Pub Date : 2018-09-01DOI: 10.1109/RTSI.2018.8548366
D. Ronsivalle
Immigration and integration of foreign communities is a condition that strongly affects the form and the meaning of public space. In contexts that are new to the phenomenon, there may be an occasion to revise the protocols and models for the development of new spatial relationships, based on the presence of communities that are no longer homogeneous. The theme of urban regeneration due to the presence of migrant communities has been addressed in various ways and from different points of view, often focusing on the creation of urban spaces capable of improving livability, rarely with the creation of integration processes or the construction of new urban identities. However, a resilient point of view, in ecological and social terms, can allow a new perspective on the way in which the multiple presence of communities that are no longer “original” has radically changed the sense of urban space. This contribution reports some experimental experiences on how the city and the community in progress can develop a coordinated system of actions able to act on the theme of reception and integration, working in the perspective of urban resilience and acting on social policies and on the spatial relevance of integration programs. Through cooperative learning, in a process of applied research with experts in the social habit of four Sicilian cities (Ragusa, Catania, Caltanissetta, and Palermo) the tested integration policies will be evaluated not in terms of melting pot, but in terms of identifying identity spaces able to build a sense of community.
{"title":"Cities and Skills for Integration: What Can Urban Planning do? Experiences and Reflections Between Public Spaces and Collective Interest for Urban and Community (Smart) Resilience","authors":"D. Ronsivalle","doi":"10.1109/RTSI.2018.8548366","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RTSI.2018.8548366","url":null,"abstract":"Immigration and integration of foreign communities is a condition that strongly affects the form and the meaning of public space. In contexts that are new to the phenomenon, there may be an occasion to revise the protocols and models for the development of new spatial relationships, based on the presence of communities that are no longer homogeneous. The theme of urban regeneration due to the presence of migrant communities has been addressed in various ways and from different points of view, often focusing on the creation of urban spaces capable of improving livability, rarely with the creation of integration processes or the construction of new urban identities. However, a resilient point of view, in ecological and social terms, can allow a new perspective on the way in which the multiple presence of communities that are no longer “original” has radically changed the sense of urban space. This contribution reports some experimental experiences on how the city and the community in progress can develop a coordinated system of actions able to act on the theme of reception and integration, working in the perspective of urban resilience and acting on social policies and on the spatial relevance of integration programs. Through cooperative learning, in a process of applied research with experts in the social habit of four Sicilian cities (Ragusa, Catania, Caltanissetta, and Palermo) the tested integration policies will be evaluated not in terms of melting pot, but in terms of identifying identity spaces able to build a sense of community.","PeriodicalId":363896,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE 4th International Forum on Research and Technology for Society and Industry (RTSI)","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132644062","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}
Pub Date : 2018-09-01DOI: 10.1109/RTSI.2018.8548507
P. Gallo, Uy Nguyen, G. Barone, P. Hien
The recent revolution of the Internet of Things has given the birth of a series of new technologies and cyber-physical systems to be used in industrial and home scenarios. Cyber-physical systems include physical and software components for providing smart monitoring and control with flexibility and adaptability to the operating context. The IoT paradigm enables the intertwined use of physical and software components through the interconnection of devices that exchange data with each other without direct human interaction in several fields, especially in industrial and home environments. We propose DeCyMo, a decentralized architecture that aims at solving common IoT issues and vulnerabilities leveraging the centralized structure of IoT and the distributed architecture of the blockchain. Our experimental setup uses Docker containers on the IoT gateway and the Multichain blockchain for handling validated transactions without a central trusted authority. Preliminary results demonstrate the flexibility, the extensibility and the security of DeCyMo in industrial and home environments through a reinterpretation of the role of the IoT gateway
