The human eye is a vital sensory organ that provides us with visual information about the world around us. It can also convey such information as our emotional state to people with whom we interact. In technology, eye tracking has become a hot research topic recently, and a growing number of eye-tracking devices have been widely applied in fields such as psychology, medicine, education, and virtual reality.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMagnetic resonance imaging (MRI) offers the most detailed brain structure image available today; it can identify tiny lesions or cerebral cortical abnormalities. The primary purpose of the procedure is to confirm whether there is structural variation that causes epilepsy, such as hippocampal sclerotherapy, local cerebral cortical dysplasia, and cavernous hemangioma. Cerebrovascular disease, the second most common factor of death in the world, is also the fourth leading cause of death in Taiwan, with cerebrovascular disease having the highest rate of stroke.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn this paper, we propose a self-organizing feature map-based (SOM) monitoring system which is able to evaluate whether the physiotherapeutic exercise performed by a patient matches the corresponding assigned exercise. It allows patients to be able to perform their physiotherapeutic exercises on their own, but their progress during exercises can be monitored. The performance of the proposed the SOM-based monitoring system is tested on a database consisting of 12 different types of physiotherapeutic exercises.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOne of the major bottlenecks in applying conventional neural networks to the medical field is that it is very difficult to interpret, in a physically meaningful way, because the learned knowledge is numerically encoded in the trained synaptic weights. In one of our previous works, we proposed a class of Hyper-Rectangular Composite Neural Networks (HRCNNs) of which synaptic weights can be interpreted as a set of crisp If-Then rules; however, a trained HRCNN may result in some ineffective If-Then rules which can only justify very few positive examples (i.e.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis paper presents a computational-intelligence-based model to predict the survival rate of critically ill patients who were admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU). The prediction input variables were based on the first 24 h admission physiological data of ICU patients to forecast whether the final outcome was survival or not. The prediction model was based on a particle swarm optimization (PSO)-based Fuzzy Hyper-Rectangular Composite Neural Network (PFHRCNN) that integrates three computational intelligence tools including hyper-rectangular composite neural networks, fuzzy systems and PSO.
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