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Volumetric breast density and radiographic parameters (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Khan-Perez, J., Harkness, E., Mercer, C., Bydder, M., Sergeant, J., Morris, J., …Astley, S. M. (2014). Volumetric breast density and radiographic parameters. . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07887-8_38

The detection of breast cancer relies on high-quality images from digital mammography. Optimal levels of compression force are unknown, and UK national guidelines recommend forces of less than 200N. However, large variations in compression forces exi... Read More about Volumetric breast density and radiographic parameters.

Document representation refinement for precise region description (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Clausner, C., Pletschacher, S., & Antonacopoulos, A. (2014). Document representation refinement for precise region description. In A. Antonacopoulos, & K. Schulz (Eds.), DATeCH '14: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Digital Access to Textual Cultural Heritage. https://doi.org/10.1145/2595188.2595198

Precise description of layout entities (content regions on a page) is crucial for all but the most trivial document analysis and recognition applications. The output of layout analysis methods and state-of-the-art OCR systems varies significantly, fr... Read More about Document representation refinement for precise region description.

Multi-casting in mountainous regions of developing countries: Analysis through ICT, institutions, and capabilities perspectives (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Bass, J. M., & Thapa, D. (2014). Multi-casting in mountainous regions of developing countries: Analysis through ICT, institutions, and capabilities perspectives. . https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2014.412

Overcoming shortages of teachers or teachers with required skills and experience is a major challenge in rural schools in the global south. We investigate a classroom video conference multi-casting project under development by the Nepal Wireless Netw... Read More about Multi-casting in mountainous regions of developing countries: Analysis through ICT, institutions, and capabilities perspectives.

Front wave prediction in water hammer phenomena involving twophase flows (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Bogoi, A., Marie Seynhaeve, J., Rugescu, R. D., Sugar, O., & Giot, M. (2013). Front wave prediction in water hammer phenomena involving twophase flows. . https://doi.org/10.1115/IMECE2013-65838

A genuine mathematical model for one dimensional, unsteady, two phase (liquid-gas) flows is presented that intends to solve the complex problem of two phase behavior of fluids. The mechanism of the model describes the fluid flow characteristics of th... Read More about Front wave prediction in water hammer phenomena involving twophase flows.

Agile Method Tailoring in Distributed Enterprises: Product Owner Teams (2013)
Conference Proceeding
M. Bass, J. (2013). Agile Method Tailoring in Distributed Enterprises: Product Owner Teams. . https://doi.org/10.1109/icgse.2013.27

This paper explores practitioner descriptions of agile method tailoring in large-scale offshore or outsourced enterprise projects. Specifically, tailoring of the product owner role is discussed. The product owner identifies and prioritizes customer r... Read More about Agile Method Tailoring in Distributed Enterprises: Product Owner Teams.

The significance of reading order in document recognition and its evaluation (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Clausner, C., Pletschacher, S., & Antonacopoulos, A. (2013). The significance of reading order in document recognition and its evaluation. In Proceedings of the 2013 12th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDAR.2013.141

Reading order detection and representation is an important task in many digitisation scenarios involving the preservation of the logical structure of a document. The corresponding need for the evaluation of reading order results generated by layout a... Read More about The significance of reading order in document recognition and its evaluation.

Preceding rule induction with instance reduction methods (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Othman, O., & Bryant, C. (2013). Preceding rule induction with instance reduction methods. In P. Perner (Ed.), Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining in Pattern Recognition (209-218). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39712-7_16

A new prepruning technique for rule induction is presented which applies instance reduction before rule induction. An empirical evaluation records the predictive accuracy and size of rule-sets generated from 24 datasets from the UCI Machine Learning... Read More about Preceding rule induction with instance reduction methods.

An automated segmentation technique for the processing of foot ultrasound images (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Deshpande, R., Elagiri Ramalingam, R., Chockalingam, N., Naemi, R., Branthwaite, H., & Sundar, L. (2013). An automated segmentation technique for the processing of foot ultrasound images. . https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSNIP.2013.6529820

In spite of the advantages of ease of imaging and low acquisition cost, ultrasound images are noisier and have poorer image quality than other imaging modalities like CT or MRI and hence require an experienced clinician for interpretation. Processing... Read More about An automated segmentation technique for the processing of foot ultrasound images.

Augmented and virtual reality based approaches in minimally invasive surgery training (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Rahman, M. A., Mahmud, P., & Mashuk, M. (2013). Augmented and virtual reality based approaches in minimally invasive surgery training. In 2013 International Conference on Informatics, Electronics and Vision (ICIEV). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIEV.2013.6572714

Continuing development in surgical techniques has elevated the level of sophistication in surgery. In order to reduce trauma to healthy tissue of the patient body, scientists are continuously trying different technologies in surgery. Minimally Invasi... Read More about Augmented and virtual reality based approaches in minimally invasive surgery training.

