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Full-Text Articles in Engineering
The Challenges Of Applying Computational Legal Analysis To Mhealth Security And Privacy Regulations, Brian Tung
The Challenges Of Applying Computational Legal Analysis To Mhealth Security And Privacy Regulations, Brian Tung
McKelvey School of Engineering Theses & Dissertations
As our world has grown in complexity, so have our laws. By one measure, the United States Code has grown over 30x as long since 1935, and the 186,000-page Code of Federal Regulations has grown almost 10x in length since 1938. Our growing legal system is too complicated; it’s impossible for people to know all the laws that apply to them. However, people are still subject to the law, even if they are unfamiliar with it. Therein lies the need for computational legal analysis. Tools of computation (e.g., data visualization, algorithms, and artificial intelligence) have the potential to transform civic …
Machine Learning For Analog/Mixed-Signal Integrated Circuit Design Automation, Weidong Cao
Machine Learning For Analog/Mixed-Signal Integrated Circuit Design Automation, Weidong Cao
McKelvey School of Engineering Theses & Dissertations
Analog/mixed-signal (AMS) integrated circuits (ICs) play an essential role in electronic systems by processing analog signals and performing data conversion to bridge the analog physical world and our digital information world.Their ubiquitousness powers diverse applications ranging from smart devices and autonomous cars to crucial infrastructures. Despite such critical importance, conventional design strategies of AMS circuits still follow an expensive and time-consuming manual process and are unable to meet the exponentially-growing productivity demands from industry and satisfy the rapidly-changing design specifications from many emerging applications. Design automation of AMS IC is thus the key to tackling these challenges and has been …
Continuous-Time And Complex Growth Transforms For Analog Computing And Optimization, Oindrila Chatterjee
Continuous-Time And Complex Growth Transforms For Analog Computing And Optimization, Oindrila Chatterjee
McKelvey School of Engineering Theses & Dissertations
Analog computing is a promising and practical candidate for solving complex computational problems involving algebraic and differential equations. At the fundamental level, an analog computing framework can be viewed as a dynamical system that evolves following fundamental physical principles, like energy minimization, to solve a computing task. Additionally, conservation laws, such as conservation of charge, energy, or mass, provide a natural way to couple and constrain spatially separated variables. Taking a cue from these observations, in this dissertation, I have explored a novel dynamical system-based computing framework that exploits naturally occurring analog conservation constraints to solve a variety of optimization …
A Neuromorphic Machine Learning Framework Based On The Growth Transform Dynamical System, Ahana Gangopadhyay
A Neuromorphic Machine Learning Framework Based On The Growth Transform Dynamical System, Ahana Gangopadhyay
McKelvey School of Engineering Theses & Dissertations
As computation increasingly moves from the cloud to the source of data collection, there is a growing demand for specialized machine learning algorithms that can perform learning and inference at the edge in energy and resource-constrained environments. In this regard, we can take inspiration from small biological systems like insect brains that exhibit high energy-efficiency within a small form-factor, and show superior cognitive performance using fewer, coarser neural operations (action potentials or spikes) than the high-precision floating-point operations used in deep learning platforms. Attempts at bridging this gap using neuromorphic hardware has produced silicon brains that are orders of magnitude …
Photoacoustic Imaging, Feature Extraction, And Machine Learning Implementation For Ovarian And Colorectal Cancer Diagnosis, Eghbal Amidi
Photoacoustic Imaging, Feature Extraction, And Machine Learning Implementation For Ovarian And Colorectal Cancer Diagnosis, Eghbal Amidi
McKelvey School of Engineering Theses & Dissertations
Among all cancers related to women’s reproductive systems, ovarian cancer has the highest mortality rate. Pelvic examination, transvaginal ultrasound (TVUS), and blood testing for cancer antigen 125 (CA-125), are the conventional screening tools for ovarian cancer, but they offer very low specificity. Other tools, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computed tomography (CT), and positron emission tomography (PET), also have limitations in detecting small lesions. In the USA, considering men and women separately, colorectal cancer is the third most common cause of death related to cancer; for men and women combined, it is the second leading cause of cancer deaths. …
Improving Additional Adversarial Robustness For Classification, Michael Guo
Improving Additional Adversarial Robustness For Classification, Michael Guo
McKelvey School of Engineering Theses & Dissertations
