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Fang K, Xu K, Wu Z, Huang T, Yang Y. Three-Dimensional Point Cloud Segmentation Algorithm Based on Depth Camera for Large Size Model Point Cloud Unsupervised Class Segmentation. Sensors (Basel) 2023; 24:112. [PMID: 38202974 PMCID: PMC10781300 DOI: 10.3390/s24010112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2023] [Revised: 11/22/2023] [Accepted: 12/07/2023] [Indexed: 01/12/2024]
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This paper proposes a 3D point cloud segmentation algorithm based on a depth camera for large-scale model point cloud unsupervised class segmentation. The algorithm utilizes depth information obtained from a depth camera and a voxelization technique to reduce the size of the point cloud, and then uses clustering methods to segment the voxels based on their density and distance to the camera. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm achieves high segmentation accuracy and fast segmentation speed on various large-scale model point clouds. Compared with recent similar works, the algorithm demonstrates superior performance in terms of accuracy metrics, with an average Intersection over Union (IoU) of 90.2% on our own benchmark dataset.
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- Kun Fang
- Information and Big Data Management Center, Southwest University of Finance and Economics, No. 555, Liutai Avenue, Chendu 611130, China
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- School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- China Aerodynamics Research and Development Center, Mianyang 621000, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrumentation, Zhejiang University, No. 38, Zheda Road, Hangzhou 310027, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrumentation, Zhejiang University, No. 38, Zheda Road, Hangzhou 310027, China
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Barnes IL, Quinn JE. Passive Acoustic Sampling Enhances Traditional Herpetofauna Sampling Techniques in Urban Environments. Sensors (Basel) 2023; 23:9322. [PMID: 38067696 PMCID: PMC10708638 DOI: 10.3390/s23239322] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2023] [Revised: 11/20/2023] [Accepted: 11/20/2023] [Indexed: 12/18/2023]
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Data are needed to assess the relationships between urbanization and biodiversity to establish conservation priorities. However, many of these relationships are difficult to fully assess using traditional research methods. To address this gap and evaluate new acoustic sensors and associated data, we conducted a multimethod analysis of biodiversity in a rapidly urbanizing county: Greenville, South Carolina, USA. We conducted audio recordings at 25 points along a development gradient. At the same locations, we used refugia tubes, visual assessments, and an online database. Analysis focused on species identification of both audio and visual data at each point along the trail to determine relationships between both herpetofauna and acoustic indices (as proxies for biodiversity) and environmental gradient of land use and land cover. Our analysis suggests the use of a multitude of different sampling methods to be conducive to the completion of a more comprehensive occupancy measure. Moving forward, this research protocol can potentially be useful in the establishment of more effective wildlife occupancy indices using acoustic sensors to move toward future conservation policies and efforts concerning urbanization, forest fragmentation, and biodiversity in natural, particularly forested, ecosystems.
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Santiago RM, Lopes-dos-Santos V, Jones EAA, Huang Y, Dupret D, Tort AB. Waveform-based classification of dentate spikes. bioRxiv 2023:2023.10.24.563826. [PMID: 37961150 PMCID: PMC10634814 DOI: 10.1101/2023.10.24.563826] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2023]
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Synchronous excitatory discharges from the entorhinal cortex (EC) to the dentate gyrus (DG) generate fast and prominent patterns in the hilar local field potential (LFP), called dentate spikes (DSs). As sharp-wave ripples in CA1, DSs are more likely to occur in quiet behavioral states, when memory consolidation is thought to take place. However, their functions in mnemonic processes are yet to be elucidated. The classification of DSs into types 1 or 2 is determined by their origin in the lateral or medial EC, as revealed by current source density (CSD) analysis, which requires recordings from linear probes with multiple electrodes spanning the DG layers. To allow the investigation of the functional role of each DS type in recordings obtained from single electrodes and tetrodes, which are abundant in the field, we developed an unsupervised method using Gaussian mixture models to classify such events based on their waveforms. Our classification approach achieved high accuracies (> 80%) when validated in 8 mice with DG laminar profiles. The average CSDs, waveforms, rates, and widths of the DS types obtained through our method closely resembled those derived from the CSD-based classification. As an example of application, we used the technique to analyze single-electrode LFPs from apolipoprotein (apo) E3 and apoE4 knock-in mice. We observed that the latter group, which is a model for Alzheimer's disease, exhibited wider DSs of both types from a young age, with a larger effect size for DS type 2, likely reflecting early pathophysiological alterations in the EC-DG network, such as hyperactivity. In addition to the applicability of the method in expanding the study of DS types, our results show that their waveforms carry information about their origins, suggesting different underlying network dynamics and roles in memory processing.
