This paper presents a methodology based on automatic knowledge discovery that aims to identify and predict the possible causes that makes a patient to be considered of high cost. The experiments were conducted in two ...
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Sensor networks are being used in several emerging applications not even imagined some years ago due to advances in sensing, computing, and communication techniques. However, these advances also pose various challenge...
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Background. Tuberculosis (TB) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. In Armenia, case reports of active TB increased from 590 to 1538 between 1990 and 2003. However, the TB case detection rate in Arm...
Searches on patents to determine prior art violations are often cumbersome and require extensive manpower to accomplish successfully. When time is constrained, an automatically generated list of candidate patents may ...
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(纸本)9781605588094
Searches on patents to determine prior art violations are often cumbersome and require extensive manpower to accomplish successfully. When time is constrained, an automatically generated list of candidate patents may decrease search costs and improve search efficiency. We examine whether semantic relations inferred from the pseudo-hierarchy of patent classifications can contribute to the recognition of related patents. We examine a similarity measure for hierarchically-ordered patent classes and subclasses and return a ranked list of candidate patents, using a similarity measure that has demonstrated its effectiveness when applied to WordNet ontologies. We then demonstrate that this ranked list of candidate patents allows us to better constrain the effort needed to examine for prior art violations on a target patent. Copyright 2009 ACM.
This work aims at investigating the influence of luminance information and environment illumination on skin classification. We explore Bayesian approaches to perform automatic classification of human skin pixels on di...
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This work aims at investigating the influence of luminance information and environment illumination on skin classification. We explore Bayesian approaches to perform automatic classification of human skin pixels on digital images, using color features as input. Two probabilistic skin color models were built on different color spaces (RGB, normalized RG, HSI, HS, YCbCr and CbCr) and tested in a task of automatic pixel classification into skin and non-skin. Analyses of classification performance were done by presenting an illumination controlled image database containing images acquired in four different illumination conditions (shadow, sun, incandescent and fluorescent lights) to these classifiers. Our experiments show that building probabilistic skin color models using the CbCr color space generally improves performance of the classifiers and that best performance is achieved in shadow illumination.
We developed a home automated telemanagement (HAT) system for the computer-guided management of patients with ulcerative colitis to monitor symptoms, medication compliance, weight changes, and quality of life, while e...
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We developed a home automated telemanagement (HAT) system for the computer-guided management of patients with ulcerative colitis to monitor symptoms, medication compliance, weight changes, and quality of life, while educating the patients on their disease. The system runs on a laptop computer connected to a phone line and a digital scale placed in the patientpsilas home. The system questions the patient on their condition, monitors their weight, and provides the patient with feedback on suggested management techniques. Their medication regimen and suggested actions are determined by their physician and integrated in to the system, keeping a personalized approach to disease management while taking advantage of the technology available. This low-cost telemanagement system has been successfully introduced to optimize the care of patients with ulcerative colitis.
This work describes a study of strategies for classification of characters extracted from vehicle plate images. We propose to make use of support vector machines, as well as strategies for building multiclassifiers fr...
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This work describes a study of strategies for classification of characters extracted from vehicle plate images. We propose to make use of support vector machines, as well as strategies for building multiclassifiers from this model. The proposed strategies are based on the well-known one-against-all approach and, beyond multiclassifier building, they have as main idea the mapping of the outputs of the binary classifiers that constitutes the multiclassifier. We describe the tests of applying the proposed strategies to the cited problem and expose results that show a significant performance improvement.
The last few years have seen considerable interest in the wireless networking research community in analyzing the connectivity of wireless ad-hoc networks formed by a set of nodes distributed in a two dimensional plan...
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(纸本)9781424458707
The last few years have seen considerable interest in the wireless networking research community in analyzing the connectivity of wireless ad-hoc networks formed by a set of nodes distributed in a two dimensional plane (deployment area) with a (i) uniform probability density function and (ii) uniform transmission range. Although several important and interesting results are known in this domain, most of the connectivity studies consider a fault-free scenario where all nodes are available for network formation and do not consider failures among nodes caused by one reason or another. In very few studies where faults are considered, they are usually considered to be random in nature, i.e., the probability of a node failing is independent of its location in the deployment area. However, such fault scenario is inadequate to capture many realistic situations where the faulty nodes are spatially correlated. This is particularly true in combat environment where an enemy bomb can destroy a subset of nodes confined to a region. In this paper we investigate the impact of region-based faults on the connectivity of wireless networks. Through analysis and simulation, we provide results relating the probability of a network being connected as transmission range and the size of fault-region are varied. If d min (G) denotes the minimum node degree of the network, we provide the analytical expression for P(d min (G) ¿ k), which represents the probability of the minimum node degree being at least k, for k = 1. Moreover, we compute P(¿(G) ¿ k), where ¿(G) represents the connectivity of the graph G formed by the distribution of nodes in the deployment area and examine the relationship between P(d min (G) ¿ k) and P(¿(G) ¿ k) when k = 1.
The development of graphical argument models is an active and growing area of research in Artificial Intelligence and Law. The aim is to develop models which may be readily used by legal professionals and novices to p...
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(纸本)9781605585970
The development of graphical argument models is an active and growing area of research in Artificial Intelligence and Law. The aim is to develop models which may be readily used by legal professionals and novices to produce and parse arguments. If this goal is to be realized it is important to develop models that human reasoners can manipulate and assess consistently. We report on an ongoing study of graph agreement in the context of the LARGO system. Copyright 2009 ACM.
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