Lubusz Province
A Fine Evaluation Method for Cube Copying Test for Early Detection of Alzheimer's Disease
Jiang, Xinyu, Gao, Cuiyun, Huang, Wenda, Jiang, Yiyang, Luo, Binwen, Jiang, Yuxin, Wang, Mengting, Wen, Haoran, Zhao, Yang, Chen, Xuemei, Huang, Songqun
Background: Impairment of visual spatial cognitive function is the most common early clinical manifestation of Alzheimer's Disease (AD). When the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) uses the "0/1" binary method ("pass/fail") to evaluate the visual spatial cognitive ability represented by the Cube Copying Test(CCT), the elder with less formal education generally score 0 point, resulting in serious bias in the evaluation results. Therefore, this study proposes a fine evaluation method for CCT based on dynamic handwriting feature extraction of DH-SCSM-BLA. method : The Cogni-CareV3.0 software independently developed by our team was used to collect dynamic handwriting data of CCT. Then, the spatial and motion features of segmented dynamic handwriting were extracted, and feature matrix with unequal dimensions were normalized. Finally, a bidirectional long short-term memory network model combined with attention mechanism (BiLSTM-Attention) was adopted for classification. Result: The experimental results showed that: The proposed method has significant superiority compared to similar studies, with a classification accuracy of 86.69%. The distribution of cube drawing ability scores has significant regularity for three aspects such as MCI patients and healthy control group, age, and levels of education. It was also found that score for each cognitive task including cube drawing ability score is negatively correlated with age. Score for each cognitive task including cube drawing ability score, but positively correlated with levels of education significantly. Conclusion: This study provides a relatively objective and comprehensive evaluation method for early screening and personalized intervention of visual spatial cognitive impairment.
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- Health & Medicine > Therapeutic Area > Psychiatry/Psychology (1.00)
- Health & Medicine > Therapeutic Area > Neurology > Alzheimer's Disease (1.00)
- Information Technology > Artificial Intelligence > Vision (1.00)
- Information Technology > Artificial Intelligence > Machine Learning > Statistical Learning (1.00)
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Artificial intelligence for sustainable wine industry: AI-driven management in viticulture, wine production and enotourism
Sidorkiewicz, Marta, Królikowska, Karolina, Dyczek, Berenika, Pijet-Migon, Edyta, Dubel, Anna
ABSTRACT Purpose: This study examines the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in enhancing sustainability and efficiency w ithin the wine industry. It focuses on AI - driven intelligent management in viticulture, wine production, and enotourism. Need for the Study: As the wine industry faces environmental and economic challenges, AI offers innovative solutions to optimize resource use, reduce environmental impact, and improve customer engagement. Understanding AI's potential in sustainable winemaking is crucial for fostering responsible and efficient industry practices. Methodology: The research is based on a questionnaire survey conducted among Polish winemakers, combined with a comprehensive analysis of AI methods applicable to viticulture, production, and tourism. Key AI technologies, including predictive analytics, machine learning, and computer vision, are explored . Findings: AI enhances vineyard monitoring, optimizes irrigation, and streamlines production processes, contributing to sustainable resource manageme nt. In enotourism, AI - powered chatbots, recommendation systems, and virtual tastings personalize consumer experiences. The study underscores AI's impact on economic, environmental, and social sustainability, supporting local wine enterprises and cultural h eritage. Practical Implications: AI in winemaking and enotourism can lead to more efficient, sustainable operations that benefit producers and consumers. AI - driven solutions promote responsible tourism, enhance wine tourism experiences, and ensure the indu stry's long - term viability . Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Sustainable Development, AI - Driven Management, Viticulture, Wine Production, Enotourism, Wine Enterprises, Local Communities JEL codes: A13, A14, C55, D81, L66, L83, M31, O33, Q01, Q13, Q16, Z32 1. INTRODUCTION Sustainability in the wine industry encompasses environmental stewardship, economic viability, and social responsibility. Sustainable viticulture aims to minimize environmental impacts while maintaining product quality.
