Intra and inter-fractional variation prediction of lung tumors using fuzzy deep learning
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The classification of different types of tumors is of great importance in cancer diagnosis and its drug discovery. Cancer classification via gene expression data is known to contain the keys for solving the fundamental problems relating to the diagnosis of cancer. The recent advent of DNA microarray technology has made rapid monitoring of thousands of gene expressions possible. With this large quantity of gene expression data, scientists have started to explore the opportunities of classification of cancer using a gene expression dataset. To gain a profound understanding of the classification of cancer, it is necessary to take a closer look at the problem, the proposed solutions, and the related issues altogether. In this research thesis, I present a new way for Leukemia classification using the latest AI technique of Deep learning using Google TensorFlow on gene expression data.
Dielectrophoresis-based microfluidic device for separation of potential cance...journalBEEI
Cancer is a leading cause of death that adversely affects all ages and genders around the world. There is a range of approaches such as CT scanning and mammography to diagnose cancer. Although the current method has many benefits, most of it share similar drawbacks as the result of detection takes long time and can lead to over diagnosis. Dielectrophoresis (DEP) is a method that can be used to obtain the cell electrical properties such as capacitance, conductivity, and permittivity. A device was designed in this study using a pair of electrodes and main channel with two inlets and two outlets. COMSOL software is adopted to analyze channel particle flow. Results show the configuration of microfluidic device and its dimensions. For potential application, DEP may be used as a non-invasive technique to distinguish normal cell from cancerous cell, which can lead to early detection as it offers a real-time warning. The simulations reveal that the electrodes captured the particles successfully and sorted them within specific time. The chance of cell capture and the ability of the electrodes to sort the cells is around 80%. In addition, an ideal design of the microfluidic chip was established, incorporating the cell and dielectric properties.
A Review on Brain Disorder Segmentation in MR ImagesIJMER
International Journal of Modern Engineering Research (IJMER) is Peer reviewed, online Journal. It serves as an international archival forum of scholarly research related to engineering and science education.
International Journal of Modern Engineering Research (IJMER) covers all the fields of engineering and science: Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Agricultural Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Thermodynamics, Structural Engineering, Control Engineering, Robotics, Mechatronics, Fluid Mechanics, Nanotechnology, Simulators, Web-based Learning, Remote Laboratories, Engineering Design Methods, Education Research, Students' Satisfaction and Motivation, Global Projects, and Assessment…. And many more.
Classification of physiological signals for wheel loader operators using Mult...Reno Filla
Sensor signal fusion is becoming increasingly important in many areas including medical diagnosis and classification. Today, clinicians/experts often do the diagnosis of stress, sleepiness and tiredness on the basis of information collected from several physiological sensor signals. Since there are large individual variations when analyzing the sensor measurements and systems with single sensor, they could easily be vulnerable to uncertain noises/interferences in such domain; multiple sensors could provide more robust and reliable decision. Therefore, this paper presents a classification approach i.e. Multivariate Multiscale Entropy Analysis–Case-Based Reasoning (MMSE–CBR) that classifies physiological parameters of wheel loader operators by combining CBR approach with a data level fusion method named Multivariate Multiscale Entropy (MMSE). The MMSE algorithm supports complexity analysis of multivariate biological recordings by aggregating several sensor measurements e.g., Inter-beat-Interval (IBI) and Heart Rate (HR) from Electrocardiogram (ECG), Finger Temperature (FT), Skin Conductance (SC) and Respiration Rate (RR). Here, MMSE has been applied to extract features to formulate a case by fusing a number of physiological signals and the CBR approach is applied to classify the cases by retrieving most similar cases from the case library. Finally, the proposed approach i.e. MMSE–CBR has been evaluated with the data from professional drivers at Volvo Construction Equipment, Sweden. The results demonstrate that the proposed system that fuses information at data level could classify ‘stressed’ and ‘healthy’ subjects 83.33% correctly compare to an expert’s classification. Furthermore, with another data set the achieved accuracy (83.3%) indicates that it could also classify two different conditions ‘adapt’ (training) and ‘sharp’ (real-life driving) for the wheel loader operators. Thus, the new approach of MMSE–CBR could support in classification of operators and may be of interest to researchers developing systems based on information collected from different sensor sources.
International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) is an open access online peer reviewed international journal that publishes research and review articles in the fields of Computer Science, Neural Networks, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Plastic Engineering, Food Technology, Textile Engineering, Nano Technology & science, Power Electronics, Electronics & Communication Engineering, Computational mathematics, Image processing, Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering, VLSI Testing & Low Power VLSI Design etc.
The classification of different types of tumors is of great importance in cancer diagnosis and its drug discovery. Cancer classification via gene expression data is known to contain the keys for solving the fundamental problems relating to the diagnosis of cancer. The recent advent of DNA microarray technology has made rapid monitoring of thousands of gene expressions possible. With this large quantity of gene expression data, scientists have started to explore the opportunities of classification of cancer using a gene expression dataset. To gain a profound understanding of the classification of cancer, it is necessary to take a closer look at the problem, the proposed solutions, and the related issues altogether. In this research thesis, I present a new way for Leukemia classification using the latest AI technique of Deep learning using Google TensorFlow on gene expression data.
Dielectrophoresis-based microfluidic device for separation of potential cance...journalBEEI
Cancer is a leading cause of death that adversely affects all ages and genders around the world. There is a range of approaches such as CT scanning and mammography to diagnose cancer. Although the current method has many benefits, most of it share similar drawbacks as the result of detection takes long time and can lead to over diagnosis. Dielectrophoresis (DEP) is a method that can be used to obtain the cell electrical properties such as capacitance, conductivity, and permittivity. A device was designed in this study using a pair of electrodes and main channel with two inlets and two outlets. COMSOL software is adopted to analyze channel particle flow. Results show the configuration of microfluidic device and its dimensions. For potential application, DEP may be used as a non-invasive technique to distinguish normal cell from cancerous cell, which can lead to early detection as it offers a real-time warning. The simulations reveal that the electrodes captured the particles successfully and sorted them within specific time. The chance of cell capture and the ability of the electrodes to sort the cells is around 80%. In addition, an ideal design of the microfluidic chip was established, incorporating the cell and dielectric properties.
A Review on Brain Disorder Segmentation in MR ImagesIJMER
International Journal of Modern Engineering Research (IJMER) is Peer reviewed, online Journal. It serves as an international archival forum of scholarly research related to engineering and science education.
International Journal of Modern Engineering Research (IJMER) covers all the fields of engineering and science: Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Agricultural Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Thermodynamics, Structural Engineering, Control Engineering, Robotics, Mechatronics, Fluid Mechanics, Nanotechnology, Simulators, Web-based Learning, Remote Laboratories, Engineering Design Methods, Education Research, Students' Satisfaction and Motivation, Global Projects, and Assessment…. And many more.
Classification of physiological signals for wheel loader operators using Mult...Reno Filla
Sensor signal fusion is becoming increasingly important in many areas including medical diagnosis and classification. Today, clinicians/experts often do the diagnosis of stress, sleepiness and tiredness on the basis of information collected from several physiological sensor signals. Since there are large individual variations when analyzing the sensor measurements and systems with single sensor, they could easily be vulnerable to uncertain noises/interferences in such domain; multiple sensors could provide more robust and reliable decision. Therefore, this paper presents a classification approach i.e. Multivariate Multiscale Entropy Analysis–Case-Based Reasoning (MMSE–CBR) that classifies physiological parameters of wheel loader operators by combining CBR approach with a data level fusion method named Multivariate Multiscale Entropy (MMSE). The MMSE algorithm supports complexity analysis of multivariate biological recordings by aggregating several sensor measurements e.g., Inter-beat-Interval (IBI) and Heart Rate (HR) from Electrocardiogram (ECG), Finger Temperature (FT), Skin Conductance (SC) and Respiration Rate (RR). Here, MMSE has been applied to extract features to formulate a case by fusing a number of physiological signals and the CBR approach is applied to classify the cases by retrieving most similar cases from the case library. Finally, the proposed approach i.e. MMSE–CBR has been evaluated with the data from professional drivers at Volvo Construction Equipment, Sweden. The results demonstrate that the proposed system that fuses information at data level could classify ‘stressed’ and ‘healthy’ subjects 83.33% correctly compare to an expert’s classification. Furthermore, with another data set the achieved accuracy (83.3%) indicates that it could also classify two different conditions ‘adapt’ (training) and ‘sharp’ (real-life driving) for the wheel loader operators. Thus, the new approach of MMSE–CBR could support in classification of operators and may be of interest to researchers developing systems based on information collected from different sensor sources.
International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) is an open access online peer reviewed international journal that publishes research and review articles in the fields of Computer Science, Neural Networks, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Plastic Engineering, Food Technology, Textile Engineering, Nano Technology & science, Power Electronics, Electronics & Communication Engineering, Computational mathematics, Image processing, Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering, VLSI Testing & Low Power VLSI Design etc.
