Spectral CT Thermometry for Thermal Liver Ablation: Applicability and Needle Artifact Reduction

Motivation: Effective management of liver tumors through thermal ablation requires precise monitoring of the ablation zone to ensure successful treatment outcomes. Computed tomography (CT) thermometry offers a promising non-invasive solution to monitor if tumor cells have been heated to the lethal temperature threshold. However, achieving...

AI-Assisted Design & Optimization for Predictive Maintenance: A Case Study using Deep Learning and Search Metaheuristics for Structural Health Monitoring in Aviation

One of the classical solutions to maintain the aircraft structural integrity is to rely on the analysis of non-destructive testing (NDT) inspector with various inspection methods. However, it is relatively expensive in matter of time and costs to train human resources until the certification is reached. Further, in majority of the cases of...

Continuous People Crowd Monitoring defined as a Regression Problem using Radar Networks

Radar-based human activity recognition in crowded environments using regression approaches is addressed. Whereas previous research has focused on single activities and subjects, the problem of continuous activity recognition involving up to five individuals moving in arbitrary directions in an indoor area is introduced. To treat the problem, a...

Surface-related multiple estimation and removal with focus on shallow water

For exploration and development of the earth, seismic surveys are acquired to provide information about the subsurface, within specifications of accuracy set by geologists and engineers, and within business constraints on budgets and turn-around time for processing and interpretation of the data. The case of seismic surveys that are acquired,...

Point Transformer-Based Human Activity Recognition using high-dimensional Radar Point Clouds

Today, with increasingly aging population, healthcare systems in many countries need to improve their effectiveness, and the automatic HAR technology can be beneficial. This can provide early diagnosis of changes in behavioral patterns in the home environment, without hospitalization, and detect critical events such as falls in a timely manner....

An Empirical Assessment on the Limits of Binary Code Summarization with Transformer-based Models

Reverse engineering binaries is required to understand and analyse programs for which the source code is unavailable. Decompilers can transform the largely unreadable binaries into a more readable source code-like representation. However, many aspects of source code, such as variable names and comments, are lost during the compilation and...

Radio Frequency Fingerprinting for Aircraft Identification

Radio frequency fingerprinting has been identified as a method to increase integrity in aircraft surveillance while retaining its openness. One way to uniquely determine transmitting devices is to distill the device its radio frequency (RF) fingerprint by looking at the physical features of the message signal it transmits. This physical layer...

Digital Soil Mapping based on PDFs of Cone Penetration Tests and Vibro Cores using Image Processing and Machine Learning

Digital Soil Mapping (DSM) of soil types in geotechnical project areas is a top priority. These maps are often used in decision making and can have significant consequences related to costs and risks. Usually, these maps are generated by digital soil models that interpolate soil types at known locations. In practice, conventional spatial...

Reinforcement Learning approach for decision-making in driver control shifting for semi-autonomous driving

Semi-autonomous driving innovations aim to bridge the gap to fully autonomous driving by co-operating with human drivers to lead to optimal choices on who should drive in different scenarios by offering different automation levels. However, in the present day, known semi-autonomous driving solutions do not generalise to every complex case of...

WHOSe Heritage: Classification of UNESCO World Heritage Statements of "outstanding Universal Value" with Soft Labels

The UNESCO World Heritage List (WHL) includes the exceptionally valuable cultural and natural heritage to be preserved for mankind. Evaluating and justifying the Outstanding Universal Value (OUV) is essential for each site inscribed in the WHL, and yet a complex task, even for experts, since the selection criteria of OUV are not mutually...

Deep Learning-Based Sound Identification

Environmental sound identification and recognition aim to detect sound events within an audio clip. This technology is useful in many real-world applications such as security systems, smart vehicle navigation and surveillance of noise pollution, etc. Research on this topic has received increased attention in recent years. Performance is...

Numerical Body Model Inference for Individualized RF exposure Prediction in Neuroimaging at 7T MRI

Magnetic Resonance Imaging is a popular modality for brain imaging in present times. The quality of the images depends on the strength of the magnetic field. An MRI scanner with a magnetic field strength of 3 Tesla(T) is pre-dominantly used for clinical purposes. However, with the advancement in technology, and the need to image finer image...