Fast reduction of blood water volume due to ultra-filtration via hemodialysis machine and critical threshold of blood water volume can result in clinical complications such as hypotension. When blood water volume reduces during hemodialysis process, the concentration of blood forming elements will increase. One of the methods for the monitoring of the concentration changes is ultrasonic speed m...

Equal-gain combining (EGC) is a conventional linear combining scheme used in non-coherent energy detection receiver for ultra-wideband (UWB) signals. However, due to the nonlinear nature of decision boundary, the EGC results in a suboptimal test statistic. In this paper, we propose a new design for a nonlinear combining energy detector based on Gaussian approximation, in which the energy detect...

This paper describes an enhanced negative selection algorithm (NSA) called Vdetector. Several key characteristics make this method a state-of-the-art advance in the decade-old NSA. First, individual-specific size (or matching threshold) of the detectors is utilized to maximize the anomaly coverage at little extra cost. Second, statistical estimation is integrated in the detector generation algo...

Efficient and reliable spectrum sensing is an essential requirement in cognitive radio networks. One challenge faced in the spectrum sensing is the existence of the noise power uncertainty. This paper proposes a cooperative spectrum sensing scheme using fuzzy set theory to mitigate the noise power uncertainty. In this scheme, the noise power uncertainty in each Secondary User (SU) is modeled as...

In this paper, we propose a QRS complex detector based on the Mallat and Hwang singularity analysis algorithm which uses dyadic wavelet transform. We design a spline wavelet that is suitable for QRS detection. The scales of this decomposition are chosen based on the spectral characteristics of electrocardiogram records. By proceeding with the multiscale analysis we can find the location of a ra...

Congress has mandated the detection of 90 percent of 140 meter diameter and larger Near Earth Objects (NEOs). While a dedicated satellite would be the preferred method of detection, ground-based telescopes are the current detection technology available. With current detection techniques, 140 meter diameter NEOs at 1 astronomical unit or more away from Earth are difficult to detect. In order to ...

The Residue-Driven Architecture presented here is a model of auditory stream segregation from input sounds. A subsystem to extract auditory streams by using some sound attributes is called an agency and the design of each agency is based on the residue-driven architecture. This architecture consists of three kinds of agents: an event-detector, a tracergenerator, and tracers. The event-detector ...

The Hough detector is investigated with three types of Constant False Alarm Rate (CFAR) processors – an Adaptive censoring Post detection Integration (API CFAR) processor, a Binary Integration (BI CFAR) processor and an Excision with Binary Integration (EXC CFAR BI) processor in the presence of randomly arriving impulse interference. The detection probability and the average detection threshold...

A few edge detectors are derived from the contrast ratio edge detector to extract linear features from SAR imagery with a constant probability of false alarm. But all of these detectors need one or more thresholds, which are generally predefined or selected by experience, to determine that the pixel belongs to an edge or not. In this paper, we propose a method to automatically determine the thr...