The management of prostate cancer involves the consideration of a number of clinical, biological and patient factors in order to determine the most appropriate treatment. These include the clinical stage of the tumour, the presence or absence of high-risk features, and individual patient factors such as comorbidities and performance status. There is then careful discussion between the patient a...

This paper presents a human-robot interface system that enables a user to move a robot by moving his hand. It adopts the technique of the 3D measurement based on the affine invariants from multiple views. In this system, we can choose a reference frame to obtain the 3D hand motion between the user-centered frame and the world-fixed frame. With the former frame, the system interprets the user's ...

While adopting the contextualized hidden Markov model (CHMM) framework for unsupervised Russian POS tagging, we investigate the possibility of utilizing the left, right, and unambiguous context in the CHMM framework. We propose a backoff smoothing method that incorporates all three types of context into the transition probability estimation during the expectation-maximization process. The resul...