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    Employing active contours and artificial neural networks in representing ultrasonic range data
    (IEEE, 2008-08) Altun, Kerem; Barshan, Billur
    Active snake contours and Kohonen's self-organizing feature maps (SOM) are considered for efficient representation and evaluation of the maps of an environment obtained with different ultrasonic arc map (UAM) processing techniques. The mapping results are compared with a reference map acquired with a very accurate laser system. Both approaches are convenient ways of representing and comparing the map points obtained with different techniques among themselves, as well as with an absolute reference. Snake curve fitting results in more accurate maps than SOM since it is more robust to outliers. The two methods are sufficiently general that they can be applied to discrete point maps acquired with other mapping techniques and other sensing modalities as well. copyright by EURASIP.
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    Prediction of protein subcellular localization based on primary sequence data
    (IEEE, 2004) Özarar, M.; Atalay, V.; Çetin-Atalay, Rengül
    Subcellular localization is crucial for determining the functions of proteins. A system called prediction of protein subcellular localization (P2SL) that predicts the subcellular localization of proteins in eukaryotic organisms based on the amino acid content of primary sequences using amino acid order is designed. The approach for prediction is to find the most frequent motifs for each protein in a given class based on clustering via self organizing maps and then to use these most frequent motifs as features for classification by the help of multi layer perceptrons. This approach allows a classification independent of the length of the sequence. In addition to these, the use of a new encoding scheme is described for the amino acids that conserves biological function based on point of accepted mutations (PAM) substitution matrix. The statistical test results of the system is presented on a four class problem. P2SL achieves slightly higher prediction accuracy than the similar studies.