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- Rodrigo M.M. Santiago
- Computational Neurophysiology Lab, Brain Institute, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, RN, 59078-900, Brazil
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- Medical Research Council Brain Network Dynamics Unit, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease, Gladstone Institutes, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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- Medical Research Council Brain Network Dynamics Unit, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Computational Neurophysiology Lab, Brain Institute, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, RN, 59078-900, Brazil
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Wang X, Lu Y, Lin X, Li J, Zhang Z. An Unsupervised Classification Algorithm for Heterogeneous Cryo-EM Projection Images Based on Autoencoders. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:ijms24098380. [PMID: 37176089 PMCID: PMC10179202 DOI: 10.3390/ijms24098380] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2023] [Revised: 04/29/2023] [Accepted: 04/30/2023] [Indexed: 05/15/2023] Open
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Heterogeneous three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction in single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is an important but very challenging technique for recovering the conformational heterogeneity of flexible biological macromolecules such as proteins in different functional states. Heterogeneous projection image classification is a feasible solution to solve the structural heterogeneity problem in single-particle cryo-EM. The majority of heterogeneous projection image classification methods are developed using supervised learning technology or require a large amount of a priori knowledge, such as the orientations or common lines of the projection images, which leads to certain limitations in their practical applications. In this paper, an unsupervised heterogeneous cryo-EM projection image classification algorithm based on autoencoders is proposed, which only needs to know the number of heterogeneous 3D structures in the dataset and does not require any labeling information of the projection images or other a priori knowledge. A simple autoencoder with multi-layer perceptrons trained in iterative mode and a complex autoencoder with residual networks trained in one-pass learning mode are implemented to convert heterogeneous projection images into latent variables. The extracted high-dimensional features are reduced to two dimensions using the uniform manifold approximation and projection dimensionality reduction algorithm, and then clustered using the spectral clustering algorithm. The proposed algorithm is applied to two heterogeneous cryo-EM datasets for heterogeneous 3D reconstruction. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can effectively extract category features of heterogeneous projection images and achieve high classification and reconstruction accuracy, indicating that the proposed algorithm is effective for heterogeneous 3D reconstruction in single-particle cryo-EM.
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- Xiangwen Wang
- College of Computer Science and Engineering, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou 730070, China
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- School of Information Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
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- College of Computer Science and Engineering, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou 730070, China
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- School of Information Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
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- College of Computer Science and Engineering, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou 730070, China
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Zhang L, Huang D, Chen X, Zhu L, Xie Z, Chen X, Cui G, Zhou Y, Huang G, Shi W. Discrimination between normal and necrotic small intestinal tissue using hyperspectral imaging and unsupervised classification. J Biophotonics 2023:e202300020. [PMID: 36966458 DOI: 10.1002/jbio.202300020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2023] [Revised: 03/07/2023] [Accepted: 03/20/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Objective and automatic clinical discrimination of normal and necrotic sites of small intestinal tissue remains challenging. In this study, hyperspectral imaging (HSI) and unsupervised classification techniques were used to distinguish normal and necrotic sites of small intestinal tissues. Small intestinal tissue hyperspectral images of eight Japanese large-eared white rabbits were acquired using a visible near-infrared hyperspectral camera, and K-means and density peaks (DP) clustering algorithms were used to differentiate between normal and necrotic tissue. The three cases in this study showed that the average clustering purity of the DP clustering algorithm reached 92.07% when the two band combinations of 500-622 and 700-858 nm were selected. The results of this study suggest that HSI and DP clustering can assist physicians in distinguishing between normal and necrotic sites in the small intestine in vivo.
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- Lechao Zhang
- College of Optoelectronic Engineering, Changchun University of Science and Technology, Changchun, China
- Zhongshan Research Institute, Changchun University of Science and Technology, Zhongshan, China
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- College of Optoelectronic Engineering, Changchun University of Science and Technology, Changchun, China
- Zhongshan Research Institute, Changchun University of Science and Technology, Zhongshan, China
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- College of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, China
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- Pediatric General Surgery, The Second Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China
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- College of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, China
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- Pediatric General Surgery, The Second Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China
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- College of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, China
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- College of Optoelectronic Engineering, Changchun University of Science and Technology, Changchun, China
- Zhongshan Research Institute, Changchun University of Science and Technology, Zhongshan, China
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- College of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, China
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- College of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, China
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Moreno-Rodríguez JL, Larrañaga P, Bielza C. NeuroSuites: An online platform for running neuroscience, statistical, and machine learning tools. Front Neuroinform 2023; 17:1092967. [PMID: 36938360 PMCID: PMC10016263 DOI: 10.3389/fninf.2023.1092967] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2022] [Accepted: 01/31/2023] [Indexed: 02/19/2023] Open
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Nowadays, an enormous amount of high dimensional data is available in the field of neuroscience. Handling these data is complex and requires the use of efficient tools to transform them into useful knowledge. In this work we present NeuroSuites, an easy-access web platform with its own architecture. We compare our platform with other software currently available, highlighting its main strengths. Thanks to its defined architecture, it is able to handle large-scale problems common in some neuroscience fields. NeuroSuites has different neuroscience-oriented applications and tools to integrate statistical data analysis and machine learning algorithms commonly used in this field. As future work, we want to further expand the list of available software tools as well as improve the platform interface according to user demands.
