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Attention-Based End-To-End Cnn Framework For Content-Based X-Ray Imageretrieval, Şaban Öztürk, Adi Alhudhaif, Kemal Polat Jan 2021

Attention-Based End-To-End Cnn Framework For Content-Based X-Ray Imageretrieval, Şaban Öztürk, Adi Alhudhaif, Kemal Polat

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The widespread use of medical imaging devices allows deep analysis of diseases. However, the task of examining medical images increases the burden of specialist doctors. Computer-assisted systems provide an effective management tool that enables these images to be analyzed automatically. Although these tools are used for various purposes, today, they are moving towards retrieval systems to access increasing data quickly. In hospitals, the need for content-based image retrieval systems is seriously evident in order to store all images effectively and access them quickly when necessary. In this study, an attention-based end-to-end convolutional neural network (CNN)framework that can provide effective access …


Classification Of P300 Based Brain Computer Interface Systems Using Longshort-Term Memory (Lstm) Neural Networks With Feature Fusion, Ali̇ Osman Selvi̇, Abdullah Feri̇koğlu, Derya Güzel Jan 2021

Classification Of P300 Based Brain Computer Interface Systems Using Longshort-Term Memory (Lstm) Neural Networks With Feature Fusion, Ali̇ Osman Selvi̇, Abdullah Feri̇koğlu, Derya Güzel

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Enabling to obtain brain activation signs, electroencephalography is currently used in many applications as a medical diagnostic method. Brain-computer interface (BCI) applications are developed to facilitate the lives of individuals who have not lost their brain functions yet have lost their motor and communication abilities. In this study, a BCI system is proposed to make classification using Bi-directional long short term memory (Bi-LSTM) neural networks. In the designed system, spectral entropy method including instantaneous frequency change of signal is used as feature fusion. In the study, electroencephalography (EEG) data of 10 participants are collected with Emotiv EPOC+ device using 2x2 …


Mri Based Genomic Analysis Of Glioma Using Three Pathway Deep Convolutionalneural Network For Idh Classification, Sonal Gore, Jayant Jagtap Jan 2021

Mri Based Genomic Analysis Of Glioma Using Three Pathway Deep Convolutionalneural Network For Idh Classification, Sonal Gore, Jayant Jagtap

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

As per 2016 updates by World Health Organization (WHO) on cancer disease, gliomas are categorized and further treated based on genomic mutations. The imaging modalities support a complimentary but immediate noninvasive diagnosis of cancer based on genetic mutations. Our aim is to train a deep convolutional neural network for isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH) genotyping of glioma by auto-extracting the most discriminative features from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) volumes. MR imaging data of total 217 patients were obtained from The Cancer Imaging Archives (TCIA) of high and low-grade gliomas. A 3-pathway convolutional neural network was trained for IDH classification. The multipath neural …


Leukocyte Classification Based On Feature Selection Using Extra Trees Classifier: Atransfer Learning Approach, Diana Baby, Sujitha Juliet Devaraj, Jude Hemanth, Anishin Raj M M Jan 2021

Leukocyte Classification Based On Feature Selection Using Extra Trees Classifier: Atransfer Learning Approach, Diana Baby, Sujitha Juliet Devaraj, Jude Hemanth, Anishin Raj M M

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The criticality of investigating the white blood cell (WBC) count cannot be underestimated, as white blood cells are an important component of the body's defence system. From helping to diagnose hidden infections to insinuating the presence of comorbidities like immunodeficiency, an accurate white blood cell count can contribute significantly to shape a physician?s assessment. The manual process performed by the pathologists for the classification of WBCs is a time consuming and tedious task, which is further disadvantaged by a lack of accuracy. This study concentrates on the automatic detection and classification of WBC without data augmentation into four subtypes such …


Evolution Of Histopathological Breast Cancer Images Classification Using Stochasticdilated Residual Ghost Model, Ramgopal Kashyap Jan 2021

