Bringing digital scribes into orthopedic consultations: Towards AI-assisted clinical documentation

Clinical documentation takes up 40% of clinicians’ time. To ease the administrative burden of clinicians, digital scribes offer the potential to automate clinical note taking. Digital scribes are intelligent documentation softwares that combine automated speech recognition (ASR) and natural language processing (NLP). Digital scribes transcribe...

A model based approach to the automatic generation of block division plans: On the effective usefulness in ship production optimization algorithm

European shipyards are building increasing amounts of complex ships such as off-shore, dredging or naval ships that are engineered-to-order. The block division is made when only preliminary hull structural design, functional compartments and the location of major equipment are known. The existing production scheduling optimization algorithms use...

Automatically Generating User-specific Recovery Procedures after Malware Infections

Malware poses a serious security risk in today’s digital environment. The defense against malware mainly relies on proactive detection. However, antivirus products often fail to detect new malware when the signature is not yet available. In the event of a malware infection, the common remediation strategy is reinstalling the system. However, the...

Applying Large-Scale Weakly Supervised Automatic Speech Recognition to Air Traffic Control

The application of automatic speech recognition in the air traffic control domain has been researched extensively. However, its primary application remains in the training and simulation of air traffic controllers. This is due to the insufficient performance of automatic speech recognition in specific environments, such as air traffic control,...

Evaluation of settlement models for sand under the influence of cyclic loads induced by automatic stacking cranes

Six cyclic settlement models for sand are evaluated to analyse the settlement of automatic stacking crane (ASC) rail tracks at the Rotterdam World Gateway (RWG) container terminal. During Phase 1 of the RWG container terminal settlement of the rail tracks occurred at multiple locations after the ASCs became operational....

Automatic segmentation of the spinal joints and intervertebral disks on low-dose computed tomography: an atlas-based approach

Introduction: Spondyloarthritis (SpA) belongs to the chronic inflammatory rheumatic diseases, and primarily affects the axial skeleton. Quantitative 18F-NaF PET/CT is a new imaging approach that shows promise for accurate diagnosis and treatment assessment. Manual segmentation of low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) for quantitative feature...

An automated approach to estimate car- bon monoxide emissions from steel plants by utilizing TROPOMI satellite measure- ments

Since the 13th of October 2017, the Tropospheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) aboard ESA’s Sentinel 5-Precursor (S5-P) satellite enables daily global measurements of carbon monoxide (CO) total column con- centrations at an unprecedented spatial resolution of 7×5.6 km. TROPOMI has the ability to detect distinct pollution plumes, arising from...

ERTMS/ETCS Hybrid Level 3 and ATO: A simulation based capacity impact study for the Dutch railway network

In the 2020 timetable the Dutch legacy signalling and automatic train protection systems (ATB/NS’54) are operating at maximum capacity in the busiest parts of the network. With future expansions of services in mind, the capacity provided by the legacy systems could be considered insufficient. The planned implementation of the ERTMS/ETCS Level 2...

improving power output of limited stroke automatic watch winding using a nonlinear transmission

Limited stroke automatic watch winding poses a challenge due to the proof mass range being smaller than the input displacements. Traditionally the proof mass is connected to the mainspring by a linear reduction transmission however this setup only functions effectively for specific accelerations. This paper proposes to use a nonlinear...

Robotic assembly of interlocking CNC-cut sheets into a wall component: Redesign the CNC-cut elements of the wall component in order to reduce the robotic automatic assembly time

There is a large pressure on the construction industry in the Netherlands because there are not enough skilled employees and 1 million new homes need to be built before 2030. TheNewMakers (TNM) want to radically change how buildings are being constructed in order to speed up the building process. TNM is applying their LEGO inspired building...