The use of data mining techniques in healthcare has been noticing an increased relevance over the last few years, being applied with a variety of objectives, with the most common one being the automatic diagnostic process. In this process, data mining techniques have achieved interesting and successful results. However, when it comes to prognosis the same quality of results is not being achieve...

In this paper, we presented the annotation propagation tool we designed to be used in conjunction with the BRAT rapid annotation tool. We designed two experiments to annotate a corpus of 60 files, first not using our tool, second using our propagation tool. We evaluated the annotation time and the quality of annotations. We shown that using the annotation propagation tool reduces by 31.7% the t...

Seismic piezocone device (SCPTu) together with Resonant Column and Cyclic Triaxial test apparatus are employed to measure small strain shear modulus (G0) of carbonate sandy and clayey soils of southern coasts of Iran. A large area of southern regions of Iran is formed from clay, silt and sand. In this study, maximum shear modulus that is derived from both field (by seismic piezocone) and labora...

This session features exciting keynote speeches by Rajeev Madhavan (Chairman & CEO, Magma Design Automation), Michael Reinhardt (CEO & President, RubiCAD), and Shekhar Borker (Intel Fellow & Director of Circuit Research Lab). In the first keynote speech, titled “Addressing the IC Designer’s Needs: Integrated Design Software for Faster, More Economical Chip Design”, Rajeev Madhaven highlights th...

Crowdsourced demarcations of object boundaries in images (segmentations) are important for many vision-based applications. A commonly reported challenge is that a large percentage of crowd results are discarded due to concerns about quality. We conducted three studies to examine (1) how does the quality of crowdsourced segmentations differ for familiar everyday images versus unfamiliar biomedic...