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Information Fusion of Magnetic Resonance Images and Mammographic Scans for Improved Diagnostic Management of Breast Cancer
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-27)Medical imaging is critical to non-invasive diagnosis and treatment of a wide spectrum of medical conditions. However, different modalities of medical imaging employ/apply di erent contrast mechanisms and, consequently, ... -
Information Matrices in Estimating Function Approach: Tests for Model Misspecification and Model Selection
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-26)Estimating functions have been widely used for parameter estimation in various statistical problems. Regular estimating functions produce parameter estimators which have desirable properties, such as consistency and ... -
Information propagation and entanglement generation between two Unruh-DeWitt detectors
(University of Waterloo, 2010-07-23)The setup in which two quantum systems, Alice and Bob, communicate using bosonic field quanta can be viewed as a prototype for wireless quantum communication. In this thesis we focus on the most basic case, where Alice ... -
Information Retrieval Evaluation Measures Based on Preference Graphs
(University of Waterloo, 2021-07-30)Offline evaluation for web search has used mostly graded judgments to evaluate the performance of information retrieval systems. While graded judgments suffer several known problems, preference judgments simply judge one ... -
Information Retrieval with Entity Linking
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-17)Despite the advantages of their low-resource settings, traditional sparse retrievers depend on exact matching approaches between high-dimensional bag-of-words (BoW) representations of both the queries and the collection. ... -
An information technology adoption model for the rural socio-cultural context in developing countries
(University of Waterloo, 2010-04-30)This exploratory research focuses on impacts of the rural socio-cultural context on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) adoption for business information needs using the Maldives as the study context, and attempts ... -
Information Theoretic Aspects of Wireless Networks with Coverage Constraint
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-18)A wireless multicast network with a stringent decoding delay constraint and a minimum coverage requirement is characterized when the fading channel state information is available only at the receiver side. In the first ... -
INFORMATION THEORETIC CRITERIA FOR IMAGE QUALITY ASSESSMENT BASED ON NATURAL SCENE STATISTICS
(University of Waterloo, 2010-01-12)Measurement of visual quality is crucial for various image and video processing applications. It is widely applied in image acquisition, media transmission, video compression, image/video restoration, etc. The goal ... -
INFORMATION THEORETIC CRITERIA FOR IMAGE QUALITY ASSESSMENT BASED ON NATURAL SCENE STATISTICS
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Measurement of visual quality is crucial for various image and video processing applications. <br /><br /> The goal of objective image quality assessment is to introduce a computational quality metric that can predict ... -
Information Theoretic Evaluation of Change Prediction Models for Large-Scale Software
(University of Waterloo, 2006)During software development and maintenance, as a software system evolves, changes are made and bugs are fixed in various files. In large-scale systems, file histories are stored in software repositories, such as CVS, ... -
An Information Theoretic Framework for Two-Way Relay Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-25)We propose an information theoretic framework for scheduling the transmissions in a two-way multi-hop network. First we investigate some long standing open problems that were encountered during the course of the research. ... -
An Information Tracking Approach to the Segmentation of Prostates in Ultrasound Imaging
(University of Waterloo, 2010-05-20)Outlining of the prostate boundary in ultrasound images is a very useful procedure performed and subsequently used by clinicians. The contribution of the resulting segmentation is twofold. First of all, the segmentation ... -
An Information-Theoretic Exploration of Multi-Body Fluid-Structure Interactions
(University of Waterloo, 2019-06-19)Fluid-structure interactions are highly complex and difficult to resolve using classical physics tools. Recently, information theory has been proposed as an alternative for exploring these often highly non-linear and complex ... -
Informative Path Planning and Sensor Scheduling for Persistent Monitoring Tasks
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-24)In this thesis we consider two combinatorial optimization problems that relate to the field of persistent monitoring. In the first part, we extend the classic problem of finding the maximum weight Hamiltonian cycle in ... -
Informed Data Selection For Dynamic Multi-Camera Clusters
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-13)Traditional multi-camera systems require a fixed calibration between cameras to provide the solution at the correct scale, which places many limitations on its performance. This thesis investigates the calibration of dynamic ... -
Informing Municipal Planning: Lessons Learned from the Development of a By-Product Waste Exchange in Toronto, Ontario.
(University of Waterloo, 2013-07-19)Municipal Solid Waste Management (MSWM) is becoming an increasing challenge for municipal authorities due to global increases in waste quantities. Other challenges include; changes in waste composition and increasing concern ... -
Informing the practice of ground heat exchanger design through numerical simulations
(University of Waterloo, 2013-02-22)Closed-loop ground source heat pumps (GSHPs) are used to transfer thermal energy between the subsurface and conditioned spaces for heating and cooling applications. A basic GSHP is composed of a ground heat exchanger (GHX), ... -
Infrared Spectroscopic and Theoretical Characterization of a Selection of Biologically Relevant Gaseous Ionic Complexes
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-27)The structures of gaseous sodiated poly(alanines), Ala8−12 Na+ , were studied using infrared multiple photon dissociation (IRMPD) spectroscopy complimentarily to molecular dynamics and quantum chemical methods. Experimental ... -
Infrastructure Asset Management Readiness Assessment of Ontario Municipal Water Utilities
(University of Waterloo, 2020-02-26)The safety and quality of services provided by municipal water utilities depend on sound water and wastewater infrastructure. Nevertheless, according to the 2016 Canadian Infrastructure Report Card, about 12% of this ... -
Infrastructure Design for Electric and Autonomous Vehicles
(University of Waterloo, 2022-04-29)This thesis focuses on infrastructure design for the disruptive transportation technologies of electric vehicles (EVs) and autonomous vehicles (AVs) to enable their adoption at large scale. Particularly, two EV-related ...