In this paper we propose a model based approach to determine correspondences and pose of objects in automated visual inspection applications. The method does not consider correspondence and pose estimation problems as two distinct processes. Rather they are viewed as two cooperative processes and implemented through a proposed new composite chromosome structure of Genetic Algorithm (GA). GA evo...

Background Risk prediction of anastomotic leakage using anatomical and vascular factors has not been well established. This study aimed to assess the affecting hemodynamics gastric conduit develop a novel risk stratification system in patients undergoing esophagectomy with retrosternal reconstruction. Methods retrospective cohort analyzed 202 esophageal cancer who underwent subtotal tube recons...

Background: This study investigated the correlation in parameters of arterial stiffness and cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk on age body mass index (BMI) Chinese females. Methods: cross-sectional enrolled 2220 Arterial was assessed by measurement velocity pulse (AVI) pressure volume (API). Individual 10-year calculated for each patient using Framingham score (FCVRS). Results: API AVI had a sig...

OBJECTIVES Antifibrinolytics are widely used in cardiac surgery to save blood perioperatively. In the present study we evaluated the hemostatic effects of tranexamic acid (TXA) to decrease bleeding tendency and transfusion requirements in high-risk patients following transapical aortic valve implantation (TA-AVI). METHODS A retrospective analysis was performed on aortic stenosis patients unde...

This paper describes aneural blind source separation (BSS) method based on amortized variational inference (AVI) of a non-linear generative model mixture signals. A classical statistical approach to BSS is fit linear that consists spatial and models representing the inter-channel covariances power spectral densities sources, respectively. Although autoencoder (VAE) has successfully been used as...

Boubacar Kante,1 Kevin O’Brien,1 Avi Niv,1 Xiaobo Yin,1 and Xiang Zhang1,2,* 1NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Centre, 5130 Etcheverry Hall, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA 2Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA (Received 10 June 2011; revised manuscript received 12 December 2011; publ...

Avi Mandelbaum , William A. Massey b and Martin I. Reiman c Davidson Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion Institute, Haifa 32000, Israel E-mail: [email protected] b Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Office 2C-320, Murray Hill, NJ 07974, USA E-mail: [email protected] c Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Office 2C-315, Murray Hill, NJ 07974, USA E-m...

Building on Ben-Avi and Winter’s (2007) work, this paper provides a general “intensionalization” procedure that turns an extensional semantics for a language into an intensionalized one that is capable of accommodating “truly intensional” lexical items without changing the compositional semantic rules. We prove some formal properties of this procedure and clarify its relation to the procedure i...

This paper presents a new automatic shot detection technique based on multiresolution histograms. Starting from an adaptive threshold filter, we extract shot cuts when multiresolution histogram peaks are significant enough. In the results section we present the recall and precision achieved on a video database composed by 61 AVI videos and 816 shots.