Development of algorithm for identification of maligant growth in cancer usin...IJECEIAES
The precise identification and characterization of small pulmonary nodules at low-dose CT is a necessary requirement for the completion of valuable lung cancer screening. It is compulsory to develop some automated tool, in order to detect pulmonary nodules at low dose ct at the beginning stage itself. The various algorithms had been proposed earlier by many researchers within the past, but the accuracy of prediction is usually a challenging task. During this work, a man-made neural networ based methodology is proposed to seek out the irregular growth of lung tissues. Higher probability of detection is taken as a goal to urge an automatic tool, with great accuracy. The best feature sets derived from Haralick Gray level co occurrence Matrix and used because the dimension reduction way for feeding neural network. During this work, a binary Binary classifier neural network has been proposed to spot the traditional images out of all the images. The potential of the proposed neural network has been quantitatively computed using confusion matrix and located in terms of accuracy.
Skin Cancer Detection using Image Processing in Real Timeijtsrd
Machine learning is a fascinating topic its astonishing how a small change in the evaluation values may result in an unfathomable number of outcomes. The goal of this study is to develop a model that uses image processing to identify skin cancer. We will later use the model in real life through an android application. Sunami Dasgupta | Soham Das | Sayani Hazra Pal "Skin Cancer Detection using Image-Processing in Real-Time" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-5 | Issue-6 , October 2021, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd46384.pdf Paper URL : https://www.ijtsrd.com/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/46384/skin-cancer-detection-using-imageprocessing-in-realtime/sunami-dasgupta
MICROARRAY GENE EXPRESSION ANALYSIS USING TYPE 2 FUZZY LOGIC(MGA-FL)IJCSEA Journal
Data mining is defined as the process of extracting or mining knowledge from vast and large database.Data mining is an interdisciplinary field that brings together techniques from machine learning, pattern recognition, statistics, databases, and visualization to address the issue of information extraction from large databases. Bioinformatics is defined as the science of organizing and analyzing the biological data. Microarray technology helps biologists for monitoring expression of thousands of genes in a single experiment on a small chip. Microarray is also called as DNA chip, gene chip, or biochip is used to analyze the gene expression profiles. Fuzzy Logic is defined as a multivalued logic that provides the intermediate values to be defined between conventional evaluations like true or false, yes or no, high or low, etc.In this paper, a type 2 fuzzy logic approach is used in microarray gene expression data to convert the numerical values into fuzzy terms. After fuzzification, the fuzzy association patterns are discovered. A framework is proposed to cluster microarray gene data based on fuzzy association patterns. Then the proposed type 2
fuzzy approach is compared with traditional clustering algorithms.
Design of v slotted microstrip patch antenna for yielding improved gain bandw...eSAT Publishing House
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology
Design of v slotted microstrip patch antenna for yielding improved gain bandw...eSAT Journals
Abstract In this paper, a novel antenna design for improvement of patch antenna gain and bandwidth has been proposed.The proposed antenna design is a V-slotted rectangular microstrip patch antenna for yielding improved gain bandwidth product suitable for WLAN and Wi-Max applications. The antenna operates at 5.9 GHz and has the maximum achievable bandwidth obtained about 1.04Ghz and gain of 6.22dBi .The microstrip patch is constructed using a single layer RT/duroid (5880) substrate, having dielectric constant εr = 2.2 and loss tangent tan δ =0.001.A co-axial feed is used and the antenna is simulated using IE3D software from Zeland based on method of moments. Key Words: RMSA, V-slot, Gain-Bandwidth product, WLAN, Wi-Fi
SEGMENTATION OF MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS LESION IN BRAIN MR IMAGES USING FUZZY C-MEANSijaia
Magnetic resonance images (MRI) play an important role in supporting and substituting clinical
information in the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS) disease by presenting lesion in brain MR images. In
this paper, an algorithm for MS lesion segmentation from Brain MR Images has been presented. We revisit
the modification of properties of fuzzy -c means algorithms and the canny edge detection. By changing and
reformed fuzzy c-means clustering algorithms, and applying canny contraction principle, a relationship
between MS lesions and edge detection is established. For the special case of FCM, we derive a sufficient
condition and clustering parameters, allowing identification of them as (local) minima of the objective
function.
TOP Most Read Articles in Informatics Engineeringieijjournal
Informatics is rapidly developing field. The study of informatics involves human-computer interaction and how an interface can be built to maximize user-efficiency. Due to the growth in IT, individuals and organizations increasingly process information digitally. This has led to the study of informatics to solve privacy, security, healthcare, education, poverty, and challenges in our environment. The Informatics Engineering, an International Journal (IEIJ) is a open access peer-reviewed
journal that publishes articles which contribute new results in all areas of Informatics. The goal of this journal is to bring together researchers and practitioners
from academia and industry to focus on the human use of computing fields such as communication, mathematics, multimedia, and human-computer interaction design and establishing new collaborations in these areas.
Skin cancer is a term given to the uncontrolled
growth of strange skin cells. It occurs whenever unrepaired
DNA damages to skin cells trigger mutations, or any other
genetic defects, that lead the skin cells to multiply readily
and form malignant tumors. Image processing is a
commonly used method for skin cancer detection from the
appearance of the affected area on the skin. The input to the
system is that the skin lesion image so by applying novel
image process techniques, it analyses it to conclude about
the presence of skin cancer. The Lesion Image analysis tools
checks for the various Melanoma parameters Like
Asymmetry, Border, Colour, Diameter, (ABCD rule), etc. by
texture, size and form analysis for image segmentation and
have stages. The extracted feature parameters are
accustomed classify the image as traditional skin and
malignant melanoma cancerlesion.
Artificial Neural Network (ANN) is one of the
important branches of Artificial Intelligence, which has
been accepted as a brand-new technology in computer
science for image processing. Neural Networks is currently
the area of interest in medicine, particularly in the fields of
radiology, urology, cardiology, oncology, etc. Neural
Network plays a vital role in an exceedingly call network. It
has been used to analyze Melanoma parameters Like
Asymmetry, Border, Colour, Diameter, etc. which are
calculated using MATLAB from skin cancer images
intending to developing diagnostic algorithms that might
improve triage practices in the emergency department.
Using the ABCD rules for melanoma skin cancer, we use
ANN in the classification stage. Initially, we train the
network with known target values. The network is well
trained with 96.9% accuracy, and then the unknown values
are tested for the cancer classification. This classification
method proves to be more efficient for skin cancer
classification
International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) is an open access online peer reviewed international journal that publishes research and review articles in the fields of Computer Science, Neural Networks, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Plastic Engineering, Food Technology, Textile Engineering, Nano Technology & science, Power Electronics, Electronics & Communication Engineering, Computational mathematics, Image processing, Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering, VLSI Testing & Low Power VLSI Design etc.
Development of algorithm for identification of maligant growth in cancer usin...IJECEIAES
The precise identification and characterization of small pulmonary nodules at low-dose CT is a necessary requirement for the completion of valuable lung cancer screening. It is compulsory to develop some automated tool, in order to detect pulmonary nodules at low dose ct at the beginning stage itself. The various algorithms had been proposed earlier by many researchers within the past, but the accuracy of prediction is usually a challenging task. During this work, a man-made neural networ based methodology is proposed to seek out the irregular growth of lung tissues. Higher probability of detection is taken as a goal to urge an automatic tool, with great accuracy. The best feature sets derived from Haralick Gray level co occurrence Matrix and used because the dimension reduction way for feeding neural network. During this work, a binary Binary classifier neural network has been proposed to spot the traditional images out of all the images. The potential of the proposed neural network has been quantitatively computed using confusion matrix and located in terms of accuracy.
Skin Cancer Detection using Image Processing in Real Timeijtsrd
Machine learning is a fascinating topic its astonishing how a small change in the evaluation values may result in an unfathomable number of outcomes. The goal of this study is to develop a model that uses image processing to identify skin cancer. We will later use the model in real life through an android application. Sunami Dasgupta | Soham Das | Sayani Hazra Pal "Skin Cancer Detection using Image-Processing in Real-Time" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-5 | Issue-6 , October 2021, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd46384.pdf Paper URL : https://www.ijtsrd.com/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/46384/skin-cancer-detection-using-imageprocessing-in-realtime/sunami-dasgupta
MICROARRAY GENE EXPRESSION ANALYSIS USING TYPE 2 FUZZY LOGIC(MGA-FL)IJCSEA Journal
Data mining is defined as the process of extracting or mining knowledge from vast and large database.Data mining is an interdisciplinary field that brings together techniques from machine learning, pattern recognition, statistics, databases, and visualization to address the issue of information extraction from large databases. Bioinformatics is defined as the science of organizing and analyzing the biological data. Microarray technology helps biologists for monitoring expression of thousands of genes in a single experiment on a small chip. Microarray is also called as DNA chip, gene chip, or biochip is used to analyze the gene expression profiles. Fuzzy Logic is defined as a multivalued logic that provides the intermediate values to be defined between conventional evaluations like true or false, yes or no, high or low, etc.In this paper, a type 2 fuzzy logic approach is used in microarray gene expression data to convert the numerical values into fuzzy terms. After fuzzification, the fuzzy association patterns are discovered. A framework is proposed to cluster microarray gene data based on fuzzy association patterns. Then the proposed type 2
fuzzy approach is compared with traditional clustering algorithms.
