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Chapter and Conference Paper
Hierarchical Expert Profiling Using Heterogeneous Information Networks
Linking an expert to his knowledge areas is still a challenging research problem. The task is usually divided into two steps: identifying the knowledge areas/topics in the text corpus and assign them to the ex...
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Article
Analysis of Fire Hazard in Campsite Areas
The most common location for campsites is in forested or arborous areas. Given the regular use of combustible material by campers and the frequent use of campfires to cook, campsites become areas with a high p...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Adaptive Filtering Techniques for Improving Hyperspectral Image Classification
Hyperspectral imaging sensors have been used to collect data for various applications, such as medicine, physics, archaeology, remote sensing, astronomy, geosciences, surveillance, among others. This work inve...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Speech Features for Discriminating Stress Using Branch and Bound Wrapper Search
Stress detection from speech is a less explored field than Automatic Emotion Recognition and it is still not clear which features are better stress discriminants. The project VOCE aims at doing speech classifi...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
InVesalius: An Interactive Rendering Framework for Health Care Support
This work presents InVesalius, an open-source software for analysis and visualization of medical images. The tool has supported several surgeries in hospitals and has been downloaded from more than a hundred c...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Modeling of a Virtual Open Platform for Human Cranium Simulation
To prevent, detect and treat trauma brain injuries (TBI) one must understand them and know how they occur. With the integration of biomechanical and clinical theories, as well as research cases, a new era of c...
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Chapter
Segmentation of Carotid Ultrasound Images
This chapter surveys methodologies for the segmentation of carotid ultrasound images and describes a method for the semiautomatic detection of the lumen–intima and the media–adventitia interfaces of the near a...
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Chapter
A Modified LGMD Based Neural Network for Automatic Collision Detection
Robotic collision detection is a complex task that requires both real time data acquisition and important features extraction from a captured image. In order to accomplish this task, the algorithms used need t...
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Article
Interfacial rheology of coextruded elastomeric and amorphous glass thermoplastic polyurethanes
In this work, we report on the sensitivity of rheometrical techniques to the nature and size of the interface/interphase in coextruded thermoplastic urethanes (TPUs). In particular, the interphases developed d...
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Automatic segmentation of carotid B-mode images using fuzzy classification
This paper presents a new method for the automatic segmentation of the common carotid artery in B-mode images. This method uses the instantaneous coefficient of variation edge detector, fuzzy classification of...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Efficient Self-Localization and Data Gathering Architecture for Wireless Sensor Networks
Plenty of proposed architectures for effective data gathering in WSN rely on the smart location awareness sensors andoptimize justthedata gathering processes. However, application of the several protocols to c...
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Article
Rheomechanical and morphological study of compatibilized PP/EVOH blends
In order to find the relationships between processibility and properties of the polypropylene/ethylene vinyl alcohol copolymer (PP/EVOH) blends, their rheological behavior, in both shear and extensional flows,...
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Article
Open AccessA novel asynchronous access method with binary interfaces
Traditionally synchronous access strategies require users to comply with one or more time constraints in order to communicate intent with a binary human-machine interface (e.g., mechanical, gestural or neural ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Joint Detection of the Carotid Boundaries in Longitudinal B-Mode Images
This paper proposes a new approach for the automatic segmentation of the carotid adventitia in longitudinal B-scans, with and without the presence of plaque. The top and bottom adventitia contours are jointly ...
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Article
Rheological behavior of compatibilized and non-compatibilized PA6/EPM blends
The rheological properties of PA-6/EPM polymer blends, non-compatibilized and compatibilized with grafted ethylene propylene rubber (EPM-g-MA), have been investigated. Linear and non-linear (relaxation both in...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Theory of Asynchronous Control with Low Information Capacity Interfaces
Low information capacity interfaces (LICIs) such as binary switches, often become the only means by which people with disabilities can interact with their assistive devices. Although numerous studies have been...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Collaborative Legal Framework For Certified Enforcement With ITSIbus ALPR
This paper discusses a collaborative framework for the legal certification of toll enforcement on motorways operated by Brisa Auto-Estradas de Portugal, based on the Advanced License Plate Recognition (ALPR) s...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Segmentation of Ultrasonic Images of the Carotid
A new algorithm for an effective and automatic segmentation of the carotid wall in ultrasonic images is proposed. It combines the speed of thresholding algorithms with the accuracy, flexibility and robustness ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Computergestützte Auswertung von Protein-Interaktions-Screens
Das „Two-Hybrid“-System ist eine genetische Methode für die Detektion von Protein-Protein-Interaktionen. Dabei werden z. B. Matrizen mit 384 Feldern manuell auf wachsende Hefekolonien untersucht und die Ergebn...
