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A Novel Hardware-Efficient Spatial Orientation Tree-Based Image Compression Algorithm And Its Field Programmable Gate Array Implementation, Mohd Rafi Lone, Najeeb-Ud-Din Hakim Jan 2019

A Novel Hardware-Efficient Spatial Orientation Tree-Based Image Compression Algorithm And Its Field Programmable Gate Array Implementation, Mohd Rafi Lone, Najeeb-Ud-Din Hakim

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Set partitioning in hierarchical trees (SPIHT) has become a popular research topic for more than a decade now. This is because it is simple, besides having compression efficiency close to the state-of-the-art JPEG2000 standard. The main drawback of SPIHT is that it uses three lists to store addresses of coefficients during its operation. These lists are dynamic and in worst cases need to store more number of addresses than total coefficients. In this work, a novel hardware-efficient spatial orientation tree-based algorithm is proposed and its hardware implementation is carried out. The wavelet transformed image is partitioned into 2 $\times$ 2 …


Damping Of Low-Frequency Oscillation In Power Systems Using Hybrid Renewable Energy Power Plants, Mahdi Saadatmand, Babak Mozafari, Gevork Babamalek Gharehpetian, Soodabeh Soleymani Jan 2019

Damping Of Low-Frequency Oscillation In Power Systems Using Hybrid Renewable Energy Power Plants, Mahdi Saadatmand, Babak Mozafari, Gevork Babamalek Gharehpetian, Soodabeh Soleymani

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Global warming, increase in environmental pollution, and high cost of electrical power generation using fossil fuels are considered the most important reasons for the application of renewable energy power plants (REPPs) around the world. In recent years, a new generation of REPPs called hybrid renewable energy power plants (HREPPs) has been implemented in order to have higher efficiency and reliability than conventional REPPs such as wind power plants and photovoltaic power plants. The HREPPs include two or more renewable energy generation units such as wind turbine generation units, and PV generation units. In case of high penetration of these types …


Bidding Strategy For Generators Considering Ramp Rates In A Day-Ahead Electricity Market, Satyendra Singh, Manoj Fozdar Jan 2019

Bidding Strategy For Generators Considering Ramp Rates In A Day-Ahead Electricity Market, Satyendra Singh, Manoj Fozdar

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In a day-ahead electricity market, competitive bidding strategy plays a vital role for power suppliers to maximize their profit. In this type of market, each power supplier submits a set of hourly production prices and offers capacity for the next period. The market operator, after receiving this data along with forecasted hourly load from the demand side, allocates production output to each unit. Power suppliers face the problem in trading their offers in the market, due to the uncertain behavior of competitive power suppliers and power demand. Therefore, the power supplier requires a suitable bidding strategy for handling uncertainty in …


A Robust Smes Control For Enhancing Stability Of Distribution Systems Fed From Intermittent Wind Power Generation, Sayed Said, Mokhtar Aly, Balint Hartmann Jan 2019

A Robust Smes Control For Enhancing Stability Of Distribution Systems Fed From Intermittent Wind Power Generation, Sayed Said, Mokhtar Aly, Balint Hartmann

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The voltage and frequency stability issues of power systems are the main challenges that arise from high penetration levels of wind energy systems. This paper presents an effective solution for voltage and frequency stability problems by using a superconducting magnetic energy storage (SMES) system controlled with a fuzzy logic controller (FLC). The proposed control system can suppress the voltage and frequency fluctuations due to the high variations of wind speed. In addition, the proposed control system is suitable for both balanced and unbalanced distribution systems with high penetration levels of wind turbines (WTs). A squirrel cage induction generator (SCIG) is …


Research On The Dynamic Networking Of Smart Meters Based On Characteristics Of The Collected Data, Yaxin Huang, Yunlian Sun, Xiaodi Zhang Jan 2019

Research On The Dynamic Networking Of Smart Meters Based On Characteristics Of The Collected Data, Yaxin Huang, Yunlian Sun, Xiaodi Zhang

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In order to accurately collect the electricity usage information from the smart meter which uses the power line for communication, this paper proposes the method of dynamic networking to enhance the reliability of the smart meter communication. We shall firstly establish a logical topology between the smart meter and the concentrator with reference to their communication paths within the power supply range of the same transformer, and then grade smart meters, and choose the relay for each level network based on the selection methods of relay, and finally use the improved ant colony algorithm to choose the optimal communication path …


