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| Author | Tadashi Araki; Nobutaka Ikeda; Nilanjan Dey; Sayan Chakraborty; Luca Saba; Dinesh Kumar; Elisa Cuadrado Godia; Xiaoyi Jiang; Ajay Gupta; Petia Radeva; John R. Laird; Andrew Nicolaides; Jasjit S. Suri | ||||
| Title | A comparative approach of four different image registration techniques for quantitative assessment of coronary artery calcium lesions using intravascular ultrasound | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2015 | Publication | Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine | Abbreviated Journal | CMPB |
| Volume | 118 | Issue | 2 | Pages | 158-172 |
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| Call Number | Admin @ si @ AID2015 | Serial | 2640 | ||
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| Author | R.A.Bendezu; E.Barba; E.Burri; D.Cisternas; Carolina Malagelada; Santiago Segui; Anna Accarino; S.Quiroga; E.Monclus; I.Navazo | ||||
| Title | Intestinal gas content and distribution in health and in patients with functional gut symptoms | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2015 | Publication | Neurogastroenterology & Motility | Abbreviated Journal | NEUMOT |
| Volume | 27 | Issue | 9 | Pages | 1249-1257 |
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The precise relation of intestinal gas to symptoms, particularly abdominal bloating and distension remains incompletely elucidated. Our aim was to define the normal values of intestinal gas volume and distribution and to identify abnormalities in relation to functional-type symptoms. METHODS: Abdominal computed tomography scans were evaluated in healthy subjects (n = 37) and in patients in three conditions: basal (when they were feeling well; n = 88), during an episode of abdominal distension (n = 82) and after a challenge diet (n = 24). Intestinal gas content and distribution were measured by an original analysis program. Identification of patients outside the normal range was performed by machine learning techniques (one-class classifier). Results are expressed as median (IQR) or mean ± SE, as appropriate. KEY RESULTS: In healthy subjects the gut contained 95 (71, 141) mL gas distributed along the entire lumen. No differences were detected between patients studied under asymptomatic basal conditions and healthy subjects. However, either during a spontaneous bloating episode or once challenged with a flatulogenic diet, luminal gas was found to be increased and/or abnormally distributed in about one-fourth of the patients. These patients detected outside the normal range by the classifier exhibited a significantly greater number of abnormal features than those within the normal range (3.7 ± 0.4 vs 0.4 ± 0.1; p < 0.001). CONCLUSIONS & INFERENCES: The analysis of a large cohort of subjects using original techniques provides unique and heretofore unavailable information on the volume and distribution of intestinal gas in normal conditions and in relation to functional gastrointestinal symptoms. |
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| Call Number | Admin @ si @ BBB2015 | Serial | 2667 | ||
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| Author | G.Blasco; Simone Balocco; J.Puig; J.Sanchez-Gonzalez; W.Ricart; J.Daunis-I-Estadella; X.Molina; S.Pedraza; J.M.Fernandez-Real | ||||
| Title | Carotid pulse wave velocity by magnetic resonance imaging is increased in middle-aged subjects with the metabolic syndrome | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2015 | Publication | International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging | Abbreviated Journal | ICJI |
| Volume | 31 | Issue | 3 | Pages | 603-612 |
| Keywords | Metabolic syndrome; Arterial stiffness; Pulse wave velocity; Carotid artery; Magnetic resonance | ||||
| Abstract | Arterial pulse wave velocity (PWV), an independent predictor of cardiovascular disease, physiologically increases with age; however, growing evidence suggests metabolic syndrome (MetS) accelerates this increase. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) enables reliable noninvasive assessment of arterial stiffness by measuring arterial PWV in specific vascular segments. We investigated the association between the presence of MetS and its components with carotid PWV (cPWV) in asymptomatic subjects without diabetes. We assessed cPWV by MRI in 61 individuals (mean age, 55.3 ± 14.1 years; median age, 55 years): 30 with MetS and 31 controls with similar age, sex, body mass index, and LDL-cholesterol levels. The study population was dichotomized by the median age. To remove the physiological association between PWV and age, unpaired t tests and multiple regression analyses were performed using the residuals of the regression between PWV and age. cPWV was higher in middle-aged subjects with MetS than in those without (p = 0.001), but no differences were found in elder subjects (p = 0.313). cPWV was associated with diastolic blood pressure (r = 0.276, p = 0.033) and waist circumference (r = 0.268, p = 0.038). The presence of MetS was associated with increased cPWV regardless of age, sex, blood pressure, and waist (p = 0.007). The MetS components contributing independently to an increased cPWV were hypertension (p = 0.018) and hypertriglyceridemia (p = 0.002). The presence of MetS is associated with an increased cPWV in middle-aged subjects. In particular, hypertension and hypertriglyceridemia may contribute to early progression of carotid stiffness. | ||||
