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	Author	Jon Almazan; Albert Gordo; Alicia Fornes; Ernest Valveny
	Title	Segmentation-free Word Spotting with Exemplar SVMs			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2014	Publication	Pattern Recognition	Abbreviated Journal	PR
	Volume	47	Issue	12	Pages	3967–3978
	Keywords	Word spotting; Segmentation-free; Unsupervised learning; Reranking; Query expansion; Compression
	Abstract	In this paper we propose an unsupervised segmentation-free method for word spotting in document images. Documents are represented with a grid of HOG descriptors, and a sliding-window approach is used to locate the document regions that are most similar to the query. We use the Exemplar SVM framework to produce a better representation of the query in an unsupervised way. Then, we use a more discriminative representation based on Fisher Vector to rerank the best regions retrieved, and the most promising ones are used to expand the Exemplar SVM training set and improve the query representation. Finally, the document descriptors are precomputed and compressed with Product Quantization. This offers two advantages: first, a large number of documents can be kept in RAM memory at the same time. Second, the sliding window becomes significantly faster since distances between quantized HOG descriptors can be precomputed. Our results significantly outperform other segmentation-free methods in the literature, both in accuracy and in speed and memory usage.
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	Notes	DAG; 600.045; 600.056; 600.061; 602.006; 600.077			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ AGF2014b			Serial	2485
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	Author	Jon Almazan
	Title	Learning to Represent Handwritten Shapes and Words for Matching and Recognition			Type	Book Whole
	Year	2014	Publication	PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC	Abbreviated Journal
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	Abstract	Writing is one of the most important forms of communication and for centuries, handwriting had been the most reliable way to preserve knowledge. However, despite the recent development of printing houses and electronic devices, handwriting is still broadly used for taking notes, doing annotations, or sketching ideas. Transferring the ability of understanding handwritten text or recognizing handwritten shapes to computers has been the goal of many researches due to its huge importance for many different fields. However, designing good representations to deal with handwritten shapes, e.g. symbols or words, is a very challenging problem due to the large variability of these kinds of shapes. One of the consequences of working with handwritten shapes is that we need representations to be robust, i.e., able to adapt to large intra-class variability. We need representations to be discriminative, i.e., able to learn what are the differences between classes. And, we need representations to be efficient, i.e., able to be rapidly computed and compared. Unfortunately, current techniques of handwritten shape representation for matching and recognition do not fulfill some or all of these requirements. Through this thesis we focus on the problem of learning to represent handwritten shapes aimed at retrieval and recognition tasks. Concretely, on the first part of the thesis, we focus on the general problem of representing any kind of handwritten shape. We first present a novel shape descriptor based on a deformable grid that deals with large deformations by adapting to the shape and where the cells of the grid can be used to extract different features. Then, we propose to use this descriptor to learn statistical models, based on the Active Appearance Model, that jointly learns the variability in structure and texture of a given class. Then, on the second part, we focus on a concrete application, the problem of representing handwritten words, for the tasks of word spotting, where the goal is to find all instances of a query word in a dataset of images, and recognition. First, we address the segmentation-free problem and propose an unsupervised, sliding-window-based approach that achieves state-of- the-art results in two public datasets. Second, we address the more challenging multi-writer problem, where the variability in words exponentially increases. We describe an approach in which both word images and text strings are embedded in a common vectorial subspace, and where those that represent the same word are close together. This is achieved by a combination of label embedding and attributes learning, and a common subspace regression. This leads to a low-dimensional, unified representation of word images and strings, resulting in a method that allows one to perform either image and text searches, as well as image transcription, in a unified framework. We evaluate our methods on different public datasets of both handwritten documents and natural images showing results comparable or better than the state-of-the-art on spotting and recognition tasks.
