IEEE transactions on neural networks and learning systems
Apr 10, 2018
In this paper, we present an approach for minimizing the computational complexity of the trained convolutional neural networks (ConvNets). The idea is to approximate all elements of a given ConvNet and replace the original convolutional filters and p...
Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society
Apr 6, 2018
We demonstrate supervised learning in Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) for the problem of handwritten digit recognition using the spike triggered Normalized Approximate Descent (NormAD) algorithm. Our network that employs neurons operating at sparse bi...
IEEE/ACM transactions on computational biology and bioinformatics
Apr 4, 2018
The emergence of deep learning has impacted numerous machine learning based applications and research. The reason for its success lies in two main advantages: 1) it provides the ability to learn very complex non-linear relationships between features ...
Computerized Tomography Angiography (CTA) based follow-up of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms (AAA) treated with Endovascular Aneurysm Repair (EVAR) is essential to evaluate the progress of the patient and detect complications. In this context, accurate qu...
Biomedical relation extraction can automatically extract high-quality biomedical relations from biomedical texts, which is a vital step for the mining of biomedical knowledge hidden in the literature. Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) and convolutiona...
Computational intelligence and neuroscience
Mar 27, 2018
The classification and recognition technology of underwater acoustic signal were always an important research content in the field of underwater acoustic signal processing. Currently, wavelet transform, Hilbert-Huang transform, and Mel frequency ceps...
OBJECTIVE: To determine if multispectral narrow-band imaging (mNBI) can be used for automated, quantitative detection of oropharyngeal carcinoma (OPC).
Fine-grained visual recognition is an important problem in pattern recognition applications. However, it is a challenging task due to the subtle interclass difference and large intraclass variation. Recent visual attention models are able to automati...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Mar 22, 2018
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: The stethoscope based auscultation technique is a primary diagnostic tool for chest sound analysis. However, the performance of this method is limited due to its dependency on physicians experience, knowledge and also clarit...
Discriminating Alzheimer's disease (AD) from its prodromal form, mild cognitive impairment (MCI), is a significant clinical problem that may facilitate early diagnosis and intervention, in which a more challenging issue is to classify MCI subtypes, i...