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    Advanced illumination and view-selection techniques for volume rendering and its application to medical imaging 

    Ruiz Altisent, Marc (Date of defense: 2012-05-04)

    Volume visualization is a method of extracting information from volumetric data using interactive graphics. Volume visualization aims to assist visual interpretation of data by creating three-dimensional models that reproduce ...

    Assisted visual servoing by means of structured light 

    Pagès Marco, Jordi (Date of defense: 2005-11-25)

    Aquesta tesi tracta sobre la combinació del control visual i la llum estructurada. El control visual clàssic assumeix que elements visuals poden ser fàcilment extrets de les imatges. Això fa que objectes d'aspecte uniforme ...

    Automatic diagnosis of voltage disturbances in power distribution networks 

    Barrera Núñez, Víctor Augusto (Date of defense: 2012-04-10)

    This thesis proposes a framework for identifying the root-cause of a voltage disturbance, as well as, its source location (upstream/downstream) from the monitoring place. The framework works with three-phase voltage and ...

    Co-creación adaptativa de material educativo para estudiantes con altas capacidades 

    Uribe-Rios, Mery Yolima (Date of defense: 2020-12-03)

    Generally, High Ability or Gifted individuals show spontaneous and natural performance in one or more domains. Thus, a High Ability student is creative, 2/2 curious and motivated to learn new things. Despite this behaviour, ...

    Condition assessment of patients with Type 1 diabetes using compositional data analysis 

    Biagi, Lyvia (Date of defense: 2019-07-09)

    Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (T1DM) is a chronic disease that leads to absolute insulin deficiency. People with T1DM need exogenous insulin to maintain glucose at proper levels. Achieving optimal glycemic control is a major ...

    Constraint-based metabolic models and their application in industrial biotechnology 

    Morales Pérez, Yeimy Liceth (Date of defense: 2016-07-12)

    This thesis is focused on the application of small constraint-based models to analyze and predict the behavior of wild type and modified strains of Pichia pastoris. The presented work deals with the common limitations that ...

    Data-driven approaches for event detection, fault location, resilience assessment, and enhancements in power systems 

    Souto, Laiz (Date of defense: 2021-01-15)

    This thesis presents the study and development of distinct data-driven techniques to support event detection, fault location, and resilience assessment towards enhancements in power systems. It is divided in three main ...

    Data-driven models for type 1 diabetes using generative deep learning 

    Mujahid, Omer (Date of defense: 2023-09-19)

    Modeling biological systems has always been challenging given the complexity of the processes involved in them. Experts have been employing physiological models to approximate the dynamics of biological systems; however, ...

    Decision support framework for space-use optimization and arrangement of public services 

    Rusek, Robert (Date of defense: 2017-05-24)

    The thesis concentrates particularly on how to enhance space-use in the case of public facilities. This issue has been approached by repurposing existing facilities and introducing additional services, thereby creating ...

    Development and validation of strategies to mitigate the risk of hypoglycemic events in type 1 diabetes mellitus 

    Bertachi, Arthur Hirata (Date of defense: 2019-07-08)

    Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) is a chronic condition resulting from the destruction of insulin-producing pancreatic beta-cells due to an autoimmune process that may occur at any age, but tends to develop in childhood and ...

    Discovering frequent and significant episodes. Application to sequences of events recorded in power distribution networks 

    Quiroga Quiroga, Oscar Arnulfo (Date of defense: 2012-12-18)

    This thesis proposes a formalism to analyse and automatically exploit sequences of events, which are related with faults occurred in power distribution networks and are recorded by power quality monitors at substations. ...

    Enfoques metodológicos para mejorar la precisión y fiabilidad de los sistemas de monitorización continua de glucosa en pacientes con diabetes tipo 1 y en pacientes críticos mediante técnicas lineales y no lineales 

    Leal Moncada, Yenny Teresa (Date of defense: 2013-07-30)

    This dissertation focuses on the development and improvement of the minimally invasive continuous glucose monitoring systems (CGMS). This dissertation gives emphasis in solving the problem of the accuracy and reliability ...

    Gestión del conocimiento en la co-creación de material educativo con y para estudiantes con altas capacidades 

    Meneses Ortegón, Juan Pablo (Date of defense: 2023-06-20)

    The development of any process handles data. These data are generated from information that in turn generates knowledge. The ideal is that this knowledge provides the process with added value that allows it to improve, ...

    Image classification for a large number of object categories 

    Bosch Rué, Anna (Date of defense: 2007-09-25)

    L'increment de bases de dades que cada vegada contenen imatges més difícils i amb un nombre més elevat de categories, està forçant el desenvolupament de tècniques de representació d'imatges que siguin discriminatives quan ...

    Improvements in the ray tracing of implicit surfaces based on interval arithmetic 

    Flórez Díaz, Jorge Eliécer (Date of defense: 2008-12-10)

    Las superfícies implícitas son útiles en muchas áreasde los gráficos por ordenador. Una de sus principales ventajas es que pueden ser fácilmente usadas como primitivas para modelado. Aun asi, no son muy usadas porque su ...

    Local model predictive control for navigation of a wheeled mobile robot using monocular information 

    Pacheco Valls, Lluís (Date of defense: 2009-11-30)

    Aquesta tesi està inspirada en els agents naturals per tal de planificar de manera dinàmica la navegació d'un robot diferencial de dues rodes. Les dades dels sistemes de percepció són integrades dins una graella d'ocupació ...

    Methods for remote stock monitoring using depth sensors 

    Vila Clarà, Oriol (Date of defense: 2024-01-29)

    RGB-D cameras return images like an ordinary camera but in addition to color, depthmaps where each pixel value represents the distance to a point of the scene are also obtained. Although originally conceived for gaming and ...

    Multi-layer survivability: routing schemes for GMPLS-based networks 

    Urra i Fàbregas, Anna (Date of defense: 2006-12-18)

    En les xarxes IP/MPLS sobre WDM on es transporta gran quantitat d'informacio, la capacitat de garantir que el trafic arriba al node de desti ha esdevingut un problema important, ja que la fallada d'un element de la xarxa ...

    Multivariate statistical modelling and monitoring of smart buildings 

    Burgas Nadal, Llorenç (Date of defense: 2019-11-22)

    In order to reduce mismatches between real and expected consumption, this thesis explores the use of PCA (Principal Component Analysis) as a modelling tool for buildings. PCA is a statistical technique that allows complex ...

    Network performance prediction using graph neural networks: application to network slicing 

    Farreras Casamort, Miquel (Date of defense: 2024-11-04)

    ENG- This thesis addresses key challenges in the optimization of network slicing in Beyond 5G (B5G) networks, focusing on the use of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) for performance prediction and resource allocation. It is ...