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In this paper, we present an automated approach for segmenting multiple sclerosis (MS) lesions from multi-modal brain magnetic resonance images. Our method is based on a deep end-to-end 2D convolutional neural network (CNN) for slice-based…

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We propose a fast and efficient strategy, called the representative approach, for big data analysis with generalized linear models, especially for distributed data with localization requirements or limited network bandwidth. With a given…