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Technologies for analysing and improving healthcare processes (2019)
Book Chapter
Gordon, N. (in press). Technologies for analysing and improving healthcare processes. In W. Leal Filho, T. Wall, A. Azul, L. Brandli, & P. Özuyar (Eds.), Good Health and Well-Being

The right to a healthy life is a natural expectation and recognised as a human right (WHO, 2017) – and is further recognised as such in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, where Goal 3 focusses on “good health and well-being” (United Na... Read More about Technologies for analysing and improving healthcare processes.

Performance evaluation and design for variable threshold alarm systems through semi-Markov process (2019)
Journal Article
Aslansefat, K., Bahar Gogani, M., Kabir, S., Shoorehdeli, M. A., & Yari, M. (in press). Performance evaluation and design for variable threshold alarm systems through semi-Markov process. ISA Transactions, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isatra.2019.08.015

In large industrial systems, alarm management is one of the most important issues to improve the safety and efficiency of systems in practice. Operators of such systems often have to deal with a numerous number of simultaneous alarms. Different kinds... Read More about Performance evaluation and design for variable threshold alarm systems through semi-Markov process.

Variability management in safety-critical systems design and dependability analysis (2019)
Journal Article
de Oliveira, A. L., Braga, R., Masiero, P., Parker, D., Papadopoulos, Y., Habli, I., & Kelly, T. (2019). Variability management in safety-critical systems design and dependability analysis. Journal of software : evolution and process, 31(8), Article e2202. https://doi.org/10.1002/smr.2202

Safety-critical systems are of paramount importance for many application domains, where safety properties are a key driver to engineer critical aspects and avoid system failures. For the benefits of large-scale reuse, software product lines (SPL) hav... Read More about Variability management in safety-critical systems design and dependability analysis.

A nine months follow-up study of hemodynamic effect on bioabsorbable coronary stent implantation (2019)
Journal Article
Lan, Y., Zhou, Y., Lu, Y., Wang, H., Liu, Q., Ng, E. Y. K., …Che, W. (2019). A nine months follow-up study of hemodynamic effect on bioabsorbable coronary stent implantation. IEEE Access, 7, 112564-112571. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2934155

Coronary artery disease has emerged as one of the major diseases causing death worldwide. Coronary stent has great effect to improve blood flow to the myocardium subtended by that artery, in which bioresorbable vascular scaffolds are new-generation s... Read More about A nine months follow-up study of hemodynamic effect on bioabsorbable coronary stent implantation.

Ensemble multiboost based on ripper classifier for prediction of imbalanced software defect data (2019)
Journal Article
He, H., Zhang, X., Wang, Q., Ren, J., Liu, J., Zhao, X., & Cheng, Y. (2019). Ensemble multiboost based on ripper classifier for prediction of imbalanced software defect data. IEEE Access, 7, 110333-110343. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2934128

Identifying defective software entities is essential to ensure software quality during software development. However, the high dimensionality and class distribution imbalance of software defect data seriously affect software defect prediction perform... Read More about Ensemble multiboost based on ripper classifier for prediction of imbalanced software defect data.

Web3D learning framework for 3D shape retrieval based on hybrid convolutional neural networks (2019)
Journal Article
Zhou, W., Jia, J., Huang, C., & Cheng, Y. (2020). Web3D learning framework for 3D shape retrieval based on hybrid convolutional neural networks. Tsinghua Science and Technology, 25(1), 93-102. https://doi.org/10.26599/TST.2018.9010113

With the rapid development of Web3D technologies, sketch-based model retrieval has become an increasingly important challenge, while the application of Virtual Reality and 3D technologies has made shape retrieval of furniture over a web browser feasi... Read More about Web3D learning framework for 3D shape retrieval based on hybrid convolutional neural networks.

DMP_MI: an effective diabetes mellitus classification algorithm on imbalanced data with missing values (2019)
Journal Article
Wang, Q., Cao, W., Guo, J., Ren, J., Cheng, Y., & Davis, D. N. (2019). DMP_MI: an effective diabetes mellitus classification algorithm on imbalanced data with missing values. IEEE Access, 7, 102232-102238. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2929866

© 2019 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. All rights reserved. As a widely known chronic disease, diabetes mellitus is called a silent killer. It makes the body produce less insulin and causes increased blood sugar, which leads t... Read More about DMP_MI: an effective diabetes mellitus classification algorithm on imbalanced data with missing values.