Evolution Of Histopathological Breast Cancer Images Classification Using Stochasticdilated Residual Ghost Model, Ramgopal Kashyap

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Breast cancer detection is a complex problem to solve, and it is a topic that is still being studied. Deep learning-based models aid medical science by helping to classify benign and malignant cancers and saving lives. Breast cancer histopathological image classification (BreakHis) and breast cancer histopathological annotation and diagnosis (BreCaHAD) datasets are used in the proposed model. The study led to the resolution of four essential issues: 1) Addresses the color divergence issue caused by strain normalization during image generation 2) Data augmentation uses several factors like as flip, rotation, shift, resize, and gamma value in order to overcome overfitting …


Medical Image Fusion With Convolutional Neural Network In Multiscaletransform Domain, Asan Abas, Hasan Erdi̇nç Koçer, Nurdan Baykan Jan 2021

Medical Image Fusion With Convolutional Neural Network In Multiscaletransform Domain, Asan Abas, Hasan Erdi̇nç Koçer, Nurdan Baykan

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Multimodal medical image fusion approaches have been commonly used to diagnose diseases and involve merging multiple images of different modes to achieve superior image quality and to reduce uncertainty and redundancy in order to increase the clinical applicability. In this paper, we proposed a new medical image fusion algorithm based on a convolutional neural network (CNN) to obtain a weight map for multiscale transform (curvelet/ non-subsampled shearlet transform) domains that enhance the textual and edge property. The aim of the method is achieving the best visualization and highest details in a single fused image without losing spectral and anatomical details. …


Deep Hyperparameter Transfer Learning For Diabetic Retinopathy Classification, Mahesh Patil, Satyadhyan Chickerur, Yeshwanth Kumar V S, Vijayalakshmi Bakale, Shantala Giraddi, Vivekanand Roodagi, Yashaswini Kulkarni Jan 2021

Deep Hyperparameter Transfer Learning For Diabetic Retinopathy Classification, Mahesh Patil, Satyadhyan Chickerur, Yeshwanth Kumar V S, Vijayalakshmi Bakale, Shantala Giraddi, Vivekanand Roodagi, Yashaswini Kulkarni

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The detection of diabetic retinopathy (DR) in millions of diabetic patients across the globe is a challenging problem. Diagnosis of retinopathy is a lengthy and tedious process, requiring a medical professional to assess the individual fundus images of a patient's retina. This process can be automated by applying deep learning (DL) technology given a huge dataset. The problems associated with DL are the unavailability of a large dataset and their higher training time. The DL model's best performance is achieved using set of optimal hyperparameters (OHPs) obtained by performing costly iterations of hyperparameter optimization (HPO). These problems can be addressed …


Detection Of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Disease By Variational Modedecomposition And Convolution Neural Network Methods From Event-Relatedpotential Signals, Fatma Lati̇foğlu, Firat Orhan Bulucu, Rami̇s İleri̇ Jan 2021

Detection Of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Disease By Variational Modedecomposition And Convolution Neural Network Methods From Event-Relatedpotential Signals, Fatma Lati̇foğlu, Firat Orhan Bulucu, Rami̇s İleri̇

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as motor neuron disease, is a neurological disease that occurs as a result of damage to the nerves in the brain and restriction of muscle movements. Electroencephalography (EEG) is the most common method used in brain imaging to study neurological disorders. Diagnosis of neurological disorders such as ALS, Parkinson's, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is important in biomedical studies. In recent years, deep learning (DL) models have been started to be applied in the literature for the diagnosis of these diseases. In this study, event-related potentials (ERPs) were obtained from EEG signals obtained as a …


Improved Cell Segmentation Using Deep Learning In Label-Free Optical Microscopyimages, Aydin Ayanzadeh, Özden Yalçin Özuysal, Devri̇m Pesen Okvur, Sevgi̇ Önal, Behçet Uğur Töreyi̇n, Devri̇m Ünay Jan 2021

