The volume of stroke lesion is the gold standard for predicting the clinical outcome of stroke patients. However, the presence of stroke lesion may cause neural disruptions to other brain regions, and these potentially damaged regions may affect the clinical outcome of stroke patients. In this paper, we introduce the t…
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CoSE models complex drawings by treating strokes as a collection that can be composed.
problem Modeling complex free-form structures like diagrams.
method Generative model using autoencoder to project strokes into a fixed latent space, relational model operates in latent space.
result Model captures both individual strokes and their compositional structure.
Background elimination for noisy character images or character images from real scene is still a challenging problem, due to the bewildering backgrounds, uneven illumination, low resolution and different distortions. We propose a stroke-based character reconstruction(SCR) method that use a weighted quadratic Bezier cur…
Study uses machine learning to predict stroke risk in China with improved accuracy.
problem Predicting stroke risk in China using machine learning.
method Combines VAR and GNN for causal inference, compares multiple classification algorithms, uses SMOTE undersampling.
result Gradient Boosting model shows highest performance and stability in predicting stroke risk.
Study uses reinforcement learning to optimize metachronal paddling at low Reynolds number.
problem Optimizing metachronal paddling strategies for efficient swimming at low Reynolds numbers.
method Applied reinforcement learning to a swimmer model with varying paddle spacings.
result The reinforcement learning algorithm selects a back-to-front metachronal wave-like stroke as the most efficient, regardless of the number of paddles.
Oriental ink painting, called Sumi-e, is one of the most appealing painting styles that has attracted artists around the world. Major challenges in computer-based Sumi-e simulation are to abstract complex scene information and draw smooth and natural brush strokes. To automatically find such strokes, we propose to mode…
Deep learning identifies functional primitives in stroke rehabilitation.
problem Measuring the necessary dose of rehabilitation training for stroke recovery.
method Automatic identification of functional primitives using IMUs and deep learning.
result Convolutional neural network achieved 70% accuracy in primitive classification.
According to the WHO, Cerebrovascular Stroke, or CS, is the second largest cause of death worldwide. Current diagnosis of CS relies on labor and cost intensive neuroimaging techniques, unsuitable for areas with inadequate access to quality medical facilities. Thus, there is a great need for an efficient diagnosis alter…
Large vessel occlusion (LVO) plays an important role in the diagnosis of acute ischemic stroke. Identifying LVO of patients in the early stage on admission would significantly lower the probabilities of suffering from severe effects due to stroke or even save their lives. In this paper, we utilized both structural and …
Bayesian CNN improves MRI stroke diagnosis accuracy and uncertainty quantification.
problem Uncertainty quantification in automated image analysis for medical decision-making.
method Bayesian Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) with aggregation methods for patient-level diagnoses.
result Bayesian CNN achieved 95.33% accuracy on 511 patients, 2% higher than non-Bayesian.
Rehabilitation training is the primary intervention to improve motor recovery after stroke, but a tool to measure functional training does not currently exist. To bridge this gap, we previously developed an approach to classify functional movement primitives using wearable sensors and a machine learning (ML) algorithm.…
This paper presents a study in task-oriented approach to stroke rehabilitation by controlling a haptic device via near-infrared spectroscopy-based brain-computer interface (BCI). The task is to command the haptic device to move in opposing directions of leftward and rightward movement. Our study consists of data acquis…
Spatial-Spectral Boosting Analysis for Stroke Patients' Motor Imagery EEG in Rehabilitation Trainingstat.ML
Current studies about motor imagery based rehabilitation training systems for stroke subjects lack an appropriate analytic method, which can achieve a considerable classification accuracy, at the same time detects gradual changes of imagery patterns during rehabilitation process and disinters potential mechanisms about…
We aim to produce predictive models that are not only accurate, but are also interpretable to human experts. Our models are decision lists, which consist of a series of if...then... statements (e.g., if high blood pressure, then stroke) that discretize a high-dimensional, multivariate feature space into a series of sim…
New method predicts aphasia severity with narrower uncertainty intervals.
problem Predicting aphasia severity in stroke patients using neuroimages.
method Sparse heteroscedastic Bayesian high-dimensional regression with H-PROBE algorithm.
result H-PROBE provides narrower prediction intervals for aphasia severity.
