DIVE models brain disease progression with high spatial resolution.
problem Reconstruct long-term brain pathology from short-term data.
method Clusters vertex-wise biomarker measurements, estimates average trajectories, and identifies disease-specific patterns.
result Reveals distinct patterns of pathology in different diseases and biomarker types.
A new mathematical approach detects frequency-based alterations in brain networks.
problem Understanding disease-relevant brain alterations through network analysis.
method Proposes a novel connectome harmonic analysis framework using common harmonic waves learned from Stiefel manifolds.
result Identifies more significant and reproducible network dysfunction patterns in Alzheimer's disease.
Enhances disease progression modeling using LLMs for complex brain connectivity.
problem Inaccurate predictions of disease spread due to oversimplified brain connectivity models.
method Uses LLMs to synthesize multi-modal relationships and learn disease trajectories from longitudinal data.
result Superior prediction accuracy and interpretability compared to traditional methods.
Novel approach combines local and global brain changes for AD prediction.
problem Detecting Alzheimer's disease through local and global brain changes.
method Patch-based 3D-CNNs combined with global topological features for multi-scale brain tissue connectivity.
result Average precision score of 0.95 for classifying cognitively normal subjects and AD patients (prevalence ~55%).
New method predicts AD progression using MEG brain networks.
problem Early diagnosis and prediction of Alzheimer's disease progression.
method MG2G, a deep learning method that maps brain networks into a latent space.
result MG2G detects subtle brain connectivity patterns and predicts AD progression.
Deep neural networks map brain lesions to deficits for better brain function understanding.
problem Mapping the functional brain organization from pathological lesions.
method Deep generative neural network architectures, specifically variational convolutional volumetric auto-encoders.
result Our model outperforms established methods in lesion-deficit inference across various scenarios.
Data diversity is critical to success when training deep learning models. Medical imaging data sets are often imbalanced as pathologic findings are generally rare, which introduces significant challenges when training deep learning models. In this work, we propose a method to generate synthetic abnormal MRI images with…
Spontaneous brain activity, as observed in functional neuroimaging, has been shown to display reproducible structure that expresses brain architecture and carries markers of brain pathologies. An important view of modern neuroscience is that such large-scale structure of coherent activity reflects modularity properties…
Neuroscience is undergoing faster changes than ever before. Over 100 years our field qualitatively described and invasively manipulated single or few organisms to gain anatomical, physiological, and pharmacological insights. In the last 10 years neuroscience spawned quantitative big-sample datasets on microanatomy, syn…
Paper introduces a framework for diagnosing Alzheimer's disease using higher-order topological features from fMRI.
problem Diagnosing Alzheimer's disease using brain network topology.
method Persistent homology to extract higher-order features (cycles, cavities) from fMRI data.
result Framework significantly outperforms existing methods in AD classification.
Bayesian layer improves image segmentation and out-of-distribution detection.
problem Outlier detection in image segmentation.
method Parameter-efficient hierarchical convolutional Gaussian Processes in Wasserstein-2 space.
result Uncertainty estimates improve out-of-distribution detection.
Smile-GANs clusters brain MRI scans to reveal disease subtypes and progression.
problem Understanding disease heterogeneity in brain MRI scans.
method Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) for semi-supervised clustering.
result Discovered four subtypes of Alzheimer's and prodromal phases, with two progressive pathways.
Localization of chest pathologies in chest X-ray images is a challenging task because of their varying sizes and appearances. We propose a novel weakly supervised method to localize chest pathologies using class aware deep multiscale feature learning. Our method leverages intermediate feature maps from CNN layers at di…
This study investigates how much knowledge from natural images can be transferred to pathology images.
problem Quantifying how much knowledge from natural images can be transferred to pathology images.
method Proposes a framework to quantify knowledge gain by a particular layer, conducts empirical investigation in pathology image centered transfer learning.
result Early layers of deep models can transfer knowledge to pathology image classification tasks.
Study classifies pathology reports using TF-IDF features and machine learning.
problem Classifying pathology reports for cancer surveillance and diagnostic workflow.
method Extracted TF-IDF features from pathology reports and classified them using SVM, XGBoost, and Logistic Regression.
result XGBoost achieved 92% accuracy in classifying pathology reports.
This paper characterizes VAE training pathologies and their effects on tasks.
problem Characterizing VAE training pathologies and their impact on downstream tasks.
method Concretely characterizing conditions for VAE training pathologies and their connection to specific downstream tasks.
result Connects VAE training pathologies to specific downstream tasks like learning compressed and disentangled representations, adversarial robustness, and semi-supervised learning.
