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Bayesian Optimization of 2D Echocardiography Segmentation

Son-Tung Tran, Joshua V. Stough, Xiaoyan Zhang, Christopher M. Haggerty ยท 2022

Bayesian Optimization (BO) is a well-studied hyperparameter tuning technique that is more efficient than grid search for high-cost, high-parameter machine learning problems. Echocardiography is a ubiqโ€ฆ

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Reconfigurable Drone System for Transportation of Parcels With Variable Mass and Size

Fabrizio Schiano, Przemyslaw Mariusz Kornatowski, Leonardo Cencetti, Dario Floreano ยท 2022

Cargo drones are designed to carry payloads with predefined shape, size, and/or mass. This lack of flexibility requires a fleet of diverse drones tailored to specific cargo dimensions. Here we proposeโ€ฆ

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Time-Optimal Handover Trajectory Planning for Aerial Manipulators based on Discrete Mechanics and Complementarity Constraints

Wei Luo, Jingshan Chen, Henrik Ebel, Peter Eberhard ยท 2022

Planning a time-optimal trajectory for aerial robots is critical in many drone applications, such as rescue missions and package delivery, which have been widely researched in recent years. However, iโ€ฆ

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Left Ventricle Contouring of Apical Three-Chamber Views on 2D Echocardiography

Alberto Gomez, Mihaela Porumb, Angela Mumith, Thierry Judge, Shan Gao, Woo-Jin Cho Kim, Jorge Oliveira, Agis Chartsias ยท 2022

We propose a new method to automatically contour the left ventricle on 2D echocardiographic images. Unlike most existing segmentation methods, which are based on predicting segmentation masks, we focuโ€ฆ

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A Novel Low Complexity High Resolution Spectrum Hole Detection Technique for Cognitive Radio

Sushmitha Sajeevu, Sakthivel Vellaisamy ยท 2022

Cognitive radio is a potential solution to meet the upcoming spectrum crunch issue. In a cognitive radio, spectrum holes can be identified using spectrum sensing techniques. A high resolution spectrumโ€ฆ

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Fully Automated Assessment of Cardiac Coverage in Cine Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Images using an Explainable Deep Visual Salient Region Detection Model

Shahabedin Nabavi, Mohammad Hashemi, Mohsen Ebrahimi Moghaddam, Ahmad Ali Abin, Alejandro F. Frangi ยท 2022

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging has become a modality with superior power for the diagnosis and prognosis of cardiovascular diseases. One of the essential basic quality controls of CMRโ€ฆ

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Early Myocardial Infarction Detection with One-Class Classification over Multi-view Echocardiography

Aysen Degerli, Fahad Sohrab, Serkan Kiranyaz, Moncef Gabbouj ยท 2022

Myocardial infarction (MI) is the leading cause of mortality and morbidity in the world. Early therapeutics of MI can ensure the prevention of further myocardial necrosis. Echocardiography is the fundโ€ฆ

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Improving the Energy Efficiency and Robustness of tinyML Computer Vision using Log-Gradient Input Images

Qianyun Lu, Boris Murmann ยท 2022

This paper studies the merits of applying log-gradient input images to convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for tinyML computer vision (CV). We show that log gradients enable: (i) aggressive 1.5-bit qโ€ฆ

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PARCEL: Physics-based Unsupervised Contrastive Representation Learning for Multi-coil MR Imaging

Shanshan Wang, Ruoyou Wu, Cheng Li, Juan Zou, Ziyao Zhang, Qiegen Liu, Yan Xi, Hairong Zheng ยท 2022

With the successful application of deep learning to magnetic resonance (MR) imaging, parallel imaging techniques based on neural networks have attracted wide attention. However, in the absence of highโ€ฆ

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An Integrated Risk Assessment Process of Safety-Related Digital I&C Systems in Nuclear Power Plants

Hongbin Zhang, Han Bao, Tate Shorthill, Edward Quinn ยท 2021

Upgrading the existing analog instrumentation and control (IC) systems to state-of-the-art digital IC (DIC) systems will greatly benefit existing light-water reactors (LWRs). However, the issue of sofโ€ฆ

