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Automated Assessment Of Cardiothoracic Ratios On Chest Radiographs Using Deep Learning, Varun Danda, Paras Lakhani, Md

Phase 1

Introduction: The cardiothoracic ratio (CTR) is a quantitative measure of cardiac size that can measured from chest radiography (CXR). Although radiologists using digital workstations possess the ability to calculate CTR, clinical demands prevent calculation for every case. In this study, the efficacy of a deep convolutional neural network (dCNN) to assess CTR was evaluated.

Methods: 611 HIPAA-compliant de-identified CXRs were obtained from [institution blinded] and public databases. Using ImageJ, a board-certified radiologist (reader #1) and a medical student (reader #2), measured the CTR by marking four pixels on all CXRs: the right- and left-most chest wall, the right- and left-most …

The Influence Of Blockchain Technology On Fraud And Fake Protection, Youngju Yun

OUR Journal: ODU Undergraduate Research Journal

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Hierarchical Anomaly Detection For Time Series Data, Ryan E. Sperl

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With the rise of Big Data and the Internet of Things, there is an increasing availability of large volumes of real-time streaming data. Unusual occurrences in the underlying system will be reflected in these streams, but any human analysis will quickly become out of date. There is a need for automatic analysis of streaming data capable of identifying these anomalous behaviors as they occur, to give ample time to react. In order to handle many high-velocity data streams, detectors must minimize the processing requirements per value. In this thesis, we have developed a novel anomaly detection method which makes use …

Corrections To ‘‘Glaciernet: A Deep-Learning Approach For Debris-Covered Glacier Mapping’’, Zhiyuan Xie, Umesh K. Haritashya, Vijayan K. Asari, Brennan W. Young, Michael P. Bishop, Jeffrey S. Kargel

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

In the above article [1], Figure 2 was incorrect. Unfortunately, we mixed the color label of "CONV $\to $ BN $\to $ ReLu" and "Unpooling" in the CNN structure section of Figure 2. The color label of "CONV $\to $ BN $\to $ ReLu" should be orange while the color label of "Unpooling" should be green. Also, the word "Decoder" is misspelled. That same figure with the same error is also used for the graphic abstract. The corrected figure is given here. None of the sections in the figure is modified. The only change is in the color label of …

Applying Artificial Intelligence To Medical Data, Shaikh Shiam Rahman

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

Machine learning, data mining, and deep learning has become the methodology of choice for analyzing medical data and images. In this study, we implemented three different machine learning techniques to medical data and image analysis. Our first study was to implement different log base entropy for a decision tree algorithm. Our results suggested that using a higher log base for the dataset with mostly categorical attributes with three or more categories for each attribute can obtain a higher accuracy. For the second study, we analyzed mental health data tuning the parameters of the decision tree (splitting method, depth and entropy). …

Quantitative Performance Assessment Of Lidar-Based Vehicle Contour Estimation Algorithms For Integrated Vehicle Safety Applications, David M. Mothershed

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

Many nations and organizations are committing to achieving the goal of `Vision Zero' and eliminate road traffic related deaths around the world. Industry continues to develop integrated safety systems to make vehicles safer, smarter and more capable in safety critical scenarios. Passive safety systems are now focusing on pre-crash deployment of restraint systems to better protect vehicle passengers. Current commonly used bounding box methods for shape estimation of crash partners lack the fidelity required for edge case collision detection and advanced crash modeling. This research presents a novel algorithm for robust and accurate contour estimation of opposing vehicles. The presented …