Heat Flux Capacity Measurement And Improvement For The Test Of Superconducting Logic Circuits In Closed-Cycle Cryostats, Sasan Razmkhah, Ali̇ Bozbey Jan 2019

Heat Flux Capacity Measurement And Improvement For The Test Of Superconducting Logic Circuits In Closed-Cycle Cryostats, Sasan Razmkhah, Ali̇ Bozbey

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

With the current progress of superconducting integrated circuits, circuit complexities have reached more than 100,000 Josephson junctions. At the laboratory environment, circuit tests are generally being conducted at liquid Helium environments. With the commercialization of the superconducting integrated circuit-based systems and/or price increase of liquid Helium, utilization of the closed-cycle systems will be inevitable. Even though it is possible to implement closed-cycle systems with quite substantial excess cooling powers after all the wirings and peripheral circuits, one point not to be overlooked is the power density at the superconducting chips. We have observed that the circuits designed for operation at …


Investigation Of The Mechanism Of Transport Across The Poly/Monocrystalline Silicon Interface In Polysilicon-Emitter Bipolar Transistors Based On Variations In The Interface Treatment Process, Shahriar Jamasb Jan 2019

Investigation Of The Mechanism Of Transport Across The Poly/Monocrystalline Silicon Interface In Polysilicon-Emitter Bipolar Transistors Based On Variations In The Interface Treatment Process, Shahriar Jamasb

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Electrical transport across the poly/monocrystalline silicon (poly-Si/c-Si) interface has been investigated by introducing variations in the interface treatment process affecting the thickness of the native oxide layer formed on the silicon surface. The I-V relationship characterizing the resistance associated with this interface is extracted using an improved open-collector method, which eliminates the inherent nonlinearity arising from the reverse active characteristics of the bipolar transistor. The nonohmic behavior of the interface at low electric fields is demonstrated to be consistent with direct tunneling through a rectangular barrier presented by an ultrathin interfacial oxide layer. An approximate tunnel junction model is proposed …


Lower Order Controller Design Using Weighted Singular Perturbation Approximation, Muhammad Raees Furquan Azhar, Umair Zulfiqar, Muwahida Liaquat Jan 2019

Lower Order Controller Design Using Weighted Singular Perturbation Approximation, Muhammad Raees Furquan Azhar, Umair Zulfiqar, Muwahida Liaquat

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Most of the analytical design procedures yield controllers of almost the same order as that of the plant. Resultantly, if the plant is of a high order, the controller obtained from these design procedures is also of a high order. The order of the controller should be practically acceptable for easy implementation. There are two indirect methods for designing a low order controller for high order plants: plant reduction and compensator reduction. In compensator reduction, the order of the controller designed for the original higher order plant is reduced. In plant reduction, the order of the plant is reduced for …


A Novel Map-Merging Technique For Occupancy Grid-Based Maps Using Multiple Robots: A Semantic Approach, Aki̇f Durdu, Mehmet Korkmaz Jan 2019

A Novel Map-Merging Technique For Occupancy Grid-Based Maps Using Multiple Robots: A Semantic Approach, Aki̇f Durdu, Mehmet Korkmaz

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Map merging is a noteworthy phenomenon for cases such as search and rescue and disaster areas in which the duration is quite significant when gathering information about an environment. It is obvious that the total mapping time decreases if the number of agents (robots) increases. However, the use of multiple agents leads to problems such as task allocation schemes and the fusing of local maps. Examining the present methods, it is generally observed that the common features of local maps have been found and the global map is formed by obtaining related transformation between local maps. However, such implementations may …


A Distributed Load Balancing Algorithm For Deduplicated Storage, Prabavathy Balasundaram, Chitra Babu, Pradeep Rengaswamy Jan 2019

A Distributed Load Balancing Algorithm For Deduplicated Storage, Prabavathy Balasundaram, Chitra Babu, Pradeep Rengaswamy

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

While deduplication brings the advantage of significant space savings in storage, it nevertheless incurs the overhead of maintaining huge metadata. Updating such huge metadata during the data migration that arises due to load balancing activity results in significant overhead. In order to reduce this metadata update overhead, this paper proposes a suitable alternate index that tracks the data blocks even when they migrate across the nodes without explicitly storing the location information. In addition, a virtual server-based load balancing (VSLB) algorithm has been proposed in order to reduce the migration overhead. The experimental results indicate that the proposed index reduces …


