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Catheters are the second most common abnormal finding on radiographs. The position of catheters must be assessed on all radiographs, as serious complications can arise if catheters are malpositioned. However, due to the large number of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-11 Xin Yi , Scott J. Adams , Robert D. E. Henderson , Paul Babyn

As the global population ages, the incidence of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is rising. CKD often remains asymptomatic until advanced stages, which significantly burdens both the healthcare system and patient quality of life. This research…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Nantika Nguycharoen

A kidney exchange is a centrally-administered barter market where patients swap their willing yet incompatible donors. Modern kidney exchanges use 2-cycles, 3-cycles, and chains initiated by non-directed donors (altruists who are willing to…

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Placing applications in mobile edge computing servers presents a complex challenge involving many servers, users, and their requests. Existing algorithms take a long time to solve high-dimensional problems with significant uncertainty…

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Heart disease is a serious worldwide health issue because it claims the lives of many people who might have been treated if the disease had been identified earlier. The leading cause of death in the world is cardiovascular disease, usually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Akua Sekyiwaa Osei-Nkwantabisa , Redeemer Ntumy

The study of matching theory has gained importance recently with applications in Kidney Exchange, House Allocation, School Choice etc. The general theme of these problems is to allocate goods in a fair manner amongst participating agents.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Shyam Chandramouli , Jay Sethuraman

The segmentation of kidney layer structures, including cortex, outer stripe, inner stripe, and inner medulla within human kidney whole slide images (WSI) plays an essential role in automated image analysis in renal pathology. However, the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-07 Muhao Liu , Chenyang Qi , Shunxing Bao , Quan Liu , Ruining Deng , Yu Wang , Shilin Zhao , Haichun Yang , Yuankai Huo

Period-prevalent cohorts are often used for their cost-saving potential in epidemiological studies of survival outcomes. Under this design, prevalent patients allow for evaluations of long-term survival outcomes without the need for long…

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To evaluate the translational capabilities of foundation models, we develop a pathological concept learning approach focused on kidney cancer. By leveraging TNM staging guidelines and pathology reports, we build comprehensive pathological…

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Motivated by kidney exchange, we study a stochastic cycle and chain packing problem, where we aim to identify structures in a directed graph to maximize the expectation of matched edge weights. All edges are subject to failure, and the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Hoda Bidkhori , John P Dickerson , Duncan C McElfresh , Ke Ren

Accurate cell nuclei segmentation is critical for downstream tasks in kidney pathology and remains a major challenge due to the morphological diversity and imaging variability of renal tissues. While our prior work has evaluated…

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Reducing the shortage of organ donations to meet the demands of patients on the waiting list has being a major challenge in organ transplantation. Because of the shortage, organ matching decision is the most critical decision to assign the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Parshin Shojaee , Xiaoyu Chen , Ran Jin

Careful placement of a computational application within a target device cluster is critical for achieving low application completion time. The problem is challenging due to its NP-hardness and combinatorial nature. In recent years,…

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In the query-commit problem we are given a graph where edges have distinct probabilities of existing. It is possible to query the edges of the graph, and if the queried edge exists then its endpoints are irrevocably matched. The goal is to…

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While AI-assisted colonoscopy promises improved colorectal cancer screening, its success relies on effective integration into clinical practice, not just algorithmic accuracy. This paper, based on an Australian field study (observations and…

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Bladder cancer ranks within the top 10 most diagnosed cancers worldwide and is among the most expensive cancers to treat due to the high recurrence rates which require lifetime follow-ups. The primary tool for diagnosis is cystoscopy, which…

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Ranking is one of the most fundamental problems in machine learning with applications in many branches of computer science such as: information retrieval systems, recommendation systems, machine translation and computational biology.…

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