feature extraction

Lymphocyte-Infiltrated Periportal Region Detection with Structurally-Refined Deep Portal Segmentation and Heterogeneous Infiltration Features

Lymphocyte-Infiltrated Periportal Region Detection with Structurally-Refined Deep Portal Segmentation and Heterogeneous Infiltration Features 150 150 IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJEMB)
The early diagnosis and treatment of hepatitis is essential to reduce hepatitis-related liver function deterioration and mortality. One component of the widely-used Ishak grading system for the grading of periportal… read more

Masked Modeling-Based Ultrasound Image Classification Via Self-Supervised Learning

Masked Modeling-Based Ultrasound Image Classification Via Self-Supervised Learning 150 150 IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJEMB)
Recently, deep learning-based methods have emerged as the preferred approach for ultrasound data analysis. However, these methods often require large-scale annotated datasets for training deep models, which are not readily… read more

A Reinforcement Learning Model for Optimal Treatment Strategies in Intensive Care: Assessment of the Role of Cardiorespiratory Features

A Reinforcement Learning Model for Optimal Treatment Strategies in Intensive Care: Assessment of the Role of Cardiorespiratory Features 150 150 IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJEMB)
Goal: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the importance of cardiorespiratory variables within a Reinforcement Learning (RL) recommendation system aimed at establishing optimal strategies for drug treatment of… read more

Optimized Clinical Feature Analysis for Improved Cardiovascular Disease Risk Screening

Optimized Clinical Feature Analysis for Improved Cardiovascular Disease Risk Screening 150 150 IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJEMB)
Objective: To develop a clinical decision support tool that can predict cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk with high accuracy while requiring minimal clinical feature input, thus reducing the time and effort… read more

Privacy-Preserving Deep Speaker Separation for Smartphone-Based Passive Speech Assessment

Author(s)3: Apiwat Ditthapron, Emmanuel O Agu, Adam C Lammert
Privacy-Preserving Deep Speaker Separation for Smartphone-Based Passive Speech Assessment 150 150 IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJEMB)

Goal: Smartphones can be used to passively assess and monitor patients’ speech impairments caused by ailments such as Parkinson’s disease, Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and neurodegenerative…

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Deep Learning Classification of Systemic Sclerosis Skin using the MobileNetV2 Model

Author(s)3: Metin Akay, Yong Du, Cheryl L Sershen, Minghua Wu, Ting Y Chen, Shervin Assassi, Chandra Mohan, Yasemin M. Akay
Deep Learning Classification of Systemic Sclerosis Skin using the MobileNetV2 Model 150 150 IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJEMB)

Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a rare autoimmune, systemic disease with prominent fibrosis of skin and internal organs. Early diagnosis of the disease is crucial for designing effective therapy and management…

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