Investigation Of Start-Up Conditions On Electric Submersible Pump Driven With Flux Switching Motor, Mohammadhossein Barzegari Bafghi, Abolfazl Vahedi Jan 2019

Investigation Of Start-Up Conditions On Electric Submersible Pump Driven With Flux Switching Motor, Mohammadhossein Barzegari Bafghi, Abolfazl Vahedi

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

One of the motor types that is recently considered to be a candidate for electric submersible pumps (ESPs) is the flux switching motor. Therefore, it becomes crucial to verify that this type of motor can stand ESP conditions. The main subject of this paper is to investigate the start-up condition of ESP along with considering the long power supply cable to study the motor performance, where the real aspect of the ESP conditions is investigated. Since there is not any model of pump load that models the dynamic behavior of ESP correctly, first, a model for the pump is developed. …


A New Model To Determine The Hierarchical Structure Of The Wireless Sensor Networks, Resmi̇ye Nasi̇boğlu, Zülküf Teki̇n Erten Jan 2019

A New Model To Determine The Hierarchical Structure Of The Wireless Sensor Networks, Resmi̇ye Nasi̇boğlu, Zülküf Teki̇n Erten

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Wireless sensor networks are one of the rising areas of scientific research. Common purpose of these investigations is usually constructing optimal structure of the network by prolonging its lifetime. In this study, a new model has been proposed to construct a hierarchical structure of wireless sensor networks. Methods used in the model to determine clusters and appropriate cluster heads are k-means clustering and fuzzy inference system (FIS), respectively. The weighted averaging based on levels (WABL) defuzzification method is used to calculate crisp outputs of the FIS. A new theorem for calculation of WABL values has been proved in order to …


On The Performance Of Quick Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm For Dynamic Deployment Of Wireless Sensor Networks, Beyza Gorkemli, Zahraa Al-Dulaimi Jan 2019

On The Performance Of Quick Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm For Dynamic Deployment Of Wireless Sensor Networks, Beyza Gorkemli, Zahraa Al-Dulaimi

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In recent years, the use of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) has increased and there have been significant improvements in this field. Especially with smarter, cheaper, and smaller sensor nodes, various kinds of information can be detected and collected in different environments and under different conditions. WSNs have thus been used in many applications such as military, surveillance, target tracking, home, medical, and environmental applications. As the popularity of WSNs increases, problems related to these networks are being realized. The dynamic deployment problem is one of the main challenges that have a direct effect on the performance of WSNs. In this …


A Modified Gravitational Search Algorithm And Its Application In Lifetime Maximization Of Wireless Sensor Networks, Sepehr Ebrahimi Mood, Mohammad Masoud Javidi Jan 2019

A Modified Gravitational Search Algorithm And Its Application In Lifetime Maximization Of Wireless Sensor Networks, Sepehr Ebrahimi Mood, Mohammad Masoud Javidi

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Recently, academic communities and industrial sectors have been affected by significant advancements in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Employing clustering methods is the dominant method to maximize the WSN's lifetime, which is considered to be a major issue. Metaheuristic algorithms have attracted wide attention in the research area of clustering. In this paper, first a novel nature-inspired optimization algorithm based on the gravitational search algorithm (GSA) is defined. To control the exploitation and exploration capabilities of this algorithm, along with calculating the masses value, the tournament selection method is employed. Tournament size, the parameter of this method, is computed automatically using …


Application Of Multiscale Fuzzy Entropy Features For Multilevel Subject-Dependent Emotion Recognition, Hamzah Lotfalinezhad, Ali Maleki Jan 2019

Application Of Multiscale Fuzzy Entropy Features For Multilevel Subject-Dependent Emotion Recognition, Hamzah Lotfalinezhad, Ali Maleki

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Emotion recognition can be used in clinical and nonclinical situations. Despite previous works which mostly used time and frequency features of electroencephalogram (EEG) signals in subject-dependent emotion recognition issues, we used multiscale fuzzy entropy as a nonlinear dynamic feature. The EEG signals of the well-known Database for Emotion Analysis Using Physiological signals dataset was used for classification of two and three levels of emotions in arousal and valence space. The compound feature selection with a cost of average accuracy of support vector machine classifier was used to reduce feature dimensions. For subject-dependent systems, the proposed method is superior in comparison …