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	Corporate Author				Thesis	Ph.D. thesis
	Publisher	Ediciones Graficas Rey	Place of Publication		Editor	Ernest Valveny;Alicia Fornes
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	Notes	DAG; 600.077			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ Alm2014			Serial	2572
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	Author	Joan Marc Llargues Asensio; Juan Peralta; Raul Arrabales; Manuel Gonzalez Bedia; Paulo Cortez; Antonio Lopez
	Title	Artificial Intelligence Approaches for the Generation and Assessment of Believable Human-Like Behaviour in Virtual Characters			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2014	Publication	Expert Systems With Applications	Abbreviated Journal	EXSY
	Volume	41	Issue	16	Pages	7281–7290
	Keywords	Turing test; Human-like behaviour; Believability; Non-player characters; Cognitive architectures; Genetic algorithm; Artificial neural networks
	Abstract	Having artificial agents to autonomously produce human-like behaviour is one of the most ambitious original goals of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and remains an open problem nowadays. The imitation game originally proposed by Turing constitute a very effective method to prove the indistinguishability of an artificial agent. The behaviour of an agent is said to be indistinguishable from that of a human when observers (the so-called judges in the Turing test) cannot tell apart humans and non-human agents. Different environments, testing protocols, scopes and problem domains can be established to develop limited versions or variants of the original Turing test. In this paper we use a specific version of the Turing test, based on the international BotPrize competition, built in a First-Person Shooter video game, where both human players and non-player characters interact in complex virtual environments. Based on our past experience both in the BotPrize competition and other robotics and computer game AI applications we have developed three new more advanced controllers for believable agents: two based on a combination of the CERA–CRANIUM and SOAR cognitive architectures and other based on ADANN, a system for the automatic evolution and adaptation of artificial neural networks. These two new agents have been put to the test jointly with CCBot3, the winner of BotPrize 2010 competition (Arrabales et al., 2012), and have showed a significant improvement in the humanness ratio. Additionally, we have confronted all these bots to both First-person believability assessment (BotPrize original judging protocol) and Third-person believability assessment, demonstrating that the active involvement of the judge has a great impact in the recognition of human-like behaviour.
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	Notes	ADAS; 600.055; 600.057; 600.076			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ LPA2014			Serial	2500
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	Author	Joan M. Nuñez; Jorge Bernal; Miquel Ferrer; Fernando Vilariño
	Title	Impact of Keypoint Detection on Graph-based Characterization of Blood Vessels in Colonoscopy Videos			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2014	Publication	CARE workshop	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages
	Keywords	Colonoscopy; Graph Matching; Biometrics; Vessel; Intersection
	Abstract	We explore the potential of the use of blood vessels as anatomical landmarks for developing image registration methods in colonoscopy images. An unequivocal representation of blood vessels could be used to guide follow-up methods to track lesions over different interventions. We propose a graph-based representation to characterize network structures, such as blood vessels, based on the use of intersections and endpoints. We present a study consisting of the assessment of the minimal performance a keypoint detector should achieve so that the structure can still be recognized. Experimental results prove that, even by achieving a loss of 35% of the keypoints, the descriptive power of the associated graphs to the vessel pattern is still high enough to recognize blood vessels.
	Address	Boston; USA; September 2014
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	Area		Expedition		Conference	CARE
	Notes	MV; DAG; 600.060; 600.047; 600.077;SIAI			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ NBF2014			Serial	2504
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	Author	Joan Arnedo-Moreno; D. Bañeres; Xavier Baro; S. Caballe; S. Guerrero; L. Porta; J. Prieto
	Title	Va-ID: A trust-based virtual assessment system			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2014	Publication	6th International Conference on Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	328 - 335
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	Abstract	Even though online education is a very important pillar of lifelong education, institutions are still reluctant to wager for a fully online educational model. At the end, they keep relying on on-site assessment systems, mainly because fully virtual alternatives do not have the deserved social recognition or credibility. Thus, the design of virtual assessment systems that are able to provide effective proof of student authenticity and authorship and the integrity of the activities in a scalable and cost efficient manner would be very helpful. This paper presents ValID, a virtual assessment approach based on a continuous trust level evaluation between students and the institution. The current trust level serves as the main mechanism to dynamically decide which kind of controls a given student should be subjected to, across different courses in a degree. The main goal is providing a fair trade-off between security, scalability and cost, while maintaining the perceived quality of the educational model.
	Address	Salerna; Italy; September 2014
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	ISSN		ISBN	978-1-4799-6386-7	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	INCOS
	Notes	OR; HuPBA;MV			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ ABB2014			Serial	2620
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	Author	Jiaolong Xu; Sebastian Ramos;David Vazquez; Antonio Lopez
	Title	Cost-sensitive Structured SVM for Multi-category Domain Adaptation			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2014	Publication	22nd International Conference on Pattern Recognition	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	3886 - 3891
	Keywords	Domain Adaptation; Pedestrian Detection
	Abstract	Domain adaptation addresses the problem of accuracy drop that a classifier may suffer when the training data (source domain) and the testing data (target domain) are drawn from different distributions. In this work, we focus on domain adaptation for structured SVM (SSVM). We propose a cost-sensitive domain adaptation method for SSVM, namely COSS-SSVM. In particular, during the re-training of an adapted classifier based on target and source data, the idea that we explore consists in introducing a non-zero cost even for correctly classified source domain samples. Eventually, we aim to learn a more targetoriented classifier by not rewarding (zero loss) properly classified source-domain training samples. We assess the effectiveness of COSS-SSVM on multi-category object recognition.
