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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Blue-Light Therapy following Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: Effects on White Matter Water Diffusion in the Brain

Bajaj, Sahil, Vanuk, John R., Smith, Ryan, Dailey, Natalie S., Killgore, William D. S. 22 November 2017 (has links)
Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) is a common and often inconspicuous wound that is frequently associated with chronic low-grade symptoms and cognitive dysfunction. Previous evidence suggests that daily blue wavelength light therapy may be effective at reducing fatigue and improving sleep in patients recovering from mTBI. However, the effects of light therapy on recovering brain structure remain unexplored. In this study, we analyzed white matter diffusion properties, including generalized fractional anisotropy, and the quantity of water diffusion in isotropic (i.e., isotropic diffusion) and anisotropic fashion (i.e., quantitative anisotropy, QA) for fibers crossing 11 brain areas known to be significantly affected following mTBI. Specifically, we investigated how 6 weeks of daily morning blue light exposure therapy (compared to an amber-light placebo condition) impacted changes in white matter diffusion in individuals with mTBI. We observed a significant impact of the blue light treatment (relative to the placebo) on the amount of water diffusion (QA) for multiple brain areas, including the corpus callosum, anterior corona radiata, and thalamus. Moreover, many of these changes were associated with improvements in sleep latency and delayed memory. These findings suggest that blue wavelength light exposure may serve as one of the potential non-pharmacological treatments for facilitating structural and functional recovery following mTBI; they also support the use of QA as a reliable neuro-biomarker for mTBI therapies.
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Métodos de pré-processamento de texturas para otimizar o reconhecimento de padrões / Texture preprocessing methods to optimize pattern recognition

Neiva, Mariane Barros 19 July 2016 (has links)
A textura de uma imagem apresenta informações importantes sobre as características de um objeto. Usar essa informação para reconhecimento de padrões vem sendo uma tarefa bastante pesquisada na área de processamento de imagens e aplicado em atividades como indústria têxtil, biologia, análise de imagens médicas, imagens de satélite, análise de peças industriais, entre outros. Muitos pesquisadores focam em criar mecanismos que convertam a imagem em um vetor de características a fim de utilizar um classificador sobre esse vetores. No entanto, as imagens podem ser transformadas para que que características peculiares sejam evidenciadas fazendo com que extratores de características já existentes explorem melhor as imagens. Esse trabalho tem como objetivo estudar a influência da aplicação de métodos de pré-processamento em imagens de textura para a posterior análise das imagens. Os métodos escolhidos são seis: difusão isotrópica, difusão anisotrópica clássica, dois métodos de regularização da difusão anisotrópica, um método de difusão morfológica e a transformada de distância. Além disso, os métodos foram aliados a sete descritores já conhecidos da literatura para que as características das imagens tranformadas sejam extraídas. Resultados mostram um aumento significativo no desempenho dos classificadores KNN e Naive Bayes quando utilizados nas imagens transformadas de quatro bases de textura: Brodatz, Outex, Usptex e Vistex. / The texture of an image plays an important source of information of the image content. The use of this information to pattern recognition became very popular in image processing area and has applications such in textile industry, biology, medical image analysis, satelite images analysis, industrial equipaments analysis, among others. Many researchers focus on creating different methods to convert the input image to a feature vector to the able to classify the image based on these vectors. However, images can be modified in different ways such that important features are enhanced. Therefore, descriptors are able to extract features easily to perform a better representation of the image. This project aims to apply six different preprocessing methods to analyze their power of enhancement on the texture extraction. The methods are: isotropic diffusion, the classic anisotropic diffusion, two regularizations of the anisotropic diffusion, a morphologic diffusion and the distance transform. To extract the features of these modified images, seven texture analysis algorithms are used along KNN and Naive Bayes to classify the textures. Results show a significant increase when datasets Brodatz, Vistex, Usptex and Outex are transformed prior to texture analysis and classification.
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Métodos de pré-processamento de texturas para otimizar o reconhecimento de padrões / Texture preprocessing methods to optimize pattern recognition

Mariane Barros Neiva 19 July 2016 (has links)
A textura de uma imagem apresenta informações importantes sobre as características de um objeto. Usar essa informação para reconhecimento de padrões vem sendo uma tarefa bastante pesquisada na área de processamento de imagens e aplicado em atividades como indústria têxtil, biologia, análise de imagens médicas, imagens de satélite, análise de peças industriais, entre outros. Muitos pesquisadores focam em criar mecanismos que convertam a imagem em um vetor de características a fim de utilizar um classificador sobre esse vetores. No entanto, as imagens podem ser transformadas para que que características peculiares sejam evidenciadas fazendo com que extratores de características já existentes explorem melhor as imagens. Esse trabalho tem como objetivo estudar a influência da aplicação de métodos de pré-processamento em imagens de textura para a posterior análise das imagens. Os métodos escolhidos são seis: difusão isotrópica, difusão anisotrópica clássica, dois métodos de regularização da difusão anisotrópica, um método de difusão morfológica e a transformada de distância. Além disso, os métodos foram aliados a sete descritores já conhecidos da literatura para que as características das imagens tranformadas sejam extraídas. Resultados mostram um aumento significativo no desempenho dos classificadores KNN e Naive Bayes quando utilizados nas imagens transformadas de quatro bases de textura: Brodatz, Outex, Usptex e Vistex. / The texture of an image plays an important source of information of the image content. The use of this information to pattern recognition became very popular in image processing area and has applications such in textile industry, biology, medical image analysis, satelite images analysis, industrial equipaments analysis, among others. Many researchers focus on creating different methods to convert the input image to a feature vector to the able to classify the image based on these vectors. However, images can be modified in different ways such that important features are enhanced. Therefore, descriptors are able to extract features easily to perform a better representation of the image. This project aims to apply six different preprocessing methods to analyze their power of enhancement on the texture extraction. The methods are: isotropic diffusion, the classic anisotropic diffusion, two regularizations of the anisotropic diffusion, a morphologic diffusion and the distance transform. To extract the features of these modified images, seven texture analysis algorithms are used along KNN and Naive Bayes to classify the textures. Results show a significant increase when datasets Brodatz, Vistex, Usptex and Outex are transformed prior to texture analysis and classification.
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Density Functional Theory and Accelerated Dynamics Studies of the Structural andNon-equilibrium Properties of Bulk Alloys and Thin-Films

Khatri, Indiras 11 July 2022 (has links)
No description available.

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