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	Author	Olivier Penacchio; C. Alejandro Parraga
	Title	What is the best criterion for an efficient design of retinal photoreceptor mosaics?			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2011	Publication	Perception	Abbreviated Journal	PER
	Volume	40	Issue		Pages	197
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	Abstract	The proportions of L, M and S photoreceptors in the primate retina are arguably determined by evolutionary pressure and the statistics of the visual environment. Two information theory-based approaches have been recently proposed for explaining the asymmetrical spatial densities of photoreceptors in humans. In the first approach Garrigan et al (2010 PLoS ONE 6 e1000677), a model for computing the information transmitted by cone arrays which considers the differential blurring produced by the long-wavelength accommodation of the eye’s lens is proposed. Their results explain the sparsity of S-cones but the optimum depends weakly on the L:M cone ratio. In the second approach (Penacchio et al, 2010 Perception 39 ECVP Supplement, 101), we show that human cone arrays make the visual representation scale-invariant, allowing the total entropy of the signal to be preserved while decreasing individual neurons’ entropy in further retinotopic representations. This criterion provides a thorough description of the distribution of L:M cone ratios and does not depend on differential blurring of the signal by the lens. Here, we investigate the similarities and differences of both approaches when applied to the same database. Our results support a 2-criteria optimization in the space of cone ratios whose components are arguably important and mostly unrelated. [This work was partially funded by projects TIN2010-21771-C02-1 and Consolider-Ingenio 2010-CSD2007-00018 from the Spanish MICINN. CAP was funded by grant RYC-2007-00484]
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	Notes	CIC			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ PeP2011a			Serial	1719
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	Author	Lluis Pere de las Heras; Joan Mas; Gemma Sanchez; Ernest Valveny
	Title	Wall Patch-Based Segmentation in Architectural Floorplans			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2011	Publication	11th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	1270-1274
	Keywords
	Abstract	Segmentation of architectural floor plans is a challenging task, mainly because of the large variability in the notation between different plans. In general, traditional techniques, usually based on analyzing and grouping structural primitives obtained by vectorization, are only able to handle a reduced range of similar notations. In this paper we propose an alternative patch-based segmentation approach working at pixel level, without need of vectorization. The image is divided into a set of patches and a set of features is extracted for every patch. Then, each patch is assigned to a visual word of a previously learned vocabulary and given a probability of belonging to each class of objects. Finally, a post-process assigns the final label for every pixel. This approach has been applied to the detection of walls on two datasets of architectural floor plans with different notations, achieving high accuracy rates.
	Address	Beiging, China
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	1520-5363	ISBN	978-0-7695-4520-2	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	ICDAR
	Notes	DAG			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ HMS2011a			Serial	1792
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	Author	Jaume Gibert; Ernest Valveny; Horst Bunke
	Title	Vocabulary Selection for Graph of Words Embedding			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2011	Publication	5th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	6669	Issue		Pages	216-223
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	Abstract	The Graph of Words Embedding consists in mapping every graph in a given dataset to a feature vector by counting unary and binary relations between node attributes of the graph. It has been shown to perform well for graphs with discrete label alphabets. In this paper we extend the methodology to graphs with n-dimensional continuous attributes by selecting node representatives. We propose three different discretization procedures for the attribute space and experimentally evaluate the dependence on both the selector and the number of node representatives. In the context of graph classification, the experimental results reveal that on two out of three public databases the proposed extension achieves superior performance over a standard reference system.
	Address	Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Spain
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	Publisher	Springer	Place of Publication	Berlin	Editor	Vitria, Jordi; Sanches, João Miguel Raposo; Hernández, Mario
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title	LNCS
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN	978-3-642-21256-7	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	IbPRIA
	Notes	DAG			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ GVB2011b			Serial	1744
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	Author	Kaida Xiao; Chenyang Fu; Dimosthenis Karatzas; Sophie Wuerger
	Title	Visual Gamma Correction for LCD Displays			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2011	Publication	Displays	Abbreviated Journal	DIS
	Volume	32	Issue	1	Pages	17-23
	Keywords	Display calibration; Psychophysics ; Perceptual; Visual gamma correction; Luminance matching; Observer-based calibration
	Abstract	An improved method for visual gamma correction is developed for LCD displays to increase the accuracy of digital colour reproduction. Rather than utilising a photometric measurement device, we use observ- ers’ visual luminance judgements for gamma correction. Eight half tone patterns were designed to gen- erate relative luminances from 1/9 to 8/9 for each colour channel. A psychophysical experiment was conducted on an LCD display to find the digital signals corresponding to each relative luminance by visually matching the half-tone background to a uniform colour patch. Both inter- and intra-observer vari- ability for the eight luminance matches in each channel were assessed and the luminance matches proved to be consistent across observers (DE00 < 3.5) and repeatable (DE00 < 2.2). Based on the individual observer judgements, the display opto-electronic transfer function (OETF) was estimated by using either a 3rd order polynomial regression or linear interpolation for each colour channel. The performance of the proposed method is evaluated by predicting the CIE tristimulus values of a set of coloured patches (using the observer-based OETFs) and comparing them to the expected CIE tristimulus values (using the OETF obtained from spectro-radiometric luminance measurements). The resulting colour differences range from 2 to 4.6 DE00. We conclude that this observer-based method of visual gamma correction is useful to estimate the OETF for LCD displays. Its major advantage is that no particular functional relationship between digital inputs and luminance outputs has to be assumed.
