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Two-layer ensemble of deep learning models for medical image segmentation. [Article] (2024)
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DANG, T., NGUYEN, T.T., MCCALL, J., ELYAN, E. and MORENO-GARCÍA, C.F. 2024. Two-layer ensemble of deep learning models for medical image segmentation. Cognitive computation [online], In Press. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-024-10257-5

One of the most important areas in medical image analysis is segmentation, in which raw image data is partitioned into structured and meaningful regions to gain further insights. By using Deep Neural Networks (DNN), AI-based automated segmentation al... Read More about Two-layer ensemble of deep learning models for medical image segmentation. [Article].

Robust cardiac segmentation corrected with heuristics. (2023)
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CERVANTES-GUZMÁN, A., MCPHERSON, K., OLVERES, J., MORENO-GARCÍA, C.F., ROBLES, F.T., ELYAN, E. and ESCALANTE-RAMÍREZ, B. 2023. Robust cardiac segmentation corrected with heuristics. PLoS ONE [online], 18(10), article e0293560. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0293560

Cardiovascular diseases related to the right side of the heart, such as Pulmonary Hypertension, are some of the leading causes of death among the Mexican (and worldwide) population. To avoid invasive techniques such as catheterizing the heart, improv... Read More about Robust cardiac segmentation corrected with heuristics..

Evaluation of attention-based LSTM and Bi-LSTM networks for abstract text classification in systematic literature review automation. (2023)
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OFORI-BOATENG, R., ACEVES-MARTINS, M., JAYNE, C., WIRATUNGA, N. and MORENO-GARCIA, C.F. 2023. Evaluation of attention-based LSTM and Bi-LSTM networks for abstract text classification in systematic literature review automation. Porcedia computer science [online], 222: selected papers from the 2023 International Neural Network Society workshop on deep learning innovations and applications (INNS DLIA 2023), co-located with the 2023 International joint conference on neural networks (IJCNN), 18-32 June 2023, Gold Coast, Australia, pages 114-126. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2023.08.149

Systematic Review (SR) presents the highest form of evidence in research for decision and policy-making. Nonetheless, the structured steps involved in carrying out SRs make it demanding for reviewers. Many studies have projected the abstract screenin... Read More about Evaluation of attention-based LSTM and Bi-LSTM networks for abstract text classification in systematic literature review automation..

A novel application of machine learning and zero-shot classification methods for automated abstract screening in systematic reviews. (2023)
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MORENO-GARCIA, C.F., JAYNE, C., ELYAN, E. and ACEVES-MARTINS, M. 2023. A novel application of machine learning and zero-shot classification methods for automated abstract screening in systematic reviews. Decision analytics journal [online], 6, article 100162. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dajour.2023.100162

Zero-shot classification refers to assigning a label to a text (sentence, paragraph, whole paper) without prior training. This is possible by teaching the system how to codify a question and find its answer in the text. In many domains, especially he... Read More about A novel application of machine learning and zero-shot classification methods for automated abstract screening in systematic reviews..

Obesity and its association with mental health among Mexican children and adolescents: systematic review. (2022)
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GODINA-FLORES, N.L., GUTIERREZ-GÓMEZ, Y.Y., GARCÍA-BOTELLO, M., LÓPEZ-CRUZ, L., MORENO-GARCÍA, C.F. and ACEVES-MARTINS, M. 2023. Obesity and its association with mental health among Mexican children and adolescents: systematic review. Nutrition reviews [online], 81(6). pages 658-669. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1093/nutrit/nuac083

Obesity and mental health issues increasingly affect children and adolescents, but whether obesity is a risk factor for mental health issues is unclear. To systematically review the association between obesity and mental health issues (ie, anxiety a... Read More about Obesity and its association with mental health among Mexican children and adolescents: systematic review..

Cultural factors related to childhood and adolescent obesity in Mexico: a systematic review of qualitative studies. (2022)
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ACEVES-MARTINS, M., LÓPEZ-CRUZ, L., GARCÍA-BOTELLO, M., GODINA-FLORES, N.L., GUTIERREZ-GÓMEZ, Y.Y. and MORENO-GARCÍA, C.F. 2022. Cultural factors related to childhood and adolescent obesity in Mexico: a systematic review of qualitative studies. Obesity reviews [online], 23(9), article e13461. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/obr.13461

Culture and culturally specific beliefs or practices may influence perceptions and decisions, potentially contributing to childhood obesity. The objective of this study is to identify the cultural factors (expressed through decisions, behaviors, indi... Read More about Cultural factors related to childhood and adolescent obesity in Mexico: a systematic review of qualitative studies..

