A two-locus global DNA barcode for land plants: the coding rbcL gene complements the non-coding trnH-psbA spacer regionW John Kress
Department of Botany, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, United States of America
PLoS ONE 2:e508. 2007
..This low rate has complicated the trade-off in finding a locus that is universal and readily sequenced and has sufficiently high sequence divergence at the species-level...
- Identification of Amazonian trees with DNA barcodes
Mailyn Adriana Gonzalez
Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique, Université Paul Sabatier and CNRS, UMR 5174, Toulouse, France
PLoS ONE 4:e7483. 2009
..Large-scale plant diversity inventories are critical to develop informed conservation strategies. However, the workload required for classic taxonomic surveys remains high and is particularly problematic for megadiverse tropical forests...
- How many loci does it take to DNA barcode a crocus?
Ole Seberg
Laboratory of Molecular Systematics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
PLoS ONE 4:e4598. 2009
..Most tests have been made in a floristic setting, where the genetic distance and therefore the level of variation of the regions between taxa is large, or in a limited set of congeneric species...
- Critical factors for assembling a high volume of DNA barcodes
Mehrdad Hajibabaei
Biodiversity Institute of Ontario, Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada N1G 2W1
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 360:1959-67. 2005
..Barcode analysis is already a cost-effective option for species identification in some situations and this will increasingly be the case as reference libraries are assembled and analytical protocols are simplified...
- Automatic analysis of single-channel sleep EEG: validation in healthy individuals
Christian Berthomier
PHYSIP SA, Paris, France
Sleep 30:1587-95. 2007
..To assess the performance of automatic sleep scoring software (ASEEGA) based on a single EEG channel comparatively with manual scoring (2 experts) of conventional full polysomnograms...
DNA barcoding does not compete with taxonomyT Ryan Gregory
Nature 434:1067. 2005
- DNA barcodes for biosecurity: invasive species identification
K F Armstrong
National Centre for Advanced Bio Protection Technologies, PO Box 84, Lincoln University, Canterbury, New Zealand
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 360:1813-23. 2005
..This approach is a realistic platform on which to build a much more flexible system, with the potential to be adopted globally for the rapid and accurate identification of invasive alien species...
- DNA barcoding a useful tool for taxonomists
David E Schindel
Nature 435:17. 2005
- Use of DNA barcodes to identify flowering plants
W John Kress
Department of Botany and Laboratories of Analytical Biology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, P O Box 37012, Washington, DC 20013 7012
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:8369-74. 2005
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Electronic measurement of adherence to pediatric antiretroviral therapy in South AfricaAlexandra D Muller
Department of Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology, Georg August University Gottingen, Germany
Pediatr Infect Dis J 27:257-62. 2008
..Both assessment methods and predictors of adherence need to be examined to deliver appropriate health care to the growing patient population in resource-limited settings...
- Automatic processing of multilingual medical terminology: applications to thesaurus enrichment and cross-language information retrieval
H Déjean
Xerox Research Centre Europe, 6 Chemin de Maupertuis, F 38240 Meylan, France
Artif Intell Med 33:111-24. 2005
..For such applications, multilingual terminology plays a crucial role when working on specialized languages and specific domains...
- DNA barcoding Australia's fish species
Robert D Ward
CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, GPO Box 1538, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 360:1847-57. 2005
..We conclude that cox1 sequencing, or 'barcoding', can be used to identify fish species...
- Time and motion study to compare electronic and hybrid data collection systems during the pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza vaccination campaign
Susan Quach
Surveillance and Epidemiology, Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion, Toronto, Canada
Vaccine 29:1997-2003. 2011
..Electronic registration and record keeping were faster than paper-based methods; these findings should be used to improve data collection for future influenza seasons...
- Slow mitochondrial COI sequence evolution at the base of the metazoan tree and its implications for DNA barcoding
Danwei Huang
Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, 14 Science Drive 4, Singapore 117543, Singapore
J Mol Evol 66:167-74. 2008
..Caution is also advised for Porifera and Hydrozoa because of relatively low identification success rates as even threshold divergence that maximizes the "barcoding gap" does not improve identification success...
- Quantitative phenotyping via deep barcode sequencing
Andrew M Smith
Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Genome Res 19:1836-42. 2009
..Together, this new assay and analysis routine provide a deep-sequencing-based toolkit for identifying gene-environment interactions on a genome-wide scale...
