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	Author	Patricia Marquez; Debora Gil; R.Mester; Aura Hernandez-Sabate
	Title	Local Analysis of Confidence Measures for Optical Flow Quality Evaluation			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2014	Publication	9th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	3	Issue		Pages	450-457
	Keywords	Optical Flow; Confidence Measure; Performance Evaluation.
	Abstract	Optical Flow (OF) techniques facing the complexity of real sequences have been developed in the last years. Even using the most appropriate technique for our specific problem, at some points the output flow might fail to achieve the minimum error required for the system. Confidence measures computed from either input data or OF output should discard those points where OF is not accurate enough for its further use. It follows that evaluating the capabilities of a confidence measure for bounding OF error is as important as the definition itself. In this paper we analyze different confidence measures and point out their advantages and limitations for their use in real world settings. We also explore the agreement with current tools for their evaluation of confidence measures performance.
	Address	Lisboa; January 2014
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	Area		Expedition		Conference	VISAPP
	Notes	IAM; ADAS; 600.044; 600.060; 600.057; 601.145; 600.076; 600.075			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ MGM2014			Serial	2432
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	Author	Patricia Marquez; Debora Gil ; Aura Hernandez-Sabate
	Title	Error Analysis for Lucas-Kanade Based Schemes			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2012	Publication	9th International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	7324	Issue	I	Pages	184-191
	Keywords	Optical flow, Confidence measure, Lucas-Kanade, Cardiac Magnetic Resonance
	Abstract	Optical flow is a valuable tool for motion analysis in medical imaging sequences. A reliable application requires determining the accuracy of the computed optical flow. This is a main challenge given the absence of ground truth in medical sequences. This paper presents an error analysis of Lucas-Kanade schemes in terms of intrinsic design errors and numerical stability of the algorithm. Our analysis provides a confidence measure that is naturally correlated to the accuracy of the flow field. Our experiments show the higher predictive value of our confidence measure compared to existing measures.
	Address	Aveiro, Portugal
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	Publisher	Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg	Place of Publication		Editor
	Language	english	Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor	Campilho, Aurélio and Kamel, Mohamed	Series Title	Lecture Notes in Computer Science	Abbreviated Series Title	LNCS
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	0302-9743	ISBN	978-3-642-31294-6	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	ICIAR
	Notes	IAM			Approved	no
	Call Number	IAM @ iam @ MGH2012a			Serial	1899
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	Author	Sergio Vera; Miguel Angel Gonzalez Ballester; Debora Gil
	Title	Optimal Medial Surface Generation for Anatomical Volume Representations			Type	Book Chapter
	Year	2012	Publication	Abdominal Imaging. Computational and Clinical Applications	Abbreviated Journal	LNCS
	Volume	7601	Issue		Pages	265-273
	Keywords	Medial surface representation; volume reconstruction
	Abstract	Medial representations are a widely used technique in abdominal organ shape representation and parametrization. Those methods require good medial manifolds as a starting point. Any medial surface used to parametrize a volume should be simple enough to allow an easy manipulation and complete enough to allow an accurate reconstruction of the volume. Obtaining good quality medial surfaces is still a problem with current iterative thinning methods. This forces the usage of generic, pre-calculated medial templates that are adapted to the final shape at the cost of a drop in volume reconstruction. This paper describes an operator for generation of medial structures that generates clean and complete manifolds well suited for their further use in medial representations of abdominal organ volumes. While being simpler than thinning surfaces, experiments show its high performance in volume reconstruction and preservation of medial surface main branching topology.
	Address	Nice, France
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	Publisher	Springer Berlin Heidelberg	Place of Publication		Editor	Yoshida, Hiroyuki and Hawkes, David and Vannier, MichaelW.
