The aim of this work is the development of a method to assist the diagnosis and classification of the status of Alzheimer's Disease (AD) using information that can be extracted from fMRI. The method consists of fi...
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The aim of this work is the development of a method to assist the diagnosis and classification of the status of Alzheimer's Disease (AD) using information that can be extracted from fMRI. The method consists of five stages: a) preprocessing of fMRI data to remove non-task related variability, b) modeling BOLD response depending on stimulus, c) feature extraction from fMRI data, d) feature selection and e) classification using the Random Forests (RF) algorithm. The proposed method is evaluated using data from 41 subjects (14 young adults, 14 non demented older adults and 13 demented older adults.
Feature extraction is probably the most important stage in image quality evaluation—effective features can well reflect the quality of digital images and vice versa. As a non-redundant sparse representation, contourl...
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Feature extraction is probably the most important stage in image quality evaluation—effective features can well reflect the quality of digital images and vice versa. As a non-redundant sparse representation, contourlet transform can effectively reflect visual characteristics of images, and it can be employed to perceptually capture the difference between images. Motivated by this, this paper first proposes an objective reduced-reference image quality evaluation metric based on contourlet transform. Experiments demonstrate that this new objective metric achieves consistent image quality evaluation results with what gained by subjective evaluation.
Past decades, numerous spectral analysis based algorithms have been proposed for dimensionality reduction, which plays an important role in machine learning and artificial intelligence. However, most of these existing...
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Past decades, numerous spectral analysis based algorithms have been proposed for dimensionality reduction, which plays an important role in machine learning and artificial intelligence. However, most of these existing algorithms are developed intuitively and pragmatically, i.e., on the base of the experience and knowledge of experts for their own purposes. Therefore, it will be more informative to provide some a systematic framework for understanding the common properties and intrinsic differences in the algorithms. In this paper, we propose such a framework, i.e., ldquopatch alignmentrdquo, which consists of two stages: part optimization and whole alignment. With the proposed framework, various algorithms including the conventional linear algorithms and the manifold learning algorithms are reformulated into a unified form, which gives us some new understandings on these algorithms.
In this paper, we present a robust approach to digital watermarking embedding and retrieval for digital images. The affine-invariant point detector is used to extract feature regions of the given host image. Image nor...
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In this paper, we present a robust approach to digital watermarking embedding and retrieval for digital images. The affine-invariant point detector is used to extract feature regions of the given host image. Image normalization and dominant gradient orientation alignment are applied to these feature regions to achieve scaling and rotation invariance. Thereafter, watermarks are embedded in these feature regions. The advantage of this proposed approach is demonstrated by a large amount of experiments, which can against different attacks, such as common image processing, rotation, scaling, cropping, and several other affine transformations.
It has been demonstrated by Serre et al. that the biologically inspired model (BIM) is effective for object recognition. It outperforms many state-of-the-art methods in challenging databases. However, BIM has the foll...
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It has been demonstrated by Serre et al. that the biologically inspired model (BIM) is effective for object recognition. It outperforms many state-of-the-art methods in challenging databases. However, BIM has the following three problems: a very heavy computational cost due to dense input, a disputable pooling operation in modeling relations of the visual cortex, and blind feature selection in a feedforward framework. To solve these problems, we develop an enhanced BIM (EBIM), which removes uninformative input by imposing sparsity constraints, utilizes a novel local weighted pooling operation with stronger physiological motivations, and applies a feedback procedure that selects effective features for combination. Empirical studies on the CalTech5 database and CalTech101 database show that EBIM is more effective and efficient than BIM. We also apply EBIM to the MIT-CBCL street scene database to show it achieves comparable performance in comparison with the current best performance. Moreover, the new system can process images with resolution 128 × 128 at a rate of 50 frames per second and enhances the speed 20 times at least in comparison with BIM in common applications.
The selection of a personalized treatment plan for a patient with cancer can be of critical importance for his health or even survival. A Decision Support Platform that can associate the patient clinical situation wit...