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A simulation driven optimization algorithm for scheduling sorting center operations

Supratim Ghosh, Aritra Pal, Prashant Kumar, Ankush Ojha, Aditya Paranjape, Souvik Barat, Harshad Khadilkar ยท 2021

Parcel sorting operations in logistics enterprises aim to achieve a high throughput of parcels through sorting centers. These sorting centers are composed of large circular conveyor belts on which incโ€ฆ

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Echocardiography Segmentation with Enforced Temporal Consistency

Nathan Painchaud, Nicolas Duchateau, Olivier Bernard, Pierre-Marc Jodoin ยท 2021

Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have demonstrated their ability to segment 2D cardiac ultrasound images. However, despite recent successes according to which the intra-observer variability on end-โ€ฆ

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Towards Measuring Fairness in Speech Recognition: Casual Conversations Dataset Transcriptions

Chunxi Liu, Michael Picheny, Leda Sar{i}, Pooja Chitkara, Alex Xiao, Xiaohui Zhang, Mark Chou, Andres Alvarado, Caner Hazirbas, Yatharth Saraf ยท 2021

It is well known that many machine learning systems demonstrate bias towards specific groups of individuals. This problem has been studied extensively in the Facial Recognition area, but much less so โ€ฆ

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Transformer-based Image Compression

Ming Lu, Peiyao Guo, Huiqing Shi, Chuntong Cao, Zhan Ma ยท 2021

A Transformer-based Image Compression (TIC) approach is developed which reuses the canonical variational autoencoder (VAE) architecture with paired main and hyper encoder-decoders. Both main and hyperโ€ฆ

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Early Myocardial Infarction Detection over Multi-view Echocardiography

Aysen Degerli, Serkan Kiranyaz, Tahir Hamid, Rashid Mazhar, Moncef Gabbouj ยท 2021

Myocardial infarction (MI) is the leading cause of mortality in the world that occurs due to a blockage of the coronary arteries feeding the myocardium. An early diagnosis of MI and its localization cโ€ฆ

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Revealing unforeseen diagnostic image features with deep learning by detecting cardiovascular diseases from apical four-chamber ultrasounds

Li-Hsin Cheng, Pablo B.J. Bosch, Rutger F.H. Hofman, Timo B. Brakenhoff, Eline F. Bruggemans, Rob J. van der Geest, Eduard R. Holman ยท 2021

Background. With the rise of highly portable, wireless, and low-cost ultrasound devices and automatic ultrasound acquisition techniques, an automated interpretation method requiring only a limited setโ€ฆ

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A low complexity and high modularity design for continuously variable bandwidth digital filters

Sushmitha Sajeevu, V. Sakthivel ยท 2021

Digital filters with variable bandwidth can be used for a variety of applications. Arbitrary change in the bandwidth of a digital Finite Impulse Response (FIR) filter can be acquired using sampling raโ€ฆ

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Indoor Navigation Algorithm Based on a Smartphone Inertial Measurement Unit and Map Matching

Taewon Kang, Younghoon Shin ยท 2021

We propose an indoor navigation algorithm based on pedestrian dead reckoning (PDR) using an inertial measurement unit in a smartphone and map matching. The proposed indoor navigation system is user-frโ€ฆ

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Improved AI-based segmentation of apical and basal slices from clinical cine CMR

Jorge Mariscal-Harana, Naomi Kifle, Reza Razavi, Andrew P. King, Bram Ruijsink, Esther Puyol-Anton ยท 2021

Current artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms for short-axis cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) segmentation achieve human performance for slices situated in the middle of the heart. However, an oftenโ€ฆ

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Right Ventricular Segmentation from Short- and Long-Axis MRIs via Information Transition

Lei Li, Wangbin Ding, Liqun Huang, Xiahai Zhuang ยท 2021

Right ventricular (RV) segmentation from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a crucial step for cardiac morphology and function analysis. However, automatic RV segmentation from MRI is still challengiโ€ฆ

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