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  • Labeler-hot Detection of EEG Epileptic Transients

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    - Rok 2019

    Preventing early progression of epilepsy and sothe severity of seizures requires effective diagnosis. Epileptictransients indicate the ability to develop seizures but humansoverlook such brief events in an electroencephalogram (EEG)what compromises patient treatment. Traditionally, trainingof the EEG event detection algorithms has relied on groundtruth labels, obtained from the consensus...

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  • Face with Mask Detection in Thermal Images Using Deep Neural Networks

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    As the interest in facial detection grows, especially during a pandemic, solutions are sought that will be effective and bring more benefits. This is the case with the use of thermal imaging, which is resistant to environmental factors and makes it possible, for example, to determine the temperature based on the detected face, which brings new perspectives and opportunities to use such an approach for health control purposes. The...

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  • Optical fiber aptasensor for label-free bacteria detection in small volumes

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    - SENSORS AND ACTUATORS B-CHEMICAL - Rok 2021

    Highly sensitive devices for fast bacteria detection are sought to be developed with the task of quantifying the worldwide problem of pathogenic bacteria and thus helping to take control over spreading bacterial infections. This work concerns a sensing solution based on microcavity in-line Mach-Zehnder interferometer (μIMZI) induced in an optical fiber. Such a device exhibits ultrahigh sensitivity to refractive index changes...

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  • A Simple Neural Network for Collision Detection of Collaborative Robots

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    Due to the epidemic threat, more and more companies decide to automate their production lines. Given the lack of adequate security or space, in most cases, such companies cannot use classic production robots. The solution to this problem is the use of collaborative robots (cobots). However, the required equipment (force sensors) or alternative methods of detecting a threat to humans are usually quite expensive. The article presents...

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  • Visual Detection of People Movement Rules Violation in Crowded Indoor Scenes

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    The paper presents a camera-independent framework for detecting violations of two typical people movement rules that are in force in many public transit terminals: moving in the wrong direction or across designated lanes. Low-level image processing is based on object detection with Gaussian Mixture Models and employs Kalman filters with conflict resolving extensions for the object tracking. In order to allow an effective event...

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  • Robustness in Compressed Neural Networks for Object Detection

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    Model compression techniques allow to significantly reduce the computational cost associated with data processing by deep neural networks with only a minor decrease in average accuracy. Simultaneously, reducing the model size may have a large effect on noisy cases or objects belonging to less frequent classes. It is a crucial problem from the perspective of the models' safety, especially for object detection in the autonomous driving...

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  • Specific detection of Alternaria alternata by PCR and real-time PCR

    Fungi of Alternaria genus are cosmopolitan organisms, which spores can be found in the air, soil, water, clothing and food. They commonly occur as saprotrophs on the plant remains, contributing to the decomposition of organic matter. Additionally, they are components of the normal human and animal skin flora. Alternaria spp. are also known human allergens, causing hay fever and allergic reactions that can lead to the development...

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  • Detection of anomalies in bee colony using transitioning state and contrastive autoencoders

    Honeybees plays vital role for the environmental sustainability and overall agricultural economy. Assisting bee colonies within their proper functioning brings the attention of researchers around the world. Electronics systems and machine learning algorithms are being developed for classifying specific undesirable bee behaviors in order to alert about upcoming substantial losses. However, classifiers could be impaired when used...

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  • Piotr Szczuko dr hab. inż.

    Dr hab. inż. Piotr Szczuko w 2002 roku ukończył studia na Wydziale Elektroniki, Telekomunikacji i Informatyki Politechniki Gdańskiej zdobywając tytuł magistra inżyniera. Tematem pracy dyplomowej było badanie zjawisk jednoczesnej percepcji obrazu cyfrowego i dźwięku dookólnego. W roku 2008 obronił rozprawę doktorską zatytułowaną "Zastosowanie reguł rozmytych w komputerowej animacji postaci", za którą otrzymał nagrodę Prezesa Rady...

  • Objects classification based on their physical sizes for detection of events in camera images

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    In the paper, a method of estimation of the physical sizes of the objects tracked in the video surveillance system, and a simple module for object classification based on the estimated physical sizes, are presented. The results of object classification are then used for automatic detection of various types of events in the camera image.

  • Detection of immunological agent by optical fiber sensor: preliminary study

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    - Proceedings of SPIE - Rok 2017

    The objective of this study is the application of optical methods for detection of immunological agent concentration. As the agent we used the Cyclaid, produced by Apotex Inc. In this article we investigated different Cyclaid concentrations in water. We used a Fabry-Pérot interferometer working in a reflective mode, the measurements were performed with source with central wavelength λ = 1550 nm. The preliminary investigation have...

