Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence

Automatic Prediction of Cancer Recurrence through Machine Learning

SUMMARY Deep learning tools are becoming increasingly popular for histologic analyses and have been used to predict tumor biomarker status, clinical variables, tumor subtypes, and mutation status in a variety of cancers. Accurate prediction of recurrence risk for post-operative cancer recurrence is of significant clinical interest as it can be… Read More

A Method for Fast Adapting Similarity Searches Based on Variance Aware Quantization

SUMMARY With the explosive growth of high-dimensional data, approximate methods emerge as promising solutions for searching for similar data pairs. Quantization methods have gained prominence due to their low storage costs and fast query responses.  These methods decompose data dimensions into subspaces and their performance critically depends on maintaining effective… Read More

Model-Free Interferometry Enabled by Machine Learning

SUMMARY Atom interferometry is used in sensors designed to measure gravitational field, acceleration, and angular momentum and is of increasing importance to the emerging field of quantum communications, which shows great promise for fast, secure, and precise relay of information. Interpreting the results of an interferometer requires precise calibration… Read More

Bio-inspired Artificial Intelligence For Rapid Multi-Task Learning

SUMMARY Multi-task learning is a subfield of machine learning in which multiple tasks are simultaneously learned by a shared model. Biologically-inspired recurrent neural networks (RNNs), trained using backpropagation, can learn an impressive array of complex tasks, and offer the opportunity for detailed examination of network activity and circuit structure. Read More

Machine Learning-Based Prediction Of Viral Mutations From Genomic Sequences

SUMMARY There have been significant research efforts to develop machine learning and predictive analytics based tools to predict viral evolution which remains the main obstacle in the early detection of drug-resistant strains and facilitate the design of more efficient antiviral treatments. Machine learning and advanced algorithms have… Read More

Human Brain-Inspired Algorithm for Neural Network “Memory”

SUMMARY Catastrophic forgetting or interference is the inability of an artificial neural network (ANN) to learn multiple sequential tasks without a degradation in the accuracy of a previously learned task. When an ANN learns a new task, it disrupts connection weights that were important for solving a previous task. Current… Read More