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    Improved artificial intelligence discrimination of minor histological populations by supplementing with color-adjusted images

    Despite the dedicated research of artificial intelligence (AI) for pathological images, the construction of AI applicable to histopathological tissue subtypes, is limited by insufficient dataset collection owi...

    Satomi Hatta, Yoshihito Ichiuji, Shingo Mabu, Mauricio Kugler in Scientific Reports (2023)

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    Signals, sensors and methods for controlling active upper limb orthotic devices: a comprehensive review

    Active orthotic devices are potential assets to improve the effectivity of rehabilitation practices for motor disabilities. However, the development of these devices still presents some challenges, namely the ...

    Leonardo Teixeira dos Santos, Maurício Kugler in Research on Biomedical Engineering (2023)

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    Construction of Multi-Resolution Model of Pancreas Tumor

    In this section, a method for constructing a multi-resolution model of pancreas tumor is described. The model is constructed from MR images of a KPC mouse that has a pancreatic tumor and a set of microscopic p...

    Hidekata Hontani, Tomoshige Shimomura in Multidisciplinary Computational Anatomy (2022)

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    Robust 3D image reconstruction of pancreatic cancer tumors from histopathological images with different stains and its quantitative performance evaluation

    Histopathological imaging is widely used for the analysis and diagnosis of multiple diseases. Several methods have been proposed for the 3D reconstruction of pathological images, captured from thin sections of...

    Mauricio Kugler, Yushi Goto, Yuki Tamura in International Journal of Computer Assisted… (2019)

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    Accurate 3D Reconstruction of a Whole Pancreatic Cancer Tumor from Pathology Images with Different Stains

    When applied to 3D image reconstruction, conventional landmark-based registration methods tend to generate unnatural vertical structures due to inconsistencies between the employed model and the real tissue. T...

    Mauricio Kugler, Yushi Goto, Naoki Kawamura in Computational Pathology and Ophthalmic Med… (2018)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    Testing Predictive Properties of Efficient Coding Models with Synthetic Signals Modulated in Frequency

    Testing the accuracy of theoretical models requires a priori knowledge of the structural and functional levels of biological systems organization. This task involves a computational complexity, where a certain le...

    Fausto Lucena, Mauricio Kugler, Allan Kardec Barros in Neural Information Processing (2011)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    A Novel Approach for Sound Approaching Detection

    The detection of approaching vehicles is a very important topic on the development of complementary traffic safety systems. However, the majority of the proposed approaches are very complex and not suitable fo...

    Hirofumi Tsuzuki, Mauricio Kugler in Neural Information Processing. Models and … (2010)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    A Multiple Sound Source Recognition System Using Pulsed Neuron Model with Short Term Synaptic Depression

    Many applications would emerge from the development of artificial systems able to accurately localize and identify sound sources. However, one of the main difficulties of such kind of system is the natural pre...

    Kaname Iwasa, Mauricio Kugler in Neural Information Processing. Theory and … (2010)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    A Novel Approach for Hardware Based Sound Localization

    Sound localization is an important ability intrinsic to animals, being currently explored by several researches. Even though several systems and implementations have being proposed, the majority is very comple...

    Mauricio Kugler, Takanobu Hishida in Artificial Neural Networks – ICANN 2010 (2010)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    A Back-Propagation Training Method for Multilayer Pulsed Neural Networks Using Principle of Duality

    Pulsed Neuron (PN) model was proposed as one of the simplest models working by pulse trains. PN model has a membrane potential to deal with the temporal information, and the calculation process is inexpensive....

    Kaname Iwasa, Mauricio Kugler in Advances in Neuro-Information Processing (2009)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    A Novel Approach for Hardware Based Sound Classification

    Several applications would emerge from the development of efficient and robust sound classification systems able to identify the nature of non-speech sound sources. This paper proposes a novel approach that co...

    Mauricio Kugler in Advances in Neuro-Information Processing (2009)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    The Detection of an Approaching Sound Source Using Pulsed Neural Network

    Current automobiles’ safety systems based on video cameras and movement sensors fail when objects are out of the line of sight. This paper proposes a system based on pulsed neural networks able to detect if a ...

    Kaname Iwasa, Takeshi Fujisumi, Mauricio Kugler in Neural Information Processing (2008)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    A Complete Hardware Implementation of an Integrated Sound Localization and Classification System Based on Spiking Neural Networks

    Several applications would emerge from the development of artificial systems able to accurately localize and identify sound sources. This paper proposes an integrated sound localization and classification syst...

    Mauricio Kugler, Kaname Iwasa in Neural Information Processing (2008)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    Separation and Recognition of Multiple Sound Source Using Pulsed Neuron Model

    Many applications would emerge from the development of artificial systems able to accurately localize and identify sound sources. However, one of the main difficulties of such kind of system is the natural pre...

    Kaname Iwasa, Hideaki Inoue, Mauricio Kugler in Artificial Neural Networks – ICANN 2007 (2007)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    A New Approach for Applying Support Vector Machines in Multiclass Problems Using Class Grou**s and Truth Tables

    The Support Vector Machines (SVMs) had been showing a high capability of complex hyperplane representation and great generalization power. These characteristics lead to the development of more compact and less...

    Mauricio Kugler, Hiroshi Matsuo, Akira Iwata in PRICAI 2004: Trends in Artificial Intellig… (2004)