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    • Microwave bone imaging: experimental evaluation of calcaneus bone phantom and imaging prototype 

      Amin, Bilal; Sheridan, Colin; Kelly, Daniel; O'Halloran, Martin; Elahi, Muhammad Adnan (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2020-12-14)
      Microwave imaging (MWI) can be used as an alternate imaging modality for monitoring bone health. Evaluation and characterization of MWI prototype is a precursor step before in vivo investigation of bone dielectric ...
    • Microwave calcaneus phantom for bone imaging applications 

      Amin, Bilal; Kelly, Daniel; Shahzad, Atif; O'Halloran, Martin; Elahi, Muhammad Adnan (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2020-03-15)
      Microwave imaging can be used as an alternate modality for monitoring bone health. Dielectrically accurate, anthropomorphic phantoms play vital role in testing of imaging prototype prior to clinical applications. However, ...
    • Microwave thermal ablation: focusing energy in target tissue using fat layer 

      Bottiglieri, Anna; Farina, Laura; Shahzad, Atif; O'Loughlin, Declan; O'Halloran, Martin; Elahi, Muhammad Adnan (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2019-03-31)
      Microwave thermal ablation therapy is a minimally invasive technique introduced in the interventional oncology practice to treat a range of cancerous pathologies. Whereas satisfying results are obtained with the treatment ...
    • Minimum information for dielectric measurements of biological tissues (MINDER): A framework for repeatable and reusable data 

      Porter, Emily; La Gioia, Alessandra; Salahuddin, Saqib; Decker, Stefan; Shahzad, Atif; Elahi, M. Adnan; O'Halloran, Martin; Beyan, Oya (Wiley, 2017-11-13)
      The dielectric properties of biological tissues characterise the interaction of human tissues with electromagnetic (EM) fields. Accurate knowledge of the dielectric properties of tissues are vital in EM‐based therapeutic ...
    • Modeling of the dielectric properties of biological tissues within the histology region 

      Porter, Emily; La Gioia, Alessandra; Santorelli, Adam; O'Halloran, Martin (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2017-11-27)
      The dielectric properties of biological tissues characterize the interaction of electromagnetic fields with the human body. As such, accurate knowledge of these properties is vital to the design and development of ...
    • Modelling the sensing radius of a coaxial probe for dielectric characterisation of biological tissues 

      La Gioia, Alessandra; O'Halloran, Martin; Porter, Emily (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2018-08-22)
      The open-ended coaxial probe is the most common measurement tool used to dielectrically characterize biological tissues. Most healthy and malignant biological tissues are macroscopically heterogeneous, with the exception ...
    • Multi-nodal short-term energy forecasting using smart meter data 

      Hayes, Barry P.; Gruber, Jorn K.; Prodanovic, Milan (Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), 2018-06-10)
      This paper deals with the short-term forecasting of electrical energy demands at the local level, incorporating advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), or ‘smart meter’ data. It provides a study of the effects of aggregation ...
    • A multistage selective weighting method for improved microwave breast tomography 

      Shahzad, Atif; O'Halloran, Martin; Jones, Edward; Glavin, Martin (Elsevier, 2016-08-24)
      Microwave tomography has shown potential to successfully reconstruct the dielectric properties of the human breast, thereby providing an alternative to other imaging modalities used in breast imaging applications. Considering ...
    • Next Generation Face Tracking Technology Using AAM Techniques 

      Corcoran, Peter; Ionita, Mircea C.; Bacivarov, Ioana (IEEE, 2007)
      This paper realizes an investigation of the active appearance model (AAM) techniques, with particular emphasis on problems related to the implementation of AAM in realtime face tracking applications for embedded systems. ...
    • A novel machine learning based method for deepfake video detection in social media 

      Mitra, Alakananda; Mohanty, Saraju P.; Corcoran, Peter; Kougianos, Elias (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2021-05-12)
      With the advent of deepfake videos, video forgery has become a serious threat. Videos in social media are the most common and serious targets. There are some existing works for detecting deepfake videos but very few attempts ...
    • A novel tissue-mimicking material for phantom development in medical applications of EIT 

      McDermott, Barry; Porter, Emily; Jones, Marggie; McGinley, Brian; O'Halloran, Martin (EIT2017, 2017-06-21)
      A solid Tissue-Mimicking Material (TMM) with adjustable conductivity properties, which can be matched to those of biological tissue, is presented. TMM models of breast fat and gland matching the conductivity of real tissue ...
    • On color texture normalization for active appearance models 

      Ionita, Mircea C.; Corcoran, Peter M.; Buzuloiu, Vasile (IEEE, 2009-05-12)
      The extension of the standard grayscale active appearance model (AAM) techniques to color images is investigated. Prior work in this field has mainly focused on RGB color models which did not demonstrate noticeable benefits ...
    • On the role of thermal imaging in automotive applications: A critical review 

      Farooq, Muhammad Ali; Shariff, Waseem; O’Callaghan, David; Merla, Arcangelo; Corcoran, Peter (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2023-03-09)
      For decades, the number of automobiles in urban areas around the world has been increasing. It causes serious challenges such as traffic congestion, accidents, and pollution, which have a social, economic, and environmental ...
    • On thin-clients and the cloud; can smartphones and tablets really reduce electricity consumption? 

      Corcoran, Peter M.; Andrae, Anders (2014)
      Cloud computing suggests that we can move many computational and data storage services from the desktop onto the network. New thin clients provide an excellent user interface for cloud services and also reduce both ...
    • Online influence and sentiment of fitness tweets: Analysis of two million fitness tweets 

      Vickey, Theodore; Breslin, John G. (JMIR Publications, 2017)
      Objective: The goal of this experimental approach using the fitness Twitter dataset is two-fold: (1) to determine if there is a correlation between the type of activity tweet (either workout or workout+, which contains the ...
    • Online social and business networking communities 

      O'Murchu, Ina; Breslin, John G.; Decker, Stefan (IUP Publications, 2007)
      [No abstract available]
    • An optimal day-ahead load scheduling approach based on the flexibility of aggregate demands 

      Ayón, X.; Gruber, Jorn K.; Hayes, Barry P.; Usaola, J.; Prodanović, M. (Elsevier, 2017-04-26)
      The increasing trends of energy demand and renewable integration call for new and advanced approaches to energy management and energy balancing in power networks. Utilities and network system operators require more assistance ...
    • Optimised analytical models of the dielectric properties of biological tissue 

      Salahuddin, Saqib; Porter, Emily; Krewer, Finn; O’Halloran, Martin (Elsevier, 2017-02-09)
      The interaction of electromagnetic fields with the human body is quantified by the dielectric properties of biological tissues. These properties are incorporated into complex numerical simulations using parametric models ...
    • The Patent Prosecution Process [IP Corner] 

      Corcoran, Peter (IEEE, 2014-01)
      Patents are legal documents, but they capture and preserve rights to important engineering ideas. For this reason, they are very important to the corporations and research institutions that employ engineers. And as a ...
    • Performance of leading artifact removal algorithms assessed across microwave breast imaging prototype scan configurations 

      Elahi, Muhammad Adnan; Curtis, C.; Lavoie, B.R.; Glavin, Martin; Jones, Edward; Fear, E.; O’Halloran, Martin (Elsevier, 2017-03-02)
      Microwave imaging is a promising imaging modality for the detection of early-stage breast cancer. One of the most important signal processing components of microwave radar-based breast imaging is early stage artifact ...