Design of v slotted microstrip patch antenna for yielding improved gain bandw...eSAT Publishing House
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology
Design of v slotted microstrip patch antenna for yielding improved gain bandw...eSAT Journals
Abstract In this paper, a novel antenna design for improvement of patch antenna gain and bandwidth has been proposed.The proposed antenna design is a V-slotted rectangular microstrip patch antenna for yielding improved gain bandwidth product suitable for WLAN and Wi-Max applications. The antenna operates at 5.9 GHz and has the maximum achievable bandwidth obtained about 1.04Ghz and gain of 6.22dBi .The microstrip patch is constructed using a single layer RT/duroid (5880) substrate, having dielectric constant εr = 2.2 and loss tangent tan δ =0.001.A co-axial feed is used and the antenna is simulated using IE3D software from Zeland based on method of moments. Key Words: RMSA, V-slot, Gain-Bandwidth product, WLAN, Wi-Fi
SEGMENTATION OF MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS LESION IN BRAIN MR IMAGES USING FUZZY C-MEANSijaia
Magnetic resonance images (MRI) play an important role in supporting and substituting clinical
information in the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS) disease by presenting lesion in brain MR images. In
this paper, an algorithm for MS lesion segmentation from Brain MR Images has been presented. We revisit
the modification of properties of fuzzy -c means algorithms and the canny edge detection. By changing and
reformed fuzzy c-means clustering algorithms, and applying canny contraction principle, a relationship
between MS lesions and edge detection is established. For the special case of FCM, we derive a sufficient
condition and clustering parameters, allowing identification of them as (local) minima of the objective
function.
TOP Most Read Articles in Informatics Engineeringieijjournal
Informatics is rapidly developing field. The study of informatics involves human-computer interaction and how an interface can be built to maximize user-efficiency. Due to the growth in IT, individuals and organizations increasingly process information digitally. This has led to the study of informatics to solve privacy, security, healthcare, education, poverty, and challenges in our environment. The Informatics Engineering, an International Journal (IEIJ) is a open access peer-reviewed
journal that publishes articles which contribute new results in all areas of Informatics. The goal of this journal is to bring together researchers and practitioners
from academia and industry to focus on the human use of computing fields such as communication, mathematics, multimedia, and human-computer interaction design and establishing new collaborations in these areas.
Skin cancer is a term given to the uncontrolled
growth of strange skin cells. It occurs whenever unrepaired
DNA damages to skin cells trigger mutations, or any other
genetic defects, that lead the skin cells to multiply readily
and form malignant tumors. Image processing is a
commonly used method for skin cancer detection from the
appearance of the affected area on the skin. The input to the
system is that the skin lesion image so by applying novel
image process techniques, it analyses it to conclude about
the presence of skin cancer. The Lesion Image analysis tools
checks for the various Melanoma parameters Like
Asymmetry, Border, Colour, Diameter, (ABCD rule), etc. by
texture, size and form analysis for image segmentation and
have stages. The extracted feature parameters are
accustomed classify the image as traditional skin and
malignant melanoma cancerlesion.
Artificial Neural Network (ANN) is one of the
important branches of Artificial Intelligence, which has
been accepted as a brand-new technology in computer
science for image processing. Neural Networks is currently
the area of interest in medicine, particularly in the fields of
radiology, urology, cardiology, oncology, etc. Neural
Network plays a vital role in an exceedingly call network. It
has been used to analyze Melanoma parameters Like
Asymmetry, Border, Colour, Diameter, etc. which are
calculated using MATLAB from skin cancer images
intending to developing diagnostic algorithms that might
improve triage practices in the emergency department.
Using the ABCD rules for melanoma skin cancer, we use
ANN in the classification stage. Initially, we train the
network with known target values. The network is well
trained with 96.9% accuracy, and then the unknown values
are tested for the cancer classification. This classification
method proves to be more efficient for skin cancer
classification
International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) is an open access online peer reviewed international journal that publishes research and review articles in the fields of Computer Science, Neural Networks, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Plastic Engineering, Food Technology, Textile Engineering, Nano Technology & science, Power Electronics, Electronics & Communication Engineering, Computational mathematics, Image processing, Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering, VLSI Testing & Low Power VLSI Design etc.
Dosimetric Consequences of Intrafraction Variation of Tumor Motion in Lung St...semualkaira
The purpose of this study was to investigate the target dose discrepancy caused by intrafraction variation during Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy (SBRT) for lung cancer. Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) plans were designed based on Average Computed Tomography (AVG CT) utilizing the Planning Target Volume (PTV) surrounding the 65% and 85% prescription isodoses in both phantom and patient cases
Dosimetric Consequences of Intrafraction Variation of Tumor Motion in Lung St...semualkaira
The purpose of this study was to investigate the target dose discrepancy caused by intrafraction variation during Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy (SBRT) for lung cancer. Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) plans were designed based on Average Computed Tomography (AVG CT) utilizing the Planning Target Volume (PTV) surrounding the 65% and 85% prescription isodoses in both phantom and patient cases. Intrafraction variation was simulated by shifting the nominal plan isocenter along six directions from 0.5 mm to 4.5 mm with a 1-mm step size to produce a series of perturbed plans. The dose discrepancy between the initial plan and the perturbed plans was calculated as the percentage of the initial plan
Dosimetric Consequences of Intrafraction Variation of Tumor Motion in Lung St...semualkaira
The purpose of this study was to investigate the target dose discrepancy caused by intrafraction variation during Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy (SBRT) for lung cancer. Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) plans were designed based on Average Computed Tomography (AVG CT) utilizing the Planning Target Volume (PTV) surrounding the 65% and 85% prescription isodoses in both phantom and patient cases. Intrafraction variation was simulated by shifting the nominal plan isocenter along six directions from 0.5 mm to 4.5 mm with a 1-mm step size to produce a series of perturbed plans. The dose discrepancy between the initial plan and the perturbed plans was calculated as the percentage of the initial plan. Dose indices, including D99 and D95 for Internal Target Volume (ITV) and Gross Tumor Volume (GTV), were adopted as endpoint samples. The mean dose discrepancy was calculated under the 3-dimensional space distribution. In this study, we found that intrafraction motion can lead to serious dose degradation of the target and ITV in lung SBRT, especially during SBRT with PTV surrounding the lower isodose line. This phenomenon was compromised when 3-dimensional space distribution was considered. This result may provide a prospective reference for target dose degradation due to intrafraction motion during lung SBRT treatment.
A new procedure for lung region segmentation from computed tomography imagesIJECEIAES
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death among people worldwide. The primary aim of this research is to establish an image processing method for lung cancer detection. This paper focuses on lung region segmentation from computed tomography (CT) scan images. In this work, a new procedure for lung region segmentation is proposed. First, the lung CT scan images will undergo an image thresholding stage before going through two morphological reconstruction and masking stages. In between morphological and masking stages, object extraction, border change, and object elimination will occur. Finally, the lung field will be annotated. The outcomes of the proposed procedure and previous lung segmentation methods i.e., the modified watershed segmentation method is compared with the ground truth images for performance evaluation that will be carried out both in qualitative and quantitative manners. Based on the analyses, the new proposed procedure for lung segmentation, denotes better performance, an increment by 0.02% to 3.5% in quantitative analysis. The proposed procedure produced better-segmented images for qualitative analysis and became the most frequently selected method by the 22 experts. This study shows that the outcome from the proposed method outperforms the existing modified watershed segmentation method.
Classification of COVID-19 from CT chest images using convolutional wavelet ...IJECEIAES
Analyzing X-rays and computed tomography-scan (CT scan) images using a convolutional neural network (CNN) method is a very interesting subject, especially after coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. In this paper, a study is made on 423 patients’ CT scan images from Al-Kadhimiya (Madenat Al Emammain Al Kadhmain) hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, to diagnose if they have COVID or not using CNN. The total data being tested has 15000 CT-scan images chosen in a specific way to give a correct diagnosis. The activation function used in this research is the wavelet function, which differs from CNN activation functions. The convolutional wavelet neural network (CWNN) model proposed in this paper is compared with regular convolutional neural network that uses other activation functions (exponential linear unit (ELU), rectified linear unit (ReLU), Swish, Leaky ReLU, Sigmoid), and the result is that utilizing CWNN gave better results for all performance metrics (accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, precision, and F1-score). The results obtained show that the prediction accuracies of CWNN were 99.97%, 99.9%, 99.97%, and 99.04% when using wavelet filters (rational function with quadratic poles (RASP1), (RASP2), and polynomials windowed (POLYWOG1), superposed logistic function (SLOG1)) as activation function, respectively. Using this algorithm can reduce the time required for the radiologist to detect whether a patient has COVID or not with very high accuracy.
