Shape based classification of seismic building structural types

The seismic building structural type (SBST) reflects the main load-bearing structure of a building and therefore its behaviour under seismic load. For numerous areas in earthquake prone regions this information is outdated, unavailable, or simply not existent. Traditional methods to gather this information, such as building-by-building...

Micro-Activity Recognition using Wearables for Human Augmentation

Wearable devices have paved way for several context-aware applications in the field of health-care and sports to improve the well-being of users and their performance for human augmentation. During rehabilitation patients need accurate feedback that can empower and improve the speed of recovery. On the other hand competitive athletes need a...

Real-time estimation of surgical procedure duration

Each surgical procedure varies in length. There’s a need for dynamic planning to have an optimal patient flow from their beds to the operating room. This paper proposes an adaptive system that predicts the end of a gallbladder removal surgery 25 minutes in advance with the use of Support Vector Machines based on the activations of the...

Using the Multiple Instance Learning framework to address differential regulation

Cell differentiation is a natural process occurring in all higher organisms, since the early fetal stage of life. It is, also, a part of disease – such as cancer – as the cell cycle becomes deregulated and cells behave differently compared to healthy ones. Differentiation occurs although the genome of all cells is identical across all cell types...