Browsing Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Scholarly Articles) by Author "http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001602"
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Anatomically and dielectrically realistic microwave head phantom with circulation and reconfigurable lesions
McDermott, Barry; Porter, Emily; Santorelli, Adam; Divilly, Brendan; Morris, Liam; Jones, Marggie; McGinley, Brian; O'Halloran, Martin (The Electromagnetics Academy, 2017)Phantoms provide valuable test platforms for developing medical devices. Solid materials in particular allow fabrication of stable and robust models. This paper presents a novel, anatomically realistic, multi-layered head ... -
Application of preconditioned alternating direction method of multipliers in depth from focal stack
Javidnia, Hossein; Corcoran, Peter (Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), 2018-04-06)Postcapture refocusing effect in smartphone cameras is achievable using focal stacks. However, the accuracy of this effect is totally dependent on the combination of the depth layers in the stack. The accuracy of the ... -
Blockchain in energy efficiency: Potential applications and benefits
Khatoon, Asma; Verma, Piyush; Southernwood, Jo; Massey, Beth; Corcoran, Peter (MDPI, 2019-08-28)Blockchain technology is ready to disrupt nearly every industry and business model, and the energy sector is no exception. Energy businesses across the world have already started exploring the use of blockchain technology ... -
A blockchain-based smart contract system for healthcare management
Khatoon, Asma (MDPI, 2020-01-03)Blockchain is evolving to be a secure and reliable platform for secure data sharing in application areas such as the financial sector, supply chain management, food industry, energy sector, internet of things and healthcare. ... -
Convolutional neural network implementation for eye-gaze estimation on low-quality consumer imaging systems
Lemley, Joseph; Kar, Anuradha; Drimbarean, Alexandru; Corcoran, Peter (IEEE, 2019-02-15)Accurate and efficient eye gaze estimation is important for emerging consumer electronic systems, such as driver monitoring systems and novel user interfaces. Such systems are required to operate reliably in difficult, ... -
Crowdsourcing, citizen sensing and sensor web technologies for public and environmental health surveillance and crisis management: trends, OGC standards and application examples
Boulos, Maged N Kamel; Resch, Bernd; Crowley, David N.; Breslin, John G.; Sohn, Gunho; Burtner, Russ; Pike, William A.; Jezierski, Eduardo; Chuang, Kuo-Yu Slayer (BioMed Central, 2011-12-21)'Wikification of GIS by the masses' is a phrase-term first coined by Kamel Boulos in 2005, two years earlier than Goodchild's term 'Volunteered Geographic Information'. Six years later (2005-2011), OpenStreetMap and Google ... -
Deep learning for consumer devices and services 2-AI gets embedded at the edge
Corcoran, Peter; Lemley, Joseph; Costache, Claudia; Varkarakis, Viktor (IEEE, 2019-09-02)The recent explosive growth of deep learning is enabling a new generation of intelligent consumer devices. Specialized deep learning inference now provides data analysis capabilities that once required an active cloud ... -
Deep neural network and data augmentation methodology for off-axis iris segmentation in wearable headsets
Varkarakis, Viktor; Bazrafkan, Shabab; Corcoran, Peter (Elsevier, 2019-08-01)A data augmentation methodology is presented and applied to generate a large dataset of off-axis iris regions and train a low-complexity deep neural network. Although of low complexity the resulting network achieves a high ... -
Do as I tweet, not as I do: comparing physical activity data between fitness tweets and Healthy People 2020
Vickey, Ted; Breslin, John G. (JMIR Publications, 2015-11-30)Background: The goal of this research was to compare the self-reported estimates of daily physical-activity data provided to the Healthy People 2020 research team via a telephone survey to the mobile fitness app real-time ... -
Gamma band neural stimulation in humans and the promise of a new modality to prevent and treat Alzheimer's disease
McDermott, Barry; Porter, Emily; Hughes, Diarmaid; McAuley, Brian; Lang, Mark; O'Halloran, Martin; Jones, Marggie (IOS Press, 2018-07-19)Existing treatments for Alzheimer s Disease have questionable efficacy with a need for research into new and more effective therapies to both treat and possibly prevent the condition. This review examines a novel therapeutic ... -
Integrating tagging into the web of data: Overview and combination of existing tag ontologies
Kim, Hak-Lae; Scerri, Simon; Passant, Alexandre; Breslin, John G.; Handschuh, Siegfried; Decker, Stefan; Kim, Hong-Gee (Taiwan Academic Network, 2011-07)As the number of social websites offering tagging facilities increases, tagging has become not only a common basis for user participation, but also an important aspect of social content. Tagging is primarily based on the ... -
Latent space mapping for generation of object elements with corresponding data annotation
Bazrafkan, Shabab; Javidnia, Hossein; Corcoran, Peter (Elsevier, 2018-10-25)Deep neural generative models such as Variational Auto-Encoders (VAE) and Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) give promising results in estimating the data distribution across a range of machine learning fields of ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Pushing the AI envelope: merging deep networks to accelerate edge artificial intelligence in consumer electronics devices and systems
Bazrafkan, Shabab; Corcoran, Peter (IEEE, 2018-02-08)Deep neural networks (DNNs) are widely used by both academic and industry researchers to solve many long-standing problems in machine learning. There has been such a growth of research in this field, and it has been applied ... -
RDF dataset profiling – a survey of features, methods, vocabularies and applications
Ellefi, Mohamed Ben; Bellahsene, Zohra; Breslin, John G.; Demidova, Elena; Dietze, Stefan; Szymanski, Julian; Todorov, Konstantin (IOS Press, 2018-07-12)The Web of Data, and in particular Linked Data, has seen tremendous growth over the past years. However, reuse and take-up of these rich data sources is often limited and focused on a few well-known and established RDF ... -
Smart augmentation learning an optimal data augmentation strategy
Lemley, Joseph; Bazrafkan, Shabab; Corcoran, Peter (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2017-04-24)A recurring problem faced when training neural networks is that there is typically not enough data to maximize the generalization capability of deep neural networks. There are many techniques to address this, including ... -
Smartphones, biometrics, and a brave new world
Corcoran, Peter; Costache, Claudia (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2016-09-09)In this article, we take a somewhat contrarian viewpoint - that biometrics may, in fact, offer solutions to many of today's cyber-security problems that appear with increasing frequency in prime-time news. This outcome ... -
Stable tissue-mimicking materials and an anatomically realistic, adjustable head phantom for electrical impedance tomography
McDermott, Barry; McGinley, Brian; Krukiewicz, Katarzyna; Divilly, Brendan; Jones, Marggie; Biggs, Manus; O'Halloran, Martin; Porter, Emily (IOP Publishing, 2017-11-27)Objective. To develop dielectrically accurate, easy to mould solid tissue-mimicking materials (TMMs) for use with electrical impedance tomography (EIT) and combine them into a head phantom with realistic anatomy and ...