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An Efficient Approach for Polyps Detection in Endoscopic Videos Based on Faster R-CNN
Polyp has long been considered as one of the major etiologies to colorectal
cancer which is a fatal disease around the world, thus early detection and
recognition of polyps plays a crucial role in clinical routines. Accurate
diagnoses of polyps through endoscopes operated by physicians becomes a
challenging task not only due to the varying expertise of physicians, but also
the inherent nature of endoscopic inspections. To facilitate this process,
computer-aid techniques that emphasize fully-conventional image processing and
novel machine learning enhanced approaches have been dedicatedly designed for
polyp detection in endoscopic videos or images. Among all proposed algorithms,
deep learning based methods take the lead in terms of multiple metrics in
evolutions for algorithmic performance. In this work, a highly effective model,
namely the faster region-based convolutional neural network (Faster R-CNN) is
implemented for polyp detection. In comparison with the reported results of the
state-of-the-art approaches on polyps detection, extensive experiments
demonstrate that the Faster R-CNN achieves very competing results, and it is an
efficient approach for clinical practice.Comment: 6 pages, 10 figures,2018 International Conference on Pattern
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An Application of Lorentz Invariance Violation in Black Hole Thermodynamics
In this paper, we have applied the Lorentz-invariance-violation (LIV) class
of dispersion relations (DR) with the dimensionless parameter n = 2 and the
"sign of LIV" {\eta}_+ = 1, to phenomenologically study the effect of quantum
gravity in the strong gravitational field. Specifically, we have studied the
effect of the LIV-DR induced quantum gravity on the Schwarzschild black hole
thermodynamics. The result shows that the effect of the LIV-DR induced quantum
gravity speeds up the black hole evaporation, and its corresponding black hole
entropy undergoes a leading logarithmic correction to the "reduced
Bekenstein-Hawking entropy", and the ill defined situations (i.e. the
singularity problem and the critical problem) are naturally bypassed when the
LIV-DR effect is present. Also, to put our results in a proper perspective, we
have compared with the earlier findings by another quantum gravity candidate,
i.e. the generalized uncertainty principle (GUP). Finally, we conclude from the
inert remnants at the final stage of the black hole evaporation that, the GUP
as a candidate for describing quantum gravity can always do as well as the
LIV-DR by adjusting the model-dependent parameters, but in the same
model-dependent parameters the LIV-DR acts as a more suitable candidate.Comment: 18 pages, 7 figure
Disentangled Variational Auto-Encoder for Semi-supervised Learning
Semi-supervised learning is attracting increasing attention due to the fact
that datasets of many domains lack enough labeled data. Variational
Auto-Encoder (VAE), in particular, has demonstrated the benefits of
semi-supervised learning. The majority of existing semi-supervised VAEs utilize
a classifier to exploit label information, where the parameters of the
classifier are introduced to the VAE. Given the limited labeled data, learning
the parameters for the classifiers may not be an optimal solution for
exploiting label information. Therefore, in this paper, we develop a novel
approach for semi-supervised VAE without classifier. Specifically, we propose a
new model called Semi-supervised Disentangled VAE (SDVAE), which encodes the
input data into disentangled representation and non-interpretable
representation, then the category information is directly utilized to
regularize the disentangled representation via the equality constraint. To
further enhance the feature learning ability of the proposed VAE, we
incorporate reinforcement learning to relieve the lack of data. The dynamic
framework is capable of dealing with both image and text data with its
corresponding encoder and decoder networks. Extensive experiments on image and
text datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed framework.Comment: 6 figures, 10 pages, Information Sciences 201
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