Support Vector Machines (SVMs) have been recently proposed as a new technique for pattern recognition. Intuitively, given a set of points which belong to either of two classes, a linear SVM finds the hyperplane leaving the largest possible fraction of points of the same class on the same side, while maximizing the distance of either class from the hyperplane. The hyperplane is determined by a s...

Fourier descriptors are used for representing the shapes as well as extracting the features of the characters. It has the advantage of being invariant to the affine transforms. It possesses the ability to reconstruct the original shape. Moreover, all the descriptors are not required to describe the character. Hence huge reduction in feature size is possible. K-nearest neighbor classifier is use...

This paper presents the concept of the innovative platform TaaS “Terminology as a Service”. TaaS brings the benefits of cloud services to the user, in order to foster the creation of terminology resources and to maintain their up-to-datedness by integrating automated data extraction and user-supported clean-up of raw terminological data and sharing user-validated terminology. The platform is ba...

Intrator (1990) proposed a feature extraction method that is related to recent statistical theory (Huber, 1985; Friedman, 1987), and is based on a biologically motivated model of neuronal plasticity (Bienenstock et al., 1982). This method has been recently applied to feature extraction in the context of recognizing 3D objects from single 2D views (Intrator and Gold, 1991). Here we describe expe...

BACKGROUND This meta-analysis investigates the associations of adiponectin (ADIPOQ) genetic polymorphisms with the susceptibility to colorectal cancer (CRC). MATERIAL AND METHODS 2 reviewers independently searched 6 databases - PubMed, Cochrane Library, Ovid, Embase, China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) and Wanfang databases - to identify published studies relevant to adiponectin ge...

This paper addresses the problem of Bangla basic character recognition. Multi-font Bangla character recognition has not been attempted previously. Twenty popular Bangla fonts have been used for the purpose of character recognition. A novel feature extraction scheme based on the digital curvelet transform is proposed. The curvelet transform, although heavily utilized in various areas of image pr...

In this paper, we propose a method for recognizing three-dimensional (3D) objects using multi-view depth images. To derive the essential 3D shape information extracted from these images for stable and accurate 3D object recognition, we need to consider how to integrate partial shapes of a 3D object. To address this issue, we introduce two ideas. The first idea is to represent a partial shape of...

Previous in vivo studies have shown that the presystemic clearance of p.o.-administered levo-isomer of propranolol is inhibited in rats with uranyl nitrate-induced acute renal failure. A series of steady-state single-pass rat liver perfusion studies were performed to explore the probable mechanism of the observed metabolic inhibition. When livers from normal rats were perfused with blood perfus...