Cheng Kang, MSc.

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) generated a global public health emergency since December 2019, causing huge economic losses.To help radiologists strengthen their recognition of COVID-19 cases, we developed a computer-aided diagnosis system based on deep learning to automatically classify chest computed tomography-based COVID-19, Tuberculosis, and healthy control subjects. Our novel classification model AdaD-FNN sequentially transfers the trained knowledge of an FNN estimator to the next FNN estimator while updating the weights of the samples in the training set with a decaying learning rate. This model inhibits the network from remembering the noisy information and improves the learning of complex patterns in the hard-to-identify samples. Moreover, we designed a novel image preprocessing model F-U2MNet-C by enhancing the image features using fuzzy stacking and eliminating the interference factors using U2MNet segmentation. Extensive experiments are conducted on four publicly available datasets namely, TLDCA, UCSD-Al4H, SARS-CoV-2, TCIA, and the obtained classification accuracies are 99.52%, 92.96%, 97.86%, 91.97%. Our novel system gives out compelling performance for assisting COVID-19 detection when compared with 22 state-of-the-art methods.We hope to help link together biomedical research and artificial intelligence and to assist the diagnosis of doctors, radiologists, and inspectors at each epidemic prevention site in the real world.

Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) – can be evaluated by advanced neurocomputing and traditional machine learning techniques. This study aims to develop an automatic system based on a Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) to classify and score depressive patients by specific frequency bands and electrodes. In this study, two Residual Neural Networks (ResNets) based on electroencephalogram (EEG) monitoring are presented for classifying depression (classifier) and for scoring depressive severity (regression). Significant frequency bands and specific brain regions are selected to improve the performance of the ResNets. The algorithm, which is estimated by 10-fold cross-validation, attained an average accuracy rate ranging from 0.371 to 0.571 and achieved average Root-Mean-Square Error (RMSE) from 7.25 to 8.41. After using the beta frequency band and 16 specific EEG channels, we obtained the best-classifying accuracy at 0.871 and the smallest RMSE at 2.80. It was discovered that signals extracted from the beta band are more distinctive in depression classification, and these selected channels tend to perform better on scoring depressive severity. Our study also uncovered the different brain architectural connections by relying on phase coherence analysis. Increased delta deactivation accompanied by strong beta activation is the main feature of depression when the depression symptom is becoming more severe. We can therefore conclude that the model developed here is acceptable for classifying depression and for scoring depressive severity. Our model can offer physicians a model that consists of topological dependency, quantified semantic depressive symptoms and clinical features by using EEG signals. These selected brain regions and significant beta frequency bands can improve the performance of the BCI system for detecting depression and scoring depressive severity.

In this paper, we propose a Fuzzy Window with the Gaussian Processed Label (FW-GPL) method to mitigate the overlap problem in the neighboring ordinal category when scoring images. Many published conventional methods treat this challenge as a traditional regression problem and make a strong assumption that each ordinal category owns an adequate intrinsic rank to outline its distribution. Our FW-GPL method aims to refine the ordinal label pattern by using two novel techniques: (1) assembling fuzzy logic to the fully connected layer of convolution neural networks and (2) transforming the ordinal labels with a Gaussian process. Specifically, it incorporates a heuristic fuzzy logic from the ordinal characteristic and simultaneously plugs in ordinal distribution shapes that penalize the difference between the targeted label and its neighbors to ensure a concentrated regional distribution. Accordingly, the function of these proposed windows is leveraged to minimize the influence of majority classes that mislead the prediction of minority samples. Our model is specifically designed to carefully avoid partially missing continuous facial-age segments. It can perform competitively when using the whole continuous facial-age dataset. Extensive experimental results on three facial-aging datasets and one ambiguous medical dataset demonstrate that our FW-GPL can achieve compelling performance results compared to the State-Of-The-Art (SOTA).

During working memory tasks, the brain of humans will process information relying on some mechanisms, including rehearsal, inhibition, disinhibition, and maintenance. By figure out the functional networks of the cerebral, scientists can develop advanced computing approaches to solve some practical problems.