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Predicting The Progression Of Diabetes Mellitus Using Dynamic Plantar Pressure Parameters, Mathew Sunil Varre
Predicting The Progression Of Diabetes Mellitus Using Dynamic Plantar Pressure Parameters, Mathew Sunil Varre
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
Introduction: Diabetic peripheral neuropathy is one of the common complications of type-2 diabetes mellitus (DM). Changes in the intrinsic plantar tissue coupled with repetitive mechanical loads and loss of sensation may lead to foot related complications (skin break down, ulcerations, and amputations) in persons with neuropathy if left untreated. The purpose of this dissertation was to stratify individuals with pre-diabetes, diabetes with and without neuropathy using dynamic plantar pressure parameters during walking, using machine learning algorithms.Methods: Plantar pressure data was collected from one hundred participants during walking with pressure measuring insoles fixed between the feet and thin socks. Simultaneously high-definition …
The Bracelet: An American Sign Language (Asl) Interpreting Wearable Device, Samuel Aba, Ahmadre Darrisaw, Pei Lin, Thomas Leonard
The Bracelet: An American Sign Language (Asl) Interpreting Wearable Device, Samuel Aba, Ahmadre Darrisaw, Pei Lin, Thomas Leonard
Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects
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Automated Segmentation Of The Inner Ear And Round Window In Computed Tomography Scans Using Convolutional Neural Networks, Kyle A. Rioux
Automated Segmentation Of The Inner Ear And Round Window In Computed Tomography Scans Using Convolutional Neural Networks, Kyle A. Rioux
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
Computed tomography (CT) scans are acquired prior to cochlear implant (CI) surgery. Three-dimensional segmentations of the inner ear (IE) and round window (RW) based on clinical CTs can improve the CI procedure. Software pipelines are presented here which employ convolutional neural networks to automatically segment the IE and RW. The first pipeline produces high resolution segmentations of the IE and RW in tightly cropped CTs. Mean IE Dice score and RW centroid error were 0.88, 0.57mm and 0.93, 0.18mm in implanted and non-implanted samples, respectively. The second pipeline automatically segments the IE in large field of view CTs of any …