การสกัดตารางและรายการบนเว็บเป็นอาร์ดีเอฟ, จุลเทพ นันทขว้าง

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

ทุกวันนี้ ลิงก์เดต้าได้เติบโตเพิ่มขึ้นอย่างรวดเร็วตามการเติบโตของเว็บ นอกเหนือจากข้อมูลใหม่ที่สร้างขึ้นในรูปแบบซีแมนติกโดยเฉพาะ ส่วนหนึ่งมาจากการแปลงข้อมูลโครงสร้างที่มีอยู่ให้อยู่ในรูปแบบของข้อมูลเปิดระดับห้าดาว อย่างไรก็ตามยังคงมีข้อมูลจำนวนมากในรูปแบบโครงสร้างและกึ่งโครงสร้าง ตัวอย่างเช่นตารางและรายการซึ่งเป็นรูปแบบหลักที่มนุษย์ใช้อ่าน ยังรอการแปลงอยู่ งานวิจัยนี้กล่าวถึงงานวิจัยต่าง ๆ ที่เกี่ยวกับการแปลงตารางและรายการมาเป็นข้อมูลในรูปแบบต่าง ๆ เพื่อให้เครื่องสามารถอ่านได้ นอกจากนี้ยังเสนอวิธีการในการแปลงตารางและรายการเป็นรูปแบบ Resource Description Framework และยังคงเก็บโครงสร้างต้นฉบับที่จำเป็นไว้อย่างละเอียด ซึ่งทำให้สามารถที่จะสร้างข้อมูลโครงสร้างเดิมกลับมาได้ ระบบ TULIP ถูกสร้างขึ้นเพื่อเป็นเครื่องมือสำหรับการพัฒนาซีแมนติกเว็บ วิธีการที่เสนอมีความยืดหยุ่นมากกว่าเมื่อเทียบกับงานอื่น ๆ เดต้าโมเดลของ TULIP สามารถรองรับการเก็บข้อมูลต้นฉบับอย่างครบถ้วน และสามารถนำมาแสดงใหม่ในมุมมองที่แตกต่างไปจากเดิม เครื่องมือนี้สามารถใช้สร้างข้อมูลจำนวนมหาศาลสำหรับเครื่องคอมพิวเตอร์เพื่อให้ใช้งานได้กว้างมากขึ้นกว่าเดิม

การสรุปใจความสำคัญของข้อความแบบสกัดสำหรับข่าวท่องเที่ยวภาษาไทย, ศรัญญา นาทองห่อ

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

ปัจจุบันเทคโนโลยีทางด้านคอมพิวเตอร์มีความสำคัญต่อการดำเนินชีวิตประจำวันของมนุษย์เป็นอย่างมากและยังถือว่าเป็นเครื่องมือที่ใช้ในการอำนวยความสะดวกให้แก่มนุษย์มากมายโดยเฉพาะทางด้านการสื่อสารผ่านสังคมออนไลน์ เพื่อลดเวลาในการอ่านข่าวหรืออ่านบทความและข่าวออนไลน์ต่างๆ จากการวิจัยที่ผ่านมามีการศึกษาและพัฒนาการสรุปใจความสำคัญของภาษาไทยเป็นจำนวนมาก ในงานวิจัยนี้ได้นำเสนอวิธีการสรุปใจความสำคัญจากข่าวการท่องเที่ยวภาษาไทย 2 วิธีคือการเลือกประโยคจากการจัดกลุ่มประโยคด้วยเคมีนและการเลือกประโยคด้วยวิธีหาคำสำคัญประโยคจากหัวข้อข่าว โดยมีการพัฒนาและสร้างคลังข้อมูลรายการคำประสมเพื่อช่วยเพิ่มประสิทธิภาพในการตัดคำ โดยการทดลองนี้ใช้ข้อมูลข่าวการท่องเที่ยวไทย ทั้งหมด 400 ข่าวสำหรับใช้ทดลองในการสรุปใจความสำคัญ และ 5,000 ข่าวสำหรับการสร้างคลังข้อมูลรายการคำประสม การวัดประสิทธิภาพของวิธีการที่นำเสนอ มีการวัดประสิทธิภาพการสรุปใจความสำคัญโดยการเปรียบเทียบผลจากการสรุปที่ได้จากผู้เชี่ยวชาญด้านภาษาไทยเทียบกับผลสรุปที่ได้จากวิธีการที่นำเสนอ จากงานวิจัยนี้ในขั้นตอนการสร้างคำประสมได้คำประสมทั้งหมด จำนวน 2,340 คำ ผลการทดลองพบว่าวิธีตัดคำด้วยคัตคำร่วมกับตัดคำประสมได้ผลดีกว่าการตัดคำจากคัตคำเพียงอย่างเดียว และการสรุปใจความสำคัญโดยใช้การคำนวณค่าน้ำหนักของคำสำคัญโดยหาค่าความถี่ของคำจากหัวข้อข่าวเพียงอย่างเดียวและเลือกประโยคเรียงลำดับจากผลรวมความถี่ของคำสำคัญจากหัวข้อข่าวมีประสิทธิภาพและความแม่นยำสูงสุดโดยมีค่าความแม่นยำ ค่าความระลึกและค่าวัดประสิทธิภาพอยู่ที่ 0.8097 0.8367 และ 0.8216 ตามลำดับและเมื่อใช้คัตคำร่วมกับการตัดคำแบบเอ็นแกรมโดยวิธีการสรุปใจความสำคัญแบบเดียวกันได้ค่าความแม่นยำ ค่าความระลึกและค่าวัดประสิทธิภาพอยู่ที่ 0.8119 0.8398 และ 0.8242 ตามลำดับที่อัตราการบีบอัดร้อยละ 20

