Optimal control of the COVID-19 pandemic: controlled sanitary deconfinement in Portugal

no code implementations • 1 Sep 2020 • Cristiana J. Silva, Carla Cruz, Delfim F. M. Torres, Alberto P. Munuzuri, Alejandro Carballosa, Ivan Area, Juan J. Nieto, Rui Fonseca-Pinto, Rui Passadouro da Fonseca, Estevao Soares dos Santos, Wilson Abreu, Jorge Mira

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced policy makers to decree urgent confinements to stop a rapid and massive contagion.

Physics and Society Optimization and Control Populations and Evolution

Accurate Segmentation of Dermoscopic Images based on Local Binary Pattern Clustering

no code implementations • 17 Feb 2019 • Pedro M. M. Pereira, Rui Fonseca-Pinto, Rui Pedro Paiva, Luis M. N. Tavora, Pedro A. A. Assuncao, Sergio M. M. de Faria

Segmentation is a key stage in dermoscopic image processing, where the accuracy of the border line that defines skin lesions is of utmost importance for subsequent algorithms (e. g., classification) and computer-aided early diagnosis of serious medical conditions.

Clustering Segmentation