Care of terminally ill / Palliative care

Mapping and Discriminating Rural Settlements Using Gaofen-2 Images and a Fully Convolutional Network.

New ongoing rural construction has resulted in an extensive mixture of new settlements with old ones in the rural areas of China. Understanding the spatial characteristic of these rural settlements is of crucial importance as it provides essential information for land management and decision-making. Despite a great advance in High Spatial Resolution (HSR) satellite images and deep learning techniq...

Deep convolutional neural network based on adaptive gradient optimizer for fault detection in SCIM.

Early fault detection in squirrel cage induction motor (SCIM) can minimize the downtime and maximize production. This paper presents an adaptive gradient optimizer based deep convolutional neural network (ADG-dCNN) technique for bearing and rotor faults detection in squirrel cage induction motor. Multiple MEMS accelerometers have been used for vibration data collection, and sensor data fusion is e...

On the effects of memory and topology on the controllability of complex dynamical networks.

Recent advances in network science, control theory, and fractional calculus provide us with mathematical tools necessary for modeling and controlling ...

Risks and complications of robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) in patients receiving antiplatelet and/or anticoagulant therapy: a retrospective cohort study in a single institute.

The objective of the study was to evaluate the risk of bleeding complications in patients undergoing robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) while...

Fake metabolomics chromatogram generation for facilitating deep learning of peak-picking neural networks.

Finding peaks in chromatograms and determining their start and end points (peak picking) is a core task in chromatography based biotechnology. Constru...

Transfer learning in deep neural network based under-sampled MR image reconstruction.

In Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), the success of deep learning-based under-sampled MR image reconstruction depends on: (i) size of the training dat...

Updates on Deep Learning and Glioma: Use of Convolutional Neural Networks to Image Glioma Heterogeneity.

Deep learning represents end-to-end machine learning in which feature selection from images and classification happen concurrently. This articles prov...

Prediction of End-Of-Season Tuber Yield and Tuber Set in Potatoes Using In-Season UAV-Based Hyperspectral Imagery and Machine Learning.

Potato is the largest non-cereal food crop in the world. Timely estimation of end-of-season tuber production using in-season information can inform su...

Robotic Rehabilitation in Spinal Cord Injury: A Pilot Study on End-Effectors and Neurophysiological Outcomes.

Robot-aided gait training (RAGT) has been implemented to provide patients with spinal cord injury (SCI) with a physiological limb activation during ga...

Pain intensity estimation based on a spatial transformation and attention CNN.

Models designed to detect abnormalities that reflect disease from facial structures are an emerging area of research for automated facial analysis, wh...

Robot-assisted pelvic urologic surgeries: is it feasible to perform under reduced tilt?

To evaluate the feasibility and outcomes of performing robot-assisted pelvic surgery at a reduced angle of Trendelenburg position. This was a prospect...

A robust and interpretable end-to-end deep learning model for cytometry data.

Cytometry technologies are essential tools for immunology research, providing high-throughput measurements of the immune cells at the single-cell leve...

Improved recurrent neural network-based manipulator control with remote center of motion constraints: Experimental results.

In this paper, an improved recurrent neural network (RNN) scheme is proposed to perform the trajectory control of redundant robot manipulators using r...

Machine learning approach to predict postoperative opioid requirements in ambulatory surgery patients.

Opioids play a critical role in acute postoperative pain management. Our objective was to develop machine learning models to predict postoperative opi...

An efficient end-to-end CNN for segmentation of bone surfaces from ultrasound.

The application of ultrasound (US) imaging in orthopedic surgery has always been a research direction. However, the various problems of US imaging hin...

Toward Task Autonomy in Robotic Cardiac Ablation: Learning-Based Kinematic Control of Soft Tendon-Driven Catheters.

The goal of this study was to propose and validate a control framework with level-2 autonomy (task autonomy) for the control of flexible ablation cath...

CAB U-Net: An end-to-end category attention boosting algorithm for segmentation.

With the development of machine learning and artificial intelligence, many convolutional neural networks (CNNs) based segmentation methods have been p...

Hiding a plane with a pixel: examining shape-bias in CNNs and the benefit of building in biological constraints.

When deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are trained "end-to-end" on raw data, some of the feature detectors they develop in their early layers ...

User-Centered Design of a Mobile Health Intervention to Enhance Exacerbation-Related Self-Management in Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (Copilot): Mixed Methods Study.

BACKGROUND: Adequate self-management skills are of great importance for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) to reduce the impac...

Machine-learning-based diagnostics of EEG pathology.

Machine learning (ML) methods have the potential to automate clinical EEG analysis. They can be categorized into feature-based (with handcrafted featu...