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2020

Guest Editorial: Information Fusion for Medical Data: Early, Late, and Deep Fusion Methods for Multimodal Data

Authors
Domingues, I; Muller, H; Ortiz, A; Dasarathy, BV; Abreu, PH; Calhoun, VD;

Publication
IEEE JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL AND HEALTH INFORMATICS

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2020

Adversarial Machine Learning Applied to Intrusion and Malware Scenarios: A Systematic Review

Authors
Martins, N; Cruz, JM; Cruz, T; Abreu, PH;

Publication
IEEE ACCESS

Abstract
Cyber-security is the practice of protecting computing systems and networks from digital attacks, which are a rising concern in the Information Age. With the growing pace at which new attacks are developed, conventional signature based attack detection methods are often not enough, and machine learning poses as a potential solution. Adversarial machine learning is a research area that examines both the generation and detection of adversarial examples, which are inputs specially crafted to deceive classifiers, and has been extensively studied specifically in the area of image recognition, where minor modifications are performed on images that cause a classifier to produce incorrect predictions. However, in other fields, such as intrusion and malware detection, the exploration of such methods is still growing. The aim of this survey is to explore works that apply adversarial machine learning concepts to intrusion and malware detection scenarios. We concluded that a wide variety of attacks were tested and proven effective in malware and intrusion detection, although their practicality was not tested in intrusion scenarios. Adversarial defenses were substantially less explored, although their effectiveness was also proven at resisting adversarial attacks. We also concluded that, contrarily to malware scenarios, the variety of datasets in intrusion scenarios is still very small, with the most used dataset being greatly outdated.

2020

Bone scintigraphy and PET-CT: A necessary alliance for bone metastasis detection in breast cancer?

Authors
Santos, JC; Abreu, MH; Santos, MS; Duarte, H; Alpoim, T; Sousa, S; Abreu, PH;

Publication
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY

Abstract
e13070 Background: Bone is one of the main sites of breast cancer metastasis. Staging of this kind of disease spread can be performed in locally advanced cases with PET-CT in conjunction with Bone Scintigraphy. The purpose of this work is to compare the efficiency of bone metastasis detection between PET-CT and bone scintigraphy. Methods: Prospective analysis of locally advanced breast cancer patients treated in a Comprehensive Cancer Center between 2014 and 2019 that performed PET-CT and Bone Scintigraphy in the staging. Interval between the two exams could not exceed 2 months. Clinical and pathological characteristics of the disease were collected from electronic files and independently clinical images reports were considered to evaluate the ability of each imaging modalities to identify bone disease. In discrepancy cases a re-analysis of the images by two independent nuclear physicians was performed to validate the findings. Results: We analyzed 204 cases. The majority of them had ductal carcinomas (72.5%), cT2/3 (70%), cN1/2(61.8%) and G2/3 (94.6%), luminal B- like, HER2 positive disease (49.2%). In this cohort, bone metastasis was documented in 52 (25.5%) patients. PET-CT presented 97.0% of accuracy, surpassing the 94.1% presented by Bone Scintigraphy. The latter failed to correctly detect bone metastasis in 11 (5.4%) patients and only outperformed PET-CT in 3 (1.5%) patients. The main difference between the two modalities was the non-detection of cranium lesions in PET-CT images. Conclusions: PET-CT showed higher efficiency in bone metastasis detection than Bone Scintigraphy, probably because it detects lytic lesions. The non-detection of cranium ones can be harmful and so modifications in the image acquisition are required to improve the quality of PET-CT, avoiding other exams in bone staging.

2020

Segmentation and Optimal Region Selection of Physiological Signals using Deep Neural Networks and Combinatorial Optimization

Authors
Oliveira, J; Carvalho, M; Nogueira, DM; Coimbra, MT;

Publication
CoRR

Abstract

2020

Nature-Based Tourism

Authors
Filipe, S; Barbosa, B; Santos, CA;

Publication
Advances in Hospitality, Tourism, and the Services Industry - Global Opportunities and Challenges for Rural and Mountain Tourism

Abstract
This chapter is based on consumer behavior theories and analyses consumers' perspectives about camping as a tourism alternative. It explores motivations and several relevant factors that influence the attitudes and behaviors of tourists regarding camping activities. The methodology was qualitative and used focus groups as a data collection tool. A content and thematic analysis was adopted as data mining technique. Results provide empirical support to the influence of subjective norms, relevant others' preference for camping, and sustainable consumer profile on attitudes toward camping which influence camping intention. Moreover, camping intention, motivations, relevant others' preference for camping, perceived control, and past experience affect camping behavior. Overall, this chapter shows that consumer behavior theories and models provide very interesting cues on campers' decision process, offering alternative and complementing views to the extant literature, namely to the studies using the popular push-pull approach.

2020

A CLOSER LOOK AT VET EDUCATION THROUGH THE LENSES OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

Authors
Barbosa, B; Benedicto, B; Amaral Santos, C; Filipe, S; Costa, F; Melo, A; Paiva Dias, G; Rodrigues, C;

Publication
ICERI Proceedings - ICERI2020 Proceedings

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