{"title":"DeCyMo: Decentralized Cyber-Physical System for Monitoring and Controlling Industries and Homes","authors":"P. Gallo, Uy Nguyen, G. Barone, P. Hien","doi":"10.1109/RTSI.2018.8548507","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RTSI.2018.8548507","url":null,"abstract":"The recent revolution of the Internet of Things has given the birth of a series of new technologies and cyber-physical systems to be used in industrial and home scenarios. Cyber-physical systems include physical and software components for providing smart monitoring and control with flexibility and adaptability to the operating context. The IoT paradigm enables the intertwined use of physical and software components through the interconnection of devices that exchange data with each other without direct human interaction in several fields, especially in industrial and home environments. We propose DeCyMo, a decentralized architecture that aims at solving common IoT issues and vulnerabilities leveraging the centralized structure of IoT and the distributed architecture of the blockchain. Our experimental setup uses Docker containers on the IoT gateway and the Multichain blockchain for handling validated transactions without a central trusted authority. Preliminary results demonstrate the flexibility, the extensibility and the security of DeCyMo in industrial and home environments through a reinterpretation of the role of the IoT gateway","PeriodicalId":363896,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE 4th International Forum on Research and Technology for Society and Industry (RTSI)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131079955","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}
Pub Date : 2018-09-01DOI: 10.1109/RTSI.2018.8548505
Ferdinando Bosco, V. Croce, Giuseppe Raveduto
In the last years the interest around blockchain technologies is increasing. The peculiarity of this technology is to offer some relevant features as decentralization, transparency and reliability by design. Initially the application field was principally the financial one, but over the time many others have been investigated. In this paper we are reporting a real case of study in the financial sector, applied to the renewable energy exchange in a local district. In particular, this study reports the development of a Financial Platform, based on a private implementation of Ethereum blockchain, that enables a series of services for Renewable Energy Sources (RES) investments. The Platform implements a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) trustable energy marketplace, price-based, addressing both the RES Financial investors and the district energy prosumers. The amounts of energy exchanged and their monetary counter values are represented by specific “tokens”, automatically exchanged by participants to track and record trades, ensuring auditability. The financial services offered to the investors range from an investment performance monitoring to more complex models of shared revenues and equity. The marketplace and all the participants within the microgrid are nodes of the blockchain. All the platform features were implemented exploiting Ethereum smart contracts, ensuring trustworthiness and transparency.
{"title":"Blockchain Technology for Financial Services Facilitation in RES Investments","authors":"Ferdinando Bosco, V. Croce, Giuseppe Raveduto","doi":"10.1109/RTSI.2018.8548505","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RTSI.2018.8548505","url":null,"abstract":"In the last years the interest around blockchain technologies is increasing. The peculiarity of this technology is to offer some relevant features as decentralization, transparency and reliability by design. Initially the application field was principally the financial one, but over the time many others have been investigated. In this paper we are reporting a real case of study in the financial sector, applied to the renewable energy exchange in a local district. In particular, this study reports the development of a Financial Platform, based on a private implementation of Ethereum blockchain, that enables a series of services for Renewable Energy Sources (RES) investments. The Platform implements a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) trustable energy marketplace, price-based, addressing both the RES Financial investors and the district energy prosumers. The amounts of energy exchanged and their monetary counter values are represented by specific “tokens”, automatically exchanged by participants to track and record trades, ensuring auditability. The financial services offered to the investors range from an investment performance monitoring to more complex models of shared revenues and equity. The marketplace and all the participants within the microgrid are nodes of the blockchain. All the platform features were implemented exploiting Ethereum smart contracts, ensuring trustworthiness and transparency.","PeriodicalId":363896,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE 4th International Forum on Research and Technology for Society and Industry (RTSI)","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131039818","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}
Pub Date : 2018-09-01DOI: 10.1109/RTSI.2018.8548400
Rolando Brondolin, M. Arnaboldi, Tommaso Sardelli, Sara Notargiacomo, M. Santambrogio
Power awareness and power management techniques emerged as an interesting topic in the last decade in both cloud computing and fog computing scenarios. In this context, several emerging technologies are opening novel research challenges that should put together both power management and performance of the running workloads. In this context, energy proportionality can help those systems to match power and performance needs. In this paper we introduce E2 ASY, which aims at building an energy proportionality toolbox for cloud and embedded fog systems that provides solutions able to observe performance and power and managing them towards the desired goals. Preliminary results obtained on cloud systems shows negligible overhead on the monitored system and good results on power consumption reduction.
