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A hybrid approach for stain normalisation in digital histopathological images (2019)
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Bukenya, F. (2020). A hybrid approach for stain normalisation in digital histopathological images. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 79(3-4), 2339-2362. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-019-08262-0

Stain in-homogeneity adversely affects segmentation and quantifi-cation of tissues in histology images. Stain normalisation techniques have been used to standardise the appearance of images. However, most the available stain normalisation techniques... Read More about A hybrid approach for stain normalisation in digital histopathological images.

A novel framework for evaluating the impact of individual decision-making on public health outcomes and its potential application to study antiviral treatment collection during an influenza pandemic (2019)
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Venkatesan, S., Nguyen-Van-Tam, J., & Siebers, P. (2019). A novel framework for evaluating the impact of individual decision-making on public health outcomes and its potential application to study antiviral treatment collection during an influenza pandemic. PLoS ONE, 14(10), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0223946

© 2019 Venkatesan et al. The importance of accounting for social and behavioural processes when studying public health emergencies has been well-recognised. For infectious disease outbreaks in particular, several methods of incorporating individual b... Read More about A novel framework for evaluating the impact of individual decision-making on public health outcomes and its potential application to study antiviral treatment collection during an influenza pandemic.

Probing IoT-based consumer services: 'insights' from the connected shower (2019)
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Crabtree, A., Hyland, L., Colley, J., Flintham, M., Fischer, J. E., & Kwon, H. (2020). Probing IoT-based consumer services: 'insights' from the connected shower. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 24, 595–611. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-019-01303-3

This paper presents findings from the deployment of a technology probe-the connected shower-and implications for the development of 'living services' or autonomous context-aware consumer-oriented IoT services that exploit sensing to gain consumer 'in... Read More about Probing IoT-based consumer services: 'insights' from the connected shower.

An Intelligent Computer-Aided Scheme for Classifying Multiple Skin Lesions (2019)
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Hameed, N., Hameed, F., Shabut, A., Khan, S., Cirstea, S., & Hossain, A. (2019). An Intelligent Computer-Aided Scheme for Classifying Multiple Skin Lesions. Computers, 8(3), Article 62. https://doi.org/10.3390/computers8030062

Skin diseases cases are increasing on a daily basis and are dicult to handle due to the global imbalance between skin disease patients and dermatologists. Skin diseases are among the top 5 leading cause of the worldwide disease burden. To reduce thi... Read More about An Intelligent Computer-Aided Scheme for Classifying Multiple Skin Lesions.

Fast and Scalable Approaches to Accelerate the Fuzzy k Nearest Neighbors Classifier for Big Data (2019)
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Maillo, J., García, S., Luengo, J., Herrera, F., & Triguero, I. (2020). Fast and Scalable Approaches to Accelerate the Fuzzy k Nearest Neighbors Classifier for Big Data. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 28(5), 874-886. https://doi.org/10.1109/TFUZZ.2019.2936356

One of the best-known and most effective methods in supervised classification is the k nearest neighbors algorithm (kNN). Several approaches have been proposed to improve its accuracy, where fuzzy approaches prove to be among the most successful, hig... Read More about Fast and Scalable Approaches to Accelerate the Fuzzy k Nearest Neighbors Classifier for Big Data.

Multi-Scale Topological Analysis of Asymmetric Tensor Fields on Surfaces (2019)
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Khan, F., Roy, L., Zhang, E., Qu, B., Hung, S., Yeh, H., …Zhang, Y. (2020). Multi-Scale Topological Analysis of Asymmetric Tensor Fields on Surfaces. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 26(1), 270 - 279. https://doi.org/10.1109/tvcg.2019.2934314

Asymmetric tensor fields have found applications in many science and engineering domains, such as fluid dynamics. Recent advances in the visualization and analysis of 2D asymmetric tensor fields focus on pointwise analysis of the tensor field and eff... Read More about Multi-Scale Topological Analysis of Asymmetric Tensor Fields on Surfaces.