- Improving response to critical laboratory results with automation: results of a randomized controlled trial
G J Kuperman
Partners HealthCare System, Department of Information Systems, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 02467, USA
J Am Med Inform Assoc 6:512-22. 1999
..To evaluate the effect of an automatic alerting system on the time until treatment is ordered for patients with critical laboratory results...
- DNA barcoding: error rates based on comprehensive sampling
Christopher P Meyer
Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
PLoS Biol 3:e422. 2005
..However, the use of thresholds does not bode well for delineating closely related species in taxonomically understudied groups. The promise of barcoding will be realized only if based on solid taxonomic foundations...
- Design of a national retail data monitor for public health surveillance
Michael M Wagner
The RODS Laboratory, Center for Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, Suite 550, 100 Technology Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15219, USA
J Am Med Inform Assoc 10:409-18. 2003
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- BioMagResBank database with sets of experimental NMR constraints corresponding to the structures of over 1400 biomolecules deposited in the Protein Data Bank
Jurgen F Doreleijers
BioMagResBank, Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 433 Babcock Drive, Madison, WI 53706, U.S.A
J Biomol NMR 26:139-46. 2003
..The results serve as a model for the development of standards for NMR constraint deposition in computer-readable form. The constraints are updated regularly and are available from the BMRB web site (http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu)...
- Species discovery versus species identification in DNA barcoding efforts: response to Rubinoff
Rob DeSalle
Division of Invertebrates, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY 10024, USA
Conserv Biol 20:1545-7. 2006
- DNA barcoding and the renaissance of taxonomy
Scott E Miller
Office of the Under Secretary for Science, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20013-7012, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:4775-6. 2007
- Electronic data capture (EDC)--a new mantra for clinical trials
Umakanta Sahoo
ClinInvent Research Private Limited, A-302 Everest Chambers, Marol Naka, Andheri-Kurla Road, Andheri (E, Mumbai 400-059, India
Qual Assur 10:117-21. 2003
..Finally, the article concludes emphasizing the fact that EDC is the future mantra for the clinical trials and all stake holders should face challenges of infrastructure, technology, regulations, and training to make it a success...
- ISBT 128 implementation plan for cellular therapy products
Paul Ashford
International Cellular Therapy Coding and Labeling Advisory Group, Redlands, CA 92374, USA
Transfusion 47:1312-8. 2007
- Standards for the terminology and labeling of cellular therapy products
Paul Ashford
International Cellular Therapy Coding and Labeling Advisory Group, Redlands, CA 92374, USA
Transfusion 47:1319-27. 2007
- DNA barcoding: promise and pitfalls
Craig Moritz
PLoS Biol 2:e354. 2004
- Defining operational taxonomic units using DNA barcode data
Mark Blaxter
Institute of Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Ashworth Laboratories, King s Buildings, Edinburgh EH9 3JT, UK
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 360:1935-43. 2005
..Major issues remain, in particular the methodologies for taxon discrimination in DNA barcode data...
- Identification of Birds through DNA Barcodes
Paul D N Hebert
Department of Zoology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
PLoS Biol 2:e312. 2004
..The growing evidence for the effectiveness of DNA barcodes as a basis for species identification supports an international exercise that has recently begun to assemble a comprehensive library of COI sequences linked to named specimens...
- MS1, MS2, and SQT-three unified, compact, and easily parsed file formats for the storage of shotgun proteomic spectra and identifications
W Hayes McDonald
Department of Cell Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
Rapid Commun Mass Spectrom 18:2162-8. 2004
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- Towards writing the encyclopedia of life: an introduction to DNA barcoding
Vincent Savolainen
Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 3DS, UK
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 360:1805-11. 2005
..g. cox1 = CO1, in animals), (iii) promoting development of handheld DNA sequencing technology that can be applied in the field for biodiversity inventories and (iv) providing insight into the diversity of life...
- Electronic data collection options for practice-based research networks
Wilson D Pace
Department of Family Medicine, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado, USA
Ann Fam Med 3:S21-9. 2005
..We wanted to describe the potential benefits and problems associated with selected electronic methods of collecting data within practice-based research networks (PBRNs)...
- Now is the time
Daniel H Janzen
Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104, USA
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 359:731-2. 2004
- The promise of a DNA taxonomy
Mark L Blaxter
Institute of Cell, Animal and Population Biology, University of Edinburgh, King s Buildings, Edinburgh EH9 3JT, UK
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 359:669-79. 2004
..Previous molecular taxonomic efforts have focused narrowly. Advances in high-throughput sequencing methodologies, however, place the idea of a universal, multi-locus molecular barcoding system in the realm of the possible...
