2018 IEEE International Multidisciplinary Conference on Engineering Technology (IMCET)最新文献

{"title":"Quantification of Corticospinal Tract Atrophy Using Diffusion Tensor Imaging: A Potential Diagnostic Tool in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis","authors":"M. A. Noureldine, Y. A. Daulei, R. Kikano, N. Riachi, Youssef Fares, R. Ahdab, A. Zaylaa","doi":"10.1109/IMCET.2018.8603039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMCET.2018.8603039","url":null,"abstract":"Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis is a rare neurode-generative disease affecting the motor tract pathways. The role of neuroimaging in diagnosing Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis is still growing, and no definite technique has been adopted yet. Using an advanced neuroimaging technique, namely Diffusion Tensor Imaging, we propose a novel non-invasive, objective and quantitative technique to help in the diagnosis of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Specifically, we collected Fractional Anisotropy and Apparent Diffusion Coefficient measurements at three anatomical sites (Posterior Limb of the Internal Capsule, Anterior Cerebral Peduncle, and Pre-Pyramidal Decussation in the medulla oblongata), where Corticospinal Tracts cross inside the brain and brainstem, in 10 Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis patients and 10 healthy controls. Then, we derived Side-to-Side Ratios of the collected Fractional Anisotropy and Apparent Diffusion Coefficient data at every site, and statistically evaluated these data to check for differences between abnormal patients and controls. Our results showed that for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis patients, the Apparent Diffusion Coefficient inter-side difference was $0.4500times 10^{-10}$, which was more than double the Apparent Diffusion Coefficient inter-side difference in Controls $(0.0212times 10^{-10})$. The Side-to-Side Ratio of Apparent Diffusion Coefficient at the Posterior Limb of the Internal Capsule was significantly different between abnormal patients and Controls. The Receiver Operating Characteristic curve comparing the Side-to-Side Ratio of Apparent Diffusion Coefficient at the Posterior Limb of the Internal Capsule between abnormal and Control groups showed a sensitivity and specificity of 30% and 90%, respectively, with a likelihood ratio of 3.0 for values <1.017. Our study appeared promising and is the first of its kind in terms of evaluating the diagnostic value of the Side-to-Side Ratios of Fractional Anisotropy and Apparent Diffusion Coefficient measurements at different levels of the central motor pathway in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis patients.","PeriodicalId":220641,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Multidisciplinary Conference on Engineering Technology (IMCET)","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126660022","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mitigation of Packet Erasure using New Fountain Code Design","authors":"N. I. Abdulkhaleq, I. Hasan, Nahla Abdul Jalil Salih","doi":"10.1109/IMCET.2018.8603036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMCET.2018.8603036","url":null,"abstract":"Fountain codes witnessed great attention since the earlier attempts of J. W. Byers and his colleagues. These codes performed with high efficiency in the erasure channels where the packet lost problem exist. The construction of the coded symbols is mainly influenced by the design of the degree generation which on the other hand plays a significant role in recovering of the information packets. In this paper, a new fountain code based on Luby transform (LT) code patterns is presented with fixed degree frame and cyclic data selection (FDCD). The simulation results compare our proposed degree generation with other conventional degree distributions. These results show better performance with respect to packet recovery abilities.","PeriodicalId":220641,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Multidisciplinary Conference on Engineering Technology (IMCET)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115081493","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Simulation of the Effect of 5G Cell Phone Radiation on Human Brain","authors":"Basel Awada, Ghena Madi, Ali Mohsen, A. Harb, Ahmad Diab, L. Hamawy, Houssein Hajj-Hassan, M. Hajj-Hassan","doi":"10.1109/IMCET.2018.8603063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMCET.2018.8603063","url":null,"abstract":"5G is the next wireless technology that is expected to be launched in 2020. Electromagnetic radiations emitted by mobile phones resulted in considerably higher brain tissue exposure than other radiation sources in the radiofrequency band, which led to concerns about the possible potential health effects from exposure to Radio Frequency (RF) and Millimeter (mm) wave radiations. This paper investigates the effects of 5G radiations for different frequency candidates on human brain. This has been achieved by using Computer Simulation Technology (CST) software by conducting simulations on Specific Anthropomorphic Mannequin (SAM); a model designed according to different international standards representing the average material properties of the head by calculating the Specific Absorption Rate (SAR, a quantitative measure of interaction mechanisms of radiofrequency radiation with the living systems and expressed in watt per kilogram (W/kg) in order to check whether the resulting exposure is safe or not by comparing it to the safety limit of exposure to high frequency radiations set by different international standards.","PeriodicalId":220641,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Multidisciplinary Conference on Engineering Technology (IMCET)","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122183589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"IMCET 2018 Committee","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/imcet.2018.8603058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/imcet.2018.8603058","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":220641,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Multidisciplinary Conference on Engineering Technology (IMCET)","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116273048","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Biomimetic Cells: A New Frontier in Brain Informatics","authors":"Ziad Doughan, W. Itani, A. Haidar","doi":"10.1109/IMCET.2018.8603044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMCET.2018.8603044","url":null,"abstract":"This paper introduces a new imitation of neurons cells, based on the latest discoveries in neuroscience. After reobserving the latest revelations in the field of biological neurons, the conventional artificial models has proven strong potentials in image processing and pattern classification, but remains far from presenting a modern imitation of natural intelligent organisms. A Biomimetic cell design is thus proposed with a combination of registers to hold the inputs, outputs, and weights as information codes. These cells use binary equivalence gates to compare the inputs to the weights and deliver the required outputs. The abstraction model provided renders the training process highly simplistic, which speeds up the design phase and opens the way towards a new dimension in artificial intelligence.","PeriodicalId":220641,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Multidisciplinary