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title	Lecture Notes in Computer Science	Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	0302-9743	ISBN	978-3-642-33611-9	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	STACOM
	Notes	IAM			Approved	no
	Call Number	IAM @ iam @ VGG2012b			Serial	1988
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	Author	Enric Marti; Ferran Poveda; Antoni Gurgui; Debora Gil
	Title	Aprendizaje Basado en Proyectos en Ingeniería Informática. Resultados y reflexiones de seis años de experiencia			Type	Miscellaneous
	Year	2011	Publication	Actas del Simposio-Taller JENUI 2011	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	1-8
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	Abstract	In this workshop a 6 years experience in Project Based Learning (PBL) in Computer Graphics, Computer Engineering course at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) is presented. We use a Moodle environment suited to manage the documentation generated in PBL. The course is organized by means of two alternative routes: a classic itinerary of lectures and test-based evaluation and another with PBL. In the PBL itinerary we explain the organization in teamgroups, homework tutoring and monitoring and evaluation guidelines for students. We provide some of the work done by students, and the results of assessment surveys carried out to students during these years. We report the evolution of our PBL itinerary in terms of, both, organization and student surveys. The workshop aims at discussing about on the advantages and disadvantages of using these active methodologies in technical degrees such as computer engineering, in order to debate about the most suitable way of organizing PBL and assessing students learning rate.
	Address	Sevilla, Spain
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	Language	spanish	Summary Language		Original Title
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	ISSN		ISBN	978-84-694-5440-4	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	JENUI
	Notes	IAM			Approved	no
	Call Number	IAM @ iam @ MPG2011			Serial	1584
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	Author	Enric Marti; Debora Gil; Marc Vivet ; Carme Julia
	Title	Balance de cuatro años de experiencia en la implantación de la metodología de Aprendizaje Basado en Proyectos en la asignatura de Gráficos por Computador en ingeniería Informática			Type	Miscellaneous
	Year	2008	Publication	Actas V Jornadas Internacionales de Innovación Universitaria	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages
	Keywords	Aprendizaje cooperativo; aprendizaje basado en proyectos; experiencias docentes.
	Abstract	En este trabajo se presentan los resultados de la aplicación de la metodología del aprendizaje cooperativo a la docencia de dos asignaturas de programación en ingeniería informática. ‘Algoritmos y programación’ y ‘Lenguajes de programación’ son dos asignaturas complementarias que se organizan entorno a un proyecto común que engloba los contenidos de ambas asignaturas. En la docencia de una parte muy importante de estas asignaturas, la metodología del aprendizaje cooperativo se ha adaptado a sus características específicas. Como muestra de esta adaptación presentamos dos ejemplos de las actividades desarrolladas dentro de la docencia de estas asignaturas. Después de tres años de aplicación, el análisis a nivel cualitativo y cuantitativo de los resultados muestra que éstos son muy satisfactorios y que la aplicación del método cooperativo ha mejorado de forma considerable el rendimiento de los alumnos en ambas asignaturas.
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	Call Number	IAM @ iam @ MGV2008a			Serial	1598
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	Author	Maurizio Mencuccini; Jordi Martinez-Vilalta; Josep Piñol; Lasse Loepfe; Mireia Burnat ; Xavier Alvarez; Juan Camacho; Debora Gil
	Title	A quantitative and statistically robust method for the determination of xylem conduit spatial distribution			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2010	Publication	American Journal of Botany	Abbreviated Journal	AJB
	Volume	97	Issue	8	Pages	1247-1259
	Keywords	Geyer; hydraulic conductivity; point pattern analysis; Ripley; Spatstat; vessel clusters; xylem anatomy; xylem network
	Abstract	Premise of the study: Because of their limited length, xylem conduits need to connect to each other to maintain water transport from roots to leaves. Conduit spatial distribution in a cross section plays an important role in aiding this connectivity. While indices of conduit spatial distribution already exist, they are not well defined statistically. * Methods: We used point pattern analysis to derive new spatial indices. One hundred and five cross-sectional images from different species were transformed into binary images. The resulting point patterns, based on the locations of the conduit centers-of-area, were analyzed to determine whether they departed from randomness. Conduit distribution was then modeled using a spatially explicit stochastic model. * Key results: The presence of conduit randomness, uniformity, or aggregation depended on the spatial scale of the analysis. The large majority of the images showed patterns significantly different from randomness at least at one spatial scale. A strong phylogenetic signal was detected in the spatial variables. * Conclusions: Conduit spatial arrangement has been largely conserved during evolution, especially at small spatial scales. Species in which conduits were aggregated in clusters had a lower conduit density compared to those with uniform distribution. Statistically sound spatial indices must be employed as an aid in the characterization of distributional patterns across species and in models of xylem water transport. Point pattern analysis is a very useful tool in identifying spatial patterns.