A Hierarchical Approach for Dynamic Fault Trees Solution Through Semi-Markov Process (2019)
Journal Article
Aslansefat, K., & Latif-Shabgahi, G. (2020). A Hierarchical Approach for Dynamic Fault Trees Solution Through Semi-Markov Process. IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 69(3), 986-1003. https://doi.org/10.1109/tr.2019.2923893

Dynamic fault tree (DFT) is a top-down deductive technique extended to model systems with complex failure behaviors and interactions. In two last decades, different methods have been applied to improve its capabilities, such as computational complexi... Read More about A Hierarchical Approach for Dynamic Fault Trees Solution Through Semi-Markov Process.

Interpretable emotion recognition using EEG signals (2019)
Journal Article
Qing, C., Qiao, R., Xu, X., & Cheng, Y. (2019). Interpretable emotion recognition using EEG signals. IEEE Access, 7, 94160-94170. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2928691

Electroencephalogram (EEG) signal-based emotion recognition has attracted wide interests in recent years and has been broadly adopted in medical, affective computing, and other relevant fields. However, the majority of the research reported in this f... Read More about Interpretable emotion recognition using EEG signals.

Smart, social, flexible and fun: Escaping the flatlands of virtual learning environments (2019)
Journal Article
Brayshaw, M., Gordon, N. A., & Grey, S. (2019). Smart, social, flexible and fun: Escaping the flatlands of virtual learning environments. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 998, 1047-1060. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22868-2_70

© 2019, Springer Nature Switzerland AG. This paper describes the development of intelligent, social, flexible and game-based pedagogic approaches and their applications in Virtual Learning Environment based Education. Applications of computer science... Read More about Smart, social, flexible and fun: Escaping the flatlands of virtual learning environments.

A clustering based transfer function for volume rendering using gray-gradient mode histogram (2019)
Journal Article
Lan, Y., Ding, Y., Luo, X., Zhang, Y., Huang, C., Ng, E. Y., …Che, W. (2019). A clustering based transfer function for volume rendering using gray-gradient mode histogram. IEEE Access, 7, 80737-80747. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2923080

Volume rendering is an emerging technique widely used in the medical field to visualize human organs using tomography image slices. In volume rendering, sliced medical images are transformed into attributes, such as color and opacity through transfer... Read More about A clustering based transfer function for volume rendering using gray-gradient mode histogram.

High precision implicit modeling for patient-specific coronary arteries (2019)
Journal Article
Hong, Q., Li, Q., Wang, B., Liu, K., & Qi, Q. (2019). High precision implicit modeling for patient-specific coronary arteries. IEEE Access, 7, 72020-72029. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2920113

High precision geometric reconstruction of patient-specific coronary arteries plays a crucial role in visual diagnosis, treatment decision-making, and the evaluation of the therapeutic effect of interventions in coronary artery diseases. It is also a... Read More about High precision implicit modeling for patient-specific coronary arteries.

A 3D cephalometric protocol for the accurate quantification of the craniofacial symmetry and facial growth (2019)
Journal Article
Pinheiro, M., Ma, X., Fagan, M. J., McIntyre, G. T., Lin, P., Sivamurthy, G., & Mossey, P. A. (2019). A 3D cephalometric protocol for the accurate quantification of the craniofacial symmetry and facial growth. Journal of Biological Engineering, 13(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s13036-019-0171-6

© 2019 The Author(s). Background: Cephalometric analysis is used to evaluate facial growth, to study the anatomical relationships within the face. Cephalometric assessment is based on 2D radiographic images, either the sagittal or coronal planes and... Read More about A 3D cephalometric protocol for the accurate quantification of the craniofacial symmetry and facial growth.