The performance of artificial intelligence in prostate magnetic resonance im...IJECEIAES
Prostate cancer is the predominant form of cancer observed in men worldwide. The application of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as a guidance tool for conducting biopsies has been established as a reliable and well-established approach in the diagnosis of prostate cancer. The diagnostic performance of MRI-guided prostate cancer diagnosis exhibits significant heterogeneity due to the intricate and multi-step nature of the diagnostic pathway. The development of artificial intelligence (AI) models, specifically through the utilization of machine learning techniques such as deep learning, is assuming an increasingly significant role in the field of radiology. In the realm of prostate MRI, a considerable body of literature has been dedicated to the development of various AI algorithms. These algorithms have been specifically designed for tasks such as prostate segmentation, lesion identification, and classification. The overarching objective of these endeavors is to enhance diagnostic performance and foster greater agreement among different observers within MRI scans for the prostate. This review article aims to provide a concise overview of the application of AI in the field of radiology, with a specific focus on its utilization in prostate MRI.
A comparative analysis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease using machin...IJECEIAES
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a general clinical issue in numerous countries considered the fifth reason for inability and the third reason for mortality on a global scale within 2021. From recent reviews, a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) is used in the primary analysis of the deadly COPD, which uses the computed tomography (CT) images procured from the deep learning tools. Detection and analysis of COPD using several image processing techniques, deep learning models, and machine learning models are notable contributions to this review. This research aims to cover the detailed findings on pulmonary diseases or lung diseases, their causes, and symptoms, which will help treat infections with high performance and a swift response. The articles selected have more than 80% accuracy and are tabulated and analyzed for sensitivity, specificity, and area under the curve (AUC) using different methodologies. This research focuses on the various tools and techniques used in COPD analysis and eventually provides an overview of COPD with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) symptoms.
Photoacoustic technology for biological tissues characterizationjournalBEEI
The existing photoacoustics (PA) imaging systems showed mixed performance in imaging characteristic and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). This work presents the use of an in-house assembled PA system using a modulating laser beam of wavelength 633 nm for two-dimensional (2D) characterization of biological tissues. The differentiation of the tissues in this work is based on differences in their light absorption, wherein the produced photoacoustic signal detected by a transducer was translated into phase value that corresponds to the peak amplitude of optical absorption of tissue namely fat, liver and muscle. This work found fat tissue to produce the strongest PA signal with mean ± standard deviation (SD) phase value = 2.09 ± 0.31 while muscle produced the least signal with phase value = 1.03 ± 0.17. This work discovered the presence of stripes pattern in the reconstructed images of fat and muscle resulted from their structural properties. In addition, a comparison is made in an attempt to better assess the performance of the developed system with the related ones. This work concluded that the developed system may use as an alternative, noninvasive and label-free visualization method for characterization of biological tissues in the future.
During seizures, different types of communication between different parts of the brain are characterized by many state of the art connectivity measures. We propose to employ a set of undirected (spectral matrix, the inverse of the spectral matrix, coherence, partial coherence, and phase-locking value) and directed features (directed coherence, the partial directed coherence) to detect seizures using a deep neural network. Taking our data as a sequence of ten sub-windows, an optimal deep sequence learning architecture using attention, CNN, BiLstm, and fully connected neural networks is designed to output the detection label and the relevance of the features. The relevance is computed using the weights of the model in the activation values of the receptive fields at a particular layer. The best model resulted in 97.03% accuracy using balanced MIT-BIH data subset. Finally, an analysis of the relevance of the features is reported.
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Intra and inter-fractional variation prediction of lung tumors using fuzzy deep learning
1. ONCOLOGY
Received 3 August 2015; revised 29 October 2015; accepted 30 December 2015.
Date of publication 8 January 2016; date of current version 20 January 2016.
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/JTEHM.2016.2516005
Intra- and Inter-Fractional Variation Prediction
of Lung Tumors Using Fuzzy Deep Learning
SEONYEONG PARK1, (Student Member, IEEE), SUK JIN LEE2, (Member, IEEE),
ELISABETH WEISS3, AND YUICHI MOTAI1, (Senior Member, IEEE)
1Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23284, USA
2Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University–Texarkana, Texarkana, TX 75503, USA
3Department of Radiation Oncology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298, USA
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR: Y. MOTAI (ymotai@vcu.edu)
This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation CAREER under Grant 1054333, in part by the National Center for
Advancing Translational Sciences through the CTSA Program under Grant UL1TR000058, in part by the Center for Clinical and Translational
Research Endowment Fund within Virginia Commonwealth University through the Presidential Research Incentive Program, and in part by
the American Cancer Society within the Institutional Research through the Massey Cancer Center under Grant IRG-73-001-31.
This paper has supplementary downloadable material available at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org., provided by the author.
ABSTRACT Tumor movements should be accurately predicted to improve delivery accuracy and reduce
unnecessary radiation exposure to healthy tissue during radiotherapy. The tumor movements pertaining
to respiration are divided into intra-fractional variation occurring in a single treatment session and inter-
fractional variation arising between different sessions. Most studies of patients’ respiration movements deal
with intra-fractional variation. Previous studies on inter-fractional variation are hardly mathematized and
cannot predict movements well due to inconstant variation. Moreover, the computation time of the prediction
should be reduced. To overcome these limitations, we propose a new predictor for intra- and inter-fractional
data variation, called intra- and inter-fraction fuzzy deep learning (IIFDL), where FDL, equipped with
breathing clustering, predicts the movement accurately and decreases the computation time. Through the
experimental results, we validated that the IIFDL improved root-mean-square error (RMSE) by 29.98% and
prediction overshoot by 70.93%, compared with existing methods. The results also showed that the IIFDL
enhanced the average RMSE and overshoot by 59.73% and 83.27%, respectively. In addition, the average
computation time of IIFDL was 1.54 ms for both intra- and inter-fractional variation, which was much smaller
than the existing methods. Therefore, the proposed IIFDL might achieve real-time estimation as well as better
tracking techniques in radiotherapy.
INDEX TERMS Fuzzy deep learning, intra-fractional variation, inter-fractional variation, breathing
prediction, tumor tracking.
I. INTRODUCTION
Lung cancer is the most deadly cancer disease with an esti-
mated 27% of all cancer deaths [1], [2]. A large part of
patients with lung cancer undergoes radiotherapy. Track-
ing tumor motion poses a significant challenge for precise
dose delivery in lung cancer radiotherapy, due to respiratory
motion of up to 3.5 cm for primary lung tumors [3]–[9].
If the patient’s breathing motion is not correctly predicted,
tumor miss might occur, or sensitive normal tissue might
be undesirably exposed resulting in unwanted treatment
toxicity [10]–[12]. Advanced technologies of radiotherapy,
intensity modulated radiotherapy and image guided radio-
therapy, may offer the potential of precise radiation dose
delivery for moving objects. However, they still need an
additional function to predict the precise position of the tumor
against subtle variations in real-time [5], [13]–[16].
Radiation dose is typically delivered in 3 to 5 frac-
tions over 5 to 12 days for early stage lung cancer
using stereotactic radiotherapy or 30 to 33 fractions over
6 to 7 weeks for more advanced disease with each frac-
tion lasting between 10 and 45 minutes. The patient’s
breathing motions during these fractions are broadly divided
into two categories [17]–[19]: 1) intra-fractional and
2) inter-fractional variations. Intra-fraction motion indi-
cates changes where the patient is undergoing the radia-
tion therapy, which turns up on a time scale of seconds to
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minutes [17], [18], [20]–[23]. Each individual shows different
breathing patterns. On the other hand, inter-fraction motion
is the variation observed between different treatment ses-
sions. It covers breathing motion as well as external factors
such as baseline shifts. Inter-fractional variation is typically
shown in a time scale of minutes to hours or a day-to-day
level [17], [18], [21]–[24].
Inter-fractional motion is distinguishable from intra-
fractional movement because the inter-fractional varia-
tion covers even baseline shifts and weight gain or
loss [21], [22]. However, most studies of breathing
prediction so far have focused on respiratory motions
within the single treatment session, i.e., intra-fractional
variation [6]–[8], [13], [20]–[35]. Recently, several
studies [10]–[12] have pointed out the difference between
intra-fractional and inter-fractional movements and have
discussed the importance of inter-fractional variation in radi-
ation treatment or related imaging techniques. Table 1 sum-
marizes the comparison between intra- and inter-fractional
movements.
TABLE 1. Comparison between intra- and inter-fractional variations.