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	Notes	IAM;			Approved	no
	Call Number	IAM @ iam @ MMG2010			Serial	1623
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	Author	Sonia Baeza; R.Domingo; M.Salcedo; G.Moragas; J.Deportos; I.Garcia Olive; Carles Sanchez; Debora Gil; Antoni Rosell
	Title	Artificial Intelligence to Optimize Pulmonary Embolism Diagnosis During Covid-19 Pandemic by Perfusion SPECT/CT, a Pilot Study			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2021	Publication	American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine	Abbreviated Journal
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	Notes	IAM; 600.145			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ BDS2021			Serial	3591
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	Author	Guillermo Torres; Sonia Baeza; Carles Sanchez; Ignasi Guasch; Antoni Rosell; Debora Gil
	Title	An Intelligent Radiomic Approach for Lung Cancer Screening			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2022	Publication	Applied Sciences	Abbreviated Journal	APPLSCI
	Volume	12	Issue	3	Pages	1568
	Keywords	Lung cancer; Early diagnosis; Screening; Neural networks; Image embedding; Architecture optimization
	Abstract	The efficiency of lung cancer screening for reducing mortality is hindered by the high rate of false positives. Artificial intelligence applied to radiomics could help to early discard benign cases from the analysis of CT scans. The available amount of data and the fact that benign cases are a minority, constitutes a main challenge for the successful use of state of the art methods (like deep learning), which can be biased, over-fitted and lack of clinical reproducibility. We present an hybrid approach combining the potential of radiomic features to characterize nodules in CT scans and the generalization of the feed forward networks. In order to obtain maximal reproducibility with minimal training data, we propose an embedding of nodules based on the statistical significance of radiomic features for malignancy detection. This representation space of lesions is the input to a feed forward network, which architecture and hyperparameters are optimized using own-defined metrics of the diagnostic power of the whole system. Results of the best model on an independent set of patients achieve 100% of sensitivity and 83% of specificity (AUC = 0.94) for malignancy detection.
	Address	Jan 2022
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	Notes	IAM; 600.139; 600.145			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ TBS2022			Serial	3699
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	Author	Aura Hernandez-Sabate; Jose Elias Yauri; Pau Folch; Miquel Angel Piera; Debora Gil
	Title	Recognition of the Mental Workloads of Pilots in the Cockpit Using EEG Signals			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2022	Publication	Applied Sciences	Abbreviated Journal	APPLSCI
	Volume	12	Issue	5	Pages	2298
	Keywords	Cognitive states; Mental workload; EEG analysis; Neural networks; Multimodal data fusion
	Abstract	The commercial flightdeck is a naturally multi-tasking work environment, one in which interruptions are frequent come in various forms, contributing in many cases to aviation incident reports. Automatic characterization of pilots’ workloads is essential to preventing these kind of incidents. In addition, minimizing the physiological sensor network as much as possible remains both a challenge and a requirement. Electroencephalogram (EEG) signals have shown high correlations with specific cognitive and mental states, such as workload. However, there is not enough evidence in the literature to validate how well models generalize in cases of new subjects performing tasks with workloads similar to the ones included during the model’s training. In this paper, we propose a convolutional neural network to classify EEG features across different mental workloads in a continuous performance task test that partly measures working memory and working memory capacity. Our model is valid at the general population level and it is able to transfer task learning to pilot mental workload recognition in a simulated operational environment.
	Address	February 2022
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	Notes	IAM; ADAS; 600.139; 600.145; 600.118			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ HYF2022			Serial	3720
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	Author	Jose Elias Yauri; Aura Hernandez-Sabate; Pau Folch; Debora Gil
	Title	Mental Workload Detection Based on EEG Analysis			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2021	Publication	Artificial Intelligent Research and Development. Proceedings 23rd International Conference of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence.	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	339	Issue		Pages	268-277
	Keywords	Cognitive states; Mental workload; EEG analysis; Neural Networks.
