33 research outputs found
An automated classification approach to ranking photospheric proxies of magnetic energy build-up
We study the photospheric magnetic field of ~2000 active regions in solar
cycle 23 to search for parameters indicative of energy build-up and subsequent
release as a solar flare. We extract three sets of parameters: snapshots in
space and time- total flux, magnetic gradients, and neutral lines; evolution in
time- flux evolution; structures at multiple size scales- wavelet analysis.
This combines pattern recognition and classification techniques via a relevance
vector machine to determine whether a region will flare. We consider
classification performance using all 38 extracted features and several feature
subsets. Classification performance is quantified using both the true positive
rate and the true negative rate. Additionally, we compute the true skill score
which provides an equal weighting to true positive rate and true negative rate
and the Heidke skill score to allow comparison to other flare forecasting work.
We obtain a true skill score of ~0.5 for any predictive time window in the
range 2-24hr, with a TPR of ~0.8 and a TNR of ~0.7. These values do not appear
to depend on the time window, although the Heidke skill score (<0.5) does.
Features relating to snapshots of the distribution of magnetic gradients show
the best predictive ability over all predictive time windows. Other
gradient-related features and the instantaneous power at various wavelet scales
also feature in the top five ranked features in predictive power. While the
photospheric magnetic field governs the coronal non-potentiality (and
likelihood of flaring), photospheric magnetic field alone is not sufficient to
determine this uniquely. Furthermore we are only measuring proxies of the
magnetic energy build up. We still lack observational details on why energy is
released at any particular point in time. We may have discovered the natural
limit of the accuracy of flare predictions from these large scale studies
Histopathological image analysis : a review
Over the past decade, dramatic increases in computational power and improvement in image analysis algorithms have allowed the development of powerful computer-assisted analytical approaches to radiological data. With the recent advent of whole slide digital scanners, tissue histopathology slides can now be digitized and stored in digital image form. Consequently, digitized tissue histopathology has now become amenable to the application of computerized image analysis and machine learning techniques. Analogous to the role of computer-assisted diagnosis (CAD) algorithms in medical imaging to complement the opinion of a radiologist, CAD algorithms have begun to be developed for disease detection, diagnosis, and prognosis prediction to complement the opinion of the pathologist. In this paper, we review the recent state of the art CAD technology for digitized histopathology. This paper also briefly describes the development and application of novel image analysis technology for a few specific histopathology related problems being pursued in the United States and Europe
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Propranolol treatment of infantile hemangioma endothelial cells: A molecular analysis
Infantile hemangiomas (IHs) are non-malignant, largely cutaneous vascular tumors affecting approximately 5–10% of children to varying degrees. During the first year of life, these tumors are strongly proliferative, reaching an average size ranging from 2 to 20 cm. These lesions subsequently stabilize, undergo a spontaneous slow involution and are fully regressed by 5 to 10 years of age. Systemic treatment of infants with the non-selective β-adrenergic receptor blocker, propranolol, has demonstrated remarkable efficacy in reducing the size and appearance of IHs. However, the mechanism by which this occurs is largely unknown. In this study, we sought to understand the molecular mechanisms underlying the effectiveness of β blocker treatment in IHs. Our data reveal that propranolol treatment of IH endothelial cells, as well as a panel of normal primary endothelial cells, blocks endothelial cell proliferation, migration, and formation of the actin cytoskeleton coincident with alterations in vascular endothelial growth factor receptor-2 (VEGFR-2), p38 and cofilin signaling. Moreover, propranolol induces major alterations in the protein levels of key cyclins and cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors, and modulates global gene expression patterns with a particular affect on genes involved in lipid/sterol metabolism, cell cycle regulation, angiogenesis and ubiquitination. Interestingly, the effects of propranolol were endothelial cell-type independent, affecting the properties of IH endothelial cells at similar levels to that observed in neonatal dermal microvascular and coronary artery endothelial cells. This data suggests that while propranolol markedly inhibits hemangioma and normal endothelial cell function, its lack of endothelial cell specificity hints that the efficacy of this drug in the treatment of IHs may be more complex than simply blockage of endothelial function as previously believed