Prediction methods for intra-fractional variation have been
addressed in many studies [6], [9]–[11], [13], [15], [20],
[26]–[38] as illustrated in Table 2. However, inter-fractional
variation has not been actively studied as much as intra-
fractional motion yet despite its necessity in radiotherapy
[9]–[11], [13], [20], [25]–[35]. Intra- and inter-fractional
variation of breathing motion can raise many challenges for
respiratory prediction [6]–[8], [20], [22], [23], [25]–[35]:
Firstly, prediction accuracy should be high. Secondly, com-
puting time should be short enough for real-time prediction.
Thirdly, the novel method should be able to handle any
unpredictable breathing variation.
In this paper, we propose a new prediction approach
for intra- and inter-fraction variations, called Intra- and
Inter-fractional variation prediction using Fuzzy Deep Learn-
ing (IIFDL). The proposed IIFDL clusters the respiratory
movements based on breathing similarities and estimates
patients’ breathing motion using the proposed Fuzzy Deep
Learning (FDL). To reduce the computation time, patients
are grouped depending on their breathing patterns. Then,
breathing signals belonging to the same group are trained
together. Future intra- and inter-fractional motion is estimated
by the trained IIFDLs.
The contribution of this paper is threefold. First, this is
the first analytical study for modeling multiple patients’
breathing data based on both intra- and inter-fractional
variations. Secondly, the proposed method has a clinical
impact for enhanced adjustment of margin size because it
achieves high prediction accuracy for respiratory motion,
even for inter-fractional variation. Thirdly, this study shows
the clinical possibility of real-time prediction by largely
shortening computing time. Furthermore, the training process
can be shortened, by training breathing signals with similar
patterns together in the proposed IIFDL.
II. FUZZY DEEP LEARNING
The proposed FDL is a combination of fuzzy logic and a
NN with more than two hidden layers, i.e. deep learning
network. Due to the NN architecture of FDL, it has a self-
learning feature, setting network parameters by training itself
according to input and desired output values. FDL also has
a fuzzy logic feature of reasoning capability for uncertainty.
In FDL, a few fuzzy parameters, i.e. prediction parameters
of FDL, determine weight values between nodes in the net-
work, and weight values are considered as the prediction
parameters in other methods. Consequently, the number of
prediction parameters is much less than that of other mutated
NN methods and parametric nonlinear models. This reduces
the computation time substantially and makes suitable for to
real-time and nonlinear estimation.
FIGURE 1. FDL architecture including Layer 1 through Layer 4 in the
hidden layers: Layer 1 provides membership functions, Layer 2 applies
a T-norm operation, Layer 3 computes linear regression functions, and
Layer 4 finally yields an output of FDL according to all fuzzy if-then rules.
Fig. 1 exemplifies a simple architecture of FDL, including
Layer 1 through Layer 4 in the hidden layers. The functions
of four hidden layers can be summarized as follows: Layer 1
provides membership functions which are determined by a
Membership Function (MF) parameter set M = {mi,1, mi,2,
mi,3}, Layer 2 applies a T-norm operation, Layer 3 com-
putes linear regression functions by normalized weights and
a Linear Regression (LR) parameter set R = {ri,1, ri,2, ri,3},
and Layer 4 finally yields an output of FDL f by summing
outcomes according to all fuzzy if-then rules.
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TABLE 2. Previous prediction methods for intra- and inter-fractional variations.
For the training algorithm of FDL, we use the hybrid
learning algorithm [36] which is a combination of a gradi-
ent descent back-propagation algorithm and a least squares
estimate algorithm. The MF parameter and the LR parameter
are identified by this training algorithm [36].
In Fig. 1, the number of fuzzy if-then rules is equivalent to
that of nodes in Layer 2 and 3, which are given as follows:
Rule1: If I1 is A1 and I2 is B1, then f1 = r1,1I1+r1,2I2+r1,3,
Rule2: If I1 is A2 and I2 is B2, then f2 = r2,1I1+r2,2I2+r2,3
where I1 and I2 are inputs of FDL, and Ai and Bi are fuzzy
sets, which are linguistic labels.
The output O1,i in Layer 1 is described as follows:
O1,i =
µAi (I1) = 1/ 1 + I − mi,3 /mi,1
2mi,2
,
1 ≤ i ≤ 2
µBi−2 (I2) = 1/ 1 + I − mi,3 /mi,1
2mi,2
,
3 ≤ i ≤ 4
(1)
where µAi(I1) and µBi−2(I2) are MFs of inputs for each
fuzzy set of Ai and Bi. Also, mi,1, mi,2, and mi,3 are the
MF parameters chosen by the training algorithm.
The functions of Layer 2 multiply all the values coming
from Layer 1, as follows:
O2,i = wi = µAi (I1) · µBi (I2), 1 ≤ i ≤ 2 (2)
where multiplication acts as the T-norm operator in the fuzzy
system, and the output indicates the firing strength for the
rule.
In Layer 3, the linear regression function is applied to a
ratio of the ith rule’s firing strength to the summation of all
rules’ firing strengths, and its result can be calculated by
O3,i =
wi
j
wj
ri,1I1 + ri,2I2 + ri,3 , 1 ≤ i ≤ 2 (3)
where ri,1, ri,2, and ri,3 are the LR parameters, derived from
the training algorithm.
The output of Layer 4 is aggregate of (3) as
follows:
O4,1 = f =
i
wi
j
wj
fi =
i
wifi
i
wi
. (4)
The output of FDL is computed by its weights and regres-
sion functions as (4).
III. INTRA- AND INTER-FRACTIONAL VARIATION
PREDICTION USING FUZZY DEEP LEARNING
The proposed IIFDL is designed to reduce the computa-
tional complexity of prediction for multipatients’ breathing
motion, which occurs during the single treatment session and
between treatment sessions. To achieve this, the proposed
IIFDL clusters multiple patients based on their breathing
feature similarities and trains their respiratory signals for each
group. We illustrate the process of IIFDL in Fig. 2. Before
the detailed explanation of IIFDL, a summary of its whole
process is given as follows:
1) Patient Clustering: Patients’ breathing feature metrics
are computed from the respiratory signals, and then
patients are clustered according to their breathing fea-
ture similarities.
2) Prediction Using FDL: For each patient group, the
training procedure of the hybrid learning algorithm
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FIGURE 2. IIFDL procedure including two main parts: patient clustering
and prediction using FDL.
is conducted, and then breathing signals with intra-
fractional variation or inter-fractional variation are pre-
dicted using FDL.
We describe the specific clustering procedure in Subsec-
tion A first, and we explain FDL for intra- and inter-fractional
variation prediction in Subsection B.
A. PATIENT CLUSTERING BASED ON
BREATHING FEATURES
From patients’ respiratory signals, we extract breathing
features as clustering criteria: Autocorrelation Maxi-
mum (AMV), ACCeleration variance (ACC), VELocity
variance (VEL), BReathing Frequency (BRF), maximum
Fourier Transform Power (FTP), Principal Component Anal-
ysis coefficient (PCA), STandard Deviation of time series
data (STD), and Maximum Likelihood Estimates (MLE).
Table 3 summarizes features extracted from the signals
and their formula. In Table 3, AMV is an indicator of the
breathing stability, and ACC, VEL, and STD are directly
TABLE 3. Features extracted from the signals.
relevant to respiratory signals [16], [33], [37]. In addition,
we use the typical vector-oriented features PCA and MLE
as well as other breathing characteristics such as BRF and
FTP [16], [33], [38]. There are two improvements in the
proposed patient clustering: the removal of unnecessary
breathing feature metrics, and the use of clustering criteria
with vector forms.
Firstly, previous studies in [16], [27], [33], [35], [37],
and [38] chose two additional feature metrics, i.e. autocor-
relation delay time (ADT) and multiple linear regression
coefficients (MLR), in addition to those eight in Table 3
for respiratory pattern analysis. However, ADT depends
on the length of breathing signal samples, rather than
the individual respiration characteristics. The use of MLR
assumes that breathing signals are linear, fixed values,
and homoscedasticity. This does not correspond to the
respiratory signals [33]. For these reasons, we do not
select ADT and MLR as breathing features for patient
clustering.
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Secondly, the existing study [33] clustered patients based
on the magnitude values of their respiratory feature vectors.
However, the proposed method uses breathing feature vec-
tors for patient clustering, not their magnitude values.
For example, the proposed IIFDL analyzes the similarities
among patients’ PCA by comparing each component of
3×3 vector pPCA, but the previous method in [33] calcu-
lates the similarities based on the scalar value of |pPCA|.
Accordingly, the previous method clusters patients as the
same group when the breathing signals have the approximate
magnitude of the breathing feature vector, even though they
do not show the similar breathing features. Thus, the pro-
posed IIFDL compares each component of breathing feature
vectors, so that it can provide better clustering of breathing
signals than existing methods.
As shown in Fig. 2, respiratory signals are randomly
selected from multiple patients and used for the breathing
feature extraction. Let us define P={pAMV , pACC , pVEL, pBRF ,
pFTP, pPCA, pSTD, pMLE } as a feature selection metrics set, X
as an arbitrary feature combination vector based on P, and Y
as an optimal feature combination vector. The total number
of possible Xs in the given data is 247 ( i 8Ci, 1< i ≤8).