- Practical applications of usability theory to electronic data collection for clinical trials
Jordana K Schmier
Exponent, 1800 Diagonal Road, Suite 300, Alexandria, VA 22314, United States
Contemp Clin Trials 26:376-85. 2005
..Lessons learned from usability testing in the unique setting of the clinical trial can be applied to other projects to decrease costs, enhance the quality of the data, and minimize time to analysis...
- Applying DNA barcoding to red macroalgae: a preliminary appraisal holds promise for future applications
Gary W Saunders
Centre for Environmental and Molecular Algal Research, Department of Biology, University of New Brunswick Fredericton, NB, Canada E3B 6E1
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 360:1879-88. 2005
..In all cases the DNA barcode resolved accurately and unequivocally species identities and, with the enhanced sampling here, turned up a variety of novel observations in need of further taxonomic investigation...
- Land plants and DNA barcodes: short-term and long-term goals
Mark W Chase
Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Richmond, Surrey TW9 3DS, UK
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 360:1889-95. 2005
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- Standards for the terminology and labeling of cellular therapy products
Paul Ashford
J Clin Apher 22:249-57. 2007
- A comparison of error detection rates between the reading aloud method and the double data entry method
Miyuki Kawado
Department of Hygiene, Fujita Health University School of Medicine, Toyoake City, Aichi, Japan
Control Clin Trials 24:560-9. 2003
..The total expended times were 74.8 hours for the DDE method and 57.9 hours for the RA method. These results suggest that in detecting errors of single data entry, the RA method is inferior to the DDE method, while its time cost is lower...
- BioMagResBank (BMRB) as a partner in the Worldwide Protein Data Bank (wwPDB): new policies affecting biomolecular NMR depositions
John L Markley
Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI 53706 1544, USA
J Biomol NMR 40:153-5. 2008
..The BMRB now contains an archive of NMR data for metabolites and other small molecules found in biological systems...
- A comparison of the completeness and timeliness of automated electronic laboratory reporting and spontaneous reporting of notifiable conditions
J Marc Overhage
Regenstrief Institute, 410 W 10th St, Suite 2000, Indianapolis, IN 46202 3012, USA
Am J Public Health 98:344-50. 2008
..We examined whether automated electronic laboratory reporting of notifiable-diseases results in information being delivered to public health departments more completely and quickly than is the case with spontaneous, paper-based reporting...
- Phenetic and DNA taxonomy; a comment on Waugh
Rob DeSalle
Bioessays 29:1289-90. 2007
- Inferring species membership using DNA sequences with back-propagation neural networks
A B Zhang
Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, P R China
Syst Biol 57:202-15. 2008
..Particularly in cases involving incomplete lineage sorting, this new BP-based method appears to be superior to commonly used methods for DNA-based species identification...
- Validation of automated forms processing. A comparison of Teleform with manual data entry
C K Jørgensen
Research Unit, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Comput Biol Med 28:659-67. 1998
..AFP reduced processing time, but we found that a very large number of forms need to be processed in order to recover the initial investment. A considerable amount of time and computer expertise was required for implementation of AFP...
- Challenges of automated screening and differentiation of non-organ specific autoantibodies on HEp-2 cells
Rico Hiemann
Department of Biology, Chemistry and Process Technology, Lausitz University of Applied Sciences, Senftenberg, Germany
Autoimmun Rev 9:17-22. 2009
..More sophisticated pattern recognition algorithms and novel calibration systems will improve standardised quantifications of IIF image interpretation...
- Four years of DNA barcoding: current advances and prospects
Lise Frezal
Laboratoire de Biologie Intégrative des Populations, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris, France
Infect Genet Evol 8:727-36. 2008
..The initially proposed Barcode of life framework has greatly evolved, giving rise to a flexible description of DNA barcoding and a larger range of applications...
- DNA barcoding in the cycadales: testing the potential of proposed barcoding markers for species identification of cycads
Chodon Sass
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America
PLoS ONE 2:e1154. 2007
..We suggest a workflow for DNA barcoding, including database generation and management, which will ultimately be necessary if we are to succeed in establishing a universal DNA barcode for plants...
