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Keratoconus (KC) is a corneal disorder that results in blurry and distorted vision. Traditional diagnostic tools, while effective, are often bulky, costly, and require professional operation. In this paper, we present a portable and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-21 Yifan Li , Peter Ho , Jo Woon Chong

Objective: The automatic discrimination between the coughing sounds produced by patients with tuberculosis (TB) and those produced by patients with other lung ailments. Approach: We present experiments based on a dataset of 1358 forced…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Madhurananda Pahar , Marisa Klopper , Byron Reeve , Grant Theron , Rob Warren , Thomas Niesler

Pedestrian attribute recognition (PAR) aims to predict the attributes of a target pedestrian in a surveillance system. Existing methods address the PAR problem by training a multi-label classifier with predefined attribute classes. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Yue Zhang , Suchen Wang , Shichao Kan , Zhenyu Weng , Yigang Cen , Yap-peng Tan

Ranging by Time of Arrival (TOA) of Narrow-band ultrasound (NBU) has been widely used by many locating systems for its characteristics of low cost and high accuracy. However, because it is hard to support code division multiple access in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-12-19 Lei Song , Yongcai Wang

Classification of cognitive workload promises immense benefit in diverse areas ranging from driver safety to augmenting human capability through closed loop brain computer interface. The brain is the most metabolically active organ in the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-07 Harry J. Davies , Ian Williams , Ghena Hammour , Metin Yarici , Barry M. Seemungal , Danilo P. Mandic

Purpose: Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) operative difficulty (LCOD) is highly variable and influences outcomes. Despite extensive LC studies in surgical workflow analysis, limited efforts explore LCOD using intraoperative video data.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Saurav Sharma , Maria Vannucci , Leonardo Pestana Legori , Mario Scaglia , Giovanni Guglielmo Laracca , Didier Mutter , Sergio Alfieri , Pietro Mascagni , Nicolas Padoy

Cardiac ultrasound (US) scanning is a commonly used techniques in cardiology to diagnose the health of the heart and its proper functioning. Therefore, it is necessary to consider ways to automate these tasks and assist medical…

Many typical applications of object detection operate within a prescribed false-positive range. In this situation the performance of a detector should be assessed on the basis of the area under the ROC curve over that range, rather than…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-30 Sakrapee Paisitkriangkrai , Chunhua Shen , Anton van den Hengel

Several centimeters below the skin lie multiple biomarkers, such as glucose, oxygenation, and blood flow. Monitoring these biomarkers regularly and in a non-invasive manner would enable early insight into metabolic status and vascular…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-10-30 Talia Xu , Caitlin Smith , Charles Lo , Jami Shepherd , Gijs van Soest , Marco Zuniga

To contain the spread of the virus and stop the overcrowding of hospitalized patients, the coronavirus pandemic crippled healthcare facilities, mandating lockdowns and promoting remote work. As a result, telehealth has become increasingly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Abdullah Bin Shams , Md. Mohsin Sarker Raihan , Md. Mohi Uddin Khan , Ocean Monjur , Rahat Bin Preo

Researchers have been battling with the question of how we can identify Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases efficiently, affordably and at scale. Recent work has shown how audio based approaches, which collect respiratory audio data…

Research into the visual cortex and general neural information processing has led to various attempts to integrate pulse computation schemes in image analysis systems. Of interest is especially the robustness of representing an analogue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-08-12 C. Mayr , R. Schüffny

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis and primarily affects the lungs, as well as other body parts. TB is spread through the air when an infected person coughs, sneezes, or talks.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-04 George P. Kafentzis , Stephane Tetsing , Joe Brew , Lola Jover , Mindaugas Galvosas , Carlos Chaccour , Peter M. Small

This paper presents a dictionary learning-based method with region-specific image patches to maximize the utility of the powerful sparse data processing technique for CT image reconstruction. Considering heterogeneous distributions of image…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-10-26 Qiong Xu , Jeff Wang , Hiroki Shirato , Lei Xing

The aim of this paper was the detection of pathologies through respiratory sounds. The ICBHI (International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics) Benchmark was used. This dataset is composed of 920 sounds of which 810 are of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-07 María Teresa García-Ordás , José Alberto Benítez-Andrades , Isaías García-Rodríguez , Carmen Benavides , Héctor Alaiz-Moretón

MOPEX (MOsaicking and Point source EXtraction) is a package developed at the Spitzer Science Center for astronomical image processing. We report on the point source extraction capabilities of MOPEX. Point source extraction is implemented as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 David Makovoz , Francine R. Marleau

In recent years, significant advances have been made in exoplanet and brown dwarf observations. By using state-of-the-art models, astronomers can determine properties of their atmospheres, such as temperatures, the presence of clouds, or…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-27 Sam de Regt , Siddharth Gandhi , Louis Siebenaler , Darío González Picos

We present a mock catalogue for the Physics of the Accelerating Universe Survey (PAUS) and use it to quantify the competitiveness of the narrow band imaging for measuring spectral features and galaxy clustering. The mock agrees with…

Three-dimensional (3D) medical image enhancement, including denoising and super-resolution, is critical for clinical diagnosis in CT, PET, and MRI. Although diffusion models have shown remarkable success in 2D medical imaging, scaling them…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Hongxu Jiang , Fei Li , Boxiao Yu , Ying Zhang , Kaleb Smith , Kuang Gong , Wei Shao

In this paper, we present SonoSAMTrack - that combines a promptable foundational model for segmenting objects of interest on ultrasound images called SonoSAM, with a state-of-the art contour tracking model to propagate segmentations on 2D+t…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-17 Hariharan Ravishankar , Rohan Patil , Vikram Melapudi , Harsh Suthar , Stephan Anzengruber , Parminder Bhatia , Kass-Hout Taha , Pavan Annangi