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Neoproterozoic Mafic-Ultramafic Intrusions from the Fanjingshan Region, South China: Implications for Subduction-Related Magmatism in the Jiangnan Fold Belt
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Sample entropy analysis of EEG signals via artificial neural networks to model patients' consciousness level based on anesthesiologists experience.
Electroencephalogram (EEG) signals, as it can express the human brain's activities and reflect awareness, have been widely used in many research and medical equipment to build a noninvasive monitoring index to the depth of anesthesia (DOA). Bispectral (BIS) index monitor is one of the famous and important indicators for anesthesiologists primarily using EEG signals when assessing the DOA. In this study, an attempt is made to build a new indicator using EEG signals to provide a more valuable reference to the DOA for clinical researchers. The EEG signals are collected from patients under anesthetic surgery which are filtered using multivariate empirical mode decomposition (MEMD) method and analyzed using sample entropy (SampEn) analysis. The calculated signals from SampEn are utilized to train an artificial neural network (ANN) model through using expert assessment of consciousness level (EACL) which is assessed by experienced anesthesiologists as the target to train, validate, and test the ANN. The results that are achieved using the proposed system are compared to BIS index. The proposed system results show that it is not only having similar characteristic to BIS index but also more close to experienced anesthesiologists which illustrates the consciousness level and reflects the DOA successfully.This research is supported by the Center forDynamical Biomarkers and Translational Medicine, National Central University, Taiwan, which is sponsored by Ministry of Science and Technology (Grant no. MOST103-2911-I-008-001). Also, it is supported by National Chung-Shan Institute of Science & Technology in Taiwan (Grant nos. CSIST-095-V301 and CSIST-095-V302)
Comparative Chromosome Maps of Neotropical Rodents Necromys lasiurus and Thaptomys nigrita (Cricetidae) Established by ZOO-FISH
This work presents chromosome homology maps between Mus musculus (MMU) and 2 South American rodent species from the Cricetidae group: Necromys lasiurus (NLA, 2n = 34) and Thaptomys nigrita (TNI, 2n = 52), established by ZOO-FISH using mouse chromosome-specific painting probes. Extending previous molecular cytogenetic studies in Neotropical rodents, the purpose of this work was to delineate evolutionary chromosomal rearrangements in Cricetidae rodents and to reconstruct the phylogenetic relationships among the Akodontini species. Our phylogenetic reconstruction by maximum parsimony analysis of chromosomal characters confirmed one consistent clade of all Neotropical rodents studied so far. In both species analyzed here, we observed the syntenic association of chromosome segments homologous to MMU 8/13, suggesting that this chromosome form is a synapomorphic trait exclusive to Neotropical rodents. Further, the previously described Akodontini-specific syntenic associations MMU 3/18 and MMU 6/12 were observed in N. lasiurus but not in T. nigrita, although the latter species is considered a member of the Akodontini tribe by some authors. Finally, and in agreement with this finding, N. lasiurus and Akodon serrensis share the derived fission of MMU 13, which places them as basal sister clades within Akodontini. Copyright (C) 2011 S. Karger AG, Base
Consistency-based Semi-supervised Active Learning: Towards Minimizing Labeling Cost
Active learning (AL) combines data labeling and model training to minimize
the labeling cost by prioritizing the selection of high value data that can
best improve model performance. In pool-based active learning, accessible
unlabeled data are not used for model training in most conventional methods.
