Items in this collection are the scholarly output of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty, staff, and students, either alone or as co-authors, and which may or may not have been published in an alternate format. Items may contain more than one file type.

Recent Submissions

  • Gamma oscillations in the basolateral amygdala : biophysical mechanisms and computational consequences 

    Feng, F.; Headley, D.B.; Amir, A.; Kanta, V.; Chen, Z.; Paré, D.; Nair, S.S. (Society for Neuroscience, 2019)
    The basolateral nucleus of the amygdala (BL) is thought to support numerous emotional behaviors through specific microcircuits. These are often thought to be comprised of feedforward networks of principal cells (PNs) and ...
  • Biofluid modeling of the coupled eye-brain system and insights into simulated microgravity conditions 

    Salerni, F.; Repetto, R.; Harris, A.; Pinsky, P.; Prud'homme, C.; Szopos, M.; Guidoboni, G. (Public Library of Science, 2019)
    This work aims at investigating the interactions between the flow of fluids in the eyes and the brain and their potential implications in structural and functional changes in the eyes of astronauts, a condition also known ...
  • GenomeFlow : a comprehensive graphical tool for modeling and analyzing 3D genome structure 

    Trieu, T.; Oluwadare, O.; Wopata, J.; Cheng, J. (Oxford University Press, 2019)
    Motivation: Three-dimensional (3D) genome organization plays important functional roles in cells. User-friendly tools for reconstructing 3D genome models from chromosomal conformation capturing data and analyzing them are ...
  • Autocryopicker : an unsupervised learning approach for fully automated single particle picking in Cryo-EM images 

    Al-Azzawi, A.; Ouadou, A.; Tanner, J. J.; Cheng, J. (BioMed Central Ltd., 2019)
    Background: An important task of macromolecular structure determination by cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is the identification of single particles in micrographs (particle picking). Due to the necessity of human ...
  • A microfluidic based biosensor for rapid detection of Salmonella in food products 

    Liu, J.; Jasim, I.; Shen, Z.; Zhao, L.; Dweik, M.; Zhang, S.; Almasri, M. (Public Library of Science, 2019)
    An impedance based microfluidic biosensor for simultaneous and rapid detection of Salmonella serotypes B and D in ready-to-eat (RTE) Turkey matrix has been presented. Detection of Salmonella at a concentration as low as ...
  • Data for Validation of Kinect V2 in a full-body virtual reality rehabilitation game 

    Ma, Mengxuan; Proffitt, Rachel; Skubic, Marjorie (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
  • Technology for automated analysis of maize pollen used as a marker for mutation: 1. Flow-through systems 

    Tyrer, Harry W. (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 1981-01)
    Maize pollen is used as a monitor for environmental pollutants. Mutant pollen grains (induced by environmental pollutants) are detectable above a background frequency of 5 or less in 10(5). To enumerate a satisfactory ...
  • TigerPlace, a State-Academic-Private Project to Revolutionize Traditional Long Term Care 

    Rantz, Marilyn J.; Porter, Rosemary T., 1944-; Cheshier, Debra; Otto, Donna; Servey, Charles H.; Johnson, Rebecca A. (Rebecca Ann); Aud, Myra A., 1947-; Skubic, Marge; Tyrer, Harry W.; He, Zhihai, 1973-; Demiris, George; Alexander, Gregory Lynn, 1961-; Taylor, Gene (Taylor & Francis, 2008)
    The Aging in Place Project at the University of Missouri (MU) required legislation in 1999 and 2001 to be fully realized. An innovative home health agency was initiated by the Sinclair School of Nursing specifically to ...
  • PCE: Piece-wise Convex Endmember Detection 

    Zare, Alina; Gader, Paul D., 1956- (IEEE, 2010-06)
    A new hyperspectral endmember detection method that represents endmembers as distributions, autonomously partitions the input data set into several convex regions, and simultaneously determines endmember distributions ...
  • Computational model of extracellular glutamate in the nucleus accumbens predicts neuroadaptations by chronic cocaine 

    Pendyam, Sandeep; Mohan, Ashwin, 1978-; Kalivas, Peter W., 1952-; Nair, Satish S., 1960- (Elsevier, 2009-02)
    Chronic cocaine administration causes instability in extracellular glutamate in the nucleus accumbens that is thought to contribute to the vulnerability to relapse. A computational framework was developed to model glutamate ...
  • Coregulation of Ion Channel Conductances Preserves Output in a Computational Model of a Crustacean Cardiac Motor Neuron 

