BACKGROUND Public awareness and education may lead to the detection of thinner melanomas, which may result in a decrease in morbidity and mortality rates. Which detection patterns, lesion, and patient characteristics are associated with early detection? METHODS Using the University of Michigan prospective melanoma database, the detection patterns, lesion characteristics, and patient character...

OBJECTIVE To develop a probabilistic model for discovering and quantifying determinants of outbreak detection and to use the model to predict detection performance for new outbreaks. MATERIALS AND METHODS We used an existing software platform to simulate waterborne disease outbreaks of varying duration and magnitude. The simulated data were overlaid on real data from visits to emergency depar...

High throughput, low latency and reliable communication has always been a hot topic for wireless sensor networks (WSNs) in various applications. Multiuser detection is widely used to suppress the bad effect of multiple access interference in WSNs. In this paper, a novel multiuser detection method based on differential characteristics is proposed to suppress multiple access interference. The pro...

Many fault detection methods have been proposed for monitoring the health of various industrial systems. Characterizing the monitored signals is a prerequisite for selecting an appropriate detection method. However, fault detection methods tend to be decided with user's subjective knowledge or their familiarity with the method, rather than following a predefined selection rule. This study inves...

Eye detection and tracking can be used in intelligent human-computer interfaces, driver drowsiness detection, security, and biology systems. In this paper a new method for eye detection based on some new rectangle features is proposed, with these features the Adaboost cascade classifiers are trained for eye detection. Then with the characteristics of symmetry of the eyes some of the geometric c...

The value of an intrusion detection sensor is often associated with its data collection and analysis features. Experience tells us such sensors fall under a range of different types and are diverse in their operational characteristics. There is a need to examine some of these characteristics to appreciate the value they add to intrusion detection deployments. This paper presents a model to dete...

In the theory of traffic flows the main characteristics are: intensity, speed, and density.  They make it possible to use hydrodynamic models. In connection with the development of modern highways and road networks, traffic flows behavior is becoming more and more complex and diverse. In particular, the B.Kerner studies have shown that the laminar solution of hydrodynamic models is poorly corre...