Publications by authors named "Manolis Wallace"

The vaccination of children is a crucial tool to protect both individuals and the world in general from various diseases and pathogens. Unfortunately, the vaccination procedure is not a pleasant one for all children, with many experiencing various levels of discomfort, sometimes reaching intolerable levels. In the first part of this work, we develop VACS, a tool that measures the discomfort children experience during vaccination.

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This study presents an integrated approach to locating and presenting the medical practitioner with salient regions in a computed tomography (CT) scan when focusing on the area of the liver. A number of image processing tasks are performed in successive scans to extract areas with a different features than that of the greater part of the organ. In general, these areas do not always correspond to pathological patterns, but may be the result of noise in the scanned image or related to veins passing through the tissue.

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In any neural network system, proper parameter initialization reduces training time and effort, and generally leads to compact modeling of the process under examination, i.e. less complex network structures and better generalization.

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