In this paper we present a new method for motion tracking of tumors in liver ultrasound image sequences. Our algorithm has two main steps. In the first step, we apply mean shift algorithm with multiple features to estimate the center of the target in each frame. Target in the first frame is defined using an ellipse. Edge, texture, and intensity features are extracted from the first frame, and t...

An enormous amount of publications deals with smoothing in the sense of nonparametric regression. However, nearly all of the literature treats the case where predictors and response are related in the form of a function y = m(x) + noise. In many situations this simple functional model does not capture adequately the essential relation between predictor and response. We show by means of speed-fl...

An enormous amount of publications deals with smoothing in the sense of nonparametric regression. However, nearly all of the literature treats the case where predictors and response are related in the form of a function y = m(x) + noise. In many situations this simple functional model does not capture adequately the essential relation between predictor and response. We show by means of speed-fl...

Cycle-based signals are generally obtained through the automatic sensing of critical process variables during each repetitive operation cycle of a manufacturing process, and they thus contain a significant amount of information about the process condition. Increasing attention has been paid recently to the problem of effectively monitoring these signals as an aid to the detection of process cha...

DNA microarray technologies have the capability of simultaneously measuring the abundance of thousands of gene expressions in cells. A common task with microarrays is to determine which genes are differentially expressed under two different biological conditions of interest (e.g. cancerous against non-cancerous cells). It is often the case that there are thousands of genes for a single individu...

In recent years there has been a growing interest in clustering methods stemming from the spectral decomposition of the data affinity matrix, which are shown to present good results on a wide variety of situations. However, a complete theoretical understanding of these methods in terms of data distributions is not yet well understood. In this paper, we propose a spectral clustering based mode m...

Segmentation is one of the most discussed problems in image processing. Many various methods for image segmentation exist. The mean-shift method is one of them and it was widely developed in recent years and it is still being developed. In this paper, we propose a new method called Layered Mean Shift that uses multiple mean-shift segmentations with different bandwidths stacked for elimination o...