graphene oxide was prepared using modified hummers method. stable ethylene-glycol nanofluids containing graphene oxide nanosheets were provided. nd: yag pulsed laser was applied to prepare reduced nanofluids. experimental results revealed that thermal conductivity of the nanofluids is increased with increasing the concentration of graphene oxide (go) in ethylene glycol. the enhancement ratio of...

| We describe an adaptive speech enhancement technique based on selecting a set of pre-computed FIR lters to process the compressed short-time power spectral trajec-tories of noisy speech. The responses of the pre-computed lters depend only on the signal to noise ratios (SNRs) and does not depend on the center frequency of the sub-bands. This allows for a compact design in which the estimate of...

While the state-of-the-art speech enhancement methods are focused on the modification of the noisy spectral amplitude, our recent findings demonstrate positive impact of incorporating the speech phase spectrum in speech enhancement. In this show and tell proposal, we demonstrate the recent progress towards utilizing the phase information in closed-loop iterative manner leading to the joint enha...

In this work, we present a single-channel speech enhancement technique called the Modified Phase Opponency (MPO) model as a solution to the Speech Separation Challenge. The MPO model is based on a neural model for detection of tones-in-noise called the Phase Opponency (PO) model. Replacing the noisy speech signals by the corresponding MPO-processed signals increases the accuracy by 31%when the ...

This paper considers a single channel speech enhancement algorithm, which is based on our previous work on βorder minimum mean square error (MMSE) spectral estimation. We propose to make β a function of both local and frame signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) in order to achieve more effective preservation of weak speech components. Moreover, by taking into account the speech-presence uncertainty in ...

A.R. Gafton C.M. Glastonbury J.D. Eastwood J.K. Hoang SUMMARY: This clinical report describes the enhancement characteristics of hypersecreting parathyroid lesions on dual-phase neck CT. We retrospectively analyzed the enhancement characteristics of 5 pathologically confirmed PTH-secreting lesions on dual-phase CT examinations. Attenuation values were measured for PTH-secreting lesions, vascula...

The proposed method focuses on the prediction of breast cancer in its early stage. It is very difficult to detect microcalcification due to its small size and low contrast with respect to the surrounding tissues. A new, fast and simple enhancement technique is considered for early detection of breast cancer by enhancing microcalcification features using morphology and LOG filter. Target to back...

PURPOSE We evaluated the appearance of enhancing multiple sclerosis (MS) lesions on unenhanced T1-weighted MR images and the natural course of enhancing MS lesions on serial unenhanced T1-weighted and magnetization transfer (MT) MR images. METHODS One hundred twenty-six enhancing lesions were followed up monthly for 6 to 12 months to determine their signal intensity on unenhanced T1-weighted ...

Usually, hearing impaired people use hearing aids which are implemented with speech enhancement algorithms. Estimation of speech and estimation of nose are the components in single channel speech enhancement system. The main objective of any speech enhancement algorithm is estimation of noise power spectrum for non stationary environment. VAD (Voice Activity Detector) is used to identify speech...

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the association between enhancement patterns and parameters in contrast-enhanced ultrasonography (CEUS) and microvessel distribution and histological prognostic tumor characteristics of breast cancer. Between September 2011 and April 2013, 109 breast lesions were prospectively analyzed, which were classified into Breast Imaging Reporting and Data Sys...