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    Deep Learning for COVID-19
    (Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2022) Bs, B.S.; Manoj Kumar, M.V.; Thomas, L.; Ajay Kumar, M.A.; Wu, D.; Annappa, B.; Hebbar, A.; Vishnu Srinivasa Murthy, Y.V.S.
    Ever since the outbreak in Wuhan, China, a variant of Coronavirus named “COVID 19” has taken human lives in millions all around the world. The detection of the infection is quite tedious since it takes 3–14 days for the symptoms to surface in patients. Early detection of the infection and prohibiting it would limit the spread to only to Local Transmission. Deep learning techniques can be used to gain insights on the early detection of infection on the medical image data such as Computed Tomography (CT images), Magnetic resonance Imaging (MRI images), and X-Ray images collected from the infected patients provided by the Medical institution or from the publicly available databases. The same techniques can be applied to do the analysis of infection rates and do predictions for the coming days. A wide range of open-source pre-trained models that are trained for general classification or segmentation is available for the proposed study. Using these models with the concept of transfer learning, obtained resultant models when applied to the medical image datasets would draw much more insights into the COVID-19 detection and prediction process. Innumerable works have been done by researchers all over the world on the publicly available COVID-19 datasets and were successful in deriving good results. Visualizing the results and presenting the summarized data of prediction in a cleaner, unambiguous way to the doctors would also facilitate the early detection and prevention of COVID-19 Infection. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
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    Comprehensive Review of Multimodal Medical Data Analysis: Open Issues and Future Research Directions
    (Prague University of Economics and Business, 2022) Shetty, S.; Ananthanarayana, V.S.; Mahale, A.
    Over the past few decades, the enormous expansion of medical data has led to searching for ways of data analysis in smart healthcare systems. Acquisition of data from pictures, archives, communication systems, electronic health records, online documents, radiology reports and clinical records of different styles with specific numerical information has given rise to the concept of multimodality and the need for machine learning and deep learning techniques in the analysis of the healthcare system. Medical data play a vital role in medical education and diagnosis; determining dependency between distinct modalities is essential. This paper gives a gist of current radiology medical data analysis techniques and their various approaches and frameworks for representation and classification. A brief outline of the existing medical multimodal data processing work is presented. The main objective of this study is to spot gaps in the surveyed area and list future tasks and challenges in radiology. The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis (or PRISMA) guidelines were incorporated in this study for effective article search and to investigate several relevant scientific publications. The systematic review was carried out on multimodal medical data analysis and highlighted advantages, limitations and strategies. The inherent benefit of multimodality in the medical domain powered with artificial intelligence has a significant impact on the performance of the disease diagnosis frameworks. © 2022 by the author(s).
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    Nucleate pool boiling heat transfer measurement and flow visualization for ammonia-water mixture
    (2011) Sathyabhama, A.; Ashok Babu, T.P.
    Visualization of bubble nucleation during nucleate pool boiling outside a vertical cylindrical heated surface was done for ammonia-water binary mixture in order to obtain a descriptive behavior of the boiling, which was directly compared with the measured heat transfer coefficient data at low pressure of 4-8 bar and at low mass fraction of 0 < x < 0.3 and at different heat flux. Still images taken with high speed camera are used to demonstrate the decrease in boiling heat transfer coefficient with increase in ammonia mass fraction. Jensen and Memmel model has better agreement with experimental bubble diameter. Further work is required to obtain quantitative information about bubble nucleation parameters. It is found that both Calus and Rice and Stephan-Koorner correlation can predict the experimental heat transfer coefficient values with a maximum deviation of ±20%. © 2011 American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
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    An Efficient Technique for Three-Dimensional Image Visualization through Two-Dimensional Images for Medical Data
    (De Gruyter peter.golla@degruyter.com, 2020) Gunasekaran, G.; Venkatesan, M.
    The main idea behind this work is to present three-dimensional (3D) image visualization through two-dimensional (2D) images that comprise various images. 3D image visualization is one of the essential methods for excerpting data from given pieces. The main goal of this work is to figure out the outlines of the given 3D geometric primitives in each part, and then integrate these outlines or frames to reconstruct 3D geometric primitives. The proposed technique is very useful and can be applied to many kinds of images. The experimental results showed a very good determination of the reconstructing process of 2D images. © 2020 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston 2020.
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    A Retinex-Based Variational Model for Enhancement and Restoration of Low-Contrast Remote-Sensed Images Corrupted by Shot Noise
    (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2020) Febin, I.P.; Padikkal, P.; Bini, A.A.
    Remotely sensed images are widely used in many imaging applications. Images captured under adverse atmospheric conditions lead to degraded images that are contrast deficient and noisy. This study is intended to address these defects of remotely sensed data efficiently. A perceptually inspired variational model is designed based upon the Bayesian framework, powered by the retinex theory. The atmospheric noise or the shot noise (precisely following a Poisson distribution) and contrast inhomogeneity are addressed in this article. The model thus designed is tested and verified both visually and quantitatively using various test data under different statistical measures. The comparative study reveals the efficiency of the model. © 2020 IEEE.