Ischaemic stroke is a medical condition caused by occlusion of blood supply to the brain tissue thus forming a lesion. A lesion is zoned into a core associated with irreversible necrosis typically located at the center of the lesion, while reversible hypoxic changes in the outer regions of the lesion are termed as the …
We present sketch-rnn, a recurrent neural network (RNN) able to construct stroke-based drawings of common objects. The model is trained on thousands of crude human-drawn images representing hundreds of classes. We outline a framework for conditional and unconditional sketch generation, and describe new robust training …
RATE metrics evaluate treatment prioritization rules, subsuming existing methods.
problem Comparing and testing the quality of treatment prioritization rules.
method Rank-weighted average treatment effect (RATE) metrics.
result RATE metrics enable asymptotically exact inference in various study settings.
Causal ML methods failed to validate their personalized treatment effects in two large trials.
problem Validating causal machine learning methods for personalized treatment effects in precision medicine.
method Assessed 17 mainstream causal heterogeneity ML methods using two large randomized controlled trials.
result None of the ML methods reliably validated their performance, internal or external, showing significant discrepancies between training and test data.
The method learns to partition event time space for better prediction.
problem Improving event time prediction in clinical settings with limited data.
method Develops a method to learn cut points for partitioning event time space.
result Improved prediction performance on real-world datasets.
Paper proposes MSSDDPG for better financial trading strategies.
problem Extracting accurate features from noisy, non-stationary financial time series.
method Multi-scale stroke deep deterministic policy gradient reinforcement learning model (MSSDDPG).
result MSSDDPG outperforms other strategies in China's CSI 300 and SSE Composite.
Perinatal stroke (PS) is a serious condition that, if undetected and thus untreated, often leads to life-long disability, in particular Cerebral Palsy (CP). In clinical settings, Prechtl's General Movement Assessment (GMA) can be used to classify infant movements using a Gestalt approach, identifying infants at high ri…
We introduce a novel class of rotation invariants of two dimensional curves based on iterated integrals. The invariants we present are in some sense complete and we describe an algorithm to calculate them, giving explicit computations up to order six. We present an application to online (stroke-trajectory based) charac…
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.
Framework tests CATE homogeneity across trials and evaluates confounding.
problem Assessing treatment effect consistency across randomized and observational studies.
method Leverages multiple randomized trials to test CATE homogeneity and compares with observational data.
result Identifies potential confounding and effect heterogeneity in treatment effects.
Generative Neuro-Symbolic model learns from raw data with rich conceptual representations.
problem Learning rich, general-purpose conceptual representations from raw perceptual inputs.
method Generative Neuro-Symbolic (GNS) model combining symbolic and neural network approaches.
result Model learns from raw data and generalizes to 4 unique tasks.
Bayesian meta-learning improves health prediction models across similar diseases.
problem Inter- and intra-task variability in healthcare predictions due to disease heterogeneity and patient differences.
method Bayesian meta-learning approach that models task similarity to mitigate negative transfer and improve generalizability.
result Significant generalizability improvements in stroke prediction tasks using electronic health record data.
Lightning strokes create powerful electromagnetic pulses that routinely cause very low frequency (VLF) waves to propagate across hemispheres along geomagnetic field lines. VLF antenna receivers can be used to detect these whistler waves generated by these lightning strokes. The particular time/frequency dependence of t…
The paper proposes a new algorithm to select subsets of training data for better accuracy and explainability.
problem Tackles the challenge of balancing accuracy and explainability in pattern recognition.
method Identifies multiple subsets with simple local patterns by clustering similar instances.
result The sub-setting algorithm outperformed traditional decision trees by 15% on the international stroke dataset.
Although machine learning has become a powerful tool to augment doctors in clinical analysis, the immense amount of labeled data that is necessary to train supervised learning approaches burdens each development task as time and resource intensive. The vast majority of dense clinical information is stored in written re…
The way developers collaborate inside and particularly across teams often escapes management's attention, despite a formal organization with designated teams being defined. Observability of the actual, organically formed engineering structure provides decision makers invaluable additional tools to manage their talent p…
Diagnostic stroke imaging with C-arm cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) enables reduction of time-to-therapy for endovascular procedures. However, the prolonged acquisition time compared to helical CT increases the likelihood of rigid patient motion. Rigid motion corrupts the geometry alignment assumed during reconst…
Bayesian Supervised Causal Clustering identifies patient subgroups for personalized decision-making.
problem Finding patient subgroups with similar characteristics for personalized decision-making.
method Bayesian Supervised Causal Clustering (BSCC) that identifies homogenous subgroups based on treatment effects.
result BSCC identifies subgroups with similar covariate profiles and treatment effects.