Here, we propose to unify unlabeled sample selection and model training towards
minimizing labeling cost, and make two contributions towards that end. First,
we exploit both labeled and unlabeled data using semi-supervised learning (SSL)
to distill information from unlabeled data during the training stage. Second,
we propose a consistency-based sample selection metric that is coherent with
the training objective such that the selected samples are effective at
improving model performance. We conduct extensive experiments on image
classification tasks. The experimental results on CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100 and
ImageNet demonstrate the superior performance of our proposed method with
limited labeled data, compared to the existing methods and the alternative AL
and SSL combinations. Additionally, we study an important yet under-explored
problem -- "When can we start learning-based AL selection?". We propose a
measure that is empirically correlated with the AL target loss and is
potentially useful for determining the proper starting point of learning-based
AL methods.Comment: Accepted by ECCV202
Prediction of a positive surgical margin and biochemical recurrence after robot-assisted radical prostatectomy
The positive surgical margin (PSM) and biochemical recurrence (BCR) are two main factors associated with poor oncotherapeutic outcomes after prostatectomy. This is an Asian population study based on a single-surgeon experience to deeply investigate the predictors for PSM and BCR. We retrospectively included 419 robot-assisted radical prostatectomy cases. The number of PSM cases was 126 (30.1%), stratified as 22 (12.2%) in stage T2 and 103 (43.6%) in stage T3. Preoperative prostate-specific antigen (PSA) > 10 ng/mL (p = 0.047; odds ratio [OR] 1.712), intraoperative blood loss > 200 mL (p = 0.006; OR 4.01), and postoperative pT3 stage (p 10 ng/mL (p 3 (p = 0.02; HR 1.964), and PSM (p = 0.027; HR 1.725) were four significant predictors for BCR in multivariable analysis. PSMs occurred mostly in the posterolateral regions (73.8%) which were associated with nerve-sparing procedures (p = 0.012) while apical PSMs were correlated intraoperative bleeding (p 3 (p = 0.002; HR 2.689) was a significant BCR predictor. These results indicate that PSA and pathological status are key factors influencing PSM and BCR
Ant colony optimization with immigrants schemes for the dynamic railway junction rescheduling problem with multiple delays
Train rescheduling after a perturbation is a challenging task and is an important concern of the railway industry as delayed trains can lead to large fines, disgruntled customers and loss of revenue. Sometimes not just one delay but several unrelated delays can occur in a short space of time which makes the problem even more challenging. In addition, the problem is a dynamic one that changes over time for, as trains are waiting to be rescheduled at the junction, more timetabled trains will be arriving, which will change the nature of the problem. The aim of this research is to investigate the application of several different ant colony optimization (ACO) algorithms to the problem of a dynamic train delay scenario with multiple delays. The algorithms not only resequence the trains at the junction but also resequence the trains at the stations, which is considered to be a first step towards expanding the problem to consider a larger area of the railway network. The results show that, in this dynamic rescheduling problem, ACO algorithms with a memory cope with dynamic changes better than an ACO algorithm that uses only pheromone evaporation to remove redundant pheromone trails. In addition, it has been shown that if the ant solutions in memory become irreparably infeasible it is possible to replace them with elite immigrants, based on the best-so-far ant, and still obtain a good performance
Chiral zero-mode for abelian BPS dipoles
We present an exact normalisable zero-energy chiral fermion solution for
abelian BPS dipoles. For a single dipole, this solution is contained within the
high temperature limit of the SU(2) caloron with non-trivial holonomy.Comment: 9 pages, 1 figure (in 2 parts), presented at the workshop on
"Confinement, Topology, and other Non-Perturbative Aspects of QCD", 21-27
Jan. 2002, Stara Lesna, Slovaki
Unsupervised Deformable Image Registration Using Cycle-Consistent CNN
Medical image registration is one of the key processing steps for biomedical
image analysis such as cancer diagnosis. Recently, deep learning based
supervised and unsupervised image registration methods have been extensively
studied due to its excellent performance in spite of ultra-fast computational
time compared to the classical approaches. In this paper, we present a novel
unsupervised medical image registration method that trains deep neural network
for deformable registration of 3D volumes using a cycle-consistency. Thanks to
the cycle consistency, the proposed deep neural networks can take diverse pair
of image data with severe deformation for accurate registration. Experimental
results using multiphase liver CT images demonstrate that our method provides
very precise 3D image registration within a few seconds, resulting in more
accurate cancer size estimation.Comment: accepted for MICCAI 201
New strategies for developing cardiovascular stent surfaces with novel functions (Review)
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