arXiv research

Improved assessment of knee osteoarthritis using geodesic B-score.

Joint replacement is the most common inpatient surgical treatment in the US. We investigate the clinical pathway optimization for knee replacement, which is a sequential decision process from onset to recovery. Based on episodic claims from previous cases, we view the pathway optimization as an intelligence crowdsourci…

Method detects lithium-ion battery knee onset for early warning.

Convolutional neural networks improve KL grade prediction from Indian knee radiographs.

In this paper we construct some natural geometrical objects on the 1-jet space J^1(R,R^3), like a nonlinear connection, a Cartan linear connection (together with its d-torsions and d-curvatures), a jet "electromagnetic" d-field and its geometric "electromagnetic" Yang-Mills energy, starting from a given dynamical syste…

The automatic segmentation of human knee cartilage from 3D MR images is a useful yet challenging task due to the thin sheet structure of the cartilage with diffuse boundaries and inhomogeneous intensities. In this paper, we present an iterative multi-class learning method to segment the femoral, tibial and patellar car…

We provide additional statistical background for the methodology developed in the clinical analysis of knee osteoarthritis in "A Precision Medicine Approach to Develop and Internally Validate Optimal Exercise and Weight Loss Treatments for Overweight and Obese Adults with Knee Osteoarthritis" (Jiang et al. 2020). Jiang…

Deep learning improves MRI analysis of MSK disorders.

MosaicMRI expands public datasets for musculoskeletal MRI, revealing cross-anatomical correlations.

A treatment regime is a function that maps individual patient information to a recommended treatment, hence explicitly incorporating the heterogeneity in need for treatment across individuals. Patient responses are dichotomous and can be predicted through an unknown relationship that depends on the patient information …

Conventional inclusion criteria used in osteoarthritis clinical trials are not very effective in selecting patients who would benefit from a therapy being tested. Typically majority of selected patients show no or limited disease progression during a trial period. As a consequence, the effect of the tested treatment ca…

Dedicated to Professor Gromoll: The aim of our article is to generalize the Toponogov comparison theorem to a complete Riemannian manifold with smooth convex boundary. A geodesic triangle will be replaced by an open (geodesic) triangle standing on the boundary of the manifold, and a model surface will be replaced by th…

In compressed sensing MRI (CS-MRI), k-space measurements are under-sampled to achieve accelerated scan times. CS-MRI presents two fundamental problems: (1) where to sample and (2) how to reconstruct an under-sampled scan. In this paper, we tackle both problems simultaneously for the specific case of 2D Cartesian sampli…

Recently we generalized Toponogov's comparison theorem to a complete Riemannian manifold with smooth convex boundary, where a geodesic triangle was replaced by an open (geodesic) triangle standing on the boundary of the manifold, and a model surface was replaced by the universal covering surface of a cylinder of revolu…

We replace the usual Convex Integration formula by a Corrugation Process and introduce the notion of Kuiper differential relations. This notion provides a natural framework for the construction of solutions with self-similarity properties. We consider the case of the totally real relation, we prove that it is Kuiper an…

In this paper we prove a convergence result for sequences of Willmore immersions with simple minimal bubbles. To this end we replace the total curvature control in T. Rivière's proof of the $\varepsilon$-regularity for Willmore immersions by a control of the local Willmore energy.

Coupling Dirac structures are Dirac structures defined on the total space of a fibration, generalizing hamiltonian fibrations from symplectic geometry, where one replaces the symplectic structure on the fibers by a Poisson structure. We study the associated Poisson gauge theory, in order to describe the presymplectic g…

Survey of weak metric f-manifolds, generalizing K. Yano's structures.

We approximate the distribution of total expenditure of a retail company over warranty claims incurred in a fixed period [0, T], say the following quarter. We consider two kinds of warranty policies, namely, the non-renewing free replacement warranty policy and the non-renewing pro-rata warranty policy. Our approximati…

Generative adversarial networks reconstruct MRI images without full data.

In the present note we describe geometrically the homology classes in the total space of a surface bundle over a surface in terms of the holonomy map. We treat the cases where the base surface is closed or has one boundary component. We replace the wrong theorem of the previous version by some observations on the homol…

We consider complexity of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) and their associated massive over-parameterization. Such over-parametrization may entail susceptibility to adversarial attacks, loss of interpretability and adverse Size, Weight and Power - Cost (SWaP-C) considerations. We ask if there are methodical ways (regulariz…

P.Lecomte has proposed to take into account the covariant derivatives used to build ordering prescriptions for the naturality of transformation properties and has conjectured that there exists an natural ordering prescription for differential operators of any orders between density bundles which in addition is invarian…

New Morse-Bott function defined on Stiefel manifolds, revealing complex critical structures.