A Hybrid Feature-Selection Approach For Finding The Digital Evidence Of Web Application Attacks, Mohammed Babiker, Eni̇s Karaarslan, Yaşar Hoşcan Jan 2019

A Hybrid Feature-Selection Approach For Finding The Digital Evidence Of Web Application Attacks, Mohammed Babiker, Eni̇s Karaarslan, Yaşar Hoşcan

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The most critical challenge of web attack forensic investigations is the sheer amount of data and level of complexity. Machine learning technology might be an efficient solution for web attack analysis and investigation. Consequently, machine learning applications have been applied in various areas of information security and digital forensics, and have improved over time. Moreover, feature selection is a crucial step in machine learning; in fact, selecting an optimal feature subset could enhance the accuracy and performance of the predictive model. To date, there has not been an adequate approach to select optimal features for the evidence of web attack. …


An Automated Snick Detection And Classification Scheme As A Cricket Decision Review System, Aftab Khan, Syed Qadir Hussain, Muhammad Waleed, Ashfaq Khan, Umair Khan Jan 2019

An Automated Snick Detection And Classification Scheme As A Cricket Decision Review System, Aftab Khan, Syed Qadir Hussain, Muhammad Waleed, Ashfaq Khan, Umair Khan

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Umpire decisions can greatly affect the outcome of a cricket game. When there is doubt about the umpire?s call for a decision, a decision review system (DRS) may be brought into play by a batsman or bowler to validate the decision. Recently, the latest technologies, including Hotspot, Hawk-eye, and Snickometer, have been employed when there is doubt among the on-field umpire, batsman, or bowlers. This research is a step forward in gaging the true class of a snick generated from the contact of the cricket ball with either (i) the bat, (ii) gloves, (iii) pad, or (iv) a combination of …


Decision-Making For Small Industrial Internet Of Things Using Decision Fusion, Tuğrul Çavdar, Nader Ebrahimpour Jan 2019

Decision-Making For Small Industrial Internet Of Things Using Decision Fusion, Tuğrul Çavdar, Nader Ebrahimpour

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is a new field of Internet of Things (IoT) that has gained more popularity recently in industrial units and makes it possible to access information anywhere and anytime. In other words, geographic coordinates cannot prevent obtaining equipment and its data. Today, it is possible to manage and control equipment simply without spending time in an operational area and just by using the IIoT. This system collects data from manufacturing and production units by using wireless sensor networks or other networks for classification of fault detection. These data are then used after analysis to allow …


Evaluating The Attributes Of Remote Sensing Image Pixels For Fast K-Means Clustering, Ali̇ Sağlam, Nurdan Baykan Jan 2019

Evaluating The Attributes Of Remote Sensing Image Pixels For Fast K-Means Clustering, Ali̇ Sağlam, Nurdan Baykan

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Clustering process is an important stage for many data mining applications. In this process, data elements are grouped according to their similarities. One of the most known clustering algorithms is the k-means algorithm. The algorithm initially requires the number of clusters as a parameter and runs iteratively. Many remote sensing image processing applications usually need the clustering stage like many image processing applications. Remote sensing images provide more information about the environments with the development of the multispectral sensor and laser technologies. In the dataset used in this paper, the infrared (IR) and the digital surface maps (DSM) are also …


Gacnn Sleeptunenet: A Genetic Algorithm Designing The Convolutional Neural Network Architecture For Optimal Classification Of Sleep Stages From A Single Eeg Channel, Shahnawaz Qureshi, Seppo Karilla, Sirirut Vanichayobon Jan 2019

Gacnn Sleeptunenet: A Genetic Algorithm Designing The Convolutional Neural Network Architecture For Optimal Classification Of Sleep Stages From A Single Eeg Channel, Shahnawaz Qureshi, Seppo Karilla, Sirirut Vanichayobon

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

This study presents a method for designing--by a genetic algorithm, without manual intervention--the feature learning architecture for classification of sleep stages from a single EEG channel, when using a convolutional neural network called GACNN SleepTuneNet. Two EEG electrode positions were selected, namely FP2-F4 and FPz-Cz, from two available datasets. Twenty-five generations were involved in diagnosis without hand-crafted features, to learn the architecture for classification of sleep stages based on AASM standard. Based on the results, our model not only achieved the highest classification accuracy, but it also distinguished the sleep stages based on either of the two EEG electrode signals, …


