concentrations of eight metals namely, cr, mn, fe, co, ni, cu, zn and pb were examined in the surface sediments of discharge channels of six industries in lagos using x-ray fluorescence spectrometry.these channels drain into the isolo canal which empties into the lagos lagoon and eventually into the atlantic ocean. this study was conducted to detect any contamination levels within the sediment...

In this paper, a novel, and computationally fast method was proposed to classify ventricular tachycardia (VT) and ventricular fibrillation (VF) by using histogram and average absolute deviation. To begin with, a time-domain method based histogram, was addressed to refine the general features that illustrate the density of amplitude distribution of a window length long ECG signal in successive n...

The theory of aggregation most often deals with measures of central tendency. However, sometimes a very different kind of a numeric vector’s synthesis into a single number is required. In this paper we introduce a class of mathematical functions which aim to measure spread or scatter of one-dimensional quantitative data. The proposed definition serves as a common, abstract framework for measure...

In article consider the possibility of usage of generalized method of least absolute values for non-linear filtering of images and signals. Generalized Method of Least Absolute Values is more efficient than median methods of image processing in case of impulse interference, as well as when suppressing noise interference on high-contrast images. Workload in case of data smoothing based on Genera...

The estimation of the noise level in MR images is used to assess the consistency of statistical analysis or as an input parameter in some image processing techniques. Most of the existing Rician noise estimation methods are based on background statistics, and as such are sensitive to ghosting artifacts. In this paper, a new object-based method is proposed. This method is based on the adaptation...