Improved Cell Segmentation Using Deep Learning In Label-Free Optical Microscopyimages, Aydin Ayanzadeh, Özden Yalçin Özuysal, Devri̇m Pesen Okvur, Sevgi̇ Önal, Behçet Uğur Töreyi̇n, Devri̇m Ünay

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The recently popular deep neural networks (DNNs) have a significant effect on the improvement of segmentation accuracy from various perspectives, including robustness and completeness in comparison to conventional methods. We determined that the naive U-Net has some lacks in specific perspectives and there is high potential for further enhancements on the model. Therefore, we employed some modifications in different folds of the U-Net to overcome this problem. Based on the probable opportunity for improvement, we develop a novel architecture by using an alternative feature extractor in the encoder of U-Net and replacing the plain blocks with residual blocks in the …


Diagnosis Of Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation From Thirty-Minute Heart Ratevariability Data Using Convolutional Neural Networks, Murat Sürücü, Yalçin İşler, Resul Kara Jan 2021

Diagnosis Of Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation From Thirty-Minute Heart Ratevariability Data Using Convolutional Neural Networks, Murat Sürücü, Yalçin İşler, Resul Kara

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (PAF) is the initial stage of atrial fibrillation, one of the most common arrhythmia types. PAF worsens with time and affects the patient?s life quality negatively. In this study, we aimed to diagnose PAF early, so patients can start taking precautions before this disease gets worse. We used the atrial fibrillation prediction database, an open data from Physionet and constructed our approach using convolutional neural networks. Heart rate variability (HRV) features are calculated from time-domain measures, frequency-domain measures using power spectral density estimations (fast Fourier transform, Lomb-Scargle, and Welch periodogram), time-frequencydomain measures using wavelet transform, and nonlinear …


Coordination, Adaptation, And Complexity In Decision Fusion, Weiqiang Dong Dec 2020

Coordination, Adaptation, And Complexity In Decision Fusion, Weiqiang Dong

Dissertations

A parallel decentralized binary decision fusion architecture employs a bank of local detectors (LDs) that access a commonly-observed phenomenon. The system makes a binary decision about the phenomenon, accepting one of two hypotheses (H0 (“absent”) or H1 (“present”)). The k 1 LD uses a local decision rule to compress its local observations yk into a binary local decision uk; uk = 0 if the k 1 LD accepts H0 and uk = 1 if it accepts H1. The k 1 LD sends its decision uk over a noiseless dedicated channel to a Data Fusion Center (DFC). The DFC combines the …


Drone-Assisted Emergency Communications, Di Wu Dec 2020

Drone-Assisted Emergency Communications, Di Wu

Dissertations

Drone-mounted base stations (DBSs) have been proposed to extend coverage and improve communications between mobile users (MUs) and their corresponding macro base stations (MBSs). Different from the base stations on the ground, DBSs can flexibly fly over and close to MUs to establish a better vantage for communications. Thus, the pathloss between a DBS and an MU can be much smaller than that between the MU and MBS. In addition, by hovering in the air, the DBS can likely establish a Line-of-Sight link to the MBS. DBSs can be leveraged to recover communications in a large natural disaster struck area …


Countering Internet Packet Classifiers To Improve User Online Privacy, Sina Fathi-Kazerooni Dec 2020

Countering Internet Packet Classifiers To Improve User Online Privacy, Sina Fathi-Kazerooni

Dissertations

Internet traffic classification or packet classification is the act of classifying packets using the extracted statistical data from the transmitted packets on a computer network. Internet traffic classification is an essential tool for Internet service providers to manage network traffic, provide users with the intended quality of service (QoS), and perform surveillance. QoS measures prioritize a network's traffic type over other traffic based on preset criteria; for instance, it gives higher priority or bandwidth to video traffic over website browsing traffic. Internet packet classification methods are also used for automated intrusion detection. They analyze incoming traffic patterns and identify malicious …