Among these Xs, Y is selected using a criterion function J(·),
which is determined by within-class scatter SW and between-
class scatter SB values. The within-class scatter SW is defined
as follows [16]:
SW =
C
i=1 X∈ci
(X − mi) (X − mi)t
, mi =
1
ni X∈ci
X (5)
where C is the number of classes less than the total number
of patients N, ci and mi indicate the ith class and its mean,
and ni is the number of patients of Class i.
The between-class scatter SB is defined as:
SB =
C
i=1
ni (mi − m) (mi − m)t
, m =
1
n X
X (6)
where m is the mean of all feature combination vectors.
With SW and SB, the criterion function J(·) is given as
follows:
J (X, C) =
SB
SW
(7)
This implies that the larger J(·) allows, with low in-class
and high inter-class dispersion, the more obvious distinction
between classes. After criterion function values are calculated
for all Xs and all possible numbers of clusters C, Y can be
decided with the following condition:
ϒ = {X |max J (X, C) and C < N } (8)
After choosing Y by (8), the final number of clusters CFinal
is set, and patients are clustered as CFinal classes depending
on selected principal features of Y.
B. PREDICTION USING FDL
After multiple patients are clustered, we can train patients’
data for each group. For intra-fractional variation, FDL trains
parameters based on input data in a single session and
predicts future intra-fractional variation. For inter-fractional
variation, FDL predicts breathing motion by training the
FDL network for multiple datasets of previous sessions.
Here, datasets of inter-fractional variation already include the
patient’s intra-fractional variation, as described in Section I.
Training datasets consist of the initial data and the target data.
We train the datasets with the hybrid learning algorithm [36].
During the training procedure, two prediction parameter sets
of FDL, i.e., MF parameter set M and LR parameter set R,
are obtained and applied to the proposed FDL.
For estimating intra- and inter-fractional variation from the
CyberKnife data, FDL has a similar structure to Fig. 1, but
the number of nodes is variable. Here, the input datasets con-
sist of three-Dimensional (3D) coordinates for each channel.
Thus, we designed the proposed prediction method to have
three FDLs for each x, y, and z coordinate, so that we can
obtain all 3D coordinates of the estimated breathing signal.
Each FDL has three inputs corresponding to three different
channels. The total number of nodes in Layer 2 and 3 is 27,
based on the number of fuzzy if-then rules, which are given
as follows:
Rule1: If I1 is A1 and I2 is B1 and I3 is C1, then f1 = r1,1I1+
r1,2I2 + r1,3I3 + r1,4,
Rule27: If I1 is A3 and I2 is B3 and I3 is C3, then
f27 = r27,1I1 + r27,2I2 + r27,3I3 + r27,4
where I1, I2, and I3 correspond to inputs from three channels
of CyberKnife machine, and Ai, Bi, and Ci are fuzzy sets.
The output O1,i in Layer 1 is computed as follows:
O1,i =
µAi (I1) = 1/ 1 + I − mi,3 /mi,1
2mi,2
,
1 ≤ i ≤ 3
µBi−3 (I2) = 1/ 1 + I − mi,3 /mi,1
2mi,2
,
4 ≤ i ≤ 6
µCi−6 (I3) = 1/ 1 + I − mi,3 /mi,1
2mi,2
,
7 ≤ i ≤ 9
(9)
where µAi(·), µBi−3(·), and µCi−6(·) are three kinds of
the membership functions, which are calculated using the
MF parameter set M ={mi,1, mi,2, mi,3}.
In Layer 2 and 3, outputs O2,i and O3,i are defined as the
following (10) and (11), respectively:
O2,i = wi = µAk (I1) µBl (I2) µCm (I3) , 1 ≤ i ≤ 27 (10)
O3,i =
wi
j
wj
ri,1I1+ri,2I2+ri,3I3 + ri,4 , 1 ≤ i ≤ 27
(11)
where ri,1, ri,2, ri,3, and ri,4 are the LR parameter set R.
The output of Layer 4 is as follows:
O4,1 = f =
i
wi
j
wj
fi =
i
wifi
i
wi
(12)
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The equation (12) produces a single coordinate of the
predicted respiratory signal, i.e., x, y, or z estimation.
As mentioned above, the proposed IIFDL uses three FDLs
for x, y, and z coordinates, so that we can derive estimated
3D coordinates of breathing signals from those FDLs.
IV. EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS
We describe the experimental data for intra- and inter-
fraction motion, in Subsection A. The experimental result of
patient clustering based on breathing features are presented in
Subsection B, and we evaluate the prediction performance of
the proposed IIFDL in Subsection C.
A. INTRA-AND INTER-FRACTION MOTION DATA
Breathing data of 130 patients were collected in Georgetown
University medical center using the CyberKnife Synchrony
(Accuray Inc. Sunnyvale, CA) treatment facility. The col-
lected data contained no personally identifiable information,
and the research study was approved by the Georgetown
University IRB. During data acquisition, three sensors were
attached around a target position on the patient’s body. Indi-
vidual patient’s database contains datasets recorded through
three channels by LED sensors and cameras. Fig. 3 illustrates
patient distribution for breathing databases according to a
record time.
FIGURE 3. Patient distribution of CyberKnife data. Each database
contains a record time, 3D coordinates, and rotation data of three
channels. The intra-fractional variation dataset had 130 databases,
and the inter-fractional variation dataset consisted of 32 databases
with at least 1-hour time difference in-between.
Sampling frequencies for patients’ variation data were
5.20, 8.67, and 26Hz, corresponding to the measurement
intervals, 192.30, 115.38, and 38.46ms. The recording time
was distributed from 25.13 to 132.52min. Each database
contains calibrated datasets of a record time, 3D coordinates,
and rotational data of three channels. During the training pro-
cedure, we randomly extracted 1000 samples for each patient.
The obtained samples regarding the measurement intervals
were about 0.63min for 38.46ms, 1.92min for 115.38ms, and
3.2min for 192.30ms.
TABLE 4. Experimental data.
FIGURE 4. Criterion function values J of the proposed IIFDL and CNN:
(a) J of IIFDL and CNN according to the number of clusters, (b) J of IIFDL
according to the breathing feature combination, and (c) J of CNN
according to the breathing feature combination. In IIFDL, the number
of cluster CFinal was 11 and the optimal breathing feature combination Y
was chosen as BRF and MLE by (8). In CNN, CFinal was 12 and its Y was a
combination of ACC, VEL, and PCA.
Table 4 shows experimental data of intra- and inter-
fractional variation. In the intra-fractional variation dataset,
all of 130 databases were used, and training and test
data were randomly selected within 1-hour time range.
In the inter-fractional variation dataset, however, we selected
32 databases. Training and test data were selected with at
least 1-hour time difference in-between them for the inter-
fractional variation dataset. This time scale is not on the day-
to-day level as the standard definition of the inter-fractional
variation, but it meets the inter-fractional time scale condition
of [18]. Actual inter-fractional motion data might be larger
than data we chose because changes occurred in fractions on
different days such as weight gain or loss were not contained
in experimental data.
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B. PATIENT CLUSTERING BASED ON
BREATHING FEATURES
We present the patient clustering results with the calculated
criterion function values J. Fig. 4(a) shows criterion function
values J regarding the number of clusters, where we repre-
sented the proposed IIFDL as a red line with a ‘ ’ maker,
and the alternate CNN [33] as a blue dotted line with a ‘ ’
marker. Fig. 4(b) and 4(c) show criterion function values J of
IIFDL and CNN with regard to the possible breathing feature
combination.
The proposed IIFDL selected the number of cluster CFinal
as 11 with the maximum J of 5.825 as shown in Fig. 4(a).
The optimal breathing feature combination Y was chosen
with BRF and MLE by (8) as shown in Fig. 4(b). The alter-
nate CNN [33] selected the number of cluster CFinal as 12,
and its Y was chosen with ACC, VEL, and PCA as shown
in Fig. 4(a) and 4(c). The reason of their different clustering
results is that IIFDL uses respiratory feature vectors, whereas
CNN uses the magnitude values of respiratory feature vectors.
Considered all possible 247 combinations from 8 features
( i 8Ci, 1 < i ≤ 8), the combination chosen by CNN had
a local maximum value of J, as shown in Fig. 4(b). Thus, the
combination of ACC, VEL, and PCA cannot be Y that has the
maximum J.
Therefore, CyberKnife patient databases were grouped
into 11 classes using the proposed IIFDL, and the cluster-
ing results for intra- and inter-fractional variation data are
presented in Table 5.
TABLE 5. Patient database clustering.
In Table 5, 130 databases of the intra-fractional varia-
tion and 32 databases of the inter-fractional variation were
grouped into 11 and 9 classes, respectively. Each class
showed the similar breathing features regardless of the vari-
ation type. In the intra-fractional variation, some classes
(e.g. Class 1, 4, 7, 9, and 10) have only one or two patients.
