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AI Can Now Make Medical Predictions from Raw Data Through 'Deep Learning.' But Can it Be Trusted?

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Already, at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, "every one of the 50,000 screening mammograms we do every year is processed through our deep learning model, and that information is provided to the radiologist," says Constance Lehman, chief of the hospital's breast imaging division. In deep learning, a subset of a type of artificial intelligence called machine learning, computer models essentially teach themselves to make predictions from large sets of data. The raw power of the technology has improved dramatically in recent years, and it's now used in everything from medical diagnostics to online shopping to autonomous vehicles. But deep learning tools also raise worrying questions because they solve problems in ways that humans can't always follow. If the connection between the data you feed into the model and the output it delivers is inscrutable -- hidden inside a so-called black box -- how can it be trusted?


Deep Learning Models for Automatic Seizure Detection in Epilepsy

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Cleveland Clinic is a non-profit academic medical center. Advertising on our site helps support our mission. Epilepsy is the second most common neurological disorder, impacting 1% to 2% of the world's population. Individuals with epilepsy typically undergo long-term monitoring of the brain's electrical activity with EEG recordings for several days. The recorded EEG data are manually reviewed by a trained neurologist, a neurophysiologist or a skilled EEG reader to identify epileptic seizures or interictal discharges that characterize the individual's epilepsy.


This Year's AI (Artificial Intelligence) Breakthroughs

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When it comes to AI (Artificial Intelligence), VCs (venture capitalists) continue to be aggressive with their fundings. During the third quarter, 965 AI-related companies in the US raised a total of $13.5 billion. In fact, this year should see a record in total fundings (last year's total came to $16.8 billion). Some of the deals have been, well, staggering. Just look at the $1 billion that Microsoft shelled out for an equity stake in OpenAI (the company is one of the few that is pursuing Strong AI). So what has been the result of all this activity? What have been the breakthroughs for AI this year?


Axios Future

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A recently released AI program that generates hyper-realistic writing has become a powerful tool for storytelling, hinting at a new genre of computer-aided creativity. What's happening: Inventive programmers are using it to generate poetry, interactive text adventures, and even irreverent new prompts for the popular game Cards Against Humanity. The big picture: AI-written text is reaching new levels of realism -- so much so that when scientists at OpenAI released a groundbreaking text generator earlier this year, they warned of potential dangers from mass-produced fake news. The risks are still present, but recent projects demonstrate the creative upsides. How it works: The OpenAI language model is a bit like autocomplete: Based on an enormous amount of human writing, it predicts the best words to generate next.


Deep Learning-based Hybrid Graph-Coloring Algorithm for Register Allocation

arXiv.org Machine Learning

Register allocation, which is a crucial phase of a good optimizing compiler, relies on graph coloring. Hence, an efficient graph coloring algorithm is of paramount importance. In this work we try to learn a good heuristic for coloring interference graphs that are used in the register allocation phase. We aim to handle moderate sized interference graphs which have 100 nodes or less. For such graphs we can get the optimal allocation of colors to the nodes. Such optimal coloring is then used to train our Deep Learning network which is based on several layers of LSTM that output a color for each node of the graph. However, the current network may allocate the same color to the nodes connected by an edge resulting in an invalid coloring of the interference graph. Since it is difficult to encode constraints in an LSTM to avoid invalid coloring, we augment our deep learning network with a color correction phase that runs after the colors have been allocated by the network. Thus, our algorithm is hybrid in nature consisting of a mix of a deep learning algorithm followed by a more traditional correction phase. We have trained our network using several thousand random graphs of varying sparsity. On application of our hybrid algorithm to various popular graphs found in literature we see that our algorithm does very well when compared to the optimal coloring of these graphs. We have also run our algorithm against LLVMs popular greedy register allocator for several SPEC CPU 2017 benchmarks and notice that the hybrid algorithm performs on par or better than such a well-tuned allocator for most of these benchmarks.


