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Developments Towards Chromophore-Selectivity in Photoacoustic Remote Sensing Microscopy
(University of Waterloo, 2022-04-28)Medical imaging serves to diagnose and monitor illnesses in clinical settings. Several modalities such as X-Ray and Ultrasound have become ubiquitous due to their high utility. Photoacoustic microscopy, based on the ... -
Diabetic retinopathy grading with respect to the segmented lesions
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-19)One of the leading causes of irreversible vision loss is Diabetic Retinopathy (DR). The International Clinical Diabetic Retinopathy scale (ICDRS) provides grading criteria for DR. Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs) ... -
Diagonal Approximations to the Observation Error Covariance Matrix in Sea Ice Thickness Data Assimilation
(University of Waterloo, 2017-03-09)Data assimilation is a statistical technique for combining observations of a physical system with the state of a numerical model of that system. The procedure yields a new and ideally improved state estimate called the ... -
Direct Visual Servoing for Grasping Using Depth Maps
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-21)Visual servoing is extremely helpful for many applications such as tracking objects, controlling the position of end-effectors, grasping and many others. It has been helpful in industrial sites, academic projects and ... -
Discovering Patterns from Sequences with Applications to Protein-Protein and Protein-DNA Interaction
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-30)Understanding Protein-Protein and Protein-DNA interaction is of fundamental importance in deciphering gene regulation and other biological processes in living cells. Traditionally, new interaction knowledge is discovered ... -
Discovering Protein Functional Regions and Protein-Protein Interaction using Co-occurring Aligned Pattern Clusters
(University of Waterloo, 2015-10-30)Bioinformatics is a rapidly expanding field of research due to multiple recent advancements: 1) the advent of machine intelligence, 2) the increase of computing power, 3) our better understanding of the underlying biomolecular ... -
Discovery and Analysis of Aligned Pattern Clusters from Protein Family Sequences
(University of Waterloo, 2014-04-28)Protein sequences are essential for encoding molecular structures and functions. Consequently, biologists invest substantial resources and time discovering functional patterns in proteins. Using high-throughput technologies, ... -
Discovery of Flexible Gap Patterns from Sequences
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-06)Human genome contains abundant motifs bound by particular biomolecules. These motifs are involved in the complex regulatory mechanisms of gene expressions. The dominant mechanism behind the intriguing gene expression ... -
Distance Measures for Probabilistic Patterns
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-07)Numerical measures of pattern dissimilarity are at the heart of pattern recognition and classification. Applications of pattern recognition grow more sophisticated every year, and consequently we require distance measures ... -
Distributed Document Clustering and Cluster Summarization in Peer-to-Peer Environments
(University of Waterloo, 2007-06-14)This thesis addresses difficult challenges in distributed document clustering and cluster summarization. Mining large document collections poses many challenges, one of which is the extraction of topics or summaries from ... -
Distributing Non-cooperative Object Information in Next Generation Radar Surveillance Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-21)Radar surveillance systems, in both airspace and maritime domains, are facing increasing challenges in dealing with objects that cannot be detected by traditional transponder-based radar surveillance technologies. These ... -
Documenting & Using Cognitive Complexity Mitigation Strategies (CCMS) to Improve the Efficiency of Cross-Context User Transfers
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-23)Cognitive complexity mitigation strategies are methods and approaches utilized by users to reduce the apparent complexity of problems thus making them easier to solve. These strategies often effective because they mitigate ... -
Driving Scene Understanding using Spiking Neural Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-24)One of the applications of AI lies in developing intelligent systems for safe on-road driving, other than building and perfecting self-driving vehicles, and many others. Driving Scene Understanding (DSU) is one such area ... -
Dynamic Model of a Piano Action Mechanism
(University of Waterloo, 2004)While some attempts have been made to model the behaviour of the grand piano action (the mechanism that translates a key press into a hammer striking a string), most researchers have reduced the system to a simple model ... -
Dynamic Modeling and Parameter Identification of a Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-19)In recent times, mechanical systems in an automobile are largely controlled by embedded systems, called micro-controllers. These automobiles, installed with micro-controllers, run complex embedded code to improve the ... -
Dynamic modeling of electrochemical systems using linear graph theory
(Elsevier, 2011-12-01)An electrochemical cell is a multidisciplinary system which involves complex chemical, electrical, and thermodynamical processes. The primary objective of this paper is to develop a linear graph-theoretical modeling for ... -
Dynamic Scanning Probe Lithography and Its Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-25)This dissertation presents a novel, benchtop, low-cost, high-throughput direct surface patterning method dubbed dynamic-Scanning Probe Lithography (d-SPL). It employs a scriber mounted via a spring-damper mechanism to a ... -
Dynamics and Control of a Piano Action Mechanism
(University of Waterloo, 2007-06-21)The piano action is the mechanism that transforms the finger force applied to a key into the motion of a hammer that strikes a piano string. This thesis focuses on improving the fidelity of the dynamic model of a grand ... -
Dynamics and Model-Based Control of Balance Recovery in Humans Using Lower-Limb Exoskeletons
(University of Waterloo, 2023-12-22)In the past decade, powered robotic lower-limb exoskeletons have emerged as an exciting technological advancement, offering enhancements in mobility and quality of life for individuals with physical impairments. While the ... -
Dynamics and Model-Based Control of Electric Power Steering Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2014-10-03)Many automobile manufacturers are switching to Electric Power Steering (EPS) systems for their better performance and cost advantages over traditional Hydraulic Power Steering (HPS) systems. EPS compared to HPS offer lower ...