They are most likely considered as the irregular respira-
tory signals, due to their less feature similarities with other
patients’ breathing signals. Class 2 and 8 for the inter-
fractional variation also have highly few patients, but we do
not consider these classes as the irregular breathing signals.
It is difficult to judge the scarcity of Class 2 and 8 based
on the few number of intra-fractional variation databases,
also these two classes were already considered as regular
breathing groups for the intra-fractional variation.
C. PREDICTION USING FDL
In this subsection, we compare the prediction performance
of the proposed IIFDL with existing methods. Especially,
previous methods for the inter-fractional movement are
mathematical models depending on predefined scenarios of
patients’ variation, without the self-learning feature. The
prediction performance of these methods is susceptible to
how many potential scenarios were considered. In other
words, there is a practical limitation to get decent perfor-
mance results in the experiment with those mathematical
models. Accordingly, we chose the existing methods for intra-
fractional prediction, CNN and HEKF, as the comparison
targets, and we applied the selected methods to the case of
the inter-fractional variation. The predictors used in CNN and
HEKF are NN and a combination of NN and KF, respectively,
as mentioned in Section I. Thus, these methods have the
self-learning feature. Furthermore, CNN is the prediction
approach designed for multiple patients’ motion like the pro-
posed IIFDL.
We evaluate the prediction performance of IIFDL
using by the following three criteria: Root-Mean-Square
Error (RMSE), overshoot, and prediction time.
1) ROOT-MEAN-SQUARE ERROR
We compared IIFDL with CNN and HEKF regarding pre-
diction results and RMSE. Fig. 5 shows prediction results of
two databases by IIFDL, CNN, and HEKF, with 115.38ms
interval as a median of [38.46, 192.30ms]. These predic-
tion results were randomly chosen in the given databases.
Fig. 5 (a) and 5 (b) present the prediction results of the intra-
and inter-fractional variation datasets. Here, a horizontal axis
is the time index extracted from CyberKnife data. A black
line is a measurement, a red line with a ‘ ’ marker illustrates
predicted values by the proposed IIFDL, a blue dotted line
with a ‘ ’ marker is the estimated results of CNN, and an
orange dotted line with a ‘ ’ marker represents the estimation
results of HEKF. Also, two green dotted lines are upper
and lower boundaries of target data, respectively. These two
boundaries were decided based on 95% prediction interval.
As shown in Fig. 5, the estimated points of the proposed
method IIFDL were closer to the target values than those of
CNN and HEKF. In Fig. 5, many points of CNN were dis-
tributed near or out of the boundaries, and most of the points
of HEKF were out of the range between upper and lower
boundaries. However, the predicted values of IIFDL were
within the boundaries in most cases. The RMSE comparison
of the intra-fractional variation of each patients’ class showed
that the proposed IIFDL, CNN, and HEKF had the similar
RMSE values overall, and IIFDL outperformed CNN and
HEKF particularly in Class 4 considered as irregular breath-
ing signals. For the inter-fractional variation of each patients’
class, the experimental result also validated that the proposed
IIFDL is less vulnerable to the breathing irregularity.
In Table 6, we summarized the average RMSE and standard
deviation values of IIFDL, CNN, and HEKF for each different
measurement interval. Based on those results, we also derived
improvement rate of IIFDL, determined by the following
formula: (RMSE average of CNN/HEKF - RMSE average of
IIFDL)/RMSE average of CNN/HEKF ∗ 100%.
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FIGURE 5. Prediction results for (a) intra- and (b) inter-fractional variation by IIFDL, CNN, and HEKF: (a) DB47 and (b) DB121 with 115.38ms interval.
The estimated values of the proposed IIFDL were closer to the target values, i.e. measurements, than those of CNN and HEKF.
TABLE 6. RMSE comparison.
For given the measurement intervals of the intra-fractional
variation in Table 6, the RMSE results presented that all the
average RMSE and standard deviation values of IIFDL were
lower than those of CNN and HEKF, except the interval of
192.30ms. Although IIFDL was worse than HEKF in com-
parison on the average RMSE result for the time interval of
192.30ms, the average RMSE of IIFDL was 0.03mm larger
than that of HEKF, which is a relatively small difference.
With decreased time interval from 192.30 to 38.46ms,
the proposed IIFDL had the more improvement rate from
11.81 to 90.54% for CNN and −6.86 to 54.36% for HEKF.
In the total results, the proposed method had the standard
deviation of 0.46mm, whereas CNN and HEKF had fluctuat-
ing RMSE values with the standard deviation of 6.16mm and
0.92mm. In comparison to the existing methods, the proposed
IIFDL improved 38.27% and 21.69% of the average RMSE
values, for each CNN and HEKF, in the experiment of the
intra-fractional variation.
As show in Table 6, the experimental results for the inter-
fractional variation represent that all RMSE values of IIFDL
were lower than those of CNN and HEKF. The proposed
IIFDL improved RMSE more when the time interval was
smaller, which is the same as the experimental results of
the intra-factional variation. The proposed IIFDL with the
overall standard deviation of 1.02mm showed higher error
stability than CNN and HEKF with the overall standard
deviation of 3.86mm and 3.53mm. Moreover, IIFDL
enhanced 59.02% and 60.44% of RMSE in comparison to
CNN and HEKF as shown in Table 6. Therefore, we can
expect that the proposed method contributes to the radio-
therapy by providing higher prediction accuracy and error
stability.
2) PREDICTION OVERSHOOT
The prediction overshoot rate is also one of the criteria that
enable to assess prediction accuracy of RMSE, and it can be
defined as a ratio of the estimated points are out of the bound-
ary ranges to the total ones, here the range was determined by
the 95% prediction interval of target data.
Fig. 6 presents the overshoot results by IIFDL, CNN,
and HEKF for the intra-fractional variation. The measure-
ment interval was 115.38ms, which is a middle interval
of [38.46, 192.30ms]. A horizontal axis is the patient database
number, and a red, blue, and orange bar indicate the overshoot
value of IIFDL, CNN, and HEKF, respectively. Additionally,
a black dotted line separates patient classes.
As shown in Fig. 6, the proposed IIFDL had less variation
of the error values only up to 9.1%, but CNN and HEKF
showed occasionally huge overshoot results almost 100%.
In the same vein with the experiment of RMSE, the proposed
method improved overshoot performance with higher stabil-
ity in databases we utilized.
In Fig. 7, we show the overshoot results of IIFDL, CNN,
and HEKF for the inter-fractional variation to demonstrate the
stability of the proposed IIFDL.
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FIGURE 6. Overshoot results for intra-fractional variation. The measurement interval is 115.38ms, which is a middle interval [38.46, 192.30ms]. The
proposed IIFDL had less variation of the error values only up to 9.1%, but CNN and HEKF showed occasionally huge overshoot results almost 100%.
The proposed method improved overshoot performance with higher stability in databases we utilized.
FIGURE 7. Overshoot results for inter-fractional variation. The
measurement interval is 115.38ms, which is a middle interval
[38.46, 192.30ms]. The maximum overshoot value of the proposed
IIFDL was 8.4%. However, CNN and HEKF had large overshoot results
up to 100% and wider variance of the overshoot rates than the
proposed IIFDL. There was no overshoot value in Class 10.
As the experimental results of intra-fractional variation,
CNN and HEKF had wider variance of the overshoot rates
than the proposed IIFDL. As shown in Fig. 7, the existing
methods, CNN and HEKF had large overshoot results up
to 100%. However, the maximum overshoot value of the
proposed IIFDL was 8.4%.
In Table 7, we summarized average overshoot rates and
their standard deviation values of IIFDL, CNN, and HEKF
for each measurement interval.
As shown in Table 7, all average overshoot rates of the
proposed IIFDL are considerably lower than those of CNN
and HEKF, in both experimental results for the intra- and
TABLE 7. Overshoot comparison.
inter-fractional variation. Furthermore, standard deviation
values of the overshoot rate had remarkable differences
in between IIFDL and two other methods. For the intra-
fractional variation, the total standard deviation values of
IIFDL, CNN, and HEKF were 2.28%, 26.78%, and 28.26%,
respectively. Overall results for the intra-fractional variation
showed that the proposed method improves the overshoot
percentage by 66.90% for CNN and 74.96% for HEKF. For
the inter-fractional variation, also, IIFDL markedly reduced
not only the average overshoot percentage but also the stan-
dard deviation. The overall improvement rates of IIFDL was
80.37% for CNN and 86.17% for HEKF in the experiment for
the inter-fractional variation.
3) COMPUTING TIME
To evaluate and compare effects on the computational com-
plexity by the proposed IIFDL, we measured average CPU
time of each prediction method using a PC with Intel Core i7
3.07 GHz and 16.0 GB RAM.
Table 8 compares the computing time of IIFDL, CNN, and
HEKF for each measurement interval used in the experiment,
where time difference represents the difference of the com-
puting time between the previous methods and IIFDL.