Multigrid For The Nonlinear Power Flow Equations, Enrique Pereira Batista Dec 2020

Multigrid For The Nonlinear Power Flow Equations, Enrique Pereira Batista

Mathematics Theses and Dissertations

The continuously changing structure of power systems and the inclusion of renewable
energy sources are leading to changes in the dynamics of modern power grid,
which have brought renewed attention to the solution of the AC power flow equations.
In particular, development of fast and robust solvers for the power flow problem
continues to be actively investigated. A novel multigrid technique for coarse-graining
dynamic power grid models has been developed recently. This technique uses an
algebraic multigrid (AMG) coarsening strategy applied to the weighted
graph Laplacian that arises from the power network's topology for the construction
of coarse-grain approximations to …


Deep Learning-Based, Passive Fault Tolerant Control Facilitated By A Taxonomy Of Cyber-Attack Effects, Dean C. Wardell Dec 2020

Deep Learning-Based, Passive Fault Tolerant Control Facilitated By A Taxonomy Of Cyber-Attack Effects, Dean C. Wardell

Theses and Dissertations

In the interest of improving the resilience of cyber-physical control systems to better operate in the presence of various cyber-attacks and/or faults, this dissertation presents a novel controller design based on deep-learning networks. This research lays out a controller design that does not rely on fault or cyber-attack detection. Being passive, the controller’s routine operating process is to take in data from the various components of the physical system, holistically assess the state of the physical system using deep-learning networks and decide the subsequent round of commands from the controller. This use of deep-learning methods in passive fault tolerant control …


Fusion-Features And Visual-Dictionary Image Recognition Methods For Apple Classification In Smart Manufacturing, Ahsiah Ismail Nov 2020

Fusion-Features And Visual-Dictionary Image Recognition Methods For Apple Classification In Smart Manufacturing, Ahsiah Ismail

Student Works (2020-2029)

Smart manufacturing enables an efficient manufacturing process to optimize production. The optimization is performed through data analytics that requires reliable and informative data as input. Therefore, in this research, two image recognition feature extraction methods namely Curvelet Wavelet-Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix (CWGLCM) and Fuzzy-Spatial Pyramid Matching (F-SPM) are proposed to provide reliable inputs for vision-based apple classification in smart manufacturing. Feature extraction is one of the major steps that could influent the efficiency of the manufacturing process. The CW-GLCM method is a feature extraction of fusion-features with Decision Tree classifier, while the F-SPM method uses a visual-dictionary based method to …


Energy-Efficient Communications In Wireless Powered Cognitive Radio Networks Based On Game Theory, Fadhil Mukhlif Aswad Al-Obaidy Nov 2020

Energy-Efficient Communications In Wireless Powered Cognitive Radio Networks Based On Game Theory, Fadhil Mukhlif Aswad Al-Obaidy

Student Works (2020-2029)

There are challenging and prevalent problems related to spectrum resources with the interference of battery-based devices in future wireless networks. To address such challenges, this thesis proposes a theoretical framework for designing and analyzing the distributed power control algorithms in modern 5G cognitive networks. Previous experiments have shown that game theory tools can be used as a suitable and efficient technique to build scalable, balanced, and energy efficient for the distributed power control schemes in order to use it practically in battery-based devices in wireless networks. In reality, the power control issue is constructed as a non-cooperative game for which …


Integrating Deep Learning And Augmented Reality To Enhance Situational Awareness In Firefighting Environments, Manish Bhattarai Nov 2020

Integrating Deep Learning And Augmented Reality To Enhance Situational Awareness In Firefighting Environments, Manish Bhattarai