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| Publisher | Springer Netherlands | Place of Publication | Editor | ||
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| Call Number | Admin @ si @ BBP2015 | Serial | 2670 | ||
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| Author | Lluis Garrido; M.Guerrieri; Laura Igual | ||||
| Title | Image Segmentation with Cage Active Contours | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2015 | Publication | IEEE Transactions on Image Processing | Abbreviated Journal | TIP |
| Volume | 24 | Issue | 12 | Pages | 5557 - 5566 |
| Keywords | Level sets; Mean value coordinates; Parametrized active contours; level sets; mean value coordinates | ||||
| Abstract | In this paper, we present a framework for image segmentation based on parametrized active contours. The evolving contour is parametrized according to a reduced set of control points that form a closed polygon and have a clear visual interpretation. The parametrization, called mean value coordinates, stems from the techniques used in computer graphics to animate virtual models. Our framework allows to easily formulate region-based energies to segment an image. In particular, we present three different local region-based energy terms: 1) the mean model; 2) the Gaussian model; 3) and the histogram model. We show the behavior of our method on synthetic and real images and compare the performance with state-of-the-art level set methods. | ||||
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| Call Number | Admin @ si @ GGI2015 | Serial | 2673 | ||
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| Author | Marta Nuñez-Garcia; Sonja Simpraga; M.Angeles Jurado; Maite Garolera; Roser Pueyo; Laura Igual | ||||
| Title | FADR: Functional-Anatomical Discriminative Regions for rest fMRI Characterization | Type | Conference Article | ||
| Year | 2015 | Publication | Machine Learning in Medical Imaging, Proceedings of 6th International Workshop, MLMI 2015, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2015 | Abbreviated Journal | |
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| Address | Munich; Germany; October 2015 | ||||
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| Call Number | Admin @ si @ NSJ2015 | Serial | 2674 | ||
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| Author | Chen Zhang; Maria del Mar Vila Muñoz; Petia Radeva; Roberto Elosua; Maria Grau; Angels Betriu; Elvira Fernandez-Giraldez; Laura Igual | ||||
| Title | Carotid Artery Segmentation in Ultrasound Images | Type | Conference Article | ||
| Year | 2015 | Publication | Computing and Visualization for Intravascular Imaging and Computer Assisted Stenting (CVII-STENT2015), Joint MICCAI Workshops | Abbreviated Journal | |
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| Address | Munich; Germany; October 2015 | ||||
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| Call Number | Admin @ si @ ZVR2015 | Serial | 2675 | ||
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| Author | Maedeh Aghaei; Mariella Dimiccoli; Petia Radeva | ||||
| Title | Towards social interaction detection in egocentric photo-streams | Type | Conference Article | ||
| Year | 2015 | Publication | Proceedings of SPIE, 8th International Conference on Machine Vision , ICMV 2015 | Abbreviated Journal | |
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| Abstract | Detecting social interaction in videos relying solely on visual cues is a valuable task that is receiving increasing attention in recent years. In this work, we address this problem in the challenging domain of egocentric photo-streams captured by a low temporal resolution wearable camera (2fpm). The major difficulties to be handled in this context are the sparsity of observations as well as unpredictability of camera motion and attention orientation due to the fact that the camera is worn as part of clothing. Our method consists of four steps: multi-faces localization and tracking, 3D localization, pose estimation and analysis of f-formations. By estimating pair-to-pair interaction probabilities over the sequence, our method states the presence or absence of interaction with the camera wearer and specifies which people are more involved in the interaction. We tested our method over a dataset of 18.000 images and we show its reliability on our considered purpose. © (2015) COPYRIGHT Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only. | ||||
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| Author | Adriana Romero | ||||
| Title | Assisting the training of deep neural networks with applications to computer vision | Type | Book Whole | ||
| Year | 2015 | Publication | PhD Thesis, Universitat de Barcelona-CVC | Abbreviated Journal | |
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| Abstract | Deep learning has recently been enjoying an increasing popularity due to its success in solving challenging tasks. In particular, deep learning has proven to be effective in a large variety of computer vision tasks, such as image classification, object recognition and image parsing. Contrary to previous research, which required engineered feature representations, designed by experts, in order to succeed, deep learning attempts to learn representation hierarchies automatically from data. More recently, the trend has been to go deeper with representation hierarchies.
