Frameworks in medical image analysis with deep neural networks

In recent years, deep neural network based medical image analysis has become quite powerful and achieved similar results performance-wise as experts. Consequently, the integration of these tools into the clinical routine as clinical decision support systems is highly desired. The benefits of automatic image analysis for clinicians are massive, ranging from improved diagnostic as well as treatment quality to increased time-efficiency through automated structured reporting. However, implementations in the literature revealed a significant lack of standardization in pipeline building resulting in low reproducibility, high complexity through extensive knowledge requirements for building state-of-the-art pipelines, and difficulties for application in clinical research. The main objective of this work is the standardization of pipeline building in deep neural network based medical image segmentation and classification. This is why the Python frameworks MIScnn for medical image segmentation and AUCMEDI for medical image classification are proposed which simplify the implementation process through intuitive building blocks eliminating the need for time-consuming and error-prone implementation of common components from scratch. The proposed frameworks include state-of-the-art methodology, follow outstanding open-source principles like extensive documentation as well as stability, offer rapid as well as simple application capabilities for deep learning experts as well as clinical researchers, and provide cutting-edge high-performance competitive with the strongest implementations in the literature. As secondary objectives, this work presents more than a dozen in-house studies as well as discusses various external studies utilizing the proposed frameworks in order to prove the capabilities of standardized medical image analysis. The presented studies demonstrate excellent predictive capabilities in applications ranging from COVID-19 detection in computed tomography scans to the integration into a clinical study workflow for Gleason grading of prostate cancer microscopy sections and advance the state-of-the-art in medical image analysis by simplifying experimentation setups for research. Furthermore, studies for increasing reproducibility in performance assessment of medical image segmentation are presented including an open-source metric library for standardized evaluation and a community guideline on proper metric usage. The proposed contributions in this work improve the knowledge representation of the field, enable rapid as well as high-performing applications, facilitate further research, and strengthen the reproducibility of future studies

Conception and implementation of a mobile application to conduct a Mindful Walking Study regarding Clinical Psychology

Mindfulness is a common concept spread across many cultures. The basic idea is to focus on usually automated body processes and hence feel more present in the moment. It is assumed that mindfulness could be very beneficial in certain areas such as medicine or therapy methods in general. “Reducing stress-related symptomatology” and “helping patients cope with chronic pain” are just a few upsides that come with mindfulness-based approaches. A more specific form of mindfulness is Mindful Walking where the focus is on doing one step at a time very consciously during a normal outdoor or indoor walk. This should strengthen the feeling of being present in a moment even more by just focussing on each step during the very common process of walking. The application presented in this paper should function as a supporting tool when walking mindfully using the combined data gathered by an Apple iPhone and an Apple Watch. It should also provide the possibility for a user to participate in a study of Mindful Walking and thus to contribute to research with the purpose of finding out whether Mindful Walking might be helpful to people in their daily lives

Berita Summer 2018

Table of Contents Letter from the Chair ... 2 Announcements ... 3 John A. Lent Prize 2018 Commendation ... 4 Ronald Provencher Travel Grant Commendation ... 4–5 Panel Report: Food, Belonging, and Identity in Colonial and Post-Colonial Malaysia/Singapore ... 7–8 Article: Social Categorization and Religiously Framed State-Making in Brunei... 9 Article: A New Dawn for Malaysia: The Election that Tipped the Balance ... 22 Project Report: Project M: Campaigning with a “Dictator” ... 29 Book Review: Planting Empire, Cultivating Subjects: British Malaya, 1786-1941... 31 Call for Panelists and Book Chapters: Revisioning 2020 ... 32–33 Call for Book Chapters: Malaysian Politics and People, Vol. 3 ... 33–34 Job Opportunities ... 34 Call for Papers: Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs ... 34 Member Notes ... 35 Editorial Information ... 35https://ohioopen.library.ohio.edu/berita/1040/thumbnail.jp

Berita Summer 2021

Letter from the Chair ... 2 John A. Lent Prize and Provencher Travel Prize ... 4 Announcement: MSB panel Haze, Sand, Fire, Water Environmental Crises in Southeast Asia at AAS 2022 Hawaii ... 6 Article: Educating the Sultanate: The Melding of Higher Education and Islam in Brunei Darussalam, by Moez Hayat ... 10 Book Review: Local Democracy Denied: A Personal Journey into Local Government in Malaysia (Lim Mah Hui) by Koay Su Lyn ... 14 Book Review: The Roots of Resilience: Party Machines and Grassroots Politics in Singapore and Malaysia (Meredith L. Weiss) by Mohamed Salihin Subhan ... 17 Review Essay: Multispecies and post-humanist work in Borneo - Recent Contributions and Possible Futures, by Asmus Rungby ... 20 Publications and Articles ... 28 Editorial Information ... 32https://ohioopen.library.ohio.edu/berita/1046/thumbnail.jp

