Browsing by Author "Jones, Edward"
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A multistage selective weighting method for improved microwave breast tomography
Shahzad, Atif; O’Halloran, Martin; Jones, Edward; Glavin, Martin (Elsevier BV, 2016-12-01) -
Accuracy of fish-eye lens models
Hughes, Ciarán; Denny, Patrick; Jones, Edward; Glavin, Martin (The Optical Society, 2010-06-07) -
Adaptive artifact removal for selective multistatic microwave breast imaging signals
Elahi, Muhammad Adnan; Glavin, Martin; Jones, Edward; O'Halloran, Martin (Elsevier, 2017-02-01)Microwave imaging is one of the most promising alternative breast imaging modalities. Early-stage artifact removal is an important signal processing component of a microwave breast imaging system. In this paper, a monostatic ... -
An evaluation of the effects of wavelet coefficient quantisation in transform based eeg compression
Garry, Higgins; McGinley, Brian; Jones, Edward; Glavin, Martin (Elsevier BV, 2013-07-01) -
Artifact removal algorithms for microwave imaging of the breast
Elahi, Muhammad Adnan; Glavin, Martin; Jones, Edward; O'Halloran, Martin (EMW Publishing, 2013-01-01)One of the most promising alternative imaging modalities for breast cancer detection involved the use of microwave radar systems. A critical component of any radar-based imaging system for breast cancer detection is the ... -
Audio quality assessment techniques—a review, and recent developments
Campbell, Dermot; Jones, Edward; Glavin, Martin (Elsevier BV, 2009-08-01) -
Channel-ranked beamformer for the early detection of breast cancer
O'Halloran, Martin; Glavin, Martin; Jones, Edward (EMW Publishing, 2010-01-01)Confocal Microwave Imaging (CMI) for the early detection of breast cancer is based on several assumptions regarding the dielectric properties of normal and malignant breast tissue. One of these assumptions is that the ... -
Collision Avoidance using Lane Departure Warning and Obstacle Determination in the Automotive Environment
O Cualain, Diarmaid (2012-09-21)Statistics show that worldwide motor vehicle collisions lead to significant death and disability as well as significant financial costs to both society and the individuals involved. This thesis aims to address this issue ... -
Data independent radar beamforming algorithms for breast cancer detection
Byrne, Dallan; O'Halloran, Martin; Glavin, Martin; Jones, Edward (EMW Publishing, 2010-01-01)Ultra wideband (UWB) Microwave imaging is one of the most promising emerging imaging technologies for breast cancer detection, and is based on the dielectric contrast between normal and cancerous tissues at microwave ... -
Detection of vehicles using fisheye cameras
Dooley, Damien (2017-05-10)An image processing system capable of detecting vehicles within the vicinity of the ego vehicle for use in a surround view camera system (SVC) is presented in this thesis. Image processing based object detection can be ... -
The Development of Ultra Wideband Scanning Techniques for Detection and Classification of Breast Cancer
Conceicao, Raquel (2010-09-30)This thesis addresses the development of imaging techniques for the early detection of breast cancer, based on Ultra Wideband (UWB) radar, a promising emerging technology that exploits the dielectric contrast between normal ... -
Diagnosing breast cancer with microwave technology: remaining challenges and potential solutions with machine learning
Oliveira, Bárbara; Godinho, Daniela; O’Halloran, Martin; Glavin, Martin; Jones, Edward; Conceição, Raquel (MDPI AG, 2018-05-19)Currently, breast cancer often requires invasive biopsies for diagnosis, motivating researchers to design and develop non-invasive and automated diagnosis systems. Recent microwave breast imaging studies have shown how ... -
The Effects of Biomedical Signal Compression in Wireless Ambulatory Healthcare
Higgins, Garreth (2013-10-30)This thesis seeks to contribute to the field of ambulatory healthcare by examining methodologies to minimise the size of bioelectric signals, whilst preserving the quality of the diagnostic information contained within ... -
Effects of fibroglandular tissue distribution on data-independent beamforming algorithms
O'Halloran, Martin; Glavin, Martin; Jones, Edward (EMW Publishing, 2009-01-01)The effects of the fibroglandular tissue distribution of the breast on data-independent microwave imaging algorithms are investigated in this paper. A data-independent beamformer is a beamformer whose weights do not depend ... -
Equidistant fish-eye calibration and rectification by vanishing point extraction
Hughes, Ciaran; Denny, Patrick; Glavin, Martin; Jones, Edward (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2010-12-01)In this paper, we describe a method to photogrammetrically estimate the intrinsic and extrinsic parameters of fish-eye cameras using the properties of equidistance perspective, particularly vanishing point estimation, with ... -
Image and video quality in the automotive environment
Winterlich, John Anthony (2016-05-12)This thesis is concerned with the development of methodologies for image and video quality assessment for the automotive environment, and the use of those methodologies for evaluating the effect of image and video ... -
Improved cardiac arrhythmia prediction based on heart rate variability analysis
Parsi, Ashkan (NUI Galway, 2021-05-10)Many types of ventricular and atrial cardiac arrhythmias have been discovered in clinical practice in the past 100 years, and these arrhythmias are a major contributor to sudden cardiac death. Ventricular tachycardia, ... -
Investigation of classifiers for early-stage breast cancer based on radar target signatures
Conceicao, Raquel Cruz; O'Halloran, Martin; Jones, Edward; Glavin, Martin (EMW Publishing, 2010-01-01)Ultra Wideband (UWB) radar has been extensively investigated as a means of detecting early-stage breast cancer. The basis for this imaging modality is the dielectric contrast between normal and cancerous breast tissue at ... -
Low-power strategies for signal compression in ambulatory healthcare
Craven, Darren (2016-11-23)Advances in signal processing are enabling promising solutions for ambulatory monitoring in healthcare applications. A critical objective of such systems is low-power operation to enable long-term battery life in wearable/mobile ... -
Microwave breast imaging: experimental tumour phantoms for the evaluation of new breast cancer diagnosis systems
Oliveira, Bárbara Luz; O'Loughlin, Declan; O'Halloran, Martin; Porter, Emily; Glavin, Martin; Jones, Edward (IOP Publishing, 2018-01-29)In this paper, a new set of tumour phantoms for the experimental evaluation of Microwave Breast Imaging (MBI) as a method to diagnose breast cancer is presented. The phantoms were based on previously developed numerical ...