The 1st COE Postdoctoral and Doctoral Researchers
Technical Presentation

Date: Thursday, April 22, 2004
Time: 13:40 - 15:40
Place: L1 Lecture room
Language: English (oral presentation), English/Japanese (question)

Program (20 mins each: 15 mins presentation and 5 min discussion)

  1. "Tele-echography using mobile ultrasound probe"
    増田 泰 ( 像情報処理学講座 : PD )
    Yasushi Masuda ( Image Processing Lab. : PD )

    [Abstract]
    While the transmission of echography images over the net (tele-echography) is being deployed in practical medical applications such diagnosis or operation, those service are still limited to hospital-level use since that the highly-integrated and large echography devices are assumed for those model. However, for home health care or emergency medical service, a compact and simple tele-echography framework is required without losing image quality and analysis function. To implement those requirements, our proposed framework transmits the raw signal from a mobile sensory probe; echography images are analyzed and rendered from the signal in a suitable way for individual distributed imaging devices such as pagers, PC monitors or mobile phones.
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  2. "Statistical Signal Processing of Nuclear Medicine Images - Extraction of Spatio-temporal Blood Information -"
    長縄 美香 ( 像情報処理学講座 : PD )
    Mika Naganawa ( Image Processing Lab. : PD )

    [Abstract]
    Positron emission tomography (PET) is a nuclear medicine-based technique that gives tomographic images of the distribution of positron-emitting radiopharmaceutical. A truly quantitative analysis of PET images requires a measurement of concentration histories of radiopharmaceutical in blood vessel and tissue. These concentration histories are called plasma time-activity curve (pTAC) and tissue time-activity curve (tTAC), respectively. The pTAC is measured by serial arterial blood sampling via an inserted catheter into the brachial artery. However, insertion of the catheter is a burdensome operation, and it is also painful. In my talk, I propose a novel method for extracting the pTAC from dynamic PET images using independent component analysis (ICA). My method reduces the serial arterial blood sampling to one-point arterial blood sampling. One-point arterial blood sampling does not require a catheter operation. I will present the estimated results by applying the method to dynamic FDG-PET images.
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  3. "Carrier Interferometry for High Speed Wireless Communications"
    アクマド ウングル ( 情報コミュニケーション講座 : PD )
    Akhmad Unggul Priantoro ( Communications Lab. : PD )

    [Abstract]
    Carrier Interferometry (CI) is a novel technique which found niche in the advanced wireless communications as a powerful tool to increase the system performance at the expense of reasonable hardware complexity. In multicarrier communications such as MC-CDMA (Multicarrier Code Division Multiple Access) and OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing), it doubles the transmission speed by virtue of PO (Pseudo Orthogonal) CI codes (the doubling of transmission speed can also be interpreted as doubled system capacity assuming constant transmission speed). The idea can also be applied to single carrier communications, namely DS (Direct Spread)-CDMA, to exploit further the frequency diversity and to enable new frequency usability of noncontiguous frequency bands. In this report the potential of CI will be discussed along with the open problems worth exploring towards implementation.
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  4. "The System that provides the Internet Connectivity by using Ad-hoc Network"
    島田 秀輝 ( 情報科学センター : PD )
    Hideki Shimada ( Information Technology Center : PD )

    [Abstract]
    In recent years, it is attracted the ad-hoc network that the mobile computers configure by using wireless network devices. Ad-hoc network is constructed autonomously by using of the utilization of the radio wave when the mobile computers gather. However, the application on the ad-hoc network is less common. Thus, I propose the system that provides the internet connectivity to the terminals that configure the ad-hoc network in the neighborhood of the access point of wireless LAN. In this presentation, I introduce the configuration of the ad-hoc network in the neighborhood of the access point. Moreover, I talk about the selection mechanism of the access points.
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  5. "Measuring the effects of paraphrasing on readability"
    中村 美智子 ( 自然言語処理学講座 : PD )
    Michiko Nakamura ( Computational Linguistics Lab. : PD )

    [Abstract]
    Visually presented text is the predominant means of transmitting information through most computer interfaces. In order to enhance information exchange and facilitate internet use, it is necessary to evaluate the readability of written texts empirically, and ultimately incorporate the results into a computational model. The present study focuses on paraphrasing. Paraphrasing is a technique that provides alternative expressions for a given sentence. It primarily aims to provide various users with reading assistance and a comprehension aid of documents. In this talk, we will propose an experiment that is designed to test the readability of paraphrased sentences. The questions addressed are: (1) whether structurally simpler paraphrased sentences are easier to process than their corresponding original sentences, and (2) whether paraphrasing influences the cohesiveness between the sentence and the surrounding context.
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  6. "A Reference Governor Control Approach to Closed-loop Systems with State and/or Control Constraints"
    小木曽 公尚 ( システム制御・管理講座 : PD )
    Kiminao Kogiso ( Systems and Control Lab. : PD )

    [Abstract]
    Constraints are inherent characteristics in almost all practical control systems. They appear most commonly as actuator bounds on control variables, but physical limits on state variables are also ubiquitous. It is known that violations of such constraints drastically degrade system performances and in worst cases lead to instability. A reference management technique is considered for closed-loop systems with state and/or control constraints. The management rule is represented in the form of a piecewise state affine function, obtained from an explicit solution to a quadratic programming problem which explicitly considers not only a constraint fulfillment but also a tracking performance. Furthermore, the effectiveness of the proposed method is shown by simulation. It is more important to also perform the experimental evaluation to demonstrate its effectiveness using a real position servomechanism.
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