• §2 motivates and outlines binary support vector machines. The contents of this section are standard, and the reader is referred to [Vapnik, 1995] for more details. However, we will follow a non-standard presentation; instead of motivating support vector machines from the point of view of optimal separating hyper-planes, we focus on the relationship between logistic regression and support vect...

The SAPHIRE project aims to develop an intelligent healthcare monitoring and decision support system on a platform integrating the wireless medical sensor data with hospital information systems. In the SAPHIRE project, patient monitoring will be achieved by using agent technology where the "agent behaviour" will be supported by intelligent clinical decision support systems which will be based o...

OBJECTIVE The aim was to investigate the management of drug therapy alerts on safe use of antibiotics in elderly patients with (potential) renal impairment and the contribution of optional creatinine point of care testing (PoCT) in community pharmacy practice. METHODS Community pharmacists used a clinical decision support system (CDSS) for seven antibiotics. Alerts were generated during presc...

We present a prototype of automatic dish recognition system, intended to ease the checkout process in self-serve cafeterias, where the price is based on what food and how much a customer takes. When a plate with several dishes in it goes though the checkout counter, a snapshot will be taken and then sent to a computer for analysis. A variety of features, including color and texture are extracte...

Studies have shown that monitoring HIV-infected patients undergoing antiretroviral therapy is best represented by combined measurement of plasma HIV-1 RNA and CD4+ T-lymphocytes [1]. This pilot study at the University of Missouri-Columbia integrates molecular diagnostic and flow cytometric data reporting to provide current and historical HIV-1 RNA levels and CD4+ T-cell counts. The development ...

background: availability of antiretroviral therapies has transformed aids into a manageable chronic condition and im­proved well-being among people living with hiv/aids (pha) in developed countries. in developing countries however, such transformations are yet to occur due to socio-economic, systemic and environmental constraint. this study examined the impact of social, economic, psychological...

hyrcanian forests in northern slope of alborz support high bird richness and abundance same as central of europe. in this study, efficiency of different methods including fixed-width transect, variable-width transect, fixed-radius point count and variable circular plot samplings were compared in order to present the most reliable methods for surveying and monitoring of diurnal forest birds in f...

In this report we show that the-tube size in Support Vector Machine (SVM) for regression is 2= p 1 + jjwjj 2. By using this result we show that, in the case all the data points are inside the-tube, minimizing jjwjj 2 in SVM for regression is equivalent to maximizing the distance between the approximating hyperplane and the farest points in the training set. Moreover, in the most general setting...