Most of the previous research on term weighting for information retrieval has focused on developing specialized parametric term weighting functions. Examples include TF.IDF vector-space formulations, BM25, and language modeling weighting. Each of these term weighting functions takes on a specific parametric form. While these weighting functions have proven to be highly effective, they impose st...

An active-contour-interpolation approach is proposed for semi-automatic video object generation. In this approach, user can de ne the contour of the same video object on multiple frames and the computer interpolates the missing contours automatically. Typical active contour model is adapted and the contour interpolation problem is decomposed into two directional contour tracking problems and a ...

Introduction of Human Development Index (HDI) by UNDP in early 1990 followed a surge in use of non-parametric and parametric indices for measurement and comparison of countries performance in development, globalization, competition, well-being and etc. The HDI is a composite index of three indicators. Its components are to reflect three major dimensions of human development: longevity, knowledg...

We present an interactive approach for decompositing bitmap drawings and studio photographs into opaque and semi-transparent vector layers. Semi-transparent layers are especially challenging to extract, since they require the inversion of the non-linear compositing equation. We make this problem tractable by exploiting the parametric nature of vector gradients, jointly separating and vectorisin...

The object of the present study is to probabilistically evaluate commonly used methods to perform survival analysis of medical patients. Our study includes evaluation of parametric, semi-parametric and nonparametric analysis of probability survival models. We will evaluate the popular Kaplan-Meier (KM), the Cox Proportional Hazard (Cox PH), and Kernel density (KD) models using both Monte Carlo ...

© 2017 Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia | Published by Wolters Kluwer Medknow The Editor, The intraoperative assessment of regional left ventricular (LV) function using three‐dimensional (3D) echocardiographic parametric imaging is evolving as the technique has a steep learning curve. The two‐dimensional wall motion score index is a subjective and a semi‐quantitative way of describing segmental co...

In many biomedical studies, it is of interest to assess dependence between bivariate failure time data. We focus here on a special type of such data, referred to as semi-competing risks data. In this article, we develop methods for making inferences regarding dependence of semi-competing risks data across strata of a discrete covariate Z. A class of rank statistics for testing constancy of asso...