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Pseudo-LiDAR for Visual Odometry

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arXiv 2022年

作者： Deng, Huiying Wang, Guangming Feng, Zhiheng Jiang, Chaokang Wu, Xinrui Miao, Yanzi Wang, Hesheng Advanced Robotics Research Center AI Research Institute School of Information and Control Engineering China University of Mining and Technology Xuzhou221116 China Department of Automation Key Laboratory of System Control and Information Processing of Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Marine Intelligent Equipment and System of Ministry of Education Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Intelligent Control and Management Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai200240 China

As one of the important tasks in the field of robotics and machine vision, LiDAR/visual odometry provides tremendous help for various applications such as navigation, location, etc. In the existing methods, LiDAR odometry shows superior performance, but visual odometry is still widely used for its price advantage. Conventionally, the task of visual odometry mainly rely on the input of continuous images. However, it is very complicated for the odometry network to learn the epipolar geometry information provided by the images. In this paper, the concept of pseudo-LiDAR is introduced into the odometry to solve this problem. The pseudo-LiDAR point cloud back-projects the depth map generated by the image into the 3D point cloud, which changes the way of image representation. Compared with the stereo images, the pseudo-LiDAR point cloud generated by the stereo matching network can get the explicit 3D coordinates. Since the 6 Degrees of Freedom (DoF) pose transformation occurs in 3D space, the 3D structure information provided by the pseudo-LiDAR point cloud is more direct than the image. Compared with sparse LiDAR, the pseudo-LiDAR has a denser point cloud. In order to make full use of the rich point cloud information provided by the pseudo-LiDAR, a projection-aware dense odometry pipeline is adopted. Most previous LiDAR-based algorithms sampled 8192 points from the point cloud as input to the odometry network. The projection-aware dense odometry pipeline takes all the pseudo-LiDAR point clouds generated from the images except for the error points as the input to the network. While making full use of the 3D geometric information in the images, the semantic information in the images is also used in the odometry task. The fusion of 2D-3D is achieved in an image-only based odometry. Experiments on the KITTI dataset prove the effectiveness of our method. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first visual odometry method using pseudo-LiDAR. Copyright © 2022, The Authors. A

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Evaluation of Disinfection Methods for Autonomous Mobile Robots Used in Hospital Logistics in Emergency Departments

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The Journal of hospital infection 2025年

作者： Przemysław Kardas Filip Bielec Małgorzata Brauncajs Paweł Lewek Dariusz Timler Ewelina Łojewska Marcello Chiurazzi Neri Niccolò Dei Gastone Ciuti Raquel Juliá Ros Víctor Solaz Estevan Alessia Maccaro Leandro Pecchia Beatriz Merino Alejandro Medrano Thomas Penzel Giuseppe Fico Department of Family Medicine Medical University of Lodz Lodz 90419 Poland. Department of Microbiology and Laboratory Medical Immunology Medical University of Lodz Lodz 90419 Poland. Department of Emergency and Disaster Medicine Medical University of Lodz Lodz 90419 Poland. Office for Research Strategies and Development Medical University of Lodz Lodz 90419 Poland. BioRobotics Institute & Department of Excellence in Robotics and AI Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna Pisa 56127 Italy. Robotnik Automation S.L. Paterna Valencia 46980 Spain. Department of Social Sciences University of Naples Federico II Applied Biomedical Signal Processing Intelligent eHealth Laboratory School of Engineering University of Warwick Coventry CV4 7AL UK. Applied Biomedical Signal Processing Intelligent eHealth Laboratory School of Engineering University of Warwick Coventry CV4 7AL UK Department of Engineering University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome Via Alvaro del Portillo 21 Rome 00128 Italy. Life Supporting Technologies Departamento de Tecnología Fotónica y Bioingeniería Universidad Politècnica de Madrid Madrid Spain. Interdisciplinary Center of Sleep Medicine Charité University Medicine Berlin Berlin Germany.

