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Notably, we were also able to identify periods of pathological nystagmus produced by a patient during an acute attack of Meniere's Disease, despite training the network on nystagmus that was induced by different means.Pneumothorax is potentially a life-threatening disease that requires urgent diagnosis and treatment. The chest X-ray is the diagnostic modality of choice when the pneumothorax is suspected. Computer-aided diagnosis of pneumothorax has got a dramatic boost in the last years due to deep learning advances and the first public pneumothorax diagnosis competition with 15257 chest X-rays manually annotated by a team of 19 radiologists. This paper presents one of the top frameworks that participated in the competition. The framework investigates the benefits of combining the Unet convolutional neural network with various backbones, namely ResNet34, SE-ResNext50, SE-ResNext101, and DenseNet121. The paper presents a step-by-step instruction for the framework application, including data augmentation, and different pre- and post-processing steps. The performance of the framework was of 0.8574 measured in terms of the Dice coefficient. The second contribution of the paper is the comparison of the deep learning framework against three experienced radiologists on the pneumothorax detection and segmentation on challenging X-rays. We also evaluated how diagnostic confidence of radiologists affect the accuracy of the diagnosis and found out that the deep learning framework and radiologists find same X-rays to be easy/difficult to analyze (p-value less then 1e4). Finally, the methodology of all top-performing teams from the competition leaderboard was analyzed to find the consistent methodological patterns of accurate pneumothorax detection and segmentation.A wideband wearable electromagnetic (EM) head imaging system for brain stroke detection is presented. The proposed system aims at overcoming the challenges of size, rigidity, and complex structures of existing systems. The proposed system is built into a light-weight and compact imaging platform, which integrates a 16-element antenna array into a highly flexible custom-made wearable cap made of a cost-effective and robust room-temperature-vulcanizing (RTV) silicone. The system mitigates the mismatch between the skin and antenna array by introducing a flexible high-permittivity matching layer. The utilized compact antenna demonstrates wideband operational frequency over 0.6-2.5 GHz with a low signal distortion, safe values of SAR, and unidirectional radiations. The system is experimentally validated on realistic head phantoms. The polar sensitivity encoding (PSE) image processing algorithm is utilized to generate 2D images of different testing scenarios. The obtained images of a stroke-like target inside the head phantoms demonstrate the merits and feasibility of the system for preclinical trials.In unsupervised learning literature, the study of clustering using microarray gene expression datasets has been extensively conducted with nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF), spectral clustering, kmeans, and gaussian mixture model (GMM) are some of the most used methods. However, there is still a limited number of works that utilize statistical analysis to measure the significances of performance differences between these methods. In this paper, statistical analysis of performance differences between ten NMF algorithms, six spectral clustering algorithms, four GMM algorithms, and a standard kmeans algorithm in clustering eleven publicly available microarray gene expression datasets with the number of clusters ranges from two to ten is presented. The experimental results show that statistically NMF algorithms and kmeans have similar performance and outperform spectral clustering algorithms. As spectral clustering can detect some hidden manifold structures, the underperformances of spectral methods lead us to question whether the datasets have manifold structures. Visual inspection using multidimensional scaling plots indicates that such structures do not exist. Moreover, as MDS plots also indicate clusters in some datasets have elliptical boundaries, GMM is also utilized. The experimental results show that GMM methods outperform the other methods to some degree, and thus imply that the datasets follow gaussian distribution.We recently introduced the concept of a new human-machine interface (the myokinetic control interface) to control hand prostheses. The interface tracks muscle contractions via permanent magnets implanted in the muscles and magnetic field sensors hosted in the prosthetic socket. Previously we showed the feasibility of localizing several magnets in non-realistic workspaces. Here, aided by a 3D CAD model of the forearm, we computed the localization accuracy simulated for three different below-elbow amputation levels, following general guidelines identified in early work. To this aim we first identified the number of magnets that could fit and be tracked in a proximal (T1), middle (T2) and distal (T3) representative amputation, starting from 18, 20 and 23 eligible muscles, respectively. Then we ran a localization algorithm to estimate the poses of the magnets based on the sensor readings. A sensor selection strategy (from an initial grid of 840 sensors) was also implemented to optimize the computational cost of the localization process. Results showed that the localizer was able to accurately track up to 11 (T1), 13 (T2) and 19 (T3) magnetic markers (MMs) with an array of 154, 205 and 260 sensors, respectively. Localization errors lower than 7% the trajectory travelled by the magnets during muscle contraction were always achieved. This work not only answers the question "how many magnets could be implanted