Decision Support System for Detection and Classification of Skin Cancer using CNN

arXiv.org Machine Learning

Skin Cancer is one of the most deathful of all the cancers. It is bound to spread to different parts of the body on the off chance that it is not analyzed and treated at the beginning time. It is mostly because of the abnormal growth of skin cells, often develops when the body is exposed to sunlight. The Detection Furthermore, the characterization of skin malignant growth in the beginning time is a costly and challenging procedure. It is classified where it develops and its cell type. High Precision and recall are required for the classification of lesions. The paper aims to use MNIST HAM-10000 dataset containing dermoscopy images. The objective is to propose a system that detects skin cancer and classifies it in different classes by using the Convolution Neural Network. The diagnosing methodology uses Image processing and deep learning model. The dermoscopy image of skin cancer taken, undergone various techniques to remove the noise and picture resolution. The image count is also increased by using various image augmentation techniques. In the end, the Transfer Learning method is used to increase the classification accuracy of the images further. Our CNN model gave a weighted average Precision of 0.88, a weighted Recall average of 0.74, and a weighted f1-score of 0.77. The transfer learning approach applied using ResNet model yielded an accuracy of 90.51%


Feature Engineering Combined with 1 D Convolutional Neural Network for Improved Mortality Prediction

arXiv.org Machine Learning

The intensive care units (ICUs) are responsible for generating a wealth of useful data in the form of Electronic Health Record (EHR). This data allows for the development of a prediction tool with perfect knowledge backing. We aimed to build a mortality prediction model on 2012 Physionet Challenge mortality prediction database of 4000 patients admitted in ICU. The challenges in the dataset, such as high dimensionality, imbalanced distribution, and missing values were tackled with analytical methods and tools via feature engineering and new variable construction. The objective of the research is to utilize the relations among the clinical variables and construct new variables which would establish the effectiveness of 1-Dimensional Convolutional Neural Network (1- D CNN) with constructed features. Its performance with the traditional machine learning algorithms like XGBoost classifier, Support Vector Machine (SVM), K-Neighbours Classifier (K-NN), and Random Forest Classifier (RF) is compared for Area Under Curve (AUC). The investigation reveals the best AUC of 0.848 using 1-D CNN model.


Getting Topology and Point Cloud Generation to Mesh

arXiv.org Machine Learning

In this work, we explore the idea that effective generative models for point clouds under the autoencoding framework must acknowledge the relationship between a continuous surface, a discretized mesh, and a set of points sampled from the surface. This view motivates a generative model that works by progressively deforming a uniform sphere until it approximates the goal point cloud. We review the underlying concepts leading to this conclusion from computer graphics and topology in differential geometry, and model the generation process as deformation via deep neural network parameterization. Finally, we show that this view of the problem produces a model that can generate quality meshes efficiently.


ragamAI: A Network Based Recommender System to Arrange a Indian Classical Music Concert

arXiv.org Machine Learning

--South Indian classical music ( Carnatic music) is best consumed through live concerts. A carnatic recital requires meticulous planning accounting for several parameters like the performers' repertoire, composition variety, musical versatility, thematic structure, the recital's arrangement, etc. to ensure that the audience have a comprehensive listening experience. In this work, we present ragamAI a novel machine learning framework that utilizes the tonic nuances and musical structures in the carnatic music to generate a concert recital that melodically captures the entire range in an octave. Utilizing the underlying idea of playlist and session-based recommender models, the proposed model studies the mathematical structure present in past concerts and recommends relevant items for the playlist/concert. Our experiments on a vast collection of concert show that our model performs 25%-50% better than baseline models. The analysis of classical music has become a mainstay in the field of music information retrieval (MIR) over the last decade. Recent research has investigated several nuances of classical music, be it in rhythm cycles, tempo estimation, beat tracking, instrument classification, and melodic analysis, using data-driven techniques.


Graph Neural Network on Electronic Health Records for Predicting Alzheimer's Disease

arXiv.org Machine Learning

The cause of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is poorly understood, so forecasting AD remains a hard task in population health. Failure of clinical trials for AD treatments indicates that AD should be intervened at the earlier, pre-symptomatic stages. Developing an explainable method for predicting AD is critical for providing better treatment targets, better clinical trial recruitment, and better clinical care for the AD patients. In this paper, we present a novel approach for disease (AD) prediction based on Electronic Health Records (EHR) and graph neural network. Our method improves the performance on sparse data which is common in EHR, and obtains state-of-art results in predicting AD 12 to 24 months in advance on real-world EHR data, compared to other baseline results. Our approach also provides an insight into the structural relationship among different diagnosis, Lab values, and procedures from EHR as per graph structures learned by our model.