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Pipeline For Calculating Calories For Print Recipes With Minimal User Intervention, Karl W. Holten
Pipeline For Calculating Calories For Print Recipes With Minimal User Intervention, Karl W. Holten
Theses and Dissertations
The thesis will provide a pipeline to estimate calorie counts from print recipes. The pipeline takes scanned recipes from cookbooks and uses Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to convert the scanned images of recipes to text. Several OCR tools were tested for their accuracy on fractions using a sample of the data, and the most accurate tool is used on the data. Next, a specially trained named entity recognition model is used to identify ingredients, quantities and units. These ingredients are used to search a database of values from the FDA to compute a calorie count for the recipe. The thesis …
Patient Centric Solutions To Mitigate Information Need Of Obstetric Ultrasound Exam Among Pregnant Women: Design-Thinking Approach, Eman Alanazi
Theses and Dissertations
Design thinking approach is an approach used widely to solve problems by providing innovative solutions. In this dissertation I focused on the user experience research filed where I designed new obstetric ultrasound reports by adopting the design thinking approach to reach the main goal of the dissertation which is mitigating pregnant women information needs about obstetric ultrasound exam and improve their understanding and knowledge about the obstetric ultrasound report and the exam. I developed two versions of new designed report called SPOUR (Smart Patient-Oriented Obstetric Ultrasound Report). We have conducted five studies to reach the dissertation goal and designed two …
Resident Doctor Duty Shift Scheduling In Tarragona, Spain, Anna Daniel Fuentes
Resident Doctor Duty Shift Scheduling In Tarragona, Spain, Anna Daniel Fuentes
Theses and Dissertations
The goal of this thesis is to create a computer algorithm to schedule family care resident doctors’ duty shifts in Tarragona, Spain. The algorithm considers European Working Time Directive regulations which limit the number of hours any worker can work in a year. Furthermore, each health center has different work time and staffing requirements, and the medical training program requirements change based on a resident’s level of experience also known as rank of residency. Fair scheduling is essential to healthcare workers’ rights to have time to recover between shifts while satisfying all the training requirements and regulations. Integer programming is …
In Vitro And In Vivo Identification And Quantification Of Carmofur And 5-Fluorouracil Using Tandem Mass Spectrometry, Mohammad Mohiminul Islam
In Vitro And In Vivo Identification And Quantification Of Carmofur And 5-Fluorouracil Using Tandem Mass Spectrometry, Mohammad Mohiminul Islam
Theses and Dissertations
Glioblastoma is the most aggressive solid tumor of the brain. Prior studies from our lab found that carmofur, also known as 1-hexylcarbanoyl 5-fluorouracil (HCFU) is a promising candidate in suppressing and killing tumor cell lines compared to the FDA-approved drug temozolomide. Originally developed as pro-drug of 5-fluorouracil (5-FU), carmofur has been in use in clinic for the treatment of colorectal cancer for over four decades in Japan. Having it used in clinics, it has a high probability of repurposing for diseases with no cure such as glioblastoma. Carmofur has also been found effective against other cancers such as head and …