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	Publisher	Elsevier	Place of Publication		Editor
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
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	Notes	DAG			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ XFK2011			Serial	1815
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	Author	David Vazquez; Antonio Lopez; Daniel Ponsa; Javier Marin
	Title	Virtual Worlds and Active Learning for Human Detection			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2011	Publication	13th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	393-400
	Keywords	Pedestrian Detection; Human detection; Virtual; Domain Adaptation; Active Learning
	Abstract	Image based human detection is of paramount interest due to its potential applications in fields such as advanced driving assistance, surveillance and media analysis. However, even detecting non-occluded standing humans remains a challenge of intensive research. The most promising human detectors rely on classifiers developed in the discriminative paradigm, i.e., trained with labelled samples. However, labeling is a manual intensive step, especially in cases like human detection where it is necessary to provide at least bounding boxes framing the humans for training. To overcome such problem, some authors have proposed the use of a virtual world where the labels of the different objects are obtained automatically. This means that the human models (classifiers) are learnt using the appearance of rendered images, i.e., using realistic computer graphics. Later, these models are used for human detection in images of the real world. The results of this technique are surprisingly good. However, these are not always as good as the classical approach of training and testing with data coming from the same camera, or similar ones. Accordingly, in this paper we address the challenge of using a virtual world for gathering (while playing a videogame) a large amount of automatically labelled samples (virtual humans and background) and then training a classifier that performs equal, in real-world images, than the one obtained by equally training from manually labelled real-world samples. For doing that, we cast the problem as one of domain adaptation. In doing so, we assume that a small amount of manually labelled samples from real-world images is required. To collect these labelled samples we propose a non-standard active learning technique. Therefore, ultimately our human model is learnt by the combination of virtual and real world labelled samples (Fig. 1), which has not been done before. We present quantitative results showing that this approach is valid.
	Address	Alicante, Spain
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	Publisher	ACM DL	Place of Publication	New York, NY, USA, USA	Editor
	Language	English	Summary Language	English	Original Title	Virtual Worlds and Active Learning for Human Detection
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN	978-1-4503-0641-6	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	ICMI
	Notes	ADAS			Approved	yes
	Call Number	ADAS @ adas @ VLP2011a			Serial	1683
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	Author	Ferran Diego; Daniel Ponsa; Joan Serrat; Antonio Lopez
	Title	Video Alignment for Change Detection			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2011	Publication	IEEE Transactions on Image Processing	Abbreviated Journal	TIP
	Volume	20	Issue	7	Pages	1858-1869
	Keywords	video alignment
	Abstract	In this work, we address the problem of aligning two video sequences. Such alignment refers to synchronization, i.e., the establishment of temporal correspondence between frames of the first and second video, followed by spatial registration of all the temporally corresponding frames. Video synchronization and alignment have been attempted before, but most often in the relatively simple cases of fixed or rigidly attached cameras and simultaneous acquisition. In addition, restrictive assumptions have been applied, including linear time correspondence or the knowledge of the complete trajectories of corresponding scene points; to some extent, these assumptions limit the practical applicability of any solutions developed. We intend to solve the more general problem of aligning video sequences recorded by independently moving cameras that follow similar trajectories, based only on the fusion of image intensity and GPS information. The novelty of our approach is to pose the synchronization as a MAP inference problem on a Bayesian network including the observations from these two sensor types, which have been proved complementary. Alignment results are presented in the context of videos recorded from vehicles driving along the same track at different times, for different road types. In addition, we explore two applications of the proposed video alignment method, both based on change detection between aligned videos. One is the detection of vehicles, which could be of use in ADAS. The other is online difference spotting videos of surveillance rounds.
