It has been well established that adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) present social and behavioral characteristics that differ signifi‐ cantly from those of their peers without ASD. A growing number of recent studies have begun to look closely at automobile operation characteristics in individuals diagnosed with ASD. Some of this work has suggested that certain driving behav‐ iors...

Most image database prototypes and products focus mainly on similarity searches over syntactic features of images. DISIMA aims at providing querying on both syntactic and semantic features of images. The content of an image is viewed as a set of salient objects (regions of interest). Salient objects are organized into two levels: physical salient objects that store syntactic features and logica...

Assessing the returns of public investments in information and communication technologies (ICT) poses important practical and research challenges. Scholars and practitioners that have embarked in ICT assessment activities have encountered many difficulties which, to a large extent, have remained pending issues. This paper reviews the exiting literature on public return on investment (ROI) and p...

This paper proposes a number of techniques for 3-D image classification according to the nature of a particular Volume of Interest (VOI) that appears across a given image set. Three VOI Based Image Classification (VOIBIC) approaches are considered: (i) Statistical metric based, (ii) Point series based and (iii) Tree based. For evaluation purpose, two 3-D MRI brain scan datasets, Epilepsy and Mu...

Recently, the use of wireless sensor networks for environmental monitoring has been a topic of intensive research. The sensor nodes obtain spatiotemporal samples of physical fields over the region of interest. For most cases these fields are driven by well-known partial differential equations—the diffusion and wave equations for example—and this prior knowledge can be used to solve such physics...

8 In this paper, we propose a new knowledge-based method illustrated in the context of segmentation, which labels 9 internal brain structures viewed by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). In order to improve the accuracy of the la10 beling, we introduce a fuzzy model of regions of interest (ROI) by analogy with the electrostatic potential distribution, 11 to represent more appropriately the knowl...