Proposal for a 1 � 3 Goos-H�nchen shift-assisted de/multiplexer based on a multilayer structure containing quantum dots

A multilayer structure with the wavelength selective features based on Goos-H�nchen (GH) shift is proposed and investigated. We present a layered media containing quantum dots for active control of the GH shift for the reflected light. This configuration includes a distributed Bragg reflector to have minimum optical power transmission to the substrate. In addition, a passive cladding layer is used to enhance the total lateral shift for the reflected beams. For a fixed structure and incident angle, our results demonstrate that by proper manipulation of the optical properties and susceptibility of the active layer, de/multiplexing capabilities of such a device could be controlled. This type of grating-less device can be used as a compact wavelength division multiplexing system with actively controllable channel spacing. We demonstrate possibility of a 1 � 3 de/multiplexer with channel spacing of 2 nm. � 2016 Author(s)

Privacy-Preserving Patient Similarity Learning in a Federated Environment: Development and Analysis

Background: There is an urgent need for the development of global analytic frameworks that can perform analyses in a privacy-preserving federated environment across multiple institutions without privacy leakage. A few studies on the topic of federated medical analysis have been conducted recently with the focus on several algorithms. However, none of them have solved similar patient matching, which is useful for applications such as cohort construction for cross-institution observational studies, disease surveillance, and clinical trials recruitment. Objective: The aim of this study was to present a privacy-preserving platform in a federated setting for patient similarity learning across institutions. Without sharing patient-level information, our model can find similar patients from one hospital to another. Methods: We proposed a federated patient hashing framework and developed a novel algorithm to learn context-specific hash codes to represent patients across institutions. The similarities between patients can be efficiently computed using the resulting hash codes of corresponding patients. To avoid security attack from reverse engineering on the model, we applied homomorphic encryption to patient similarity search in a federated setting. Results: We used sequential medical events extracted from the Multiparameter Intelligent Monitoring in Intensive Care-III database to evaluate the proposed algorithm in predicting the incidence of five diseases independently. Our algorithm achieved averaged area under the curves of 0.9154 and 0.8012 with balanced and imbalanced data, respectively, in ??-nearest neighbor with ??=3. We also confirmed privacy preservation in similarity search by using homomorphic encryption. Conclusions: The proposed algorithm can help search similar patients across institutions effectively to support federated data analysis in a privacy-preserving manner

A3-2: The Signs and Symptoms of Heart Failure are Frequently Documented to Wax and Wane in the Years Prior to a Clinical Diagnosis of Heart Failure: Data from 4,644 Patients Followed in Primary Care

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