Some experts on the media say that entertainment can be more successful than news at providing insights into certain institutions, medicine being a good example. US television series that feature physicians as the central characters have been immensely popular. In the early series, dating back to the 1952 debut of City Hospital, the physician was an all-powerful hero working in a sparkling cent...

This set of notes is the primary source material for the course “Estimation, filtering and detection” taught by Prof. Alfred Hero over the period 1998-2004 at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. The course pack is the property of Alfred O. Hero III and is copyright protected. Author can be reached at Dept. EECS, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2122 Tel: 734-763-0564. email hero@ee...

INTRODUCTION For access-challenged patients with bilateral upper extremity central venous stenosis, solutions include the Hemodialysis Reliable Outflow (HeRO) device or an autogenous AV fistula in the lower limb. We evaluated HeRO grafts and transpositions of the femoral vein in maintaining primary and secondary patency. METHODS We retrospectively analyzed 40 patients with a HeRO device and 1...

Heart rate patterns offer a ‘window’ into autonomic nervous system function: when they become abnormal they signal an underlying pathology. Preterm infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) are extremely vulnerable to sepsis, which is often associated with decreased heart rate variability (HRV) and transient heart rate decelerations. A monitor was developed – the HeRO monitor – to anal...

The recently developed traffic-responsive feedback control strategy HERO (HEuristic Ramp metering cOordination), that coordinates local ramp-metering actions in freeway networks, was implemented at the M1/M3 Freeway in Queensland, Australia. HERO employs an extended version of the feedback regulator ALINEA at the local level. HERO outperforms uncoordinated local ramp metering and approaches the...