Obesity and oral health in Mexican children and adolescents: systematic review and meta-analysis. (2022)
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ACEVES-MARTINS, M., GODINA-FLORES, N.L., GUTIERREZ-GÓMEZ, Y.Y., RICHARDS, D., LÓPEZ-CRUZ, L., GARCÍA-BOTELLO, M. and MORENO-GARCÍA, C.F. 2021. Obesity and oral health in Mexican children and adolescents: systematic review and meta-analysis. Nutrition reviews [online], 80(6), pages 1694-1710. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1093/nutrit/nuab088

Context: A relationship between obesity and poor oral health has been reported. Objective: To investigate the association between overweight/obesity and oral health in Mexican children and adolescents. Data Sources: A literature search was conducted... Read More about Obesity and oral health in Mexican children and adolescents: systematic review and meta-analysis..

Implementation of NAO robot maze navigation based on computer vision and collaborative learning. (2022)
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MAGALLÁN-RAMÍREZ, D., MARTÍNEZ-AGUILAR, J.D., RODRÍGUEZ-TIRADO, A., BALDERAS, D., LÓPEZ-CAUDANA, E.O. AND MORENO-GARCÍA, C.F. 2022. Implementation of NAO robot maze navigation based on computer vision and collaborative learning. Frontiers in robotics and AI [online], 9, article 834021. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2022.834021

Maze navigation using one or more robots has become a recurring challenge in scientific literature and real life practice, with fleets having to find faster and better ways to navigate environments such as a travel hub, airports, or for evacuation of... Read More about Implementation of NAO robot maze navigation based on computer vision and collaborative learning..

Computer vision and machine learning for medical image analysis: recent advances, challenges, and way forward. (2022)
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ELYAN, E., VUTTIPITTAYAMONGKOL, P., JOHNSTON, P., MARTIN, K., MCPHERSON, K., MORENO-GARCIA, C.F., JAYNE, C. and SARKER, M.M.K. 2022. Computer vision and machine learning for medical image analysis: recent advances, challenges, and way forward. Artificial intelligence surgery [online], 2, pages 24-25. Available from: https://doi.org/10.20517/ais.2021.15

The recent development in the areas of deep learning and deep convolutional neural networks has significantly progressed and advanced the field of computer vision (CV) and image analysis and understanding. Complex tasks such as classifying and segmen... Read More about Computer vision and machine learning for medical image analysis: recent advances, challenges, and way forward..

Using artificial intelligence methods for systematic review in health sciences: a systematic review. (2022)
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BLAIZOT, A., VEETTIL, S.K., SAIDOUNG, P., MORENO-GARCIA, C.F., WIRATUNGA, N., ACEVES-MARTINS, M., LAI, N.M. and CHAIYAKUNAPRUK, N. 2022. Using artificial intelligence methods for systematic review in health sciences: a systematic review. Research synthesis methods [online], 13(3), pages 353-362. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/jrsm.1553

The exponential increase in published articles makes a thorough and expedient review of literature increasingly challenging. This review delineated automated tools and platforms that employ artificial intelligence (AI) approaches and evaluated the re... Read More about Using artificial intelligence methods for systematic review in health sciences: a systematic review..

Interventions to prevent obesity in Mexican children and adolescents: systematic review. (2021)
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ACEVES-MARTINS, M., LÓPEZ-CRUZ, L., GARCÍA-BOTELLO, M., GUTIERREZ-GÓMEZ, Y.Y. and MORENO-GARCÍA, C.F. 2022. Interventions to prevent obesity in Mexican children and adolescents: systematic review. Prevention science [online], 23(4), pages 563-586. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11121-021-01316-6

The prevalence of overweight and obesity has been rising among Mexican children and adolescents in the last decades. To systematically review obesity prevention interventions delivered to Mexican children and adolescents. Thirteen databases and one s... Read More about Interventions to prevent obesity in Mexican children and adolescents: systematic review..

