23 results match your criteria: "St. Xavier's Catholic College of Engineering[Affiliation]"

Segmentation of breast lesion using fuzzy thresholding and deep learning.

Comput Biol Med

January 2025

Dept. of Electronics and Communication Engineering, St. Xavier's Catholic College of Engineering, Chunkankadai, Tamil Nadu, India.

Breast cancer is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in women. In breast cancer screening, Dynamic Contrast Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging (DCE-MRI) has shown promise as a technique, providing enhanced temporal patterns of breast tissues. This study proposes an enhanced segmentation method for identifying breast lesions.

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A comprehensive review of titanium dioxide nanoparticles in cementitious composites.

Heliyon

October 2024

Facultad de Medicina y Ciencia, Departamento de CienciasBiológicas y Químicas, Universidad San Sebastián, Lientur 1457, Concepción, Chile.

Nanomaterials are incorporated to improve the characteristics of conventional concrete materials. Among them, Titanium dioxide (TiO) nanoparticles exhibit sustainable concrete features such as optimization of materials, improvement of structures, recycling, and innovative waste management in materials and processes. This paper thoroughly elaborates on the effect of TiO nanoparticles on the composites of cement which in turn modifies the physical, mechanical, and ability to resist any chemical action, climate change, and abrasion; Furthermore, this study emphasizes the small fragment size, increased surface area and photocatalytic properties of cementitious composites.

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Article Synopsis
  • Electronic health records (EHRs) are more efficient and secure than paper records, but face issues like interoperability and privacy, which blockchain technology may help address.
  • The study proposes a system using the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) and Ethereum for secure transfer of medical records, implementing smart contracts to maintain patient anonymity and streamline data management.
  • The backend employs Solidity while the frontend utilizes HTML, CSS, ReactJS, and JavaScript; the solution shows improved efficiency and scalability with a minimum latency of 14 ms.
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This research aims to provide the groundwork for smartly categorizing hand movements for use with prosthetic hands. The hand motions are classified using surface electromyography (sEMG) data. In reaction to a predetermined sequence of fibre activation, every single one of our muscles contracts.

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DEC-DRR: deep ensemble of classification model for diabetic retinopathy recognition.

Med Biol Eng Comput

September 2024

Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, St. Xavier's Catholic College of Engineering, Chunkankadai, Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu, India.

Most diabetes patients are liable to have diabetic retinopathy (DR); however, the majority of them might not be even aware of the ailment. Therefore, early detection and treatment of DR are necessary to prevent vision loss. But, avoiding DR is not a simple process.

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A novel amine-functionalized graphene oxide (AFG) doped polyvinyl alcohol (PVA)/chitosan (PVA-Ch) composite film was developed using an eco-synthesis approach, eliminating the need for halogenated compounds. The resulting AFG-doped PVA/Chitosan (PVA-Ch/AFG) polymer film exhibited promising properties for controlled delivery and biosensing applications. The investigation included assessing the swelling behaviour, dissolution percent, gel fraction, and mechanical properties of the polymer film.

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Medical image inpainting holds significant importance in enhancing the quality of medical images by restoring missing areas, thereby rendering them suitable for diagnostic purposes. While several techniques have been previously proposed for medical image inpainting, they are not suitable for distorted images containing metallic implants due to their limited consideration of known shaped masking. To overcome this limitation, a novel Vectorized Box Interpolation with Arbitrary Auto-Rand Augment Masking technique has been proposed which involves scaling and vectorizing images to expand their details and generating asymmetrically shaped masking in an automatic random format.

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Cervical cancer is the common cancer among women, where early-stage diagnoses of cervical cancer lead to recovery from the deadly cervical cancer. Correct cervical cancer staging is predominant to decide the treatment. Hence, cervical cancer staging is an important problem in designing automatic detection and diagnosing applications of the medical field.

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As a result of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) disease due to SARS-CoV2 becoming a pandemic, it has spread over the globe. It takes time to evaluate the results of the laboratory tests because of the rising number of cases each day. Therefore, there are restrictions in terms of both therapy and findings.

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In the human body, cancer is caused by aberrant cell proliferation. Brain tumors are created when cells in the human brain proliferate out of control. Brain tumors consist of two types: benign and malignant.

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The shear behavior of innovative engineered cementitious composites (ECC) members with a hybrid mix of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) and polypropylene (PP) fibers is examined. The overall objective of the investigation is to understand the shear behavior of ECC beams with different mono and hybrid fiber combinations without compromising the strength and ductility. Four different configurations of beams were prepared and tested, including 2.

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Background And Objective: This research proposes a successful method of extracting Gray-Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM) picture handling models to classify low-and high-metastatic cancer organisms with five prevalent cancer cell line pairs, coupled with the scanning laser picture projection technique and the typical textural function, i.e. contrast, correlation, power, temperature and homogeneity.

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This study proposes Grasshopper Optimization Algorithm (GOA) based type 1 diabetes mellitus system utilizing the nonlinear Bergman minimal model with proportional integral derivative (PID) controller. GOA is the optimization algorithm, which is utilized for selecting the optimized tuning parameters of the PID controller also solves the nonlinear system parameter identification problem. The novelty of the proposed study is to stabilize the glucose level in blood for type 1 diabetic patients by infusion of insulin in reduced time with optimal quantity.

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Estimation of protein from the images of health drink powders.

