An important challenge in segmenting real-world biomedical imaging data is the presence of multiple disease processes within individual subjects. Most adults above age 60 exhibit a variable degree of small vessel ischemic disease, as well as chronic infarcts, which will manifest as white matter hyperintensities (WMH) on brain MRIs. Subjects diagnosed with gliomas will also […]

As philosophers, linguists, and psychologists have long recognized, representing possibilities is central to mental life. Modal concepts (possible, necessary, impossible) are fundamental to moral reasoning (e.g., in distinctions between permissible, impermissible, and obligatory) and in formal mathematics and logic (e.g., where deductive necessity is the relation between axiomatic primitives and the conclusions licensed by derivational […]

Sometimes we accept propositions, sometimes we reject them, and sometimes we take propositions to be worth considering but not yet established, as merely possible. The result is a complex representation with logical structure. Is the ability to mark propositions as merely possible part of our innate representational toolbox or does it await development, perhaps relying […]