Maxi Program at IEEE EMBS Student Club of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications

This paper presents the recently launched Maxi Program at IEEE EMBS Student Club of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. The program initiates a variety of seminar series covering biomedical expertise and professional communication skills, forms a cooperative partnership between students, university and industry through guest speakers events and industry tours, and sets in motion personal consultative services (PCS) to foster the individualized competence of students. This extended program could be an innovative model of self-development as an affiliated student chapter/club with IEEE EMBS

Neural network fusion strategies for identifying breast masses

In this work, we introduce the perceptron average neural network fusion strategy and implemented a number of other fusion strategies to identify breast masses in mammograms as malignant or benign with both balanced and imbalanced input features. We numerically compare various fixed and trained fusion rules, i.e., the majority vote, simple average, weighted average, and perceptron average, when applying them to a binary statistical pattern recognition problem. To judge from the experimental results, the weighted average approach outperforms the other fusion strategies with balanced input features, while the perceptron average is superior and achieves the goals with lowest standard deviation with imbalanced ensembles. We concretely analyze the results of above fusion strategies, state the advantages of fusing the component networks, and provide our particular broad sense perspective about information fusion in neural networks

Digital switchover in Europe

This article discusses the political, economic, technological and human aspects of the digital switchover in Europe and explores various policies for managing the process. The article first examines the advantages and drawbacks of digital switchover, and identifies a number of challenges and policy dilemmas of making switchover an achievable objective. It goes on to look at digital television adoption across Europe and assesses the effectiveness of free-to-air digital television to accelerate take-up. Finally, the article examines EU initiatives as well as national plans in digital switchover and proposes various measures for encouraging the take-up of digital services and therefore bringing forward the likely idea of analogue switch-off