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- José Luis Moreno-Rodríguez
- Computational Intelligence Group, Departamento de Inteligencia Artificial, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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Wu W, Sun L, Li H, Zhang J, Shen J, Li J, Zhou Q. Approaching person-centered clinical practice: A cluster analysis of older inpatients utilizing the measurements of intrinsic capacity. Front Public Health 2022; 10:1045421. [PMID: 36438281 PMCID: PMC9692078 DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.1045421] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2022] [Accepted: 10/21/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Background Maintaining the intrinsic capacity (IC) of older inpatients is a novel view in providing person-centered treatments in clinical practice. Uncertainty remains regarding the primary nature of IC among older hospitalized patients. Objectives We aimed to understand the status of IC among older inpatients by a cluster analysis based on IC measurements. Methods This is a cross-sectional study conducted in the geriatric department of Beijing Hospital in China. Older inpatients who were older than 60 years and who underwent comprehensive geriatric assessments were included. The inpatients were classified into subgroups based on 13 measurements of IC according to unsupervised methods (K-means cluster analysis and t-SNE). Subgroup differences were investigated for domains of IC, age, sex, frailty, activities of daily living, and falls. Results A total of 909 inpatients with a mean age of 76.6 years were included. Almost 98% of the inpatients showed IC impairment. Locomotion impairment was the most prevalent problem (91.1%), followed by sensory impairment (61.4%), psychological impairment (57.3%), cognition decline (30.7%), and vitality problem (29.2%). A total of five clusters were obtained by classification: Cluster 1 (56.6% of the participants) showed high IC with fair impairment of locomotion and vision; clusters 2 and 3 (37.8 % of the participants) had additional impairment of sleep in the psychological domain; clusters 4 and 5 (5.6% of the participants) represented a severe loss of all the IC domains; and clusters 1-5 showed a gradual decline in the IC score and were significantly associated with increased age, frailty, decreased activities of daily living, and falls. Significant correlations among the domains were observed; the locomotion domain showed the strongest links to the others in network analysis. Conclusions Great declines in IC and disparities between IC domains were found in older inpatients. IC-based primary assessment and classification enabled us to identify the variation of functional abilities among the older inpatients, which is pivotal for designing integrated treatment or care models in clinical practice.
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- Wenbin Wu
- Department of Geriatrics, Beijing Hospital, National Center of Gerontology, Institute of Geriatric Medicine, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China,*Correspondence: Wenbin Wu
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- The Key Laboratory of Geriatrics, National Center of Gerontology of National Health Commission, Beijing Institute of Geriatrics, Institute of Geriatric Medicine, Beijing Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Department of Geriatrics, Beijing Hospital, National Center of Gerontology, Institute of Geriatric Medicine, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Department of Geriatrics, Beijing Hospital, National Center of Gerontology, Institute of Geriatric Medicine, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Department of Geriatrics, Beijing Hospital, National Center of Gerontology, Institute of Geriatric Medicine, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Department of Geriatrics, Beijing Hospital, National Center of Gerontology, Institute of Geriatric Medicine, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China
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- The Key Laboratory of Geriatrics, National Center of Gerontology of National Health Commission, Beijing Institute of Geriatrics, Institute of Geriatric Medicine, Beijing Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China
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Consensus partitioning is an unsupervised method widely used in high-throughput data analysis for revealing subgroups and assigning stability for the classification. However, standard consensus partitioning procedures are weak for identifying large numbers of stable subgroups. There are two major issues. First, subgroups with small differences are difficult to be separated if they are simultaneously detected with subgroups with large differences. Second, stability of classification generally decreases as the number of subgroups increases. In this work, we proposed a new strategy to solve these two issues by applying consensus partitioning in a hierarchical procedure. We demonstrated hierarchical consensus partitioning can be efficient to reveal more meaningful subgroups. We also tested the performance of hierarchical consensus partitioning on revealing a great number of subgroups with a large deoxyribonucleic acid methylation dataset. The hierarchical consensus partitioning is implemented in the R package cola with comprehensive functionalities for analysis and visualization. It can also automate the analysis only with a minimum of two lines of code, which generates a detailed HTML report containing the complete analysis. The cola package is available at https://bioconductor.org/packages/cola/.
