scholarly journals Deep learning of material transport in complex neurite networks

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Angran Li ◽  
Amir Barati Farimani ◽  
Yongjie Jessica Zhang

AbstractNeurons exhibit complex geometry in their branched networks of neurites which is essential to the function of individual neuron but also brings challenges to transport a wide variety of essential materials throughout their neurite networks for their survival and function. While numerical methods like isogeometric analysis (IGA) have been used for modeling the material transport process via solving partial differential equations (PDEs), they require long computation time and huge computation resources to ensure accurate geometry representation and solution, thus limit their biomedical application. Here we present a graph neural network (GNN)-based deep learning model to learn the IGA-based material transport simulation and provide fast material concentration prediction within neurite networks of any topology. Given input boundary conditions and geometry configurations, the well-trained model can predict the dynamical concentration change during the transport process with an average error less than 10% and $$120 \sim 330$$ 120 ∼ 330 times faster compared to IGA simulations. The effectiveness of the proposed model is demonstrated within several complex neurite networks.

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rahil Taujale ◽  
Zhongliang Zhou ◽  
Wayland Yeung ◽  
Kelley W. Moremen ◽  
Sheng Li ◽  
...  

AbstractGlycosyltransferases (GTs) play fundamental roles in nearly all cellular processes through the biosynthesis of complex carbohydrates and glycosylation of diverse protein and small molecule substrates. The extensive structural and functional diversification of GTs presents a major challenge in mapping the relationships connecting sequence, structure, fold and function using traditional bioinformatics approaches. Here, we present a convolutional neural network with attention (CNN-attention) based deep learning model that leverages simple secondary structure representations generated from primary sequences to provide GT fold prediction with high accuracy. The model learns distinguishing secondary structure features free of primary sequence alignment constraints and is highly interpretable. It delineates sequence and structural features characteristic of individual fold types, while classifying them into distinct clusters that group evolutionarily divergent families based on shared secondary structural features. We further extend our model to classify GT families of unknown folds and variants of known folds. By identifying families that are likely to adopt novel folds such as GT91, GT96 and GT97, our studies expand the GT fold landscape and prioritize targets for future structural studies.


2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 5074
Author(s):  
Jiyoung Woo ◽  
Jaeseok Yun

Spam posts in web forum discussions cause user inconvenience and lower the value of the web forum as an open source of user opinion. In this regard, as the importance of a web post is evaluated in terms of the number of involved authors, noise distorts the analysis results by adding unnecessary data to the opinion analysis. Here, in this work, an automatic detection model for spam posts in web forums using both conventional machine learning and deep learning is proposed. To automatically differentiate between normal posts and spam, evaluators were asked to recognize spam posts in advance. To construct the machine learning-based model, text features from posted content using text mining techniques from the perspective of linguistics were extracted, and supervised learning was performed to distinguish content noise from normal posts. For the deep learning model, raw text including and excluding special characters was utilized. A comparison analysis on deep neural networks using the two different recurrent neural network (RNN) models of the simple RNN and long short-term memory (LSTM) network was also performed. Furthermore, the proposed model was applied to two web forums. The experimental results indicate that the deep learning model affords significant improvements over the accuracy of conventional machine learning associated with text features. The accuracy of the proposed model using LSTM reaches 98.56%, and the precision and recall of the noise class reach 99% and 99.53%, respectively.


Information ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bashir Ghariba ◽  
Mohamed S. Shehata ◽  
Peter McGuire

Human eye movement is one of the most important functions for understanding our surroundings. When a human eye processes a scene, it quickly focuses on dominant parts of the scene, commonly known as a visual saliency detection or visual attention prediction. Recently, neural networks have been used to predict visual saliency. This paper proposes a deep learning encoder-decoder architecture, based on a transfer learning technique, to predict visual saliency. In the proposed model, visual features are extracted through convolutional layers from raw images to predict visual saliency. In addition, the proposed model uses the VGG-16 network for semantic segmentation, which uses a pixel classification layer to predict the categorical label for every pixel in an input image. The proposed model is applied to several datasets, including TORONTO, MIT300, MIT1003, and DUT-OMRON, to illustrate its efficiency. The results of the proposed model are quantitatively and qualitatively compared to classic and state-of-the-art deep learning models. Using the proposed deep learning model, a global accuracy of up to 96.22% is achieved for the prediction of visual saliency.


