Supporting top-k queries over distributed collections of schemaless XML data poses two challenges. While XML supports expressive query languages such as XPath and XQuery, these la...
The concept of the Logarithm of the Odds (LogOdds) is frequently used in areas such as artificial neural networks, economics, and biology. Here, we utilize LogOdds for a shape repr...
Kilian M. Pohl, John W. Fisher III, Martha Elizabe...
This paper presents a novel segmentation approach featuring shape constraints of multiple structures. A framework is developed combining statistical shape modeling with a maximum a...
Kilian M. Pohl, Simon K. Warfield, Ron Kikinis, W....
One of the key benefits of XML is its ability to represent a mix of structured and unstructured (text) data. Although current XML query languages such as XPath and XQuery can expr...
Efficient search for nearest neighbors (NN) is a fundamental problem arising in a large variety of applications of vast practical interest. In this paper we propose a novel techniq...