Semantic Segmentation Using Modified U-Net Architecture For Crack Detection, Michael Sun

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The visual inspection of a concrete crack is essential to maintaining its good condition during the service life of the bridge. The visual inspection has been done manually by inspectors, but unfortunately, the results are subjective. On the other hand, automated visual inspection approaches are faster and less subjective. Concrete crack is an important deficiency type that is assessed by inspectors. Recently, various Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have become a prominent strategy to spot concrete cracks mechanically. The CNNs outperforms the traditional image processing approaches in accuracy for the high-level recognition task. Of them, U-Net, a CNN based semantic segmentation …

Kernel-Controlled Dqn Based Cnn Pruning For Model Compression And Acceleration, Romancha Khatri

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Apart from the accuracy, the size of convolutional neural networks (CNN) models is another principal factor for facilitating the deployment of models on memory, power and budget constrained devices. However, conventional model compression techniques require human experts to setup parameters to explore the design space which is suboptimal and time consuming. Various pruning techniques are implemented to gain compression, trading off speed and accuracy. Given a CNN model [11], we propose an automated deep reinforcement learning [9] based model compression technique that can effectively turned off kernels on each layer by observing its significance on decision making. By observing accuracy, …

Determinants Of Startup Funding: The Interaction Between Web Attention And Culture, Jie Ren, Viju Raghupathi, Wullianallur Raghupathi

Journal of International Technology and Information Management

Technology empowers entrepreneurs to pursue alternative funding through platforms like crowdfunding. This research explores significant startup funding factors using Crunchbase. Controlling for common factors (acquisition/funding-rounds/IPO), the research uniquely focuses on web attention - the visibility on social media - and its impact on funding. It also examines the moderating influence of startup’s home country culture (individualism/collectivism). Findings show stronger positive impact of web attention on startup funding for collectivist countries. While individualistic investors value personal goals, collectivists value collaborative goals - inclinations that align with crowdfunding behavior. Therefore while increasing web attention, crowdfunding efforts can be targeted towards collectivist countries.

Food Printing: Evolving Technologies, Challenges, Opportunities, And Best Adoption Strategies, Sharmin Attarin, Mohsen Attaran

Journal of International Technology and Information Management

3D printing is a process of making three-dimensional objects using additive processes where layers are laid down in succession to create a complete object. Companies across the globe are actively piloting and leveraging the inherent benefits of 3D printing technology. Today, 3D printing can revolutionize food innovation and production through better creativity, customizability, and sustainability. This article highlights 3D printing evolving technologies and trends and identifies its applications and implementation challenges. In this paper, we conducted a literature review to explore 3D printing's current technologies and applications in the food industry, including its advantages, its potential implications, and its obstacles …

