A biometrics system is to find out the identity of a person by measuring physical and physiological features which can distinguish the corresponding person from others. When applying the conventional machine learning ...
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(纸本)3540440380
A biometrics system is to find out the identity of a person by measuring physical and physiological features which can distinguish the corresponding person from others. When applying the conventional machine learning methods to design a biometrics system, one first runs into the difficulty of collecting sufficient data for each person to be registered to the system. In addition, there can be almost infinite number of variations of non-registered data. Therefore, it is very difficult to analyze and predict the distributional properties of data that are essential for the system to process real data in practical applications. These difficulties require a new framework of identification and verification, which is appropriate and efficient for the special situations of biometrics systems. As a preliminary solution, the present paper proposes a simple but theoretically well-defined method based on the statistical test theory.
Understanding decision-making is a core objective in both neuroscience and psychology, and computational models have often been helpful in the pursuit of this goal. While many models have been developed for characteri...
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(纸本)9781713871088
Understanding decision-making is a core objective in both neuroscience and psychology, and computational models have often been helpful in the pursuit of this goal. While many models have been developed for characterizing behavior in binary decision-making and bandit tasks, comparatively little work has focused on animal decision-making in more complex tasks, such as navigation through a maze. Inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) is a promising approach for understanding such behavior, as it aims to infer the unknown reward function of an agent from its observed trajectories through state space. However, IRL has yet to be widely applied in neuroscience. One potential reason for this is that existing IRL frameworks assume that an agent's reward function is fixed over time. To address this shortcoming, we introduce dynamic inverse reinforcement learning (DIRL), a novel IRL framework that allows for time-varying intrinsic rewards. Our method parametrizes the unknown reward function as a time-varying linear combination of spatial reward maps (which we refer to as "goal maps"). We develop an efficient inference method for recovering this dynamic reward function from behavioral data. We demonstrate DIRL in simulated experiments and then apply it to a dataset of mice exploring a labyrinth. Our method returns interpretable reward functions for two separate cohorts of mice, and provides a novel characterization of exploratory behavior. We expect DIRL to have broad applicability in neuroscience, and to facilitate the design of biologically-inspired reward functions for training artificial agents.
In this work, we proposed a direct computation of the DCT algorithm that is improved by utilizing the coefficients of cosine and sine to calculate the DCT bins for Mel-scale frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCC). Ins...
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Reports of enhanced sintering rates associated with microwave heating may be due to nonthermal lattice fluctuation statistics. Recent theoretical analyses reviewed in this paper confirm the feasibility of this phenome...
Reports of enhanced sintering rates associated with microwave heating may be due to nonthermal lattice fluctuation statistics. Recent theoretical analyses reviewed in this paper confirm the feasibility of this phenomenon for a wide variety of situations involving very different microwave absorption mechanisms. For materials with weak microwave absorption coefficients, the effect is expected to be uniformly distributed throughout the volume. For strongly absorbing materials, however, the effect is expected to be concentrated near the material surface, with a characteristic exponential penetration dept. of Lnt ∼ 10 − 100 μm. An “observable” nonthermal effect depends on the relative magnitude of the microwave electric field strength ¦E¦ and the lattice ion energy relaxation rate γ with the most pronounced effects occurring for larger values of ¦E¦ and smaller values of γ.
In this paper, we propose spatio-spectral processing techniques for the detection of dust storms and automatically finding its transport direction in 5-band NOAA-AVHRR imagery. Previous methods that use simple band ma...
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Explainability in Artificial Intelligence is gaining increasing importance, especially in critical fields. In biomedical applications, attribution maps are particularly relevant for their inherent spatial localization...
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Medical knowledge extraction has great potential to improve the treatment quality of hospitals. In this paper, we propose a clinical problem-action relation extraction method. It is based on clinical semantic units an...
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(纸本)9781450325981
Medical knowledge extraction has great potential to improve the treatment quality of hospitals. In this paper, we propose a clinical problem-action relation extraction method. It is based on clinical semantic units and event causality patterns in order to present a chronological view of a patient's problem and a physician's action. Based on our observation, a clinical semantic unit is defined as a conceptual medical knowledge for a problem and/or action. Since a clinical event is a basic concept of the problem-action relation, events are detected from clinical texts based on conditional random fields. A clinical semantic unit is segmented from a sentence based on time expressions and inherent structure of events. Then, a clinical semantic unit is classified into a problem and/or action relation based on event causality features in support vector machines. The experimental result on Korean medical collection shows 78.8% in F-measure when given the answer of clinical events. This result shows that the proposed method is effective for extracting clinical problem-action relations.
We demonstrated a single cell migration chip which can emulate cancer cell invasion in lymphatic capillaries through a migration channel with resistance choke points. Using a hydrodynamic capturing scheme based on the...
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(纸本)9780979806452
We demonstrated a single cell migration chip which can emulate cancer cell invasion in lymphatic capillaries through a migration channel with resistance choke points. Using a hydrodynamic capturing scheme based on the difference in flow resistance, the device allows for positioning single cells at the start of a migration channel. Different sizes of the resistance choke points in the migration channels are investigated to characterize the deformation capability of cells. To verify the migration platform, we used p38γ gene knockdown MDA-MB-231 (breast cancer) cells, which are known to show lower lymphatic metastasis in-vivo in a separate study. The reduction of the invasive ability in lymphatic capillaries was confirmed by the fabricated migration chip.
The connectivity of the nervous system of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans has been described completely, but the analysis of the neuronal basis of behavior in this system is just beginning. Here, we used an optimi...
The connectivity of the nervous system of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans has been described completely, but the analysis of the neuronal basis of behavior in this system is just beginning. Here, we used an optimization algorithm to search for patterns of connectivity sufficient to compute the sensorimotor transformation underlying C. elegans chemotaxis, a simple form of spatial orientation behavior in which turning probability is modulated by the rate of change of chemical concentration. Optimization produced differentiator networks with inhibitory feedback among all neurons. Further analysis showed that feedback regulates the latency between sensory input and behavior. Common patterns of connectivity between the model and biological networks suggest new functions for previously identified connections in the C. elegans nervous system.
PVD-TixSiyNz films formed by reactive RF-magnetron co-sputtering of Ti and Si in Ar/N2 are evaluated as a diffusion barrier between Cu and Si. A complete range of compositions are obtained by Ti targets inlaid with Si...
PVD-TixSiyNz films formed by reactive RF-magnetron co-sputtering of Ti and Si in Ar/N2 are evaluated as a diffusion barrier between Cu and Si. A complete range of compositions are obtained by Ti targets inlaid with Si. Film composition is controlled by the target ratio of titanium to silicon and N2 partial pressure. Electrical results versus thermal history for films of ∼6-18% Si as well as the composition and microstructure as determined by Rutherford back scattering (RBS), TEM and electron diffraction are reported. These films are an amorphous matrix with imbedded nanocrystals of titanium nitride as-deposited and undergo phase separation to yield titanium nitride and silicon nitride after a 1000r.C anneal. As-deposited compositions which lie above the TiN-Si3N4 phase line yield crystals of TiN. Compositions below the TiN-Si3N4 phase line yield crystals of Ti2N. Bulk resistivity as-deposited (<400µΩ-cmµ) is acceptable for use as a contact liner/barrier material and improves with annealing. Si pn-diodes metallized with 20nm Ti40Si15N45 and Cu show no significant increase in reverse leakage current at anneal temperatures below 700r.C.
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