Wound classification is an essential step of wound diagnosis. An efficient classifier can assist wound specialists in classifying wound types with less financial and time costs and help them decide an optimal treatmen...
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Chest X-ray (CXR) is a low-cost medical imaging technique. It is a common procedure for the identification of many respiratory diseases compared to MRI, CT, and PET scans. This paper presents the use of generative adv...
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Automatic and accurate lung nodule detection from 3D Computed Tomography (CT) scans plays a vital role in efficient lung cancer screening. Despite the state-of-the-art performance obtained by recent anchor-based detec...
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Automatic and accurate lung nodule detection from 3D Computed Tomography (CT) scans plays a vital role in efficient lung cancer screening. Despite the state-of-the-art performance obtained by recent anchor-based detectors using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for this task, they require predetermined anchor parameters such as the size, number, and aspect ratio of anchors, and have limited robustness when dealing with lung nodules with a massive variety of sizes. To overcome these problems, we propose a 3D sphere representation-based center-points matching detection network (SCPM-Net) that is anchor-free and automatically predicts the position, radius, and offset of nodules without manual design of nodule/anchor parameters. The SCPM-Net consists of two novel components: sphere representation and center points matching. First, to match the nodule annotation in clinical practice, we replace the commonly used bounding box with our proposed bounding sphere to represent nodules with the centroid, radius, and local offset in 3D space. A compatible sphere-based intersection over-union loss function is introduced to train the lung nodule detection network stably and efficiently. Second, we empower the network anchor-free by designing a positive center-points selection and matching (CPM) process, which naturally discards pre-determined anchor boxes. An online hard example mining and re-focal loss subsequently enable the CPM process to be more robust, resulting in more accurate point assignment and mitigation of class imbalance. In addition, to better capture spatial information and 3D context for the detection, we propose to fuse multi-level spatial coordinate maps with the feature extractor and combine them with 3D squeeze-and-excitation attention modules. Experimental results on the LUNA16 dataset showed that our proposed SCPM-Net framework achieves superior performance compared with existing anchor-based and anchor-free methods for lung nodule detection with the avera
Many countries are managing COVID-19 epidemic by switching between lighter and heavier restrictions. While an open-close and a close-open cycle have comparable socio-economic costs, the former leads to a much heavier ...
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Assistive devices, including canes or crutches, are used in partial weight-bearing (PWB) to offload weight from limbs weakened by disease or injury, promote recovery, and prevent reinjury. While weight must be offload...
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(数字)9781728119908
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(纸本)9781728119915
Assistive devices, including canes or crutches, are used in partial weight-bearing (PWB) to offload weight from limbs weakened by disease or injury, promote recovery, and prevent reinjury. While weight must be offloaded accurately to target loads prescribed by healthcare providers for maximum benefit, current training methods result in poor adherence. It is, however, currently unknown how best to provide feedback during training so that users can build an accurate internal model for PWB. In this work, we investigate seven feedback schemes using an instrumented cane, which vary the modality, timing, and the level of detail provided. We find that auditory schemes and a retrospective visual scheme outperform current clinical practices for PWB training. These findings provide results that can be applied directly to improve current clinical practices and provide valuable new insight into the design of feedback for training internal models in force-based motor control tasks. Clinically, this work presents a simple modification to clinical PWB training practices that can improve compliance by up to 75%, positively influencing rehabilitation outcomes and reducing the risk of complications.
This work presents a 3D-printed,modular,electrochemical sensor-integrated transwell system for monitoring cellular and molecular events in situ without sample extraction or microfluidics-assisted downstream *** additi...
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This work presents a 3D-printed,modular,electrochemical sensor-integrated transwell system for monitoring cellular and molecular events in situ without sample extraction or microfluidics-assisted downstream *** additive manufacturing techniques such as 3D printing,shadow masking,and molding are used to fabricate this modular system,which is autoclavable,biocompatible,and designed to operate following standard operating protocols(SOPs)of cellular *** to the platform is a flexible porous membrane,which is used as a cell culture substrate similarly to a commercial transwell *** electrochemical sensors fabricated on the membrane allow direct access to cells and their products.A pair of gold electrodes on the top side of the membrane measures impedance over the course of cell attachment and growth,characterized by an exponential decrease(~160%at 10Hz)due to an increase in the double layer capacitance from secreted extracellular matrix(ECM)*** voltammetry(CV)sensor electrodes,fabricated on the bottom side of the membrane,enable sensing of molecular release at the site of cell culture without the need for downstream ***-time detection of ferrocene dimethanol injection across the membrane showed a three order-of-magnitude higher signal at the membrane than in the bulk media after reaching *** modular sensor-integrated transwell system allows unprecedented direct,real-time,and noninvasive access to physical and biochemical information,which cannot be obtained in a conventional transwell system.
We optimized DeepVess, a convolutional neural network, to segment multiphoton microscopy images of brain blood vessels that outperformed the state-of-the-art machine learning methods and a trained human annotator. ...
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The regulation of cellular and molecular processes typically involves complex biochemical networks. Synthetic nucleic acid reaction networks (both enzyme-based and enzyme-free) can be systematically designed to approx...
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This paper describes the design and the performance comparison of four different configurations of power stages of switching DC-DC buck converters with high switching frequency (f = 100 MHz), studied for automotive ap...
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ISBN:
(数字)9781728133201
ISBN:
(纸本)9781728133218
This paper describes the design and the performance comparison of four different configurations of power stages of switching DC-DC buck converters with high switching frequency (f = 100 MHz), studied for automotive applications in the post-regulated domain. Different transistors are used for both power stage and pre-driver chain, and the solutions are compared in terms of efficiency and maximum input voltage. A rough estimation of the area consumption of each of the four configuration is also provided. The circuits have been optimized to have maximum efficiency with V in = 3.6 V, V out = 1.8 V and I load = 1 A, which are typical values in automotive post-regulated applications.
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