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Development of a Modular Real-time Shared-control System for a Smart Wheelchair
In this paper, we propose a modular navigation system that can be mounted on a regular powered wheelchair to assist disabled children and the elderly with autonomous mobility and shared-control features. The l...
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Open AccessEvaluation of a novel MRI-safe needle guidance toolkit for streamlined arthrography procedures
Currently, Magnetic Resonance arthrography procedures require two rooms and two imaging modalities: fluoroscopically guided needle insertion in a fluoroscopy suite, followed by diagnostic MRI in a separate MRI...
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Toward Robust Partial-Image Based Template Matching Techniques for MRI-Guided Interventions
We have developed an MRI-safe needle guidance toolkit for MRI-guided interventions intended to enable accurate positioning for needle-based procedures. The toolkit allows intuitive and accurate needle angulati...
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Rapid Quality Assessment of Nonrigid Image Registration Based on Supervised Learning
When preprocedural images are overlaid on intraprocedural images, interventional procedures benefit in that more structures are revealed in intraprocedural imaging. However, image artifacts, respiratory motion...
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Multi-scale Curvature-Based Robust Hashing for Vector Model Retrieval and Authentication
In vector model application fields (such as high-capacity, high-precision GIS vector map**, and CAD drawings), security technologies for authentication and retrieval have recently become necessary. In this p...
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Reversible DNA data hiding using multiple difference expansions for DNA authentication and storage
Recently the data hiding techniques on DNA sequence have attracted interest for DNA authentication and high-capacity DNA storage. However, since DNA sequence represents the primary information that directs the...
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A crypto-marking method for secure vector map
A crypto-marking technique can be used to provide a solution to the secure transmission and storage of highly valuable and detailed vector maps. Such a solution would fulfill the requirements for integrity ver...
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A hybrid method based on dynamic compensatory fuzzy neural network algorithm for face recognition
Human face recognition skills can make simultaneous use of a variety of information from the face, including information about the age, sex, race, identity, and even current mood of the person. In this paper, ...