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...

ETA prediction for containerships at the Port of Rotterdam using Machine Learning Techniques

The hinterland transportation of incoming containers at container terminals is a complex problem, due to the various actors involved and their often conflicting interests. A promising solution towards the problem for hinterland network operators is that of synchromodality, a concept that refers to on-line network planning for hinterland...