The use of Augmented Reality glasses opens up many possibilities in hospital care, as they facilitate treatments and their documentation. In this paper, we present a prototype for the HoloLens 2 supporting wound care and documentation. It was develop...
Computer programming e-learners faced stressful life circumstances and educational changes that affected the world during the COVID-19 pandemic. As the cognitive model of flourishing focuses on cognitions rather than situations themselves, it was dee...
Autonomous analysis of plants, such as for phenotyping and health monitoring etc., often requires the reliable identification and localization of single leaves, a task complicated by their complex and variable shape. Robotic sensor platforms commonly...
Randomized control trials and meta-analyses comparing colonoscopies with and without computer-aided detection (CADe) assistance showed significant increases in adenoma detection rates (ADRs) with CADe. A major limitation of CADe is its false positive...
This work presents an integrated Indoor Positioning System which makes use of WiFi signals and RGB cameras, such as surveillance cameras, to track and identify people navigating in complex indoor environments. Previous works have often been based on...
This study aimed to assess the relationship between apical fenestration—a defect in the alveolar bone involving the root apex—and tooth position in all tooth groups, excluding the third molars, utilizing cone-beam computed tomography (CBC...
The purpose of this review is to examine various assessment methods in order to compare the accuracy between the virtually planned and clinically achieved implant positions. In this review, comparison methods using pre- and post-operative computed to...
Background: Abdominal vascular injury, a fatal complication of lumbar disc surgery, should concern spine surgeons. This study aimed to compare the position of the abdominal arteries in the supine and prone positions and the factors involved. Thirty p...
To date, along with the progress of new technology and computer program development, the high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) had been applied in different clinical application, such as HRCT for coronary angiography. In the current neuroimaging...
Background: Monitoring external load in team sports is essential for performance optimization, injury prevention, and individualized training prescription. Although Local Positioning Systems (LPS) are widely used for indoor athlete tracking, they req...
The paper presents the result of a study that can be included in the broader field of research aimed at increasing the performance of automatic motion control systems. The main contribution of the article is the comparative study of three control met...
For computed tomography (CT), representing the diagnostic standard for trauma patients, image quality is essential. The positioning of the patient’s arms next to the abdomen causes artifacts and is also considered to increase radiation exposure...
This study was carried out to demonstrate whether the radiation dose for patients in arms-down position can be reduced without affecting the diagnosis on abdominal computed tomography (CT). The patients were divided into two groups: group A, which in...
Compact numerical representations of DNA sequences can reduce the dimensionality of genomic data, but aggregation may result in the loss of positional information. This study investigates a position-weighted representation in which each nucleotide at...
The typical hypothesis testing issue in statistical analysis is determining whether a pattern is significantly associated with a specific class label. This usually leads to highly challenging multiple-hypothesis testing problems in big data mining sc...
The aim of this paper was to explore the application of multi-channel synchronized dynamic strain gauges in monitoring the neutral axis (N.A.) position of prestressed concrete box girders. The N.A. position has recently been proposed as an indicator...
Various components are involved in the end-to-end path of data transfer. Protecting data integrity from failures in these intermediate components is a key feature of big data transfer tools. Although most of these components provide some degree of da...
This study introduces the higher-order unconditionally positive finite difference (HUPFD) methods to solve the linear, nonlinear, and system of advection–diffusion–reaction (ADR) equations. The stability and consistency of the developed m...
Indoor Positioning Systems (IPSs) have multiple applications. For example, they can be used to guide people, to locate items in a warehouse and to support the navigation of Automated Guided Vehicles (AGV). Currently most AGVs use local pre-defined na...
The growing number of vehicles on the roads has resulted in several challenges, including increased accident rates, fuel consumption, pollution, travel time, and driving stress. However, recent advancements in intelligent vehicle technologies, such a...
We set out to demonstrate that the Rényi entropies are better thought of as operating in a type of non-linear semiring called a positive semifield. We show how the Rényi’s postulates lead to Pap’s g-calculus where the functi...
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) are spreading their usage in many areas, including last-mile distribution. In this research, a UAV is used for performing light parts delivery to workstation operators within a manufacturing plant, where GPS is no valid...
The global positioning system (GPS) is a satellite navigation system that determines locations. Whenever the baseline satellites are serviced or deactivated, the Space Force often flies more than 24 GPS satellites to maintain coverage. The additional...
Background and Objectives: Although transesophageal or intracardiac echocardiography and radiofrequency needles are employed to guide transseptal puncture, their routine utilization is associated with substantial expense. No reports have analyzed the...
Currently, lung cancer has one of the highest mortality rates because it is often caught too late. Therefore, early detection is essential to reduce the risk of death. Pulmonary nodules are considered key indicators of primary lung cancer. Developing...