Interventions to treat obesity in Mexican children and adolescents: systematic review and meta-analysis. (2021)
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ACEVES-MARTINS, A., LÓPEZ-CRUZ, L., GARCÍA-BOTELLO, M., GUTIERREZ-GÓMEZ, Y.Y. and MORENO-GARCÍA, C.F. 2022. Interventions to treat obesity in Mexican children and adolescents: systematic review and meta-analysis. Nutrition reviews [online], 80(3), pages 544-560. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1093/nutrit/nuab041

Context: Prevalence of overweight and obesity has been rising in the past 3 decades among Mexican children and adolescents. Objective: To systematically review experimental studies evaluating interventions to treat obesity in Mexican children and ado... Read More about Interventions to treat obesity in Mexican children and adolescents: systematic review and meta-analysis..

Object detection, distributed cloud computing and parallelization techniques for autonomous driving systems. (2021)
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MEDINA, E.C.G., ESPITIA, V.M.V., SILVA, D.C., DE LAS CUEVAS, S.F.R., HIRATA, M.P., CHEN, A.Z., GONZÁLEZ, J.A.G., BUSTAMANTE-BELLO, R. and MORENO-GARCÍA, C.F. 2021. Object detection, distributed cloud computing and parallelization techniques for autonomous driving systems. Applied sciences [online], 11(7), article 2925. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/app11072925

Autonomous vehicles are increasingly becoming a necessary trend towards building the smart cities of the future. Numerous proposals have been presented in recent years to tackle particular aspects of the working pipeline towards creating a functional... Read More about Object detection, distributed cloud computing and parallelization techniques for autonomous driving systems..

An IoT based industry 4.0 architecture for integration of design and manufacturing systems. (2020)
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ANBALAGAN, A. and MORENO-GARCIA, C.F. 2021. An IoT based industry 4.0 architecture for integration of design and manufacturing systems. Materials today: proceedings [online], 46(17): proceedings of 3rd International conference on materials, manufacturing and modelling 2021 (ICMMM 2021), 19-21 March 2021, [virtual conference], pages 7135-7142. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2020.11.196

This paper proposes an Internet of Things (IoT) based 5-stage Industry 4.0 architecture to integrate the design and manufacturing systems in a Cyber Physical Environment (CPE). It considers the transfer of design and manufacturing systems data throug... Read More about An IoT based industry 4.0 architecture for integration of design and manufacturing systems..

CDSMOTE: class decomposition and synthetic minority class oversampling technique for imbalanced-data classification. (2020)
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ELYAN, E., MORENO-GARCIA, C.F. and JAYNE, C. 2021. CDSMOTE: class decomposition and synthetic minority class oversampling technique for imbalanced-data classification. Neural computing and applications [online], 33(7), pages 2839-2851. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-020-05130-z

Class-imbalanced datasets are common across several domains such as health, banking, security, and others. The dominance of majority class instances (negative class) often results in biased learning models, and therefore, classifying such datasets re... Read More about CDSMOTE: class decomposition and synthetic minority class oversampling technique for imbalanced-data classification..

Reducing human effort in engineering drawing validation. (2020)
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RICA, E., MORENO-GARCÍA, C.F., ÁLVAREZ, S. and SERRATOS, F. 2020. Reducing human effort in engineering drawing validation. Computers in industry [online], 117, article ID 103198. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compind.2020.103198

Oil & Gas facilities are extremely huge and have complex industrial structures that are documented using thousands of printed sheets. During the last years, it has been a tendency to migrate these paper sheets towards a digital environment, with the... Read More about Reducing human effort in engineering drawing validation..

Generalised median of graph correspondences. (2019)
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MORENO-GARCÍA, C.F. and SERRATOSA, F. 2019. Generalised median of graph correspondences. Pattern recognition letters [online], 125, pages 389-395. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2019.05.015

A graph correspondence is defined as a function that maps the elements of two attributed graphs. Due to the increasing availability of methods to perform graph matching, numerous graph correspondences can be deducted for a pair of attributed graphs.... Read More about Generalised median of graph correspondences..

Correspondence edit distance to obtain a set of weighted means of graph correspondences. (2018)
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MORENO-GARCÍA, C.F., SERRATOSA, F. and XIAOYI, J. 2020. Correspondence edit distance to obtain a set of weighted means of graph correspondences. Pattern recognition letters [online], 134, pages 29-36. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2018.08.027

Given a pair of data structures, such as strings, trees, graphs or sets of points, several correspondences (also referred in literature as labellings, matchings or assignments) can be defined between their local parts. The Hamming distance has been l... Read More about Correspondence edit distance to obtain a set of weighted means of graph correspondences..

