The River-Rafting System for Knowledge Discovery Related to Persuasion Process Conversation Logs

The purpose of this research is to develop aframework to represent the content and process of persuasion communications for overdue payment collection, thus making it possible to examine how the skilled operators have used theme related keywords concerning motivations to pay, the payment methods and the payment confirmation in their negotiation to achieve higher collection success. This paper describes a basis for modeling a persuasion process. There has been no research or methods for dealing with large amounts of conversation logs for discovering useful knowledge about persuasion processes. In this paper, we report our successful efforts in discovering a part of the distinctive features of skilled worker techniques as indicated in their conversations related to overdue payment collection and the application of our methods to communication data related to a Japanese telecommunications company.December 18-22, 2006 Hong Kong, Chin

Document-polishing Support System for Creating Top-Down Structure

Abstract. In recent years, with the growth of electronic communication such as e-mail, blogs, and on-line reports, we have had many opportunities to write documents. Although a document is used to transfer information or intention, it may be hard to read even if the writer made strong efforts to make it readable. Therefore, there is need for a system that can supply objective values for polishing documents. In this study, a system that can support document writing in a top-down structure is proposed. According to the experimental results, the proposed system could be effectively used to write documents with a top-down structure

Quantitative Analysis of Retinal Vascular Leakage in Retinal Vasculitis Using Machine Learning

Retinal vascular leakage is known to be an important biomarker to monitor the disease activity of uveitis. Although fluorescein angiography (FA) is a gold standard for the diagnosis and assessment of the disease activity of uveitis, the evaluation of FA findings, especially retinal vascular leakage, remains subjective and descriptive. In the current study, we developed an automatic segmentation model using a deep learning system, U-Net, and subtraction of the retinal vessel area between early-phase and late-phase FA images for the detection of the retinal vascular leakage area in ultrawide field (UWF) FA images in three patients with Behçet’s Disease and three patients with idiopathic uveitis with retinal vasculitis. This study demonstrated that the automated model for segmentation of the retinal vascular leakage area through the UWF FA images reached 0.434 (precision), 0.529 (recall), and 0.467 (Dice coefficient) without using UWF FA images for training. There was a significant positive correlation between the automated segmented area (pixels) of retinal vascular leakage and the FA vascular leakage score. The mean pixels of automatic segmented vascular leakage in UWF FA images with treatment was significantly reduced compared with before treatment. The automated segmentation of retinal vascular leakage in UWF FA images may be useful for objective and quantitative assessment of disease activity in posterior segment uveitis. Further studies at a larger scale are warranted to improve the performance of this automatic segmentation model to detect retinal vascular leakage