{"title":"Energy Efficiency for Autonomic Scalable Systems: Research Objectives and Preliminary Results","authors":"Rolando Brondolin, M. Arnaboldi, Tommaso Sardelli, Sara Notargiacomo, M. Santambrogio","doi":"10.1109/RTSI.2018.8548400","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RTSI.2018.8548400","url":null,"abstract":"Power awareness and power management techniques emerged as an interesting topic in the last decade in both cloud computing and fog computing scenarios. In this context, several emerging technologies are opening novel research challenges that should put together both power management and performance of the running workloads. In this context, energy proportionality can help those systems to match power and performance needs. In this paper we introduce E2 ASY, which aims at building an energy proportionality toolbox for cloud and embedded fog systems that provides solutions able to observe performance and power and managing them towards the desired goals. Preliminary results obtained on cloud systems shows negligible overhead on the monitored system and good results on power consumption reduction.","PeriodicalId":363896,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE 4th International Forum on Research and Technology for Society and Industry (RTSI)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133378921","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}
Pub Date : 2018-09-01DOI: 10.1109/RTSI.2018.8548502
P. Livreri, V. Castiglia, F. Pellitteri, R. Miceli
The battery/ultracapacitors (UCs) integration is able to provide notable advantages in the power management of an electric vehicle (EV), in terms of capability of both high energy storage and readiness to deal with fast load variations. In order to manage the charge (or discharge) of the UCs from (or towards) a DC voltage bus, a proper bi-directional converter is required. In this paper, a bi-directional DC-DC converter in connection with a stack of UCs is described and some power simulation results are provided. The proposed converter is a B2R (buck-boost regulator) type. The load is represented by a 40kW peak power, kept for a time window of 3s, as required by the Worldwide harmonized Light vehicles Test Procedure (WL TP).
{"title":"Design of a Battery/Ultracapacitor Energy Storage System for Electric Vehicle Applications","authors":"P. Livreri, V. Castiglia, F. Pellitteri, R. Miceli","doi":"10.1109/RTSI.2018.8548502","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RTSI.2018.8548502","url":null,"abstract":"The battery/ultracapacitors (UCs) integration is able to provide notable advantages in the power management of an electric vehicle (EV), in terms of capability of both high energy storage and readiness to deal with fast load variations. In order to manage the charge (or discharge) of the UCs from (or towards) a DC voltage bus, a proper bi-directional converter is required. In this paper, a bi-directional DC-DC converter in connection with a stack of UCs is described and some power simulation results are provided. The proposed converter is a B2R (buck-boost regulator) type. The load is represented by a 40kW peak power, kept for a time window of 3s, as required by the Worldwide harmonized Light vehicles Test Procedure (WL TP).","PeriodicalId":363896,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE 4th International Forum on Research and Technology for Society and Industry (RTSI)","volume":"110 S2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133479777","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}
Pub Date : 2018-09-01DOI: 10.1109/RTSI.2018.8548521
P. Romano, A. Imburgia, T. Hammastrom
Due to the wide use of electronic converters and the introduction of new powerful power electronics devices, the input waveforms most often used are becoming much different than the traditional power frequent sinusoidal one. In High Voltage (HV) apparatus particularly, this condition can increase the stress on the insulation systems that may lower the reliability of the whole power grid. This type of input voltage, often showing an increased voltage gradient, causes problems in the Partial Discharge (PD) measurement setup and acquisition systems, also due to the increased harmonic content. In this paper, the main aim is to discuss how to suitably approach the measurement technique of PDs at these conditions.
{"title":"Detection of Partial Discharges at Square Shaped Voltages","authors":"P. Romano, A. Imburgia, T. Hammastrom","doi":"10.1109/RTSI.2018.8548521","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RTSI.2018.8548521","url":null,"abstract":"Due to the wide use of electronic converters and the introduction of new powerful power electronics devices, the input waveforms most often used are becoming much different than the traditional power frequent sinusoidal one. In High Voltage (HV) apparatus particularly, this condition can increase the stress on the insulation systems that may lower the reliability of the whole power grid. This type of input voltage, often showing an increased voltage gradient, causes problems in the Partial Discharge (PD) measurement setup and acquisition systems, also due to the increased harmonic content. In this paper, the main aim is to discuss how to suitably approach the measurement technique of PDs at these conditions.","PeriodicalId":363896,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE 4th International Forum on Research and Technology for Society and Industry (RTSI)","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130602757","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}
Pub Date : 2018-09-01DOI: 10.1109/RTSI.2018.8548399
F. Ganci, V. Cusumano, C. Sunseri, R. Inguanta
The increase of power generation by renewable sources is causing problems in the management of the electricity grid. In order to favor the transition from the current energy production towards renewable energy sources, it is necessary to plan strategy to develop suitable energy storage systems. Certainly, the electrochemical hydrogen production can be considered as one of the most promising storage technologies. In this work, an innovative alkaline electrolyzer is presented from its design based on the use of nanostructured electrodes up to its implementation suggested by the results of tests simulating real operation. The nanostructured electrodes were fabricated by template electrosynthesis that is a simple and inexpensive process. The lab-scale electrochemical reactor was made by a 3D printer. The electrolysis results from the innovative cell operated in 30% w/w KOH aqueous solution were compared with those from a conventional one employing planar electrodes in otherwise identical conditions.