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  • Outlier detection method by using deep neural networks

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    - Rok 2017

    Detecting outliers in the data set is quite important for building effective predictive models. Consistent prediction can not be made through models created with data sets containing outliers, or robust models can not be created. In such cases, it may be possible to exclude observations that are determined to be outlier from the data set, or to assign less weight to these points of observation than to other points of observation....

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  • Automatic Detection of Nerves in Confocal Corneal Images with Orientation-Based Edge Merging

    The paper presents an algorithm for improving results of automatic nerve detections in confocal microscopy images of human corneal. The method is designed as a postprocessing step of regular detection. After the nerves are initially detected, the algorithms attempts to improve the results by filling unde-sired gaps between single nerves detections in order to correctly mark the entire nerve instead of only parts of it. This approach...

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  • Guided Wave Propagation in Detection of Partial Circumferential Debonding in Concrete Structures

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    - SENSORS - Rok 2019

    The following article presents results of investigating the damage detection in reinforced concrete beams with artificially introduced debonding between the rod and cover, using a non-destructive method based on elastic waves propagation. The primary aim of the research was to analyze the possible use of guided waves in partial circumferential debonding detection. Guided waves were excited and registered in reinforced concrete...

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  • Super-resolved Thermal Imagery for High-accuracy Facial Areas Detection and Analysis

    In this study, we evaluate various Convolutional Neural Networks based Super-Resolution (SR) models to improve facial areas detection in thermal images. In particular, we analyze the influence of selected spatiotemporal properties of thermal image sequences on detection accuracy. For this purpose, a thermal face database was acquired for 40 volunteers. Contrary to most of existing thermal databases of faces, we publish our dataset...

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  • Fluctuation-Enhanced Sensing for Biological Agent Detection and Identification

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    • L. B. Kish
    • H. Chang
    • C. Kwan
    • J. Jensen
    • G. Schmera
    • J. Smulko
    • Z. Gingl
    • C. G. Granqvist

    - IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NANOTECHNOLOGY - Rok 2011

    Przedstawiono wcześniejsze wyniki badań dotyczące trzech różnych sposobów wykrywania obecności substancji biologicznych za pomocą zjawisk fluktuacyjnych: 1) wirusów wnikających do komórek, 2) zapachów emitowanych przez mikroby, 3) rozkładu widma i wartości chwilowych szumów podczas rozpraszania światła używanego do wykrywania zarodników na podstawie wyznaczenia współczynnika dyfuzji opisująceo ich ruch.We survey and show our earlier...

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  • A Multi-Antenna Scheme for Early Detection and Mitigation of Intermediate GNSS Spoofing

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    - SENSORS - Rok 2019

    This article presents a method for detecting and mitigating intermediate GNSS spoofing. In this type of attack, at its early stage, a spoofer transmits counterfeit signals which have slight time offsets compared to true signals arriving from satellites. The anti-spoofing method proposed in this article fuses antenna array processing techniques with a multipath detection algorithm. The latter is necessary to separate highly correlated...

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  • Feature type and size selection for adaboost face detection algorithm

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    - Rok 2010

    The article presents different sets of Haar-like features defined for adaptive boosting (AdaBoost) algorithm for face detection. Apart from a simple set of pixel intensity differences between horizontally or vertically neighboring rectangles, the features based on rotated rectangles are considered. Additional parameter that limits the area on which the features are calculated is also introduced. The experiments carried out on...

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  • Experimental verification and comparison of mode shape-based damage detection methods

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    - Rok 2009

    This paper presents experimental verification and comparison of damage detection methods based on changes in mode shapes such as: mode shape curvature (MSC), modal assurance criterion (MAC), strain energy (SE), modified Laplacian operator (MLO), generalized fractal dimension (GFD) and Wavelet Transform (WT).

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  • Histogram of Gradients with Cell Average Intensity for Human Detection

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    - Rok 2015

    The modification of the descriptor in human detector using Histogram of Oriented Gradients and support vector machine is presented. The proposed modification requires inserting the average cell intensitiesresulting with the increase of the length of the descriptor from 3780 to 4200 values, but it is easy to compute and instantly gives 14-26% of miss rate improvement at 10^-4 False Positives Per Window (FPPW). The modification...

  • Detection of Face Position and Orientation Using Depth Data

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    In this paper an original approach is presented for real-time detection of user's face position and orientation based only on depth channel from a Microsoft Kinect sensor which can be used in facial analysis on scenes with poor lighting conditions where traditional algorithms based on optical channel may have failed. Thus the proposed approach can support, or even replace, algorithms based on optical channel or based on skeleton...

