BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE It remains unclear whether C-reactive protein (CRP) is a serum marker for atherothrombotic disease or a causal factor in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis. We explored the association between CRP gene variations and cerebral small-vessel disease (SVD) in the Rotterdam Scan Study (N=1035) and the MEMO Study (N=268). METHODS Common haplotypes within the CRP gene were de...

A novel way to learn and track simultaneously the appearance of a previously non-seen face without intrusive techniques can be found in this article. The presented approach has a causal behaviour: no future frames are needed to process the current ones. The model used in the tracking process is refined with each input frame thanks to a new algorithm for the simultaneous and incremental computat...

This paper discusses an SVD-based signal enhancement procedure, applied to noise reduction in multi-microphone speech signals. The SVD-based signal enhancement procedure amounts to a specific optimal filtering problem when the so-called ‘desired response’ signal cannot be observed. The optimal filter can then be written as a function of the generalized singular vectors and singular values of a ...

The paper examines the singular value decomposition (SVD) for detection of remote harmonics in signals, in the presence of high noise contaminating the measured waveform. When the number of harmonics is very large and at the same time certain harmonics are distant from the other, the conventional frequency detecting methods are not satisfactory. The methods developed for locating the frequencie...

---------------------------------------------------------------------***--------------------------------------------------------------------Abstract -In this paper a new image compression technique is presented using Singular value decomposition (SVD) and wavelet difference reduction (WDR). In this we have done hybridization of these two techniques in order to achieve higher compression rate an...

PURPOSE Determine whether white matter signal fluctuation on T2* weighted BOLD contrast images are associated with aging and cerebral small vessel disease (SVD). METHODOLOGY Resting state BOLD data were collected with a 250 ms repetition time (TR) to achieve unaliased, ungated cardiac sampled BOLD (cs-BOLD) images on 11 young adult controls, 10 healthy older adult controls and 7 adults with e...

BACKGROUND Cerebral small vessel disease (SVD) is a frequent finding on CT and MRI scans of elderly people and is related to vascular risk factors and cognitive and motor impairment, ultimately leading to dementia or parkinsonism in some. In general, the relations are weak, and not all subjects with SVD become demented or get parkinsonism. This might be explained by the diversity of underlying ...

This paper presents an image compression using singular value decomposition (SVD) by extracting the red, green, and blue (RGB) channel colors. Image is needed in development of various multimedia computer services applications for example telecommunications storage technologies. Now a days, video technology, digital broadcast codec teleconferencing become popular always requires high process di...

Microvascular ischemia in the brain manifests as formation of white matter lesions (WMLs) and lacunae that ultimately result in gait disturbance, cognitive impairment, and dementia.1,2 Most of the changes are caused by cerebral small vessel disease (SVD), but the pathogenesis of cerebral SVD is incompletely understood.3 There is extensive literature describing the relationships between SVD and ...

Nowadays privacy issues are major concern for many government and other private organizations to delve important information from large repositories of data. Privacy preserving clustering which is one of the techniques emerged to addresses the problem of extracting useful clustering patterns from distorted data without accessing the original data directly. In this paper two hybrid data transfor...