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2012 Other Unknown
Breve presentazione del database di supporto al sito WEB dell'ISTI
Beltrame R., Ponchio F., Raviolo C.
The ISTI website uses a database to store information presented on its pages. We sketch here the structure of this database.

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2012 Other Unknown
Studio di fattibilità sul rilevamento di enfisema in immagini ottenute mediante TAC a spirale con bassa dose
Amendola T., Chimenti M., Fantini E., Tampucci M., Miniati M., Monti S.
In a previous study we developed a software able to detect anomalies in CT high definition images of the thorax, possibly related to pulmonary emphysema; in this study we evaluate the possibility of applying this software to the CT images obtained in a large scale screening. In fact, theses images have been produced by a low-dose computer tomography and are affected by a noise greater than that of previously processed images. In this study we used a photometric images analysis, which gives the amount of pixels with luminance value less than a predefined threshold, and the blob analysis, which using the same threshold detects the binary objects composed of adjacent pixels and gives up their size and location. The paper reports the results obtained according two decision thresholds: we show that the photometric analysis of low-dose CT images gives no information about the presence of pulmonary emphysema, while the blob analysis gives useful descriptors

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2012 Journal article Open Access OPEN
Nanoscale Biomolecular Detection Limit for Gold Nanoparticles Based on Near-Infrared Response
D'Acunto M., Moroni D., Salvetti O.
Gold nanoparticles have been widely used during the past few years in various technical and biomedical applications. In particular, the resonance optical properties of nanometer-sized particles have been employed to design biochips and biosensors used as analytical tools. The optical properties of nonfunctionalized gold nanoparticles and core-gold nanoshells play a crucial role for the design of biosensors where gold surface is used as a sensing component. Gold nanoparticles exhibit excellent optical tunability at visible and near-infrared frequencies leading to sharp peaks in their spectral extinction. In this paper, we study how the optical properties of gold nanoparticles and core-gold nanoshells are changed as a function of different sizes, shapes, composition, and biomolecular coating with characteristic shifts towards the near-infrared region. We show that the optical tenability can be carefully tailored for particle sizes falling in the range 100-150 nm. The results should improve the design of sensors working at the detection limit.Source: Advances in Optical Technologies (Online) 2012 (2012): 278194. doi:10.1155/2012/278194
DOI: 10.1155/2012/278194
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See at: Advances in Optical Technologies Open Access | www.hindawi.com Restricted | CNR ExploRA


2012 Report Unknown
THESAURUS - Requisiti e specifiche funzionali del sistema per l'acquisizione e integrazione dati
Martinelli M., Pascali M. A., Reggiannini M., Righi M., Tampucci M., Colantonio S., Giorgi D., Magrini M., Moroni D., Pieri G., Salvetti O., La Monica D.
In this report the requirements and the functional specification of a data acquisition system for underwater archaeology are presented. The system is designed both to collect data from the sensing platform, constituted by a swarm of autonoumous underwater vehicles equipped with optical and acoustic imaging devices, and to organize information about archeological sites derived by previous surveys, archives and general bibliography.Source: Project report, Thesaurus, Deliverable 3.1, 2012

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2012 Report Unknown
ARGOMARINE - Model for data flow control through the intranet and towards World Wide Web
Pieri G., Colantonio S., Moroni D., Tampucci M., Salvetti O., Martinelli M., Reggiannini M.
This report provides the Model specification regarding the data flow control within the Integrated Communication System (i.e. the intranet) itself, and towards the external Web. Guidelines and model specification for the general data flow control within the ARGOMARINE will be presented and discussed. Then, the needed services, implemented for the interaction with the platform and the management of global data flow, will be described in detail. Finally, bridges and interactions with the Human Interface and the ARGOMARINE Portal will be analysed and discussed.Source: Project report, ARGOMARINE, Deliverable 6.5, 2012
Project(s): ARGOMARINE via OpenAIRE