Electrical and Computer Engineering ETDs

We present a new four-pronged approach to build firefighter's situational awareness for the first time in the literature. We construct a series of deep learning frameworks built on top of one another to enhance the safety, efficiency, and successful completion of rescue missions conducted by firefighters in emergency first response settings. First, we used a deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) system to classify and identify objects of interest from thermal imagery in real-time. Next, we extended this CNN framework for object detection, tracking, segmentation with a Mask RCNN framework, and scene description with a multimodal natural language processing(NLP) framework. Third, …


Contextual-Bandit Anomaly Detection For Iot Data In Distributed Hierarchical Edge Computing, Mao V. Ngo, Tie Luo, Hakima Chaouchi, Tony Q.S. Quek Nov 2020

Contextual-Bandit Anomaly Detection For Iot Data In Distributed Hierarchical Edge Computing, Mao V. Ngo, Tie Luo, Hakima Chaouchi, Tony Q.S. Quek

Computer Science Faculty Research & Creative Works

Advances in deep neural networks (DNN) greatly bolster real-time detection of anomalous IoT data. However, IoT devices can hardly afford complex DNN models, and offloading anomaly detection tasks to the cloud incurs long delay. In this paper, we propose and build a demo for an adaptive anomaly detection approach for distributed hierarchical edge computing (HEC) systems to solve this problem, for both univariate and multivariate IoT data. First, we construct multiple anomaly detection DNN models with increasing complexity and associate each model with a layer in HEC from bottom to top. Then, we design an adaptive scheme to select one …


Cybersecurity Strategy Against Cyber Attacks Towards Smart Grids With Pvs, Fangyu Li, Maria Valero, Liang Zhao, Yousef Mahmoud Oct 2020

Cybersecurity Strategy Against Cyber Attacks Towards Smart Grids With Pvs, Fangyu Li, Maria Valero, Liang Zhao, Yousef Mahmoud

KSU Proceedings on Cybersecurity Education, Research and Practice

Cyber attacks threaten the security of distribution power grids, such as smart grids. The emerging renewable energy sources such as photovoltaics (PVs) with power electronics controllers introduce new potential vulnerabilities. Based on the electric waveform data measured by waveform sensors in the smart grids, we propose a novel cyber attack detection and identification approach. Firstly, we analyze the cyber attack impacts (including cyber attacks on the solar inverter causing unusual harmonics) on electric waveforms in distribution power grids. Then, we propose a novel deep learning based mechanism including attack detection and attack diagnosis. By leveraging the electric waveform sensor data …


Integrated Cyberattack Detection And Resilient Control Strategies Using Lyapunov-Based Economic Model Predictive Control, Henrique Oyama, Helen Durand Oct 2020

Integrated Cyberattack Detection And Resilient Control Strategies Using Lyapunov-Based Economic Model Predictive Control, Henrique Oyama, Helen Durand

Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Faculty Research Publications

The use of an integrated system framework, characterized by numerous cyber/physical components (sensor measurements, signals to actuators) connected through wired/wireless networks, has not only increased the ability to control industrial systems, but also the vulnerabilities to cyberattacks. State measurement cyberattacks could pose threats to process control systems since feedback control may be lost if the attack policy is not thwarted. Motivated by this, we propose three detection concepts based on Lyapunov‐based economic model predictive control (LEMPC) for nonlinear systems. The first approach utilizes randomized modifications to an LEMPC formulation online to potentially detect cyberattacks. The second method detects attacks when …


A Centralised Multi-Objective Model Predictive Control For Biventricular Assist Devices, Vivian Koh Ci Ai Oct 2020

A Centralised Multi-Objective Model Predictive Control For Biventricular Assist Devices, Vivian Koh Ci Ai

Student Works (2020-2029)

Heart failure is defined as failure of heart to deliver adequate blood flow rate to support tissue perfusion. Heart failure can be treated by implantation of a left ventricular assist device (LVAD) for left heart failure patients, or a biventricular assist device (BiVAD) for bi-heart failure patients. Since left heart failure predominates right heart failure, all commercial ventricular assist devices are LVADs. Therefore, two LVADs are frequently used as BiVAD for bi-heart failure patients. Clinically, the constant speed (CS) control of BiVAD fails to adapt pump flow rate according to physiological changes, thus putting patients at risk of ventricular suction …