Bayesian Gaussian Processes layer detects out-of-distribution data in medical imaging.
problem Detecting out-of-distribution data in medical imaging tasks.
method Parameter-efficient hierarchical convolutional Gaussian Processes in Wasserstein-2 space.
result Uncertainty estimates enable superior out-of-distribution detection compared to previous methods.
Improved QSM maps from MRI using deep learning.
problem Inaccurate susceptibility maps due to ill-posed dipole inversion.
method 3D GAN with increased receptive field and WGAN with gradient penalty.
result Significantly better QSM maps from single orientation phase maps.
Phase synchronisation in multichannel EEG is known as the manifestation of functional brain connectivity. Traditional phase synchronisation studies are mostly based on time average synchrony measures hence do not preserve the temporal evolution of the phase difference. Here we propose a new method to show the existence…
Batch normalization in the last layer reduces sharpness in wide neural networks.
problem Pathological sharpness in wide neural networks.
method Quantifying the geometry of the parameter space using Fisher information matrix and analyzing deep neural networks with random initialization.
result Batch normalization in the last layer significantly decreases pathological sharpness under specific conditions.
The paper identifies conditions for trend reversal in classification tasks.
problem Trend reversal in classification scores and dataset values.
method Algebraic conditions and numerical results for ridge regression.
result Existence of pathological regularization regimes for certain dataset conditions.
SAPSAM trains CNNs on lung CTs with binary labels, improving CPA detection and localization.
problem Chronic Pulmonary Aspergillosis (CPA) detection and localization on CT scans using binary labels.
method Binary labels, average intensity projections, 2D RGB-like images, hierarchical CNN architectures.
result High classification accuracy, precise localization, predictive power of 2-year survival.
KL-regularized RL from expert demos can lead to slow, unstable learning.
problem Pathological training dynamics in KL-regularized RL from expert demonstrations.
method Empirical analysis and non-parametric behavioral reference policies.
result KL-regularized RL can be significantly improved by using non-parametric behavioral policies.
This work examines robust MCMC for pathological distributions.
problem Pathological behavior in target distributions affects MCMC efficiency.
method Reviewing and proposing remedies for roughness and flatness in MCMC.
result Robust MCMC algorithms can perform well even in challenging conditions.
Hippocampal dentate granule cells are among the few neuronal cell types generated throughout adult life in mammals. In the normal brain, new granule cells are generated from progenitors in the subgranular zone and integrate in a typical fashion. During the development of epilepsy, granule cell integration is profoundly…
Paper develops a BERT-based classifier to reduce pathology report annotation workload.
problem Manual annotation of pathology reports is labor-intensive and time-consuming.
method Developed an automatic text classifier using BERT and introduced a human-centric metric to identify low-confidence cases.
result The model reduces manual annotation workload by 80% to 98%.
Generative model for morphological continuum of normal and pathological states.
problem Identifying trends and features that separate normality and pathology in biomedical images.
method Wasserstein Auto-encoder with HSIC regularization for latent features.
result Model generates a continuum of morphological changes corresponding to side information.
We introduce a novel approach, requiring only mild assumptions, for the characterization of deep neural networks at initialization. Our approach applies both to fully-connected and convolutional networks and easily incorporates batch normalization and skip-connections. Our key insight is to consider the evolution with …
The paper presents algorithms for diagnosing Pathological Myopia and detecting retinal structures.
problem Diagnosing Pathological Myopia and detecting retinal structures in fundus images.
method The approach uses Deep Learning techniques, including transfer learning with Xception and YOLO architecture.
result The method has shown satisfactory results in the Pathologic Myopia Challenge.
New analysis explains pathology of deep Gaussian processes.
problem Pathology of deep Gaussian processes reduces learning capacities with increased layers.
method Study nonlinear dynamic systems corresponding to DGPs, derive recurrence relations.
result Provide tighter bounds and rate of convergence for dynamic systems.
Machine learning improves EEG pathology classification.
problem Automating clinical EEG analysis using machine learning.
method Developed a comprehensive feature-based framework and compared it to deep neural networks.
result Feature-based framework achieves accuracies similar to deep neural networks.
