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Study of heat transfer on physiological driven movement with CNT nanofluids and variable viscosity
• Ongoing interest in CNT nanofluids and materials in biotechnology, energy and environment, microelectronics, composite materials etc.• The current investigation is carried out to analyze the effect of variable viscosity and thermal conductivity of CNT nanofluids driven by cilia induced movemen t through a circular tube.• The problem is formulated in the form of non linear partial differential equations, which are simplified by using the dimensional analysis to avoid the complicacy of dimensional homogeneity. (Source: Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine)
Source: Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine - August 10, 2016 Category: Bioinformatics Authors: Noreen Sher Akbar, Naeem Kazmi, Dharmendra Tripathi, Nazir Ahmed Mir Source Type: research

Optimal initial state for fast parameter estimation in nonlinear dynamical systems
• A criterion to design optimal initial state in a bounded-error context is given.• A study to optimize the sampling period is given.• Some comparative results highlighted the proposed approach are developped.• This methodology is applied to a model of glucose-oxydase pharmacokinetics. (Source: Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine)
Source: Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine - August 8, 2016 Category: Bioinformatics Authors: Qiaochu Li, Carine Jauberthie, Lilianne Denis-Vidal, Zohra Cherfi Source Type: research

Association between completed suicide and environmental temperature in a mexican population, using the knowledge discovery in database approach
We examined the association between environmental temperature and suicide behavior in Mexican population.• We used the information of 1357 patients that consummated suicide.• We used the Knowledge Discovery in Database with an Apriori algorithm and the data analyses were performed in WEKA so ftware.• We observed an association between environmental temperature and suicide (Source: Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine)
Source: Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine - August 4, 2016 Category: Bioinformatics Authors: Ver ónica Fernández-Arteaga, Carlos Alfonso Tovilla-Zárate, Ana Fresán, Thelma Beatriz González-Castro, Isela E Juárez-Rojop, Lilia López-Narváez, Yazmín Hernández-Díaz Source Type: research

Real-time simulation of ultrasound refraction phenomena using ray-trace based wavefront construction method
• a method for Real-time ultrasound simulation with refraction• the first ultrasound simulator that takes into account refraction, based on CT data,• our method is an adaptation of one of the methods known in Geophysics,• the method for obtaining a model of patient body (velocity and reflect ion) from CT (Source: Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine)
Source: Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine - August 3, 2016 Category: Bioinformatics Authors: Kamil Szostek, Adam Pi órkowski Source Type: research

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Source: Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine - July 30, 2016 Category: Bioinformatics Source Type: research

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Source: Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine - July 30, 2016 Category: Bioinformatics Source Type: research

Mixed convective peristaltic flow of carbon nanotubes submerged in water using different thermal conductivity models
• Peristaltic transport of CNTs-water nanofluid through an asymmetric channel is examined.• Velocity slip, temperature jump, viscous dissipation, heat generation/absorption and mixed convection effects are taken into account.• Mathematical modelling is carried out using the long wavelength and low Reynolds number approximations.• Series solutions for the axial velocity, pressure gradient, temperature and heat transfer rate at the wall as obtained and studied graphically.• Comparison between thermal conductivity models is also presented for the future reference. (Source: Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine)
Source: Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine - July 28, 2016 Category: Bioinformatics Authors: T. Hayat, Bilal Ahmed, F.M. Abbasi, B. Ahmad Source Type: research

Secure anonymity-preserving password-based user authentication and session key agreement scheme for telecare medicine information systems
• A new RSA-based user authentication scheme for TMIS is proposed, which overcomes the security pitfalls of Amin-Biswas's scheme and also preserves user anonymity property.• The proposed scheme provides better security than other existing schemes through the rigorous security analysis and verifi cation tool. Furthermore, we present the formal security verification of our scheme using the widely-accepted Automated Validation of Internet Security Protocols and Applications (AVISPA) tool.• High security and extra functionality features allow our proposed scheme to be applicable for telecare medicine information systems ...
Source: Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine - July 28, 2016 Category: Bioinformatics Authors: Anil Kumar Sutrala, Ashok Kumar Das, Vanga Odelu, Mohammad Wazid, Saru Kumari Source Type: research

A fully automatic nerve segmentation and morphometric parameter quantification system for early diagnosis of diabetic neuropathy in corneal images
• A fully automatic, efficient real-time corneal sub-basal nerve segmentation and morphological parameter quantification system is developed.• This system underpins the expertise of ophthalmologists.• A number of useful clinical features that can be used to save a useful amount of clinician ti me in the process.• A new algorithm has been proposed to calculate the average nerve thickness.• An efficient technique is proposed to connect the discontinuous nerves• It is able to trace corneal sub-basal nerves for the early detection and follow up of (DPN) from CCM images. (Source: Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine)
Source: Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine - July 26, 2016 Category: Bioinformatics Authors: Shumoos Al-Fahdawi, Rami Qahwaji, Alaa S. Al-Waisy, Stanley Ipson, Rayaz A. Malik, Arun Brahma, Xin Chen Source Type: research

A novel approach to CAD system for the detection of lung nodules in CT images
• Grouping of nodules helped in the reduction of false positive rate and computational time• Shape specific morphological operations were used for the refinement of juxtavascular nodules• Intensity based, geometrical and statistical features assisted in the elimination of false positives (Source: Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine)
Source: Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine - July 22, 2016 Category: Bioinformatics Authors: Muzzamil Javaid, Syed Irtiza Ali Shah, Zia Ur Rehman, Moazzam Javid Source Type: research

Oscillations-free PID control of anesthetic drug delivery in neuromuscular blockade
• The problem of oscillations-free closed-loop drug delivery in neuromuscular blockade is considered for the case of PID control.• By means of bifurcation analysis, it is shown that oscillations can be avoided by properly adjusting the overall gain of the PID controller.• The time-varying gain neither affects the stability of the control system nor causes new nonlinear dynamical phenomena.• Three feasible recursive parameter estimation techniques, two particle filters and Extended Kalman Filter, are compared on synthetic and real data from surgery room exhibiting good performance. (Source: Computer Methods and Pro...
Source: Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine - July 22, 2016 Category: Bioinformatics Authors: Alexander Medvedev, Zhanybai T. Zhusubaliyev, Olov Ros én, Margarida M. Silva Source Type: research

Methods for generating paired competing risks data
Background and Objectives. Clustered competing risks data arise often in genetic studies, multicenter investigations, and matched-pairs studies. In the last two decades, major advances in competing risks theory had been made. Many new statistical methods need to be evaluated via simulation studies. Some mechanisms for simulating clustered competing risks data have been considered in the literature. However, most of them produce data where the strength of the dependence between individuals within a cluster is not clear. (Source: Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine)
Source: Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine - July 22, 2016 Category: Bioinformatics Authors: Ruta Brazauskas, Jennifer Le-Rademacher Source Type: research