New method finds invariants of Lie algebras, especially for semi-direct sums.

Lagrange geometry is the geometry of the tensor field defined by the fiberwise Hessian of a non degenerate Lagrangian function on the total space of a tangent bundle. Finsler geometry is the geometrically most interesting case of Lagrange geometry. In this paper we study a generalization, which consists of replacing th…

The famous theorems of Cartan, related to the axiom of $r$-planes, and Leung-Nomizu about the axiom of $r$-spheres were extended to Kähler geometry by several authors. In this paper we replace the strong notions of totally geodesic submanifolds ($r$-planes) and extrinsic spheres ($r$-spheres) by a wider class of specia…

The paper improves NN predictions with reliable confidence intervals.

The tail of the distribution of a sum of a random number of independent and identically distributed nonnegative random variables depends on the tails of the number of terms and of the terms themselves. This situation is of interest in the collective risk model, where the total claim size in a portfolio is the sum of a …

We propose a natural definition of the weighted $σ_k$-curvature for a manifold with density; i.e.\ a triple $(M^n,g,e^{-φ}\mathrm{dvol})$. This definition is intended to capture the key properties of the $σ_k$-curvatures in conformal geometry with the role of pointwise conformal changes of the metric replaced by pointw…

Limiting the model size of a kernel support vector machine to a pre-defined budget is a well-established technique that allows to scale SVM learning and prediction to large-scale data. Its core addition to simple stochastic gradient training is budget maintenance through merging of support vectors. This requires solvin…

Localized curvature bounds ensure harmonic maps are constant.

We call CPE metrics the critical points of the total scalar curvature functional restricted to the space of metrics with constant scalar curvature of unitary volume. In this short note, we give a necessary and sufficient condition for a CPE metric to be Einstein in therms of $σ_2$-singular spaces. Such a result improve…

RLFA estimates misstated monetary fraction with weighted sampling without replacement.

In 1963, K.P.Grotemeyer proved an interesting variant of the Gauss-Bonnet Theorem. Let M be an oriented closed surface in the Euclidean space R^3 with Euler characteristic χ(M), Gauss curvature G and unit normal vector field n. Grotemeyer's identity replaces the Gauss-Bonnet integrand G by the normal moment <a,n>^2G, w…

Prodigy estimates learning rate without tuning, improving convergence.

New algorithm trains neural nets on simple skills to learn complex tasks faster.

Unified theory for UCB policies in total and max bandit problems.

A long-standing problem in the theory of stochastic gradient descent (SGD) is to prove that its without-replacement version RandomShuffle converges faster than the usual with-replacement version. We present the first (to our knowledge) non-asymptotic solution to this problem, which shows that after a "reasonable" numbe…

We propose a rank-$k$ variant of the classical Frank-Wolfe algorithm to solve convex optimization over a trace-norm ball. Our algorithm replaces the top singular-vector computation ($1$-SVD) in Frank-Wolfe with a top-$k$ singular-vector computation ($k$-SVD), which can be done by repeatedly applying $1$-SVD $k$ times. …

New method for constrained sampling using gradient flows.

We study weakened $f$-structures on manifolds, generalizing classical results.

Spatial graphs study tangle replacement with equivalence classes.

We introduce new symplectic cut-and-paste operations that generalize the rational blowdown. In particular, we will define $k$-replaceable plumbings to be those that, heuristically, can be symplectically replaced by Euler characteristic $k$ 4-manifolds. We will then classify 2-replaceable linear plumbings, construct 2-r…

New bounds use IPMs to improve generalization in machine learning.

During an operation of surgery on a Riemannian manifold and along a given embedded submanifold, one needs to replace the (old) metric induced by the exponential map on a tubular neighborhood of the submanifold by the Sasakian metric. So a good understanding of the behavior of these two metrics is important, this is our…

The paper studies a new structure on contact manifolds and its foliation properties.

Discontinuous Finite Element Methods (DFEM) have been widely used for solving $S_n$ radiation transport problems in participative and non-participative media. In the DFEM $S_n$ methodology, the transport equation is discretized into a set of algebraic equations that have to be solved for each spatial cell and angular d…