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Fast T2w/FLAIR MRI Acquisition by Optimal Sampling of Information Complementary to Pre-acquired T1w MRI

Junwei Yang, Xiao-Xin Li, Feihong Liu et al. · 2021 · arXiv

Recent studies on T1-assisted MRI reconstruction for under-sampled images of other modalities have demonstrated the potential of further accelerating MRI acquisition of other modalities. Most of the state-of-the-art approaches have achieved improvement through the development of network architectures for fixed under-sampling patterns, without fully exploiting the complementary information between modalities. Although existing under-sampling pattern learning algorithms can be simply modified to allow the fully-sampled T1-weighted MR image to assist the pattern learning, no significant improveme

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Classifying Rhoticity of /r/ in Speech Sound Disorder using Age-and-Sex Normalized Formants

Nina R Benway, Jonathan L Preston, Asif Salekin et al. · 2023 · arXiv

Mispronunciation detection tools could increase treatment access for speech sound disorders impacting, e.g., /r/. We show age-and-sex normalized formant estimation outperforms cepstral representation for detection of fully rhotic vs. derhotic /r/ in the PERCEPT-R Corpus. Gated recurrent neural networks trained on this feature set achieve a mean test participant-specific F1-score =.81 (σx=.10, med = .83, n = 48), with post hoc modeling showing no significant effect of child age or sex.

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Generative Style Transfer for MRI Image Segmentation: A Case of Glioma Segmentation in Sub-Saharan Africa

Rancy Chepchirchir, Jill Sunday, Raymond Confidence et al. · 2025 · arXiv

In Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), the utilization of lower-quality Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) technology raises questions about the applicability of machine learning methods for clinical tasks. This study aims to provide a robust deep learning-based brain tumor segmentation (BraTS) method tailored for the SSA population using a threefold approach. Firstly, the impact of domain shift from the SSA training data on model efficacy was examined, revealing no significant effect. Secondly, a comparative analysis of 3D and 2D full-resolution models using the nnU-Net framework indicates similar perfor

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Resource-Aware Control via Dynamic Pricing for Congestion Game with Finite-Time Guarantees

Ezra Tampubolon, Haris Ceribasic, Holger Boche · 2020 · arXiv

Congestion game is a widely used model for modern networked applications. A central issue in such applications is that the selfish behavior of the participants may result in resource overloading and negative externalities for the system participants. In this work, we propose a pricing mechanism that guarantees the sub-linear increase of the time-cumulative violation of the resource load constraints. The feature of our method is that it is resource-centric in the sense that it depends on the congestion state of the resources and not on specific characteristics of the system participants. This f

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Stability Analysis for Autoregressive Sampling Sets

Daniele Gerosa, Thomas Eriksson · 2026 · arXiv

Motivated by recent developments in stochastic modeling of clock jitter in Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADCs) as autoregressive processes of order one (AR(1)), we study the density and stability properties of AR(1)-jittered sampling sets for Paley-Wiener signals. We show that, despite having the correct asymptotic density both on average and almost surely, such sets almost surely fail to be stable sampling sets. We complement this negative result with a finite-dimensional analysis, showing that the corresponding jittered sinc matrices are nonetheless well-conditioned with high probability.

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How to Teach DNNs to Pay Attention to the Visual Modality in Speech Recognition

George Sterpu, Christian Saam, Naomi Harte · 2020 · arXiv

Audio-Visual Speech Recognition (AVSR) seeks to model, and thereby exploit, the dynamic relationship between a human voice and the corresponding mouth movements. A recently proposed multimodal fusion strategy, AV Align, based on state-of-the-art sequence to sequence neural networks, attempts to model this relationship by explicitly aligning the acoustic and visual representations of speech. This study investigates the inner workings of AV Align and visualises the audio-visual alignment patterns. Our experiments are performed on two of the largest publicly available AVSR datasets, TCD-TIMIT and

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TCG CREST System Description for the Second DISPLACE Challenge

Nikhil Raghav, Subhajit Saha, Md Sahidullah et al. · 2024 · arXiv

In this report, we describe the speaker diarization (SD) and language diarization (LD) systems developed by our team for the Second DISPLACE Challenge, 2024. Our contributions were dedicated to Track 1 for SD and Track 2 for LD in multilingual and multi-speaker scenarios. We investigated different speech enhancement techniques, voice activity detection (VAD) techniques, unsupervised domain categorization, and neural embedding extraction architectures. We also exploited the fusion of various embedding extraction models. We implemented our system with the open-source SpeechBrain toolkit. Our fin

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Neuro-MoBRE: Exploring Multi-subject Multi-task Intracranial Decoding via Explicit Heterogeneity Resolving

Di Wu, Yifei Jia, Siyuan Li et al. · 2025 · arXiv

Neurophysiological decoding, fundamental to advancing brain-computer interface (BCI) technologies, has significantly benefited from recent advances in deep learning. However, existing decoding approaches largely remain constrained to single-task scenarios and individual subjects, limiting their broader applicability and generalizability. Efforts towards creating large-scale neurophysiological foundation models have shown promise, but continue to struggle with significant challenges due to pervasive data heterogeneity across subjects and decoding tasks. Simply increasing model parameters and da

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The International Workshop on Osteoarthritis Imaging Knee MRI Segmentation Challenge: A Multi-Institute Evaluation and Analysis Framework on a Standardized Dataset

Arjun D. Desai, Francesco Caliva, Claudia Iriondo et al. · 2020 · arXiv

Purpose: To organize a knee MRI segmentation challenge for characterizing the semantic and clinical efficacy of automatic segmentation methods relevant for monitoring osteoarthritis progression. Methods: A dataset partition consisting of 3D knee MRI from 88 subjects at two timepoints with ground-truth articular (femoral, tibial, patellar) cartilage and meniscus segmentations was standardized. Challenge submissions and a majority-vote ensemble were evaluated using Dice score, average symmetric surface distance, volumetric overlap error, and coefficient of variation on a hold-out test set. Simil

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On The Synergy Between Nonconvex Extensions of The Tensor Nuclear Norm for Tensor Recovery

Kaito Hosono, Shunsuke Ono, Takamichi Miyata · 2020 · arXiv

Low-rank tensor recovery has attracted much attention among various tensor recovery approaches. A tensor rank has several definitions, unlike the matrix rank--e.g. the CP rank and the Tucker rank. Many low-rank tensor recovery methods are focused on the Tucker rank. Since the Tucker rank is nonconvex and discontinuous, many relaxations of the Tucker rank have been proposed, e.g., the tensor nuclear norm, weighted tensor nuclear norm, and weighted tensor Schatten-$p$ norm. In particular, the weighted tensor Schatten-p norm has two parameters, the weight and $p$, and the tensor nuclear norm and

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