Gaining Insight Into Solar Photovoltaic Power Generation Forecasting Utilizing Explainable Artificial Intelligence Tools, Murat Kuzlu, Umit Cali, Vinayak Sharma, Özgür Güler Oct 2020

Gaining Insight Into Solar Photovoltaic Power Generation Forecasting Utilizing Explainable Artificial Intelligence Tools, Murat Kuzlu, Umit Cali, Vinayak Sharma, Özgür Güler

Engineering Technology Faculty Publications

Over the last two decades, Artificial Intelligence (AI) approaches have been applied to various applications of the smart grid, such as demand response, predictive maintenance, and load forecasting. However, AI is still considered to be a ‘‘black-box’’ due to its lack of explainability and transparency, especially for something like solar photovoltaic (PV) forecasts that involves many parameters. Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) has become an emerging research field in the smart grid domain since it addresses this gap and helps understand why the AI system made a forecast decision. This article presents several use cases of solar PV energy forecasting using …


Cleanpage: Fast And Clean Document And Whiteboard Capture, Jane Courtney Oct 2020

Cleanpage: Fast And Clean Document And Whiteboard Capture, Jane Courtney

Articles

The move from paper to online is not only necessary for remote working, it is also significantly more sustainable. This trend has seen a rising need for the high-quality digitization of content from pages and whiteboards to sharable online material. However, capturing this information is not always easy nor are the results always satisfactory. Available scanning apps vary in their usability and do not always produce clean results, retaining surface imperfections from the page or whiteboard in their output images. CleanPage, a novel smartphone-based document and whiteboard scanning system, is presented. CleanPage requires one button-tap to capture, identify, crop, and …


Memory Foreshadow: Memory Forensics Of Hardware Cryptocurrency Wallets – A Tool And Visualization Framework, Tyler Thomas, Mathew Piscitelli, Ilya Shavrov, Ibrahim Baggili Sep 2020

Memory Foreshadow: Memory Forensics Of Hardware Cryptocurrency Wallets – A Tool And Visualization Framework, Tyler Thomas, Mathew Piscitelli, Ilya Shavrov, Ibrahim Baggili

Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science Faculty Publications

We present Memory FORESHADOW: Memory FOREnSics of HArDware cryptOcurrency Wallets. To the best of our knowledge, this is the primary account of cryptocurrency hardware wallet client memory forensics. Our exploratory analysis revealed forensically relevant data in memory including transaction history, extended public keys, passphrases, and unique device identifiers. Data extracted with FORESHADOW can be used to associate a hardware wallet with a computer and allow an observer to deanonymize all past and future transactions due to hierarchical deterministic wallet address derivation. Additionally, our novel visualization framework enabled us to measure both the persistence and integrity of artifacts produced by the …


Forecasting Vegetation Health In The Mena Region By Predicting Vegetation Indicators With Machine Learning Models, Sachi Perera, Wenzhao Li, Erik Linstead, Hesham El-Askary Sep 2020

Forecasting Vegetation Health In The Mena Region By Predicting Vegetation Indicators With Machine Learning Models, Sachi Perera, Wenzhao Li, Erik Linstead, Hesham El-Askary

Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science Faculty Articles and Research

Machine learning (ML) techniques can be applied to predict and monitor drought conditions due to climate change. Predicting future vegetation health indicators (such as EVI, NDVI, and LAI) is one approach to forecast drought events for hotspots (e.g. Middle East and North Africa (MENA) regions). Recently, ML models were implemented to predict EVI values using parameters such as land types, time series, historical vegetation indices, land surface temperature, soil moisture, evapotranspiration etc. In this work, we collected the MODIS atmospherically corrected surface spectral reflectance imagery with multiple vegetation related indices for modeling and evaluation of drought conditions in the MENA …


