With the outbreak of the COVID-19, remote diagnosis, patient monitoring, collection, and transmission of data from electronic devices is rapidly taking share in the health sector. These devices are however limited on ...
With the outbreak of the COVID-19, remote diagnosis, patient monitoring, collection, and transmission of data from electronic devices is rapidly taking share in the health sector. These devices are however limited on resources like energy, memory and processing power. Consequently, it is highly relevant to investigate minimizing the data, keeping intact the information content. The objective of this study is to thus observe the impact of pixel, intensity, & temporal resolution on automated scoring of LUS data. First, 448 videos from 20 patients were normalized to a common pixel resolution, i.e., the largest found over the dataset (841 pixels/cm2). Next, pixel and intensity resolution were further reduced by down-sampling factor of 2,3, and 4, and by quantization factor of 2,4, and 8 respectively. Furthermore, number of frames were down-sampled as a function of time by factor of 1 to 10 with step-size of 1. Resampled, quantized, and temporally reduced videos were evaluated using the DL algorithm (doi: 10.1109/TMI.2020.2994459) and frame, video, and prognostic-level results were obtained. It was found that no significant change in the prognostic results is observed when the data is reduced by 32 times to its original size and by 10 times to the original number of frames.
Autonomous vehicles were experiencing rapid development in the past few years. However, achieving full autonomy is not a trivial task, due to the nature of the complex and dynamic driving environment. Therefore, auton...
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The present work highlights the application of finite element method to conjugate heat and mass in porous annulus. transfer Finite element discretization of double diffusion in porous medium having fixed in annular ge...
The present work highlights the application of finite element method to conjugate heat and mass in porous annulus. transfer Finite element discretization of double diffusion in porous medium having fixed in annular geometry is presented. The simplest of the two dimensional elements i.e. triangular element is made use of to divide the geometry of problem under investigation into a set of smaller segments. Galerkin method is applied to convert the equations that govern double diffusion in porous medium into a set of algebraic equations. The application of FEM results into 3 equation for each element which is then assembled into a global matrix to get the solution. There are three equations which results into three set of simultaneous equations in the form of global matrix. The formulation is discussed with respect to the solution methodology to be followed.
This erratum applies to the paper “Power Matching to Pulsed Inductively Coupled Plasmas.”1 In this paper, we discussed power deposition in continuous wave and p
This erratum applies to the paper “Power Matching to Pulsed Inductively Coupled Plasmas.”1 In this paper, we discussed power deposition in continuous wave and p
The papers in this special section address distributed signal processing applications that support security and privacy in networked cyber-physical systems. Networked cyber-physical systems (CPSs) are engineering syst...
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In this paper, image stitching strategy is proposed to prepare a virtual slide image of the sample of activated sludge obtained from the wastewater treatment plant. The bright-field microscopic images have inherent pr...
In this paper, image stitching strategy is proposed to prepare a virtual slide image of the sample of activated sludge obtained from the wastewater treatment plant. The bright-field microscopic images have inherent problem of vignetting and less contrast, which result into failed image registration by conventional methods. Our method involves illumination correction, image segmentation, image registration and finally, image stitching. First, flat-field correction method is applied to all the acquired field of views (FOVs) to balance the illumination on each FOV. In the second step, adaptive thresholding method is employed to segment all the acquired FOVs to convert into binary images. This step is meant to increase the accuracy of finding the overlapping region during image registration. Then, phase correlation is used to find the overlapping region between images in horizontal direction during image stitching for each row of the microscopy slide, and in vertical direction subsequently for image stitching between the rows. The proposed method has been compared with the state-of-the-art algorithms using subjective inspection, and no reference evaluation indices of entropy and clarity. From the evaluation, we had observed that the proposed method performs better.
Mind controlled gaming for the Differently Abled aims to open up the arena of gaming entertainment to those that has special needs. The project is modelled in such a way that it facilitates playing games without the n...
Mind controlled gaming for the Differently Abled aims to open up the arena of gaming entertainment to those that has special needs. The project is modelled in such a way that it facilitates playing games without the need for physical interaction with the game itself such as operating a keyboard. The project uses the capability of the human brain to facilitate this kind of physical interaction less gaming. It uses the principle of Electroencephalography, an electrophysiological observing technique to record electrical movement of the brain. We utilize noninvasive situation of electrodes along the scalp. EEG estimates voltage variances coming about because of ionic current inside the neurons of the brain which are then mapped to certain activities that can be performed within the games.
The wearable devices are gaining its popularity in recent years. This paper presents the performances of our smart shoes as a wearable biomedical device in capturing the heartbeat signal from dorsalis pedis. Generally...
The wearable devices are gaining its popularity in recent years. This paper presents the performances of our smart shoes as a wearable biomedical device in capturing the heartbeat signal from dorsalis pedis. Generally, the heartbeat measured from an artery was located on the chest, hand, fingertip, and ear or neck. Even though the pulse from dorsalis pedis has a smaller amplitude compared to the other artery location, the integrated sensor on our smart shoes can capture the signal with high precision. The experiment was conducted several times to three groups of healthy participants; they were kid, mature, and elder. The results show that the smart shoe sensor could measure the dorsalis pedis pulse and has a maximum error rate of 11.76% compared to the digital tensimeter. Unlike the standard measurement and other commercial devices, our device gives a small gap in RMS error, which is acceptable for clinical needs.
This paper presents a practical and accurate Doppler estimator for signals propagating in underwater acoustic (UWA) channels. Estimation is performed with relatively short shift-orthogonal pilot sequences due to their...
This paper presents a practical and accurate Doppler estimator for signals propagating in underwater acoustic (UWA) channels. Estimation is performed with relatively short shift-orthogonal pilot sequences due to their correlation properties. Pilot bursts are OFDM (orthogonal frequency division multiplexing). The receiver performs Doppler estimation by cross-correlating the received signal with the known pilot signal, resulting in a Doppler phase estimate from which the Mach number is determined in real-time. The estimator operates at the sample rate of the signal, which yields a Mach number estimate every sample. Therefore, instantaneous changes in the Mach number are known, thereby allowing the tracking of Doppler effects in dynamic channels. A design criterion for the estimator’s validity is derived, which relates bandwidth, carrier frequency and sequence length with Mach number. A MATLAB Simulink model of the estimator is presented. The results show its performance in synthetic channels that simulate relative motion between transmitter and receiver. The Cramer-Rao lower bound (CRLB) analysis shows the estimator achieving a variance below 10 -4 for SNRs above 20 dB. This is a near-optimal estimator. Additionally, compared to other estimators, the computational complexity is considerably lower and the range of valid Mach numbers that it can address is higher.
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