- Identification of Dendrobium species by a candidate DNA barcode sequence: the chloroplast psbA-trnH intergenic region
Hui Yao
Institute of Medicinal Plant Development, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing 100193, PR China
Planta Med 75:667-9. 2009
..5 %. Our results support the notion that the psbA-trnH intergenic spacer region could be used as a barcode to distinguish various Dendrobium species and to differentiate Dendrobium species from other adulterating species...
- Terminology and labeling of cellular products-2: Implementation plan
P Ashford
International Cellular Therapy Coding and Labelling Advisory Group, Redlands, CA 92374, USA
Bone Marrow Transplant 40:1085-90. 2007
..This paper provides guidance on the practical aspects of adopting these new standards for organizations with differing current levels of computerization. It discusses project management, equipment, licensing, and validation topics...
- Terminology and labeling of cellular products: 1. Standards
P Ashford
International Cellular Therapy Coding and Labelling Advisory Group, Redlands, CA 92374, USA
Bone Marrow Transplant 40:1075-83. 2007
..A companion paper provides guidance on the implementation of the ISBT 128 system...
- Tight data-robust bounds to mutual information combining shuffling and model selection techniques
M A Montemurro
Neural Comput 19:2913-57. 2007
..This application shows that even in the presence of strong correlations, our methods constrain precisely the amount of information encoded by real spike trains recorded in vivo...
- Doublet method for very fast autocoding
Jules J Berman
Cancer Diagnosis Program, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak 4:16. 2004
..The purpose of this paper is to describe the doublet method, a new algorithm for very fast autocoding...
- Wedding biodiversity inventory of a large and complex Lepidoptera fauna with DNA barcoding
Daniel H Janzen
Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 360:1835-45. 2005
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- Microcoding: the second step in DNA barcoding
R C Summerbell
CBS Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 360:1897-903. 2005
..Arrays and functionally similar platforms may have a particular advantage when a biologically complex material such as soil or a human respiratory secretion sample is analysed to give a census of relevant species present...
- METIS: multiple extraction techniques for informative sentences
A L Mitchell
Faculty of Life Sciences and School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK
Bioinformatics 21:4196-7. 2005
..These reports may then be augmented with pertinent sentences extracted from online biomedical literature via support vector machine and rule-based sentence classification systems. AVAILABILITY: http://umber.sbs.man.ac.uk/dbbrowser/metis/..
- Performance evaluation and benchmarking of six-page segmentation algorithms
Faisal Shafait
Image understanding and Pattern Recongnition Research Group, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Kaiserslautern, Germany
IEEE Trans Pattern Anal Mach Intell 30:941-54. 2008
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- Restoring 2D content from distorted documents
Michael S Brown
School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Blk N4, 2A 32, Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798, Republic of Singapore
IEEE Trans Pattern Anal Mach Intell 29:1904-16. 2007
..This approach makes no assumptions about light sources and their positions. The results from the geometric and photometric correction are combined to produce the final output...
- A comparative study of staff removal algorithms
Christoph Dalitz
Hochschule Niederrhein, Fachbereich Elektrotechnik und Informatik, Reinarzstr 49, Krefeld, Germany
IEEE Trans Pattern Anal Mach Intell 30:753-66. 2008
..Our general approach and evaluation methodology is not specific to staff removal, but applicable to other segmentation problems as well...
- A novel document ranking method using the discrete cosine transform
Laurence A F Park
ARC Centre for Perceptive and Intelligent Machines in Complex Environments, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
IEEE Trans Pattern Anal Mach Intell 27:130-5. 2005
..By taking advantage of the properties of the DCT and by employing the fast query and compression techniques found in vector space methods (VSM), we show that we can process queries as fast as VSM and achieve a much higher precision...
- A scale space approach for automatically segmenting words from historical handwritten documents
R Manmatha
Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 140 Governors Dr, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
IEEE Trans Pattern Anal Mach Intell 27:1212-25. 2005
..The technique outperforms a state-of-the-art gap metrics word-segmentation algorithm on this collection...
- Offline geometric parameters for automatic signature verification using fixed-point arithmetic
Miguel A Ferrer
Departamento de Señales y Comunicaciones, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Campus de Tafira, E35017 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
IEEE Trans Pattern Anal Mach Intell 27:993-7. 2005
..The experiments have shown promising results in the task of discriminating random and simple forgeries...
- Fast SVM training algorithm with decomposition on very large data sets
Jian xiong Dong
Centre for Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence, the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Concordia University, 1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd West, Suite GM 606, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3G 1M8
IEEE Trans Pattern Anal Mach Intell 27:603-18. 2005
..Moreover, the good generalization performances on several large databases have also been achieved...