Berita Summer 2019

Letter from the Chair ... 2 Announcement ... 3 Prizes: John A. Lent Prize 2019 Commendation & Ronald Provencher Grant ... 3–4 Panel Reports: AAS Annual Conference 2019 (Denver, CO) ... 5–12 Article: “To Harmonize or Not Harmonize? Shariah Criminal Law in Malaysia” (Kerstin Steiner) ... 12–14 Article: “Reflections from the Field: On a Quest to Save the Poor: a Day in a “Zakat Camp” (Tímea Gréta Biró) ... 14–17 Article: “A Contemporary Ghost Story: The Tale of the Pontianak” (Rosalia N. Engchuan) ... 17–19 Book Review: Through Turbulent Terrain: Trade of the Straits Port of Penang (Loh, Wei Leng & Jeffrey Seow) by Cheong-Soon Gan ... 20–22 Publication: Michael G. Peletz (2020, forthc.) Sharia Transformations: Cultural Politics and the Rebranding of an Islamic Judiciary ... 22–23 Publication: Mareike Pampus (2019) Heritage Food: The Materialization of Connectivity in Nyonya Cooking ... 23–24 Job Opportunities ... 25 Call for Papers ... 25–26 Member Notes ... 26 BERITA History Reprint: John A. Lent (2002) “History of Berita and Malaysia/Singapore /Brunei Studies Group” ... 27–28 Editorial Information... 28https://ohioopen.library.ohio.edu/berita/1044/thumbnail.jp

Berita Winter 2018/2019

Letter from the Chair ... 2 Announcements ... 3–5 Article: “Memories of Rollei Singapore” (Loh Kah Seng, Nguyen Ngoc Luu Ly) ... 6–15 Article: “Encountering Communism in a Cosmopolitan City: The Ducroux Case in the Eyes of the Singapore Press” (Kankan Xie) ... 16–21 MSB Studies News: Guangxi University for Nationalities (GXUN) establishes China’s first Brunei Studies Center ... 22–23 Publications ... 23 Job Opportunities ... 23 Call for Papers ... 24 Call for Applications: Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute ... 25 Call for Applications: Monash University Malaysia ... 25 Member Profile: Margaret John ... 26 Editorial Information ... 27https://ohioopen.library.ohio.edu/berita/1041/thumbnail.jp

Berita Winter 2019/2020

Table of Contents Letter from the Chair ... 2 MSB Group Events at the AAS Conference 2020, Boston, MA (March 19-22) ... 3–4 Article: ‘A Fresh Look at Fish Through a Brief History of Fish Head Curry’ (Geoffrey K. Pakiam) ... 5–10 Article: ‘‘My Second Home’: An Interview with Rose Chew,Ticketing Officer of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, 1990–2016’ ... 11–13 MSB Member News ... 14 Publications ... 14–16 Job Opportunities ... 16 Call for Applications: M.A. and PhD Programs ... 17–18 Call for Papers ... 18 Editorial Information ... 18https://ohioopen.library.ohio.edu/berita/1045/thumbnail.jp

Hybrid pathways to orthodoxy in Brunei Darussalam: bureaucratised exorcism, scientisation and the mainstreaming of deviant-declared practices

This article investigates the bureaucratisation of Islam in Brunei and its interlinkages with socio-cultural changes. It elucidates how realisations of state-enforced Islamic orthodoxy and purification produce locally unique meanings, while simultaneously reflecting much broader characteristics of the contemporary global condition. The article first introduces a theoretical perspective on the bureaucratisation of Islam as a social phenomenon that is intimately intertwined with the state's exercise of classificatory power and related popular processes of coproducing, and sometimes appropriating symbolic state power. Second, it outlines the historical trajectory of empowering Brunei's national ideology, Melayu Islam Beraja (MIB). It then explores social imaginaries and bureaucratic representations of "deviant"-declared practices, before illustrating how these practices become reinvented within the parameters of state power as "Sharia-compliant" services to the nation state. Simultaneously, national-religious protectionism is paradoxically expressed in thoroughly globalised terms and shaped by forces the state cannot (entirely) control. Newly established Sharia-serving practices become culturally re-embedded, while also flexibly drawing upon multiple transnational cultural registers. In the main ethnographic example, bureaucratised exorcism, Japanese water-crystal photography and scientisation fuse behind the "firewall" of MIB. These hybrid pathways to orthodoxy complicate the narratives through which they are commonly framed

Performancevergleiche zwischen Genossenschaften und anderen Rechtsformen anhand von Erfolgs-, Liquiditäts- und Wachstumskennzahlen

Dieser Beitrag setzt sich zum Ziel, für die zwei Märkte Milch- und Weinwirtschaft, auf denen Genossenschaften eine starke Marktposition eingenommen haben, eine Analyse der Unternehmenssituation in Bezug auf wichtige Bilanzkennzahlen durchzuführen und damit den Markterfolg im Vergleich zu anderen Rechtsformen zu analysieren. Zur Bewertung wird das RSWVerfahren angewendet, welches eine ganzheitliche Unternehmensanalyse mit Hilfe der Bildung eines Gesamtscores ermöglicht (Schmidt u.a. 1987: 234-265). Die Untersuchung basiert auf der Anwendung von relativen Kennzahlen, die nach empirischen Analysen einen großen Erklärungsbeitrag für den Erfolg eines Unternehmens liefern (Baetge 1998: 551). Mit Hilfe von ausgewählten Kennzahlen wird ein Score gebildet, der eine Rangfolge und eine Zuordnung der Unternehmen zu einem Ratingwert zulässt. Die Analyse strebt eine umfassende Bewertung der Unternehmen für die Kriterien Rendite, Sicherheit und Wachstum an. Die Untersuchung eröffnet deutliche Unterschiede zwischen Genossenschaften und Unternehmen anderer Rechtsform auf den beiden betrachteten Märkten. Dadurch können Vor- und Nachteile von genossenschaftlich organisierten Unternehmen in Bezug auf den erzielten Markterfolg abgeleitet werden, die notwendige Maßnahmen aufzeigen, um auch weiterhin erfolgreich auf wettbewerbsintensiven Märkten tätig zu sein