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- Zuguang Gu
- National Center for Tumor Disease, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Molecular Precision Oncology Program, National Center for Tumor Disease, Heidelberg, Germany
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Riefolo C, Antelmi I, Castrignanò A, Ruggieri S, Galeone C, Belmonte A, Muolo MR, Ranieri NA, Labarile R, Gadaleta G, Nigro F. Assessment of the Hyperspectral Data Analysis as a Tool to Diagnose Xylella fastidiosa in the Asymptomatic Leaves of Olive Plants. Plants (Basel) 2021; 10:plants10040683. [PMID: 33916301 PMCID: PMC8065538 DOI: 10.3390/plants10040683] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/28/2020] [Revised: 03/30/2021] [Accepted: 03/30/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Xylella fastidiosa is a bacterial pathogen affecting many plant species worldwide. Recently, the subspecies pauca (Xfp) has been reported as the causal agent of a devastating disease on olive trees in the Salento area (Apulia region, southeastern Italy), where centenarian and millenarian plants constitute a great agronomic, economic, and landscape trait, as well as an important cultural heritage. It is, therefore, important to develop diagnostic tools able to detect the disease early, even when infected plants are still asymptomatic, to reduce the infection risk for the surrounding plants. The reference analysis is the quantitative real time-Polymerase-Chain-Reaction (qPCR) of the bacterial DNA. The aim of this work was to assess whether the analysis of hyperspectral data, using different statistical methods, was able to select with sufficient accuracy, which plants to analyze with PCR, to save time and economic resources. The study area was selected in the Municipality of Oria (Brindisi). Partial Least Square Regression (PLSR) and Canonical Discriminant Analysis (CDA) indicated that the most important bands were those related to the chlorophyll function, water, lignin content, as can also be seen from the wilting symptoms in Xfp-infected plants. The confusion matrix of CDA showed an overall accuracy of 0.67, but with a better capability to discriminate the infected plants. Finally, an unsupervised classification, using only spectral data, was able to discriminate the infected plants at a very early stage of infection. Then, in phase of testing qPCR should be performed only on the plants predicted as infected from hyperspectral data, thus, saving time and financial resources.
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- Carmela Riefolo
- Research Centre for Agriculture and Environment, Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA-AA), 70125 Bari, Italy;
- Correspondence: (C.R.); (F.N.)
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- Dipartimento di Scienze del Suolo, della Pianta e degli Alimenti, Università degli Studi Aldo Moro, Via Amendola 165/A, 70126 Bari, Italy; (I.A.); (R.L.)
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- Department of Engineering and Geology (InGeo), Università degli Studi Gabriele D’Annunzio, Chieti-Pescara, 66013 Chieti, Italy;
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- Research Centre for Agriculture and Environment, Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA-AA), 70125 Bari, Italy;
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- Water Research Institute, National Research Council (CNR-IRSA), 70125 Bari, Italy;
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- Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment, National Research Council (CNR-IREA), 70126 Bari, Italy;
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- Servizi di Informazione Territoriale S.r.l., 70015 Noci, Italy; (M.R.M.); (N.A.R.)
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- Servizi di Informazione Territoriale S.r.l., 70015 Noci, Italy; (M.R.M.); (N.A.R.)
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- Dipartimento di Scienze del Suolo, della Pianta e degli Alimenti, Università degli Studi Aldo Moro, Via Amendola 165/A, 70126 Bari, Italy; (I.A.); (R.L.)
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- Dipartimento di Scienze del Suolo, della Pianta e degli Alimenti, Università degli Studi Aldo Moro, Via Amendola 165/A, 70126 Bari, Italy; (I.A.); (R.L.)
- Correspondence: (C.R.); (F.N.)
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Rogers DM. Protein Conformational States-A First Principles Bayesian Method. Entropy (Basel) 2020; 22:e22111242. [PMID: 33287010 PMCID: PMC7712966 DOI: 10.3390/e22111242] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2020] [Revised: 10/23/2020] [Accepted: 10/29/2020] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Automated identification of protein conformational states from simulation of an ensemble of structures is a hard problem because it requires teaching a computer to recognize shapes. We adapt the naïve Bayes classifier from the machine learning community for use on atom-to-atom pairwise contacts. The result is an unsupervised learning algorithm that samples a ‘distribution’ over potential classification schemes. We apply the classifier to a series of test structures and one real protein, showing that it identifies the conformational transition with >95% accuracy in most cases. A nontrivial feature of our adaptation is a new connection to information entropy that allows us to vary the level of structural detail without spoiling the categorization. This is confirmed by comparing results as the number of atoms and time-samples are varied over 1.5 orders of magnitude. Further, the method’s derivation from Bayesian analysis on the set of inter-atomic contacts makes it easy to understand and extend to more complex cases.
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- David M Rogers
- National Center for Computational Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA
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Tini G, Marchetti L, Priami C, Scott-Boyer MP. Multi-omics integration-a comparison of unsupervised clustering methodologies. Brief Bioinform 2020; 20:1269-1279. [PMID: 29272335 DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbx167] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2017] [Revised: 11/06/2017] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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With the recent developments in the field of multi-omics integration, the interest in factors such as data preprocessing, choice of the integration method and the number of different omics considered had increased. In this work, the impact of these factors is explored when solving the problem of sample classification, by comparing the performances of five unsupervised algorithms: Multiple Canonical Correlation Analysis, Multiple Co-Inertia Analysis, Multiple Factor Analysis, Joint and Individual Variation Explained and Similarity Network Fusion. These methods were applied to three real data sets taken from literature and several ad hoc simulated scenarios to discuss classification performance in different conditions of noise and signal strength across the data types. The impact of experimental design, feature selection and parameter training has been also evaluated to unravel important conditions that can affect the accuracy of the result.