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	Notes	ADAS; IF			Approved	no
	Call Number	DPS 2011; ADAS @ adas @ dps2011			Serial	1705
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	Author	David Roche; Debora Gil; Jesus Giraldo
	Title	Using statistical inference for designing termination conditions ensuring convergence of Evolutionary Algorithms			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2011	Publication	11th European Conference on Artificial Life	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages
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	Abstract	A main challenge in Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) is determining a termination condition ensuring stabilization close to the optimum in real-world applications. Although for known test functions distribution-based quantities are good candidates (as far as suitable parameters are used), in real-world problems an open question still remains unsolved. How can we estimate an upper-bound for the termination condition value ensuring a given accuracy for the (unknown) EA solution? We claim that the termination problem would be fully solved if we defined a quantity (depending only on the EA output) behaving like the solution accuracy. The open question would be, then, satisfactorily answered if we had a model relating both quantities, since accuracy could be predicted from the alternative quantity. We present a statistical inference framework addressing two topics: checking the correlation between the two quantities and defining a regression model for predicting (at a given confidence level) accuracy values from the EA output.
	Address	Paris, France
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	Area		Expedition		Conference	ECAL
	Notes	IAM;			Approved	no
	Call Number	IAM @ iam @ RGG2011b			Serial	1678
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	Author	Pierluigi Casale; Oriol Pujol; Petia Radeva
	Title	User Verification From Walking Activity. First Steps Towards a Personal Verification System			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2011	Publication	1st International Conference on Pervasive and Embedded Computing and Communication Systems	Abbreviated Journal
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	Address	Algarve, Portugal
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	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	PECCS
	Notes	MILAB;HuPBA			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ CPR2011c			Serial	1762
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	Author	Miguel Oliveira; Angel Sappa; V.Santos
	Title	Unsupervised Local Color Correction for Coarsely Registered Images			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2011	Publication	IEEE conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	201-208
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	Abstract	The current paper proposes a new parametric local color correction technique. Initially, several color transfer functions are computed from the output of the mean shift color segmentation algorithm. Secondly, color influence maps are calculated. Finally, the contribution of every color transfer function is merged using the weights from the color influence maps. The proposed approach is compared with both global and local color correction approaches. Results show that our method outperforms the technique ranked first in a recent performance evaluation on this topic. Moreover, the proposed approach is computed in about one tenth of the time.
	Address	Colorado Springs
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	ISSN	1063-6919	ISBN	978-1-4577-0394-2	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	CVPR
	Notes	ADAS			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ OSS2011; ADAS @ adas @			Serial	1766
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	Author	Eduard Vazquez
	Title	Unsupervised image segmentation based on material reflectance description and saliency			Type	Book Whole
	Year	2011	Publication	PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC	Abbreviated Journal
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	Abstract	Image segmentations aims to partition an image into a set of non-overlapped regions, called segments. Despite the simplicity of the definition, image segmentation raises as a very complex problem in all its stages. The definition of segment is still unclear. When asking to a human to perform a segmentation, this person segments at different levels of abstraction. Some segments might be a single, well-defined texture whereas some others correspond with an object in the scene which might including multiple textures and colors. For this reason, segmentation is divided in bottom-up segmentation and top-down segmentation. Bottom up-segmentation is problem independent, that is, focused on general properties of the images such as textures or illumination. Top-down segmentation is a problem-dependent approach which looks for specific entities in the scene, such as known objects. This work is focused on bottom-up segmentation. Beginning from the analysis of the lacks of current methods, we propose an approach called RAD. Our approach overcomes the main shortcomings of those methods which use the physics of the light to perform the segmentation. RAD is a topological approach which describes a single-material reflectance. Afterwards, we cope with one of the main problems in image segmentation: non supervised adaptability to image content. To yield a non-supervised method, we use a model of saliency yet presented in this thesis. It computes the saliency of the chromatic transitions of an image by means of a statistical analysis of the images derivatives. This method of saliency is used to build our final approach of segmentation: spRAD. This method is a non-supervised segmentation approach. Our saliency approach has been validated with a psychophysical experiment as well as computationally, overcoming a state-of-the-art saliency method. spRAD also outperforms state-of-the-art segmentation techniques as results obtained with a widely-used segmentation dataset show
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	Corporate Author				Thesis	Ph.D. thesis
	Publisher		Place of Publication		Editor	Ramon Baldrich
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	CIC			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ Vaz2011b			Serial	1835
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	Author	Kaida Xiao; Sophie Wuerger; Chenyang Fu; Dimosthenis Karatzas
	Title	Unique Hue Data for Colour Appearance Models. Part i: Loci of Unique Hues and Hue Uniformity			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2011	Publication	Color Research & Application	Abbreviated Journal	CRA
	Volume	36	Issue	5	Pages	316-323
	Keywords	unique hues; colour appearance models; CIECAM02; hue uniformity
	Abstract	Psychophysical experiments were conducted to assess unique hues on a CRT display for a large sample of colour-normal observers (n 1⁄4 185). These data were then used to evaluate the most commonly used colour appear- ance model, CIECAM02, by transforming the CIEXYZ tris- timulus values of the unique hues to the CIECAM02 colour appearance attributes, lightness, chroma and hue angle. We report two findings: (1) the hue angles derived from our unique hue data are inconsistent with the commonly used Natural Color System hues that are incorporated in the CIECAM02 model. We argue that our predicted unique hue angles (derived from our large dataset) provide a more reliable standard for colour management applications when the precise specification of these salient colours is im- portant. (2) We test hue uniformity for CIECAM02 in all four unique hues and show significant disagreements for all hues, except for unique red which seems to be invariant under lightness changes. Our dataset is useful to improve the CIECAM02 model as it provides reliable data for benchmarking.
