Projects
Biomarker based adaptive development in Alzheimer disease. KU Leuven
Today, more than 46 million people worldwide are living with dementia (Wimo et al., 2013). This number will almost double every 20 years, with an estimated 74 million in 2030 and 131 million in 2050. Dementia refers to the decline of neuropsychological function, affecting one or more cognitive domains including memory, judgement, language, behavior, etc., whereby Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is the most common type of dementia (Dubroff et al., ...
Local and systemic immune interactions in malignant gliomas KU Leuven
Glioblastoma (GBM), the most frequent primary intrinsic brain tumor, is without any doubt one of the most devastating diseases known to mankind. GBM are currently being treated with neurosurgical resection followed by radio- and chemotherapy. However, despite this treatment, prognosis for these patients is grim with a median survival of only 15 months and less than 20% 3-year survival rates. Already at diagnosis, GBM cells are infiltrating ...
public key cryptography on hardware platforms: design and analysis of elliptic curve and grid-based crypto-processors KU Leuven
The vast network of connected devices, ranging from tiny Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags to powerful desktop computers, generates massive amounts of information. Public-key cryptography (PKC) plays a crucial role in securing this network. In this thesis we focus on the efficient implementation of PKC to address the security challenges of the future.
Aiming to secure resource-constrained connected devices, we design a ...
PErception, NEuraL prOcessing and treatment of dysPnEa (PENELOPE) KU Leuven
Dyspnea (breathlessness) is the aversive cardinal symptom in many prevalent and debilitating diseases such as COPD and asthma and associated with great individual and socioeconomic burden. The current understanding of dyspnea and its treatment is markedly limited. Therefore, the present research program will systematically examine in healthy individuals and in patients suffering from dyspnea a) different neural markers of dyspnea, b) their ...
Extensions and intensions of semantic categories KU Leuven
As Murphy (2002) said, “concepts are the glue that hold our mental world together” (p. 1). People carve up the world into concepts that capture what things are and what properties they have. So in order to understand a novel object, one could compare it with objects that have similar properties, and group them together. For instance, a never-seen object that has fur, four legs, a tail, and the tendency to bark, can be compared to similar ...
Objectifying Assessment of Human Emotional Processing and Expression of Clinical and Psychotherapy Applications (EMO-App) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
study of the domain wall mobilty in Permalloy and high perpendicular magnetocrystalline anisotrapy nanowires Ghent University
In magnetic nanowires, the magnetic domains are separed by magnetic domain walls with a polarity 'up' of 'down'. We aim at using this poarity to represent the digital bit in next generation magnetic memory and logic devices. Therefore, we study the domain wall mobility in Permalloy and high perpenicular magnetocrystalline anisotropy nanowires
The emergence of a 'modern' labour market? Tracing rural labourers in an early modern commercial farming system: the Waasland polder area (1650-1850) University of Antwerp
Integration of collective knowledge and computer vision for annotation of multimedia objects Ghent University
Having a natural conversation with an artificially intelligent agent such as a computer and not being able to distinguish it from a human is one of the major goals of building artificially intelligent agents. Natural Language Processing (NLP) algorithms that are able to analyze,understand, and generate text play an important role in realizing this goal. These NLP algorithms are already deployed in many practical applications we use in our ...