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Yang Z, Chen C, Li H, Yao L, Zhao X. Unsupervised Classifications of Depression Levels Based on Machine Learning Algorithms Perform Well as Compared to Traditional Norm-Based Classifications. Front Psychiatry 2020; 11:45. [PMID: 32116859 PMCID: PMC7034392 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2019] [Accepted: 01/17/2020] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Large-scale screening for depression has been using norms developed based on a given population at a given time. Researchers have attempted to adjust the cutoff scores over time and for different populations, but such efforts are too few and far in between to be sensitive to temporal and regional variations. In this study, we proposed an unsupervised machine learning approach to constructing depression classifications to overcome the limitations of the traditional norm-based method. Data were collected from 8,063 Chinese middle and high school students. Using k-means clustering, we generated four levels of depressive symptoms to match the norm-based classifications. We then evaluated the validity of the classifications by comparing them with the norm-based method (and its variations) in terms of their robustness, model performance (accuracy, AUC, and sensitivity), and convergent construct validity (i.e., associations with known correlates). The results showed that our automatic classification system performed well as compared to the norm-based method.
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- Zhenkai Yang
- School of Artificial Intelligence, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Psychological Science, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States
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- School of Artificial Intelligence, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
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- School of Artificial Intelligence, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
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- School of Artificial Intelligence, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
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Günel S, Rhodin H, Morales D, Campagnolo J, Ramdya P, Fua P. DeepFly3D, a deep learning-based approach for 3D limb and appendage tracking in tethered, adult Drosophila. eLife 2019; 8:e48571. [PMID: 31584428 PMCID: PMC6828327 DOI: 10.7554/elife.48571] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2019] [Accepted: 09/28/2019] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Studying how neural circuits orchestrate limbed behaviors requires the precise measurement of the positions of each appendage in three-dimensional (3D) space. Deep neural networks can estimate two-dimensional (2D) pose in freely behaving and tethered animals. However, the unique challenges associated with transforming these 2D measurements into reliable and precise 3D poses have not been addressed for small animals including the fly, Drosophila melanogaster. Here, we present DeepFly3D, a software that infers the 3D pose of tethered, adult Drosophila using multiple camera images. DeepFly3D does not require manual calibration, uses pictorial structures to automatically detect and correct pose estimation errors, and uses active learning to iteratively improve performance. We demonstrate more accurate unsupervised behavioral embedding using 3D joint angles rather than commonly used 2D pose data. Thus, DeepFly3D enables the automated acquisition of Drosophila behavioral measurements at an unprecedented level of detail for a variety of biological applications.
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- Semih Günel
- Computer Vision Laboratory, School of Computer and Communication SciencesEPFLLausanneSwitzerland
- Neuroengineering Laboratory, Brain Mind Institute & Interfaculty Institute of Bioengineering, School of Life SciencesEPFLLausanneSwitzerland
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- Computer Vision Laboratory, School of Computer and Communication SciencesEPFLLausanneSwitzerland
- Department of Computer ScienceUBCVancouverCanada
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- Neuroengineering Laboratory, Brain Mind Institute & Interfaculty Institute of Bioengineering, School of Life SciencesEPFLLausanneSwitzerland
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- Neuroengineering Laboratory, Brain Mind Institute & Interfaculty Institute of Bioengineering, School of Life SciencesEPFLLausanneSwitzerland
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- Neuroengineering Laboratory, Brain Mind Institute & Interfaculty Institute of Bioengineering, School of Life SciencesEPFLLausanneSwitzerland
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- Computer Vision Laboratory, School of Computer and Communication SciencesEPFLLausanneSwitzerland
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Sarmiento A, Fondón I, Durán-Díaz I, Cruces S. Centroid-Based Clustering with αβ-Divergences. Entropy (Basel) 2019; 21:e21020196. [PMID: 33266911 PMCID: PMC7514678 DOI: 10.3390/e21020196] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2019] [Revised: 02/06/2019] [Accepted: 02/14/2019] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Centroid-based clustering is a widely used technique within unsupervised learning algorithms in many research fields. The success of any centroid-based clustering relies on the choice of the similarity measure under use. In recent years, most studies focused on including several divergence measures in the traditional hard k-means algorithm. In this article, we consider the problem of centroid-based clustering using the family of αβ-divergences, which is governed by two parameters, α and β. We propose a new iterative algorithm, αβ-k-means, giving closed-form solutions for the computation of the sided centroids. The algorithm can be fine-tuned by means of this pair of values, yielding a wide range of the most frequently used divergences. Moreover, it is guaranteed to converge to local minima for a wide range of values of the pair (α,β). Our theoretical contribution has been validated by several experiments performed with synthetic and real data and exploring the (α,β) plane. The numerical results obtained confirm the quality of the algorithm and its suitability to be used in several practical applications.
