The expression levels of rod opsin and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) capture important structural changes in the retina during injury and recovery. Quantitatively measuring these expression levels in confocal...
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The expression levels of rod opsin and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) capture important structural changes in the retina during injury and recovery. Quantitatively measuring these expression levels in confocal micrographs requires identifying the retinal layer boundaries and spatially corresponding the layers across different images. In this paper, a method to segment the retinal layers using a parametric active contour model is presented. Then spatially aligned expression levels across different images are determined by thresholding the solution to a Dirichlet boundary value problem. Our analysis provides quantitative metrics of retinal restructuring that are needed for improving retinal therapies after injury.
This paper describes the control of an autonomous biped robot that uses the Support Vector Regression (SVR) method for its longitudinal balance. This SVR uses the Zero Moment Point (ZMP) position and its variation as ...
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This paper describes the control of an autonomous biped robot that uses the Support Vector Regression (SVR) method for its longitudinal balance. This SVR uses the Zero Moment Point (ZMP) position and its variation as input and the longitudinal correction of the robot's body is obtained as the output. The SVR was trained based on simulation data that was confirmed with the real robot. This method showed to be faster (with similar accuracy) than a recurrent network or a neuro-fuzzy control of the biped balance.
The aim of this paper is to present an on-line technique which can be used to determine the equivalent circuit of the storage elements of DC-DC converters at their operating frequency. This technique can be used not o...
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The aim of this paper is to present an on-line technique which can be used to determine the equivalent circuit of the storage elements of DC-DC converters at their operating frequency. This technique can be used not only for the determination of both inductor and capacitor equivalent circuits, but also as a fault diagnostic technique, in order to evaluate the state condition of these components. The proposed technique uses the spectral analysis in order to obtain the relation between inductor current and voltage, and between inductor current and output voltage ripple. From these relationships, it is possible to determine the equivalent circuit of the inductor and capacitors at the operating frequency of the converter. In this paper, several experimental and simulated results are presented in order to demonstrate the accuracy of the proposed method.
This paper provides a strategy for perimeter protection using sensor networks with hardware and analytical redundancy. The sensor network reliability is augmented using a knowledge-based system, which implicates the a...
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This paper provides a strategy for perimeter protection using sensor networks with hardware and analytical redundancy. The sensor network reliability is augmented using a knowledge-based system, which implicates the analysis of the trustworthiness of each sensor. For this, we used two stratagems: one that relies on hardware redundancy based on the Confidence Weighted Voting Algorithm and one that relies on analytical redundancy based on a neural perceptron predictor that uses past and present values obtained from neighbouring nodes. This solution can be also a way to discover the malfunctioning nodes that were subjects of an attack and it is localized at the base station level being suitable even for large-scale sensor networks.
HMMER, based on the profile Hidden Markov Model (HMM) is one of the most widely used sequence database searching tools, allowing researchers to compare HMMs to sequence databases or sequences to HMM databases. Such se...
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This paper presents a recurrent fuzzy-neural filter that performs the task of separation of lung sounds, obtained from patients with pulmonary pathology. The filter is a pipelined Takagi-Sugeno-Kang recurrent fuzzy ne...
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This paper presents a recurrent fuzzy-neural filter that performs the task of separation of lung sounds, obtained from patients with pulmonary pathology. The filter is a pipelined Takagi-Sugeno-Kang recurrent fuzzy network, consisting of a number of modules interconnected in a cascaded form. The participating modules are implemented through recurrent fuzzy neural networks with internal dynamics. The structure of the modules is evolved sequentially from input-output data. Extensive experimental results, regarding the lung sound category of crackles, are given, and a performance comparison with a series of other fuzzy and neural filters is conducted, underlining the separation capabilities of the proposed filter.
The aim of this paper is to present a fault simulation technique that could help engineers to study the consequences of faults in the output filter of a switch mode power supply. To do so, in this paper, it is present...
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Scopira facilitates the development of high-performance applications by providing many useful subsystems, flexible and efficient data models, low-level tools such as memory management and serialization, GUI constructs...
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The aim of this paper is to present an on-line technique which can be used to determine the equivalent circuit of the storage elements of DC-DC converters at their operating frequency. This technique can be used not o...
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In this paper, a method suitable for partial matching between 3D objects is presented. The 3D objects are firstly segmented into meaningful parts extending a method which is based on the medial surface of the objects....
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In this paper, a method suitable for partial matching between 3D objects is presented. The 3D objects are firstly segmented into meaningful parts extending a method which is based on the medial surface of the objects. Then, geometric features are extracted for each part using the spherical trace transform. The extracted features are combined and their covariance matrix is computed as a descriptor of each part. The contribution of the proposed approach is that a meaningful segmentation of 3D objects based on medial surface is achieved and that partial matching is performed on meaningful parts, in a rotation, translation and scaling invariant manner. The experimental results performed, proved that the proposed approach achieves accurate partial matching results in terms of distinct meaningful parts as well as satisfactory overall accuracy.
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