Artificial Intelligence Technologies for Sign Language.

AI technologies can play an important role in breaking down the communication barriers of deaf or hearing-impaired people with other communities, contributing significantly to their social inclusion. Recent advances in both sensing technologies and AI algorithms have paved the way for the development of various applications aiming at fulfilling the needs of deaf and hearing-impaired communities. To this end, this survey aims to provide a comprehensive review of state-of-the-art methods in sign language capturing, recognition, translation and representation, pinpointing their advantages and limitations.

Recurrent neural network pruning using dynamical systems and iterative fine-tuning.

Network pruning techniques are widely employed to reduce the memory requirements and increase the inference speed of neural networks. This work proposes a novel RNN pruning method that considers the RNN weight matrices as collections of time-evolving signals. Such signals that represent weight vectors can be modelled using Linear Dynamical Systems (LDSs).

Evaluation and surgical management of the gallstone ileus. A single center experience.

Gallstone ileus representing 1-4% of all bowel obstructions cholelithiasis. Impaction of a gallstone in the human of the bowel is a surgical emergency. Relief of the obstruction is the treatment of choice, but controversy exists regarding the repair of the fistula and cholecystectomy.