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TABLE 8. Computing time comparison.
In the experimental results for the intra-fractional varia-
tion of Table 8, IIFDL had the average computing time of
1.54ms and the standard deviation of 5.01ms, for all databases
and intervals. The average computing time and the stan-
dard deviation were 254.32ms and 11.68ms for CNN and
253.56ms and 10.74ms for HEKF. Thus, the total average
of the time difference reduced by IIFDL was 252.78ms for
CNN and 252.02ms for HEKF. For the inter-fractional varia-
tion, the average computing time of the proposed IIFDL was
1.54ms and its standard deviation was 5.01ms throughput all
databases and measurement intervals. The average computing
time and its standards deviation were 253.01ms and 9.17ms
for CNN, and 252.85ms and 6.17ms for HEKF. In the experi-
ment for the inter-fractional variation, the total average of the
time difference reduced by IIFDL was 251.47ms for CNN
and 251.31ms for HEKF.
As we mentioned in Section II, the proposed FDL, requires
less prediction parameters than CNN and HEKF. Accord-
ingly, the proposed IIFDL could reduce the computing time
immensely as shown in the experimental results in Table 8.
Moreover, IIFDL and CNN train the multiple breathing sig-
nals simultaneously based on the respiratory feature similar-
ities. This leads to lower the number of training process. For
instance, there were 35 intra-fractional variation databases
of patients in Class 2, and HEKF needed to train the res-
piratory signals 35 times more than IIFDL and CNN, to
acquire the prediction results. Thus, the proposed IIFDL is
expected to improve the prediction speed maintaining the pre-
diction accuracy during the treatment session in the clinical
perspective.
D. COMPARISON OF INTRA- AND
INTER -FRACTION MOTION
We evaluate experimental results of intra- and inter-fractional
variation. Table 9 compares the two kinds of variation regard-
ing RMSE, overshoot, and computing time.
For RMSE and overshoot of the previous methods CNN
and HEKF, results of the inter-fraction variation were worse
than those of the intra-fractional variation as shown in
Table 9. This is because the respiration variability for the
inter-fraction is larger than that for the intra-fraction. On the
other hand, IIFDL showed similar RMSE and overshoot
results for both intra- and inter-fractional variation. Due to the
reasoning capability of IIFDL for uncertainty, the proposed
TABLE 9. Experimental result comparison of intra- and inter-fractional
variations.
TABLE 10. Error comparison with previous methods.
IIFDL achieved the similar level of the prediction results with
the intra-fractional variation in the experiment for the inter-
fractional variation.
In particular, average computing time was remarkable.
The proposed IIFDL reduced it less than 2ms, which were
over 250ms in the previous methods, CNN and HEKF.
Additionally, this implies that IIFDL can be used in real-
time applications as the proposed method can estimate
the next respiratory signal before it comes. Specifically,
the next breathing signal will come with the interval of
38.46ms to 192.30ms, and IIFDL can calculate the estimated
value within 2ms on average that is before termination of the
time interval.
We provide more comparison with other previous
methods [6], [15], [23], [26], [32], [33] in Table 10, to verify
the accuracy performance of IIFDL. The previous methods in
Table 10 were referred to in Section I. As shown in Table 10,
the proposed IIFDL had the lowest error results among
9 methods. However, comparability is limited as experiments
were not conducted in the identical environment.
V. DISCUSSION
In a curative setting, high radiation doses need to be delivered
with high precision, and safety margines need to be added
to the target to ensure sufficient dose coverage. However,
safety margins and resulting side effects of radiotherapy com-
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promise the ability to deliver tumoricidal treatment doses.
As a result, local tumor reccurences occur in 30% of con-
ventionally fractionated treatments [39] and less than 10%
of stereotactic applications [40]. Respiratory tumor motion
range and consistency vary with patient, within one fraction
and between repeated fractions with change in tumor motion
range >3 mm in 20% of fractions [12]. In addition to address-
ing intra-fractional variation, this paper also investigated pre-
diction for inter-fractional variation that might be larger than
intra-fractional variation and therefore more challenging to
address [41].
Compared to currently applied population-averaged mar-
gins between 3 and ≥10 mm in motion-inclusive treatment,
margins can be significantly reduced according to the resid-
ual prediction error for the individual patient using motion-
tracking and IIFDL. The proposed IIFDL can contribute to
treatment planning to improve delivery accuracy, by adjusting
the treatment field position according to the predicted intra-
and inter-fractional variation. Based on the experimental
results above, we have validated that the proposed IIFDL can
estimate the next breathing signal before the next incoming
signal arrives. Therefore, IIFDL is expected to achieve real
time prediction in a stream computing environment if the
prediction system tolerates measurement delay of respiratory
signal.
Future studies may seek to identify correlations between
tumor location in the lung, as well as patient-related
parameters and comorbidities and predicted intra- and inter-
fractional variation to even further improve prediction accu-
racy. In addition, further study can be conducted on prediction
with other machine learning methods to improve prediction
accuracy of tumor motion, which have not been introduced
yet for estimating intra- and inter-fractional variation, such
as support vector machines [42], [43].
VI. CONCLUSION
In this paper, we proposed the new prediction algorithm,
called FDL. Based on this algorithm, we also proposed the
specific estimation method for intra- and inter-fractional vari-
ation of multiple patients, called IIFDL. Our approach has
three main contributions to prediction of patients’ motion dur-
ing a single treatment session and between different fractional
sessions. First, the proposed method is the first study on the
modeling of both intra- and inter-fractional variation for mul-
tiple patients’ respiratory data, collected from the Cyberknife
facility. Second, the proposed IIFDL might enhance tumor
tracking techniques due to its high prediction accuracy. Third,
the proposed FDL, the predictor used in IIFDL, has a much
shorter computation time than other methods, so that the
proposed IIFDL shows the optimistic perspective on real-time
prediction.
The experimental results validated that the RMSE value
of the proposed IIFDL was improved by 38.27% of CNN
and 21.69% of HEKF for the intra-fractional variation. For
the inter-fractional variation, IIFDR improved the average
RMSE values by 59.02% for CNN and 60.44% for HEKF.
The IIFDL also improved the prediction overshoot by 66.90%
for CNN and 74.96% for HEKF for the intra-fractional vari-
ation. In a case of the inter-fractional variation, the overshoot
improvement was 80.37% for CNN and 86.17% for HEKF.
For the average computing time, the previous methods spent
over 250ms for computation, but the proposed IIFDL con-
sumed less than 2ms. The outcomes of RMSE and prediction
overshoot demonstrate that the proposed method has more
of a superb prediction performance than existing approaches.
Particularly, computation time results showed that IIFDL can
be considered as a suitable tool for real-time estimation.
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SEONYEONG PARK (S’14) received the
B.Eng. degree in electronics, computer, and
telecommunication engineering and the
M.Eng. degree in information and communica-
tions engineering from Pukyong National Univer-
sity, Busan, Korea, in 2011 and 2013, respectively.
She is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in
electrical and computer engineering with Virginia
Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA.
Her research interests include machine learning,
neural networks, fuzzy logic models, and target estimation.
SUK JIN LEE (S’11–M’13) received the
B.Eng. degree in electronics engineering and the
M.Eng. degree in telematics engineering from
Pukyong National University, Busan, Korea, in
2003 and 2005, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree
in electrical and computer engineering from
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond,
VA, USA, in 2012. He is currently an Assistant
Professor of Computer Science with Texas A&M
University–Texarkana, Texarkana, TX, USA.
In 2007, he was a Visiting Research Scientist with the GW Center for
Networks Research, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA.
His research interests include network protocols, neural network, target
estimate, and classification.
ELISABETH WEISS received the Graduate degree
from the University of Wurzburg, Germany, in
1990, the Ph.D. degree in 1991, and the Aca-
demic Teacher’s degree from the University of
Goettingen, Germany, in 2004. She completed res-
idency in radiation oncology with the University of
Gottingen, Gottingen, Germany, in 1997, after par-
ticipating in various residency programs in Berne
(Switzerland), Wurzburg (Germany), and Tubin-
gen (Germany). She is currently a Professor with
the Department of Radiation Oncology and a Research Physician with the
Medical Physics Division, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond,
where she is also involved in the development of image-guided radiotherapy
techniques and 4-D radiotherapy of lung cancer.
YUICHI MOTAI (S’00–M’03–SM’12) received
the B.Eng. degree in instrumentation engineering
from Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, in 1991, the
M.Eng. degree in applied systems science from
Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, in 1993, and the
Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineer-
ing from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN,
USA, in 2002. He is currently an Associate Profes-
sor of Electrical and Computer Engineering with
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond,
VA, USA. His research interests include the broad area of sensory intel-
ligence, in particular, in medical imaging, pattern recognition, computer
vision, and sensory-based robotics.
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