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	Publisher	Wiley Periodicals Inc	Place of Publication		Editor
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	DAG			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ XWF2011			Serial	1816
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	Author	Andreas Fischer; Volkmar Frinken; Alicia Fornes; Horst Bunke
	Title	Transcription Alignment of Latin Manuscripts Using Hidden Markov Models			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2011	Publication	Proceedings of the 2011 Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	29-36
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	Abstract	Transcriptions of historical documents are a valuable source for extracting labeled handwriting images that can be used for training recognition systems. In this paper, we introduce the Saint Gall database that includes images as well as the transcription of a Latin manuscript from the 9th century written in Carolingian script. Although the available transcription is of high quality for a human reader, the spelling of the words is not accurate when compared with the handwriting image. Hence, the transcription poses several challenges for alignment regarding, e.g., line breaks, abbreviations, and capitalization. We propose an alignment system based on character Hidden Markov Models that can cope with these challenges and efficiently aligns complete document pages. On the Saint Gall database, we demonstrate that a considerable alignment accuracy can be achieved, even with weakly trained character models.
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	Publisher	ACM	Place of Publication		Editor
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	HIP
	Notes	DAG			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ FFF2011b			Serial	1824
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	Author	Sergio Escalera; Xavier Baro; Oriol Pujol; Jordi Vitria; Petia Radeva
	Title	Traffic-Sign Recognition Systems			Type	Book Whole
	Year	2011	Publication	SpringerBriefs in Computer Science	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	5-13
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	Publisher	Springer London	Place of Publication		Editor
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN	978-1-4471-2244-9	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	MILAB; OR;HuPBA;MV			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ EBP2011			Serial	1801
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	Author	Carles Sanchez
	Title	Tracheal ring detection in bronchoscopy			Type	Report
	Year	2011	Publication	CVC Technical Report	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	168	Issue		Pages
	Keywords	Bronchoscopy, tracheal ring, segmentation
	Abstract	Endoscopy is the process in which a camera is introduced inside a human. Given that endoscopy provides realistic images (in contrast to other modalities) and allows non-invase minimal intervention procedures (which can aid in diagnosis and surgical interventions), its use has spreaded during last decades. In this project we will focus on bronchoscopic procedures, during which the camera is introduced through the trachea in order to have a diagnostic of the patient. The diagnostic interventions are focused on: degree of stenosis (reduction in tracheal area), prosthesis or early diagnosis of tumors. In the first case, assessment of the luminal area and the calculation of the diameters of the tracheal rings are required. A main limitation is that all the process is done by hand, which means that the doctor takes all the measurements and decisions just by looking at the screen. As far as we know there is no computational framework for helping the doctors in the diagnosis. This project will consist of analysing bronchoscopic videos in order to extract useful information for the diagnostic of the degree of stenosis. In particular we will focus on segmentation of the tracheal rings. As a result of this project several strategies (for detecting tracheal rings) had been implemented in order to compare their performance.
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	Corporate Author				Thesis	Master's thesis
	Publisher		Place of Publication		Editor	Debora Gil, F.Javier Sanchez
	Language	english	Summary Language	english	Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	IAM;MV			Approved	no
	Call Number	IAM @ iam @ San2011			Serial	1841
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	Author	Jorge Bernal; Fernando Vilariño; F. Javier Sanchez
	Title	Towards Intelligent Systems for Colonoscopy			Type	Book Chapter
	Year	2011	Publication	Colonoscopy	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	1	Issue		Pages	257-282
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	Abstract	In this chapter we present tools that can be used to build intelligent systems for colonoscopy. The idea is, by using methods based on computer vision and artiﬁcial intelligence, add signiﬁcant value to the colonoscopy procedure. Intelligent systems are being used to assist in other medical interventions
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	Publisher	Intech	Place of Publication		Editor	Paul Miskovitz
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN	978-953-307-568-6	Medium
	Area	800	Expedition		Conference
	Notes	MV;SIAI			Approved	no
	Call Number	IAM @ iam @ BVS2011			Serial	1697
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