Defect Detection Of Seals In Multilayer Aseptic Packages Using Deep Learning, Kemal Adem, Cemi̇l Közkurt Jan 2019

Defect Detection Of Seals In Multilayer Aseptic Packages Using Deep Learning, Kemal Adem, Cemi̇l Közkurt

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Sealing in aseptic packages, one of the healthiest and cheapest technologies to protect food from parasites in the liquid food industry, requires a detailed and careful control process. Since the controls are made manually and visually by expert machine operators, the human factor can lead to the failure to detect defects, resulting in high cost and food safety risks. Therefore, this study aims to perform a leak test in aseptic package seals by a system that makes decisions using independent deep learning methods. The proposed Faster R-CNN and the Updated Faster R-CNN deep learning models were subjected to training and …


Abc-Based Stacking Method For Multilabel Classification, Weimin Ding, Shengli Wu Jan 2019

Abc-Based Stacking Method For Multilabel Classification, Weimin Ding, Shengli Wu

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Multilabel classification is a supervised learning problem wherein each individual instance is associated with multiple labels. Ensemble methods are effective in managing multilabel classification problems by creating a set of accurate, diverse classifiers and then combining their outputs to produce classifications. This paper presents a novel stacking-based ensemble algorithm, ABC-based stacking, for multilabel classification. The artificial bee colony algorithm, along with a single-layer artificial neural network, is used to find suitable meta-level classifier configurations. The optimization goal of the meta-level classifier is to maximize the average accuracy of classification of all the instances involved. We run an experiment on 10 …


Parallel Algorithms For Computing Sparse Matrix Permanents, Kamer Kaya Jan 2019

Parallel Algorithms For Computing Sparse Matrix Permanents, Kamer Kaya

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The permanent is an important characteristic of a matrix and it has been used in many applications. Unfortunately, it is a hard to compute and hard to approximate the immanant. For dense/full matrices, the fastest exact algorithm, Ryser, has O($2^{n-1}$n) complexity. In this work, a parallel algorithm, SkipPer, is proposed to exploit the sparsity within the input matrix as much as possible. SkipPer restructures the matrix to reduce the overall work, skips the unnecessary steps, and employs a coarse-grain, shared-memory parallelization with dynamic scheduling. The experiments show that SkipPer increases the performance of exact permanent computation up to 140 compared …


Performance Evaluation Of Webrtc-Based Online Consultation Platform, Ergün Alperay Tarim, Hüseyi̇n Cumhur Teki̇n Jan 2019

Performance Evaluation Of Webrtc-Based Online Consultation Platform, Ergün Alperay Tarim, Hüseyi̇n Cumhur Teki̇n

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Information technologies give patients the opportunity to communicate with medical professionals remotely. Telemedicine uses these technologies to provide advanced healthcare and medical services. We present a medical online consultation application based on Web Real-Time Communications (WebRTC) technology enabling chat, audio, and video calls. Communication architecture and protocols of the application are explained in detail. Additionally, the user interface of the application is shown via performed calls. The application is tested and evaluated on different network connections (3G, 4G, local, and DSL) and different browsers and mobile operating systems (Android, Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, iOS, Opera, Safari). During calls, communication quality …


Rough Fuzzy Cuckoo Search For Triclustering Microarray Gene Expression Data, Swathypriyadharsini Palaniswamy, Premalatha K Jan 2019

Rough Fuzzy Cuckoo Search For Triclustering Microarray Gene Expression Data, Swathypriyadharsini Palaniswamy, Premalatha K

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Analyzing time series microarray gene expression data is a computational challenge due to its three-dimensional characteristics. Triclustering techniques are applied to three-dimensional data for mining similarly expressed genes under a subset of conditions and time points. In this work, a novel rough fuzzy cuckoo search algorithm is proposed for triclustering genes across samples and time points simultaneously. By applying the upper and lower approximation of rough set theory and the objective function of fuzzy k-means, rough fuzzy k-means was incorporated into a cuckoo search to handle the uncertainty of the data. The proposed method was applied to three real-life time …


