Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a devastating disease. In this paper, we propose a novel method for scoring of air trapping in the lungs for detection and evaluation of COPD. The proposed method finds ...
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Steady-State Visual Evoked Potentials (SSVEPs) are one of the most important EEG signals used in Human computer Interface (HCI) systems. These signals are generated by Looking at flickering external light sources stim...
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Steady-State Visual Evoked Potentials (SSVEPs) are one of the most important EEG signals used in Human computer Interface (HCI) systems. These signals are generated by Looking at flickering external light sources stimulating the central part of the retina. By increasing the number of external light sources, detection of the corresponding SSVEPs from the recorded EEG signal becomes more complicated. On the other hand, the ratio of the sensitivity to specificity in high-speed classifiers becomes more significant. This study presents the effect of the twinkling frequencies and the inter-sources distance of two Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) on the ratio of the sensitivity to specificity of the two classes. The features used for signal classification is the amplitude of the main frequencies in the spectrum of each frequency pairs that is simply classified by the Max classifier. The purpose of this is to find the best twinkling frequencies and the best inter-sources distance among a set of predefined values when there are only two light sources in order to nearly equalize the sensitivity and the specificity. For this aim, seven different frequency pairs of LEDs in five distinct inter-sources distances are examined and it is shown that the best frequency pair is 10 and 15 Hz with inter-sources distances of 24 or 44 cm.
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) refers to a group of lung diseases that block airflow and cause a huge degree of human suffering. While there is no cure for COPD and the lung damage that results in this d...
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In this paper, we compare registration results obtained using different diffusion maps extracted from diffusion tensor imaging (DTI). Fractional Anisotropy (FA) and Ellipsoidal Area Ratio (EAR) are two diffusion maps ...
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In this paper, we compare registration results obtained using different diffusion maps extracted from diffusion tensor imaging (DTI). Fractional Anisotropy (FA) and Ellipsoidal Area Ratio (EAR) are two diffusion maps (indices) that may be used for image registration. First, we use FA maps to find deformation matrix and register diffusion weighted images. Then, we use EAR maps and finally we use both of FA and EAR maps to register diffusion weighted images. The difference between FA values before deformation and after registration using the FA alone or EAR alone has a median of 0.57 and using both of them has a median of 0.29. Therefore, the results of registration using both of the FA and EAR indices are superior to those obtained using only one of them alone.
Of the 10 leading causes of death in the US, 6 are related to diet. Unfortunately, methods for real-time assessment and proactive health management of diet do not currently exist. There are only minimally successful t...
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Of the 10 leading causes of death in the US, 6 are related to diet. Unfortunately, methods for real-time assessment and proactive health management of diet do not currently exist. There are only minimally successful tools for historical analysis of diet and food consumption available. In this paper, we present an integrated database system that provides a unique perspective on how dietary assessment can be accomplished. We have designed three interconnected databases: an image database that contains data generated by food images, an experiments database that contains data related to nutritional studies and results from the image analysis, and finally an enhanced version of a nutritional database by including both nutritional and visual descriptions of each food. We believe that these databases provide tools to the healthcare community and can be used for data mining to extract diet patterns of individuals and/or entire social groups.
In this paper, we propose a method to predict the outcome of Bevacizumab therapy on Glioblastoma Multiform (GBM) tumors. The method uses diffusion anisotropy indices (DAI) and spatial information to predict the treatm...
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The improved of texture classification accuracy by using the probability weighted combination method of three texture features extraction consist of thE0020 Gray-Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM), Semivariogram Functi...
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The improved of texture classification accuracy by using the probability weighted combination method of three texture features extraction consist of thE0020 Gray-Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM), Semivariogram Function and Gaussian Markov Random Fields (GMRFs). Five different textures images are used in the experiment. The classifier that use for classify the extracted features in this research is Support Vector Machines (SVMs). The experimental result shows that the average accuracy of the combination method with probability weight up to 95.71%, which is better than the simple combination method about 2%.
Functional connectivity can be evaluated by temporal correlation between spatial neurophysiologic events or correlation between neural activities of brain regions. Unlike anatomical connectivity which represents physi...
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Functional connectivity can be evaluated by temporal correlation between spatial neurophysiologic events or correlation between neural activities of brain regions. Unlike anatomical connectivity which represents physical connections between two brain regions, functional connectivity investigates interactions between brain regions. In this study, we implemented and evaluated Probabilistic Independent Component Analysis (PICA) and generalized Canonical Correlation Analysis (gCCA) on resting state data of healthy subjects and subjects with ADHD disorders from NITRC database. This was done to detect brain functional connectivity and compare the results in normal and diseased subjects. In addition, speed of the methods was compared. Our study shows that relative to PICA, gCCA has higher precision and accuracy and lower computational complexity and run time in addition to capability of extracting more reproducible statistical maps in both control and ADHD subjects.
Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is an algorithm based on social intelligence, utilized in many fields of optimization. In applications like speech recognition, due to existence of high dimensional matrices, the spee...
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Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is an algorithm based on social intelligence, utilized in many fields of optimization. In applications like speech recognition, due to existence of high dimensional matrices, the speed of standard PSO is very low. In addition, PSO may be trapped in a local optimum. In this paper, we introduce a novel algorithm that is faster and generates superior results than the standard PSO. Also, the probability of being trapped in a local optimum is decreased. To illustrate advantages of the proposed algorithm, we use it to train a Hidden Markov Model (HMM) and find the minimum of the Ackley function.
The major obstacle in discrimination between different groups of subjects in a common cognitive state, by functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), has been the high inter- subject functional and anatomical variab...
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The major obstacle in discrimination between different groups of subjects in a common cognitive state, by functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), has been the high inter- subject functional and anatomical variability in the spatial patterns of brain activity. To overcome this, we have used two types of spatial descriptors that characterize the brain regions of interest (ROIs) involved in the cognitive tasks. They include, firstly three-dimensional invariant moment descriptors (3-DMIs), and secondly k-dimensional feature vectors based on concentric spheres. Both types of descriptors are applied to analyze the spatial patterns of cognitive activity of a challenging task and then to classify them across two different subject groups. SVM classifiers along with sequential floating forward feature selection technique are applied to the extracted descriptors of each ROI across the subjects. Our method is applied to experimental fMRI data with the aim of discriminating mental status of heroin IV (Intravenous) abusers and from of those in control subjects in a visual cue task which can induce drug craving. Our results demonstrate that 3-D texture of activation maps provide a good discrimination (with high accuracy) between healthy and addict group.
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