Evaluating Students Information System Success Using Delone And Mclean’S Model: Student’S Perspective, Majaliwa Mkinga, Herman Mandari

Journal of International Technology and Information Management

System success is considered to be an important element in accomplishing the goals of the organization; therefore evaluation of system success needs to be done in order to ensure that investment in Information System is successful. Most of Higher Learning Institutions (HLIs) in Tanzania have adopted the use of IS in providing service to their customers. Nevertheless, there is less evidence that system success evaluation has been done in order to identify the desired characteristics which could make IS more effective. Due to that, this study evaluates the effectiveness of Student Information System (SIS) used at the Institute of Finance …

An Integrated View Of Data: Application Of Knowledge Modeling To Data Management, Sung-Kwan Kim, Wenjun Wang

Journal of International Technology and Information Management

Data management has become an important challenge. Good data management requires an effective approach to collecting, storing, and accessing data across the enterprise. In this paper, a knowledge modeling approach to data management is introduced with an emphasis on data requirements analysis. A knowledge model can provide a high-level view of organizational data by specifying the structure and relationships of the knowledge contents used in business processes. The proposed knowledge modeling approach is business process oriented and decision oriented. The description of the knowledge contents in the model is based on ontological specification. The model is comprised of five elements: …

Uga’S Alexander Campbell King Law Library: Phasing In Inclusive Usability Testing, Rachel S. Evans, Marie Mize, Jason Tubinis

Articles, Chapters and Online Publications

For years we have offered our EBSCO discovery layer service (EDS) as a secondary search tool in addition to our traditional online catalog (GAVEL) linking to both from the library website. However, the traditional catalog search, also known as “Classic GAVEL”, is always listed first while EDS, also known as “GAVEL & Beyond”, is listed second. Although maintenance has continued for populating EDS with library records on a daily basis, customization for this interface and sharing it with our users has not been prioritized. Before making any decisions related to changing the primary location our users experience when searching the …

Leveraging Peer-To-Peer Energy Sharing For Resource Optimization In Mobile Social Networks, Aashish Dhungana

Theses and Dissertations

Mobile Opportunistic Networks (MSNs) enable the interaction of mobile users in the vicinity through various short-range wireless communication technologies (e.g., Bluetooth, WiFi) and let them discover and exchange information directly or in ad hoc manner. Despite their promise to enable many exciting applications, limited battery capacity of mobile devices has become the biggest impediment to these appli- cations. The recent breakthroughs in the areas of wireless power transfer (WPT) and rechargeable lithium batteries promise the use of peer-to-peer (P2P) energy sharing (i.e., the transfer of energy from the battery of one member of the mobile network to the battery of …

Benefits, Drawbacks, And Risks Of Ai, James M. Donovan

Law Faculty Books and Chapters

The specter of the impact of artificial intelligence [AI] on law and legal education casts a long and uncertain shadow. Its mix of enthusiasm and trepidation can arise from a thin idea of what the label refers to. Four components differentiate AI from even high-end automation: Big data and predictive analytics, deep learning software, cloud computing, and natural language process. From the perspective of the person on the street though, is captured as “the art of creating machines that perform functions that require intelligence when performed by people,” centering on the ability to make independent choices. While that gloss may …

Cooperative Communications With Optimal Harvesting Duration For Nakagamifading Channels, Nadhir Ben Halima, Boujemaa Hatem

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In this paper, we analyze the throughput of cooperative communications with wireless energy harvesting. Relay nodes harvest energy from Radio Frequency (RF) signal transmitted by the source. We derive the packet error probability as well as the throughput for Nakagami fading channels. We also suggest to enhance the throughput by choosing the value of harvesting duration. Our results are valid for both Amplify and Forward (AF) and Decode and Forward (DF) relaying.

