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The study is filling an important gap of knowledge in eye care in Latin-America and specifically in Colombia describing the epidemiology of eye injuries in a remote and isolated city of the country. The letter presents comments about the challenges faced by the authors as well as call for further information and highlights research questions that remained unanswered.In this work, a method for classifying Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) from typically developing (TD) children is presented using the linear and nonlinear Event-Related Potential (ERP) analysis of the Electro-encephalogram (EEG) signals. The signals were acquired during the presentation of three types of face expression stimuli -happy, fearful and neutral faces. EEGs are first decomposed using the Multivariate Empirical Mode Decomposition (MEMD) method to extract its Intrinsic Mode Functions (IMFs), which provide information about the underlying activities of ERP components. The nonlinear sample entropy (SampEn) features, as well as the standard linear measurements utilizing maximum (Max.), minimum (Min), and standard deviation (Std.), are then extracted from each set of IMFs. Niraparib These features are then evaluated by the statistical analysis tests and used to construct the input vectors for the Discriminant analysis (DA), Support vector machine (SVM), and k-Nearest Neighbors (kNN) classifiers. Experimental results show that the proposed features can differentiate the ASD and TD children using the happy stimulus dataset with high classification performance for all classifiers that reached 100% accuracy. This result suggests a general deficit in recognizing the positive expression in ASD children. Additionally, we found that the SampEn measurements computed from the alpha and theta bands and the linear features extracted from the delta band can be considered biomarkers for disturbances in Emotional Facial Expression (EFE) processing in ASD children.Public speaking is a common type of social evaluative situation and a significant amount of the population feel uneasy with it. It is of utmost importance to detect public speaking stress so that appropriate action can be taken to minimize its impacts on human health. In this study, a multimodal human stress classification scheme in response to real-life public speaking activity is proposed. Electroencephalography (EEG), galvanic skin response (GSR), and photoplethysmography (PPG) signals of forty participants are acquired in rest-state and during public speaking activity to divide data into a stressed and non-stressed group. Frequency domain features from EEG and time-domain features from GSR and PPG signals are extracted. The selected set of features from all modalities are fused to classify the stress into two classes. Classification is performed via a leave-one-out cross-validation scheme by using five different classifiers. The highest accuracy of 96.25% is achieved using a support vector machine classifier with radial basis function. Statistical analysis is performed to examine the significance of EEG, GSR, and PPG signals between the two phases of the experiment. Statistical significance is found in certain EEG frequency bands as well as GSR and PPG data recorded before and after public speaking supporting the fact that brain activity, skin conductance, and blood volumetric flow are credible measures of human stress during public speaking activity.To mitigate the spread of the current coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, it is crucial to have an effective screening of infected patients to be isolated and treated. Chest X-Ray (CXR) radiological imaging coupled with Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications, in particular Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), can speed the COVID-19 diagnostic process. In this paper, we optimize the data augmentation and the CNN hyperparameters for detecting COVID-19 from CXRs in terms of validation accuracy. This optimization increases the accuracy of the popular CNN architectures such as the Visual Geometry Group network (VGG-19) and the Residual Neural Network (ResNet-50), by 11.93% and 4.97%, respectively. We then proposed CovidXrayNet model that is based on EfficientNet-B0 and our optimization results. We evaluated CovidXrayNet on two datasets, including our generated balanced COVIDcxr dataset (960 CXRs) and the benchmark COVIDx dataset (15,496 CXRs). With only 30 epochs of training, CovidXrayNet achieves state-of-the-art accuracy of 95.82% on the COVIDx dataset in the three-class classification task (COVID-19, normal or pneumonia). The CovidXRayNet model, the COVIDcxr dataset, and several optimization experiments are publicly available at https//github.com/MaramMonshi/CovidXrayNet.Paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (PAF) is a cardiac arrhythmia that can eventually lead to heart failure or stroke if left untreated. Early detection of PAF is therefore crucial to prevent any further complications and avoid fatalities. An implantable defibrillator device could be used to both detect and treat the condition though such devices have limited computational capability. With this constraint in mind, this paper presents a novel set of features to accurately predict the presence of PAF. The method is evaluated using ECG signals from the widely used atrial fibrillation prediction database (AFPDB) from PhysioNet. We analysed 106 signals from 53 pairs of ECG recordings. Each pair of signals contains one 5-min ECG segment that ends just before the onset of a PAF event and another 5-min ECG segment at least 45 min distant from the PAF event, to represent a non-PAF event. Seven novel features are extracted through the Poincaré representation of R-R interval signals, and are prioritised through feature ranking schemes. The features are used with four standard classification techniques for PAF prediction and compared to the existing state of the art from the literature. Using only the seven proposed features, classification performance outperforms those of the classical state-of-the-art feature set, registering sensitivity and specificity measurements of over 96%. The results further improve when the features are combined with several of the classical features, with an accuracy increasing to 98% using a linear kernel SVM. The results show that the proposed features provide a useful representation of the PAF condition and achieve good prediction with off-the-shelf classification techniques that would be suitable for ICU deployment.
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