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- Correspondence: (A.S.); (I.F.); Tel.: +34-954-482176 (A.S.)
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Dell'Acqua F, Iannelli GC, Torres MA, Martina MLV. A Novel Strategy for Very-Large-Scale Cash-Crop Mapping in the Context of Weather-Related Risk Assessment, Combining Global Satellite Multispectral Datasets, Environmental Constraints, and In Situ Acquisition of Geospatial Data. Sensors (Basel) 2018; 18:s18020591. [PMID: 29443919 PMCID: PMC5855010 DOI: 10.3390/s18020591] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2017] [Revised: 12/13/2017] [Accepted: 01/12/2018] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Cash crops are agricultural crops intended to be sold for profit as opposed to subsistence crops, meant to support the producer, or to support livestock. Since cash crops are intended for future sale, they translate into large financial value when considered on a wide geographical scale, so their production directly involves financial risk. At a national level, extreme weather events including destructive rain or hail, as well as drought, can have a significant impact on the overall economic balance. It is thus important to map such crops in order to set up insurance and mitigation strategies. Using locally generated data—such as municipality-level records of crop seeding—for mapping purposes implies facing a series of issues like data availability, quality, homogeneity, etc. We thus opted for a different approach relying on global datasets. Global datasets ensure homogeneity and availability of data, although sometimes at the expense of precision and accuracy. A typical global approach makes use of spaceborne remote sensing, for which different land cover classification strategies are available in literature at different levels of cost and accuracy. We selected the optimal strategy in the perspective of a global processing chain. Thanks to a specifically developed strategy for fusing unsupervised classification results with environmental constraints and other geospatial inputs including ground-based data, we managed to obtain good classification results despite the constraints placed. The overall production process was composed using “good-enough" algorithms at each step, ensuring that the precision, accuracy, and data-hunger of each algorithm was commensurate to the precision, accuracy, and amount of data available. This paper describes the tailored strategy developed on the occasion as a cooperation among different groups with diverse backgrounds, a strategy which is believed to be profitably reusable in other, similar contexts. The paper presents the problem, the constraints and the adopted solutions; it then summarizes the main findings including that efforts and costs can be saved on the side of Earth Observation data processing when additional ground-based data are available to support the mapping task.
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- Fabio Dell'Acqua
- Department of Electrical, Computer, Biomedical Engineering, University of Pavia, Via Adolfo Ferrata, 5, I-27100 Pavia, Italy.
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- Instituto de Ingeniería, UNAM, C.P. 04510 Ciudad de México, Mexico.
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- Scuola Universitaria Superiore IUSS Pavia, Piazza della Vittoria, 15, I-27100 Pavia, Italy.
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de Carvalho Rocha WF, Schantz MM, Sheen DA, Chu PM, Lippa KA. Unsupervised classification of petroleum Certified Reference Materials and other fuels by chemometric analysis of gas chromatography-mass spectrometry data. Fuel (Lond) 2017; 197:248-258. [PMID: 28603295 PMCID: PMC5464420 DOI: 10.1016/j.fuel.2017.02.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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As feedstocks transition from conventional oil to unconventional petroleum sources and biomass, it will be necessary to determine whether a particular fuel or fuel blend is suitable for use in engines. Certifying a fuel as safe for use is time-consuming and expensive and must be performed for each new fuel. In principle, suitability of a fuel should be completely determined by its chemical composition. This composition can be probed through use of detailed analytical techniques such as gas chromatography-mass spectroscopy (GC-MS). In traditional analysis, chromatograms would be used to determine the details of the composition. In the approach taken in this paper, the chromatogram is assumed to be entirely representative of the composition of a fuel, and is used directly as the input to an algorithm in order to develop a model that is predictive of a fuel's suitability. When a new fuel is proposed for service, its suitability for any application could then be ascertained by using this model to compare its chromatogram with those of the fuels already known to be suitable for that application. In this paper, we lay the mathematical and informatics groundwork for a predictive model of hydrocarbon properties. The objective of this work was to develop a reliable model for unsupervised classification of the hydrocarbons as a prelude to developing a predictive model of their engine-relevant physical and chemical properties. A set of hydrocarbons including biodiesel fuels, gasoline, highway and marine diesel fuels, and crude oils was collected and GC-MS profiles obtained. These profiles were then analyzed using multi-way principal components analysis (MPCA), principal factors analysis (PARAFAC), and a self-organizing map (SOM), which is a kind of artificial neural network. It was found that, while MPCA and PARAFAC were able to recover descriptive models of the fuels, their linear nature obscured some of the finer physical details due to the widely varying composition of the fuels. The SOM was able to find a descriptive classification model which has the potential for practical recognition and perhaps prediction of fuel properties.
