Detecting duplicates is a pervasive data quality challenge that hinders organizations from extracting value from their data sooner. The increased complexity and heterogeneity of modern datasets has lead to the presence of varying record formats, missing values, and evolving data semantics. As data is integrated, duplicates inevitably occur in the integrated instance. One of the challenges in de...

With the rapid growth of World Wide Web, finding useful and desired information in a short amount of time becomes an important issue for Web users. Search engines and focused crawlers help people to navigate the internet. A user expresses her information need in the form of a query and there is huge number of Web pages returning to this query. However, the majority of users view only a single p...

Today, with the rapidly-increasing data resources and the growing reliance on those resources for supporting business operations and decision-making, data quality (DQ) is broadly recognized as a major issue in information systems in general (Madnick et al., 2009; Panahy et al., 2013) and particularly in the healthcare sector (Kahn et la., 2012; Wechsler et al., 2013). DQ defects in clinical dat...

PURPOSE To evaluate fundus photographic image analysis combining automated detection of red lesions, bright lesions, and image quality as a means of identifying treatment-requiring diabetic retinopathy in a screening population of diabetic patients. METHODS This was a retrospective cross-sectional study of 106 patients from a diabetic retinopathy screening clinic referred for photocoagulation...

To evaluate the visual quality in visual secret sharing schemes, most of the existing metrics fail to generate fair and uniform quality scores for tested reconstructed images. We propose a new approach to measure the visual quality of the reconstructed image for visual secret sharing schemes. We developed an object detection method in the context of secret sharing, detecting outstanding local f...

In Model-Driven Development (MDD) processes, models are key artifacts that are used as input for code generation. Therefore, it is very important to evaluate the quality of these input models in order to obtain high-quality software products. The detection of defects is a promising technique to evaluate software quality, which is emerging as a suitable alternative for MDD processes. The detecti...

PURPOSE The adenoma detection rate is commonly used as a measure of the quality of colonoscopy. This study assessed both the association between the adenoma detection rate and the quality of bowel preparation and the risk factors associated with the adenoma detection rate in screening colonoscopy. METHODS This retrospective analysis involved 1,079 individuals who underwent screening colonosco...

The K-coverage configuration that guarantees coverage of each location by at least K sensors is highly popular and is extensively used to monitor diversified applications in wireless sensor networks. Long network lifetime and high detection quality are the essentials of such K-covered sleep-scheduling algorithms. However, the existing sleep-scheduling algorithms either cause high cost or cannot...

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