BMC medical informatics and decision making
May 8, 2019
OBJECTIVE: Assessing risks of bias in randomized controlled trials (RCTs) is an important but laborious task when conducting systematic reviews. RobotReviewer (RR), an open-source machine learning (ML) system, semi-automates bias assessments. We cond...
Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society
Apr 9, 2019
This paper investigates the fixed-time synchronization of Memristor-based neural networks with time-delayed and coupled. In view of the retarded differential inclusions theory, drive-response concept, the authors give some sufficient conditions to en...
Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society
Mar 29, 2019
Outlet ferrous ion concentration is an essential indicator to manipulate the goethite process in the zinc hydrometallurgy plant. However, it cannot be measured on-line, which leads to the delay of this feedback information. In this study, a self-adju...
Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society
Mar 25, 2019
Increasingly, autonomous agents will be required to operate on long-term missions. This will create a demand for general intelligence because feedback from a human operator may be sparse and delayed, and because not all behaviours can be prescribed. ...
Methods of information in medicine
Mar 15, 2019
OBJECTIVE: Self-anamnesis is a procedure in which a patient answers questions about the personal medical history without interacting directly with a doctor or medical assistant. If collected digitally, the anamnesis data can be shared among the healt...
Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society
Mar 12, 2019
Learning an effective visual classifier from few labeled samples is a challenging problem, which has motivated the multi-source adaptation scheme in machine learning. While the advantages of multi-source adaptation have been widely recognized, there ...
Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society
Mar 8, 2019
This paper presents a near optimal adaptive event-based sampling scheme for tracking control of an affine nonlinear continuous-time system. A zero-sum game approach is proposed by introducing a novel performance index. The optimal value function, i.e...
The international journal of medical robotics + computer assisted surgery : MRCAS
Feb 25, 2019
BACKGROUND: In robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery, feedback as well as sensing of translational and grasping forces allows surgeons to manipulate the robots using an appropriate force. However, there have been limited reports on single instrum...
Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society
Feb 21, 2019
Neural networks are commonly trained to make predictions through learning algorithms. Contrastive Hebbian learning, which is a powerful rule inspired by gradient backpropagation, is based on Hebb's rule and the contrastive divergence algorithm. It op...
IEEE transactions on cybernetics
Feb 7, 2019
Although adaptive control design with function approximators, for example, neural networks (NNs) and fuzzy logic systems, has been studied for various nonlinear systems, the classical adaptive laws derived based on the gradient descent algorithm with...