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Diagnosis and management of cardiovascular disease with an intelligent decision-making support system (2012)
Journal Article
Bohacik, J., & Davis, D. (2012). Diagnosis and management of cardiovascular disease with an intelligent decision-making support system. ULAB journal of science and engineering, 3(1), Article 42888

Cardiovascular disease is the principal cause of death in most European countries and may have a major negativeimpact on the patients' functional status, productivity, and quality of life. It seems an automatic decision support system couldlower thes... Read More about Diagnosis and management of cardiovascular disease with an intelligent decision-making support system.

Quantification of priority-OR gates in temporal fault trees (2012)
Journal Article
Edifor, E., Walker, M., & Gordon, N. (2012). Quantification of priority-OR gates in temporal fault trees. Lecture notes in computer science, 7612 LNCS, 99-110. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33678-2_9

Fault Tree Analysis has been used in reliability engineering for many decades and has seen various modifications to enable it to analyse fault trees with dynamic and temporal gates so it can incorporate sequential failure in its analysis. Pandora is... Read More about Quantification of priority-OR gates in temporal fault trees.

Adaptive probability scheme for behaviour monitoring of the elderly using a specialised ambient device (2012)
Journal Article
Winkley, J., & Jiang, P. (2014). Adaptive probability scheme for behaviour monitoring of the elderly using a specialised ambient device. International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics, 5(2), 293-307. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13042-012-0134-4

A Hidden Markov Model (HMM) modified to work in combination with a Fuzzy System is utilised to determine the current behavioural state of the user from information obtained with specialised hardware. Due to the high dimensionality and not-linearly-se... Read More about Adaptive probability scheme for behaviour monitoring of the elderly using a specialised ambient device.

Activating cognitive activities among students through the application of WebPA in teaching knowledge on mathematical operations in upper secondary schools of Vietnam (2012)
Journal Article
Nguyen, T., & Gordon, N. (2012). Activating cognitive activities among students through the application of WebPA in teaching knowledge on mathematical operations in upper secondary schools of Vietnam

In Vietnam, the inspection and evaluation in education is usually performed by traditional assessments, including regular testing and periodic examination. The biggest advantage of these assessments are that they are easy to deploy and fairly accurat... Read More about Activating cognitive activities among students through the application of WebPA in teaching knowledge on mathematical operations in upper secondary schools of Vietnam.

Describing and assessing image descriptions for visually impaired web users with IDAT (2012)
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Brayshaw, M., Nganji, J. T., Brayshaw, M., & Tompsett, B. (2013). Describing and assessing image descriptions for visually impaired web users with IDAT. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 179, 27-37. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31603-6_3

People with visual impairments, particularly blind people face alot of difficulties browsing the web with assistive technologies such as screen readers, when websites do not conform to accessibility standards and are thus inaccessible. HTML is the ba... Read More about Describing and assessing image descriptions for visually impaired web users with IDAT.

Verity: An ambient assisted living platform (2012)
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Winkley, J., Jiang, P., & Jiang, W. (2012). Verity: An ambient assisted living platform. IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, 58(2), 364-373. https://doi.org/10.1109/tce.2012.6227435

A new and innovative system intended for the monitoring of the elderly and those requiring passive care is developed, with a wrist-wearable wireless sensor node and a mobile platform to form a remotely accessible body area network. The system utilise... Read More about Verity: An ambient assisted living platform.

Personalized content provision for virtual learning environments via the semantic web (2012)
Journal Article
Wen, L., Brayshaw, M., & Gordon, N. (2012). Personalized content provision for virtual learning environments via the semantic web. Innovation in teaching and learning in information and computer sciences, 11(1), 14-26. https://doi.org/10.11120/ital.2012.11010014

In this paper we discuss how we may personalize e-learning along three distinct axes, namely: teaching and learning pedagogical philosophies, personalized educational processes to taste and the coordination of these processes during execution. In doi... Read More about Personalized content provision for virtual learning environments via the semantic web.

WE-G-BRA-06: calibrating an ionisation chamber: gaining experience using a dosimetry 'flight simulator' (2012)
Journal Article
Beavis, A., Saunderson, J., & Ward, J. (2012). WE-G-BRA-06: calibrating an ionisation chamber: gaining experience using a dosimetry 'flight simulator'. Medical physics, 39(6Part28), 3970-3970. https://doi.org/10.1118/1.4736201

Purpose: Recently there has been great interest in the use of simulation training, with the view to enhance safety within radiotherapy practice. We have developed a Virtual Environment for Radiotherapy Training (VERT) which facilitates this, includin... Read More about WE-G-BRA-06: calibrating an ionisation chamber: gaining experience using a dosimetry 'flight simulator'.

WE-G-BRA-04: the development of a virtual reality dosimetry training platform for physics training (2012)
Journal Article
Beavis, A., & Ward, J. (2012). WE-G-BRA-04: the development of a virtual reality dosimetry training platform for physics training. Medical physics, 39(6Part28), 3969-3969. https://doi.org/10.1118/1.4736199

Purpose: Recently there has been a great deal of interest in the application of Simulation methodologies for training. We have previously developed a Virtual Environment for Radiotherapy Training, VERT, which simulates a fully interactive and functio... Read More about WE-G-BRA-04: the development of a virtual reality dosimetry training platform for physics training.

Emotions in robots (2012)
Journal Article
Azeem, M. M., Iqbal, J., Toivanen, P., & Samad, A. (2012). Emotions in robots. Communications in Computer and Information Science, 281, 144-153. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28962-0_15

This article gives a general overview of emotions in robotics. It sheds light on the composition of emotions in human beings and how this information can be used as blue print for creation of emotional robots. It discusses different factors involved... Read More about Emotions in robots.

