Multi-subject fMRI data is critical for evaluating the generality and validity of findings across subjects, and its effective utilization helps improve analysis sensitivity. We develop a shared response model for aggregating multi-subject fMRI data that accounts for different functional topographies among anatomically aligned datasets. Our model demonstrates improved sensitivity in identifying ...

Unsupervised and touchless image acquisition are two problems that have recently emerged in biometric systems based on hand features. We have developed a real-time model-based hand localization system for palmar image acquisition and ROI extraction. The system operates on video sequences and produces a set of palmprint regions of interest (ROIs) for each sequence. Hand candidates are first loca...

Quantifying and designing the cost pool generated by Business Intelligence and Analytics (BI&A) would improve cost transparency and invoicing processes, allowing a fairer, more exact allocation of costs to service consumers. Yet there is still no method for determining BI&A costs to provide a base for allocation purposes. While literature describes several methods for BI&A cost estimation on an...

• ROI and the financial analysis of the benefits of training is not always the most important factor in evaluation, but it is certainly one amongst many important factors which can be considered. • ROI is not essential or even necessary for every form of training, but it is vital in many cases. • ROI and Kirkpatrick’s model of evaluation are not mutually exclusive; in fact I deem that both are ...

This work presents a method for the recognition of mouse footprint according to the region of interest bounded by five reference points, using linear orthogonal features (OLOF) and algorithms such as:

Introduction: Intra-organ radiation dose sensitivity is becoming increasingly relevant in clinical radiotherapy. One method for assessment involves partitioning delineated regions of interest and comparing the relative contributions or importance to clinical outcomes. We show that an intuitive method for dividing organ contours, compound (sub-)segmentation, can unintentionally lead to sub-segme...

As an E-learning provider, before offering such a product it needs to carry out a thorough analysis in order to understand the customers and trends, and evaluate external environmental forces which include market demand, political and legal forces, social and ethical influences, technology and competition. Through conducting a thorough analysis, a clear strategy can be developed that identifies...

This paper describes the concept of relative scrollbars. Simple scrollbars have been used for some time to distinguish a particular region in a linear data set. When two users of a cooperative editor are simultaneously working on the same file, each has a distinguished region corresponding to the part of the file which is displayed. Often what is most important is information on the position an...