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2012 Report Unknown
The genus invariant for Artin groups
Moroni D., Salvetti M., Villa A.
Let (W; S) be a Coxeter system, S finite, and let G_W be the associated Artin group. One has conguration spaces Y; Y_W; where G_W = PI_1(Y_W); and a natural W-covering f_W : Y --> Y_W. We consider the Schwarz genus g(f_W) of this covering, which is a natural topological in- variant of the Artin group. Let K = K(W; S) be the simplicial scheme of all subsets J subset of S such that the parabolic group W_J is finite. We introduce the class of Artin groups, which includes affine-type Artin groups, for which dim(K) equals the homological dimension of K; and we show that g(f_W) is always the maximum possible for this class of groups. Such maximum is given by dim(X_W) + 1; where X_W (subset of Y_W) is a CW-complex which has the same homotopy type. This result extends a previous result in [Deconcini Salvetti 2000] obtained for all finite-type Artin groups, with the exception of case A_n (for which see [Deconcini Procesi Salvetti 2004]).Source: ISTI Technical reports, 2012

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2012 Contribution to book Open Access OPEN
Introduction to: Computational Intelligence for Multimedia Understanding International Workshop - MUSCLE 2011 (Pisa, Italy, December 13-15, 2011). Revised Selected Papers
Salerno E., Çetin A. E., Salvetti O.
This book contains the contributions presented at the International Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Multimedia Understanding, organized by the ERCIM working group on Multimedia Understanding Through Semantics, Computation, and Learning (MUSCLE) as an open forum to discuss the most recent advances in this field. The workshop took place in Pisa, Italy, during December 13-15, 2011.Source: London: Springer, 2012
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-32436-9
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See at: repository.bilkent.edu.tr Open Access | doi.org Restricted | link.springer.com Restricted | CNR ExploRA


2012 Journal article Restricted
La svolta Newtoniana nello studio dell'attività mentale
Beltrame R.
Critical review of a past paper on a visual perception approach in the framework of the Italian Operational School approach to human mental activity.Source: Methodologia online WP 259 (2012): 1–16.

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2012 Contribution to conference Open Access OPEN
Computer technology for the quantification of pericardial fat assessed through cardiac CT
Coppini G., Favilla R., Marraccini P., Moroni D., Pieri G., Salvetti O.
Pericardial fat is associated with the extent of coronary artery disease (CAD) and with cardiovascular mortality. The aim of the study was to develop a computer software for the detection and measurement of pericardial fat in patients with suspected CAD. Main design requirement were: simplicity of use, short execution time and measurement accuracy.Source: 24th European Medical Informatics Conference, Pisa, 26-29 August 2012

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2012 Journal article Restricted
A Knowledge Editing Service for Multisource Data Management in Remote Health Monitoring
S. Colantonio, M. Esposito, M. Martinelli, G. De Pietro, O. Salvetti
Remote Health Monitoring (RHM) programmes are being increasingly developed to face the pervasive diffusion of chronic diseases. RHM strongly relies on ICT intelligent platforms devised to remotely acquire multisource data, process these according to specific domain knowledge and support clinical decision making. However, since RHM domain is continuously evolving and the pertinent knowledge is not yet consolidated, there is a great demand for services and tools that allow the encoded knowledge to be modified and enriched. This paper presents a Knowledge Editing Service (KES), which aims at enabling clinicians to insert novel knowledge, in a controlled fashion, into an ICT intelligent platform. The solution proposed is innovative since it addresses synergistically peculiar issues related to (i) RHM knowledge format; (ii) controlled editing patterns; (iii) knowledge verification and (iv) cooperative knowledge editing. None of the existing methods and systems for knowledge authoring tackles all these aspects at the same time. A prototype of the KES has been implemented and evaluated in real operational conditions.Source: IEEE transactions on information technology in biomedicine 16 (2012): 1096–1104. doi:10.1109/TITB.2012.2215622
DOI: 10.1109/titb.2012.2215622
Project(s): CHRONIOUS via OpenAIRE
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2012 Conference article Restricted
Decision Support for the Remote Management of Chronic Patients
Colantonio S., De Pietro G., Esposito M., Machì A., Martinelli M., Salvetti O.
Chronic diseases may cause major limitations in patients' daily living due to acute or deterioration events, which can happen more or less frequently and, often, cannot be totally relieved, causing a worsening of patients' conditions. In the last years, a strong effort is being spent in the development of intelligent ICT applications for patients' telemonitoring, aimed at maximizing the quality of life of chronic patients by means of a regular collection of information about their status and actions in a long-stay setting. In this paper, a knowledge based decision support system is presented, which is aimed at aiding clinical professionals in managing chronic patients on a daily basis, by assessing their current status, helping face their worsening conditions, and preventing their exacerbation events.Source: MobiHealth 2011 - Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare. Second Internaional ICST Conference. Revised Selected Papers, pp. 38–45, Kos Island, Greece, October 5-7, 2011
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-29734-2_6
Project(s): CHRONIOUS via OpenAIRE
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See at: doi.org Restricted | link.springer.com Restricted | CNR ExploRA