	Abstract	The study of mental workload becomes essential for human work efficiency, health conditions and to avoid accidents, since workload compromises both performance and awareness. Although workload has been widely studied using several physiological measures, minimising the sensor network as much as possible remains both a challenge and a requirement. Electroencephalogram (EEG) signals have shown a high correlation to specific cognitive and mental states like workload. However, there is not enough evidence in the literature to validate how well models generalize in case of new subjects performing tasks of a workload similar to the ones included during model’s training. In this paper we propose a binary neural network to classify EEG features across different mental workloads. Two workloads, low and medium, are induced using two variants of the N-Back Test. The proposed model was validated in a dataset collected from 16 subjects and shown a high level of generalization capability: model reported an average recall of 81.81% in a leave-one-out subject evaluation.
	Address	Virtual; October 20-22 2021
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	Area		Expedition		Conference	CCIA
	Notes	IAM; 600.139; 600.118; 600.145			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @			Serial	3723
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	Author	Pau Cano; Alvaro Caravaca; Debora Gil; Eva Musulen
	Title	Diagnosis of Helicobacter pylori using AutoEncoders for the Detection of Anomalous Staining Patterns in Immunohistochemistry Images			Type	Miscellaneous
	Year	2023	Publication	Arxiv	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	107241
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	Abstract	This work addresses the detection of Helicobacter pylori a bacterium classified since 1994 as class 1 carcinogen to humans. By its highest specificity and sensitivity, the preferred diagnosis technique is the analysis of histological images with immunohistochemical staining, a process in which certain stained antibodies bind to antigens of the biological element of interest. This analysis is a time demanding task, which is currently done by an expert pathologist that visually inspects the digitized samples. We propose to use autoencoders to learn latent patterns of healthy tissue and detect H. pylori as an anomaly in image staining. Unlike existing classification approaches, an autoencoder is able to learn patterns in an unsupervised manner (without the need of image annotations) with high performance. In particular, our model has an overall 91% of accuracy with 86\% sensitivity, 96% specificity and 0.97 AUC in the detection of H. pylori.
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	Notes	IAM			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ CCG2023			Serial	3855
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	Author	Debora Gil; Katerine Diaz; Carles Sanchez; Aura Hernandez-Sabate
	Title	Early Screening of SARS-CoV-2 by Intelligent Analysis of X-Ray Images			Type	Miscellaneous
	Year	2020	Publication	Arxiv	Abbreviated Journal
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	Abstract	Future SARS-CoV-2 virus outbreak COVID-XX might possibly occur during the next years. However the pathology in humans is so recent that many clinical aspects, like early detection of complications, side effects after recovery or early screening, are currently unknown. In spite of the number of cases of COVID-19, its rapid spread putting many sanitary systems in the edge of collapse has hindered proper collection and analysis of the data related to COVID-19 clinical aspects. We describe an interdisciplinary initiative that integrates clinical research, with image diagnostics and the use of new technologies such as artificial intelligence and radiomics with the aim of clarifying some of SARS-CoV-2 open questions. The whole initiative addresses 3 main points: 1) collection of standardize data including images, clinical data and analytics; 2) COVID-19 screening for its early diagnosis at primary care centers; 3) define radiomic signatures of COVID-19 evolution and associated pathologies for the early treatment of complications. In particular, in this paper we present a general overview of the project, the experimental design and first results of X-ray COVID-19 detection using a classic approach based on HoG and feature selection. Our experiments include a comparison to some recent methods for COVID-19 screening in X-Ray and an exploratory analysis of the feasibility of X-Ray COVID-19 screening. Results show that classic approaches can outperform deep-learning methods in this experimental setting, indicate the feasibility of early COVID-19 screening and that non-COVID infiltration is the group of patients most similar to COVID-19 in terms of radiological description of X-ray. Therefore, an efficient COVID-19 screening should be complemented with other clinical data to better discriminate these cases.
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	Notes	IAM; 600.139; 600.145; 601.337			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ GDS2020			Serial	3474
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	Author	Oriol Ramos Terrades; Albert Berenguel; Debora Gil
	Title	A flexible outlier detector based on a topology given by graph communities			Type	Miscellaneous
	Year	2020	Publication	Arxiv	Abbreviated Journal
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	Abstract	Outlier, or anomaly, detection is essential for optimal performance of machine learning methods and statistical predictive models. It is not just a technical step in a data cleaning process but a key topic in many fields such as fraudulent document detection, in medical applications and assisted diagnosis systems or detecting security threats. In contrast to population-based methods, neighborhood based local approaches are simple flexible methods that have the potential to perform well in small sample size unbalanced problems. However, a main concern of local approaches is the impact that the computation of each sample neighborhood has on the method performance. Most approaches use a distance in the feature space to define a single neighborhood that requires careful selection of several parameters. This work presents a local approach based on a local measure of the heterogeneity of sample labels in the feature space considered as a topological manifold. Topology is computed using the communities of a weighted graph codifying mutual nearest neighbors in the feature space. This way, we provide with a set of multiple neighborhoods able to describe the structure of complex spaces without parameter fine tuning. The extensive experiments on real-world data sets show that our approach overall outperforms, both, local and global strategies in multi and single view settings.
