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Machine Learning techniques applied to eye movement analysis for early screening of learning disorders in young children

2021Masters Projects@Neuroscience +Computer Science #eye movement#learning disorders#machine learning Project SummaryThere is a longstanding controversy about the existence of eye movement disorders and their role in dyslexia and school learning disorders. Using...

Veracity assessment framework for discovering social activities in urban big datasets

2022Masters Projects@Computer Science +Political Science+Economics+Sociology #veracity#value#big data#quality#social scientists Project SummaryA particular recent trend for social scientists is to understand the potential of big data in complementing traditional...

Random projections for the reduction of gravitational wave template banks

2022Masters Projects@Physics & Astronomy +Computer Science #gravitational-wave astronomy#data reduction#random projections#optical processing units Project SummaryThe direct observation of gravitational waves by the LIGO and Virgo detectors is one of the...

Tracking auto-immune diseases in electronic health record

2022Masters Projects@Medicine +Mathematics/Statistics+Biology #Rare diseases#Information retrieval#Knowledge graph#NLP#data mining#healthcare databases Project SummaryThe collection of biomedical data requires a multitude of software tools for purposes ranging from...

PARKER — Planetary lidAR seeKing for lifE signatuRe

2021Strategic Projects@Earth Sciences and Geosciences +Mathematics/Statistics+Physics/Astronomy #LiDAR#surface of planets#image processing#geomorphology#critical zone#biomass#signal processing#aliasing Project SummaryThe topography of planets bear the imprint of the...

Large image time series analysis for updating vineyard geographic databases

2021Masters Projects@Computer Science +Earth Sciences/Geosciences #image time series analysis#deep learning#data indexation#optical satellite imagery#agriculture monitoring#crop type mapping#vineyard#VENUS images Project SummaryThe available geographic databases,...

Inferring cultural transmission of reproductive success through machine learning methods

2021Masters Projects@Biology +Computer Science+Mathematics/Statistics+History #Bioinformatics#Population Genomics#High computationnal statstical methods#Population history Project SummaryCultural transmission of reproductive success has been observed in many human...

Smoothing of incomplete air pollution regions of interest from satellite observations

2021Masters Projects@Computer Science +Physics/Astronomy #image analysis#segmentation#air pollution#ozone#satellite imaging Project SummaryEnvironmental questions such as atmospheric pollution and climate change are key issues for our modern society to live in a more...

Influence of blood pressure and aqueous humor dynamics on the response to glaucoma medication: a data-driven computational study

2021Masters Projects@Mathematics and Statistics +Computer Science+Mathematics/Statistics+Engineering+Medicine #data-driven computational study#mathematical modeling#glaucoma#enhanced data set Project SummaryIntraocular pressure (IOP) is the pressure created by the...

Automated segmentation and clustering of spICP-ToF-MS time series

2024 Strategic Projects@Earth Sciences/Geosciences #nanoparticles#spICP-ToF-MS#clustering#segmentation Project Summary The detection and characterization of inorganic nanoparticles (NPs) in natural matrices has relied primarily on single-particle ICP-MS (spICP-MS)....