Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a chronic neurodegenerative disease of the central nervous system that has no cure and leads to death. One of the most prevalent tools for AD diagnosis is magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), because of its capability to visu...
Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP
Jan 1, 2016
BACKGROUND: Lung cancer remains one of the most common cancers in the world, both in terms of new cases (about 13% of total per year) and deaths (nearly one cancer death in five), because of the high case fatality. Errors in lung cancer type or malig...
IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence
Jan 1, 2016
Human parsing, namely partitioning the human body into semantic regions, has drawn much attention recently for its wide applications in human-centric analysis. Previous works often consider solving the problem of human pose estimation as the prerequi...
IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence
Jan 1, 2016
Recent trends in image understanding have pushed for scene understanding models that jointly reason about various tasks such as object detection, scene recognition, shape analysis, contextual reasoning, and local appearance based classifiers. In this...
As the early stage of Alzheimer's disease (AD), mild cognitive impairment (MCI) has high chance to convert to AD. Effective prediction of such conversion from MCI to AD is of great importance for early diagnosis of AD and also for evaluating AD risk ...
IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence
Oct 1, 2015
Active learning techniques have gained popularity to reduce human effort in labeling data instances for inducing a classifier. When faced with large amounts of unlabeled data, such algorithms automatically identify the exemplar instances for manual a...
IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence
Oct 1, 2015
Binary feature descriptors such as local binary patterns (LBP) and its variations have been widely used in many face recognition systems due to their excellent robustness and strong discriminative power. However, most existing binary face descriptors...
Breast cancer is becoming a leading death of women all over the world; clinical experiments demonstrate that early detection and accurate diagnosis can increase the potential of treatment. In order to improve the breast cancer diagnosis precision, th...
Rinsho byori. The Japanese journal of clinical pathology
Sep 1, 2015
Conventionally, a definitive diagnosis of cancer is derived from histopathological diagnostics based on morphological criteria that are difficult to standardize on a quantifiable basis. On the other hand, while molecular tumor markers and blood bioch...
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Sep 1, 2015
The problem of nonlinear acoustic to articulatory inversion mapping is investigated in the feature space using two models, the deep belief network (DBN) which is the state-of-the-art, and the general regression neural network (GRNN). The task is to e...
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