Rule-Enhanced Disease Coding Method Based on Roberta

Roberta Lamb, On the Way

I came to know of Roberta and her work through the late Rob Kling (her advisor) who, in the mid 1990’s, pointed me to some of Roberta’s work. I liked the focus of Roberta’s work and how she went about her scholarship. I wrote to ask about a paper of hers: she responded with a flurry of pointers and text, the first of many great interchanges. We began to interact regularly by email. I first met ...

Association rule-based feature selection method for Alzheimer's disease diagnosis

A fundamental challenge that remains unsolved in the neuroimage field is the small sample size problem. Feature selection and extraction, which are based on a limited training set, are likely to display poor generalization performance on new datasets. To address this challenge, a novel voxel selection method based on association rule (AR) mining is proposed for designing a computer aided diagno...

A Multiresolutional Coding Method Based on SPIHT

In this work, we incorporate a multiresolutional coding functionality into the SPIHT algorithm [1]. The multiresolutional coding can be considered as a kind of the region of interest (ROI) coding with multiple regions of interest. Therefore, the ROI coding proposed by authors can be extended for the multiresolutional functionality without any cost in performance. The parent of ROI (PROI) and th...

Fast Predictive Coding Method Based on an Enhanced Blocks Motion Estimation

An effective and efficient method is proposed for motion estimation in a video sequences. The paper outlines a search technique based on the traditional once-at-a-time search (OTS) and propose a fast predictive version called modified once-at-a-time search (MOTS) algorithms. The modification is based on utilizing the existing inter-block correlation between the motion vectors of the adjacent bl...

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