OBJECTIVE To study the increase accuracy of visual estimation of blood loss after an education program. MATERIAL AND METHOD Seven simulated scenarios with known measured amount of blood were created by using expired packed red cell from blood bank and common surgical materials. Ninety nurses were randomized into two groups. The experimental group attended blood loss estimation course while th...

Random Sample Consensus (RANSAC) has become one of the most successful techniques for robust estimation from a data set that may contain outliers. It works by constructing model hypotheses from random minimal data subsets and evaluating their validity from the support of the whole data. In this paper we present a novel combination of RANSAC plus Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) that uses the availa...

Mainstream theory suggests that the approximate number system supports our non-symbolic number abilities (e.g. estimating or comparing different sets of items). It is argued that this system can extract number independently of the visual cues present in the stimulus (diameter, aggregate surface, etc.). However, in a recent report we argue that this might not be the case. We showed that particip...

The fusion of monocular visual and inertial cues has become popular in robotics, unmanned vehicles and augmented reality fields. Recent results have shown that optimization-based fusion strategies outperform filtering strategies. Robust state estimation is the core capability for optimization-based visual-inertial Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) systems. As a result of the nonlinea...

To understand the viewing strategies employed in a quality estimation task, we compared two visual tasks—quality estimation and difference estimation. The estimation was done for a pair of natural images having small global changes in quality. Two groups of observers estimated the same set of images, but with different instructions. One group estimated the difference in quality and the other th...

abstract background: in developing countries, hemorrhage accounts for 30% of the maternal deaths. postpartum hemorrhage has been defined as blood loss of around 500 ml or more, after completing the third phase of labor. most cases of postpartum hemorrhage occur during the first hour after birth. the most common reason for bleeding in the early hours after childbirth is uterine atony bleeding du...

In MPEG-4, global motion estimation (GME) and global motion compensation can improve the visual quality of local motion estimation/compensation. However, the computational complexity of GME is very high. Even the existing fast algorithm, FFRGMET, in the MPEG-4 OM3 software is not fast enough. In this paper, we propose a fast GME algorithm called APSGME. It uses motion vectors from the PMVFAST l...

We present a solution for motion estimation for a set of cameras which are firmly mounted on a head unit and do not have overlapping views in each image. This problem relates to ego-motion estimation of multiple cameras, or visual odometry. We reduce motion estimation to solving a triangulation problem, which finds a point in space from multiple views. The optimal solution of the triangulation ...