2021 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. e551
Author(s):  
Nihad Karim Chowdhury ◽  
Muhammad Ashad Kabir ◽  
Md. Muhtadir Rahman ◽  
Noortaz Rezoana

The goal of this research is to develop and implement a highly effective deep learning model for detecting COVID-19. To achieve this goal, in this paper, we propose an ensemble of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based on EfficientNet, named ECOVNet, to detect COVID-19 from chest X-rays. To make the proposed model more robust, we have used one of the largest open-access chest X-ray data sets named COVIDx containing three classes—COVID-19, normal, and pneumonia. For feature extraction, we have applied an effective CNN structure, namely EfficientNet, with ImageNet pre-training weights. The generated features are transferred into custom fine-tuned top layers followed by a set of model snapshots. The predictions of the model snapshots (which are created during a single training) are consolidated through two ensemble strategies, i.e., hard ensemble and soft ensemble, to enhance classification performance. In addition, a visualization technique is incorporated to highlight areas that distinguish classes, thereby enhancing the understanding of primal components related to COVID-19. The results of our empirical evaluations show that the proposed ECOVNet model outperforms the state-of-the-art approaches and significantly improves detection performance with 100% recall for COVID-19 and overall accuracy of 96.07%. We believe that ECOVNet can enhance the detection of COVID-19 disease, and thus, underpin a fully automated and efficacious COVID-19 detection system.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rahil Taujale ◽  
Zhongliang Zhou ◽  
Wayland Yeung ◽  
Kelley W Moremen ◽  
Sheng Li ◽  
...  

Glycosyltransferases (GTs) play fundamental roles in nearly all cellular processes through 10 the biosynthesis of complex carbohydrates and glycosylation of diverse protein and small 11 molecule substrates. The extensive structural and functional diversification of GTs presents a 12 major challenge in mapping the relationships connecting sequence, structure, fold and function 13 using traditional bioinformatics approaches. Here, we present a convolutional neural network 14 with attention (CNN-attention) based deep learning model that leverages simple secondary 15 structure representations generated from primary sequences to provide GT fold prediction with 16 high accuracy. The model learned distinguishing features free of primary sequence alignment 17 constraints and, unlike other models, is highly interpretable and helped identify common 18 secondary structural features shared by divergent families. The model delineated sequence and 19 structural features characteristic of individual fold types, while classifying them into distinct 20 clusters that group evolutionarily divergent families based on shared secondary structural 21 features. We further extend our model to classify GT families of unknown folds and variants of 22 known folds. By identifying families that are likely to adopt novel folds such as GT91, GT96 and 23 GT97, our studies identify targets for future structural studies and expand the GT fold landscape.


Author(s):  
Surenthiran Krishnan ◽  
Pritheega Magalingam ◽  
Roslina Ibrahim

<span>This paper proposes a new hybrid deep learning model for heart disease prediction using recurrent neural network (RNN) with the combination of multiple gated recurrent units (GRU), long short-term memory (LSTM) and Adam optimizer. This proposed model resulted in an outstanding accuracy of 98.6876% which is the highest in the existing model of RNN. The model was developed in Python 3.7 by integrating RNN in multiple GRU that operates in Keras and Tensorflow as the backend for deep learning process, supported by various Python libraries. The recent existing models using RNN have reached an accuracy of 98.23% and deep neural network (DNN) has reached 98.5%. The common drawbacks of the existing models are low accuracy due to the complex build-up of the neural network, high number of neurons with redundancy in the neural network model and imbalance datasets of Cleveland. Experiments were conducted with various customized model, where results showed that the proposed model using RNN and multiple GRU with synthetic minority oversampling technique (SMOTe) has reached the best performance level. This is the highest accuracy result for RNN using Cleveland datasets and much promising for making an early heart disease prediction for the patients.</span>


Sensors ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 669
Author(s):  
Irfan Ullah Khan ◽  
Nida Aslam ◽  
Talha Anwar ◽  
Hind S. Alsaif ◽  
Sara Mhd. Bachar Chrouf ◽  
...  

The coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) is disrupting the entire world; its rapid global spread threatens to affect millions of people. Accurate and timely diagnosis of COVID-19 is essential to control the spread and alleviate risk. Due to the promising results achieved by integrating machine learning (ML), particularly deep learning (DL), in automating the multiple disease diagnosis process. In the current study, a model based on deep learning was proposed for the automated diagnosis of COVID-19 using chest X-ray images (CXR) and clinical data of the patient. The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of integrating clinical patient data with the CXR for automated COVID-19 diagnosis. The proposed model used data collected from King Fahad University Hospital, Dammam, KSA, which consists of 270 patient records. The experiments were carried out first with clinical data, second with the CXR, and finally with clinical data and CXR. The fusion technique was used to combine the clinical features and features extracted from images. The study found that integrating clinical data with the CXR improves diagnostic accuracy. Using the clinical data and the CXR, the model achieved an accuracy of 0.970, a recall of 0.986, a precision of 0.978, and an F-score of 0.982. Further validation was performed by comparing the performance of the proposed system with the diagnosis of an expert. Additionally, the results have shown that the proposed system can be used as a tool that can help the doctors in COVID-19 diagnosis.


Author(s):  
Vani Ashok ◽  
◽  
Navneet Hosmane ◽  
Ganesh Mahagaonkar ◽  
Aditya Gudigar ◽  
...  

Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) is one of the serious problems caused by diabetes and a leading source of blindness in the working-age population of the advanced world. Detecting DR in the early stages is crucial since the disease generally shows few symptoms until it is too late to provide an effective cure. But detecting DR requires a skilled clinician to examine and assess digital color fundus images of the retina. By simplifying the detection process, severe damages to the eyes can be prevented. Many deep learning models particularly Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been tested in similar fields as well as in the detection of DR in early stages. In this paper, we propose an automatic model for detecting and suggesting different stages of DR. The work has been carried out on APTOS 2019 Blindness Detection Benchmark Dataset which contains around 3600 retinal images graded by clinicians for the severity of diabetic retinopathy on a range of 0 to 4. The proposed method uses ResNet50 (Residual Network that is 50 layers deep) CNN model along with pre-trained weights as the base neural network model. Due to its depth and better transfer learning capabilities, the proposed model with ResNet50 achieved 82% classification accuracy. The classification ability of the model was further analysed with Cohen Kappa score. The optimized validation Cohen Kappa score of 0.827 indicate that the proposed model didn’t predict the outputs by chance.


Author(s):  
A. Amyar ◽  
R. Modzelewski ◽  
S. Ruan

ABSTRACTThe fast spreading of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 has aroused worldwide interest and concern, and caused more than one million and a half confirmed cases to date. To combat this spread, medical imaging such as computed tomography (CT) images can be used for diagnostic. An automatic detection tools is necessary for helping screening COVID-19 pneumonia using chest CT imaging. In this work, we propose a multitask deep learning model to jointly identify COVID-19 patient and segment COVID-19 lesion from chest CT images. Our motivation is to leverage useful information contained in multiple related tasks to help improve both segmentation and classification performances. Our architecture is composed by an encoder and two decoders for reconstruction and segmentation, and a multi-layer perceptron for classification. The proposed model is evaluated and compared with other image segmentation and classification techniques using a dataset of 1044 patients including 449 patients with COVID-19, 100 normal ones, 98 with lung cancer and 397 of different kinds of pathology. The obtained results show very encouraging performance of our method with a dice coefficient higher than 0.78 for the segmentation and an area under the ROC curve higher than 93% for the classification.


Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 283
Author(s):  
Xiaoyuan Yu ◽  
Suigu Tang ◽  
Chak Fong Cheang ◽  
Hon Ho Yu ◽  
I Cheong Choi

The automatic analysis of endoscopic images to assist endoscopists in accurately identifying the types and locations of esophageal lesions remains a challenge. In this paper, we propose a novel multi-task deep learning model for automatic diagnosis, which does not simply replace the role of endoscopists in decision making, because endoscopists are expected to correct the false results predicted by the diagnosis system if more supporting information is provided. In order to help endoscopists improve the diagnosis accuracy in identifying the types of lesions, an image retrieval module is added in the classification task to provide an additional confidence level of the predicted types of esophageal lesions. In addition, a mutual attention module is added in the segmentation task to improve its performance in determining the locations of esophageal lesions. The proposed model is evaluated and compared with other deep learning models using a dataset of 1003 endoscopic images, including 290 esophageal cancer, 473 esophagitis, and 240 normal. The experimental results show the promising performance of our model with a high accuracy of 96.76% for the classification and a Dice coefficient of 82.47% for the segmentation. Consequently, the proposed multi-task deep learning model can be an effective tool to help endoscopists in judging esophageal lesions.


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