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In this extended summary, our aim is analyzing functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data by independent component analysis (ICA) in order to find regions of brain which were activated by neural activity in human brain. We employ the minimum description length (MDL) criterion to reduce the dimension of the data and estimate the number of components, which makes ICA work more efficiently. We also use a simple oscillating index method to select automatically the components of interest. MDL and oscillating index criteria have not already been used in applying ICA for analyzing fMRI data. In order to investigate the advantage of using MDL and oscillating index, we perform some experiments... 

One of the essential usages of adaptive filters is in sparse system identification on which the performance of classic adaptive filters is not acceptable. There are several algorithms that designed especially for sparse systems; we call them sparsity aware algorithms. In this paper we studied the performance of two newly presented adaptive algorithms in which P-norm constraint is considered in defining cost function. The general title of these algorithms is continuous mixed P-norm (CMPN). The performances of these algorithms are considered for the first time in sparse system identification. Also the performance of l0 norm LMS algorithm is analysed and compared with our proposed algorithms.... 

A new robust image adaptive digital watermarking algorithm in wavelet transform domain is proposed in this paper. The proposed method exploits Human Visual System (HVS) characteristics and entropy masking concept to determine image adaptive thresholds for selection of perceptually significant coefficients. The mark is embedded in the coefficients of all subbands including the LL subband. Experimental results show that the proposed method significantly improves watermarking performance over conventional methods, in the terms of invisibility and robustness  

A novel robust image-adaptive digital watermarking algorithm using Multi-Resolution Singular value Decomposition (MR-SVD) is proposed in this paper. The proposed method strengthens the watermark based on the concept of entropy masking, while meeting the mark imperceptibility requirement. Experimental results show that the proposed method improves watermarking performance over watermarking methods in wavelet domain transform, in terms of both invisibility and robustness. © 2005 IEEE  

In this paper, a new algorithm for fault detection/location on transmission line based on linear state estimation is presented. The proposed technique uses phasor measurements from PMU's. Fault location and voltage of fault point are added as the new state variables in a linear state estimator based on PMU data. In addition, by using the ability of bad data identification in the state estimation, a new scheme for fault location and identification of faulted transmission line is proposed. For test and validation of the proposed algorithm, simulation results on a six bus test case are presented. ©2009 IEEE  

T Wave Alternans (TWA) is considered as an indicator of Sudden Cardiac Death (SCD). In this paper for TWA detection, a method based on a nonlinear dynamic model is presented. For estimating the model parameters, we use an Extended Kalman Filter (EKF). We propose EKF6 and dualrate EKF6 approaches. Dualrate EKF is suitable for modeling the states which are not updated in all time instances. Quantitative and qualitative evaluations of the proposed method have been done on TWA challenge database. We compare our method with that proposed by Sieed et al. in TWA challenge 2008. We also compare our method with our previous proposed approach (EKF25-4obs). Results show that the proposed method can... 

Most of the clinically useful information in Electrocardiogram (ECG) signal can be obtained from the intervals, amplitudes and wave shapes (morphologies). The automatic detection of ECG waves is important to cardiac disease diagnosis. In this paper, we propose an efficient method for extraction of characteristic points of ECG. The method is based on a nonlinear dynamic model, previously introduced for generation of synthetic ECG signals. For estimating the parameters of model, we use an Extendend Kalman Filter (EKF). By introducing a simple AR model for each of the dynamic parameters of Gaussian functions in model and considering separate states for ECG waves, the new EKF structure was... 

The automatic detection of Electrocardiogram (ECG) waves is important to cardiac disease diagnosis. A good performance of an automatic ECG analyzing system depends heavily upon the accurate and reliable detection of QRS complex, as well as P and T waves. In this paper, we propose an efficient method for extraction of characteristic points of ECG signal. The method is based on a nonlinear dynamic model, previously introduced for generation of synthetic ECG signals. For estimating the parameters of model, we use an Extendend Kalman Filter (EKF). By introducing a simple AR model for each of the dynamic parameters of Gaussian functions in model and considering separate states for ECG waves, the... 