Neural-based Compression Scheme for Solar Image Data
Studying the solar system and especially the Sun relies on the data gathered
daily from space missions. These missions are data-intensive and compressing
this data to make them efficiently transferable to the ground station is a
twofold decision to make. Stronger compression methods, by distorting the data,
can increase data throughput at the cost of accuracy which could affect
scientific analysis of the data. On the other hand, preserving subtle details
in the compressed data requires a high amount of data to be transferred,
reducing the desired gains from compression. In this work, we propose a neural
network-based lossy compression method to be used in NASA's data-intensive
imagery missions. We chose NASA's SDO mission which transmits 1.4 terabytes of
data each day as a proof of concept for the proposed algorithm. In this work,
we propose an adversarially trained neural network, equipped with local and
non-local attention modules to capture both the local and global structure of
the image resulting in a better trade-off in rate-distortion (RD) compared to
conventional hand-engineered codecs. The RD variational autoencoder used in
this work is jointly trained with a channel-dependent entropy model as a shared
prior between the analysis and synthesis transforms to make the entropy coding
of the latent code more effective. Our neural image compression algorithm
outperforms currently-in-use and state-of-the-art codecs such as JPEG and
JPEG-2000 in terms of the RD performance when compressing extreme-ultraviolet
(EUV) data. As a proof of concept for use of this algorithm in SDO data
analysis, we have performed coronal hole (CH) detection using our compressed
images, and generated consistent segmentations, even at a compression rate of
bits per pixel (compared to 8 bits per pixel on the original data)
using EUV data from SDO.Comment: Accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and
Electronic Systems (TAES). arXiv admin note: text overlap with
arXiv:2210.0647
Utility of multispectral imaging for nuclear classification of routine clinical histopathology imagery
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>We present an analysis of the utility of multispectral versus standard RGB imagery for routine H&E stained histopathology images, in particular for pixel-level classification of nuclei. Our multispectral imagery has 29 spectral bands, spaced 10 nm within the visual range of 420–700 nm. It has been hypothesized that the additional spectral bands contain further information useful for classification as compared to the 3 standard bands of RGB imagery. We present analyses of our data designed to test this hypothesis.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>For classification using all available image bands, we find the best performance (equal tradeoff between detection rate and false alarm rate) is obtained from either the multispectral or our "ccd" RGB imagery, with an overall increase in performance of 0.79% compared to the next best performing image type. For classification using single image bands, the single best multispectral band (in the red portion of the spectrum) gave a performance increase of 0.57%, compared to performance of the single best RGB band (red). Additionally, red bands had the highest coefficients/preference in our classifiers. Principal components analysis of the multispectral imagery indicates only two significant image bands, which is not surprising given the presence of two stains.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>Our results indicate that multispectral imagery for routine H&E stained histopathology provides minimal additional spectral information for a pixel-level nuclear classification task than would standard RGB imagery.</p
Histopathological image analysis: a review,”
Abstract-Over the past decade, dramatic increases in computational power and improvement in image analysis algorithms have allowed the development of powerful computer-assisted analytical approaches to radiological data. With the recent advent of whole slide digital scanners, tissue histopathology slides can now be digitized and stored in digital image form. Consequently, digitized tissue histopathology has now become amenable to the application of computerized image analysis and machine learning techniques. Analogous to the role of computer-assisted diagnosis (CAD) algorithms in medical imaging to complement the opinion of a radiologist, CAD algorithms have begun to be developed for disease detection, diagnosis, and prognosis prediction to complement the opinion of the pathologist. In this paper, we review the recent state of the art CAD technology for digitized histopathology. This paper also briefly describes the development and application of novel image analysis technology for a few specific histopathology related problems being pursued in the United States and Europe