Meibomian gland dysfunction is the most common cause of dry eye disease and leads to significantly reduced quality of life and social burdens. Because meibomian gland dysfunction results in impaired function of the tear film lipid layer, studying the expression of tear proteins might increase the understanding of the etiology of the condition. Machine learning is able to detect patterns in ...

Scanning Acoustic Microscopy (SAM) uses high-frequency acoustic waves to generate non-ionizing, label-free images of the surface and internal structures of industrial objects and biological specimens. The resolution of SAM images is limited by several factors such as the frequency of excitation signals, the signal-to-noise ratio, and the pixel size. We propose to use a hypergraphs image inpainting ...

Integrative multi-species prediction (IMP) is an interactive web server that enables molecular biologists to interpret experimental results and to generate hypotheses in the context of a large cross-organism compendium of functional predictions and networks. The system provides a framework for biologists to analyze their candidate gene sets in the context of functional networks, as they expand or ...

Programmability and performance-per-watt are the major challenges of the race to Exascale. In this study we focus on Partitioned Global Address Space (PGAS) languages, using UPC as a particular example. This category of parallel languages provides ease of programming as a strong advantage over the classic Message Passing Interface(MPI). PGAS has also advantages compared to classic shared memory ...

Nudging provides a way to gently influence people to change behavior towards a desired goal, e.g., by moving towards a healthier or more environmentally friendly lifestyle. Personalized and context-aware digital nudging (named smart nudging) can be a powerful tool for efficient nudging by tailoring nudges to the current situation of each individual user. However, designing smart nudges is challenging, ...

A Cochlear Implant(CI) is an implant that replaces the functionality of the inner ear with an electronic prosthesis. The prosthesis stimulates the auditory nerves within the cochlea so that people with auditory disabilities regain hearing. While the medical process of inserting the implant is relatively straightforward, learning how to use the implant may be difficult. This thesis proposes a ...

Background: Only 17% of Norwegian children and adolescents with diabetes achieve international treatment goals measured by glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c). Classic patient–physician consultations seem to be poorly adapted to young children. New strategies that are better attuned to young people to improve support of adolescents’ self-management of diabetes need to be tested and evaluated. Objective: ...

Live video search is emerging as a platform for multimedia production and entertainment service. Such systems rely on a stream of live video and metadata describing the video content. A high quality source for such metadata can be found on the web. Identifying and extracting metadata from web pages can be done by crawling and scraping. However, general crawler politeness rules limit per-site ...

In looking at the XMPP protocol as an alternative to the ordinary way of transferring files within a health network setting, namely e-mail, performance and security are important factors to consider. For security reasons we preferred to use in-band over out-of-band file transfer. The tradeoff is that this method puts a higher strain on the XMPP server and is significantly slower than its counterpart, ...

In recent years, an increasing amount of personal images, video, sound and text data are captured and stored in a digital format. Increased storage capacity at lower cost entice us to attempt to store everything, but without effective information retrieval techniques, the usefulness of the data becomes limited. Some people have taken personal data capture to extremes and have begun to capture ...