in a forearm and successfully tracked with a the myokinetic control approach?", but also provides interesting insights for a wide range of bioengineering applications exploiting magnetic tracking.Reliable control of assistive devices using surface electromyography (sEMG) remains an unsolved task due to the signal's stochastic behavior that prevents robust pattern recognition for real-time control. Non-representative samples lead to inherent class overlaps that generate classification ripples for which the most common alternatives rely on post-processing and sample discard methods that insert additional delays and often do not offer substantial improvements. In this paper, a resilient classification pipeline based on Extreme Learning Machines (ELM) was used to classify 17 different upper-limb movements through sEMG signals from a total of 99 trials derived from three different databases. The method was compared to a baseline ELM and a sample discarding (DISC) method and proved to generate more stable and consistent classifications. The average accuracy boost of ≈ 10% in all databases lead to average weighted accuracy rates higher as 53,4% for amputees and 89,0% for non-amputee volunteers. The results match or outperform related works even without sample discards.Intellectual Developmental Disorder (IDD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder involving impairment of general cognitive abilities. This disorder impacts the conceptual, social, and practical skills adversely. There is a growing interest in exploring the neurological behavior associated with these disorders. Assessment of functional brain connectivity and graph theory measures have emerged as powerful tools to aid these research goals. The current research contributes by comparing brain connectivity patterns of IDD individuals to those typical controls. Considering the intellectual deficits linked to the IDD population, we hypothesized an atypical connectivity pattern in the IDD group. Brain signals were recorded by a dry-electrode Electroencephalography (EEG) system during the rest and music states observed by the subjects. We studied a group of seven IDD subjects and seven healthy controls to understand the connectivity within the human brain during the resting-state vis-à-vis while listening to music. Findings of this research emphasize (1) hyper-connected functional brain networks and increased modularity as potential characteristics of the IDD group, (2) the ability of soothing music to reduce the resting state hyper-connected pattern in the IDD group, and (3) the effect of soothing music in the lower frequency bands of the control group compared to the higher frequency bands of the IDD group.Motor imagery (MI) decoding is an important part of brain-computer interface (BCI) research, which translates the subject's intentions into commands that external devices can execute. The traditional methods for discriminative feature extraction, such as common spatial pattern (CSP) and filter bank common spatial pattern (FBCSP), have only focused on the energy features of the electroencephalography (EEG) and thus ignored the further exploration of temporal information. However, the temporal information of spatially filtered EEG may be critical to the performance improvement of MI decoding. In this paper, we proposed a deep learning approach termed filter-bank spatial filtering and temporal-spatial convolutional neural network (FBSF-TSCNN) for MI decoding, where the FBSF block transforms the raw EEG signals into an appropriate intermediate EEG presentation, and then the TSCNN block decodes the intermediate EEG signals. Moreover, a novel stage-wise training strategy is proposed to mitigate the difficult optimization problem of the TSCNN block in the case of insufficient training samples. Firstly, the feature extraction layers are trained by optimization of the triplet loss. Then, the classification layers are trained by optimization of the cross-entropy loss. Finally, the entire network (TSCNN) is fine-tuned by the back-propagation (BP) algorithm. Olaparib concentration Experimental evaluations on the BCI IV 2a and SMR-BCI datasets reveal that the proposed stage-wise training strategy yields significant performance improvement compared with the conventional end-to-end training strategy, and the proposed approach is comparable with the state-of-the-art method.We present a real-time monocular 3D reconstruction system on a mobile phone, called Mobile3DRecon. Using an embedded monocular camera, our system provides an online mesh generation capability on back end together with real-time 6DoF pose tracking on front end for users to achieve realistic AR effects and interactions on mobile phones. Unlike most existing state-of-the-art systems which produce only point cloud based 3D models online or surface mesh offline, we propose a novel online incremental mesh generation approach to achieve fast online dense surface mesh reconstruction to satisfy the demand of real-time AR applications. For each keyframe of 6DoF tracking, we perform a robust monocular depth estimation, with a multi-view semi-global matching method followed by a depth refinement post-processing. The proposed mesh generation module incrementally fuses each estimated keyframe depth map to an online dense surface mesh, which is useful for achieving realistic AR effects such as occlusions and collisions. We verify our real-time reconstruction results on two mid-range mobile platforms. The experiments with quantitative and qualitative evaluation demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed monocular 3D reconstruction system, which can handle the occlusions and collisions between virtual objects and real scenes to achieve realistic AR effects.
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