Robotic table tennis learns efficient policies to return balls at 100Hz.
problem Developing efficient robotic table tennis strategies.
method Model-free reinforcement learning using evolutionary search on CNN-based policies.
result Robots can develop multi-modal styles (forehand and backhand) with 80% return rate.
Glare is a phenomenon that occurs when the scene has a reflection of a light source or has one in it. This luminescence can hide useful information from the image, making text recognition virtually impossible. In this paper, we propose an approach to detect glare in images taken by users via mobile devices. Our method …
We explore neural painters, a generative model for brushstrokes learned from a real non-differentiable and non-deterministic painting program. We show that when training an agent to "paint" images using brushstrokes, using a differentiable neural painter leads to much faster convergence. We propose a method for encoura…
Log-supermodularity of weight functions and the loading monotonicity of weighted insurance premiumsq-fin.RM
The paper is motivated by a problem concerning the monotonicity of insurance premiums with respect to their loading parameter: the larger the parameter, the larger the insurance premium is expected to be. This property, usually called loading monotonicity, is satisfied by premiums that appear in the literature. The inc…
Resting-state functional MRI (rs-fMRI) scans hold the potential to serve as a diagnostic or prognostic tool for a wide variety of conditions, such as autism, Alzheimer's disease, and stroke. While a growing number of studies have demonstrated the promise of machine learning algorithms for rs-fMRI based clinical or beha…
The Clock Drawing Test (CDT) is a rapid, inexpensive, and popular neuropsychological screening tool for cognitive conditions. The Digital Clock Drawing Test (dCDT) uses novel software to analyze data from a digitizing ballpoint pen that reports its position with considerable spatial and temporal precision, making possi…
We investigate using reinforcement learning agents as generative models of images (extending arXiv:1804.01118). A generative agent controls a simulated painting environment, and is trained with rewards provided by a discriminator network simultaneously trained to assess the realism of the agent's samples, either uncond…
We introduce SparseVM, a method that registers clinical-quality 3D MR scans both faster and more accurately than previously possible. Deformable alignment, or registration, of clinical scans is a fundamental task for many clinical neuroscience studies. However, most registration algorithms are designed for high-resolut…
Hypertension is a major risk factor for stroke, cardiovascular disease, and end-stage renal disease, and its prevalence is expected to rise dramatically. Effective hypertension management is thus critical. A particular priority is decreasing the incidence of uncontrolled hypertension. Early identification of patients a…
Extraneous variables are variables that are irrelevant for a certain task, but heavily affect the distribution of the available data. In this work, we show that the presence of such variables can degrade the performance of deep-learning models. We study three datasets where there is a strong influence of known extraneo…
Sketching is more fundamental to human cognition than speech. Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have achieved the state-of-the-art in speech-related tasks but have not made significant development in generating stroke-based sketches a.k.a sketches in vector format. Though there are Variational Auto Encoders (VAEs) for genera…
Neural network predicts cardiovascular events from EHRs with high accuracy.
problem Predicting onset of cardiovascular diseases from electronic health records.
method Multi-task gated recurrent units with attention mechanism.
result Model outperforms clinical risk scores in predicting stroke and myocardial infarction.
Study reviews machine learning techniques for stress monitoring.
problem Improving accuracy of stress monitoring devices.
method Reviewed machine learning techniques for various stress indicators.
result Choosing the right classifier depends on multiple factors.
In this paper, a novel architecture of Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) is designed and experimented. The proposed RNN adopts a computational memory based on the concept of stigmergy. The basic principle of a Stigmergic Memory (SM) is that the activity of deposit/removal of a quantity in the SM stimulates the next activi…
Design and Characterization of a Novel Motion Conversion Element: Curved Groove Ball Bearing without Retainerphysics.app-ph
Innovative ball bearing converts rotary to reciprocating motion.
problem Designing efficient motion conversion mechanisms.
method Closed curve envelopment theory and diameter-stroke ratio concept.
result Compact and vibration-reduced ball bearing design.