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- Chemical Sciences Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA
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- Chemical Sciences Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA
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- Chemical Sciences Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA
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- Chemical Sciences Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA
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Mur A, Dormido R, Vega J, Duro N, Dormido-Canto S. Unsupervised Event Characterization and Detection in Multichannel Signals: An EEG application. Sensors (Basel) 2016; 16:E590. [PMID: 27120605 DOI: 10.3390/s16040590] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2016] [Revised: 04/15/2016] [Accepted: 04/21/2016] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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In this paper, we propose a new unsupervised method to automatically characterize and detect events in multichannel signals. This method is used to identify artifacts in electroencephalogram (EEG) recordings of brain activity. The proposed algorithm has been evaluated and compared with a supervised method. To this end an example of the performance of the algorithm to detect artifacts is shown. The results show that although both methods obtain similar classification, the proposed method allows detecting events without training data and can also be applied in signals whose events are unknown a priori. Furthermore, the proposed method provides an optimal window whereby an optimal detection and characterization of events is found. The detection of events can be applied in real-time.
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An important issue in classification is the assessment of sample similarity. This is nontrivial in high-dimensional or megavariate datasets--datasets that are comprised of simultaneous measurements on thousands of features, many of which carry little or no information regarding consistent sample differences. Conventional similarity measures do not work particularly well for such data. As an alternative, we propose a distance measure that is based on a refiltering process: at each step of the process a random subset of features is selected and a cluster analysis is performed using only this subset; the relative frequency with which a pair of samples clusters together across several such random subsets forms the similarity measure. The features chosen at any step may be completely random or enriched by awarding the more informative features a higher chance of selection; this enrichment turns out to be particularly effective. We use actual datasets from the burgeoning genomics literature to demonstrate the superior performance of this similarity measure, especially the enriched form of the similarity measure, compared to more conventional measures such as Euclidean distance or correlation, or, if the data are categorical, Hamming distance.
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Cluster analysis is one of the most popular data analysis tools in a wide range of applied disciplines. We propose and justify a computationally efficient and straightforward-to-implement way of imposing the available information from networks/graphs (a priori available in many application areas) on a broad family of clustering methods. The introduced approach is illustrated on the problem of a noninvasive unsupervised brain signal classification. This task is faced with several challenging difficulties such as nonstationary noisy signals and a small sample size, combined with a high-dimensional feature space and huge noise-to-signal ratios. Applying this approach results in an exact unsupervised classification of very short signals, opening new possibilities for clustering methods in the area of a noninvasive brain-computer interface.
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- Susanne Gerber
- Università della Svizzera Italiana, Via Giuseppe Buffi 13, 6900 Lugano, Switzerland
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- Università della Svizzera Italiana, Via Giuseppe Buffi 13, 6900 Lugano, Switzerland
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Counterintelligence analysts use a technique called "walking back the cat'' to reveal "moles" or others passing on disinformation in which they compare what they now know as fact against what their agents or informers had told them to expect about certain persons or events. Thus, "walking back the cat" is a perfect metaphor for working backwards; that is, retracing the complex development of an event and examining the "run up" to it in order to gain useful insights about how that event unfolded. Perhaps paleoanthropology can profit from such an approach.
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Zeng LL, Shen H, Liu L, Hu D. Unsupervised classification of major depression using functional connectivity MRI. Hum Brain Mapp 2014; 35:1630-41. [PMID: 23616377 PMCID: PMC6869344 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22278] [Citation(s) in RCA: 126] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2012] [Revised: 01/19/2013] [Accepted: 02/07/2013] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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The current diagnosis of psychiatric disorders including major depressive disorder based largely on self-reported symptoms and clinical signs may be prone to patients' behaviors and psychiatrists' bias. This study aims at developing an unsupervised machine learning approach for the accurate identification of major depression based on single resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging scans in the absence of clinical information. Twenty-four medication-naive patients with major depression and 29 demographically similar healthy individuals underwent resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging. We first clustered the voxels within the perigenual cingulate cortex into two subregions, a subgenual region and a pregenual region, according to their distinct resting-state functional connectivity patterns and showed that a maximum margin clustering-based unsupervised machine learning approach extracted sufficient information from the subgenual cingulate functional connectivity map to differentiate depressed patients from healthy controls with a group-level clustering consistency of 92.5% and an individual-level classification consistency of 92.5%. It was also revealed that the subgenual cingulate functional connectivity network with the highest discriminative power primarily included the ventrolateral and ventromedial prefrontal cortex, superior temporal gyri and limbic areas, indicating that these connections may play critical roles in the pathophysiology of major depression. The current study suggests that subgenual cingulate functional connectivity network signatures may provide promising objective biomarkers for the diagnosis of major depression and that maximum margin clustering-based unsupervised machine learning approaches may have the potential to inform clinical practice and aid in research on psychiatric disorders.
