Dry eye is matched by increased intrasubject variability in tear osmolarity as confirmed by machine learning approach.

Objective: Because of high variability, tear film osmolarity measures have been questioned in dry eye assessment. Understanding the origin of such variability would aid data interpretation. This study aims to evaluate osmolarity variability in a clinical setting.

Spatio⁻Temporal Image Representation of 3D Skeletal Movements for View-Invariant Action Recognition with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks.

Designing motion representations for 3D human action recognition from skeleton sequences is an important yet challenging task. An effective representation should be robust to noise, invariant to viewpoint changes and result in a good performance with low-computational demand. Two main challenges in this task include how to efficiently represent spatio-temporal patterns of skeletal movements and how to learn their discriminative features for classification tasks.

Exploiting Spatio-Temporal Structure With Recurrent Winner-Take-All Networks.

We propose a convolutional recurrent neural network (ConvRNNs), with winner-take-all (WTA) dropout for high-dimensional unsupervised feature learning in multidimensional time series. We apply the proposed method for object recognition using temporal context in videos and obtain better results than comparable methods in the literature, including the deep predictive coding networks (DPCNs) previously proposed by Chalasani and Principe. Our contributions can be summarized as a scalable reinterpretation of the DPCNs trained end-to-end with backpropagation through time, an extension of the previously proposed WTA autoencoders to sequences in time, and a new technique for initializing and regularizing ConvRNNs.

Trajectory generation and modulation using dynamic neural networks.

Generation of desired trajectory behavior using neural networks involves a particularly challenging spatio-temporal learning problem. This paper introduces a novel solution, i.e.

Second-Look Microlaparoscopy.

Second-look laparoscopy performed a short time after corrective surgery to determine reproductive function has always been controversial. The need for general anesthesia and additional abdominal wall trauma make it unpopular. However, postponing pelvic evaluation after the original surgery results in a large proportion of women attempting pregnancy with deformed anatomy as the result of reformation of pelvic adhesions.