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Ilka Afonso Reis
Researcher at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Publications - 115
Citations - 1642
Ilka Afonso Reis is an academic researcher from Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 102 publications receiving 1311 citations. Previous affiliations of Ilka Afonso Reis include National Institute for Space Research.
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Parameter selection for region‐growing image segmentation algorithms using spatial autocorrelation
Giovana Mira de Espindola,Gilberto Camara,Ilka Afonso Reis,L. S. Bins,Antônio Miguel Vieira Monteiro +4 more
TL;DR: An objective function is proposed for selecting suitable parameters for region‐growing algorithms to ensure best quality results and considers that a segmentation has two desirable properties: each of the resulting segments should be internally homogeneous and should be distinguishable from its neighbourhood.
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Spatial distribution of human and canine visceral leishmaniasis in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais State, Brasil, 1994-1997
TL;DR: Spatial analysis of the association between all incidents cases of human Visceral Leishmaniasis and seropositive dogs, from 1994 to 1997 in Belo Horizonte, a large Brazilian city, concluded that human and dog rates are correlated.
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[Homicide clusters and drug traffic in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais State, Brazil from 1995 to 1999].
Cláudio Chaves Beato Filho,Renato M. Assunção,Bráulio Figueiredo Alves da Silva,Frederico Couto Marinho,Ilka Afonso Reis,Maria Cristina de Mattos Almeida +5 more
TL;DR: The authors identify clusters of high mortality risk and relate them to areas with drug traffic and associated violence in Belo Horizonte according to the Minas Gerais Military Police records from 1995 to 1999.
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Relative risk of visceral leishmaniasis in Brazil: a spatial analysis in urban area.
Valdelaine Etelvina Miranda de Araújo,Letícia Cavalari Pinheiro,Letícia Cavalari Pinheiro,Maria Cristina de Mattos Almeida,Fernanda Carvalho de Menezes,Maria Helena Franco Morais,Ilka Afonso Reis,Renato M. Assunção,Mariângela Carneiro +8 more
TL;DR: The spatial analysis used in this study is useful for the identification of small-areas according to risk of human VL and presents operational applicability in control and surveillance program in an urban environment with an unequal spatial distribution of the disease.
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Complicações e o tempo de diagnóstico do diabetes mellitus na atenção primária
Daniel Nogueira Cortez,Ilka Afonso Reis,Débora Aparecida Silva Souza,Maísa Mara Lopes Macedo,Heloisa de Carvalho Torres +4 more
TL;DR: The results showed that the onset of diabetes-related complications might be associated with the duration of disease.