Projects
Improving the quality of care in early pregnancy: the added value of medical imaging, 3D-mapping and translational research KU Leuven
Optimal customized patient management is based on adequate diagnosis, early detection of possible problems and accurate risk stratification. The present research will focus on the role of 3D-ultrasonography in early pregnancy complications (e.g. ectopic pregnancy, non-viable pregnancy, retained products of conception) and early obstetrical risk stratification (e.g. for abnormal placentation, vasa praevia, cesarean scar pregnancy). Our project ...
Land value assessment tool for agriculture to support rural planning in Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
How can we develop a tool to support rural planning processes in Flanders? What is the position of agriculture in the current planning processes? How can the developed tool be applied in the planning processes? Which planning difficulties are not solved by the tool and how should we cope with these difficulties? The objective of this research is to scientifically improve an existing land ...
BASTA: Biochar’s Added value in Sustainable land use with Targeted Applications in processes, growing media & (future proof) open-field cultivation Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
BASTA investigated the economic, ecological and technical feasibility of biochar production and biochar utilization from residual biomass. Biochar was applied in manure and biomass processing, substrate crops and open fields. Multidisciplinary data (chemical, biological, economic and legal) were gathered to enable policy makers and companies to make intelligent combinations between starting materials, production ...
The R&D Value Chain and Product Commercialization in the Pharmaceutical Industry KU Leuven
The conversion of promising ideas into commercialized products is a central feature of technological progress and economic growth. However, turning discoveries into marketable products or technologies is a major challenge. The objective of the proposed research project is to analyze how access to different pools of scientific and technological knowledge through different organizational structures during the drug development process, affect ...
Creating added value by stimulating desired animal behavior via music Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
In recent years, consumers, producers, meat processors and retailers have been paying increasing attention to animal welfare. To achieve higher welfare, the focus is often on adding positive (enriching) experiences for the animals, rather than removing negative experiences. Having music played is one form of auditory enrichment that some pig farmers are already using on a daily basis in their ...
A Fuzzy Cognitive Maps based model for individual travel behavior. Hasselt University
Optimized render quality based on scalable texture coding. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Cleanscrap - a road to optimised valorisation of ferrous based scrap Sirris, the collective centre for the technological industry
Metal, and ferrous metals in particular, are rightly regarded as one of the best recycled and recyclable materials. But there is room for a next step. Today, ferrous metals are collected en masse and reintroduced into the material cycle, but with still too little attention to sound selective recycling and reuse.
Shredders often use compacting or shredding as a first step, as a result of which ferrous metals with valuable alloying ...
Mid-level visual factors to predict human aesthetic preferences for images: A deep-learning approach based on Bayesian neural networks and latent diffusion models KU Leuven
The main goal of this PhD thesis is to develop a deep-learning model to predict human aesthetic preferences for images. The starting point is the existence of a benchmark preference data set, collected in an extensive online study with large samples of images of everyday scenes and paintings and large samples of observers (collected by a PhD student in psychology, who also works on the larger project to which both PhDs belong). In the first ...