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	Notes	IAM; DAG; 600.139; 600.145; 600.140; 600.121			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ RBG2020			Serial	3475
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	Author	Oriol Ramos Terrades; Albert Berenguel; Debora Gil
	Title	A Flexible Outlier Detector Based on a Topology Given by Graph Communities			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2022	Publication	Big Data Research	Abbreviated Journal	BDR
	Volume	29	Issue		Pages	100332
	Keywords	Classification algorithms; Detection algorithms; Description of feature space local structure; Graph communities; Machine learning algorithms; Outlier detectors
	Abstract	Outlier detection is essential for optimal performance of machine learning methods and statistical predictive models. Their detection is especially determinant in small sample size unbalanced problems, since in such settings outliers become highly influential and significantly bias models. This particular experimental settings are usual in medical applications, like diagnosis of rare pathologies, outcome of experimental personalized treatments or pandemic emergencies. In contrast to population-based methods, neighborhood based local approaches compute an outlier score from the neighbors of each sample, are simple flexible methods that have the potential to perform well in small sample size unbalanced problems. A main concern of local approaches is the impact that the computation of each sample neighborhood has on the method performance. Most approaches use a distance in the feature space to define a single neighborhood that requires careful selection of several parameters, like the number of neighbors. This work presents a local approach based on a local measure of the heterogeneity of sample labels in the feature space considered as a topological manifold. Topology is computed using the communities of a weighted graph codifying mutual nearest neighbors in the feature space. This way, we provide with a set of multiple neighborhoods able to describe the structure of complex spaces without parameter fine tuning. The extensive experiments on real-world and synthetic data sets show that our approach outperforms, both, local and global strategies in multi and single view settings.
	Address	August 28, 2022
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	Notes	DAG; IAM; 600.140; 600.121; 600.139; 600.145; 600.159			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ RBG2022a			Serial	3718
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	Author	Mireia Sole; Joan Blanco; Debora Gil; G. Fonseka; Richard Frodsham; Francesca Vidal; Zaida Sarrate
	Title	Noves perspectives en l estudi de la territorialitat cromosomica de cel·lules germinals masculines: estudis tridimensionals			Type	Journal
	Year	2017	Publication	Biologia de la Reproduccio	Abbreviated Journal	JBR
	Volume	15	Issue		Pages	73-78
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	Abstract	In somatic cells, chromosomes occupy specific nuclear regions called chromosome territories which are involved in the maintenance and regulation of the genome. Preliminary data in male germ cells also suggest the importance of chromosome territoriality in cell functionality. Nevertheless, the specific characteristics of testicular tissue (presence of different cell types with different morphological characteristics, in different stages of development and with different ploidy) makes difficult to achieve conclusive results. In this study we have developed a methodology to approach the threedimensional study of all chromosome territories in male germ cells from C57BL/6J mice (Mus musculus). The method includes the following steps: i) Optimized cell fixation to obtain an optimal preservation of the three-dimensionality cell morphology, ii) Chromosome identification by FISH (Chromoprobe Multiprobe® OctoChrome™ Murine System; Cytocell) and confocal microscopy (TCS-SP5, Leica Microsystems), iii) Cell type identification by immunofluorescence iv) Image analysis using Matlab scripts, v) Numerical data extraction related to chromosome features, chromosome radial position and chromosome relative position. This methodology allows the unequivocally identification and the analysis of the chromosome territories of all spermatogenic stages. Results will provide information about the features that determine chromosomal position, preferred associations between chromosomes, and the relationship between chromosome positioning and genome regulation.
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	ISSN		ISBN	978-84-697-3767-5	Medium
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	Notes	IAM; 600.096; 600.145			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ SBG2017c			Serial	2961
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