BACKGROUND:Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) have been increasingly used in hospital logistics, particularly in high-risk areas, such as Emergency Departments (EDs), to streamline operations, reduce staff fatigue, and minimize infection risks. However, their effective disinfection remains a critical concern, especially when it comes to solutions aimed at preventing spread of multi-drug-resistant organisms. OBJECTIVE:This study evaluated the microbiological cleanliness and effectiveness of various disinfection methods for AMRs in real-life hospital logistics settings, with a particular focus on their application in EDs. METHODS:The HOSBOT, an AMR designed for hospital logistics, was deployed in a tertiary hospital for two weeks and validated for transport of biological samples. Microbiological contamination was assessed at multiple robot sites before and after disinfection, using two methods, i.e. manual wiping with a standard disinfectant and non-contact fumigation with low temperature vaporized hydrogen peroxide. Contamination levels were evaluated using quantitative and qualitative microbiological techniques, and a threshold of <2.5 colony-forming units/cm for critical environments, recommended by the centers for Disease control and Prevention (CDC), was considered as proof of success. RESULTS:Bacterial contamination exceeded thresholds at all sites. Both disinfection methods significantly decreased contamination. Manual wiping reduced bacterial counts below thresholds and eradicated fungal growth, while fumigation was effective for bacterial but not fungal contamination. Fumigation also failed to meet CDC cleanliness standards in hard-to-reach areas. CONCLUSIONS:Both manual wiping and fumigation effectively reduced bacterial contamination, however, wiping showed better results in fungal eradication. Improvements to fumigation methods are necessary, such as application of higher disinfectant concentrations or alternative chemicals. The aforementioned findings not on

关键词： Autonomous Mobile Robots Bacterial contamination Decontamination Disinfection Emergency Department Fungal contamination Hospital logistics Intensive care unit Microbiological cleanliness robotics

Metrics Reloaded: Recommendations for image analysis validation

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arXiv 2022年

作者： Maier-Hein, Lena Reinke, Annika Godau, Patrick Tizabi, Minu D. Buettner, Florian Christodoulou, Evangelia Glocker, Ben Isensee, Fabian Kleesiek, Jens Kozubek, Michal Reyes, Mauricio Riegler, Michael A. Wiesenfarth, Manuel Emre Kavur, A. Sudre, Carole H. Baumgartner, Michael Eisenmann, Matthias Heckmann-Nötzel, Doreen Rädsch, Tim Acion, Laura Antonelli, Michela Arbel, Tal Bakas, Spyridon Benis, Arriel Blaschko, Matthew B. Jorge Cardoso, M. Cheplygina, Veronika Cimini, Beth A. Collins, Gary S. Farahani, Keyvan Ferrer, Luciana Galdran, Adrian Ginneken, Bram Van Haase, Robert Hashimoto, Daniel A. Hoffman, Michael M. Huisman, Merel Jannin, Pierre Kahn, Charles E. Kainmueller, Dagmar Kainz, Bernhard Karargyris, Alexandros Karthikesalingam, Alan Kenngott, Hannes Kofler, Florian Kopp-Schneider, Annette Kreshuk, Anna Kurc, Tahsin Landman, Bennett A. Litjens, Geert Madani, Amin Maier-Hein, Klaus Martel, Anne L. Mattson, Peter Meijering, Erik Menze, Bjoern Moons, Karel G.M. Müller, Henning Nichyporuk, Brennan Nickel, Felix Petersen, Jens Rajpoot, Nasir Rieke, Nicola Saez-Rodriguez, Julio Sánchez, Clara I. Shetty, Shravya Smeden, Maarten Van Summers, Ronald M. Taha, Abdel A. Tiulpin, Aleksei Tsaftaris, Sotirios A. Calster, Ben Van Varoquaux, Gaël Jäger, Paul F. Heidelberg Division of Intelligent Medical Systems and HI Helmholtz Imaging Germany Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science and Medical Faculty Heidelberg University Heidelberg Germany NCT Heidelberg a partnership between DKFZ University Medical Center Heidelberg Germany Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science Heidelberg University Heidelberg Germany Heidelberg Division of Intelligent Medical Systems Germany partner site Frankfurt/Mainz a partnership between DKFZ and UCT Frankfurt-Marburg Germany Heidelberg Goethe University Frankfurt Germany Department of Medicine Goethe University Frankfurt Germany Department of Informatics Frankfurt Cancer Insititute Germany Department of Computing Imperial College London London United Kingdom Heidelberg Division of Medical Image Computing and HI Applied Computer Vision Lab Germany Institute for AI in Medicine University Medicine Essen Essen Germany Centre for Biomedical Image Analysis Faculty of Informatics Masaryk University Brno Czech Republic ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research University of Bern Bern Switzerland Department of Radiation Oncology University Hospital Bern University of Bern Bern Switzerland Simula Metropolitan Center for Digital Engineering Oslo Norway UiT The Arctic University of Norway Romsø Norway Heidelberg Division of Biostatistics Germany Heidelberg Division of Intelligent Medical Systems Division of Medical Image Computing HI Applied Computer Vision Lab Germany MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing UCL Centre for Medical Image Computing Department of Computer Science University College London London United Kingdom School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Science King’s College London London United Kingdom Heidelberg Division of Medical Image Computing Germany Instituto de Cálculo CONICET – Universidad de Buenos Aires Buenos Aires Argentina Centre for Medical Image Computing University College London London United Kingdom McGill University Montréal

