The objectives of this research were to: (1) develop rule sets in Definiens Developer 7® for mapping and monitoring riparian zone land-cover classes within two QuickBird images; and (2) compare the results of four object-oriented and pixel-based change detection approaches. Two QuickBird images, atmospherically corrected to at-surface reflectance, were captured in May and August 2007 for a sava...

This paper discusses an analysis of human radiation frequency and classify the characteristic of human body radiation based on gender. The frequency radiation of the human body is experimentally studied from 33 healthy subjects on 23 points around the body. The characteristic difference of human radiation is evaluated using statistical analysis of multivariate analysis of variance. Then, kNN cl...

Inventories of past and present land cover changes form the basis for future conservation strategies and landscape management. In this study Landsat images of a mountainous area in Mexico are used in an objectbased and pixel-based image classification. The land cover categories with the highest individual classification accuracies determined with these two methods are extracted and merged into ...

In this study, maximum likelihood supervised classification and post-classification change detection techniques were applied to Landsat images acquired in 1987 and 2001, respectively, to map land cover changes in the Northwestern coast of Egypt. A supervised classification was carried out on the six reflective bands for the two images individually with the aid of ground truth data. Ground truth...

In this paper we present our approach to the 2011 ImageClef PhotoAnnotation task, which is based on the well known bag-of-words model. We investigated an approach for selecting the most informative training samples per concept for classification and the impact of fusing the OpponentSIFT feature with the GIST feature which calculates global image statistics, on scene-based concepts. We also inco...

PURPOSE The aim of the study was to retrospectively compare outcome and complications of prostate cancer patients treated with a curative and postoperative intent using a pretreatment defined NCCN classification. MATERIAL AND METHODS A total of 103 patients was treated curatively (RAD) and 94 postoperatively (POST-OP). The mean age was higher in the RAD group (72.6 years; range, 56.4-85.1) th...

Cost-sensitive learning relies on the availability of a known and fixed cost matrix. However, in some scenarios, the cost matrix is uncertain during training, and re-train a classifier after the cost matrix is specified would not be an option. For binary classification, this issue can be successfully addressed by methods maximizing the Area Under the ROC Curve (AUC) metric. Since the AUC can me...

INTRODUCTION Robotic-assisted laparoscopic hysterectomy (RALH) has become a widely used approach for women with endometrial cancer and has replaced laparotomy. It has been questioned if the increased costs are justified by superior surgical outcomes. The aim of the present study was to examine the frequency, types and severity of post-operative complications after total abdominal hysterectomy (...