Mobile robots are envisioned to cooperate closely with humans and to integrate seamlessly into a shared environment. For locomotion, these environments resemble traversable areas which are shared between multiple agents like humans and robots. The seamless integration of mobile robots into these environments requires accurate predictions of human locomotion. This work considers optimal control ...

The diagnostic values of MRI are greatly increased by the automated and accurate classification of the MRI brain images. Accurate detection of the type of brain abnormality is highly essential for treatment planning to minimize the fatal results. Accurate result can be obtained by using CAD systems. This is expected to improve consistency by providing a standardized approach to the MR brain ima...

Large area, shallow fields are well suited to proton therapy. However, due to beam production limitations, such volumes typically require multiple matched fields. This is problematic due to the relatively narrow beam penumbra at shallow depths compared to electron and photon beams. Therefore, highly accurate dose planning and delivery is required. As the dose delivery includes shifting the pati...

Efficient planning and improved quality of service (QoS) in wireless networks call for the use of mobility prediction schemes. Such schemes ensure accurate mobility prediction of wireless users and units which plays a major role in optimized planning and management of the available bandwidth and power resources. In this paper, fully-complex extreme learning machines (CELMs) model and predict th...

In liver surgery, accurate assessments of liver resection volume and anatomical variation are mandatory for preoperative planning of safe curative hepatectomy. In living donor liver transplantation (LDLT), estimation of hepatic venous drainage is important to avoid liver graft and donor residual liver congestion. This paper reviews the articles on simulation-guided liver surgery and describes o...

BACKGROUND According to intuitive concepts, 'ease of articulation' is influenced by factors like word length or the presence of consonant clusters in an utterance. Imaging studies of speech motor control use these factors to systematically tax the speech motor system. Evidence from apraxia of speech, a disorder supposed to result from speech motor planning impairment after lesions to speech mot...

With the aim of bridging gap between high quality reconstruction and robot motion planning, we propose an efficient system that leverages concept adaptive-resolution volumetric mapping, which naturally integrates with hierarchical decomposition space in octree data structure. Instead a Truncated Signed Distance Function (TSDF), adopt mapping occupancy probabilities log-odds representation, allo...

Due to the complex and dynamic nature of the construction industry, construction materials management (CMM) faces many unique challenges from material planning, ordering, receiving and storing, handling and distribution, site usage and monitoring. Poor materials management has been identified as a major source of low construction productivity, cost overrun and delays. Lack of active, accurate a...