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Open AccessFocalize K-NN: an imputation algorithm for time series datasets
The effective use of time series data is crucial in business decision-making. Temporal data reveals temporal trends and patterns, enabling decision-makers to make informed decisions and prevent potential probl...
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Open AccessTime series big data: a survey on data stream frameworks, analysis and algorithms
Big data has a substantial role nowadays, and its importance has significantly increased over the last decade. Big data’s biggest advantages are providing knowledge, supporting the decision-making process, and...
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Time Series Imputation in Faulty Systems
Time series data has a crucial role in business. It reveals temporal trends and patterns, making it possible for decision-makers to make informed decisions and mitigate problems even before they happen. The ex...
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Clustering ECG Time Series for the Quantification of Physiological Reactions to Emotional Stimuli
Emotion recognition systems aim to develop tools that help in the identification of our emotions, which are related to learning, decision-making and treatment and diagnosis in mental health contexts. The resea...
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In Vitro, In Vivo, and Ex Vivo Models to Study Mixed Bacterial and Fungal Biofilms
Biofilms are the most common form of microbial life, representing a large community of microorganisms (single or multispecies). These microbial complex organizations are known to rouse several problems in both...
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A Preliminary Study on Electrocardiogram Response During Pain Induction
Pain is a complex phenomenon that arises from the interaction of multiple neuroanatomic and neurochemical systems with several cognitive and affective processes. Nowadays, the assessment of pain intensity stil...
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Characterization of Emotions Through Facial Electromyogram Signals
Emotions are a high interesting subject for the development of areas such as health and education. As a result, methods that allow their understanding, characterization, and classification have been under the ...
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Exploring Alterations in Electrocardiogram During the Postoperative Pain
The assessment of postoperative pain after a surgical procedure is a critical step to guarantee a suitable analgesic control of pain, and currently, it is based on the self-reports of the patients. However, th...
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Using Bus Tracking Data to Detect Potential Hazard Driving Zones
Urban mobility studies are critical to acquiring insights about traffic management, urban mobility evolution, planning of urban spaces, and many other applications. However, the study and mitigation of recurre...
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Heartbeat Selection Based on Outlier Removal
The relevance of the Electrocardiogram (ECG) in clinical settings as well as in biometric identification systems prompted the necessity to develop automatic methodologies to remove irregular and noisy heartbea...
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An Information-Theoretical Method for Emotion Classification
Identifying the emotion that someone is feeling will allow to improve the experience of the person interaction with environments, devices, and contents. Our body responds to events around us, by emotional res...
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Enabling Multimodal Emotionally-Aware Ecosystems Through a W3C-Aligned Generic Interaction Modality
Emotions play a key role in our life experiences. In interactive systems, the user’s emotional state can be relevant to provide increased levels of adaptation to the user, but can also be paramount in scenari...
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Compression-Based Classification of ECG Using First-Order Derivatives
Due to its characteristics, there is a trend in biometrics to use the ECG signal for personal identification. There are different applications for this, namely, adapting entertainment systems to personal setti...
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Treatment of lupus erythematosus of the eyelids with pulsed dye laser
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BeMonitored: Monitoring psychophysiology and behavior using Android in phobias
It is of the utmost importance that researchers can recreate, as accurately as possible, real-life conditions in psychological studies. However, that is not always possible. Given that phobias are rather conte...
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New Insights in Echocardiography Based Left-Ventricle Dynamics Assessment
Cardiovascular diseases affect a high percentage of people worldwide, being currently a major clinical concern. Echocardiograms are useful exams that allow monitoring the heart dynamics. However, their analysi...