Two Novel Radar Detectors For Spiky Sea Clutter With The Presence Of Thermal Noise And Interfering Targets, Nouh Guidoum, Faouzi Soltani, Amar Mezache

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In the context of noncoherent detection and high-resolution maritime radar system with low grazing angle, new Constant False Alarm Rate (CFAR) decision rules are suggested for two Compound Gaussian (CG) clutters namely: The K distribution and the Compound Inverse Gaussian (CIG) distribution, which are considered among the most appropriate models for sea clutter. The proposed decision rules are then modified to deal with the presence of thermal noise and interfering targets. The proposed detectors are investigated on the basis of synthetic data as well as real data of the IPIX radar database. The obtained results exhibit a high probability of …

Detection Of Hand Osteoarthritis From Hand Radiographs Using Convolutionalneural Networks With Transfer Learning, Kemal Üreten, Hasan Erbay, Hadi̇ Hakan Maraş

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Osteoarthritis is the most common type of arthritis. Hand osteoarthritis leads to specific structural changes in the joints, such as asymmetric joint space narrowing and osteophytes (bone spurs). Conventional radiography has traditionally been the primary method of visualizing these structural changes and diagnosing osteoarthritis. We aimed to develop a computerized method that is capable of determining the structural changes seen in radiography of the hand and to assist practitioners in interpreting radiographic changes and diagnosing the disease. In this retrospective study, transfer-learning-based convolutional neural networks were trained on a randomly selected dataset containing 332 radiography images of hands from an …

Software Rejuvenation Under Persistent Attacks In Constrained Environments, Raffaele Romagnoli, Paul Griffioen, Bruce H. Krogh, Bruno Sinopoli

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

Software rejuvenation has been proposed to guarantee safety of cyber-physical systems (CPSs) against cyber-attacks. Recent work has demonstrated how this method can be applied to more general control problems such as tracking control. Despite this progress, there are still limitations in applying software rejuvenation to real situations where the presence of persistent attacks and physical environment constraints exist. In this paper we address these issues and propose a secure recovery algorithm that can be deployed not only for recovery against persistent attacks but also in situations where physical environment constraints do not allow the system to tolerate any attack. The …

Past To Present (P2p): Road Thermal Image Colorization, Yuseong Park

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Thermal image colorization into realistic RGB image is a challenging task. Thermal cameras are easily to detect objects in particular situation (e.g. darkness and fog) that the human eyes cannot detect. However, it is difficult to interpret the thermal image with human eyes. Enhancing thermal image colorization is an important task to improve these areas. The results of the existing colorization method still have color ambiguities, distortion, and blurriness problems. This paper focused on thermal image colorization using pix2pix network architecture based on Generative Adversarial Net (GAN). Pix2pix is a model that transforms thermal image into RGB image, but our …

A Comprehensive And Modular Robotic Control Framework For Model-Less Control Law Development Using Reinforcement Learning For Soft Robotics, Charles Sullivan

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

Soft robotics is a growing field in robotics research. Heavily inspired by biological systems, these robots are made of softer, non-linear, materials such as elastomers and are actuated using several novel methods, from fluidic actuation channels to shape changing materials such as electro-active polymers. Highly non-linear materials make modeling difficult, and sensors are still an area of active research. These issues have rendered typical control and modeling techniques often inadequate for soft robotics. Reinforcement learning is a branch of machine learning that focuses on model-less control by mapping states to actions that maximize a specific reward signal. Reinforcement learning has …

Context-Aware System For Glycemic Control In Diabetic Patients Using Neural Networks, Owais Bhat, Dawood A. Khan

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Diabetic patients are quite hesitant in engaging in normal physiological activities due to difficulties associated with diabetes management. Over the last few decades, there have been advancements in the computational power of embedded systems and glucose sensing technologies. These advancements have attracted the attention of researchers around the globe developing automatic insulin delivery systems. In this paper, a method of closed-loop control of diabetes based on neural networks is proposed. These neural networks are used for making predictions based on the clinical data of a patient. A neural network feedback controller is also designed to provide a glycemic response by …

Automatic Characterization Of Copy Number Polymorphism Using High Throughput Sequencing, Can Alkan