    Ball, John M., 1982-; Franklin, Clarence C.; Tobin, Anne-Elise; Schulz, David; Nair, Satish S., 1960- (Society for Neuroscience, 2010)
    Similar activity patterns at both neuron and network levels can arise from different combinations of membrane and synaptic conductance values. A strategy by which neurons may preserve their electrical output is via cell ...
  • Technology for Successful Aging 

    Tyrer, Harry W.; Alwan, Majd; Demiris, George; He, Zhihai, 1973-; Keller, James M.; Skubic, Marge; Rantz, Marilyn J. (IEEE, 2006-08)
    With our partners at the University of Virginia we are developing a system of sensors, to monitor the activity of seniors in their residences. We measure motion, footfalls, sleep and restlessness, we have stove sensors and ...
  • Adaptive Silhouette Extraction and Human Tracking in Complex and Dynamic Environments 

    Chen, Xi; He, Zhihai, 1973-; Anderson, Derek T., 1979-; Keller, James M.; Skubic, Marge (IEEE, 2006-10)
    Extracting a human silhouette from an image is the enabling step for many high-level vision processing tasks, such as human tracking and activity analysis. Although there are a number of silhouette extraction and human ...
  • TigerPlace: An Innovative Educational and Research Environment 

    Rantz, Marilyn J.; Aud, Myra A., 1947-; Alexander, Gregory Lynn, 1961-; Oliver, Debra; Minner, De; Skubic, Marge; Keller, James M.; He, Zhihai, 1973-; Popescu, Mihail, 1962-; Demiris, George; Miller, Steve (AAAI, 2008)
    A one of a kind project based on the concept of aging in place is in progress at the University of Missouri (MU). This project required legislation in 1999 and 2001 to be fully realized. A specialized home health agency ...
  • Recognizing Falls from Silhouettes 

    Anderson, Derek T., 1979-; Keller, James M.; Skubic, Marge; Chen, Xi; He, Zhihai, 1973- (IEEE, 2006-08)
    A major problem among the elderly involves falling. The recognition of falls from video first requires the segmentation of the individual from the background. To ensure privacy, segmentation should result in a silhouette ...
  • A Real-time System for In-home Activity Monitoring of Elders 

    Zhou, Zhongna; Dai, Wenqing, 1984-; Eggert, Jay; Giger, Jarod T.; Keller, James M.; Rantz, Marilyn J.; He, Zhihai, 1973- (IEEE, 2009-09)
    In this paper, we propose a real-time system for in-home activity monitoring and functional assessment for elder care. We describe the development of the whole system which could be used to assist the independent living ...
  • Adaptive Silhouette Extraction In Dynamic Environments Using Fuzzy Logic 

    Chen, Xi; He, Zhihai, 1973-; Keller, James M.; Anderson, Derek T., 1979-; Skubic, Marge (IEEE, 2006-07)
    Extracting a human silhouette from an image is the enabling step for many high-level vision processing tasks, such as human tracking and activity analysis. In a previous paper, we addressed some of the challenges in ...
  • Automated Estimation of Elder Activity Levels from Anonymized Video Data 

    Harvey, Nicholas M.; Zhou, Zhongna; Keller, James M.; Rantz, Marilyn J.; He, Zhihai, 1973- (IEE, 2009-09)
    Significant declines in quality of life for elders in assisted living communities are typically triggered by health events. Given the necessary information, such events can often be predicted, and thus, be avoided or reduced ...
  • Peak Transform for Efficient Image Representation and Coding 

    He, Zhihai, 1973- (IEEE, 2007-07)
    In this work, we introduce a nonlinear geometric transform, called peak transform (PT), for efficient image representation and coding. The proposed PT is able to convert high-frequency signals into low-frequency ones, ...
  • Energy Minimization of Portable Video Communication Devices Based on Power-Rate-Distortion Optimization 

    He, Zhihai, 1973-; Cheng, Wenye; Chen, Xi (IEEE, 2008-05)
    Portable video communication devices operate on batteries with limited energy supply. However, video compression is computationally intensive and energy-demanding. Therefore, one of the central challenging issues in ...

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