J Food Sci Technol

May 2020

Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, St. Xavier's Catholic College of Engineering, Nagercoil, Tamil Nadu 629003 India.

Using new technologies to know the nutrition contents of food is the new emerging area of research. Predicting protein content from the image of food is one such area that will be most useful to the human beings because monitoring the nutrition intake has many health benefits. Patients with rare diseases like maple syrup urine disease need to be in good diet practices in order to survive.

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The problem of classifying individual finger movements of one hand is focused in this article. The input electromyography signal is processed and eight time-domain features are extracted for classifying hand gestures. The classified finger movements are thumb, middle, index, little, ring, hand close, thumb index, thumb ring, thumb little and thumb middle and the hand grasps are palmar class, spherical class, hook class, cylindrical class, tip class and lateral class.

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Comprehensive characterization of natural cellulosic fiber from Coccinia grandis stem.

Carbohydr Polym

March 2019

Micromachining Research Centre, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sree Vidyanikethan Engineering College (Autonomous), Tirupati, 517102, Andhra Pradesh, India.

The anatomical, physico-chemical, mechanical, thermal and surface characteristics of Coccinia grandis fiber (CGF) were studied for a potential substitute to the harmful synthetic fibers. The anatomical analysis of Coccinia grandis stem reveals the presence of high strength xylem fibers. Polarized light microscopy and scanning electron microscopy of CGF shows a hierarchical cell structure composed of a primary and a secondary cell wall, cell lumen and the middle lamellae.

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Diagnosis of coronary artery disease using an efficient hash table based closed frequent itemsets mining.

Med Biol Eng Comput

May 2018

Department of Computer Applications, St.Xavier's Catholic College of Engineering, Chunkankadai, K.K. Dist., Nagercoil, 629003, Tamil Nadu, India.

This paper proposes an efficient hash table based closed frequent itemsets (HCFI) mining algorithm to envisage coronary artery disease early. HCFI algorithm generates closed frequent itemsets efficiently by performing intersection operation on transaction id's of itemset without considering the name of item/itemset. The employed hash table reduces search efficiency to O(1) or constant time.

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The environmental and culture conditions of a potential microalgae Euglena sanguinea were optimized for maximizing the biomass productivity. It was found that the organic macronutrient from poultry litter and organic micronutrient of seaweed extract are very effective to enhance the lipid production. Complementing, these organic nutrients with commercial NPK fertilizer, boost up the lipid productivity by 30.

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Denoising of Ultrasound Cervix Image Using Improved Anisotropic Diffusion Filter.

West Indian Med J

September 2015

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Infant Jesus College of Engineering, Vallanadu, Tamil Nadu 628 851, Thoothukudi District, India.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate an improved oriented speckle reducing anisotropic diffusion (IADF) filter that suppress the speckle noise from ultrasound B-mode images and shows better result than previous filters such as anisotropic diffusion, wavelet denoising and local statistics.

Methods: The clinical ultrasound images of the cervix were obtained by ATL HDI 5000 ultrasound machine from the Regional Cancer Centre, Medical College campus, Thiruvananthapuram. The standardized ways of organizing and storing the image were in the format of bmp and the dimensions of 256 x 256 with the help of an improved oriented speckle reducing anisotropic diffusion filter.

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One of the most significant and the topmost parameters in the real world computing environment is energy. Minimizing energy imposes benefits like reduction in power consumption, decrease in cooling rates of the computing processors, provision of a green environment, and so forth. In fact, computation time and energy are directly proportional to each other and the minimization of computation time may yield a cost effective energy consumption.

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Characterization of new natural cellulosic fiber from Cissus quadrangularis stem.

Carbohydr Polym

March 2015

Department of Mechanical Engineering, St. Xavier's Catholic College of Engineering, Chunkankadai, Nagercoil 629003, Tamil Nadu, India. Electronic address:

Polymer composite has contributed tremendously for energy efficient technologies in automotive and aero industries. Environmental and health concerns related to the carcinogenic nature of artificial fiber in polymer composite needs a retrofit. Eco friendly natural cellulosic fiber extract from the stem of Cissus quadrangularis plant is extensively characterized to consider as a viable alternative for man-made hazardous fibers.

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Performance analysis of unsupervised optimal fuzzy clustering algorithm for MRI brain tumor segmentation.

Technol Health Care

November 2015

Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, St.Xavier's Catholic College of Engineering, Nagercoil, Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu, India.

Background: Segmentation of brain tumor from Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) becomes very complicated due to the structural complexities of human brain and the presence of intensity inhomogeneities.

Objective: To propose a method that effectively segments brain tumor from MR images and to evaluate the performance of unsupervised optimal fuzzy clustering (UOFC) algorithm for segmentation of brain tumor from MR images.

Methods: Segmentation is done by preprocessing the MR image to standardize intensity inhomogeneities followed by feature extraction, feature fusion and clustering.

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Characterization of new natural cellulosic fiber from Cissus quadrangularis root.

Carbohydr Polym

September 2014

Department of Mechanical Engineering, VV College of Engineering, Tisaiyanvilai 627657, India.

Fiber reinforced polymer composites are replacing many metallic structures due to its high specific strength and modulus. However commonly used man-made E-glass fibers are hazardous for health and carcinogenic by nature. Comprehensive characterization of Cissus quadrangularis root fiber such as anatomical study, chemical analysis, physical analysis, FTIR, XRD, SEM analysis and thermo gravimetric analysis are done.

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