Conference on Engineering Technology (IMCET)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126382212","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Psycholinguistic Approach to Career Selection Using NLP with Deep Neural Network Classifiers","authors":"Antoun I. Harrouk, Aziz Barbar","doi":"10.1109/IMCET.2018.8603068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMCET.2018.8603068","url":null,"abstract":"Career direction is a crucial matter not to be undermined in the development of a more efficient generation of the corporate workforce. In order to obtain accurate career direction, one would think of different ways of identifying attributes that would lead to an accurate classification of personality. In this paper, the goal is extracting personality from the use of language. The paper covers all aspects of this process in terms of Text Normalization Techniques, Feature Extraction, Feature Selection, Data Pre-Processing, Data Sampling, Training Predictive Models to predict personality types, validating the results on test data, and finally, and finally,compare the findings with other approaches to personality classification. After having a personality type classified, the process is as simple as matching career paths that are most likely suitable for the user. All these processes combined by experimenting with various approaches to each operation would result in personality attribute classifiers yielding an average of 96% accuracy.","PeriodicalId":220641,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Multidisciplinary Conference on Engineering Technology (IMCET)","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127895742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Analysis of Using Drone-Base Stations on the Performance of Heterogeneous Cellular Networks","authors":"Mohamad Habash, Hussein Al Haj Hassan, Roger Achkar","doi":"10.1109/IMCET.2018.8603034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMCET.2018.8603034","url":null,"abstract":"Deploying new base stations is being used as an effective solution to satisfy the tremendous increase in mobile traffic. However, this solution is costly due to temporal and spatial variation of traffic, where mobile network operators need to deploy base stations that may work for limited periods of the day. Due to its high flexibility, low deployment time and possibility to be used in more than one location, the usage of drone base stations is a promising alternative that can reduce the operational cost of the network while providing higher bitrates compared to traditional approach. In this paper, we study the impact of using drone base stations on the performance of a cellular network. We consider a heterogeneous architecture composed of a macro-base station overlaid with base stations serving small cells. For the small cells, we compare two scenarios; the first corresponds to a specific number of fixed small base stations while the second corresponds to variable number of drone base stations serving small cells. Results show that a small number of drone base stations can replace large number of fixed ones. Moreover, using smaller number of drone base stations compared to fixed ones increases the average bit rate of the users and capacity per unit of energy up to 75 and 78 percentage points respectively.","PeriodicalId":220641,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Multidisciplinary Conference on Engineering Technology (IMCET)","volume":"2005 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125817689","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Affinely Adjustable Robust Counterpart Approach for Local Dispatching of the Inverter’s Reactive Power","authors":"I. Mousa, R. Jabr","doi":"10.1109/IMCET.2018.8603051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMCET.2018.8603051","url":null,"abstract":"An electrical distribution system with high penetration levels of photovoltaic (PV) generation is exposed to degradation in power quality due to voltage fluctuation beyond the acceptable levels; this is caused by the rapidly varying generation levels from the PV generators possibly causing reverse power flows. Currently installed regulation equipment like under load-tap changing transformers, step voltage regulators, and switched capacitors are slow; they cannot provide an adequate response to the fast varying generation levels. A proposed solution is the introduction of fast-reacting PV inverters that can consume or supply reactive power to account for the voltage sags and swells on the distribution network, and that also provide the network operators with the opportunity to optimize thermal losses. This paper presents an affinely adjustable robust counterpart (AARC) approach for the optimal local dispatch of reactive power from the PV inverters; it accounts for uncertainty in the photovoltaic generation levels and aims to minimize the maximum absolute voltage magnitude deviation from the nominal voltage level. Numerical results confirmed the effectiveness of the proposed approach in reducing both the maximum absolute voltage magnitude deviation and the system power loss.","PeriodicalId":220641,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Multidisciplinary Conference on Engineering Technology (IMCET)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128272227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Position optimization for Probe Calibration Enhancement Inside the TEM Cell","authors":"Ali Al Takach, F. Ndagijimana, J. Jomaah, M. Al‐Husseini","doi":"10.1109/IMCET.2018.8603026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMCET.2018.8603026","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, a magnetic field distribution study is done inside two TEM cells with different configurations to find the optimal position for the probe used during the calibration procedure with the aim of minimizing the error resulting from inaccurate readings.","PeriodicalId":220641,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Multidisciplinary Conference on Engineering Technology (IMCET)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131572160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Balancing a Two-Wheeled Mobile Robot using Adaptive Control","authors":"Hussein Al-Jlailaty, H. Jomaa, Naseem A. Daher, Daniel C. Asmar","doi":"10.1109/IMCET.2018.8603035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMCET.2018.8603035","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, an adaptive controller is developed for the famous inverted pendulum problem presented as the two wheeled mobile robot (TWMR). The inverted pendulum by nature is an unstable system, and may be subjected to severe changes either in the environment, or in the character of disturbances. The objective of the controller is to keep the TWMR in upright position, and prevent it from tipping over when subjected to either unexpected impulses, or to shifted weights along its chassis. We choose the Indirect Self-Tuning Regulator (ISTR) in order to observe the parameters of our system, which are updated via Recursive Least-Squares method that is inherent in the formulation of the ISTR. Experimental results validate the effectiveness of the proposed method.","PeriodicalId":220641,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Multidisciplinary Conference on Engineering Technology (IMCET)","volume":"81 10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128135679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}