Learning (very) deep representation hierarchies is a challenging task, which involves the optimization of highly non-convex functions. Therefore, the search for algorithms to ease the learning of (very) deep representation hierarchies from data is extensive and ongoing. In this thesis, we tackle the challenging problem of easing the learning of (very) deep representation hierarchies. We present a hyper-parameter free, off-the-shelf, simple and fast unsupervised algorithm to discover hidden structure from the input data by enforcing a very strong form of sparsity. We study the applicability and potential of the algorithm to learn representations of varying depth in a handful of applications and domains, highlighting the ability of the algorithm to provide discriminative feature representations that are able to achieve top performance. Yet, while emphasizing the great value of unsupervised learning methods when labeled data is scarce, the recent industrial success of deep learning has revolved around supervised learning. Supervised learning is currently the focus of many recent research advances, which have shown to excel at many computer vision tasks. Top performing systems often involve very large and deep models, which are not well suited for applications with time or memory limitations. More in line with the current trends, we engage in making top performing models more efficient, by designing very deep and thin models. Since training such very deep models still appears to be a challenging task, we introduce a novel algorithm that guides the training of very thin and deep models by hinting their intermediate representations. Very deep and thin models trained by the proposed algorithm end up extracting feature representations that are comparable or even better performing than the ones extracted by large state-of-the-art models, while compellingly reducing the time and memory consumption of the model. |
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| Address | October 2015 | ||||
| Corporate Author | Thesis | Ph.D. thesis | |||
| Publisher | Ediciones Graficas Rey | Place of Publication | Editor | Carlo Gatta;Petia Radeva | |
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| Call Number | Admin @ si @ Rom2015 | Serial | 2707 | ||
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| Author | Julie Digne; Mariella Dimiccoli; Neus Sabater; Philippe Salembier | ||||
| Title | Neighborhood Filters and the Recovery of 3D Information | Type | Book Chapter | ||
| Year | 2015 | Publication | Handbook of Mathematical Methods in Imaging | Abbreviated Journal | |
| Volume | Issue | III | Pages | 1645-1673 | |
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| Abstract | Following their success in image processing (see Chapter Local Smoothing Neighborhood Filters), neighborhood filters have been extended to 3D surface processing. This adaptation is not straightforward. It has led to several variants for surfaces depending on whether the surface is defined as a mesh, or as a raw data point set. The image gray level in the bilateral similarity measure is replaced by a geometric information such as the normal or the curvature. The first section of this chapter reviews the variants of 3D mesh bilateral filters and compares them to the simplest possible isotropic filter, the mean curvature motion.In a second part, this chapter reviews applications of the bilateral filter to a data composed of a sparse depth map (or of depth cues) and of the image on which they have been computed. Such sparse depth cues can be obtained by stereovision or by psychophysical techniques. The underlying assumption to these applications is that pixels with similar intensity around a region are likely to have similar depths. Therefore, when diffusing depth information with a bilateral filter based on locality and color similarity, the discontinuities in depth are assured to be consistent with the color discontinuities, which is generally a desirable property. In the reviewed applications, this ends up with the reconstruction of a dense perceptual depth map from the joint data of an image and of depth cues. | ||||
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| Publisher | Springer New York | Place of Publication | Editor | ||
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| Call Number | Admin @ si @ DDS2015 | Serial | 2710 | ||
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| Author | Jean-Pascal Jacob; Mariella Dimiccoli; Lionel Moisan | ||||
| Title | Active skeleton for bacteria modeling | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2016 | Publication | Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging and Visualization | Abbreviated Journal | CMBBE |
| Volume | 5 | Issue | 4 | Pages | 274-286 |
| Keywords | Bacteria modelling; medial axis; active contours; active skeleton; shape contraints | ||||
