Biomedical subjects

Meng Joo Er

Publications and source records attributed to Meng Joo Er.

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PubMed2006

Illumination compensation and normalization for robust face recognition using discrete cosine transform in logarithm domain.

This paper presents a novel illumination normalization approach for face recognition under varying lighting conditions. In the proposed approach, a discrete cosine transform (DCT) is employed to compensate for illumination variations in the logarithm domain. Since illumination variations mainly lie in the low-frequency band, an appropriate number of DCT coefficients are truncated to minimize variations under different lighting conditions. Experimental results on the Yale B database and CMU PIE database show that the proposed approach improves the performance significantly for the face images with large illumination variations. Moreover, the advantage of our approach is that it does not require any modeling steps and can be easily implemented in a real-time face recognition system.

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PubMed2005

An intelligent adaptive control scheme for postsurgical blood pressure regulation.

This paper presents an adaptive modeling and control scheme for drug delivery systems based on a generalized fuzzy neural network (G-FNN). The proposed G-FNN is a novel intelligent modeling tool, which can model unknown nonlinearities of complex drug delivery systems and adapt to changes and uncertainties in these systems online. It offers salient features, such as dynamic fuzzy neural topology, fast online learning ability and adaptability. System approximation formulated by the G-FNN is employed in the adaptive controller design for drug infusion in intensive care environment. In particular, this paper investigates automated regulation of mean arterial pressure (MAP) through intravenous infusion of sodium nitroprusside (SNP), which is one attractive application in automation of drug delivery. Simulation studies demonstrate the capability of the proposed approach in estimating the drug's effect and regulating blood pressure at a prescribed level.

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PubMed2005

High-speed face recognition based on discrete cosine transform and RBF neural networks.

In this paper, an efficient method for high-speed face recognition based on the discrete cosine transform (DCT), the Fisher's linear discriminant (FLD) and radial basis function (RBF) neural networks is presented. First, the dimensionality of the original face image is reduced by using the DCT and the large area illumination variations are alleviated by discarding the first few low-frequency DCT coefficients. Next, the truncated DCT coefficient vectors are clustered using the proposed clustering algorithm. This process makes the subsequent FLD more efficient. After implementing the FLD, the most discriminating and invariant facial features are maintained and the training samples are clustered well. As a consequence, further parameter estimation for the RBF neural networks is fulfilled easily which facilitates fast training in the RBF neural networks. Simulation results show that the proposed system achieves excellent performance with high training and recognition speed, high recognition rate as well as very good illumination robustness.

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PubMed2004

Online tuning of fuzzy inference systems using dynamic fuzzy Q-learning.

This paper presents a dynamic fuzzy Q-learning (DFQL) method that is capable of tuning fuzzy inference systems (FIS) online. A novel online self-organizing learning algorithm is developed so that structure and parameters identification are accomplished automatically and simultaneously based only on Q-learning. Self-organizing fuzzy inference is introduced to calculate actions and Q-functions so as to enable us to deal with continuous-valued states and actions. Fuzzy rules provide a natural mean of incorporating the bias components for rapid reinforcement learning. Experimental results and comparative studies with the fuzzy Q-learning (FQL) and continuous-action Q-learning in the wall-following task of mobile robots demonstrate that the proposed DFQL method is superior.

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PubMed2004

Classification of mammographic masses using generalized dynamic fuzzy neural networks.

In this article, computer-aided classification of mammographic masses using generalized dynamic fuzzy neural networks (GDFNN) is presented. The texture parameters, derived from first-order gradient distribution and gray-level co-occurrence matrices, were computed from the regions of interest. A total of 343 images containing 180 benign masses and 163 malignant masses from the Digital Database for Screening Mammography were analyzed. A fast approach of automatically generating fuzzy rules from training samples was implemented to classify tumors. This work is novel in that it alleviates the problem of requiring a designer to examine all the input-output relationships of a training database in order to obtain the most appropriate structure for the classifier in a conventional computer-aided diagnosis. In this approach, not only the connection weights can be adjusted, but also the structure can be self-adaptive during the learning process. By virtue of the automatic generation of the classifier by the GDFNN learning algorithm, the area under the receiver-operating characteristic curve, Az, attains 0.868 +/- 0.020, which corresponds to a true-positive fraction of 95.0% at a false positive fraction of 52.8%. The corresponding accuracy is 70.0%, the positive predictive value is 62.0%, and the negative predictive value is 91.4%.

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