- Script-independent text line segmentation in freestyle handwritten documents
Yi Li
Language and Media Processing Laboratory, Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
IEEE Trans Pattern Anal Mach Intell 30:1313-29. 2008
..Further experiments show the proposed algorithm is robust to scale change, rotation, and noise...
- Offline recognition of unconstrained handwritten texts using HMMs and statistical language models
Alessandro Vinciarelli
Dalle Molle Institute for Perceptual Artificial Intelligence, Rue du Simplon 4, 1920 Martigny, Switzerland
IEEE Trans Pattern Anal Mach Intell 26:709-20. 2004
..Our approach is described in detail and compared with other methods presented in the literature to deal with the same problem. An experimental setup to correctly deal with unconstrained text recognition is proposed...
- An integration of online and pseudo-online information for cursive word recognition
Tal Steinherz
Department of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv 69978, Israel
IEEE Trans Pattern Anal Mach Intell 27:669-83. 2005
..Results demonstrate that the pseudo-online representation is useful as the combination of classifiers perform better than those based solely on pure online information...
- A parallel-line detection algorithm based on HMM decoding
Yefeng Zheng
Language and Media Processing Laboratory, Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 3275, USA
IEEE Trans Pattern Anal Mach Intell 27:777-92. 2005
..The experiments conducted on known form processing and rule line detection show our method is robust, and achieves better results than other widely used line detection methods...
- Utilization of hierarchical, stochastic relationship modeling for Hangul character recognition
Kyung Won Kang
Department of Computer Science, KAIST, Yusong gu, Daejon, South Korea
IEEE Trans Pattern Anal Mach Intell 26:1185-96. 2004
..Recognition experiments conducted on a public database show the effectiveness of the proposed relationship modeling. The recognition accuracy increased by 5.5 percent in comparison to the most successful system ever reported...
- Recognition of merged characters based on forepart prediction, necessity-sufficiency matching, and character-adaptive masking
Jiqiang Song
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong
IEEE Trans Syst Man Cybern B Cybern 35:2-11. 2005
..The experimental results and the performance comparisons with other methods demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method...
- Image restoration of arbitrarily warped documents
Michael S Brown
Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clearwater Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
IEEE Trans Pattern Anal Mach Intell 26:1295-306. 2004
..Our framework is designed for use in library and museum digitization efforts where very old and badly damaged manuscripts are imaged...
- Glove-based approach to online signature verification
Nidal S Kamel
Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, Technical University of Petronas, Bandar Seri Iskandar, Perak, Malaysia
IEEE Trans Pattern Anal Mach Intell 30:1109-13. 2008
..This SVD-based signature verification technique is tested and its performance is shown to be able to recognize forgery signatures with a false acceptance rate of less than 1.2%...
- Style consistent classification of isogenous patterns
Prateek Sarkar
Palo Alto Research Center, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA
IEEE Trans Pattern Anal Mach Intell 27:88-98. 2005
..Longer fields favor our classification method because they furnish more information about the underlying style...
- Introduction to the mining of clinical data
James H Harrison
Division of Clinical Informatics, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia, Suite 3181 West Complex, 1335 Hospital Drive, Charlottesville, VA 22908 0717, USA
Clin Lab Med 28:1-7, v. 2008
..Future developments in integrated medical data repositories, standardized data representation, and guidelines for the appropriate research use of medical data will decrease the barriers to mining projects...
- Minimum classification error training for online handwriting recognition
Alain Biem
IBM T J Watson Research Center, PO Box 218, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA
IEEE Trans Pattern Anal Mach Intell 28:1041-51. 2006
..Word recognition results, on vocabularies of 5k to 10k, show that MCE training achieves around 17 percent word error rate reduction when compared to the baseline Maximum Likelihood system...
- Font adaptive word indexing of modern printed documents
Simone Marinai
Dipartimento di Sistenmi e Informatica, Universita di Firenze, via di S Marta, 3, 50139 Firenze, Italy
IEEE Trans Pattern Anal Mach Intell 28:1187-99. 2006
..Our experimental analysis addresses six data sets containing documents ranging from books of the 17th century to contemporary journals...
