Publications by authors named "F Boray Tek"

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  • Obstructive sleep apnea is the most common sleep disorder related to breathing issues.
  • There are various treatment options available for it, and daytime sleepiness can signal the need to evaluate the current treatment.
  • If monitoring reveals that treatment is not effective, combining different therapies may be necessary.
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The proliferative activity of breast tumors, which is routinely estimated by counting of mitotic figures in hematoxylin and eosin stained histology sections, is considered to be one of the most important prognostic markers. However, mitosis counting is laborious, subjective and may suffer from low inter-observer agreement. With the wider acceptance of whole slide images in pathology labs, automatic image analysis has been proposed as a potential solution for these issues.

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Context: Mitosis count is one of the factors that pathologists use to assess the risk of metastasis and survival of the patients, which are affected by the breast cancer.

Aims: We investigate an application of a set of generic features and an ensemble of cascade adaboosts to the automated mitosis detection. Calculation of the features rely minimally on object-level descriptions and thus require minimal segmentation.

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