SAT0575 Population Based Prospective Study of Self-Care Restriction in Older Adults with Joint Pain (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Prior, Y., Wilkie, R., Beech, R., & Peat, G. (2013). SAT0575 Population Based Prospective Study of Self-Care Restriction in Older Adults with Joint Pain. . https://doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2013-eular.2299

Background Self-care restriction is a frequent form of disability in older adults and is associated with joint pain. The natural history of self-care restriction in older adults with joint pain is unknown. Objectives To (i) describe the frequency... Read More about SAT0575 Population Based Prospective Study of Self-Care Restriction in Older Adults with Joint Pain.

The views of rheumatology occupational therapists of a vocational rehabilitation programme (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Prior, Y., Bodell, S., Amanna, A., & Hammond, A. (2013). The views of rheumatology occupational therapists of a vocational rehabilitation programme.

Objective: Work disability in inflammatory arthritis (IA) is common. Rheumatology Occupational Therapists (OTs) are well-placed to identify people with IA’s work problems as their role includes evaluating the impact of arthritis on functional ability... Read More about The views of rheumatology occupational therapists of a vocational rehabilitation programme.

Factors Associated with Person-Perceived Disability in Adults Aged 18+ with Rheumatoid Arthritis (2012)
Conference Proceeding
Prior, Y., Hammond, A., & Tyson, S. (2012). Factors Associated with Person-Perceived Disability in Adults Aged 18+ with Rheumatoid Arthritis.

Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is associated with high risk of disability (1). Loss of independence is negatively correlated with the person’s health and wellbeing (2). The International Classification of Health and Functioning (ICF... Read More about Factors Associated with Person-Perceived Disability in Adults Aged 18+ with Rheumatoid Arthritis.

Development of the Evaluation of Daily Activity Questionnaire (EDAQ) in Rheumatoid Arthritis: psychometric testing (2012)
Conference Proceeding
Hammond, A., Prior, Y., Horton, M., Tennant, A., & Tyson, S. (2012). Development of the Evaluation of Daily Activity Questionnaire (EDAQ) in Rheumatoid Arthritis: psychometric testing. . https://doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2014-eular.3334

Background The English Evaluation of Daily Activity Questionnaire (EDAQ) is a patient reported measure of activity limitations including 138 activities in 14 domains. It has been linguistically and culturally validated from the original Swedish to En... Read More about Development of the Evaluation of Daily Activity Questionnaire (EDAQ) in Rheumatoid Arthritis: psychometric testing.

In vivo measurement of the biomechanical properties of plantar soft tissues under simulated gait conditions (2012)
Conference Proceeding
Parker, D., Cooper, G., Pearson, S., Howard, D., Crofts, G., & Nester, C. (2012). In vivo measurement of the biomechanical properties of plantar soft tissues under simulated gait conditions. . https://doi.org/10.1186/1757-1146-5-S1-O39

In vivo biomechanical properties of plantar soft tissues have been assessed via manual indentation using simplified loading profiles [1], or in gait, with low image resolution/capture rates [2]. Since plantar soft tissue properties are highly rate de... Read More about In vivo measurement of the biomechanical properties of plantar soft tissues under simulated gait conditions.

Influences on agile practice tailoring in enterprise software development (2012)
Conference Proceeding
Bass, J. (2012). Influences on agile practice tailoring in enterprise software development. . https://doi.org/10.1109/AgileIndia.2012.15

Agile development projects have become a reality in large enterprises using offshore development models. A case study involving seven international companies with offices in Bangalore, India, and London, UK was conducted, including interviews with 19... Read More about Influences on agile practice tailoring in enterprise software development.

Comparing the performance of object and object relational database systems on objects of varying complexity (2012)
Conference Proceeding
Kalantari, R., & Bryant, C. (2012). Comparing the performance of object and object relational database systems on objects of varying complexity. In L. MacKinnon (Ed.), Proceedings of the 27th British National Conference on Databases. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25704-9_8

This is the first published work to compare the performance of object and object relational database systems based on the object's complexity. The findings of this research show that the performance of object and object relational database systems ar... Read More about Comparing the performance of object and object relational database systems on objects of varying complexity.

New concepts of Post Occupancy Evaluation (POE) utilizing BIM benchmarking techniques and sensing devices (2012)
Conference Proceeding
Coates, S., Arayici, Y., & Ozturk, Z. (2012). New concepts of Post Occupancy Evaluation (POE) utilizing BIM benchmarking techniques and sensing devices. In Sustainability in Energy and Buildings (319-329). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27509-8_27

Traditionally Post Occupancy Evaluation (POE) is conducted against the prescribed performance specification and it mainly relies on two activities; i) The effective collection of real world data and information and ii) the formulation of this data /... Read More about New concepts of Post Occupancy Evaluation (POE) utilizing BIM benchmarking techniques and sensing devices.

Aletheia - An advanced document layout and text ground-truthing system for production environments (2011)
Conference Proceeding
Clausner, C., Pletschacher, S., & Antonacopoulos, A. (2011). Aletheia - An advanced document layout and text ground-truthing system for production environments. In 2011 International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition ICDAR 2011. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDAR.2011.19

Large-scale digitisation has led to a number of new possibilities with regard to adaptive and learning based methods in the field of Document Image Analysis and OCR. For ground truth production of large corpora, however, there is still a gap in terms... Read More about Aletheia - An advanced document layout and text ground-truthing system for production environments.