unicist Research Institute are based on the unicist logical approach and generate significant energy saving effects.

You can find the Unicist Active Library at:
http://www.unicist.com

Teaching Hospitals in Business

The Unicist Corporate University (UCU) is the academic arm of The Unicist Research Institute that is organized as a Teaching Hospital that develops business residencies. It is based on technologies that allow building cross-cultural strategies: http://www.unicist.org/sdp.shtml#cc

The UCU is now expanding worldwide installing In-company Corporate Universities to provide the unicist technologies to deal with the adaptive aspects of businesses.

Peter Belohlavek

What is the Unicist Approach to Healthcare Businesses?

July 2, 2013 in E) Complexity in Healthcare / The Unicist Research Institute / Unicist Binary Actions / Unicist Cobots tagged B) Conceptual Life Sciences / E) Complexity in Healthcare / Health IT / Healthcare Businesses / Healthcare Cybernetics / Medical Cybernetics / Peter Belohlavek / The Unicist Research Institute / Unicist Corporate University / Unicist Evolutionary Approach / Unicist Healthcare Confederation / Unicist quality assurance by Unicist Press Committee

The discovery of the unicist ontogenetic intelligence of nature allowed defining the triadic structure that regulates any entity. It included the discovery of the complementation and supplementation laws.

These discoveries established the groundings to develop the unicist double dialectical logic that underlies all systems in nature.

The use of the double dialectical logic made the emulation of the organization of nature possible, developing objects to install into human adaptive systems to make them faster, safer and reliable.

The unicist double dialectical approach to medicine allowed (*):

1) Defining and managing diagnoses as adaptive systems and transforming them into medical objects integrating the triadic structure of cures, fundamental diagnoses and technical-analytical diagnoses.

2) Managing therapeutics as a complex adaptive system, integrating the triadic structure defined by cures, palliatives and recovery.

3) Managing the triadic structure of Health IT integrating software, hardware and peopleware.

4) Integrating the triadic structure of electronic records for medical practice, integrating EMR, HER and EPR.

5) Managing drugs as medical objects integrating their functionality with the adverse effects and the positive side effects.

6) Managing the triadic structure of patient centered management integrating the patient, medical practice and management.

7) Installing the Object Driven Organization Metamodel to materialize the Patient Centered Management.

8) Developing a unicist scorecard to monitor the metrics of the medical business activities.

(*) A condition to manage the unicist approach is to go beyond the use of dualistic logic and use the double dialectical logic in order to be able to emulate dynamic processes in mind. It implies leaving behind the use of the disjunction “or” substituting it by the use of the functional conjunction “and”.

Healthcare: the use of Unicist Adaptive IT Architectures

Adaptive IT solutions are systems that have been designed to interact with the external and internal environment. Nowadays, there are multiple programming solutions available to sustain the unicist adaptive architecture. The solutions include aspect objects architecture with unicist logical inferences to manage adaptiveness.

The evolution of Information Technologies allowed integrating the adaptive aspects of business management in the operational systems of hospitals.

The integration of the unicist logical approach and the resulting business objects included in the business processes within an adaptive IT environment allows driving business processes to the next level.

To be able to organize by objects it is necessary to use both adaptive and administrative systems to organize the work processes. This widened the possibilities of hospitals to expand the boundaries of their activities within an environment of assured quality.

There are four levels of adaptiveness that can be managed:

1) Analogical drivers

This level is based on the recognition of the significant behavioral patterns of the segments of patients.

2) Rules based drivers

This level is based on the use of analogical patterns and the logical rules defined by the fundamentals that influence the processes.

3) Empirical drivers

This level is based on the previous level and the integration of mathematical models to infer behavior based on the observable aspects of the fundamentals of the processes.

4) Objects based drivers

This level is based on the previous level plus the use of medical objects that work as interdependent drivers to influence the attitude of patients. The feedback is defined by the results produced by these objects.

The level of adaptiveness varies according to the needs of the system. Adaptiveness is based on the medical, therapeutics and disease segmentation.

Unicist Press Committee