The aim of our study is to explore which information is essential to understand virtual signing. For that, we developed an online test. We tested the comprehensibility of four different versions: two degraded versions of a virtual signer (one with non-visible hands and one without movements on head and trunk), a complete version of a virtual signer...
Published in International journal of health policy and management
The Eastern Quebec Telepathology Network (EQTN) has been implemented in the province of Quebec (Canada) to support pathology and surgery practices in hospitals that are lack of pathologists, especially in rural and remote areas. This network includes 22 hospitals and serves a population of 1.7 million inhabitants spread over a vast territory. An ev...
Published in Infant mental health journal
The research that underlies evidence-based practices is often based on relatively homogenous study samples, thus limiting our ability to understand how the study findings apply in new situations as well as our understanding of what might need to be adapted. In a preliminary effort to address those gaps, the requirements for the Tribal Maternal Infa...
Published in Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Acute leukaemia diagnosis is a field requiring automated solutions, tools and methods and the ability to facilitate early detection and even prediction. Many studies have focused on the automatic detection and classification of acute leukaemia and their subtypes to promote enable highly accurate diagnosis. This study aimed to review and analyse lit...
Published in Burns : journal of the International Society for Burn Injuries
Journal clubs allow discussion of the quality and findings of recent publications. However, journal clubs have not historically been multidisciplinary. Burn care is recognized as a true collaborative care model, including regular multidisciplinary rounds. Since 2011 we have offered a multidisciplinary burn journal club at our institution. We presen...
Published in Journal of Neurology
BackgroundDuring neurological evaluation, dysarthria is not rated using quantitative measures, but rather using a qualitative approach.ObjectiveAim of our study was to validate and acquire normative values for the PATA Rate Task (PRT), a quantitative test used to measure the severity of dysarthria.MethodsFor the PRT probands are invited to repeat t...
ECLEF Microblog Cultural Contextualization is an evaluation challenge aiming at providing the research community with datasetsto gather, organize and deliver relevant social data related to events generating large number of microblogs and web documents. Theevaluation challenges runs every year since 2016. We describe in this paper the resources bui...
ABSTRACT Introduction: In acrobatic, rhythmic and expressive gymnastics, the goal is performance and the score is given by judges. In synchronized swimming the panel is composed of seven judges who assess figures and fifteen judges who assess technical and free routines. Accordingly, the aim of this study was to verify the reliability of this strat...
Published in The Visual Computer
Edge bundling has been widely used to reduce visual clutter and reveal high-level edge patterns for large graphs. Due to strong edge attraction, bundled results often show unnecessary curvature and tangling at bundle intersections. Inappropriate bundling may fail to reveal true data patterns and even mislead users. This paper presents a parameteriz...