2012 Report Unknown
Color restoration in old photographs using dark channel processing
Kuruoglu E. E.
We propose a direct and effective method for color restoration and contrast enhancement in old images. The main idea is based on the dark channel assumption. Using this assumption with the faded old image model, we can directly estimate the degraded transmission coefficient of an old image and directly recover it to a high quality degradation-free image. Moreover, a novel average processing and dark channel processing chain method (A-D chain method) is proposed to partly avoid the side effects introduced by dark channel processing.Source: ISTI Technical reports, pp.1–13, 2012

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2012 Report Unknown
Estimation of motion blurring direction by rotated accumulation method
Liu Y., Gao C., Kuruoglu E. E.
Motion blur is usually caused by the motion between the camera and the scene during integration time of image. And the estimation of motion blurring direction is vital to restoration. There are existing methods such as Radon and cepstrum based approach. In this paper, a Rotated Accumulation Method by selecting the minimum value of rows in frequency domain is introduced to find the motion direction. Also, it is shown that this method is more advisable than spatial based method when the motion length is relatively small or the image is blurred by noise, and more accurate comparing to Radon method.Source: ISTI Technical reports, 2012

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2012 Report Open Access OPEN
Handwritten chinese character recognition using eigenspace decomposition
Long H., Zhang X., Kuruoglu E. E.
In this paper, we mainly describe a new approach of Handwritten Chinese Character Recognition (HCCR), which is based on eigen-character extraction. The procedure of the eigen-character extraction method is explained including initialization, eigen character extraction (or eigen spaces generation) and character recognition. Two different methods are presented to do eigen character recognition respectively. Besides, k Nearest Neighbor (kNN) is implemented to improve the recognition rate of the new approach. In the end, a comparison is made between the eigen-character extraction approach and other existing approaches through simulation based experiments. The results show that our approach has a satisfying rate and could be further improved if combined with some other methods such as elastic matching and wavelet methods.Source: ISTI Technical reports, pp.1–8, 2012

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2012 Report Unknown
Scale invariant feature detection for object recognition in colour images
Yang S., Li Y., Kuruoglu E. E.
This paper presents a method for extracting features from color images that can be used to perform reliable matching between different views of an object or scene. We extend the concept of the feature vector given in Lowe's method to color images by defining new gradient operator or giving new feature descriptor, which result in different algorithms with different optimality in the sense of information utilization of the original color image. Generally, better algorithm optimality is coupled with higher computation complexity, which is the case in this paper. Thus, the 4 methods proposed in this paper lead to a multi-optimality and multi-complexity scheme. In practice, people can choose which method to use according to their needs and computation abilities.Source: ISTI Technical reports, pp.1–14, 2012