Modern control laws for an articulated robotic arm: Modeling and simulation (2019)
Journal Article
Iqbal, J. (2019). Modern control laws for an articulated robotic arm: Modeling and simulation. Engineering, Technology and Applied Science Research, 9(2), 4057-4061. https://doi.org/10.48084/etasr.2598

The robotic manipulator has become an integral component of modern industrial automation. The current paper deals with the mathematical modeling and non-linear control of this manipulator. DH-parameters are used to derive kinematic model while the dy... Read More about Modern control laws for an articulated robotic arm: Modeling and simulation.

A Survey of the methods on fingerprint orientation field estimation (2019)
Journal Article
Bian, W., Xu, D., Li, Q., Cheng, Y., Jie, B., & Ding, X. (2019). A Survey of the methods on fingerprint orientation field estimation. IEEE Access, 7, 32644-32663. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2903601

Fingerprint orientation field (FOF) estimation plays a key role in enhancing the performance of the automated fingerprint identification system (AFIS): Accurate estimation of FOF can evidently improve the performance of AFIS. However, despite the eno... Read More about A Survey of the methods on fingerprint orientation field estimation.

A new pulse coupled neural network (PCNN) for brain medical image fusion empowered by shuffled frog leaping algorithm (2019)
Journal Article
Huang, C., Tian, G., Lan, Y., Peng, Y., Ng, E. Y. K., Hao, Y., …Che, W. (2019). A new pulse coupled neural network (PCNN) for brain medical image fusion empowered by shuffled frog leaping algorithm. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 13, Article 210. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2019.00210

Recent research has reported the application of image fusion technologies in medical images in a wide range of aspects, such as in the diagnosis of brain diseases, the detection of glioma and the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease. In our study, a new... Read More about A new pulse coupled neural network (PCNN) for brain medical image fusion empowered by shuffled frog leaping algorithm.

Health data driven on continuous blood pressure prediction based on gradient boosting decision tree algorithm (2019)
Journal Article
Zhang, B., Ren, J., Wang, B., Cheng, Y., & Wei, Z. (2019). Health data driven on continuous blood pressure prediction based on gradient boosting decision tree algorithm. IEEE Access, 7, 32423-32433. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2902217

Diseases related to issues with blood pressure are becoming a major threat to human health. With the development of telemedicine monitoring applications, a growing number of corresponding devices are being marketed, such as the use of remote monitori... Read More about Health data driven on continuous blood pressure prediction based on gradient boosting decision tree algorithm.

Automatic classification method for software vulnerability based on deep neural network (2019)
Journal Article
Huang, G., Li, Y., Wang, Q., Ren, J., Cheng, Y., & Zhao, X. (2019). Automatic classification method for software vulnerability based on deep neural network. IEEE Access, 7, 28291-28298. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2900462

Software vulnerabilities are the root causes of various security risks. Once a vulnerability is exploited by malicious attacks, it will greatly compromise the safety of the system, and may even cause catastrophic losses. Hence automatic classificatio... Read More about Automatic classification method for software vulnerability based on deep neural network.

Predicting blood pressure from physiological index data using the SVR algorithm (2019)
Journal Article
Zhang, B., Ren, H., Huang, G., Cheng, Y., & Hu, C. (2019). Predicting blood pressure from physiological index data using the SVR algorithm. BMC Bioinformatics, 20(1), Article 109. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-019-2667-y

© 2019 The Author(s). Background: Blood pressure diseases have increasingly been identified as among the main factors threatening human health. How to accurately and conveniently measure blood pressure is the key to the implementation of effective pr... Read More about Predicting blood pressure from physiological index data using the SVR algorithm.

Model transformation for analyzing dependability of AADL model by using HiP-HOPS (2019)
Journal Article
Mian, Z., Bottaci, L., Papadopoulos, Y., & Mahmud, N. (2019). Model transformation for analyzing dependability of AADL model by using HiP-HOPS. Journal of Systems and Software, 151, 258-282. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2019.02.019

The Architecture Analysis and Design Language (AADL) has emerged as a potential future standard in aerospace, automobile and avionics industries for model-based development of dependability-critical systems. As AADL is relatively new, some existing a... Read More about Model transformation for analyzing dependability of AADL model by using HiP-HOPS.