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Open AccessSpectrum of severity of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children: an EHR-based cohort study from the RECOVER program
Multi-system inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) is a severe post-acute sequela of SARS-CoV-2 infection in children, and there is a critical need to unfold its highly heterogeneous disease patterns. Our ...
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Open AccessPredict the compressive strength of ultra high-performance concrete by a hybrid method of machine learning
Ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC) benefits the construction industry due to its improved flexibility, high workability, durability, and performance compared to normal concrete. Some investigators have con...
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Robust matrix estimations meet Frank–Wolfe algorithm
We consider estimating matrix-valued model parameters with a dedicated focus on their robustness. Our setting concerns large-scale structured data so that a regularization on the matrix’s rank becomes indispen...
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Almost sure convergence of stochastic composite objective mirror descent for non-convex non-smooth optimization
Stochastic composite objective mirror descent (SCOMID) is an effective method for solving large-scale stochastic composite problems in machine learning. This method can efficiently use the geometric properties...
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Truncated octree and its applications
Octree is a hierarchical data structure with many applications, especially in encoding unstructured point clouds. The depth of an octree is dependent of the scale of the input data and the desired resolution o...
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Food Contaminants
Nowadays, with food safety incidents occurring repeatedly in many countries, consumers and organizations are increasingly concerned about the quality and safety of foodstuffs. The presence of food contaminants...
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AMGE: A Tongue Body Segmentation Assessment Method via Gradient Energy
Tongue body segmentation is essential for the computerized tongue diagnosis. Several segmentation methods have been developed and some evaluation methods have been used for test the segmentation. However, it i...
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Microstructure and wear behavior of Ti-6Al-4V treated by plasma Zr-alloying and plasma nitriding
A duplex treatment of plasma Zr-alloying and plasma nitriding was used to improve the tribological properties of Ti-6Al-4V. The microstructure of the Zr-N composite (alloyed) layer formed on Ti-6Al-4V and its ...
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Open AccessScreening of efficient siRNA carriers in a library of surface-engineered dendrimers
Polymers are widely used as non-viral carriers for siRNA delivery, but concern has also arisen in their limited efficacy and inherent toxicity. Whilst many of previous efforts have been documented towards impr...
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A generalized preconditioned HSS method for singular saddle point problems
Li et al. recently studied the generalized HSS (GHSS) method for solving singular linear systems (see Li et al., J. Comput. Appl. Math. 236, 2338–2353 (2012)). In this paper, we generalize the method and present ...
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Open AccessFast marching over the 2D Gabor magnitude domain for tongue body segmentation
Tongue body segmentation is a prerequisite to tongue image analysis and has recently received considerable attention. The existing tongue body segmentation methods usually involve two key steps: edge detection...
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Multiscale Sample Entropy Analysis of Wrist Pulse Blood Flow Signal for Disease Diagnosis
Recent study reported that wrist pulse blood flow signal is effective for disease diagnosis. The multiscale entropy, which was developed for quantifying the complexity of a time series of physiological signals...
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Open AccessClassification of Pulse Waveforms Using Edit Distance with Real Penalty
Advances in sensor and signal processing techniques have provided effective tools for quantitative research in traditional Chinese pulse diagnosis (TCPD). Because of the inevitable intraclass variation of puls...
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A note on preconditioned GMRES for solving singular linear systems
For solving a singular linear system Ax=b by GMRES, it is shown in the literature that if A is range-symmetric, then GMRES converges safely to a solution. In this paper we consider preconditioned GMRES for solvin...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Diabetes Identification and Classification by Means of a Breath Analysis System
This article proposes a breath analysis system that makes use of chemical sensors to detect acetone in human breath, and hence detect the diabetes and measure the blood glucose levels of diabetics. We captured...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Tongue Image Identification System on Congestion of Fungiform Papillae (CFP)
Tongue diagnosis is a unique and important diagnostic method in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). It is used to observe abnormal changes in the tongue for identifying diseases. However, due to its qualitativ...
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Tongue Image Texture Segmentation Based on Gabor Filter Plus Normalized Cut
Texture information of tongue image is one of the most important pathological features utilized in practical Tongue Diagnosis because it can reveal the severeness and change tendency of the illness. A texture ...
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Classification of Wrist Pulse Blood Flow Signal Using Time Warp Edit Distance
The blood flow signals can be used to examine a person’s health status and have been widely used in the study of the clinical diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases. According to the pulse diagnosis theory of tr...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Pulse Waveform Classification Using ERP-Based Difference-Weighted KNN Classifier
Although the great progress in sensor and signal processing techniques have provided effective tools for quantitative research into traditional Chinese pulse diagnosis, the automatic classification of pulse wa...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Radii Solaris Extraction through Primitive Modelling
On Iris, features such as lacunae, crypts, lines are closely related with diseases and health status of human body. As one of such features, Radii Solaris plays an important role in automatic diagnosis through...
