Biological sex is a crucial variable in neuroscience studies where sex differences have been documented across cognitive functions and neuropsychiatric disorders. While gross statistical differences have been previous...
Biological sex is a crucial variable in neuroscience studies where sex differences have been documented across cognitive functions and neuropsychiatric disorders. While gross statistical differences have been previously documented in macroscopic brain structure such as cortical thickness or region size, less is understood about sex-related cellular-level microstructural differences which could provide insight into brain health and disease. Studying these microstructural differences between men and women paves the way for understanding brain disorders and diseases that manifest differently in different sexes. Diffusion MRI is an important in vivo, non-invasive methodology that provides a window into brain tissue microstructure. Our study develops multiple end-to-end classification models that accurately estimates the sex of a subject using volumetric diffusion MRI data and uses these models to identify white matter regions that differ the most between men and women. 471 male and 560 female healthy subjects (age range, 22–37 years) from the Human Connectome Project are included. Fractional anisotropy, mean diffusivity and mean kurtosis are used to capture brain tissue microstructure characteristics. Diffusion parametric maps are registered to a standard template to reduce bias that can arise from macroscopic anatomical differences like brain size and contour. This study employ three major model architectures: 2D convolutional neural networks, 3D convolutional neural networks and Vision Transformer (with self-supervised pretraining). Our results show that all 3 models achieve high sex classification performance (test AUC 0.92–0.98) across all diffusion metrics indicating definitive differences in white matter tissue microstructure between males and females. We further use complementary model architectures to inform about the pattern of detected microstructural differences and the influence of short-range versus long-range interactions. Occlusion analysis together with
We demonstrate elliptical beam shaping in a miniaturized two-photon microscope enabling cellular resolution fluorescence imaging at over three times faster frame rate than point scanning over a 400 µm diameter FO...
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A simple method for the design of a continuously tunable phase shifter based on a negative-refractive-index transmission line (NRI-TL) metamaterial without the need for variable inductors is presented. The employed λ...
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Realistic real-time surgical simulators play an increasingly important role in surgical robotics research, such as surgical robot learning and automation, and surgical skills assessment. Although there are a number of...
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Realistic real-time surgical simulators play an increasingly important role in surgical robotics research, such as surgical robot learning and automation, and surgical skills assessment. Although there are a number of existing surgical simulators for research, they generally lack the ability to simulate the diverse types of objects and contact-rich manipulation tasks typically present in surgeries, such as tissue cutting and blood suction. In this work, we introduce CRESSim, a realistic surgical simulator based on PhysX 5 for the da Vinci Research Kit (dVRK) that enables simulating various contact-rich surgical tasks involving different surgical instruments, soft tissue, and body fluids. The real-world dVRK console and the master tool manipulator (MTM) robots are incorporated into the system to allow for teleoperation through virtual reality (VR). To showcase the advantages and potentials of the simulator, we present three examples of surgical tasks, including tissue grasping and deformation, blood suction, and tissue cutting. These tasks are performed using the simulated surgical instruments, including the large needle driver, suction irrigator, and curved scissor, through VR-based teleoperation.
Brain-computer interface (BCI) actively translates the brain signals into executable actions by establishing direct communication between the human brain and external devices. Recording brain activity through electroe...
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Brain-computer interface (BCI) actively translates the brain signals into executable actions by establishing direct communication between the human brain and external devices. Recording brain activity through electroencephalography (EEG) is generally contaminated with both physiological and nonphysiological artifacts, which significantly hinders the BCI performance. Artifact subspace reconstruction (ASR) is a well-known statistical technique that automatically removes artifact components by determining the rejection threshold based on the initial reference EEG segment in multichannel EEG recordings. In real-world applications, the fixed threshold may limit the efficacy of the artifact correction, especially when the quality of the reference data is poor. This study proposes an adaptive online ASR technique by integrating the Hebbian/anti-Hebbian neural networks into the ASR algorithm, namely, principle subspace projection ASR (PSP-ASR) and principal subspace whitening ASR (PSW-ASR) that segmentwise self-organize the artifact subspace by updating the synaptic weights according to the Hebbian and anti-Hebbian learning rules. The effectiveness of the proposed algorithm is compared to the conventional ASR approaches on benchmark EEG dataset and three BCI frameworks, including steady-state visual evoked potential (SSVEP), rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP), and motor imagery (MI) by evaluating the root-mean-square error (RMSE), the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), the Pearson correlation, and classification accuracy. The results demonstrated that the PSW-ASR algorithm effectively removed the EEG artifacts and retained the activity-specific brain signals compared to the PSP-ASR, standard ASR (Init-ASR), and moving-window ASR (MW-ASR) methods, thereby enhancing the SSVEP, RSVP, and MI BCI performances. Finally, our empirical results from the PSW-ASR algorithm suggested the choice of an aggressive cutoff range of c =1-10 for activity-specific BCI applications and a moderat
In this paper, the effect of Split Ring Resonator (SRR) loading on mutual coupling reduction of Magneto Electric (ME)-dipole antennas fed through printed ridge gap waveguide (PRGW) is presented for millimeter-wave 5G ...