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- Europe > Poland > West Pomerania Province > Szczecin (0.04)
- Europe > Poland > Lesser Poland Province > Kraków (0.04)
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- Information Technology > Data Science > Data Mining (1.00)
- Information Technology > Artificial Intelligence > Machine Learning (1.00)
- Information Technology > Artificial Intelligence > Representation & Reasoning > Personal Assistant Systems (0.88)
- Information Technology > Artificial Intelligence > Natural Language > Chatbot (0.68)
Learning without Exact Guidance: Updating Large-scale High-resolution Land Cover Maps from Low-resolution Historical Labels
Li, Zhuohong, He, Wei, Li, Jiepan, Lu, Fangxiao, Zhang, Hongyan
Large-scale high-resolution (HR) land-cover mapping is a vital task to survey the Earth's surface and resolve many challenges facing humanity. However, it is still a non-trivial task hindered by complex ground details, various landforms, and the scarcity of accurate training labels over a wide-span geographic area. In this paper, we propose an efficient, weakly supervised framework (Paraformer) to guide large-scale HR land-cover mapping with easy-access historical land-cover data of low resolution (LR). Specifically, existing land-cover mapping approaches reveal the dominance of CNNs in preserving local ground details but still suffer from insufficient global modeling in various landforms. Therefore, we design a parallel CNN-Transformer feature extractor in Paraformer, consisting of a downsampling-free CNN branch and a Transformer branch, to jointly capture local and global contextual information. Besides, facing the spatial mismatch of training data, a pseudo-label-assisted training (PLAT) module is adopted to reasonably refine LR labels for weakly supervised semantic segmentation of HR images. Experiments on two large-scale datasets demonstrate the superiority of Paraformer over other state-of-the-art methods for automatically updating HR land-cover maps from LR historical labels.
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Monotonic Representation of Numeric Properties in Language Models
Heinzerling, Benjamin, Inui, Kentaro
Language models (LMs) can express factual knowledge involving numeric properties such as Karl Popper was born in 1902. However, how this information is encoded in the model's internal representations is not understood well. Here, we introduce a simple method for finding and editing representations of numeric properties such as an entity's birth year. Empirically, we find low-dimensional subspaces that encode numeric properties monotonically, in an interpretable and editable fashion. When editing representations along directions in these subspaces, LM output changes accordingly. For example, by patching activations along a "birthyear" direction we can make the LM express an increasingly late birthyear: Karl Popper was born in 1929, Karl Popper was born in 1957, Karl Popper was born in 1968. Property-encoding directions exist across several numeric properties in all models under consideration, suggesting the possibility that monotonic representation of numeric properties consistently emerges during LM pretraining. Code: https://github.com/bheinzerling/numeric-property-repr
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- South America > Brazil > Santa Catarina (0.04)
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OpenEarthMap: A Benchmark Dataset for Global High-Resolution Land Cover Mapping
Xia, Junshi, Yokoya, Naoto, Adriano, Bruno, Broni-Bediako, Clifford
We introduce OpenEarthMap, a benchmark dataset, for global high-resolution land cover mapping. OpenEarthMap consists of 2.2 million segments of 5000 aerial and satellite images covering 97 regions from 44 countries across 6 continents, with manually annotated 8-class land cover labels at a 0.25--0.5m ground sampling distance. Semantic segmentation models trained on the OpenEarthMap generalize worldwide and can be used as off-the-shelf models in a variety of applications. We evaluate the performance of state-of-the-art methods for unsupervised domain adaptation and present challenging problem settings suitable for further technical development. We also investigate lightweight models using automated neural architecture search for limited computational resources and fast mapping. The dataset is available at https://open-earth-map.org.
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Does Twitter know your political views? POLiTweets dataset and semi-automatic method for political leaning discovery
Baran, Joanna, Kajstura, Michał, Ziółkowski, Maciej, Rajda, Krzysztof
Every day, the world is flooded by millions of messages and statements posted on Twitter or Facebook. Social media platforms try to protect users' personal data, but there still is a real risk of misuse, including elections manipulation. Did you know, that only 13 posts addressing important or controversial topics for society are enough to predict one's political affiliation with a 0.85 F1-score? To examine this phenomenon, we created a novel universal method of semi-automated political leaning discovery. It relies on a heuristical data annotation procedure, which was evaluated to achieve 0.95 agreement with human annotators (counted as an accuracy metric). We also present POLiTweets - the first publicly open Polish dataset for political affiliation discovery in a multi-party setup, consisting of over 147k tweets from almost 10k Polish-writing users annotated heuristically and almost 40k tweets from 166 users annotated manually as a test set. We used our data to study the aspects of domain shift in the context of topics and the type of content writers - ordinary citizens vs. professional politicians.
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- North America > United States > New York > New York County > New York City (0.04)
- Europe > Poland > Lubusz Province > Zielona Góra (0.04)
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Machine Learning the Phenomenology of COVID-19 From Early Infection Dynamics
We present a robust data-driven machine learning analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic from its early infection dynamics, specifically infection counts over time. The goal is to extract actionable public health insights. These insights include the infectious force, the rate of a mild infection becoming serious, estimates for asymtomatic infections and predictions of new infections over time. We focus on USA data starting from the first confirmed infection on January 20 2020. Our methods reveal significant asymptomatic (hidden) infection, a lag of about 10 days, and we quantitatively confirm that the infectious force is strong with about a 0.14% transition from mild to serious infection. Our methods are efficient, robust and general, being agnostic to the specific virus and applicable to different populations or cohorts.
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