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Chapter and Conference Paper
Revisiting Blockhain Use in Notary Services: An European Perspective
Notary services have long been identified as a recurrent example for dematerialisation through blockchain adoption, but has failed to become a world wide reality. The key issue being the distinct legal framewo...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
OTARIOS: OpTimizing Author Ranking with Insiders/Outsiders Subnetworks
Evaluating scientists based on their scientific production is often a controversial topic. Nevertheless, bibliometrics and algorithmic approaches can assist traditional peer review in numerous tasks, such as a...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Deep Learning Approaches for Gynaecological Ultrasound Image Segmentation: A Radio-Frequency vs B-mode Comparison
Ovarian cancer is one of the pathologies with t...
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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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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
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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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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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 ...