- Table detection in online ink notes
Zhouchen Lin
Microsoft Research Asia, 5th Floor, Sigma Building Zhichun Road 49, Haidian District, Beijing 100080, PR China
IEEE Trans Pattern Anal Mach Intell 28:1341-6. 2006
..Experimental results suggest that our system is robust and accurate in dealing with tables having complex structure or drawn under complex situations...
- Autofocusing for automated microscopic evaluation of blood smear and pap smear
X Y Liu
Adv. Micro and Nanosyst. Lab, Toronto Univ, Ontario, Canada
Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 1:4718-21. 2006
..Together with our previously reported findings, we hypothesize that the variance algorithm or the Normalized variance algorithm is the optimal focus algorithm for all non- fluorescence microscopy applications...
- Symbol recognition with kernel density matching
Wan Zhang
Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong
IEEE Trans Pattern Anal Mach Intell 28:2020-4. 2006
..Symbol orientation is found by gradient-based angle searching or independent component analysis. Experimental results show the outstanding performance of this approach in various situations...
- Character independent font recognition on a single Chinese character
Xiaoqing Ding
Electronics Engineering Department, Tsinghua University, Beijing, P R China
IEEE Trans Pattern Anal Mach Intell 29:195-204. 2007
..Additionally, our method demonstrates that it is possible to extract subtle yet discriminative signals embedded in a much larger noisy background...
- Text-independent writer identification and verification using textural and allographic features
Marius Bulacu
AI Institute, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
IEEE Trans Pattern Anal Mach Intell 29:701-17. 2007
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- On using the Viterbi path along with HMM likelihood information for online signature verification
Ly Van Bao
Umanis, 92301 Levallois Perret, France
IEEE Trans Syst Man Cybern B Cybern 37:1237-47. 2007
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- Wavelet-based approach to character skeleton
Xinge You
Department of Electronics and Information Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
IEEE Trans Image Process 16:1220-31. 2007
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- Iterative cross section sequence graph for handwritten character segmentation
Amer Dawoud
IEEE Trans Image Process 16:2150-4. 2007
..Experimental results showed significant improvements in OCR recognition rates compared to other well-established segmentation algorithms...
- Metric learning for text documents
Guy Lebanon
Department of Statistics, Purdue University, 150 N University Street, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
IEEE Trans Pattern Anal Mach Intell 28:497-508. 2006
..When applied to text document classification the resulting geodesic distance resemble, but outperform, the tfidf cosine similarity measure...
- Hidden Markov models combining discrete symbols and continuous attributes in handwriting recognition
Hanhong Xue
Advance Clustering Technology Team, IBM, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601, USA
IEEE Trans Pattern Anal Mach Intell 28:458-62. 2006
..The models are rigorously defined and experiments have proven their effectiveness...
- Density-driven generalized regression neural networks (DD-GRNN) for function approximation
John Y Goulermas
Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3GJ, UK
IEEE Trans Neural Netw 18:1683-96. 2007
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- Hierarchically clustered adaptive quantization CMAC and its learning convergence
S D Teddy
School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798, Singapore
IEEE Trans Neural Netw 18:1658-82. 2007
..Index Terms-Cerebellar model articulation controller (CMAC), hierarchical clustering, hierarchically clustered adaptive quantization CMAC (HCAQ-CMAC), learning convergence, nonuniform quantization...
- An adaptable connectionist text-retrieval system with relevance feedback
M R Azimi-Sadjadi
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
IEEE Trans Neural Netw 18:1597-613. 2007
..The learning algorithms are thoroughly tested on a domain-specific text database that encompasses a wide range of Hewlett Packard (HP) products and for a large number of most commonly used single- and multiterm queries...
- Wearable FPGA based wireless sensor platform
Tom Ahola
Nokia Research Center, Helsinki, Finland
Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2007:2288-91. 2007
..The platform has been named NWSP, for Nokia Wrist- Attached Sensor Platform. This document describes the hardware, the firmware and applications of the platform...
- Recognition and verification of unconstrained handwritten words
Alessandro L Koerich
Applied Informatics, Pontifical Catholic University of Parana, R Imaculada Conceição, 1155, Curitiba, PR, 80215 901, Brazil
IEEE Trans Pattern Anal Mach Intell 27:1509-22. 2005
..Our approach is described in detail and the experimental results on a large database of unconstrained handwritten words extracted from postal envelopes are presented...
- Texture for script identification
Andrew Busch
School of Microelectronic Engineering, Griffith University Nathan Campus, QLD, Australia
IEEE Trans Pattern Anal Mach Intell 27:1720-32. 2005
..Strategies for improving classification results in situations with limited training data and multiple font types are also proposed...
