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BMCBI
2011
14 years 4 months ago
SNP-based pathway enrichment analysis for genome-wide association studies
Background: Recently we have witnessed a surge of interest in using genome-wide association studies (GWAS) to discover the genetic basis of complex diseases. Many genetic variatio...
Lingjie Weng, Fabio Macciardi, Aravind Subramanian...
IWEC
2008
14 years 11 months ago
Strategic Path Planning on the Basis of Risk vs. Time
Abstract. The selection of path in an urban combat setting determines the survival to a greater extent. In this paper we propose an algorithm that finds strategic paths inside a ma...
Ashish C. Singh, Lawrence B. Holder
CSE
2009
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Fast Fusion of Medical Images Based on Bayesian Risk Minimization and Pixon Map
Fast fusion of multiple registered out-of-focus images is of great interest in medical imaging; for example, the thoracic cavity is always too bumpy to be focused on all parts at ...
Hongbo Zhou, Qiang Cheng, Mehdi Zargham
BMCBI
2010
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14 years 9 months ago
A multifactorial analysis of obesity as CVD risk factor: Use of neural network based methods in a nutrigenetics context
Background: Obesity is a multifactorial trait, which comprises an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD). The aim of the current work is to study the complex eti...
Ioannis K. Valavanis, Stavroula G. Mougiakakou, Ke...
BMCBI
2011
14 years 4 months ago
A comparison and user-based evaluation of models of textual information structure in the context of cancer risk assessment
Background: Many practical tasks in biomedicine require accessing specific types of information in scientific literature; e.g. information about the results or conclusions of the ...
Yufan Guo, Anna Korhonen, Maria Liakata, Ilona Sil...