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  • Efficiency of gas mixtures detection by resistive gas sensors

    Publikacja

    - Rok 2014

    Resistive gas sensors are very popular and are commonly used to detect various gases and their mixtures. Theeir main disadvantage is very limited selectivity. Practical use of gas sensors in environenmental applications requires determination of concentration of a few mixed gases at the same time. We would like to present recent results of gas detection improvement by utilizing a single gas sensor and additional measurements to...

  • Optimal placement of IMU sensor for the detection of children activity

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    - Rok 2022

    In this paper an investigation to determine the optimal placement of IMU sensors for the purpose of children characteristic activity detection is presented. The article compares four different placement of two IMU sensors on human body. Ten healthy volunteers participated within the study. Data were collected firstly from two wireless 9-axial IMU sensors placed at the left and right wrists, then sensors were placed at lower back...

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  • Real-Time Bleeding Detection in Gastrointestinal Tract Endoscopic Examinations Video

    The article presents a novel approach to medical video data analysis and recognition of bleedings. Emphasis has been put on adapting pre-existing algorithms dedicated to the detection of bleedings for real-time usage in a medical doctor’s office during an endoscopic examination. A real-time system for analyzing endoscopic videos has been designed according to the most significant requirements of medical doctors. The main goal of...

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  • Gas Detection Using Resistive Gas Sensors And Radial Basis Function Neural Networks

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    - Rok 2016

    We present a use of Radial Basis Function (RBF) neural networks and Fluctuation Enhanced Sensing (FES) method in gas detection system utilizing a prototype resistive WO3 gas sensing layer with gold nanoparticles. We investigated accuracy of gas detection for three different preprocessing methods: no preprocessing, Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and wavelet transformation. Low frequency noise voltage observed in resistive gas...

  • Detection and Direction-of-Arrival Estimation of Weak Spread Spectrum Signals Received with Antenna Array

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    - Electronics - Rok 2021

    This paper presents a method for the joint detection and direction of arrival (DOA) estimation of low probability of detection (LPD) signals. The proposed approach is based on using the antenna array to receive spread-spectrum signals hidden below the noise floor. Array processing exploits the spatial correlation between phase-delayed copies of the signal and allows us to evaluate the parameter used to make the decision about the...

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  • Detection and Model of Thermal Traces Left after Aggressive Behavior of Laboratory Rodents

    Automation of complex social behavior analysis of experimental animals would allow for faster, more accurate and reliable research results in many biological, pharmacological, and medical fields. However, there are behaviors that are not only difficult to detect for the computer, but also for the human observer. Here, we present an analysis of the method for identifying aggressive behavior in thermal images by detecting traces...

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  • Sleep Apnea Detection by Means of Analyzing Electrocardiographic Signal

    Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a condition of cyclic, periodic ob-struction (stenosis) of the upper respiratory tract. OSA could be associated with serious cardiovascular problems, such as hypertension, arrhythmias, hearth failure or peripheral vascular disease. Understanding the way of connection between OSA and cardiovascular diseases is important to choose proper treatment strategy. In this paper, we present a method for integrated...

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  • EFFICIENCY OF GAS MIXTURES DETECTION BY RESISTIVE GAS SENSORS

    Publikacja

    - Rok 2014

    Resistive gas sensors are very popular and are commonly used to detect various gases and their mixtures. Their main disadvantage is very limited selectivity. Practical use of gas sensors in environmental applications (e.g., in sewage systems to protect workers, in air conditioning systems to monitor atmosphere quality) requires determination of concentration of a few mixed gases at the same time. We would like to present recent...

  • Letters detection in the photograph

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    - Rok 2008

    Urządzenie do lokalizacji i odczytu napisów z przeznaczeniem dla osób niewidomych może wykorzystywać standardowe systemy rozpoznawania znaków OCR (ang. Optical Character Recognition). Niestety ze względu na złożoność scen w terenie systemy takie nie potrafią analizować zdjęć bezpośrednio. Zdjęcia przed uruchomieniem systemu OCR wymagają przetworzenia polegającego na segmentacji i wyszukaniu segmentów podobnych do liter. Podejście...

  • Spectral Finite Element Method in Condition Monitoring and Damage Detection

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    It is well known that the dynamic behaviour of engineering structures may carry very important and crucial information that can be further used for the assessment of their condition as well as detection of any damage induced. The current interest in monitoring techniques based on the propagation of guided elastic waves requires that numerical techniques used for modelling the phenomena associated must shift into the realm of high...