{"title":"Performance Enhancement of Alkaline Water Electrolyzer Using Nanostructured Electrodes Synthetized by Template Electrosynthesis","authors":"F. Ganci, V. Cusumano, C. Sunseri, R. Inguanta","doi":"10.1109/RTSI.2018.8548399","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RTSI.2018.8548399","url":null,"abstract":"The increase of power generation by renewable sources is causing problems in the management of the electricity grid. In order to favor the transition from the current energy production towards renewable energy sources, it is necessary to plan strategy to develop suitable energy storage systems. Certainly, the electrochemical hydrogen production can be considered as one of the most promising storage technologies. In this work, an innovative alkaline electrolyzer is presented from its design based on the use of nanostructured electrodes up to its implementation suggested by the results of tests simulating real operation. The nanostructured electrodes were fabricated by template electrosynthesis that is a simple and inexpensive process. The lab-scale electrochemical reactor was made by a 3D printer. The electrolysis results from the innovative cell operated in 30% w/w KOH aqueous solution were compared with those from a conventional one employing planar electrodes in otherwise identical conditions.","PeriodicalId":363896,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE 4th International Forum on Research and Technology for Society and Industry (RTSI)","volume":"302 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115546024","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}
Pub Date : 2018-09-01DOI: 10.1109/RTSI.2018.8548427
Luca Ranalli, L. D. Stefano, Emanuele Plebani, M. Falchetto, D. Pau, Viviana D'Alto
In designing accurate and high-performance artificial neural networks (ANN) topologies for embedded systems, several weeks of engineering work are required to properly condition the input data, implement architectures optimized both in term of memory and operations using any of the off-the-shelf deep learning frameworks and then test the models in proper-scale data driven experiments. Moreover, code implementing the layers needs to be mapped and validated on the target systems, requiring additional months of hard and hand-made engineering work. To shorten this inefficient and un-productive development procedure, an efficient and automated C library generation workflow has been created. This work presents the phases involved in the automated mapping of a Single Shot Object Detector (SSD) model on an embedded library, where low power consumption is the focus and memory usage needs to be properly handled and minimized when possible. The implementation aspects, dealing with the mapping of high-level functions and dynamic data structures into low-level logical equivalents in ANSI C are presented; in addition, a brief explanation of the validation process as well as a short summary on the link between memory usage and the implementations details of the detector are also provided.
{"title":"Automated Generation of a Single Shot Detector C Library from High Level Deep Learning Frameworks","authors":"Luca Ranalli, L. D. Stefano, Emanuele Plebani, M. Falchetto, D. Pau, Viviana D'Alto","doi":"10.1109/RTSI.2018.8548427","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RTSI.2018.8548427","url":null,"abstract":"In designing accurate and high-performance artificial neural networks (ANN) topologies for embedded systems, several weeks of engineering work are required to properly condition the input data, implement architectures optimized both in term of memory and operations using any of the off-the-shelf deep learning frameworks and then test the models in proper-scale data driven experiments. Moreover, code implementing the layers needs to be mapped and validated on the target systems, requiring additional months of hard and hand-made engineering work. To shorten this inefficient and un-productive development procedure, an efficient and automated C library generation workflow has been created. This work presents the phases involved in the automated mapping of a Single Shot Object Detector (SSD) model on an embedded library, where low power consumption is the focus and memory usage needs to be properly handled and minimized when possible. The implementation aspects, dealing with the mapping of high-level functions and dynamic data structures into low-level logical equivalents in ANSI C are presented; in addition, a brief explanation of the validation process as well as a short summary on the link between memory usage and the implementations details of the detector are also provided.","PeriodicalId":363896,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE 4th International Forum on Research and Technology for Society and Industry (RTSI)","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124818186","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}
Pub Date : 2018-09-01DOI: 10.1109/RTSI.2018.8548356
M. Vecchi, F. Maggio, Antonio Spatola, R. Martorana, Antonino Mistretta, P. Livreri
Power amplifiers based on vacuum tubes or solid state are key items in a number of systems. Solid state technology is growing up for some applications and it may be complementary to the vacuum technology. This paperwork presents SSPA operational principles and performance. The GaN technology available in the market, the technology roadmap, a comparison with the vacuum tubes are introduced.
