Few Finns play the bowed lyre, or jouhikko, an instrument whose roots stretch back thousands of years. For Tytti Metsä, its breath-like, singing tone has become the centre of her musical expression.

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Here we present our wining solution and its improvement for MICCAI 2017 Robotic Instrument Segmentation Sub-Challenge. In this work, we describe our winning solution for MICCAI 2017 Endoscopic Vision ...

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