Increasing evidence shows that flaws in machine learning (ML) algorithm validation are an underestimated global problem. Particularly in automatic biomedical image analysis, chosen performance metrics often do not reflect the domain interest, thus failing to adequately measure scientific progress and hindering translation of ML techniques into practice. To overcome this, we created Metrics Reloaded, a comprehensive framework guiding researchers in the problem-aware selection of metrics. It was developed by a large international consortium in a multi-stage Delphi process and is based on the novel concept of a problem fingerprint – a structured representation of the given problem that captures all aspects that are relevant for metric selection, from the domain interest to the properties of the target structure(s), data set and algorithm output. Based on the problem fingerprint, users are guided through the process of choosing and applying appropriate validation metrics while being made aware of potential pitfalls. Metrics Reloaded targets image analysis problems that can be interpreted as a classification task at image, object or pixel level, namely image-level classification, object detection, semantic segmentation, and instance segmentation tasks. To improve the user experience, we implemented the framework in the Metrics Reloaded online tool. Following the convergence of ML methodology across application domains, Metrics Reloaded fosters the convergence of validation methodology. Its applicability is demonstrated for various biomedical use cases. © 2022, CC BY.

关键词： Semantic Segmentation

Common Limitations of Image processing Metrics: A Picture Story

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arXiv 2021年

作者： Reinke, Annika Tizabi, Minu D. Sudre, Carole H. Eisenmann, Matthias Rädsch, Tim Baumgartner, Michael Acion, Laura Antonelli, Michela Arbel, Tal Bakas, Spyridon Bankhead, Peter Benis, Arriel Blaschko, Matthew Buettner, Florian Cardoso, M. Jorge Chen, Jianxu Cheplygina, Veronika Christodoulou, Evangelia Cimini, Beth A. Collins, Gary S. Engelhardt, Sandy Farahani, Keyvan Ferrer, Luciana Galdran, Adrian van Ginneken, Bram Glocker, Ben Godau, Patrick Haase, Robert Hamprecht, Fred Hashimoto, Daniel A. Heckmann-Nötzel, Doreen Hirsch, Peter Hoffman, Michael M. Huisman, Merel Isensee, Fabian Jannin, Pierre Kahn, Charles E. Kainmueller, Dagmar Kainz, Bernhard Karargyris, Alexandros Karthikesalingam, Alan Kavur, A. Emre Kenngott, Hannes Kleesiek, Jens Kleppe, Andreas Koehler, Sven Kofler, Florian Kopp-Schneider, Annette Kooi, Thijs Kozubek, Michal Kreshuk, Anna Kurc, Tahsin Landman, Bennett A. Litjens, Geert Madani, Amin Maier-Hein, Klaus Martel, Anne L. Mattson, Peter Meijering, Erik Menze, Bjoern Moher, David Moons, Karel G.M. Müller, Henning Nichyporuk, Brennan Nickel, Felix Noyan, M. Alican Petersen, Jens Polat, Gorkem Rafelski, Susanne M. Rajpoot, Nasir Reyes, Mauricio Rieke, Nicola Riegler, Michael A. Rivaz, Hassan Saez-Rodriguez, Julio Sánchez, Clara I. Schroeter, Julien Saha, Anindo Selver, M. Alper Sharan, Lalith Shetty, Shravya Smeden, Maarten V.A.N. Stieltjes, Bram Summers, Ronald M. Taha, Abdel A. Tiulpin, Aleksei Tsaftaris, Sotirios A. Calster, Ben V.A.N. Varoquaux, Gaël Wiesenfarth, Manuel Yaniv, Ziv R. Jäger, Paul Maier-Hein, Lena Division of Intelligent Medical Systems and HI Helmholtz Imaging Heidelberg Germany Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science Heidelberg University Heidelberg Germany Division of Intelligent Medical Systems Heidelberg Germany NCT Heidelberg DKFZ University Medical Center Heidelberg Germany MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing UCL Centre for Medical Image Computing Department of Computer Science University College London London United Kingdom School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Science King’s College London London United Kingdom Division of Medical Image Computing Heidelberg Germany Instituto de Cálculo CONICET – Universidad de Buenos Aires Buenos Aires Argentina Centre for Medical Image Computing University College London London United Kingdom McGill University Montréal Canada Division of Computational Pathology Dept of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Indiana University School of Medicine IU Health Information and Translational Sciences Building Indianapolis United States University of Pennsylvania Richards Medical Research Laboratories FL7 PhiladelphiaPA United States Institute of Genetics and Cancer University of Edinburgh Edinburgh United Kingdom Department of Digital Medical Technologies Holon Institute of Technology Holon Israel European Federation for Medical Informatics Le Mont-sur-Lausanne Switzerland Center for Processing Speech and Images Department of Electrical Engineering KU Leuven Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 - box 2441 Leuven3001 Belgium Frankfurt/Mainz DKFZ UCT Frankfurt-Marburg Germany Heidelberg Germany Goethe University Frankfurt Department of Medicine Germany Goethe University Frankfurt Department of Informatics Germany Frankfurt Cancer Insititute Germany Leibniz-Institut für Analytische Wissenschaften – ISAS – e.V. Dortmund Germany Department of Computer Science IT University of Copenhagen Copenhagen Denmark Imaging Platform Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard CambridgeMA United States Centre for St