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    A retinex based non-local total generalized variation framework for OCT image restoration
    (Elsevier Ltd, 2022) Smitha, A.; Febin, I.P.; Padikkal, P.
    A retinex driven non-local total generalized variational (TGV) model is proposed in this paper to restore and enhance speckled images. The combined first and second-order TGV controlled by a balancing parameter are used to improve the enhancement and restoration process. The distribution of the speckle is estimated from input images using detailed statistical analysis. The model is designed to handle speckle-noise following a Gamma distribution, as analyzed later in this paper. The non-local TGV model is shown to restore images without causing any visual artefacts, unlike the normal total variation (TV) model. Moreover, a retinex framework shows a remarkable improvement to the contrast features of the data without distorting the natural image characteristics as quantified visually and statistically in the experimental section of this work. A fast numerical approximation based on the Split-Bregman scheme is employed to improve the efficiency of the model in terms of computation. The proposed model is verified to have despeckled and enhanced the Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) data to a greater extent compared to the state-of-the-art models as observable from the results shown in this paper. © 2021 Elsevier Ltd
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    Visualization and Assessment of the Effect of Roadworks on Traffic Congestion Using AVL Data of Public Transit
    (Springer Nature, 2022) Harsha, H.; Mulangi, R.H.; Kulkarni, V.
    Congestion-free movement of traffic during peak hours in urban areas is rarely witnessed nowadays. Several factors are responsible for traffic congestion, and a large amount of reliable data is necessary to investigate them. In this study, we investigated the effectiveness of automated vehicle location (AVL) data of public transit in evaluating the effect of route diversion due to roadworks on traffic congestion. The public transit vehicle data from Mysore intelligent transport system were used for the purpose. In the preliminary analysis, the spatiotemporal variations in the speed data of public transit were visualized using spatiotemporal speed plots. A comparison study of traffic states in an urban street and an arterial road was conducted using a visualization tool. The data from Inner Ring Road of Mysore city were used to evaluate the effect of roadworks on traffic congestion. The road links of Inner Ring Road were evaluated for two scenarios: normal scenario and route diversion scenario. The results revealed that the spatiotemporal visualization technique can be used to diagnose the changes in traffic congestion, especially near intersections and bus stops. It is concluded that the AVL data from public transit buses proves to be a potential data source for traffic state prediction and evaluation of traffic congestion. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
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    An Approach for Diagnostically Lossless Coding of Volumetric Medical Data Based on Wavelet and Just-Noticeable-Distortion Model
    (Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2023) Chandrika, B.K.; Aparna., P.; Sumam David, S.
    This paper explores a technique for visually/diagnostically lossless coding in the wavelet domain to effectively compress the three-dimensional medical image data. The quantisation module based on Just Noticeable Distortion (JND) for wavelets guarantees the visual quality in the reconstructed data. This method has been further extended to present the Volume of Interest (VOI) based technique that enables to preserve the quality of the diagnostically significant VOI region. The proposed method tested on several datasets outperforms the state-of-the-art methods. Apart from the conventional quality metric, Human Visual System (HVS) based quality metrics are also used to evaluate the visual quality of the reconstructed image. A subjective and objective evaluation carried out for VOI based coder shows that the quality-compression needs of the medical community are well addressed. © 2023 IETE.
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    Spatio-temporal analysis of public transit gps data: Application to traffic congestion evaluation
    (Aracne Editrice, 2024) Harsha, H.M.; Mulangi, R.H.
    Congestion free mobility has become nearly impossible in most of the metropolitan cities of India especially during peak hours. The understanding of factors inducing congestion demands huge amount of data pertaining to urban traffic. The developed countries have adopted different kinds of automatic data collection systems such as loop detectors, surveillance cameras and radars for the data collection of road traffic condition. In developing countries like India, the collection and monitoring of data related to movement of traffic stream are mostly manual, very time consuming and expensive. In India, Intelligent Transport System (ITS) has been implemented to Mysore City public transport in the year 2012. This study makes use of Global Positioning System (GPS) data of Mysore ITS. The major objective of the present study is to evaluate the congestion on urban roads using public transit GPS data with the help of visualization techniques. Spatio-temporal visualization-based analysis has been carried out to evaluate the traffic congestion patterns of urban roads. Initially, the comparison of traffic states on urban street and arterial road has been carried out. Later, the difference in congestion patterns before and after the operation of grade separator and the impact of route diversion on the congestion patterns have been evaluated. This study shows that public transit GPS data can be a potential data source to evaluate the traffic state or congestion, especially when there are limited sources of traffic data. © 2024, Aracne Editrice. All rights reserved.