In this paper, we consider State-Dependent Relay Channel with Private Messages (SD-RCPM) as a generalization of the state-dependent relay channel, where the relay is both a source and a sink of data. We assume that the channel state is known only to the source and investigate two main cases: SD-RCPM with non-causal Channel State Information (CSI), and SD-RCPM with causal CSI. For non-causal case, we propose a coding scheme based on Gel'fand-Pinsker type coding at the source which is informed of CSI, and Decode-and-Forward (DF) scheme at the relay. Using Shannon's strategy and DF scheme, we also propose a coding strategy for the causal case. Based on these coding strategies, we derive new... 

The discrete memoryless state-dependent relay channel (SD-RC) is considered in this study. Two main cases are investigated: SD-RC with non-causal channel state information (CSI) and SD-RC with causal CSI. In each case, the SD-RC with partial CSI at the source and the relay is considered. As special cases it includes three different situations in which perfect CSI is available: (i) only at the source, (ii) only at the relay and (iii) both at the source and the relay. For the non-causal situation, the authors establish lower bound on capacity (achievable rate) of the SD-RC, using Gel'fand-Pinsker coding at the nodes informed of CSI and compress-and-forward (CF) strategy at the relay. Using the... 

In this paper, we introduce a discrete memoryless State-Dependent Relay Channel with Private Messages (SD-RCPM) as a generalization of the state-dependent relay channel. We investigate two main cases: SD-RCPM with non-causal Channel State Information (CSI), and SD-RCPM with causal CSI. In each case, it is assumed that partial CSI is available at the source and relay. For non-causal case, we establish an achievable rate region using Gel'fand-Pinsker type coding scheme at the nodes informed of CSI, and Compress-and-Forward (CF) scheme at the relay. Using Shannon's strategy and CF scheme, an achievable rate region for causal case is obtained. As an example, the Gaussian version of SD-RCPM is... 

In this paper, we consider a discrete memoryless state-dependent relay channel with non-causal Channel State Information (CSI). We investigate three different cases in which perfect channel states can be known non-causally: i) only to the source, ii) only to the relay or iii) both to the source and to the relay node. For these three cases we establish lower bounds on the channel capacity (achievable rates) based on using Gel'fandPinsker coding at the nodes where the CSI is available and using Compress-and-Forward (CF) strategy at the relay. Furthermore, for the general Gaussian relay channel with additive independent and identically distributed (i.i.d) states and noise, we obtain lower... 

Cardiovascular diseases are one of the major causes of mortality in humans. One way to diagnose heart diseases and abnormalities is processing of cardiac signals such as electrocardiogram (ECG) signal. In many ECG analysis, location of peak, onset and offset of ECG waves must be extracted as a preprocessing step. These points are called ECG fiducial points (FPs) and convey clinically useful information. In this paper, we compare some FP extraction methods including three methods proposed recently by our research team. These methods are based on extended Kalman filter (EKF), hidden Markov model (HMM) and switching Kalman filter (SKF). Results are given for ECG signals of QT database. For all... 

The one-pot, three-component condensation of benzil, benzonitrile derivatives and primary amines on the surface of silica gel under solvent-free conditions and microwave irradiation provided tetrasubstituted imidazoles in high yields. © 2003 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved  

4-Aminopyridinium chlorochromate supported on silica gel was found to be an efficient reagent for the oxidation of primary and secondary alcohols to the corresponding carbonyl compounds. © Springer-Verlag 2004  

The authors consider 'partially' and 'fully cooperative' state-dependent relay broadcast channels (RBCs), where partial channel state information (CSI) is available at the nodes causally. First, the authors derive an achievable rate region for general discrete memoryless partially cooperative RBC (PC-RBC) with partial causal CSI, by exploiting superposition coding at the source, decode-and-forward scheme at the relay and Shannon's strategy at the source and the relay. Then, they establish the capacity region of the discrete memoryless physically degraded PC-RBC with partial causal CSI. They also characterise the capacity region of discrete memoryless PC-RBC with feedback and partial causal... 

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology is being deployed at our daily life. Although RFID systems provide useful services to users, they can also threat the privacy and security of the end-users. In order to provide privacy and security for RFID users, different RFID authentication protocols have been proposed. In this study, we investigate the privacy of two recently proposed RFID authentication protocols. It is shown that these protocols have some privacy problems that cannot provide user privacy. Then, in order to enhance the privacy of these protocols, two improvements of analyzed protocols are proposed that provide RFID users privacy