While the importance of automatic image analysis is continuously increasing, recent meta-research revealed major flaws with respect to algorithm validation. Performance metrics are particularly key for meaningful, objective, and transparent performance assessment and validation of the used automatic algorithms, but relatively little attention has been given to the practical pitfalls when using specific metrics for a given image analysis task. These are typically related to (1) the disregard of inherent metric properties, such as the behaviour in the presence of class imbalance or small target structures, (2) the disregard of inherent data set properties, such as the non-independence of the test cases, and (3) the disregard of the actual biomedical domain interest that the metrics should reflect. This living dynamically document has the purpose to illustrate important limitations of performance metrics commonly applied in the field of image analysis. In this context, it focuses on biomedical image analysis problems that can be phrased as image-level classification, semantic segmentation, instance segmentation, or object detection task. The current version is based on a Delphi process on metrics conducted by an international consortium of image analysis experts from more than 60 institutions worldwide. © 2021, CC BY.

关键词： Medical imaging

Design of a nonlinear adaptive natural oscillator: Towards natural dynamics exploitation in cyclic tasks

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Design of a nonlinear adaptive natural oscillator: Towards n...

IEEE/RSJ International Conference on intelligent Robots and Systems

作者： Rezvan Nasiri Mahdi Khoramshahi Majid Nili Ahmadabadi Cognitive Robotics Laboratory Control and Intelligent Processing Center of Excellence (CIPCE) School of Electrical and Computer Engineering College of Engineering University of Tehran Iran

ISBN: (纸本)9781509037636

In this paper, we present the dynamical equations of a nonlinear adaptive natural oscillator (NANO) in order to exploit the natural dynamics in robotic systems. The presented oscillator tries to minimize an energy-based cost function by adapting the shape and frequency of the reference trajectory. Stability, convergence, and optimality of this oscillator are guaranteed analytically. Moreover, the performance of this oscillator is investigated by applying it to three different types of robotic models;i.e., the pendulum, the adaptive-toy, and the hopper-leg.

关键词： Trajectory Learning Energy Efficiency Cyclic Tasks Natural Dynamics

Design and modeling of a compact rotational nonlinear spring

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Design and modeling of a compact rotational nonlinear spring

IEEE/RSJ International Conference on intelligent Robots and Systems

作者： Hamed Jalaly Bidgoly Majid Nili Ahmadabadi Mohammad Reza Zakerzadeh Cognitive Robotics Laboratory The Control and Intelligent Processing Center of Excellence (CIPCE) School of Electrical and Computer Engineering College of Engineering University of Tehran Iran Dynamic and Vibration Laboratory School of Mechanical Engineering College of Engineering University of Tehran Iran

ISBN: (纸本)9781509037636

In this paper, we propose a new method for implementing a rotational nonlinear spring with user defined profile, based on the combination of a linear spring with a nonlinear transmission mechanism. The proposed structure consists of a non-circular cam, a roller which moves along outer circumference of the cam, and a stretched translational linear spring which is connected between center of the cam and center of the roller. We obtain a set of differential equations to design shape of the cam for any given torque-angle profile. Also, it will be shown that profiles with both positive and negative values can be implemented by the proposed method. At last, the cam of some popular nonlinear springs are designed, including constant, cubic, hyperbolic tangent and sinusoidal springs.