A versatile optical model for hybrid rendering of volume data (2012)
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Xiang, D., Yang, F., Tian, J., Cao, Y., & Li, Q. (2012). A versatile optical model for hybrid rendering of volume data. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 18(6), 925 - 937. https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2011.113

In volume rendering, most optical models currently in use are based on the assumptions that a volumetric object is acollection of particles and that the macro behavior of particles, when they interact with light rays, can be predicted based on thebeh... Read More about A versatile optical model for hybrid rendering of volume data.

System dependability modelling and analysis using AADL and HiP-HOPS (2012)
Journal Article
Mian, Z., Bottaci, L., Papadopoulos, Y., & Biehl, M. (2012). System dependability modelling and analysis using AADL and HiP-HOPS. IFAC Proceedings Volumes/ International Federation of Automatic Control, 45(6), 1647-1652. https://doi.org/10.3182/20120523-3-RO-2023.00334

The Architecture Analysis and Design Language (AADL) is gaining widespread acceptance in aerospace, automobile and avionics industries for designing dependability-critical systems. The design process of dependable systems must address both cost and d... Read More about System dependability modelling and analysis using AADL and HiP-HOPS.

Compositional synthesis of temporal fault trees from state machines (2012)
Journal Article
Papadopoulos, Y., Walker, M., & Mahmud, N. (2012). Compositional synthesis of temporal fault trees from state machines. Performance Evaluation Review, 39(4), 79-88. https://doi.org/10.1145/2185395.2185444

Dependability analysis of a dynamic system which is embedded with several complex interrelated components raises two main problems. First, it is difficult to represent in a single coherent and complete picture how the system and its constituent parts... Read More about Compositional synthesis of temporal fault trees from state machines.

Alert rules for remote monitoring of cardiovascular patients (2012)
Journal Article
Bohacik, J., & Davis, D. (2012). Alert rules for remote monitoring of cardiovascular patients. Journal of information technologies, 5(1), 16 - 23

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in most European countries and its prevention requires major life-style changes using limited health-care resources. Remote cardiovascular decision support seems to allow cardiovascular patients to... Read More about Alert rules for remote monitoring of cardiovascular patients.

Formal framework of XML document schema design (2012)
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Wang, B., & Zainol, Z. (2012). Formal framework of XML document schema design. International Journal of Information Retrieval Research, 2(1), 21-64. https://doi.org/10.4018/ijirr.2012010103

Designing “good” XML documents is a very difficult task for a database designer. Although many theories for XML database design have proposed, none of commercial design tool for XML document design has been developed to assist the XML document design... Read More about Formal framework of XML document schema design.

Virtual angioscopy based on implicit vasculatures (2011)
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Hong, Q., Li, Q., & Tian, J. (2011). Virtual angioscopy based on implicit vasculatures. Lecture notes in computer science, 6785 LNCS(PART 4), 592-603. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21898-9_49

Virtual endoscopy is among the most active areas in medical data visualization, which focuses on the simulated visualizations of specific hollow organs for the purposes of training and diagnosis. In this paper, we present a virtual angioscopy techniq... Read More about Virtual angioscopy based on implicit vasculatures.

A numerical model for Hodgkin-Huxley neural stimulus reconstruction (2011)
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Kambhampati, C., & Sarangdhar, M. (2011). A numerical model for Hodgkin-Huxley neural stimulus reconstruction. Iaeng International Journal of Computer Science, 38(1), 89--94

The information about a neural activity is encoded in a neural response and usually the underlying stimulus that triggers the activity is unknown. This paper presents a numerical solution to reconstruct stimuli from Hodgkin-Huxley neural responses wh... Read More about A numerical model for Hodgkin-Huxley neural stimulus reconstruction.

Implicit reconstruction of vasculatures using bivariate piecewise algebraic splines (2011)
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Hong, Q., Li, Q., & Tian, J. (2012). Implicit reconstruction of vasculatures using bivariate piecewise algebraic splines. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 31(3), 543-553. https://doi.org/10.1109/TMI.2011.2172455

Vasculature geometry reconstruction from volumetric medical data is a crucial task in the development of computer guided minimally invasive vascular surgery systems. In this paper, a technique for reconstructing the geometry of vasculatures using biv... Read More about Implicit reconstruction of vasculatures using bivariate piecewise algebraic splines.

Non-uniform order mixed FEM approximation: Implementation, post-processing, computable error bound and adaptivity (2011)
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Ainsworth, M., & Ma, X. (2012). Non-uniform order mixed FEM approximation: Implementation, post-processing, computable error bound and adaptivity. Journal of Computational Physics, 231(2), 436-453. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2011.09.011

The present work provides a straightforward and focused set of tools and corresponding theoretical support for the implementation of an adaptive high order finite element code with guaranteed error control for the approximation of elliptic problems i... Read More about Non-uniform order mixed FEM approximation: Implementation, post-processing, computable error bound and adaptivity.

A mosaic of eyes (2011)
Journal Article
Jiang, P., Feng, Z., Cheng, Y., Ji, Y., Zhu, J., Baruch, J., …Hu, F. (2011). A mosaic of eyes. IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, 18(3), 104-113. https://doi.org/10.1109/MRA.2011.942119

Autonomous navigation is a traditional research topic in intelligent robotics and vehicles, which requires a robot to perceive its environment through onboard sensors such as cameras or laser scanners, to enable it to drive to its goal. Most research... Read More about A mosaic of eyes.