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  • Detection of the Incoming Sound Direction Employing MEMS Microphones and the DSP

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    - Rok 2017

    A 3D acoustic vector sensor based on MEMS microphones and its application to road traffic monitoring is presented in the paper. The sensor is constructed from three pairs of digital MEMS microphones, mounted on the orthogonal axes. Signals obtained from the microphones are used to compute sound intensity vectors in each direction. With this data, it is possible to compute the horizontal and vertical angle of an incoming sound....

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  • Detection of Alzheimer's disease using Otsu thresholding with tunicate swarm algorithm and deep belief network

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    - Frontiers in Physiology - Rok 2024

    Introduction: Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is a degenerative brain disorder characterized by cognitive and memory dysfunctions. The early detection of AD is necessary to reduce the mortality rate through slowing down its progression. The prevention and detection of AD is the emerging research topic for many researchers. The structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging (sMRI) is an extensively used imaging technique in detection of AD, because...

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  • Malignant neoplasm of other and ill-defined sites in the lip, oral cavity and pharynx - Female, 85 - Tissue image [6170730026736521]

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    This is the histopathological image of OTHER AND ILL-DEFINED SITES IN LIP, ORAL CAVITY AND PHARYNX tissue sample obtained in Medical University Gdańsk and deposited in ZMDL-GUMED. The sample image was taken using: Pannoramic 250 3DHistech slide scanner (20x magnification) and saved to DICOM format.

  • Malignant neoplasm of other and ill-defined sites in the lip, oral cavity and pharynx - Female, 85 - Tissue image [6170730026733651]

    Dane Badawcze

    This is the histopathological image of OTHER AND ILL-DEFINED SITES IN LIP, ORAL CAVITY AND PHARYNX tissue sample obtained in Medical University Gdańsk and deposited in ZMDL-GUMED. The sample image was taken using: Pannoramic 250 3DHistech slide scanner (20x magnification) and saved to DICOM format.

  • Malignant neoplasm of other and ill-defined sites in the lip, oral cavity and pharynx - Female, 85 - Tissue image [6170730026738371]

    Dane Badawcze

    This is the histopathological image of OTHER AND ILL-DEFINED SITES IN LIP, ORAL CAVITY AND PHARYNX tissue sample obtained in Medical University Gdańsk and deposited in ZMDL-GUMED. The sample image was taken using: Pannoramic 250 3DHistech slide scanner (20x magnification) and saved to DICOM format.

  • Malignant neoplasm of other and ill-defined sites in the lip, oral cavity and pharynx - Female, 85 - Tissue image [6170730026737981]

    Dane Badawcze

    This is the histopathological image of OTHER AND ILL-DEFINED SITES IN LIP, ORAL CAVITY AND PHARYNX tissue sample obtained in Medical University Gdańsk and deposited in ZMDL-GUMED. The sample image was taken using: Pannoramic 250 3DHistech slide scanner (20x magnification) and saved to DICOM format.

  • Machine-aided detection of SARS-CoV-2 from complete blood count

    Publikacja

    - Rok 2022

    The current gold standard for SARS-CoV-2 detection methods lacks the functionality to perform population screening. Complete blood count (CBC) tests are a cost-effective way to reach a wide range of people – e.g. according to the data of the Central Statistical Office of Poland from 2016, there are 3,000 blood diagnostic laboratories in Poland, and 46% of Polish people have at least one CBC test per year. In our work, we show...

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  • OOA-modified Bi-LSTM network: An effective intrusion detection framework for IoT systems

    Publikacja
    • S. S. Narayana Chintapalli
    • S. Prakash Singh
    • J. Frnda
    • B. P. Divakarachar
    • V. L. Sarraju
    • P. Falkowski-Gilski

    - Heliyon - Rok 2024

    Currently, the Internet of Things (IoT) generates a huge amount of traffic data in communication and information technology. The diversification and integration of IoT applications and terminals make IoT vulnerable to intrusion attacks. Therefore, it is necessary to develop an efficient Intrusion Detection System (IDS) that guarantees the reliability, integrity, and security of IoT systems. The detection of intrusion is considered...

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  • Empirical Analysis of Forest Penalizing Attribute and Its Enhanced Variations for Android Malware Detection

    Publikacja
    • A. G. Akintola
    • A. O. Balogun
    • L. F. Capretz
    • H. A. Mojeed
    • S. Basri
    • S. A. Salihu
    • F. E. Usman-Hamza
    • P. O. Sadiku
    • G. B. Balogun
    • Z. O. Alanamu

    - Applied Sciences-Basel - Rok 2022

    As a result of the rapid advancement of mobile and internet technology, a plethora of new mobile security risks has recently emerged. Many techniques have been developed to address the risks associated with Android malware. The most extensively used method for identifying Android malware is signature-based detection. The drawback of this method, however, is that it is unable to detect unknown malware. As a consequence of this problem,...

