Academic Articles & Research Papers

An introduction to quantum machine learning

Machine learning algorithms learn a desired input-output relation from examples in order to interpret new inputs. This is important for tasks such as image and speech recognition or strategy optimisation, with growing applications in the IT...

Socio-Demographic Factors Associated With COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Among Middle-Aged Adults During the Quebec's Vaccination Campaign

IntroductionThe objective of this study was to characterize the combinations of demographic and socioeconomic characteristics associated to the unwillingness to receive the COVID-19 vaccines during the 2021 Quebec's vaccination campaign.Mat...

Portable NIR Spectroscopy Combined with Machine Learning for Kiwi Ripeness Classification: An Approach to Precision Farming

This study aims to evaluate and classify the ripening stages of yellow-fleshed kiwifruit by integrating spectral and physicochemical data collected from the pre-harvest phase through 60 days of storage. A portable near-infrared (NIR) spectr...

Protocol for dynamic eye-brain imaging by integrating an eye-tracking system with magnetic resonance imaging.

Using generalized random forests to characterize vulnerability to adverse health outcomes following wildfire smoke exposure in California

Background: As the health burden attributable to wildfire activity increases under climate change, it is crucial to determine which subgroups face heightened vulnerability to wildfire smoke. Marginalized communities may experience dispropor...

Machine learning for microbiologists

Surface circulation properties in the eastern Mediterranean emphasized using machine learning methods

The eastern Mediterranean surface circulation is highly energetic and composed of structures interacting stochastically. However, some main features are still debated, and the behavior of some fine-scale dynamics and their role in shaping t...

Inferring Markovian quantum master equations of few-body observables in interacting spin chains

Full information about a many-body quantum system is usually out-of-reach due to the exponential growth—with the size of the system—of the number of parameters needed to encode its state. Nonetheless, in order to understand the complex phen...

Multilevel Cognitive Machine-Learning-Based Concept for Artificial Awareness: Application to Humanoid Robot Awareness Using Visual Saliency

As part of “intelligence,” the “awareness” is the state or ability to perceive, feel, or be mindful of events, objects, or sensory patterns: in other words, to be conscious of the surrounding environment and its interactions. Inspired by ea...

PERMEPSY: a multicentre, randomized, double-blind proof-of-concept trial of personalized metacognitive training for adults with psychosis — a study protocol

BackgroundWhile psychological interventions are effective at improving symptoms of psychosis, accessible, cost- and time-efficient treatments remain limited. Personalized medicine has emerged as a promising approach, tailoring interventions...

The role of artificial intelligence in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) and its progressively wider impact on many sectors requires an assessment of its effect on the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. Using a consensus-based expert elicitation proces...

Artificial intelligence for natural product drug discovery

SEMANTIC URBAN MESH SEGMENTATION BASED ON AERIAL OBLIQUE IMAGES AND POINT CLOUDS USING DEEP LEARNING

The use of deep machine learning methods for semantic classification of city mesh models is one of the current trends in geoscience development. Thanks to the thriving development of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) it is now achievable...

Design of the Digital Pathology Workspace for Artificial Intelligence Integration

Designing an optimal digital pathology workspace is essential to ensure diagnostic accuracy and safeguard the long-term well-being of pathologists. While digital pathology improves reproducibility, facilitates multidisciplinary collaboratio...

Generating preferred plans with ethical features

Normative ethics has been shown to help automated planners take ethically aware decisions. However, state- of-the-art planning technologies don’t provide a sim- ple and direct way to support ethical features. Here, we propose a new theoreti...

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for Precision Agriculture: A Review

Digital Precision Agriculture (DPA) is a comprehensive approach to agronomic management that utilizes advanced technologies, such as sensor data analysis and automation, to optimize crop productivity, enhance farm income, and minimize envir...

Smart IoT device for in field Black Sigatoka Disease recognition and mapping

Recently banana plantations have been affected by the Black Sigatoka Disease (BSD), producing streaks, lesions and yellow and brown spots on the leaves until the appearance of entire dead parts. The disease causes reductions in yield making...

APRICOIN: An Adaptive Approach for Prioritizing High-Risk Containers Inspections

Risk evaluation of the containers remains a difficult task, often due to incomplete or ambiguous information on containers. In addition, the evaluation process needs to be adapted on an ongoing basis to cope with emerging risk factors. Furt...

Towards an AI-Based Tailored Training Planning for Road Cyclists: A Case Study

In a world where the data is a central piece, we provide a novel technique to design training plans for road cyclists. This study exposes an in-depth review of a virtual coach based on state-of-the-art artificial intelligence techniques to ...

Conceptualisation de l'espace numérique dans l'enseignement-apprentissage des langues

In this article on the conceptualization of the digital space in the teaching-learning of languages, our contribution to the "Architecture of the processes of production and reception" of language (François & Nespoulous, 2014), consists in ...