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- Ling-Li Zeng
- College of Mechatronics and Automation, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, Hunan, People's Republic of China
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We consider the classification of microarray gene-expression data. First, attention is given to the supervised case, where the tissue samples are classified with respect to a number of predefined classes and the intent is to assign a new unclassified tissue to one of these classes. The problems of forming a classifier and estimating its error rate are addressed in the context of there being a relatively small number of observations (tissue samples) compared to the number of variables (that is, the genes, which can number in the tens of thousands). We then proceed to the unsupervised case and consider the clustering of the tissue samples and also the clustering of the gene profiles. Both problems can be viewed as being non-standard ones in statistics and we address some of the key issues involved. The focus is on the use of mixture models to effect the clustering for both problems.
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- Kaye E Basford
- Department of Mathematics, University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia
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Macedo-Cruz A, Pajares G, Santos M, Villegas-Romero I. Digital image sensor-based assessment of the status of oat (Avena sativa L.) crops after frost damage. Sensors (Basel) 2011; 11:6015-36. [PMID: 22163940 PMCID: PMC3231418 DOI: 10.3390/s110606015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2011] [Revised: 05/18/2011] [Accepted: 05/30/2011] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The aim of this paper is to classify the land covered with oat crops, and the quantification of frost damage on oats, while plants are still in the flowering stage. The images are taken by a digital colour camera CCD-based sensor. Unsupervised classification methods are applied because the plants present different spectral signatures, depending on two main factors: illumination and the affected state. The colour space used in this application is CIELab, based on the decomposition of the colour in three channels, because it is the closest to human colour perception. The histogram of each channel is successively split into regions by thresholding. The best threshold to be applied is automatically obtained as a combination of three thresholding strategies: (a) Otsu's method, (b) Isodata algorithm, and (c) Fuzzy thresholding. The fusion of these automatic thresholding techniques and the design of the classification strategy are some of the main findings of the paper, which allows an estimation of the damages and a prediction of the oat production.
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- Antonia Macedo-Cruz
- Colegio de Postgraduados, Campus Montecillo, km. 36.5 carretera México-Texcoco, cp 56230, Montecillo, Texcoco, Estado de México, C.P. 56230, México
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- Facultad de Informática, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040-Madrid, Spain; E-Mails: (G.P.); (M.S.)
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- Facultad de Informática, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040-Madrid, Spain; E-Mails: (G.P.); (M.S.)
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- Universidad Autónoma Chapingo, km 38.5 carretera México-Texcoco, cp 56230, Chapingo, Texcoco, Estado de México, C.P. 56230, México; E-Mail: (I.V.-R.)
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Current, accurate, and reliable information on the areal extent and spatial distribution of mangrove forests in the Philippines is limited. Previous estimates of mangrove extent do not illustrate the spatial distribution for the entire country. This study, part of a global assessment of mangrove dynamics, mapped the spatial distribution and areal extent of the Philippines’ mangroves circa 2000. We used publicly available Landsat data acquired primarily from the Global Land Survey to map the total extent and spatial distribution. ISODATA clustering, an unsupervised classification technique, was applied to 61 Landsat images. Statistical analysis indicates the total area of mangrove forest cover was approximately 256,185 hectares circa 2000 with overall classification accuracy of 96.6% and a kappa coefficient of 0.926. These results differ substantially from most recent estimates of mangrove area in the Philippines. The results of this study may assist the decision making processes for rehabilitation and conservation efforts that are currently needed to protect and restore the Philippines’ degraded mangrove forests.
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- Jordan B. Long
- US Geological Survey, Earth Resources Observation and Science Center (EROS), Sioux Falls, SD 57198, USA; E-Mail: ; Tel.: 605-594-2903
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- ARSC Research and Technology Solutions, contractor to U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Earth Resources Observation and Science Center, Sioux Falls, SD 57198, USA
- Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: ; Tel.: 605-594-2835
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Oudemans PV, Pozdnyakova L, Hughes MG, Rahman F. GIS and Remote Sensing for Detecting Yield Loss in Cranberry Culture. J Nematol 2002; 34:207-212. [PMID: 19265935 PMCID: PMC2620566] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023] Open
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The primary goal of our research is to develop key elements of a precision agriculture program applicable to high-value woody perennial crops, such as cranberries. These crop systems exhibit tremendous variability in crop yields and quality as imposed by variations in soil properties (water availability and nutrient deficiency) that lead to crop stress (disease development and weed competition). Some of the variability present in the growing environment results in persistent yield losses as well as crop-quality reductions. We are using state-of-the-art methodologies (GIS, GPS, remote sensing) to identify and map spatial variations of the crop. Through image-processing methods (NDVI and unsupervised classification), approximately 65% of the variation in yield was described using 4-m multispectral satellite data as a base image.
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