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The paper focuses on the development of an autonomous disinfection robot UltraBot to reduce COVID-19 transmission along with other harmful bacteria and viruses. The motivation behind the research is to develop such a robot that is capable…

The process of hand washing, according to the WHO, is divided into stages with clearly defined two handed dynamic gestures. In this paper, videos of hand washing experts are segmented and analyzed with the goal of extracting their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Rashmi Bakshi , Jane Courtney , Damon Berry , Graham Gavin

Safe and effective preventive vaccines have the potential to help stem the HIV epidemic. The efficacy of such vaccines is typically measured in randomized, double-blind phase IIb/III trials and described as a reduction in newly acquired HIV…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-10-10 Yutong Jin , Alex Luedtke , Zoe Moodie , Holly Janes , David Benkeser

To asses the advantages of a computerized surveillance system to detect Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI). All HAI reported to the Timis County branch of the Romanian National Health Insurance and the Public Health Authority during the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2009-03-06 Leonard Mada

In this paper, we demonstrate the ability to recognize hand gestures in a non-contact, wireless fashion using only incoherent light signals reflected from a human subject. Fundamentally distinguished from radar, lidar and camera-based…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-17 Li Yu , Hisham Abuella , Md Zobaer Islam , John F. O'Hara , Christopher Crick , Sabit Ekin

Breast cancer is a health problem that affects mainly the female population. An early detection increases the chances of effective treatment, improving the prognosis of the disease. In this regard, computational tools have been proposed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Steve Tsham Mpinda Ataky , Alessandro Lameiras Koerich

Exposure to intense illumination light is an unavoidable consequence of fluorescence microscopy, and poses a risk to the health of the sample in every live-cell fluorescence microscopy experiment. Furthermore, the possible side-effects of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-24 David Richmond , Anna Payne-Tobin Jost , Talley Lambert , Jennifer Waters , Hunter Elliott

Identification of plant disease is usually done through visual inspection or during laboratory examination which causes delays resulting in yield loss by the time identification is complete. On the other hand, complex deep learning models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Nisar Ahmed , Hafiz Muhammad Shahzad Asif , Gulshan Saleem

This paper presents a smartphone-based imaging system capable of quantifying the concentration of an assortment of biological/chemical assay samples. The main objective is to construct an image database which characterizes the relationship…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-17 Zhendong Cao , Hongji Dai , Zhida Li , Ash Parameswaran

Manual estimation of fetal Head Circumference (HC) from Ultrasound (US) is a key biometric for monitoring the healthy development of fetuses. Unfortunately, such measurements are subject to large inter-observer variability, resulting in low…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-08 Samuel Budd , Matthew Sinclair , Bishesh Khanal , Jacqueline Matthew , David Lloyd , Alberto Gomez , Nicolas Toussaint , Emma Robinson , Bernhard Kainz

High-throughput screening (HTS) using model organisms is a promising method to identify a small number of genes or drugs potentially relevant to human biology or disease. In HTS experiments, robots and computers do a significant portion of…

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Long-term object detection requires the integration of frame-based results over several seconds. For non-deformable objects, long-term detection is often addressed using object detection followed by video tracking. Unfortunately, tracking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Sravani Teeparthi , Venkatesh Jatla , Marios S. Pattichis , Sylvia Celedon Pattichis , Carlos LopezLeiva

People often interact with their surroundings by applying pressure with their hands. While hand pressure can be measured by placing pressure sensors between the hand and the environment, doing so can alter contact mechanics, interfere with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Patrick Grady , Chengcheng Tang , Samarth Brahmbhatt , Christopher D. Twigg , Chengde Wan , James Hays , Charles C. Kemp

Health issues and pandemics remain paramount concerns in the contemporary era. Clostridioides Difficile Infection (CDI) stands out as a critical healthcare-associated infection with global implications. Effectively understanding the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Sina Abdidizaji , Ali Khodabandeh Yalabadi , Mehdi Yazdani-Jahromi , Ozlem Ozmen Garibay , Ivan Garibay

Digital forensic is now an unavoidable part for securing the digital world from identity theft. Higher order of crimes, dealing with a massive database is really very challenging problem for any intelligent system. Biometric is a better…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Asish Bera , Debotosh Bhattacharjee , Mita Nasipuri

This paper presents a new method for detecting and classifying a predefined set of hand gestures using a single transmitter and a single receiver utilizing a linearly frequency modulated ultrasonic signal. Gestures are identified based on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-10-25 Mohammed H. AlSharif , Mohamed Saad , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri

The growing global elderly population is expected to increase the prevalence of frailty, posing significant challenges to healthcare systems. Frailty, a syndrome associated with ageing, is characterised by progressive health decline,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Eugenio Lomurno , Simone Toffoli , Davide Di Febbo , Matteo Matteucci , Francesca Lunardini , Simona Ferrante

Obtaining labels for medical (image) data requires scarce and expensive experts. Moreover, due to ambiguous symptoms, single images rarely suffice to correctly diagnose a medical condition. Instead, it often requires to take additional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-05 Diana Davletshina , Valentyn Melnychuk , Viet Tran , Hitansh Singla , Max Berrendorf , Evgeniy Faerman , Michael Fromm , Matthias Schubert

Longitudinal cohorts to determine the incidence of HIV infection are logistically challenging, so researchers have sought alternative strategies. Recency test methods use biomarker profiles of HIV-infected subjects in a cross-sectional…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-01-13 Fei Gao , Marlena S. Bannick

Harmful algae blooms (HABs), which produce lethal toxins, are a growing global concern since they negatively affect the quality of drinking water and have major negative impact on wildlife, the fishing industry, as well as tourism and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-04 Jason L. Deglint , Chao Jin , Angela Chao , Alexander Wong