| Abstract | The investigation of spatio-temporal dynamics of bacterial cells and their molecular components requires automated image analysis tools to track cell shape properties and molecular component locations inside the cells. In the study of bacteria aging, the molecular components of interest are protein aggregates accumulated near bacteria boundaries. This particular location makes very ambiguous the correspondence between aggregates and cells, since computing accurately bacteria boundaries in phase-contrast time-lapse imaging is a challenging task. This paper proposes an active skeleton formulation for bacteria modeling which provides several advantages: an easy computation of shape properties (perimeter, length, thickness, orientation), an improved boundary accuracy in noisy images, and a natural bacteria-centered coordinate system that permits the intrinsic location of molecular components inside the cell. Starting from an initial skeleton estimate, the medial axis of the bacterium is obtained by minimizing an energy function which incorporates bacteria shape constraints. Experimental results on biological images and comparative evaluation of the performances validate the proposed approach for modeling cigar-shaped bacteria like Escherichia coli. The Image-J plugin of the proposed method can be found online at this http URL | ||||
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| Author | Maedeh Aghaei; Mariella Dimiccoli; Petia Radeva | ||||
| Title | Multi-Face Tracking by Extended Bag-of-Tracklets in Egocentric Videos | Type | Miscellaneous | ||
| Year | 2015 | Publication | Arxiv | Abbreviated Journal | |
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| Abstract | Egocentric images offer a hands-free way to record daily experiences and special events, where social interactions are of special interest. A natural question that arises is how to extract and track the appearance of multiple persons in a social event captured by a wearable camera. In this paper, we propose a novel method to find correspondences of multiple-faces in low temporal resolution egocentric sequences acquired through a wearable camera. This kind of sequences imposes additional challenges to the multitracking problem with respect to conventional videos. Due to the free motion of the camera and to its low temporal resolution (2 fpm), abrupt changes in the field of view, in illumination conditions and in the target location are very frequent. To overcome such a difficulty, we propose to generate, for each detected face, a set of correspondences along the whole sequence that we call tracklet and to take advantage of their redundancy to deal with both false positive face detections and unreliable tracklets. Similar tracklets are grouped into the so called extended bag-of-tracklets (eBoT), which are aimed to correspond to specific persons. Finally, a prototype tracklet is extracted for each eBoT. We validated our method over a dataset of 18.000 images from 38 egocentric sequences with 52 trackable persons and compared to the state-of-the-art methods, demonstrating its effectiveness and robustness. | ||||
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| Call Number | Admin @ si @ ADR2015b | Serial | 2713 | ||
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| Author | Jordina Torrents-Barrena; Aida Valls; Petia Radeva; Meritxell Arenas; Domenec Puig | ||||
| Title | Automatic Recognition of Molecular Subtypes of Breast Cancer in X-Ray images using Segmentation-based Fractal Texture Analysis | Type | Book Chapter | ||
| Year | 2015 | Publication | Artificial Intelligence Research and Development | Abbreviated Journal | |
| Volume | 277 | Issue | Pages | 247 - 256 | |
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| Abstract | Breast cancer disease has recently been classified into four subtypes regarding the molecular properties of the affected tumor region. For each patient, an accurate diagnosis of the specific type is vital to decide the most appropriate therapy in order to enhance life prospects. Nowadays, advanced therapeutic diagnosis research is focused on gene selection methods, which are not robust enough. Hence, we hypothesize that computer vision algorithms can offer benefits to address the problem of discriminating among them through X-Ray images. In this paper, we propose a novel approach driven by texture feature descriptors and machine learning techniques. First, we segment the tumour part through an active contour technique and then, we perform a complete fractal analysis to collect qualitative information of the region of interest in the feature extraction stage. Finally, several supervised and unsupervised classifiers are used to perform multiclass classification of the aforementioned data. The experimental results presented in this paper support that it is possible to establish a relation between each tumor subtype and the extracted features of the patterns revealed on mammograms. | ||||
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| Publisher | IOS Press | Place of Publication | Editor | ||
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| Series Editor | Series Title | Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications | Abbreviated Series Title | ||
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| Call Number | Admin @ si @TVR2015 | Serial | 2780 | ||
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| Author | E. Tavalera; Mariella Dimiccoli; Marc Bolaños; Maedeh Aghaei; Petia Radeva | ||||
| Title | Regularized Clustering for Egocentric Video Segmentation | Type | Book Chapter | ||
| Year | 2015 | Publication | Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis | Abbreviated Journal | |