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Objective and Impact *** present a fully automated hematological analysis framework based on single-channel(single-wavelength),label-free deep-ultraviolet(UV)microscopy that serves as a fast,cost-effective alternative...
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Objective and Impact *** present a fully automated hematological analysis framework based on single-channel(single-wavelength),label-free deep-ultraviolet(UV)microscopy that serves as a fast,cost-effective alternative to conventional hematology *** analysis is essential for the diagnosis and monitoring of several diseases but requires complex systems operated by trained personnel,costly chemical reagents,and lengthy ***-free techniques eliminate the need for staining or additional preprocessing and can lead to faster analysis and a simpler *** this work,we leverage the unique capabilities of deep-UV microscopy as a label-free,molecular imaging technique to develop a deep learning-based pipeline that enables virtual staining,segmentation,classification,and counting of white blood cells(WBCs)in single-channel images of peripheral blood *** train independent deep networks to virtually stain and segment grayscale images of *** segmented images are then used to train a classifier to yield a quantitative five-part WBC *** virtual staining scheme accurately recapitulates the appearance of cells under conventional Giemsa staining,the gold standard in *** trained cellular and nuclear segmentation networks achieve high accuracy,and the classifier can achieve a quantitative five-part differential on unseen test *** proposed automated hematology analysis framework could greatly simplify and improve current complete blood count and blood smear analysis and lead to the development of a simple,fast,and low-cost,point-of-care hematology analyzer.
*** aim to develop a machine learning algorithm to quantify adipose tissue deposition at surgical sites as a function of biomaterial *** *** our knowledge,this study is the first investigation to apply convolutional n...
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*** aim to develop a machine learning algorithm to quantify adipose tissue deposition at surgical sites as a function of biomaterial *** *** our knowledge,this study is the first investigation to apply convolutional neural network(CNN)models to identify and segment adipose tissue in histological images from silk fibroin biomaterial *** designing biomaterials for the treatment of various soft tissue injuries and diseases,one must consider the extent of adipose tissue *** this work,we analyzed adipose tissue accumulation in histological images of sectioned silk fibroin-based biomaterials excised from rodents following subcutaneous implantation for 1,2,4,or 8 *** strategies for quantifying adipose tissue after biomaterial implantation are often tedious and prone to human bias during *** used CNN models with novel spatial histogram layer(s)that can more accurately identify and segment regions of adipose tissue in hematoxylin and eosin(H&E)and Masson’s trichrome stained images,allowing for determination of the optimal biomaterial *** compared the method,Jointly Optimized Spatial Histogram UNET Architecture(JOSHUA),to the baseline UNET model and an extension of the baseline model,attention UNET,as well as to versions of the models with a supplemental attention-inspired mechanism(JOSHUA+and UNET+).*** inclusion of histogram layer(s)in our models shows improved performance through qualitative and quantitative *** results demonstrate that the proposed methods,JOSHUA and JOSHUA+,are highly beneficial for adipose tissue identification and *** new histological dataset and code used in our experiments are publicly available.
Live-cell imaging plays an increasingly important role in developmental biology and drug discovery. The phototoxity of laser light, however, inevitably induces a tradeoff between image quality and cell viability. Whil...
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This research paper introduces a novel design of an inductive sensor based on a MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical System) inductive link. The sensor comprises two identical Al inductor coils micromachined on each side of...
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