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14 years 6 months ago
A Contourlet Transform Feature Extraction Scheme for Ultrasound Thyroid Texture Classification
Ultrasonography is an invaluable and widely used medical imaging tool. Nevertheless, automatic texture analysis on ultrasound images remains a challenging issue. This work presen...
Stamos Katsigiannis, Eystratios G. Keramidas, Dimi...
IJCV
2007
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15 years 1 months ago
Self-Invertible 2D Log-Gabor Wavelets
Orthogonal and biorthogonal wavelets became very popular image processing tools but exhibit major drawbacks, namely a poor resolution in orientation and the lack of translation inv...
Sylvain Fischer, Filip Sroubek, Laurent Perrinet, ...
GECCO
2007
Springer
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15 years 7 months ago
Binary ant algorithm
When facing dynamic optimization problems the goal is no longer to find the extrema, but to track their progression through the space as closely as possible. Over these kind of ov...
Carlos Fernandes, Agostinho C. Rosa, Vitorino Ramo...
MANSCI
2010
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14 years 11 months ago
Contracting for Infrequent Restoration and Recovery of Mission-Critical Systems
Firms that rely on functioning mission-critical equipment for their businesses cannot a¤ord signi…cant operational downtime due to system disruptions. To minimize the impact of...
Sang-Hyun Kim, Morris A. Cohen, Serguei Netessine,...
NIPS
1998
15 years 2 months ago
Risk Sensitive Reinforcement Learning
In this paper, we consider Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) with error states. Error states are those states entering which is undesirable or dangerous. We define the risk with re...
Ralph Neuneier, Oliver Mihatsch