Segmentation of medical images has been one of the most important research areas because of its impact in modeling and diagnosing the structure and the functions of various organs. The lack of unique solution for the segmentation problem of medical images is caused by the wide range of selections among different medical imaging modalities and clustering methods where each setting has its own estimates for solving this problem. The unistable method is a novel method that generates enhanced images with high contrast, which can reduce boundary overlap between different tissues. This is accomplished by fusion of different clustering maps, which are generated from selected medical images using some clustering methods. The improved unistable images are somehow universal, where all estimates of different regular segmentation settings are considered in the solution, and they are relatively stable, because results of their segmentation are proved to be relatively independent of clustering method.

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Human disease data is a cornerstone of biomedical research for diseases' classification and recommended treatments so; there is a significant need for a standardized representation of human diseases and an efficient algorithm for retrieving information from it. The Semantic Doctor Assistant (SDA) has been designed to help doctors to find proper information about a specific disease using semantic web technology rather than other simple keyword-based search. A preliminary usability study has been done to evaluate the system by measuring user's satisfaction through a statistical analysis of surveys. This study would measure the relevance of the information retrieved for each search query and how the system is important in the field of medicine and how it will help academic doctors in their research and non-academic doctors in their work.