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The selection of a personalized treatment plan for a patient with cancer can be of critical importance for his health or even survival. A Decision Support Platform that can associate the patient clinical situation with the patient DNA Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) can provide the oncologist with a better understanding of the personalized conditions of every single patient. In this paper we present the MATCH platform which performs data integration between medicine and molecular biology, by developing a framework where, clinical and genomic features are appropriately combined in order to handle colon cancer diseases. The core of the platform is based on clustering techniques which provide profiles of patients with similar clinical features and genetic predispositions to cancer. The patients which share the same profile should probably have similar treatment plan and follow up. Through the integration of the clinical and genetic data of a patient, real time conclusions can be drawn for his early diagnosis, staging and more effective colon cancer treatment. Intelligent components are designed and developed which identify single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) from the gene sequences and combine them with the clinical situation of the patient. The produced clinico-genomic profiles are used as a decision support tool for newly sequenced patients.
Objectives: Diabetes is associated with loss of capillaries and macrovessel dilation in the conjunctiva, similar to well-known vessel changes in the retina. However, little is known about the effect of diabetes on the...
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Objectives: Diabetes is associated with loss of capillaries and macrovessel dilation in the conjunctiva, similar to well-known vessel changes in the retina. However, little is known about the effect of diabetes on the tortuosity of vessels of the conjunctiva. The authors examined the tortuosity of conjunctival vessels in participants with and without diabetes. Design: Case-control study. Participants and Controls: Fifty-three patients with diabetes (17 with type 1 diabetes, 36 with type 2 diabetes) and 60 controls (all aged 20-94 years). Methods: Digital red-free images of conjunctivae were analyzed using an automated computer algorithm to identify vessel axes and to quantify vessel tortuosity. Differences in vessel tortuosity were adjusted for age, gender, blood pressure, and smoking status. Main Outcome Measures: Tortuosity was expressed in units of curve energy (the square of the radian angular change between subsequent locations identified by the algorithm, standardized by vessel length). Results: A longer duration of diabetes was associated with a reduction in overall vessel tortuosity (-2.8%;95% confidence interval [CI], -4.3% to -1.3% per decade). This inverse association was driven by changes in larger vessels (40 μm in width or more), whereas increased tortuosity was observed in capillary sized vessels (<25 μm, 4.0%;95% CI, -0.2% to 8.2% per decade). Compared with controls, those with type 1 diabetes (median duration of disease, 26 years) showed a 17.9% increase (95% CI, 4.7% to -31.0%) in capillary tortuosity. Conversely, those with type 1 diabetes showed a 7% decrease (95% CI, -11.8% to -2.3%) in tortuosity among vessels 40 to 80 μm or less in size and a 26.8% decrease (95% CI, -66.2% to 12.7%) in the fewer number of vessels more than 80 μm in size compared with controls. Similar, but smaller differences were seen in those with type 2 diabetes with shorter duration of diabetes (median, 7 years). Conclusions: Macrovessel dilation associated with diabetes m
Designing open and distributed systems that can dynamically adapt in a predictable way to unexpected events is a challenging issue still not solved. Achieving this objective is a very complex task since it implies rea...
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ISBN:
(纸本)1595934804;9781595934802
Designing open and distributed systems that can dynamically adapt in a predictable way to unexpected events is a challenging issue still not solved. Achieving this objective is a very complex task since it implies reasoning at run-time, explicitly and in a combined way, on a system's functional and non-functional characteristics. This paper proposes a service-oriented architectural model allowing the dynamic enforcement of formally expressed metadata-based resilience policies. It also describes preliminary dynamic resilience experiments acting as proof of concept. Copyright 2007 ACM.
While much research has been done on finding similarities between protein sequences, there has not been the same progress on finding similarities between protein structures. Here we report a new algorithm (SBLAST) whi...
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SAM is a formal software architecture description model based on Petri nets and temporal logic. SAM Parser is a tool to automatically translate a SAM architecture design into a program in ArchJava/Java/AspectJ with ru...
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