关键词： Computer aided manufacturing Camelopardalis Hookean spring springs Device Spring TRANSFER MECHANISM Modeling nonlinearity Rotational SCROLL Differential equations Spring season

Context transfer and Q-Transferable tasks 29

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Context transfer and Q-Transferable tasks

29th AAai Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAai 2015

作者： Mousavi, Amin Araabi, Babak Nadjar Ahmadabadi, Majid Nili Robotics and AI Lab Control and Intelligent Processing Center of Excellence School of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Tehran Iran School of Cognitive Science Tehran Iran

ISBN: (纸本)9781577357209

This article discusses the notion of context transfer in reinforcement learning tasks. Context transfer, as defined in this article, implies knowledge transfer between tasks that share the same environment's dynamics and reward function, but have different state and action spaces. For example, we have a working mobile robot in an environment. At some point, we decide to upgrade its sensors and/or actuators. Any change in these modules will result in a different description of the agent- environment model, and the trained knowledge is no longer applicable. We consider the tasks of the old and new robots, as the source and target tasks, respectively. The Markov decision process (MDP) of these tasks, under certain conditions, are called Q-transferable tasks, and the problem of knowledge transfer between them is called context transfer. We investigate the relation of the MDPs of these tasks. Copyright © 2015, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (***). All rights reserved.

关键词： Markov processes

Identifying the best machine learning algorithms for brain tumor segmentation, progression assessment, and overall survival prediction in the BRATS challenge

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arXiv 2018年

作者： Bakas, Spyridon Reyes, Mauricio Jakab, Andras Bauer, Stefan Rempfler, Markus Crimi, Alessandro Shinohara, Russell Takeshi Berger, Christoph Ha, Sung Min Rozycki, Martin Prastawa, Marcel Alberts, Esther Lipkova, Jana Freymann, John Kirby, Justin Bilello, Michel Fathallah-Shaykh, Hassan M. Wiest, Roland Kirschke, Jan Wiestler, Benedikt Colen, Rivka Kotrotsou, aikaterini Lamontagne, Pamela Marcus, Daniel Milchenko, Mikhail Nazeri, Arash Weber, Marc-Andr Mahajan, Abhishek Baid, Ujjwal Gerstner, Elizabeth Kwon, Dongjin Acharya, Gagan Agarwal, Manu Alam, Mahbubul Albiol, Alberto Albiol, Antonio Albiol, Francisco J. Alex, Varghese Allinson, Nigel Amorim, Pedro H.A. Amrutkar, Abhijit Anand, Ganesh Andermatt, Simon Arbel, Tal Arbelaez, Pablo Avery, Aaron Azmat, Muneeza Pranjal, B. Bai, Wenjia Banerjee, Subhashis Barth, Bill Batchelder, Thomas Batmanghelich, Kayhan Battistella, Enzo Beers, Andrew Belyaev, Mikhail Bendszus, Martin Benson, Eze Bernal, Jose Bharath, Halandur Nagaraja Biros, George Bisdas, Sotirios Brown, James Cabezas, Mariano Cao, Shilei Cardoso, Jorge M. Carver, Eric N. Casamitjana, Adri Castillo, Laura Silvana Cat, Marcel Cattin, Philippe Cérigues, Albert Chagas, Vinicius S. Chandra, Siddhartha Chang, Yi-Ju Chang, Shiyu Chang, Ken Chazalon, Joseph Chen, Shengcong Chen, Wei Chen, Jefferson W. Chen, Zhaolin Cheng, Kun Choudhury, Ahana Roy Chylla, Roger Clrigues, Albert Colleman, Steven Colmeiro, Ramiro German Rodriguez Combalia, Marc Costa, Anthony Cui, Xiaomeng Dai, Zhenzhen Dai, Lutao Daza, Laura Alexandra Deutsch, Eric Ding, Changxing Dong, Chao Dong, Shidu Dudzik, Wojciech Eaton-Rosen, Zach Egan, Gary Escudero, Guilherme Estienne, Tho Everson, Richard Fabrizio, Jonathan Fan, Yong Fang, Longwei Feng, Xue Ferrante, Enzo Fidon, Lucas Fischer, Martin French, Andrew P. Fridman, Naomi Fu, Huan Fuentes, David Gao, Yaozong Gates, Evan Gering, David Gholami, Amir Gierke, Willi Glocker, Ben Gong, Mingming Gonzlez-Vill, Sandra Grosges, T. Guan, Yuanfang Guo, Sheng Gupta, Sudeep Han, Woo-Sup Han, Il Song Harmuth, Ko Center for Biomedical Image Computing and Analytics University of Pennsylvania PhiladelphiaPA United States Department of Radiology Perelman School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania PhiladelphiaPA United States Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Perelman School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania PhiladelphiaPA United States Institute for Surgical Technology and Biomechanics University of Bern Bern Switzerland Center for MR-Research University Children's Hospital Zurich Zurich Switzerland Support Centre for Advanced Neuroimaging Inselspital Institute for Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology Bern University Hospital Bern Switzerland University Hospital of Zurich Zurich Switzerland Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia United States Image-Based Biomedical Modeling Group Technical University of Munich Munich Germany Icahn School of Medicine Mount Sinai Health System New YorkNY United States Leidos Biomedical Research Inc. Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research FrederickMD21701 United States Cancer Imaging Program National Cancer Institute National Institutes of Health BethesdaMD20814 United States Department of Neurology University of Alabama at Birmingham BirminghamAL United States Department of Diagnostic Radiology University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center HoustonTX United States Department of Psychology Washington University St. LouisMO United States Neuroimaging Informatics and Analysis Center Washington University St. LouisMO United States Department of Radiology Washington University St. LouisMO United States Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology Pediatric Radiology and Neuroradiology University Medical Center Rostock Ernst-Heydemann-Str. 6 Rostock18057 Germany Tata Memorial Centre Homi Bhabha National Institute Mumbai India Shri Guru Gobind Singhji Institute of Engineering and Technology Nanded India NVIDIA Santa Clara

