Advanced underwater vehicle manipulation through real-time motion planning 

    Youakim Isaac, Dina Nagui (Date of defense: 2019-06-21)

    A key challenge in autonomous mobile manipulation is the ability to determine in real-time how to safely execute complex tasks when placed in an unknown world. In response to those arising needs in the underwater ...

    Automated detection of new multiple sclerosis lesions in longitudinal brain magnetic resonance imaging 

    Ganiler, Onur (Date of defense: 2014-10-24)

    This thesis deals with the detection of new multiple sclerosis (MS) lesions in longitudinal brain magnetic resonance (MR) imaging. This disease is characterized by the presence of lesions in the brain, predominantly in the ...

    Automated underwater object classification using optical imagery 

    Shihavuddin, A.S.M. (Date of defense: 2014-03-28)

    This thesis addresses the problem of automated underwater optical image characterization. Remote underwater optical sensing allows the collection and storage of vast amounts of data for which manual classification may take ...

    Automatic change detection in multiple pigmented skin lesions 

    Korotkov, Konstantin (Date of defense: 2014-07-08)

    Malignant melanoma is the rarest and deadliest of skin cancers causing three times more deaths than all other skin-related malignancies combined. Fortunately, in its early stages, it is completely curable, making a total ...

    Clinical decision support for screening, diagnosis and assessment of respiratory diseases: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease as a use case 

    Velickovski, Filip (Date of defense: 2016-10-06)

    In this thesis we propose a framework for designing, developing, a clinical decision support systems (CDSS) offering a suite of services for the early detection and assessment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), ...

    Computer aided detection for breast lesion in ultrasound and mammography 

    Agarwal, Richa (Date of defense: 2019-09-26)

    In the field of breast cancer imaging, traditional Computer Aided Detection (CAD) systems were designed using limited computing resources and used scanned films (poor image quality), resulting in less robust application ...

    Coverage path planning for autonomous underwater vehicles 

    Galceran Yebenes, Enric (Date of defense: 2014-04-25)

    This thesis proposes new methods to find collision-free paths allowing an AUV to cover an area of the ocean floor with its sensors, which is known as coverage path planning. First, we propose a coverage path planning method ...

    Deformable object segmentation in ultra-sound images 

    Massich i Vall, Joan (Date of defense: 2013-12-04)

    This thesis analyses the current strategies to segment breast lesions in Ultra-Sound (US) data and proposes a fully automatic methodology for generating accurate segmentations of breast lesions in US data with low false ...

    Image blending techniques and their application in underwater mosaicing 

    Prados Gutiérrez, Ricard (Date of defense: 2013-05-02)

    The fusion of several images of the same scene into a single and larger composite is known as photo-mosaic. Unfortunately, the seams along image boundaries are often noticeable, due to photometrical and geometrical ...

    Online 3D view planning for autonomous underwater exploration 

    Vidal Garcia, Eduard (Date of defense: 2019-11-28)

    Autonomous underwater vehicles are used nowadays in many applications. One of the applications is mapping of a particular area of the ocean. Quen the robot needs to cover the area of interest and no prior knowledge of ...

    Simultaneous localization and mapping using single cluster probability hypothesis density filters 

    Lee, Chee Sing (Date of defense: 2015-09-01)

    The majority of research in feature-based SLAM builds on the legacy of foundational work using the EKF, a single-object estimation technique. Because feature-based SLAM is an inherently multi-object problem, this has led ...

    Sonar scan matching for simultaneous localization and mapping in confined underwater environments 

    Mallios, Angelos (Date of defense: 2014-05-15)

    This thesis presents the development of a localization and mapping algorithm for an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV). It is based on probabilistic scan matching of raw sonar scans within a pose-based simultaneous ...

    Surface reconstruction methods for seafloor modelling 

    Campos Dausà, Ricard (Date of defense: 2014-06-02)

    Underwater maps are an important source of information for the scientific community, since mapping the seafloor is the starting point for underwater exploration. The advance of range scanning methodologies (both acoustic ...

    Tracing the creation and evaluation of accessible Open Educational Resources through learning analytics 

    Ávila Garzón, Cecilia (Date of defense: 2018-06-12)

    The adoption of Open Educational Resources (OER) has been continuously growing and with it the need to addressing the diversity of students’ learning needs. Because of that, OER should meet with characteristics such as the ...