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Genome structural variation, broadly defined as alterations longer than 50 bp, are important sources for genetic variation among humans, including those that cause complex diseases such as autism, developmental delay, and schizophrenia. Although there has been considerable progress in characterizing structural variation since the beginnings of the 1000 Genomes Project, one form of structural variation called segmental duplications (SDs) remained largely understudied in large cohorts. This is mostly because SDs cannot be accurately discovered using the alignment files generated with standard read mapping tools. Instead, they can only be found when multiple map locations are considered. There is still a …

A Power And Area Efficient Approximate Carry Skip Adder For Error Resilient Applications, Sujit Patel, Bharat Garg, Shireesh Kumar Rai

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The compute-intensive multimedia applications on portable devices require power and area efficient arithmetic units. The adder is a prime building block of these arithmetic units and limits the overall performance. Therefore, this paper analyzes the logic operations of the state-of-the-art adders and presents a novel low complexity adder segment with new carry prediction logic by removing the redundant logic and sharing the common operations. Further, a new power and area efficient approximate carry skip (PAEA-CSK) adder is proposed using the novel adder segment. The effectiveness of the proposed PAEA-CSK adder is evaluated and compared over the existing adders by implementing …

Rule Extraction And Performance Estimation By Using Variable Neighborhoodsearch For Solar Power Plant In Konya, Yusuf Uzun, Muci̇z Özcan

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The use of renewable energy sources in the production of electricity has become inevitable in order to reduce the greenhouse gases left in the atmosphere that cause the Earth to warm up. Although countries on a national basis have implemented a number of policies to support electricity generated from renewable energy sources, investments to produce electricity without a license on a local basis are not desirable. Those who want to invest medium and small scale for the most reason expect that this work will be supported by real data. Although the electricity generated by renewable investments is generated by simulation …

Robust Optimal Operation Of Smart Distribution Grids With Renewable Basedgenerators, Omid Zare, Sadjad Galvani, Murtaza Farsadi

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Modern distribution systems are equipped with various distributed energy resources (DERs) because of the importance of local generation. These distribution systems encounter more and more uncertainties because of the ever-increasing use of renewable energies. Other sources of uncertainty, such as load variation and system components? failure, will intensify the unpredictable nature of modern distribution systems. Integrating energy storage systems into distribution grids can play a role as a flexible bidirectional source to accommodate issues from constantly varying loads and renewable resources. The overall functionality of these modern distribution systems is enhanced using communication and computational abilities in smart grid frameworks. …

Lattice-Reduction Aided Multiple-Symbol Differential Detection In Two-Way Relay Transmission, Chanfei Wang, Minghua Cao

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Multiple-symbol differential detection (MSDD) algorithms are proposed in two-way relay transmission (TWRT). Firstly, generalized likelihood ratio test based MSDD (GLRT-MSDD) is proposed in TWRT. Unfortunately, as the number of observation windows increases, the computational complexity of GLRT-MSDD increases exponentially. Hence, this detection in TWRT constitutes a challenging problem. Moreover, we find a way to reformulate the GLRTMSDD model and additionally propose a lattice-reduction aided MSDD (LR-MSDD) model. Performance analysis and simulations show that the proposed LR-MSDD provides bit-error rate performance close to that of GLRT-MSDD with lower complexity in TWRT.

Emulation Of Burst-Based Adaptive Link Rates In Netfpga Towards Green Networking, Shahul Hamead H, Mirnalinee Tt, Kavi Priya D

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In recent times, energy consumption in communication media has been increasing drastically. In the literature, energy-saving techniques that enable network devices to enter sleep state or limit the data rate have been proposed to reduce energy costs. In our earlier work, we proposed an energy-saving technique called burst-based adaptive link rate (BBALR), the simulation of which assures increased energy savings. In this paper, we have emulated the hardware implementation of BBALR and compared its performance with the outputs of other prominent energy-saving policies based on dynamic link rate adaption. The energy savings are mapped from the measured sleep time and …