	Address	Stockholm; Sweden; August 2014
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	Publisher	IEEE	Place of Publication		Editor
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	1051-4651	ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	ICPR
	Notes	ADAS; 600.057; 600.054; 601.217; 600.076			Approved	no
	Call Number	ADAS @ adas @ XRV2014a			Serial	2434
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	Author	Jiaolong Xu; Sebastian Ramos; David Vazquez; Antonio Lopez
	Title	Domain Adaptation of Deformable Part-Based Models			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2014	Publication	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	Abbreviated Journal	TPAMI
	Volume	36	Issue	12	Pages	2367-2380
	Keywords	Domain Adaptation; Pedestrian Detection
	Abstract	The accuracy of object classifiers can significantly drop when the training data (source domain) and the application scenario (target domain) have inherent differences. Therefore, adapting the classifiers to the scenario in which they must operate is of paramount importance. We present novel domain adaptation (DA) methods for object detection. As proof of concept, we focus on adapting the state-of-the-art deformable part-based model (DPM) for pedestrian detection. We introduce an adaptive structural SVM (A-SSVM) that adapts a pre-learned classifier between different domains. By taking into account the inherent structure in feature space (e.g., the parts in a DPM), we propose a structure-aware A-SSVM (SA-SSVM). Neither A-SSVM nor SA-SSVM needs to revisit the source-domain training data to perform the adaptation. Rather, a low number of target-domain training examples (e.g., pedestrians) are used. To address the scenario where there are no target-domain annotated samples, we propose a self-adaptive DPM based on a self-paced learning (SPL) strategy and a Gaussian Process Regression (GPR). Two types of adaptation tasks are assessed: from both synthetic pedestrians and general persons (PASCAL VOC) to pedestrians imaged from an on-board camera. Results show that our proposals avoid accuracy drops as high as 15 points when comparing adapted and non-adapted detectors.
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	ISSN	0162-8828	ISBN		Medium
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	Notes	ADAS; 600.057; 600.054; 601.217; 600.076			Approved	no
	Call Number	ADAS @ adas @ XRV2014b			Serial	2436
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	Author	Jiaolong Xu; Sebastian Ramos; David Vazquez; Antonio Lopez
	Title	Incremental Domain Adaptation of Deformable Part-based Models			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2014	Publication	25th British Machine Vision Conference	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages
	Keywords	Pedestrian Detection; Part-based models; Domain Adaptation
	Abstract	Nowadays, classifiers play a core role in many computer vision tasks. The underlying assumption for learning classifiers is that the training set and the deployment environment (testing) follow the same probability distribution regarding the features used by the classifiers. However, in practice, there are different reasons that can break this constancy assumption. Accordingly, reusing existing classifiers by adapting them from the previous training environment (source domain) to the new testing one (target domain) is an approach with increasing acceptance in the computer vision community. In this paper we focus on the domain adaptation of deformable part-based models (DPMs) for object detection. In particular, we focus on a relatively unexplored scenario, i.e. incremental domain adaptation for object detection assuming weak-labeling. Therefore, our algorithm is ready to improve existing source-oriented DPM-based detectors as soon as a little amount of labeled target-domain training data is available, and keeps improving as more of such data arrives in a continuous fashion. For achieving this, we follow a multiple instance learning (MIL) paradigm that operates in an incremental per-image basis. As proof of concept, we address the challenging scenario of adapting a DPM-based pedestrian detector trained with synthetic pedestrians to operate in real-world scenarios. The obtained results show that our incremental adaptive models obtain equally good accuracy results as the batch learned models, while being more flexible for handling continuously arriving target-domain data.
