Building information modelling (BIM) has been adopted in the construction industry. The success of BIM implementation relies on the accurate building information stored in BIM models. However, building information in BIM models can be inaccurate, out...
Cryptographic circuits generally are used for applications of wireless sensor networks to ensure security and must be tested in a manufacturing process to guarantee their quality. Therefore, a scan architecture is widely used for testing the circuits...
Point cloud processing is an essential task in many applications in the AEC domain, such as automated progress assessment, quality control and 3D reconstruction. As much of the procedure used to process the point clouds is shared among these applicat...
Heritage buildings usually have complex (non-parametric) geometries that turn their digitization through conventional methods in inaccurate and time-consuming processes. When it comes to the survey and representation of historical assets, remote sen...
Background/Objectives: Deep learning on anterior segment optical coherence tomography (AS-OCT) has been applied mainly to nuclear cataract. This study evaluated whether the A-scan profile in Anterion reports adds information to the B-scan image for c...
Background/Objectives: This in vitro study evaluated the effect of PEEK scan body splinting on geometric scan-body measurements obtained from complete-arch digital implant scans using two intraoral scanners under two simulated clinical scenarios. Met...
Distortions in scanning electron microscope (SEM) images compromise characterization accuracy and restrict reliable quantitative analysis. Quantifying and correcting these distortions remains challenging due to the complexity of their inherent source...
Background: Digital implant impressions using intraoral scanners are increasingly adopted; however, their accuracy remains challenging in complete-arch and extended edentulous scenarios due to limited anatomical reference points and cumulative stitch...
Accurately matching the LIDAR scans is a critical step for an Autonomous Land Vehicle (ALV). Whilst most previous works have focused on the urban environment, this paper focuses on the off-road environment. Due to the lack of a publicly available dat...
Background and Objectives: With the increased trend towards digitalization in dentistry, intraoral scanning has, to a certain extent, replaced conventional impressions in particular clinical settings. Trueness and precision are essential traits for o...
Scan matching is an important task, solved in the context of many high-level problems including pose estimation, indoor localization, simultaneous localization and mapping and others. Methods that are accurate and adaptive and at the same time comput...
Using the large and chemically diverse GMTKN55 dataset, we have tested the performance of pure and hybrid KS-DFT and HF-DFT functionals constructed from three variants of the SCAN meta-GGA exchange-correlation functional: original SCAN, rSCAN, and r2...
Sparse-scan ptychography accelerates data acquisition but compromises the overlap-induced redundancy essential for stable blind reconstruction. In low-overlap cases, object errors are often transferred to the probe update, causing crosstalk and artif...
Scan planning of buildings under construction is a key issue for an efficient assessment of work progress. This work presents an automatic method aimed to determinate the optimal scan positions and the optimal route based on the use of Building Infor...
Background: Head trauma in patients receiving direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) presents a clinical dilemma because of concern for delayed intracranial hemorrhage (ICH). Although some emergency departments (EDs) routinely perform repeat head CT afte...
Background: Accurate digital impressions are crucial for the long-term success of implant-supported prostheses, with scan bodies playing a pivotal role in transferring the implant position into the virtual model. Recent work has focused on PEEK (poly...
The detection of disease clusters in spatial data analysis plays a crucial role in public health, while the circular scan method is widely utilized for this purpose, accurately identifying non-circular (irregular) clusters remains challenging and red...
Laser scanners with rotational Risley prisms produce scan patterns that can be classified as a type of rhodonea curve, because of their symmetry. The present study builds upon the novel, graphical method that we have developed to simulate and analyze...
Scan-to-BIM is the process of converting point cloud data into a Building Information Model (BIM) that has proven essential for the AEC industry. Scan-to-BIM consists of two fundamental tasks—semantic segmentation and 3D reconstruction. Deep le...
A novel approach is presented to model the tree detection probability of terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) in forest inventory applications using a multi-scan mode. The traditional distance sampling framework is further extended to account for multipl...
Surface flatness is an important indicator for the quality assessment of concrete surfaces during and after slab construction in the construction industry. Thanks to its speed and accuracy, terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) has been popularly used for...
This study compared eight sublimation scanning sprays in terms of their effect on 3D scanning results, coating thickness, and sublimation time. The work used an automated spraying system to ensure the same deposition conditions for all tested materia...
Portable document format (PDF) files are widely used in file transmission, exchange, and circulation because of their platform independence, small size, good browsing quality, and the ability to place hyperlinks. However, their security issues are al...
Introduction: Routine second trimester anomaly scans include standard cardiac planes, yet detailed cardiac morphometry is not part of current practice. We hypothesized that a comprehensive set of cardiac measurements could be obtained from these stan...
Terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) and building information modeling (BIM) play an important role as smart construction technologies introduced to increase productivity in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry. However, these s...