In this paper, we present a novel nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) algorithm based on the Laguerre function for dynamic positioning ships to solve the problems of input saturation, unknown time-varying disturbances, and heavy computation. Th...
A maritime autonomous surface ship (MASS) operates with reduced or absent crew and depends on cryptography to authenticate the commands, software updates, and position data that keep it under control, and on satellite positioning to navigate. Quantum...
Pulmonary nodule detection with low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) is indispensable in early lung cancer screening. Although existing methods have achieved excellent detection sensitivity, nodule detection still faces challenges such as nodule size...
The Babylonian numeral system, developed more than four thousand years ago, is one of the earliest known positional number systems, employing a sexagesimal (base-60) structure and a limited set of wedge-shaped symbols. Despite their visual simplicity...
This article formulates the concept of games in the field of process control theory in marine sciences and reviews the literature on the possible applications of games. The possible types of game control processes for moving objects are presented. A...
Corner cutting algorithms are important in computer-aided geometric design and they are associated to stochastic non-singular totally positive matrices. Non-singular totally positive matrices admit a bidiagonal decomposition. For many important examp...
We provide algorithms for inferring GPS (Global Positioning System) location and for quantifying the uncertainty of this estimate in real time. The algorithms are tested on GPS data from locations in the Southern Hemisphere at four significantly diff...
The rapid advance in mobile communications has made information and services ubiquitously accessible. Location and context information have become essential for the effectiveness of services in the era of mobility. This paper proposes the concept of...
We consider generalized Green matrices that, in contrast to Green matrices, are not necessarily symmetric. In spite of the loss of symmetry, we show that they can preserve some nice properties of Green matrices. In particular, they admit a bidiagonal...
In this paper, we introduce a framework that conceptualizes a multi-stage process through which technology can promote sustained wellbeing. Intentional wellbeing-enhancing activities form the centerpiece linking direct product interaction to, ultimat...
While research on wellbeing within Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) is an active space, a gap between research and practice persists. To tackle this, we sought to identify the practical needs of designers in taking wellbeing research into practice. W...
This manuscript discusses the difficulties with magnetic position and orientation (MPO) system design and proposes a general method for finding optimal layouts. The formalism introduces a system quality measure through state separation and reduces th...
Our aim was to examine the impact of different arm positions during imaging of the localizer radiograph(s) on effective dose for exposure-controlled computed tomography (CT) (Siemens/Canon) scans of the neck to pelvis. An anthropomorphic whole-body p...
Determining the 3D position of a vehicle from a 2D image plays a key role in video surveillance, autonomous driving, and spatial localization. However, localization accuracy can significantly degrade in conditions of incomplete or synthetic measureme...
Background: Prior data suggest a correlation between the position of transcatheter heart valves (THV) and the occurrence of complications after transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) in patients with tricuspid aortic valves (TAV). However, da...
Addressing the significant challenge of speech enhancement in ultra-low-Signal-to-Noise-Ratio (SNR) scenarios for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) voice communication, particularly under edge deployment constraints, this study proposes the Edge-Deployed...
In this work we develop a study of positive periodic solutions for a mathematical model of the dynamics of computer virus propagation. We propose a generalized compartment model of SEIR-KS type, since we consider that the population is partitioned in...
Properties such as high resolution, contactless (and thus wear-free) measurement, low power consumption, robustness against temperature and contamination as well as low cost make magnetic position and orientation systems appealing for a large number...
Integrating direct air carbon capture (DAC) into buildings offers a promising pathway for reducing atmospheric CO2, yet the role of architectural design in enhancing passive carbon-capture performance remains underexplored. This study presents a comp...
Background: High false-positive rates remain a significant challenge in the automated detection of pulmonary embolism (PE) using Computed Tomography Pulmonary Angiography (CTPA). This study evaluated the additional value of a False-Positive Reduction...
Background: The impact of transcatheter heart valve (THV) position on the occurrence of paravalvular leakage and permanent pacemaker implantation caused by new-onset conduction disturbances is well described. The purpose of this study was to investig...
Breast cancer is a heterogeneous malignancy with distinct molecular subtypes that complicate the development of effective therapies. Traditional drug discovery methods are often constrained by high cost and long development timelines, underscoring th...
The demand for location-based services (LBS) in large indoor spaces, such as airports, shopping malls, museums and libraries, has been increasing in recent years. However, there is still no fully applicable solution for indoor positioning and navigat...
Purpose: To propose a novel, radiation-free method for postoperative three-dimensional (3D) position analysis of dental implants based on the dynamic navigation system (DNS) and evaluate its accuracy in vitro. Methods: A total of 60 implants were dig...
Objectives Implant placement errors remain a persistent challenge, leading to complications such as peri-implant bone loss, neurosensory issues, and, in severe cases, implant failure. This study evaluates the prevalence and characteristics of dental...
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