| Volume | Issue | Pages | 327-336 | ||
| Keywords | Temporal video segmentation ; Egocentric videos ; Clustering | ||||
| Abstract | In this paper, we present a new method for egocentric video temporal segmentation based on integrating a statistical mean change detector and agglomerative clustering(AC) within an energyminimization framework. Given the tendency of most AC methods to oversegment video sequences when clustering their frames, we combine the clustering with a concept drift detection technique (ADWIN) that has rigorous guarantee of performances. ADWIN serves as a statistical upper bound for the clustering-based video segmentation. We integrate techniques in an energy-minimization framework that serves disambiguate the decision of both techniques and to complete the segmentation taking into account the temporal continuity of video frames We present experiments over egocentric sets of more than 13.000 images acquired with different wearable cameras, showing that our method outperforms state-of-the-art clustering methods. | ||||
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| Publisher | Springer International Publishing | Place of Publication | Editor | ||
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| Author | Francesco Ciompi; Simone Balocco; Juan Rigla; Xavier Carrillo; J. Mauri; Petia Radeva | ||||
| Title | Computer-Aided Detection of Intra-Coronary Stent in Intravascular Ultrasound Sequences | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2016 | Publication | Medical Physics | Abbreviated Journal | MP |
| Volume | 43 | Issue | 10 | Pages | |
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| Abstract | Purpose: An intraluminal coronary stent is a metal mesh tube deployed in a stenotic artery during Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI), in order to prevent acute vessel occlusion. The identi cation of struts location and the de nition of the stent shape are relevant for PCI planning 15 and for patient follow-up. We present a fully-automatic framework for Computer-Aided Detection
(CAD) of intra-coronary stents in Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS) image sequences. The CAD system is able to detect stent struts and estimate the stent shape. Methods: The proposed CAD uses machine learning to provide a comprehensive interpretation of the local structure of the vessel by means of semantic classi cation. The output of the classi cation 20 stage is then used to detect struts and to estimate the stent shape. The proposed approach is validated using a multi-centric data-set of 1,015 images from 107 IVUS sequences containing both metallic and bio-absorbable stents. Results: The method was able to detect structs in both metallic stents with an overall F-measure of 77.7% and a mean distance of 0.15 mm from manually annotated struts, and in bio-absorbable 25 stents with an overall F-measure of 77.4% and a mean distance of 0.09 mm from manually annotated struts. Conclusions: The results are close to the inter-observer variability and suggest that the system has the potential of being used as method for aiding percutaneous interventions. |
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| Call Number | Admin @ si @ CBR2016 | Serial | 2819 | ||
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| Author | Mariella Dimiccoli; Benoît Girard; Alain Berthoz; Daniel Bennequin | ||||
| Title | Striola Magica: a functional explanation of otolith organs | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2013 | Publication | Journal of Computational Neuroscience | Abbreviated Journal | JCN |
| Volume | 35 | Issue | 2 | Pages | 125-154 |
| Keywords | Otolith organs ;Striola; Vestibular pathway | ||||
| Abstract | Otolith end organs of vertebrates sense linear accelerations of the head and gravitation. The hair cells on their epithelia are responsible for transduction. In mammals, the striola, parallel to the line where hair cells reverse their polarization, is a narrow region centered on a curve with curvature and torsion. It has been shown that the striolar region is functionally different from the rest, being involved in a phasic vestibular pathway. We propose a mathematical and computational model that explains the necessity of this amazing geometry for the striola to be able to carry out its function. Our hypothesis, related to the biophysics of the hair cells and to the physiology of their afferent neurons, is that striolar afferents collect information from several type I hair cells to detect the jerk in a large domain of acceleration directions. This predicts a mean number of two calyces for afferent neurons, as measured in rodents. The domain of acceleration directions sensed by our striolar model is compatible with the experimental results obtained on monkeys considering all afferents. Therefore, the main result of our study is that phasic and tonic vestibular afferents cover the same geometrical fields, but at different dynamical and frequency domains. | ||||
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| ISSN | 1573-6873. 2013 | ISBN | Medium | ||
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| Call Number | Admin @ si @DBG2013 | Serial | 2787 | ||
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