background: gastrointestinal tract cancer (gi.c) is one of the common cancers in world‑wide. the incidence rate of it is different in various geographical regions. this study was performed to assess spatial clusters of the occurrence of gi.c in fars province. methods: in this cross‑sectional study, the new cases were 4569 cases from 2001 to 2009. the crude incidence rates were standardized base...

Motor-imagery-based brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) commonly use the common spatial pattern filter (CSP) as preprocessing step before feature extraction and classification. The CSP method is a supervised algorithm and therefore needs subject-specific training data for calibration, which is very time consuming to collect. In order to reduce the amount of calibration data that is needed for a ne...

in the analysis of spatial point patterns, complete spatial randomness (csr) hypothesis,which is a restriction of a homogenous poisson process to study region a, operates as a dividinghypothesis between “regular” and “aggregated” patterns. meanwhile, many alternatives to csr inaggregated patterns are extensions of homogenous poisson processes themselves. therefore, when thecsr hypothesis is rej...

Robustness in signal processing is crucial for the purpose of reliably interpreting physiological features from noisy data in biomedical applications. We present a robust algorithm based on the reformulation of a well-known spatial filtering and feature extraction algorithm named Common Spatial Patterns (CSP). We cast the problem of learning CSP into a probabilistic framework, which allows us t...

In early development, regulation of transcription results in precisely positioned and highly reproducible expression patterns that specify cellular identities. How transcription, a fundamentally noisy molecular process, is regulated to achieve reliable embryonic patterning remains unclear. In particular, it is unknown how gene-specific regulation mechanisms affect kinetic rates of transcription...

Brain-Computer Interfaces can suffer from a large variance of the subject conditions within and across sessions. For example vigilance fluctuations in the individual, variable task involvement, workload etc. alter the characteristics of EEG signals and thus challenge a stable BCI operation. In the present work we aim to define features based on a variant of the common spatial patterns (CSP) alg...

One source of EEG data quality deterioration is noise. The others are artifacts, such as the eye blinking, oculogyration, heart beat, or muscle activity. All these factors mentioned above contribute to the disappointing and poor quality of EEG signals. There are some solutions which allow increase of this signals quality. One of them is Common Spatial Patterns. Some scientific papers report tha...

Classifying motion intentions in brain-computer interfacing (BCI) is a demanding task as the recorded EEG signal is not only noisy and has limited spatial resolution but it is also intrinsically non-stationary. The non-stationarities in the signal may come from many different sources, for instance, electrode artefacts, muscular activity or changes of task involvement, and often deteriorate clas...