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  • Shore Construction Detection by Automotive Radar for the Needs of Autonomous Surface Vehicle Navigation

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    - ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information - Rok 2019

    Autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs) are becoming more and more popular for performing hydrographic and navigational tasks. One of the key aspects of autonomous navigation is the need to avoid collisions with other objects, including shore structures. During a mission, an ASV should be able to automatically detect obstacles and perform suitable maneuvers. This situation also arises in near-coastal areas, where shore structures like...

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  • CMGNet: Context-aware middle-layer guidance network for salient object detection

    Publikacja
    • K. Shaheed
    • I. Ullah
    • S. Hussain
    • W. Ali
    • S. Ali Khan
    • Y. Yin
    • Y. Ma

    - Rok 2024

    Salient object detection (SOD) is a critical task in computer vision that involves accurately identifying and segmenting visually significant objects in an image. To address the challenges of gridding issues and feature...

  • Towards bees detection on images: study of different color models for neural networks

    Publikacja

    This paper presents an approach to bee detection in videostreams using a neural network classifier. We describe the motivationfor our research and the methodology of data acquisition. The maincontribution to this work is a comparison of different color models usedas an input format for a feedforward convolutional architecture appliedto bee detection. The detection process has is based on a neural...

  • A Comprehensive Analysis of Deep Neural-Based Cerebral Microbleeds Detection System

    Publikacja

    - Electronics - Rok 2021

    Machine learning-based systems are gaining interest in the field of medicine, mostly in medical imaging and diagnosis. In this paper, we address the problem of automatic cerebral microbleeds (CMB) detection in magnetic resonance images. It is challenging due to difficulty in distinguishing a true CMB from its mimics, however, if successfully solved it would streamline the radiologists work. To deal with this complex three-dimensional...

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  • New semi-causal and noncausal techniques for detection of impulsive disturbances in multivariate signals with audio applications

    This paper deals with the problem of localization of impulsive disturbances in nonstationary multivariate signals. Both unidirectional and bidirectional (noncausal) detection schemes are proposed. It is shown that the strengthened pulse detection rule, which combines analysis of one-step-ahead signal prediction errors with critical evaluation of leave-one-out signal interpolation errors, allows one to noticeably improve detection results...

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  • Detection of ferromagnetic objects in local magnetic anomaly of the Baltic Sea

    Publikacja

    In geological researches several kinds of methods are applied to discovering the natural resources. Planes, helicopters and UAVs (UnmAnned Vehicle) are used in researches in large areas. The gravity, electromagnetic and magnetic methods, which are used in geological researches, are presented in this paper. The special attention was paid to magnetic systems installed on mobile platforms. The magnetic field of the Earth obtained...

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  • Electrical and noise responses of carbon nanotube networks enhanced by UV light for detection of organic gases (ethanol, acetone)

    Dane Badawcze
    open access

    Carbon nanotube networks of different optical transparencies were investigated via resistance and 1/f noise measurements for detection of ethanol and acetone. The sensor resistive and noise responses were collected for dark and UV-assisted conditions, revealing the improvement in sensor sensitivity and limit of detection after applying UV light (275...

  • Toward Intelligent Vehicle Intrusion Detection Using the Neural Knowledge DNA

    Publikacja

    - CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS - Rok 2018

    In this paper, we propose a novel intrusion detection approach using past driving experience and the neural knowledge DNA for in-vehicle information system security. The neural knowledge DNA is a novel knowledge representation method designed to support discovering, storing, reusing, improving, and sharing knowledge among machines and computing systems. We examine our approach for classifying malicious vehicle control commands...

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  • Efficiency of gas detection algorithms using fluctuation enhanced sensing

    Publikacja

    - Rok 2015

    Efficiency of various gas detection algorithms by applying fluctuation enhanced sensing method was discussed. We have analyzed resistance noise observed in resistive WO3- nanowires gas sensing layers. Power spectral densities of the recorded noise were used as the input data vectors for two algorithms: the principal component analysis (PCA) and the support vector machine (SVM). The data were used to determine gas concentration...

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  • Distributed Detection of Selected Features in Data Streams Using Grid-class Systems

    Publikacja

    - Rok 2012

    This chapter describes basic methodology of distributed digital signal processing. A choice of distributed methods of detection of selected features in data streams using grid-class systems is discussed. Problems related to distribution of data for processing are addressed. A mitigating method for data distribution and result merging is described.