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2012 Software Unknown
ARGO Sentinel
Martinelli M., Moroni D., Salvetti O.
Download the FREE app "ARGO Sentinel": You can help to monitor the health of your sea and the scientific research! Whoever at sea sights a pollution by oil or hydrocarbons will be able to immediately report the event to the Laboratory of Signals and Images SI-LAB (si.isti.cnr.it) of the Institute of Science and Information Technologies of the Italian National Research Council (CNR-ISTI) in Pisa, allowing the realization of a detailed map of the health of our seas. This information will be recorded in the Marine Information System (MIS) produced by CNR, able to collect data relating to critical and health issues of the sea from various sources (satellites, optical sensors, electronic noses, autonomous underwater vehicles, systems and geo-GPS geolocation ) and integrate and generate predictive models to assist the authorities in the management of emergencies. The application, in Italian, English and Greek, for smartphones (Android v2.1 or higher) with GPS, developed by CNR-ISTI within the European research project ARGOMARINE (www.argomarine.eu), is an easy to use tool designed for anyone, that for any reason, sail the seas. Allows you to send reports of suspected spills to the CNR specifying the precise point, severity and a description of the spill.Project(s): ARGOMARINE via OpenAIRE

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2012 Software Unknown
ImageJ for XTF -- Open source software for processing XTF files
Magni M., Lunghi G., Moroni D., Tampucci M., Salvetti O.
This project was born from a stage at the "Signals and Images Lab (si.isti.cnr.it), Institute of Information Science and Technologies of the National Research Council of Italy" attended by the first two authors. ImageJforXTF extends the open source ImageJ software with functionalities that allow to open and manage XTF files. This kind of files is used to record sonar and bathymetric data. An user can choose to open any file with extension ".xtf" so that the program parses it and shows the resulting image. Then the user can resize the image, apply graphic filters, perform measurements and georeference the recorded data using GoogleMap and GoogleEarth, in addition to using the basic functionality offered by ImageJ.

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2012 Software Unknown
ExBox - Sistema Informativo di Istituto per la condivisione di dati fra Applicazioni.
Pagano P., Zoppi F., Mulas D., Mameli F., Diciotti R., Volpini F., Pulcini J., Beltrame R., Fantini E.
The integrated Information System of the Institute is responsible for data retrieval, storage and elaborations-transformation. The integrated Information System also distributes data to the organ users of the Institute. It is composed of: - Costs management (Geco) - Personnel management (Personale) - Employees presence management (Orario/Panda) - Project management (Redbox) - Institute website management (Sito Isti) It provides for a monitoring and reporting system so as to make it the main system for consulting aggregate information. The Integrated Information System is designed as an open system so that in the future we can possibly integrate a new Institute System. The commission defines the system architecture and the procedures the subsystem must follow.

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2012 Contribution to journal Restricted
ERP responses to deviant three-chord musical cadences.
Carboncini M. C., Barcaro U., Bonfiglio L., Magrini M., Rossi B., Salvetti O., Virgillito A.
Parameters are introduced for a quantitative characterization of electrographic responses to musical cadences.Source: International journal of psychophysiology 85 (2012): 393–393. doi:10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2012.07.082
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2012.07.082
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2012 Contribution to journal Unknown
Epicardial fat volume assessment in cardiac CT
Coppini G., Favilla R., Moroni D., Salvetti O., D'Errico L., Salituri F., Ciardetti M., Schlueter M., Faggioni L., Coceani M., Mazzarisi A., Bianchi M., Bartolozzi C., Marraccini P.
Epicardial fat, as other visceral fat localizations, is correlated with car- diovascular disease, cardiovascular risk factors and metabolic syndrome. However, many concerns remain about the method for measuring epi- cardial fat, its regional distribution on the myocardium, as well as the accuracy and reproducibility of such measurements. At present, dedi- cated software procedures to assess epicardial fat are lacking. On the other hand, manual fat segmentation requires a huge and tedious operator intervention, which is expected to cause inaccuracy and large observer- dependent variability. The aim of this study was twofold: (1) the devel- opment of a procedure devoted to assess the volume of epicardial fat, (2) the evaluation of the related intra and inter-observer variability in CT scans, both with and without contrast medium injection.Source: International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery (Print) 7 (2012): 40–40.

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