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Automatically Designing CNN Architectures for Medical Image Segmentation
Deep neural network architectures have traditionally been designed and
explored with human expertise in a long-lasting trial-and-error process. This
process requires huge amount of time, expertise, and resources. To address this
tedious problem, we propose a novel algorithm to optimally find hyperparameters
of a deep network architecture automatically. We specifically focus on
designing neural architectures for medical image segmentation task. Our
proposed method is based on a policy gradient reinforcement learning for which
the reward function is assigned a segmentation evaluation utility (i.e., dice
index). We show the efficacy of the proposed method with its low computational
cost in comparison with the state-of-the-art medical image segmentation
networks. We also present a new architecture design, a densely connected
encoder-decoder CNN, as a strong baseline architecture to apply the proposed
hyperparameter search algorithm. We apply the proposed algorithm to each layer
of the baseline architectures. As an application, we train the proposed system
on cine cardiac MR images from Automated Cardiac Diagnosis Challenge (ACDC)
MICCAI 2017. Starting from a baseline segmentation architecture, the resulting
network architecture obtains the state-of-the-art results in accuracy without
performing any trial-and-error based architecture design approaches or close
supervision of the hyperparameters changes.Comment: Accepted to Machine Learning in Medical Imaging (MLMI 2018
Peer-to-Peer Networks: A Language Theoretic Approach
In this article a modification of a grammar systems theoretic construction, the so-called network of parallel language processors, is proposed to describe the behaviour of peer-to-peer (P2P) systems. In our model, the language processors form teams, send and receive information through collective and individual filters. The paper deals with the dynamics of string collections. The connection between the growth function of a developmental system and the growth function of networks of parallel multiset string processors with teams of collective and individual filtering is also established
An active, ontology-driven network service for Internet collaboration
Web portals have emerged as an important means of collaboration on the WWW, and the integration of ontologies promises to make them more accurate in how they serve users’ collaboration and information location requirements. However, web portals are essentially a centralised architecture resulting in difficulties supporting seamless roaming between portals and collaboration between groups supported on different portals. This paper proposes an alternative approach to collaboration over the web using ontologies that is de-centralised and exploits content-based networking. We argue that this approach promises a user-centric, timely, secure and location-independent mechanism, which is potentially more scaleable and universal than existing centralised portals
Preface: 11th Workshop on Non-classical Models of Automata and Applications (NCMA 2019)
Holzer, M.; Sempere Luna, JM. (2021). Preface: 11th Workshop on Non-classical Models of Automata and Applications (NCMA 2019). RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications. 55:1-2. https://doi.org/10.1051/ita/2021009S125
Intrinsically Evolvable Artificial Neural Networks
Dedicated hardware implementations of neural networks promise to provide faster, lower power operation when compared to software implementations executing on processors. Unfortunately, most custom hardware implementations do not support intrinsic training of these networks on-chip. The training is typically done using offline software simulations and the obtained network is synthesized and targeted to the hardware offline. The FPGA design presented here facilitates on-chip intrinsic training of artificial neural networks. Block-based neural networks (BbNN), the type of artificial neural networks implemented here, are grid-based networks neuron blocks. These networks are trained using genetic algorithms to simultaneously optimize the network structure and the internal synaptic parameters. The design supports online structure and parameter updates, and is an intrinsically evolvable BbNN platform supporting functional-level hardware evolution. Functional-level evolvable hardware (EHW) uses evolutionary algorithms to evolve interconnections and internal parameters of functional modules in reconfigurable computing systems such as FPGAs. Functional modules can be any hardware modules such as multipliers, adders, and trigonometric functions. In the implementation presented, the functional module is a neuron block. The designed platform is suitable for applications in dynamic environments, and can be adapted and retrained online. The online training capability has been demonstrated using a case study. A performance characterization model for RC implementations of BbNNs has also been presented
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