Underwater sensing and detection still rely heavily on acoustic equipment, known as sonar. As an imaging sonar, side-scan sonar can present a specific underwater situation in images, so the application scenario is comprehensive. However, the definiti...
With increasing network security threats, Internet-wide scanning has become a key technique for identifying network vulnerabilities. However, traditional scanning methods tend to ignore the impact of geographic factors on scanning efficiency. In this...
This study explores the feasibility of applying single-scan airborne, static terrestrial and mobile laser scanning for improving the accuracy of tree height growth measurement. Specifically, compared to the traditional works on forest growth inventor...
In this contribution, we approached a new aspect in robotic applications. We investigated human–machine modeling for remote ultrasound scan equipment. While robotic systems for ultrasound scan applications with remote operations have been widel...
The majority of the widely used scan statistics are based on distributional assumptions. Contrary to the existing methods, with a new perspective in clustering, the Mann-Whitney Scan Statistic was introduced to detect clusters in continuous data inde...
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Neurotechnology is a rapidly emerging field with vast potential within healthcare, but also has inherent concerns. There is, therefore, a need to ensure the responsible and ethical development and regulation of these technologies. This horizon scan a...
Reproduction of the exact interocclusal relationship using digital workflow is crucial for precise fabrication of accurate prostheses. Intraoral scanner is known to be valid for the measurement of quadrants, however, the role of missing area in the q...
This paper deals with the development of a localization methodology for autonomous vehicles using only a
The number of scan-to-BIM projects that convert scanned data into Building Information Modeling (BIM) for facility management applications in the Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing (MEP) fields has been increasing. This conversion features an applic...
This study investigated the trueness of a digital implant impression according to the orientation of the implant scan body (ISB) and the scanning method. With the flat surface of the ISB facing either the buccal or proximal direction, the ISB was sca...
The integration of a scan drive circuit is required for flexible and stretchable displays because a rigid scan driver IC is not flexible and stretchable. In this study, decoder-type scan drivers were developed using amorphous IGZO thin-film transisto...
A model with an inner structure was designed to study the relationship between the surface quality of the inner structure and the scan strategy in this study. The test results showed that the precision of the inner structure was highly affected by th...
This paper presents a deep learning-based Scan-vs-BIM methodology for evaluating structural integrity through the extraction of features from As-Built scan and As-Planned Building Information Modeling (BIM) comparison data. Traditional Scan-vs-BIM fr...
Ultrasound images can reliably detect Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip (DDH) during early infancy. Accuracy of diagnosis depends on the scan quality, which is subjectively assessed by the sonographer during ultrasound examination. Such assessment i...
In this presented case, a 77-year-old woman with an implanted prosthesis and ongoing knee pain underwent a bone scan using 99mTc-hydroxydiphosphonate (HDP) in suspicion for bone infection. An incidental finding from this scan revealed diffuse cardiac...
Building information modeling (BIM), which can efficiently manage the life cycle of structures, has been increasingly applied in the construction industry. However, it is difficult to implement BIM for existing structures, due to the differences betw...
Background: The ultrasound scan represents the first tool that obstetricians use in fetal evaluation, but sometimes, it can be limited by mobility or fetal position, excessive thickness of the maternal abdominal wall, or the presence of post-surgical...
This paper presents a novel approach to localize an underwater mobile robot based on scan matching using a Mechanically Scanned Imaging Sonar (MSIS). When used to perform scan matching, this sensor presents some problems such as significant uncertain...
Architectural survey methods using terrestrial 3D laser scanning and digital photogrammetry prove capable of registering a building with a level of accuracy far superior to traditional methods, minimizing errors, and reducing fieldwork. Current devel...
Terrestrial laser scanning has become an important surveying technique in many fields such as natural hazard assessment. To analyse earth surface processes, it is useful to generate a digital terrain model originated from laser scan point cloud data....
The one dimensional discrete scan statistic is considered over sequences of random variables generated by block factor dependence models. Viewed as a maximum of an 1-dependent stationary sequence, the scan statistics distribution is approximated with...
This article proposes a hybrid algorithm that makes use of the db-scan unsupervised learning technique to obtain binary versions of continuous swarm intelligence algorithms. These binary versions are then applied to large instances of the well-known...
Building information modelling (BIM) has been implemented in many utility-based organisations worldwide, and it has proved to provide substantial cost- and time-saving benefits and improved performance and asset management especially during the opera...
Terrestrial laser scanning is of increasing importance for surveying and hazard assessments. Digital terrain models are generated using the resultant data to analyze surface processes. In order to determine the terrain surface as precisely as possibl...
Current standard methods for evaluating benign vocal lesions, including white light laryngoscopy and video laryngostroboscopy, may struggle to identify smaller lesions. While histopathological results obtained from laryngeal microsurgery provide defi...
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