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The neuron behavioral models are inspired by the principle of the firing of neurons, and weighted accumulation of charge for a given set of input stimuli. Biological neurons show dynamic behavior through its feedback and feedforward time-dependent responses. The principle of the firing of neurons inspires threshold logic design by applying threshold functions on the weight summation of inputs. In this article, we present a recursive threshold logic unit that uses the output feedback from standard threshold logic gates to emulate Boolean expressions in a time-sequenced manner. The Boolean expression is implemented with an analog resistive divider in memristive crossbars and a hard-threshold function designed with CMOS comparator for realizing the sums (OR) and products (AND) operators. The method benefits from reliable programming of the memristors in 1T1R crossbar configuration to suppress sneak path currents and thus enable larger crossbar sizes, which in turn allow a higher number of Boolean inputs. The reference threshold voltage for the decision comparators is tuned to implement AND and OR logic. The threshold value range is limited by the number of inputs to the crossbar. Simultaneously, the resistance of the memristors is kept constant at RON. The circuit's tolerance to the memristor variability and aging are analyzed, showing sufficient resilience. Also, the proposed recursive logic uses fewer cross-points, and has lower power dissipation than other memristive logic and CMOS implementation.The tracking of eye gesture movements using wearable technologies can undoubtedly improve quality of life for people with mobility and physical impairments by using spintronic sensors based on the tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) effect in a human-machine interface. Our design involves integrating three TMR sensors on an eyeglass frame for detecting relative movement between the sensor and tiny magnets embedded in an in-house fabricated contact lens. Using TMR sensors with the sensitivity of 11 mV/V/Oe and ten less then 1 mm3 embedded magnets within a lens, an eye gesture system was implemented with a sampling frequency of up to 28 Hz. Three discrete eye movements were successfully classified when a participant looked up, right or left using a threshold-based classifier. Moreover, our proof-of-concept real-time interaction system was tested on 13 participants, who played a simplified Tetris game using their eye movements. Our results show that all participants were successful in completing the game with an average accuracy of 90.8%.Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths. Low-dose computed tomography (CT) screening has been shown to significantly reduce lung cancer mortality but suffers from a high false positive rate that leads to unnecessary diagnostic procedures. The development of deep learning techniques has the potential to help improve lung cancer screening technology. Here we present the algorithm, DeepScreener, which can predict a patient's cancer status from a volumetric lung CT scan. DeepScreener is based on our model of Spatial Pyramid Pooling, which ranked 16th of 1972 teams (top 1%) in the Data Science Bowl 2017 (DSB2017) competition, evaluated with the challenge datasets. Here we test the algorithm with an independent set of 1449 low-dose CT scans of the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) cohort, and we find that DeepScreener has consistent performance of high accuracy. Furthermore, by combining Spatial Pyramid Pooling and 3D Convolution, it achieves an AUC of 0.892, surpassing the previous state-of-the-art algorithms using only 3D convolution. The advancement of deep learning algorithms can potentially help improve lung cancer detection with low-dose CT scans.Numerous studies have shown that microRNAs are associated with the occurrence and development of human diseases. Thus, studying disease-associated miRNAs is significantly valuable to the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases. In this paper, we proposed a novel method based on matrix completion and non-negative matrix factorization (MCNMF) for predicting disease-associated miRNAs. Due to the information inadequacy on miRNA similarities and disease similarities, we calculated the latter via two models, and introduced the Gaussian interaction profile kernel similarity. In addition, the matrix completion (MC) was employed to further replenish the miRNA and disease similarities to improve the prediction performance. And to reduce the sparsity of miRNA-disease association matrix, the method of weighted K nearest neighbor (WKNKN) was used, which is a pre-processing step. Ridaforolimus We also utilized non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) using dual L2,1-norm, graph Laplacian regularization, and Tikhonov regularization to effectively avoid the overfitting during the prediction. Finally, several experiments and a case study were implemented to evaluate the effectiveness and performance of the proposed MCNMF model. The results indicated that our method could reliably and effectively predict disease-associated miRNAs.Identifying essential genes in comparison states (EGS) is vital to understanding cell differentiation, performing drug discovery, and identifying disease causes. Here, we present a machine learning method termed Prediction of Essential Genes in Comparison States (PreEGS). To capture the alteration of the network in comparison states, PreEGS extracts topological and gene expression features of each gene in a five-dimensional vector. PreEGS also recruits a positive sample expansion method to address the problem of unbalanced positive and negative samples, which is often encountered in practical applications. Different classifiers are applied to the simulated datasets, and the PreEGS based on the random forests model (PreEGSRF) was chosen for optimal performance. PreEGSRF was then compared with six other methods, including three machine learning methods, to predict EGS in a specific state. On real datasets with four gene regulatory networks, PreEGSRF predicted five essential genes related to leukemia and five enriched KEGG pathways. Four of the predicted essential genes and all predicted pathways were consistent with previous studies and highly correlated with leukemia. With high prediction accuracy and generalization ability, PreEGSRF is broadly applicable for the discovery of disease-causing genes, driver genes for cell fate decisions, and complex biomarkers of biological systems.
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