objective(s): reliability measures precision or the extent to which test results can be replicated. this is the first ever systematic review to identify statistical methods used to measure reliability of equipment measuring continuous variables. this studyalso aims to highlight the inappropriate statistical method used in the reliability analysis and its implication in the medical practice.   m...

This paper describes a new semi-supervised learning algorithm for intra-class clustering (ICC). ICC partitions each class into sub-classes in order to minimize overlap across clusters from different classes. This is achieved by allowing partitioning of a certain class to be assisted by data points from other classes in a context-dependent fashion. The result is that overlap across sub-classes (...

Video-based face recognition has attracted significant attention in many applications such as media technology, network security, human-machine interfaces, and automatic access control system in the past decade. The usual way for face recognition is based upon the grayscale image produced by combining the three color component images. In this work, we consider grayscale image as well as color s...

Distance classifier ensemble method based on Intra-class and Inter-class Scatter is proposed in this paper. By Bootstrap technology, the training samples are sampled repeatedly to generate several subsample set, define matrix with train set scatter matrix, individual classifier. In ensemble, results integrated relative majority voting method. Experiment tested UCI standard database, experimenta...

purposes: the aim of this study was to evaluate the intra and inter-examiner reliability and reproducibility of linear measurements in cone-beam tomography (cbct) images taken by calibrated radiologists and periodontists. materials and methods: the alveolar ridge dimensions in selected cbct images were measured by two calibrated radiologists and two periodontists. intra and inter-examiner relia...

the aim of the present study was to determine the validity and reliability of the movement assessment battery for children test (m-abc test) for 6-year-old children of isfahan city.  306 children participated in the study. inter-rater reliability of the m-abc test was estimated using two trained observers with 50 children. test–retest reliability was assessed using 30 children with a one-week i...

human action recognition is an important problem in computer vision. one of the methods that are recently used is sparse coding. conventional sparse coding algorithms learn dictionaries and codes in an unsupervised manner and neglect class information that is available in the training set. but in this paper for solving this problem, we use a discriminative sparse code based on multi-manifolds. ...