conclusions the use of smoothing methods helps us to eliminate non-linear effects but it is more appropriate to use cox proportional hazards model in medical data because of its’ ease of interpretation and capability of modeling both continuous and discrete covariates. also, cox proportional hazards model and smoothing methods analysis identified that age at diagnosis and tumor size were indepe...

An analysis of the results of an algorithm for optimal trajectory planning of robot manipulators is described in this paper. The objective function to be minimized is a weighted sum of the integral squared jerk and the execution time. Two possible primitives for building the trajectory are considered: cubic splines or fifth-order B-splines. The proposed technique allows to set constraints on th...

Due to magnetic field inhomogeneities, EPI images are geometrically distorted, predominantly along the phase-encoding direction. Currently, the distortion is either ignored or compensated manually using a warping function defined through a set of landmarks. We propose an automatic method to unwarp the geometric distortion of EPI images by registering them with corresponding undistorted anatomic...

We provide su cient conditions for the Bernstein-B ezier (BB) form of an implicitly de ned bivariate polynomial over a triangle, such that the zero contour of the polynomial de nes a smooth and single sheeted real algebraic curve segment. We call a piecewise G-continuous chain of such real algebraic curve segments in BB-form as an A-spline (short for algebraic spline). We prove that the degree ...