New trends on digitisation of complex engineering drawings. (2018)
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MORENO-GARCIA, C.F., ELYAN, E. and JAYNE, C. 2019. New trends on digitisation of complex engineering drawings. Neural computing and applications [online], 31(6): selected papers from the proceedings of the 18th Engineering applications of neural networks conference (EANN 2017), 25-27 August 2017, Athens, Greece, pages 1695-1712. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-018-3583-1

Engineering drawings are commonly used across different industries such as oil and gas, mechanical engineering and others. Digitising these drawings is becoming increasingly important. This is mainly due to the legacy of drawings and documents that m... Read More about New trends on digitisation of complex engineering drawings..

Obtaining the consensus of multiple correspondences between graphs through online learning. (2016)
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MORENO-GARCÍA, C.F. and SERRATOSA, F. 2017. Obtaining the consensus of multiple correspondences between graphs through online learning. Pattern recognition letters [online], 87, pages 79-86. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2016.09.003

In structural pattern recognition, it is usual to compare a pair of objects through the generation of a correspondence between the elements of each of their local parts. To do so, one of the most natural ways to represent these objects is through att... Read More about Obtaining the consensus of multiple correspondences between graphs through online learning..

Unsupervised machine learning application to perform a systematic review and meta-analysis in medical research. (2016)
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MORENO-GARCÍA, C.F., ACEVES-MARTINS, M. and SERRATOSA, F. 2016. Unsupervised machine learning application to perform a systematic review and meta-analysis in medical research. Computación y sistemas [online], 20(1), pages 7-17. Available from: https://doi.org/10.13053/CyS-20-1-2360

When trying to synthesize information from multiple sources and perform a statistical review to compare them, particularly in the medical research field, several statistical tools are available, most common are the systematic review and the meta-anal... Read More about Unsupervised machine learning application to perform a systematic review and meta-analysis in medical research..

Effectiveness of social marketing strategies to reduce youth obesity in European school-based interventions: A systematic review and meta-analysis. (2016)
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ACEVES-MARTINS, M., LLAURDÓ, E., TARRO, L., MORENO-GARCÍA, C.F., TRUJILLO ESCOBAR, T.G., SOLÁ, R. and GIRALT, M. 2016. Effectiveness of social marketing strategies to reduce youth obesity in European school-based interventions: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Nutrition reviews [online], 74(5), pages 337-351. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1093/nutrit/nuw004

Context: The use of social marketing to modify lifestyle choices could be helpful in reducing youth obesity. Some or all of the 8 domains of the National Social Marketing Centre's social marketing benchmark criteria (SMBC) are often used but not alwa... Read More about Effectiveness of social marketing strategies to reduce youth obesity in European school-based interventions: A systematic review and meta-analysis..

Online learning the consensus of multiple correspondences between sets. (2015)
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MORENO-GARCÍA, C.F. and SERRATOSA, F. 2015. Online learning the consensus of multiple correspondences between sets. Knowledge-based systems [online], 90, pages 49-57. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2015.09.034

When several subjects solve the assignment problem of two sets, differences on the correspondences computed by these subjects may occur. These differences appear due to several factors. For example, one of the subjects may give more importance to som... Read More about Online learning the consensus of multiple correspondences between sets..

Correspondence consensus of two sets of correspondences through optimisation functions. (2015)
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MORENO-GARCÍA, C.F. and SERRATOSA, F. 2017. Correspondence consensus of two sets of correspondences through optimisation functions. Pattern analysis and applications [online], 20(1), pages 201-213. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10044-015-0486-y

We present a consensus method which, given the two correspondences between sets of elements generated by separate entities, enounces a final correspondence consensus considering the existence of outliers. Our method is based on an optimisation techni... Read More about Correspondence consensus of two sets of correspondences through optimisation functions..

Fast and efficient palmprint identification of a small sample within a full image. (2014)
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MORENO-GARCIA, C.F. and SERRATOSA, F. 2014. Fast and efficient palmprint identification of a small sample within a full image. Computación y sistemas [online], 18(4), pages 683-691. Available from: https://doi.org/10.13053/CyS-18-4-2059

In some fields like forensic research, experts demand that a found sample of an individual can be matched with its full counterpart contained in a database. The found sample may present several characteristics that make this matching more difficult t... Read More about Fast and efficient palmprint identification of a small sample within a full image..