In this paper, we propose a classification based glottal closure instants (GCI) detection from pathological acoustic speech signal, which finds many applications in vocal disorder analysis. Till date, GCI for pathological disorder is extracted from laryngeal (glottal source) signal recorded from Electroglottograph, a d…
Causal methods for GRN inference from single-cell data often fail in real-world benchmarks.
problem Understanding when and why causal methods for GRN inference from single-cell data fail in real-world benchmarks.
method Introduced a controlled diagnostic framework to isolate and measure seven pathologies.
result Causal methods dominate in clean and structurally favorable regimes but fail in specific pathologies.
Regularized Stein thinning improves MCMC output approximations.
problem Pathologies in Stein thinning leading to poor approximations.
method Theoretical analysis and regularization to improve KSD.
result Regularized Stein thinning alleviates pathologies and improves efficiency.
Neuroimage analysis usually involves learning thousands or even millions of variables using only a limited number of samples. In this regard, sparse models, e.g. the lasso, are applied to select the optimal features and achieve high diagnosis accuracy. The lasso, however, usually results in independent unstable feature…
We propose a method to classify cardiac pathology based on a novel approach to extract image derived features to characterize the shape and motion of the heart. An original semi-supervised learning procedure, which makes efficient use of a large amount of non-segmented images and a small amount of images segmented manu…
For test configurations, the Donaldson-Futaki invariant F_1 is well-known. In this note, its refinement will be discussed. Then we see that Li-Xu's pathology doesn't occur, since their example of a non-normal test configuration, with trivial normalization, actually has non-vanishing F_1 in this refined sense.
New test identifies specific biological parameters for personalized CVD detection.
problem Ineffectual pathology tests fail to consider platelet activation and inter-individual variability.
method Stochastic platelet deposition model and approximate Bayesian computation with discriminative summary statistics.
result Inferred parameters help identify specific biological parameters for personalized CVD detection.
Method treats pseudo healthy synthesis as a factor decomposition problem.
problem Creating a healthy-looking image from a pathological one.
method Adversarial training with paired or unpaired settings, combining two factors (healthy and disease) to reconstruct the input.
result Method outperforms conditional GAN and CycleGAN in generating pseudo healthy images.
This paper proposes synthetic augmentation for nuclei image segmentation in medical pathology.
problem Rare and time-consuming labeling of tumor nuclei images for semantic segmentation.
method Label-to-image translation to generate synthetic images.
result Synthetic augmentation improves segmentation accuracy.
Study reveals pathological eigenvalue spectra in FIM and its variants of DNNs.
problem Understanding sharp local shapes in DNN loss landscapes.
method Analysis of FIM and its variants in regression and classification DNNs.
result Pathological eigenvalue spectra appear in FIM and its variants, indicating sharp local shapes in specific directions.
Automatic Chemical Design is a framework for generating novel molecules with optimized properties. The original scheme, featuring Bayesian optimization over the latent space of a variational autoencoder, suffers from the pathology that it tends to produce invalid molecular structures. First, we demonstrate empirically …
Optimal prototypes found for challenging pathological geometries.
problem Finding optimal prototypes for pathological geometries is challenging.
method Analytical and heuristic algorithms for finding nearly-optimal prototypes.
result Optimal prototypes can be found analytically for challenging geometries.
Study uses image analysis to predict MSI status in tumors.
problem Challenges in distinguishing MSI from its counterpart.
method Interpretable pathological image analysis strategies using Haematoxylin and eosin-stained images.
result Strategies achieve decent performance in MSI prediction.
Paper presents a brain tumor segmentation method using NGMM and 3D FVF.
problem Automatic brain tumor segmentation from MRIs is challenging.
method Normalized Gaussian Bayesian classifier and 3D Fluid Vector Flow algorithm.
result The method successfully segments brain tumors from MRI images.
Local semi-supervised method improves brain tissue classification in child MRI.
problem Inaccurate detection of brain tissue classes due to intensity variations in early developing brains.
method Kernel Fisher Discriminant Analysis (KFDA) combined with SSIM for perceptual image quality assessment.
result Optimal brain partitioning into subdomains with different average intensity values and separating surfaces between brain parts.
A graph-based method detects abnormal brain connections in functional MRI data.
problem Detecting abnormal brain connections in functional MRI data.
method High-order Graph Auto-Encoder (GAE) with hypersphere distribution for functional data analysis.
result Identifies correlations between affected brain regions and their simultaneous occurrence over time.
DBGDGM models dynamic brain graphs for better understanding brain function.
problem Previous brain graph models ignore temporal dynamics, limiting their usefulness.
method DBGDGM clusters brain regions into evolving communities and learns dynamic node embeddings.
result DBGDGM outperforms baselines in graph generation, dynamic link prediction, and graph classification.