“Off the beaten map”: Navigating with digital maps on moorland (2019)
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Smith, T. A., Laurier, E., Reeves, S., & Dunkley, R. A. (2019). “Off the beaten map”: Navigating with digital maps on moorland. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12336

The information, practices and views in this article are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG). © 2019 Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) Res... Read More about “Off the beaten map”: Navigating with digital maps on moorland.

A Novel Autonomous Perceptron Model for Pattern Classification Applications (2019)
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Sagheer, A., Zidan, M., & Abdelsamea, M. M. (2019). A Novel Autonomous Perceptron Model for Pattern Classification Applications. Entropy, 21(8), https://doi.org/10.3390/e21080763

Pattern classification represents a challenging problem in machine learning and data science research domains, especially when there is a limited availability of training samples. In recent years, artificial neural network (ANN) algorithms have demon... Read More about A Novel Autonomous Perceptron Model for Pattern Classification Applications.

Combining clustering and classification ensembles: A novel pipeline to identify breast cancer profiles (2019)
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Agrawal, U., Soria, D., Wagner, C., Garibaldi, J., Ellis, I. O., Bartlett, J. M. S., …Green, A. R. (2019). Combining clustering and classification ensembles: A novel pipeline to identify breast cancer profiles. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 97, 27-37. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artmed.2019.05.002

Breast Cancer is one of the most common causes of cancer death in women, representing a very complex disease with varied molecular alterations. To assist breast cancer prognosis, the classification of patients into biological groups is of great signi... Read More about Combining clustering and classification ensembles: A novel pipeline to identify breast cancer profiles.

Psychological interventions as vaccine adjuvants: A systematic review (2019)
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Vedhara, K., Ayling, K., Sunger, K., Caldwell, D. M., Halliday, V., Fairclough, L., …Royal, S. (2019). Psychological interventions as vaccine adjuvants: A systematic review. Vaccine, 37(25), 3255-3266. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2019.04.091

Objectives: The effectiveness of vaccines is known to be altered by a range of psychological factors. We conducted a systematic review to evaluate the effects of psychological interventions on the ability of vaccines to protect against disease, as me... Read More about Psychological interventions as vaccine adjuvants: A systematic review.

Young adults' attitudes to sharing whole-genome sequencing information: a university-based survey (2019)
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Stringer, P., Sharples, S., Thomson, B. J., & Garibaldi, J. M. (2019). Young adults' attitudes to sharing whole-genome sequencing information: a university-based survey. BMC Medical Genomics, 12, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12920-019-0499-2

Background Genomic services are increasingly accessible to young adults starting their independent lives with responsibility for their self-care, yet their attitudes to sharing genomic information remain under-researched. This study explored attitud... Read More about Young adults' attitudes to sharing whole-genome sequencing information: a university-based survey.

A multi-aperture optical flow estimation method for an artificial compound eye (2019)
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Wu, S., Zhang, G., Neri, F., Zhu, M., Jiang, T., & Kuhnert, K. D. (2019). A multi-aperture optical flow estimation method for an artificial compound eye. Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, 26(2), 139-157. https://doi.org/10.3233/ICA-180593

© 2019 IOS Press and the authors. All rights reserved. An artificial compound eye (ACE) is a bio-inspired vision sensor which mimics a natural compound eye (typical of insects). This artificial eye is able to visualize large fields of the outside wor... Read More about A multi-aperture optical flow estimation method for an artificial compound eye.

Cloud-assisted secure eHealth systems for tamper-proofing EHR via blockchain (2019)
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Cao, S., Zhang, G., Liu, P., Zhang, X., & Neri, F. (2019). Cloud-assisted secure eHealth systems for tamper-proofing EHR via blockchain. Information Sciences, 485, 427-440. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2019.02.038

© 2019 Elsevier Inc. The wide deployment of cloud-assisted electronic health (eHealth) systems has already shown great benefits in managing electronic health records (EHRs) for both medical institutions and patients. However, it also causes critical... Read More about Cloud-assisted secure eHealth systems for tamper-proofing EHR via blockchain.