A New Technique For The Measurement And Assessment Of Carotid Artery Wall Vibrations Using Ultrasound Rf Echoes, Samrand Sharifi, Hamid Behnam, Zahra Alizadeh Sani Jan 2019

A New Technique For The Measurement And Assessment Of Carotid Artery Wall Vibrations Using Ultrasound Rf Echoes, Samrand Sharifi, Hamid Behnam, Zahra Alizadeh Sani

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Atherosclerosis is known as the leading cause of heart attacks and brain strokes. One of the symptoms of this disease is the reduction of artery wall motion caused by age. This study presents a novel method to extract high frequency components of wall motion, wall vibrations, based on discrete wavelet transform. The fractal dimension, largest Lyapunov exponent, and spectral entropy are then analyzed to indicate the chaotic behavior in wall vibrations. Phase information from demodulated radiofrequency signals is extracted and the entropy of phase-difference is computed as a statistical measure for better characterization of the artery wall tissue. The results …


Possible Effects Of Dielectrophoretic Fields In The Brains Of Mri Operators And Ms Patients: A Radiologically Isolated Syndrome Evaluation, Cahi̇t Canbay Jan 2019

Possible Effects Of Dielectrophoretic Fields In The Brains Of Mri Operators And Ms Patients: A Radiologically Isolated Syndrome Evaluation, Cahi̇t Canbay

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Frequent use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) devices, which are major contributors in understanding health problems in the human body, is a subject that needs to be taken into consideration both for patients and for operators who are constantly in the vicinity of devices. In this context, electromagnetic impact assessment of an MRI device was performed at the point where the patient entered the device. Dielectrophoretic fields induced by radio frequency (RF) coils of an MRI scanner on male and female operator brain models were computed by using dispersive electrical medium parameters. The main cause of induced secondary dielectrophoretic fields …


Automatic Prostate Segmentation Using Multiobjective Active Appearance Model In Mr Images, Ahad Salimi, Mohammad Ali Pourmina, Mohamma-Shahram Moien Jan 2019

Automatic Prostate Segmentation Using Multiobjective Active Appearance Model In Mr Images, Ahad Salimi, Mohammad Ali Pourmina, Mohamma-Shahram Moien

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Prostate cancer is the second largest cause of mortality among men. Prostate segmentation, i.e. the precise determination of the prostate region in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), is generally used for prostate volume measurement, which can be used as a potential prostate cancer indicator. This paper presents a new fully automatic statistical model called the multiobjective active appearance model (MOAAM) for prostate segmentation in MR images. First, in the training stage, the appearance model, including the shape and texture model, is developed by applying principal component analysis to the training images, already outlined by a physician. Then noise and roughness are …


Heart Attack Mortality Prediction: An Application Of Machine Learning Methods, Issam Salman Jan 2019

Heart Attack Mortality Prediction: An Application Of Machine Learning Methods, Issam Salman

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The heart is an important organ in the human body, and acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is the leading cause of death in most countries. Researchers are doing a lot of data analysis work to assist doctors in predicting the heart problem. An analysis of the data related to different health problems and its functions can help in predicting the wellness of this organ with a degree of certainty. Our research reported in this paper consists of two main parts. In the first part of the paper, we compare different predictive models of hospital mortality for patients with AMI. All results …


Compact Metal-Plate Slotted Wlan-Wimax Antenna Design With Usb Wi-Fi Adapter Application, Cem Baytöre, Cem Göçen, Meri̇h Palandöken, Adnan Kaya, Emi̇ne Yeşi̇m Zoral Jan 2019

Compact Metal-Plate Slotted Wlan-Wimax Antenna Design With Usb Wi-Fi Adapter Application, Cem Baytöre, Cem Göçen, Meri̇h Palandöken, Adnan Kaya, Emi̇ne Yeşi̇m Zoral

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In this study, a compact antenna design, which operates in the 2.4, 5.2, and 5.8 GHz (WLAN) and 3.5 and 5.5 GHz (WiMAX) frequency bands, has been implemented to be compatible with the 802.11.ac/n standards. The proposed metal antenna is made of a copper plate of thickness 0.5 mm with a compact overall physical size of 20 mm $\times$ 30 mm. Although it is low-profile, it can work with high efficiency because it has a cheap planar metal structure and it does not contain any expensive dielectric material. The antenna is investigated in terms of S parameters, input impedance, efficiency, …