Publications by authors named "Nancy M Salem"

Stress is a psychological condition resulting from the body's response to challenging situations, which can negatively impact physical and mental health if experienced over prolonged periods. Early detection of stress is crucial to prevent chronic health problems. Wearable sensors offer an effective solution for continuous and real-time stress monitoring due to their non-intrusive nature and ability to monitor vital signs, e.

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Salient object detection is an increasingly popular topic in the computer vision field, particularly for images with complex backgrounds and diverse object parts. Background information is an essential factor in detecting salient objects. This paper suggests a robust and effective methodology for salient object detection.

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  • Corneal biomechanics are crucial for understanding diseases and outcomes of refractive surgeries; however, studying them in real-time is difficult, making mathematical modeling a viable alternative.
  • Three mathematical models were used to simulate corneal viscoelasticity and thermal behavior under different loading situations, with the standard linear solid model proving most effective for simulating corneal behavior.
  • The standard linear solid model yielded more accurate results for corneal deformation compared to other models and estimated a safe temperature rise of about 0.2°C, aligning with FDA safety regulations.
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Brain tumors are considered to be a leading cause of cancer death among young people. Early diagnosis is thus essential for treatment. The brain segmentation process is still challenging due to complexity and variation of the tumor structure, intensity similarity between tumor tissues and normal brain tissues.

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In this paper, segmentation of blood vessels from colour retinal images using a novel clustering algorithm with a partial supervision strategy is proposed. The proposed clustering algorithm, which is a RAdius based Clustering ALgorithm (RACAL), uses a distance based principle to map the distributions of the data by utilising the premise that clusters are determined by a distance parameter, without having to specify the number of clusters. Additionally, the proposed clustering algorithm is enhanced with a partial supervision strategy and it is demonstrated that it is able to segment blood vessels of small diameters and low contrasts.

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