Retinal optical coherence tomography (OCT) images are widely used to diagnose and grade macular diseases, such as age-related macular degeneration (AMD). However, manual interpretation of OCT images is time-consuming ...
Retinal optical coherence tomography (OCT) images are widely used to diagnose and grade macular diseases, such as age-related macular degeneration (AMD). However, manual interpretation of OCT images is time-consuming and subjective. Therefore, automated and accurate classification of OCT images is essential for assisting ophthalmologists in clinical decision-making. This paper proposes a pyramidal deep neural network that can diagnose normal and two types of AMD (dry and wet) in OCT images. Our network leverages features from different scales of a pre-trained convolutional neural network (CNN) and integrates them with two advanced versions of feature pyramid networks: bidirectional feature pyramid network (BiFPN) and path aggregation network (PANet). We evaluate our network on the NEH dataset and compare it with its predecessor. Our results show that our BiFPN-VGG16 and PAN-VGG16 models achieve accuracies of 94.S% and 95.0%, respectively, which are 2.8 to 3% higher than the previous models. Our approach demonstrates the potential of multi-scale feature networks for OCT image classification and can serve as an auxiliary diagnostic tool for ophthalmologists.
This paper describes a work on an acoustic user authentication system using smartphones. The system implements two-factor authentication for Windows workstations, where the authentication procedure, including locking ...
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(数字)9798350348187
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(纸本)9798350348194
This paper describes a work on an acoustic user authentication system using smartphones. The system implements two-factor authentication for Windows workstations, where the authentication procedure, including locking and unlocking the workstation is transparent to the user. Since workstations and smartphones have built-in microphones and speakers, the system does not require additional hardware. The uniqueness of the solution is being based on acoustic signals. These signals are transmitted by the user's smartphone and received by the workstation microphone. The system is “pure play acoustic” since no wiring or radio transmission is used. The system configuration supports multiple users in the same area. Eavesdropping prevention is provided by sequentially generated random one-time keys. Acoustic communication can be applied either in the audible range or beyond the human hearing range depending on the sampling rate of the smartphone and the workstation.
In this work, we draw connections between the classical Shannon interpolation of bandlimited deterministic signals and the literature on estimating continuous-time random processes from their samples (known in various...
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Cancer is one of the deadliest diseases for human health. The classification of cancers poses many challenges in biomedical research because it allows an accurate and effective diagnosis and guarantees the success of ...
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The conception of a computer-Aided Diagnosis system (CAD) using Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a hot topic in the domain of medical diagnosis. Recently, many approaches have been developed. In the proposed work, a no...
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The detection and characterization of human veins using infrared (IR) imageprocessing have gained significant attention due to its potential applications in biometric identification, medical diagnostics, and vein-bas...
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The detection and characterization of human veins using infrared (IR) imageprocessing have gained significant attention due to its potential applications in biometric identification, medical diagnostics, and vein-based authentication systems. This paper presents a low-cost approach for automatic detection and characterization of human veins from IR images. The proposed method uses imageprocessing techniques including segmentation, feature extraction, and, pattern recognition algorithms. Initially, the IR images are preprocessed to enhance vein structures and reduce noise. Subsequently, a CLAHE algorithm is employed to extract vein regions based on their unique IR absorption properties. Features such as vein thickness, orientation, and branching patterns are extracted using mathematical morphology and directional filters. Finally, a classification framework is implemented to categorize veins and distinguish them from surrounding tissues or artifacts. A setup based on Raspberry Pi was used. Experimental results of IR images demonstrate the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed approach in accurately detecting and characterizing human. The developed system shows promising for integration into applications requiring reliable and secure identification based on vein patterns. Our work provides an effective and low-cost solution for nursing staff in low and middle-income countries to perform a safe and accurate venipuncture.
InfaSafe emerges as a novel approach to infant health monitoring, uniquely positioned at the convergence of advanced artificial intelligence and edge computing. This system is designed not as a definitive solution but...
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(数字)9798350330649
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(纸本)9798350330656
InfaSafe emerges as a novel approach to infant health monitoring, uniquely positioned at the convergence of advanced artificial intelligence and edge computing. This system is designed not as a definitive solution but as an advanced platform for comprehensive data archiving, offering valuable insights into the complex and elusive nature of Sudden Unexpected Infant Death (SUID). InfaSafe utilizes AI algorithms for real-time pose estimation, breathing surveillance, and cry analysis, all within an edge computing framework that facilitates prompt and efficient data handling. This paper explores the development and capabilities of InfaSafe, underscoring its role in providing crucial, real-time insights and alerts for caregivers and its potential to contribute significantly to our understanding of neonatal health and SUID. The focus is on leveraging technological advancements to gather comprehensive data, which can be instrumental in shaping future research and interventions in neonatal care.
Automatic monitoring of beach video streams is important for improving safety, environmental monitoring, research, and education related to beach activities. This paper introduces a novel approach for monitoring water...
Automatic monitoring of beach video streams is important for improving safety, environmental monitoring, research, and education related to beach activities. This paper introduces a novel approach for monitoring water bodies by analyzing beach video streams. In contrast to earlier works, in the proposed approach we analyze not only the behavior of water bodies, or of humans on beach videos, but also the interactions between them. By integrating human activity and water behavior analysis, the approach provides new insights that are unattainable by analyzing each separately. To accomplish this objective, deep neural networks are utilized to analyze video streams from existing beach webcams. The analysis includes the detection and tracking of people and waves, as well as higher level analysis. We use the task of characterizing surfing conditions as a case study and demonstrate our ability to estimate the values of key parameters that can help determine the quality of a surf spot at a given time.
In this paper, we propose two methods for tracking multiple extended targets or unresolved group targets with elliptical extent shape. These two methods are deduced from the famous Probability Hypothesis Density (PHD)...
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The new NoVa hidden neurons have outperformed ReLU hidden neurons in deep classifiers on some large image test sets. The NoVa or nonvanishing logistic neuron additively perturbs the sigmoidal activation function so th...
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The new NoVa hidden neurons have outperformed ReLU hidden neurons in deep classifiers on some large image test sets. The NoVa or nonvanishing logistic neuron additively perturbs the sigmoidal activation function so that its derivative is not zero. This helps avoid or delay the problem of vanishing gradients. We here extend the NoVa to the generalized perturbed logistic neuron and compare it to ReLU and several other hidden neurons on large image test sets that include CIFAR-100 and Caltech-256. Generalized NoVa classifiers allow deeper networks with better classification on the large datasets. This deep benefit holds for ordinary unidirectional backpropagation. It also holds for the more efficient bidirectional backpropagation that trains in both the forward and backward directions.
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