BACKGROUND: Identification of unknown fungal species aids to the conservation of fungal diversity. As many fungal species cannot be cultured, morphological identification of those species is almost impossible. But, DNA barcoding technique can be empl...
Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society
Dec 27, 2018
Graph-based embedding methods are very useful for reducing the dimension of high-dimensional data and for extracting their relevant features. In this paper, we introduce a novel nonlinear method called Flexible Discriminant graph-based Embedding with...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Dec 26, 2018
Biophysical interactions between proteins and peptides are key determinants of molecular recognition specificity landscapes. However, an understanding of how molecular structure and residue-level energetics at protein-peptide interfaces shape these l...
IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence
Dec 21, 2018
Structural magnetic resonance imaging (sMRI) has been widely used for computer-aided diagnosis of neurodegenerative disorders, e.g., Alzheimer's disease (AD), due to its sensitivity to morphological changes caused by brain atrophy. Recently, a few de...
European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience
Dec 12, 2018
The intentional distortion of test results presents a fundamental problem to self-report-based psychiatric assessment, such as screening for depressive symptoms. The first objective of the study was to clarify whether depressed patients like healthy ...
Early diagnosis and continuous monitoring of patients suffering from eye diseases have been major concerns in the computer-aided detection techniques. Detecting one or several specific types of retinal lesions has made a significant breakthrough in c...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Dec 5, 2018
Prescription information is an important component of electronic health records (EHRs). This information contains detailed medication instructions that are crucial for patients' well-being and is often detailed in the narrative portions of EHRs. As a...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Dec 5, 2018
Over 75 million Americans have multiple concurrent chronic conditions and medical decision making for these patients is mostly based on retrospective cohort studies. Current methods to generate cohorts of patients with comorbidities are neither scala...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Dec 5, 2018
Reviewing radiology reports in emergency departments is an essential but laborious task. Timely follow-up of patients with abnormal cases in their radiology reports may dramatically affect the patient's outcome, especially if they have been discharge...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Dec 5, 2018
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the leading cause of chronic liver disease worldwide. NAFLD patients have excessive liver fat (steatosis), without other liver diseases and without excessive alcohol consumption. NAFLD consists of a spectr...