Although neural networks have achieved remarkable success on classification, adversarial robustness is still a significant concern. There are now a series of approaches for designing adversarial examples and methods to defending against them. This paper consists of two projects. In our first work, we propose an approach by leveraging cognitive salience to enhance additional robustness on top of these methods. Specifically, for image classification, we split an image into the foreground (salient region) and background (the rest) and allow significantly larger adversarial perturbations in the background to produce stronger attacks. Furthermore, we show that adversarial training with dual-perturbation attacks yield …
Assessment And Diagnosis Of Human Colorectal And Ovarian Cancer Using Optical Imaging And Computer-Aided Diagnosis, Yifeng Zeng
Assessment And Diagnosis Of Human Colorectal And Ovarian Cancer Using Optical Imaging And Computer-Aided Diagnosis, Yifeng Zeng
McKelvey School of Engineering Theses & Dissertations
Tissue optical scattering has recently emerged as an important diagnosis parameter associated with early tumor development and progression. To characterize the differences between benign and malignant colorectal tissues, we have created an automated optical scattering coefficient mapping algorithm using an optical coherence tomography (OCT) system. A novel feature called the angular spectrum index quantifies the scattering coefficient distribution. In addition to scattering, subsurface morphological changes are also associated with the development of colorectal cancer. We have observed a specific mucosa structure indicating normal human colorectal tissue, and have developed a real-time pattern recognition neural network to localize this specific structure …
A Collaborative Knowledge-Based Security Risk Assessments Solution Using Blockchains, Tara Thaer Salman
A Collaborative Knowledge-Based Security Risk Assessments Solution Using Blockchains, Tara Thaer Salman
McKelvey School of Engineering Theses & Dissertations
Artificial intelligence and machine learning have recently gained wide adaptation in building intelligent yet simple and proactive security risk assessment solutions. Intrusion identification, malware detection, and threat intelligence are examples of security risk assessment applications that have been revolutionized with these breakthrough technologies. With the increased risk and severity of cyber-attacks and the distributed nature of modern threats and vulnerabilities, it becomes critical to pose a distributed intelligent assessment solution that evaluates security risks collaboratively. Blockchain, as a decade-old successful distributed ledger technology, has the potential to build such collaborative solutions. However, in order to be used for such solutions, …
Deep Learning For Task-Based Image Quality Assessment In Medical Imaging, Weimin Zhou
Deep Learning For Task-Based Image Quality Assessment In Medical Imaging, Weimin Zhou
McKelvey School of Engineering Theses & Dissertations
It has been advocated to use objective measures of image quality (IQ) for assessing and optimizing medical imaging systems. Objective measures of IQ quantify the performance of an observer at a specific diagnostic task. Binary signal detection tasks and joint signal detection and localization (detection-localization) tasks are commonly considered in medical imaging. When optimizing imaging systems for binary signal detection tasks, the performance of the Bayesian Ideal Observer (IO) has been advocated for use as a figure-of-merit (FOM). The IO maximizes the observer performance that is summarized by the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve. When signal detection-localization tasks are considered, …
Holistic Control For Cyber-Physical Systems, Yehan Ma
Holistic Control For Cyber-Physical Systems, Yehan Ma
McKelvey School of Engineering Theses & Dissertations
The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) are transforming industries through emerging technologies such as wireless networks, edge computing, and machine learning. However, IIoT technologies are not ready for control systems for industrial automation that demands control performance of physical processes, resiliency to both cyber and physical disturbances, and energy efficiency. To meet the challenges of IIoT-driven control, we propose holistic control as a cyber-physical system (CPS) approach to next-generation industrial automation systems. In contrast to traditional industrial automation systems where computing, communication, and control are managed in isolation, holistic control orchestrates the management of cyber platforms (networks and computing platforms) …
Machine Learning Morphisms: A Framework For Designing And Analyzing Machine Learning Work Ows, Applied To Separability, Error Bounds, And 30-Day Hospital Readmissions, Eric Zenon Cawi
McKelvey School of Engineering Theses & Dissertations
A machine learning workflow is the sequence of tasks necessary to implement a machine learning application, including data collection, preprocessing, feature engineering, exploratory analysis, and model training/selection. In this dissertation we propose the Machine Learning Morphism (MLM) as a mathematical framework to describe the tasks in a workflow. The MLM is a tuple consisting of: Input Space, Output Space, Learning Morphism, Parameter Prior, Empirical Risk Function. This contains the information necessary to learn the parameters of the learning morphism, which represents a workflow task. In chapter 1, we give a short review of typical tasks present in a workflow, as …