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In non-linear autoregressive models, the time dependency of coefficients is often driven by a particular time-series which is not given and thus has to be estimated from the data. To allow model evaluation on a validation set, we describe a parametric approach for such driver estimation. After estimating the driver as a weighted sum of potential drivers, we use it in a non-linear autoregressive model with a polynomial parametrization. Using gradient descent, we optimize the linear filter extracting the driver, outperforming a typical grid-search on predefined filters.

The electroencephalography classifier is the most important component of brain-computer interface based systems. There are two major problems hindering the improvement of it. First, traditional methods do not fully exploit multimodal information. Second, large-scale annotated EEG datasets are almost impossible to acquire because biological data acquisition is challenging and quality annotation is costly. Herein, we propose a novel deep transfer learning approach to solve these two problems.

It is important to determine 3D shape properties of a population of 3D mesh models in biomedical imaging issues. In contrast to conventional 3D shape analysis techniques focusing on applications like shape matching and shape retrieval, we propose in this paper a strategy capable to collect statistical information of multiple triangular mesh models. Our method operates in a coarse-to-fine fashion based on wavelet synthesis. Hence, its analysis result can be invariant against the triangular tiling of the input mesh model.

Analyzing the asymmetry of anatomical shapes is one of the cornerstones of efficient computerized diagnosis. In the application of scoliotic trunk analysis, one major challenge is the high variability and complexity of deformations due to the pathology itself, and to changes of body poses, for instance, torsos acquired in lateral bending poses for surgical planning. In this paper, we present a novel and fully automatic approach to analyzing the asymmetry of deformable trunk shapes.

Optic Disc (OD) detection in retinal fundus images is a crucial stage for the automation of a screening system in diabetic ophthalmology. Most researches for automatic localization of OD benefit the regions of vessels. In this paper, we present a fast and novel method based on the Circlet Trans-form to detect OD in digital retinal fundus images that doesn’t utilize the location of the vessels. First, each R, G and B band is enhanced using CLAHE method. Then, the enhanced image in RGB color space is converted to L*a*b one.

Symmetry analysis of right and left eyes can be a useful tool for early detection of eye diseases. In this study, we want to compare the Optical Coherent Tomography (OCT) images captured from optic nerve head (ONH) of right and left eyes. To do this, it is necessary to align the OCT data and com-pare equivalent B-scans in right and left eyes.

With developments in experimental connectomics producing wiring diagrams of many neuronal networks, there is emerging interest in theories to understand the relationship between structure and function. Efficiency of information flow in networks has been proposed as a key functional in characterizing cognition, and we have previously shown that information-theoretic limits on information flow are predictive of behavioral speed in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans.

Real-time magnetic resonance imaging (rtMRI) is becoming a practical tool in speech production research and language pathology observation. It is still a challenge to extract the tongue contour accurately in rtMRI sequences, since tongue is a soft tissue and often touches other organs such as lips and upper mandible. This paper proposes a novel semi-automatic tongue contour extraction method from rtMRI sequences. The initial boundary image is obtained by combined multi-directional Sobel operators in tongue movement region; then a boundary intensity map is constructed to find the most probable tongue contour points by searching for the optimal boundary route with Viterbi algorithm; finally the tongue contour is obtained using B-Spline approximation. The proposed method could obtain accurate tongue contour from rtMRI sequences, even in the cases that some parts of tongue touch other organs. Experiments demonstrate the robustness of the proposed method.