- Estimating the pen trajectories of static signatures using hidden Markov models
Emli Mari Nel
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Stellenbosch, Matieland, South Africa
IEEE Trans Pattern Anal Mach Intell 27:1733-46. 2005
..We then derive a hidden Markov model from the static image and match it to the dynamic version of the image. This match results in the estimated pen trajectory of the static image...
- Script and language identification in noisy and degraded document images
Lu Shijian
Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore
IEEE Trans Pattern Anal Mach Intell 30:14-24. 2008
..Experimental results show that the proposed technique is accurate, easy for extension, and tolerant to noise and various types of document degradation...
- Restoring warped document images through 3D shape modeling
Chew Lim Tan
School of Computing, National University of Singapore 3, Science Drive 2, Singapore
IEEE Trans Pattern Anal Mach Intell 28:195-208. 2006
..The results show that the geometric and photometric distortions are mostly removed and the OCR results are improved markedly...
- Globally consistent reconstruction of ripped-up documents
Liangjia Zhu
Department of Automatic Control, College of Mechatronics and Automation, National University of Defense Technology, People s Republic of China
IEEE Trans Pattern Anal Mach Intell 30:1-13. 2008
..The overall performance of our approach in several practical experiments is illustrated. The results indicate that the reconstruction of ripped-up documents up to fifty pieces is possibly accomplished automatically...
- A practical approach for writer-dependent symbol recognition using a writer-independent symbol recognizer
Joseph J LaViola
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Central Florida, Engineering 3 Harris Center, Orlando, FL 32816 2362, USA
IEEE Trans Pattern Anal Mach Intell 29:1917-26. 2007
..We also present the results of experiments that quantify the effect incorporating a writer-independent recognition engine into a writer-dependent recognizer has on accuracy, speed, and user training time...
- Artificial neural networks for document analysis and recognition
Simone Marinai
Dipartimento di Sistenmi e Informatica, Universita di Firenze, via di S Marta, 3, 50139 Firenze, Italy
IEEE Trans Pattern Anal Mach Intell 27:23-35. 2005
..In particular, a second generation of connectionist-based models are foreseen which are based on appropriate graphical representations of the learning environment...
- Online recognition of Chinese characters: the state-of-the-art
Cheng lin Liu
Central Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd, 1 280 Higashi Koigakubo, Kokubunji shi, Tokyo 185 8601, Japan
IEEE Trans Pattern Anal Mach Intell 26:198-213. 2004
..The research works are reviewed in terms of pattern representation, character classification, learning/adaptation, and contextual processing. We compare important results and discuss possible directions of future research...
- An approach to offline handwritten Chinese character recognition based on segment evaluation of adaptive duration
Guo Hong Li
Institute of Image Processing and Pattern Recognition, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai 200030, China
J Zhejiang Univ Sci 5:1392-7. 2004
..Experiments proved that the proposed approach of adaptive duration outperforms the method of fixed duration, and is very effective for the recognition of overlapped, broken, touched, loosely configured Chinese characters...
- Multioriented and curved text lines extraction from Indian documents
U Pal
Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata 108, India
IEEE Trans Syst Man Cybern B Cybern 34:1676-84. 2004
..Finally, candidate regions (neighborhoods of the candidate points) of the candidate points of each component are detected and after analyzing these candidate regions, components are grouped to get individual text lines...
- Online handwritten script recognition
Anoop M Namboodiri
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
IEEE Trans Pattern Anal Mach Intell 26:124-30. 2004
..The classification accuracy improves to 95 percent as the number of words in the test sample is increased to five, and to 95.5 percent for complete text lines consisting of an average of seven words...
- Estimating degradation model parameters using neighborhood pattern distributions: an optimization approach
Tapas Kanungo
IBM Almanden Research Center, San Jose, CA 95120, USA
IEEE Trans Pattern Anal Mach Intell 26:520-4. 2004
..We use the p-value of the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test as the measure of similarity between the two neighborhood pattern distributions. We show results of our algorithm on degraded document images...
- Automatic detection and recognition of signs from natural scenes
Xilin Chen
School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213 USA
IEEE Trans Image Process 13:87-99. 2004
..We have applied the approach in developing a Chinese sign translation system, which can automatically detect and recognize Chinese signs as input from a camera, and translate the recognized text into English...
