Publications by authors named "Raul E Sanchez-Yanez"

Computational cell segmentation is a vital area of research, particularly in the analysis of images of cancer cells. The use of cell lines, such as the widely utilized HeLa cell line, is crucial for studying cancer. While deep learning algorithms have been commonly employed for cell segmentation, their resource and data requirements can be impractical for many laboratories.

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The incapability to move the facial muscles is known as facial palsy, and it affects various abilities of the patient, for example, performing facial expressions. Recently, automatic approaches aiming to diagnose facial palsy using images and machine learning algorithms have emerged, focusing on providing an objective evaluation of the paralysis severity. This research proposes an approach to analyze and assess the lesion severity as a classification problem with three levels: healthy, slight, and strong palsy.

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Humans express their emotions verbally and through actions, and hence emotions play a fundamental role in facial expressions and body gestures. Facial expression recognition is a popular topic in security, healthcare, entertainment, advertisement, education, and robotics. Detecting facial expressions via gesture recognition is a complex and challenging problem, especially in persons who suffer face impairments, such as patients with facial paralysis.

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