Academic Articles & Research Papers

Individual-Tree DBH Estimation from Airborne LiDAR Data Using MSFS–XGBoost

Diameter at breast height (DBH) is a fundamental structural parameter for forest inventory and ecological analysis. However, field-based measurements (e.g., diameter tape surveys) are labor-intensive and inefficient for large-scale applicat...

Customizing skills for assistive robotic manipulators, an inverse reinforcement learning approach with error-related potentials

Teaching an assistive robotic manipulator to move objects in a cluttered table requires demonstrations from expert operators, but what if the experts are individuals with motor disabilities? Batzianoulis et al. propose a learning approach w...

Efficacy of ChatGPT in Cantonese Sentiment Analysis: Comparative Study

BackgroundSentiment analysis is a significant yet difficult task in natural language processing. The linguistic peculiarities of Cantonese, including its high similarity with Standard Chinese, its grammatical and lexical uniqueness, and its...

Machine learning in pain research

1. Introduction Pain and pain chronification are incompletely understood and unresolved medical problems that continue to have a high prevalence.14 It has been accepted that pain is a complex phenomenon.2,32,72 Contemporary methods of compu...

Virtual CT Myelography: A Patch-Based Machine Learning Model to Improve Intraspinal Soft Tissue Visualization on Unenhanced Dual-Energy Lumbar Spine CT

Background: Distinguishing between the spinal cord and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) non-invasively on CT is challenging due to their similar mass densities. We hypothesize that patch-based machine learning applied to dual-energy CT can accurat...

Dynamic Monitoring of Thyroid-Stimulating Hormone Receptor Antibody and Extraocular Muscle Thickness: A Clinical Risk Stratification Model for Recurrence Risk Post-Glucocorticoid Therapy in TED Patients

Yaling Li, Xiuhong Yang, Shuli Hu Department of Intensive Care Unit, Wuhan No. 1 Hospital, Wuhan, 430022, People’s Republic of ChinaCorrespondence: Shuli Hu, Department of Intensive Care Unit, Wuhan No. 1 Hospital, No. 215 Zhongshan Avenue,...

A First Course in Machine Learning

"A First Course in Machine Learning by Simon Rogers and Mark Girolami is the best introductory book for ML currently available. It combines rigor and precision with accessibility, starts from a detailed explanation of the basic foundations ...

Machine Learning Approaches for Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry

Machine learning approaches for clinical psychology and psychiatry explicitly focus on learning statistical functions from multidimensional data sets to make generalizable predictions about individuals. The goal of this review is to provide...

Automated speech-fluency explanations for schizophrenia diagnosis

Abstract Schizophrenia is a chronic and severe mental disorder that still relies on time-intensive, clinician-administered assessments. Although several automated approaches have been proposed to support diagnosis, these systems often lack ...

Development and web-based implementation of a machine learning model for predicting one-year adverse outcomes in acute ischaemic stroke

BackgroundThis study aimed to develop an interpretable and clinically applicable machine learning prediction model to assess the risk of adverse outcomes within one year following acute ischaemic stroke, and to establish a corresponding web...

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...

Towards a physics informed digital twin to predict cerebral blood flow and cerebral vascular regulation

Abstract Cerebral blood flow is essential for brain function and is governed by cerebral perfusion pressure and physiological mechanisms collectively referred to as cerebral vascular regulation (CVR). Direct measurement of cerebral blood fl...

Use of machine learning algorithms to determine the relationship between air pollution and cognitive impairment in Taiwan

Air pollution has become a major global threat to human health. Urbanization and industrialization over the past few decades have increased the air pollution. Plausible connections have been made between air pollutants and dementia. This st...

Acceptance of Machine Learning for Medication Selection in Epilepsy to Inform Clinical Trial Design: Co-Design Survey Study

Abstract BackgroundAntiseizure medications (ASMs) are the mainstay of epilepsy treatment; however, there is currently no reliable way to predict which medication will be most effective for an individual patient. Machine learning...

Automated shape-based clustering of 3D immunoglobulin protein structures in chronic lymphocytic leukemia

Abstract Background Although the etiology of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), the most common type of adult leukemia, is still unclear, strong evidence implicates antigen involvement in disease ontogeny and evolution. Primary and 3D stru...

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...

Classification of bioactive peptides: A systematic benchmark of models and encodings

Bioactive peptides are short amino acid chains possessing biological activity and exerting physiological effects relevant to human health. Despite their therapeutic value, their identification remains a major problem, as it mainly relies on...

Explainable machine learning for predicting clinical outcomes in HIV/TB co-infection: a comparative retrospective study

Abstract Background HIV/TB co-infection presents substantial public-health challenges, showing greater treatment-failure and mortality rates than tuberculosis alone. Recent advances in machine learning (ML) provide a robust means of identif...

Machine learning for precision medicine

Precision medicine is an emerging approach to clinical research and patient care that focuses on understanding and treating disease by integrating multi-modal or multi-omics data from an individual to make patient-tailored decisions. With t...

Maltreatment predicts centiles of individual variation from normative brain growth in children.