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The exponential rise in wearable sensors has garnered significant interest in assessing the physiological parameters during day-to-day activities. Respiration rate is one of the vital parameters used in the performance assessment of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-10 Kapil Singh Rathore , Sricharan Vijayarangan , Preejith SP , Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam

Background: An early diagnosis together with an accurate disease progression monitoring of multiple sclerosis is an important component of successful disease management. Prior studies have established that multiple sclerosis is correlated…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-28 Emil Svoboda , Tomáš Bořil , Jan Rusz , Tereza Tykalová , Dana Horáková , Charles R. G. Guttman , Krastan B. Blagoev , Hiroto Hatabu , Vlad I. Valtchinov

Developing a reliable sound detection and recognition system offers many benefits and has many useful applications in different industries. This paper examines the difficulties that exist when attempting to perform sound classification as…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-10 Chelsea Villanueva , Joshua Vincent , Alexander Slowinski , Mohammad-Parsa Hosseini

In the medical field, accurate diagnosis of lung cancer is crucial for treatment. Traditional manual analysis methods have significant limitations in terms of accuracy and efficiency. To address this issue, this paper proposes a deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-10 Ziyang Gao , Yong Tian , Shih-Chi Lin , Junghua Lin

Social media platforms provide valuable insights into mental health trends by capturing user-generated discussions on conditions such as depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation. Machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) models have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Zhanyi Ding , Zhongyan Wang , Yeyubei Zhang , Yuchen Cao , Yunchong Liu , Xiaorui Shen , Yexin Tian , Jianglai Dai

Multi-Task Learning (MTL) aims at boosting the overall performance of each individual task by leveraging useful information contained in multiple related tasks. It has shown great success in natural language processing (NLP). Currently, a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Jianquan Li , Xiaokang Liu , Wenpeng Yin , Min Yang , Liqun Ma , Yaohong Jin

Advanced diagnostic instruments are crucial for the accurate detection and treatment of lung diseases, which affect millions of individuals globally. This study examines the effectiveness of deep learning and transfer learning models using…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-23 Shuvashis Sarker , Shamim Rahim Refat , Faika Fairuj Preotee , Tanvir Rouf Shawon , Raihan Tanvir

Multi-task learning (MTL) frameworks have proven to be effective in diverse speech related tasks like automatic speech recognition (ASR) and speech emotion recognition. This paper proposes a MTL framework to perform acoustic-to-articulatory…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-18 Yashish M. Siriwardena , Ganesh Sivaraman , Carol Espy-Wilson

Lung disease poses a substantial global health challenge, with pneumonia being a prevalent concern. This research focuses on leveraging deep learning techniques to detect and assess pneumonia, addressing two interconnected objectives.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 S Kumar Reddy Mallidi

Deep learning-based automated contouring and treatment planning has been proven to improve the efficiency and accuracy of radiotherapy. However, conventional radiotherapy treatment planning process has the automated contouring and treatment…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-12-02 Sangwook Kim , Aly Khalifa , Thomas G. Purdie , Chris McIntosh

Multi-task neural networks learn tasks simultaneously to improve individual task performance. There are three mechanisms of multi-task learning (MTL) which are explored here for the context of structural health monitoring (SHM): (i) the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Sarah Bee , Lawrence Bull , Nikolas Dervilis , Keith Worden

We introduce initial groundwork for estimating suicide risk and mental health in a deep learning framework. By modeling multiple conditions, the system learns to make predictions about suicide risk and mental health at a low false positive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Adrian Benton , Margaret Mitchell , Dirk Hovy

Multi-task learning (MTL) is a learning paradigm that enables the simultaneous training of multiple communicating algorithms. Although MTL has been successfully applied to ether regression or classification tasks alone, incorporating mixed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Han Cao , Sivanesan Rajan , Bianka Hahn , Ersoy Kocak , Daniel Durstewitz , Emanuel Schwarz , Verena Schneider-Lindner

Early diagnosis of interstitial lung diseases is crucial for their treatment, but even experienced physicians find it difficult, as their clinical manifestations are similar. In order to assist with the diagnosis, computer-aided diagnosis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-13 Stergios Christodoulidis , Marios Anthimopoulos , Lukas Ebner , Andreas Christe , Stavroula Mougiakakou

Lung cancer, a malignancy originating in lung tissues, is commonly diagnosed and classified using medical imaging techniques, particularly computed tomography (CT). Despite the integration of machine learning and deep learning methods, the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-21 Olajumoke O. Adekunle , Joseph D. Akinyemi , Khadijat T. Ladoja , Olufade F. W. Onifade

Lung cancer, the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths, is primarily linked to long-term tobacco smoking (85% of cases). Surprisingly, 10-15% of cases occur in non-smokers. In 2020, approximately 2 million people were affected…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Imama Ajmi , Abhishek Das

Multi-task learning (MTL) considers learning a joint model for multiple tasks by optimizing a convex combination of all task losses. To solve the optimization problem, existing methods use an adaptive weight updating scheme, where task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Yifei He , Shiji Zhou , Guojun Zhang , Hyokun Yun , Yi Xu , Belinda Zeng , Trishul Chilimbi , Han Zhao

The accurate diagnosis of pathological subtypes of lung cancer is of paramount importance for follow-up treatments and prognosis managements. Assessment methods utilizing deep learning technologies have introduced novel approaches for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-19 Yuan Jin , Gege Ma , Geng Chen , Tianling Lyu , Jan Egger , Junhui Lyu , Shaoting Zhang , Wentao Zhu

Objective: This work proposes a semi-supervised training approach for detecting lung and heart sounds simultaneously with only one trained model and in invariance to the auscultation point. Methods: We use open-access data from the 2016…

Annual low dose computed tomography (CT) lung screening is currently advised for individuals at high risk of lung cancer (e.g., heavy smokers between 55 and 80 years old). The recommended screening practice significantly reduces all-cause…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Riqiang Gao , Lingfeng Li , Yucheng Tang , Sanja L. Antic , Alexis B. Paulson , Yuankai Huo , Kim L. Sandler , Pierre P. Massion , Bennett A. Landman