Exploring The Learning Efficacy Of Digital Forensics Concepts And Bagging & Tagging Of Digital Devices In Immersive Virtual Reality, Courtney Hassenfeldt, Jillian Jacques, Ibrahim Baggili Sep 2020

Exploring The Learning Efficacy Of Digital Forensics Concepts And Bagging & Tagging Of Digital Devices In Immersive Virtual Reality, Courtney Hassenfeldt, Jillian Jacques, Ibrahim Baggili

Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science Faculty Publications

This work presents the first account of evaluating learning inside a VR experience created to teach Digital Forensics (DF) concepts, and a hands-on laboratory exercise in Bagging & Tagging a crime scene with digital devices. First, we designed and developed an immersive VR experience which included a lecture and a lab. Next, we tested it with (n = 57) participants in a controlled experiment where they were randomly assigned to a VR group or a physical group. Both groups were subjected to the same lecture and lab, but one was in VR and the other was in the real world. …


An Explainable And Statistically Validated Ensemble Clustering Model Applied To The Identification Of Traumatic Brain Injury Subgroups, Dacosta Yeboah, Louis Steinmeister, Daniel B. Hier, Bassam Hadi, Donald C. Wunsch, Gayla R. Olbricht, Tayo Obafemi-Ajayi Sep 2020

An Explainable And Statistically Validated Ensemble Clustering Model Applied To The Identification Of Traumatic Brain Injury Subgroups, Dacosta Yeboah, Louis Steinmeister, Daniel B. Hier, Bassam Hadi, Donald C. Wunsch, Gayla R. Olbricht, Tayo Obafemi-Ajayi

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

We present a framework for an explainable and statistically validated ensemble clustering model applied to Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). The objective of our analysis is to identify patient injury severity subgroups and key phenotypes that delineate these subgroups using varied clinical and computed tomography data. Explainable and statistically-validated models are essential because a data-driven identification of subgroups is an inherently multidisciplinary undertaking. In our case, this procedure yielded six distinct patient subgroups with respect to mechanism of injury, severity of presentation, anatomy, psychometric, and functional outcome. This framework for ensemble cluster analysis fully integrates statistical methods at several stages of …


A Statistical Impulse Response Model Based On Empirical Characterization Of Wireless Underground Channel, Abdul Salam, Mehmet C. Vuran, Suat Irmak Sep 2020

A Statistical Impulse Response Model Based On Empirical Characterization Of Wireless Underground Channel, Abdul Salam, Mehmet C. Vuran, Suat Irmak

Faculty Publications

Wireless underground sensor networks (WUSNs) are becoming ubiquitous in many areas. The design of robust systems requires extensive understanding of the underground (UG) channel characteristics. In this paper, an UG channel impulse response is modeled and validated via extensive experiments in indoor and field testbed settings. The three distinct types of soils are selected with sand and clay contents ranging from $13\%$ to $86\%$ and $3\%$ to $32\%$, respectively. The impacts of changes in soil texture and soil moisture are investigated with more than $1,200$ measurements in a novel UG testbed that allows flexibility in soil moisture control. Moreover, the …


Improving Closely Spaced Dim Object Detection Through Improved Multiframe Blind Deconvolution, Ronald M. Aung Sep 2020

Improving Closely Spaced Dim Object Detection Through Improved Multiframe Blind Deconvolution, Ronald M. Aung

Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation focuses on improving the ability to detect dim stellar objects that are in close proximity to a bright one, through statistical image processing using short exposure images. The goal is to improve the space domain awareness capabilities with the existing infrastructure. Two new algorithms are developed. The first one is through the Neighborhood System Blind Deconvolution where the data functions are separated into the bright object, the neighborhood system, and the background functions. The second one is through the Dimension Reduction Blind Deconvolution, where the object function is represented by the product of two matrices. Both are designed …