{"title":"Novel GaN Based Solid State Power Amplifiers, Results, Advances and Comparison with Vacuum Tubes Based Microwave Power Modules","authors":"M. Vecchi, F. Maggio, Antonio Spatola, R. Martorana, Antonino Mistretta, P. Livreri","doi":"10.1109/RTSI.2018.8548356","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RTSI.2018.8548356","url":null,"abstract":"Power amplifiers based on vacuum tubes or solid state are key items in a number of systems. Solid state technology is growing up for some applications and it may be complementary to the vacuum technology. This paperwork presents SSPA operational principles and performance. The GaN technology available in the market, the technology roadmap, a comparison with the vacuum tubes are introduced.","PeriodicalId":363896,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE 4th International Forum on Research and Technology for Society and Industry (RTSI)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129891869","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}
Pub Date : 2018-09-01DOI: 10.1109/RTSI.2018.8548388
E. D’Arnese, Emanuele Del Sozzo, A. Chiti, T. Berger-Wolf, M. Santambrogio
Early and accurate diagnosis of lung cancer is one of the most investigated open challenges in the last decades. The diagnosis for this cancer type is usually lethal if not detected in early stages. For these reasons it is clear the need of creating an automated diagnostic tool that requires less time for the identification and does not require a cross-validation of the results by different radiologist, being in this way cheaper and less error prone. The aim of this work is to implement a completely automated pipeline that starting from the current imaging technologies, such as Computed Tomography (CT) and Positron Emission Tomography (PET), will identify lung cancer to be employed for the staging; moreover, it will be a suitable starting point for a machine learning based classification procedure. In particular, this project proposes both a methodology and the related software tool that taking as input Digital Imaging and COmmunications in Medicine (DICOM®) files of chest PET and CT and by exploiting the characteristics of both of them is capable of automatically identify the lungs and the eventually presence of tumor lesions. A validation of the image processing pipeline has been done by computing the execution time and the reached accuracy. The obtained accuracy varies between 89–97% on the analyzed dataset with a significant reduction of the analysis time.
{"title":"Automating Lung Cancer Identification in PET/CT Imaging","authors":"E. D’Arnese, Emanuele Del Sozzo, A. Chiti, T. Berger-Wolf, M. Santambrogio","doi":"10.1109/RTSI.2018.8548388","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RTSI.2018.8548388","url":null,"abstract":"Early and accurate diagnosis of lung cancer is one of the most investigated open challenges in the last decades. The diagnosis for this cancer type is usually lethal if not detected in early stages. For these reasons it is clear the need of creating an automated diagnostic tool that requires less time for the identification and does not require a cross-validation of the results by different radiologist, being in this way cheaper and less error prone. The aim of this work is to implement a completely automated pipeline that starting from the current imaging technologies, such as Computed Tomography (CT) and Positron Emission Tomography (PET), will identify lung cancer to be employed for the staging; moreover, it will be a suitable starting point for a machine learning based classification procedure. In particular, this project proposes both a methodology and the related software tool that taking as input Digital Imaging and COmmunications in Medicine (DICOM®) files of chest PET and CT and by exploiting the characteristics of both of them is capable of automatically identify the lungs and the eventually presence of tumor lesions. A validation of the image processing pipeline has been done by computing the execution time and the reached accuracy. The obtained accuracy varies between 89–97% on the analyzed dataset with a significant reduction of the analysis time.","PeriodicalId":363896,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE 4th International Forum on Research and Technology for Society and Industry (RTSI)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114142400","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}
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