Gliomas are the most common primary brain malignancies, with different degrees of aggressiveness, variable prognosis and various heterogeneous histologic sub-regions, i.e., peritumoral edematous/invaded tissue, necrotic core, active and non-enhancing core. This intrinsic heterogeneity is also portrayed in their radio-phenotype, as their sub-regions are depicted by varying intensity profiles disseminated across multi-parametric magnetic resonance imaging (mpMRI) scans, reflecting varying biological properties. Their heterogeneous shape, extent, and location are some of the factors that make these tumors difficult to resect, and in some cases inoperable. The amount of resected tumor is a factor also considered in longitudinal scans, when evaluating the apparent tumor for potential diagnosis of progression. Furthermore, there is mounting evidence that accurate segmentation of the various tumor sub-regions can offer the basis for quantitative image analysis towards prediction of patient overall survival. This study assesses the state-of-the-art machine learning (ML) methods used for brain tumor image analysis in mpMRI scans, during the last seven instances of the International Brain Tumor Segmentation (BraTS) challenge, i.e., 2012-2018. Specifically, we focus on i) evaluating segmentations of the various glioma sub-regions in pre-operative mpMRI scans, ii) assessing potential tumor progression by virtue of longitudinal growth of tumor sub-regions, beyond use of the RECIST/RANO criteria, and iii) predicting the overall survival from pre-operative mpMRI scans of patients that underwent gross total resection. Finally, we investigate the challenge of identifying the best ML algorithms for each of these tasks, considering that apart from being diverse on each instance of the challenge, the multi-institutional mpMRI BraTS dataset has also been a continuously evolving/growing dataset. Copyright © 2018, The Authors. All rights reserved.

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Comparing effects of rigid, flexible, and actuated series-elastic spines on bounding gait of quadruped robots

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RSI/ISM International Conference on robotics and Mechatronics (ICROM)

作者： Mohammad Hasan H. Kani Majid Nili Ahmadabadi Control and Intelligent Processing Center of Excellence Cognitive Robotics Laboratory School of ECE College of Engineering University of Tehran Tehran Iran

Spinal actuation is necessary for quadruped robots to achieve rapid leg locomotion. In this paper, effect of flexible spinal actuation on the bounding gait is investigated. By defining a performance criterion for the bounding gait, a quadruped robot (Ghostdog) is tested in four different case studies; namely rigid spine, flexible passive spine, actuated spine, and series elastic actuated spine. We show that the robot with a series elastic actuator in its spinal joint has the best performance criterion and is the best robot in terms of bounding power consumption. On the other hand, it is shown that by using spinal actuation not only the speed of locomotion increases considerably, but also the pattern of bounding becomes more similar to real fast felines.

关键词： Robots Oscillators Equations Hip