	Address	Nottingham; uk; September 2014
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	Publisher	BMVA Press	Place of Publication		Editor	Valstar, Michel and French, Andrew and Pridmore, Tony
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
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	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	BMVC
	Notes	ADAS; 600.057; 600.054; 600.076			Approved	no
	Call Number	XRV2014c; ADAS @ adas @ xrv2014c			Serial	2455
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	Author	Jiaolong Xu; David Vazquez; Antonio Lopez; Javier Marin; Daniel Ponsa
	Title	Learning a Part-based Pedestrian Detector in Virtual World			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2014	Publication	IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems	Abbreviated Journal	TITS
	Volume	15	Issue	5	Pages	2121-2131
	Keywords	Domain Adaptation; Pedestrian Detection; Virtual Worlds
	Abstract	Detecting pedestrians with on-board vision systems is of paramount interest for assisting drivers to prevent vehicle-to-pedestrian accidents. The core of a pedestrian detector is its classification module, which aims at deciding if a given image window contains a pedestrian. Given the difficulty of this task, many classifiers have been proposed during the last fifteen years. Among them, the so-called (deformable) part-based classifiers including multi-view modeling are usually top ranked in accuracy. Training such classifiers is not trivial since a proper aspect clustering and spatial part alignment of the pedestrian training samples are crucial for obtaining an accurate classifier. In this paper, first we perform automatic aspect clustering and part alignment by using virtual-world pedestrians, i.e., human annotations are not required. Second, we use a mixture-of-parts approach that allows part sharing among different aspects. Third, these proposals are integrated in a learning framework which also allows to incorporate real-world training data to perform domain adaptation between virtual- and real-world cameras. Overall, the obtained results on four popular on-board datasets show that our proposal clearly outperforms the state-of-the-art deformable part-based detector known as latent SVM.
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	ISSN	1931-0587	ISBN	978-1-4673-2754-1	Medium
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	Notes	ADAS; 600.076			Approved	no
	Call Number	ADAS @ adas @ XVL2014			Serial	2433
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	Author	Javier Marin; David Vazquez; Antonio Lopez; Jaume Amores; Ludmila I. Kuncheva
	Title	Occlusion handling via random subspace classifiers for human detection			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2014	Publication	IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (Part B)	Abbreviated Journal	TSMCB
	Volume	44	Issue	3	Pages	342-354
	Keywords	Pedestriand Detection; occlusion handling
	Abstract	This paper describes a general method to address partial occlusions for human detection in still images. The Random Subspace Method (RSM) is chosen for building a classifier ensemble robust against partial occlusions. The component classifiers are chosen on the basis of their individual and combined performance. The main contribution of this work lies in our approach’s capability to improve the detection rate when partial occlusions are present without compromising the detection performance on non occluded data. In contrast to many recent approaches, we propose a method which does not require manual labelling of body parts, defining any semantic spatial components, or using additional data coming from motion or stereo. Moreover, the method can be easily extended to other object classes. The experiments are performed on three large datasets: the INRIA person dataset, the Daimler Multicue dataset, and a new challenging dataset, called PobleSec, in which a considerable number of targets are partially occluded. The different approaches are evaluated at the classification and detection levels for both partially occluded and non-occluded data. The experimental results show that our detector outperforms state-of-the-art approaches in the presence of partial occlusions, while offering performance and reliability similar to those of the holistic approach on non-occluded data. The datasets used in our experiments have been made publicly available for benchmarking purposes
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	ISSN	2168-2267	ISBN		Medium
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	Notes	ADAS; 605.203; 600.057; 600.054; 601.042; 601.187; 600.076			Approved	no
	Call Number	ADAS @ adas @ MVL2014			Serial	2213
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	Author	Hongxing Gao; Marçal Rusiñol; Dimosthenis Karatzas; Josep Llados
	Title	Fast Structural Matching for Document Image Retrieval through Spatial Databases			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2014	Publication	Document Recognition and Retrieval XXI	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	9021	Issue		Pages
	Keywords	Document image retrieval; distance transform; MSER; spatial database
	Abstract	The structure of document images plays a signicant role in document analysis thus considerable eorts have been made towards extracting and understanding document structure, usually in the form of layout analysis approaches. In this paper, we rst employ Distance Transform based MSER (DTMSER) to eciently extract stable document structural elements in terms of a dendrogram of key-regions. Then a fast structural matching method is proposed to query the structure of document (dendrogram) based on a spatial database which facilitates the formulation of advanced spatial queries. The experiments demonstrate a signicant improvement in a document retrieval scenario when compared to the use of typical Bag of Words (BoW) and pyramidal BoW descriptors.
