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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

Grand Challenges at the Interface of Engineering and Medicine

Grand Challenges at the Interface of Engineering and Medicine 150 150 IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJEMB)
Over the past two decades Biomedical Engineering has emerged as a major discipline that bridges societal needs of human health care with the development of novel technologies. Every medical institution… read more

Predicting Clinician Fixations on Glaucoma OCT Reports via CNN-Based Saliency Prediction Methods

Predicting Clinician Fixations on Glaucoma OCT Reports via CNN-Based Saliency Prediction Methods 150 150 IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJEMB)
Goal: To predict physician fixations specifically on ophthalmology optical coherence tomography (OCT) reports from eye tracking data using CNN based saliency prediction methods in order to aid in the education… read more

Physically Meaningful Surrogate Data for COPD

Physically Meaningful Surrogate Data for COPD 150 150 IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJEMB)
The rapidly increasing prevalence of debilitating breathing disorders, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), calls for a meaningful integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into respiratory healthcare. Deep learning techniques… read more

Infra-Red Imaging to Detect Respirator Leak in Healthcare Workers During Fit-Testing Clinic

Infra-Red Imaging to Detect Respirator Leak in Healthcare Workers During Fit-Testing Clinic 150 150 IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJEMB)
Objective: This study addressed the problem of objectively detecting leaks in P2 respirators at point of use, an essential component for healthcare workers’ protection. To achieve this, we explored the… read more

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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Pairwise Heuristic Sequence Alignment Algorithm Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning

Author(s)3: Yong-Joon Song, Dong Jin Ji, Hyein Seo, Gyu-Bum Han, Dong-Ho Cho
Pairwise Heuristic Sequence Alignment Algorithm Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning 150 150 IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJEMB)

Goal: Various methods have been developed to analyze the association between organisms and their genomic sequences. Among them, sequence alignment is the most frequently used method for comparative analysis of biological…

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