	Address	Amsterdam; September 2014
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	Area		Expedition		Conference	SPIE-DRR
	Notes	DAG; 600.056; 600.061; 600.077			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ GRK2014a			Serial	2496
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	Author	Hongxing Gao; Marçal Rusiñol; Dimosthenis Karatzas; Josep Llados
	Title	Embedding Document Structure to Bag-of-Words through Pair-wise Stable Key-regions			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2014	Publication	22nd International Conference on Pattern Recognition	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	2903 - 2908
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	Abstract	Since the document structure carries valuable discriminative information, plenty of efforts have been made for extracting and understanding document structure among which layout analysis approaches are the most commonly used. In this paper, Distance Transform based MSER (DTMSER) is employed to efficiently extract the document structure as a dendrogram of key-regions which roughly correspond to structural elements such as characters, words and paragraphs. Inspired by the Bag of Words (BoW) framework, we propose an efficient method for structural document matching by representing the document image as a histogram of key-region pairs encoding structural relationships. Applied to the scenario of document image retrieval, experimental results demonstrate a remarkable improvement when comparing the proposed method with typical BoW and pyramidal BoW methods.
	Address	Stockholm; Sweden; August 2014
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	Area		Expedition		Conference	ICPR
	Notes	DAG; 600.056; 600.061; 600.077			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ GRK2014b			Serial	2497
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	Author	Gabriel Villalonga; Sebastian Ramos; German Ros; David Vazquez; Antonio Lopez
	Title	3d Pedestrian Detection via Random Forest			Type	Miscellaneous
	Year	2014	Publication	European Conference on Computer Vision	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	231-238
	Keywords	Pedestrian Detection
	Abstract	Our demo focuses on showing the extraordinary performance of our novel 3D pedestrian detector along with its simplicity and real-time capabilities. This detector has been designed for autonomous driving applications, but it can also be applied in other scenarios that cover both outdoor and indoor applications. Our pedestrian detector is based on the combination of a random forest classifier with HOG-LBP features and the inclusion of a preprocessing stage based on 3D scene information in order to precisely determinate the image regions where the detector should search for pedestrians. This approach ends up in a high accurate system that runs real-time as it is required by many computer vision and robotics applications.
	Address	Zurich; suiza; September 2014
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	Area		Expedition		Conference	ECCV-Demo
	Notes	ADAS; 600.076			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ VRR2014			Serial	2570
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	Author	Frederic Sampedro; Sergio Escalera; Anna Puig
	Title	Iterative Multiclass Multiscale Stacked Sequential Learning: definition and application to medical volume segmentation			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2014	Publication	Pattern Recognition Letters	Abbreviated Journal	PRL
	Volume	46	Issue		Pages	1-10
	Keywords	Machine learning; Sequential learning; Multi-class problems; Contextual learning; Medical volume segmentation
	Abstract	In this work we present the iterative multi-class multi-scale stacked sequential learning framework (IMMSSL), a novel learning scheme that is particularly suited for medical volume segmentation applications. This model exploits the inherent voxel contextual information of the structures of interest in order to improve its segmentation performance results. Without any feature set or learning algorithm prior assumption, the proposed scheme directly seeks to learn the contextual properties of a region from the predicted classifications of previous classifiers within an iterative scheme. Performance results regarding segmentation accuracy in three two-class and multi-class medical volume datasets show a significant improvement with respect to state of the art alternatives. Due to its easiness of implementation and its independence of feature space and learning algorithm, the presented machine learning framework could be taken into consideration as a first choice in complex volume segmentation scenarios.
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	Notes	HuPBA;MILAB			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ SEP2014			Serial	2550
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	Author	Frederic Sampedro; Sergio Escalera; Anna Domenech; Ignasi Carrio
	Title	A computational framework for cancer response assessment based on oncological PET-CT scans			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2014	Publication	Computers in Biology and Medicine	Abbreviated Journal	CBM
	Volume	55	Issue		Pages	92–99
	Keywords	Computer aided diagnosis; Nuclear medicine; Machine learning; Image processing; Quantitative analysis
	Abstract	In this work we present a comprehensive computational framework to help in the clinical assessment of cancer response from a pair of time consecutive oncological PET-CT scans. In this scenario, the design and implementation of a supervised machine learning system to predict and quantify cancer progression or response conditions by introducing a novel feature set that models the underlying clinical context is described. Performance results in 100 clinical cases (corresponding to 200 whole body PET-CT scans) in comparing expert-based visual analysis and classifier decision making show up to 70% accuracy within a completely automatic pipeline and 90% accuracy when providing the system with expert-guided PET tumor segmentation masks.
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	Notes	HuPBA;MILAB			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ SED2014			Serial	2606
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