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2024

Interpretable AI for medical image analysis: methods, evaluation, and clinical considerations

Autores
Gonçalves, T; Hedström, A; Pahud de Mortanges, A; Li, X; Müller, H; Cardoso, S; Reyes, M;

Publicação
Trustworthy Ai in Medical Imaging

Abstract
In the healthcare context, artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to power decision support systems and help health professionals in their clinical decisions. However, given its complexity, AI is usually seen as a black box that receives data and outputs a prediction. This behavior may jeopardize the adoption of this technology by the healthcare community, which values the existence of explanations to justify a clinical decision. Besides, the developers must have a strategy to assess and audit these systems to ensure their reproducibility and quality in production. The field of interpretable artificial intelligence emerged to study how these algorithms work and clarify their behavior. This chapter reviews several interpretability of AI algorithms for medical imaging, discussing their functioning, limitations, benefits, applications, and evaluation strategies. The chapter concludes with considerations that might contribute to bringing these methods closer to the daily routine of healthcare professionals. © 2025 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

2024

Collaboration and Self-organization to Enable Self-healing in Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems

Autores
Piardi, L; Leitao, P; Costa, P; de Oliveira, AS;

Publicação
SERVICE ORIENTED, HOLONIC AND MULTI-AGENT MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS FOR INDUSTRY OF THE FUTURE, SOHOMA 2023

Abstract
Fault tolerance (FT) is a critical aspect of industry, where systems are susceptible to disturbance and faults. Traditional FT models, based on the centralization of information to handle fault episodes, no longer meet the current industrial models based on Cyber-physical Systems (CPS). Self-healing is a promising approach for FT in CPS, consisting of the individual competence of each component in detect, diagnose and recover from failures. With this in mind, this paper discusses the engineering of self-healing fault-tolerance in industrial CPS, analyzing the maturation process of this paradigm from the local model through collaboration models and later to self-organization features. The paper also discusses the main research challenges that self-healing FT faces during this process.

2024

ISO 24617-8 Applied: Insights from Multilingual Discourse Relations Annotation in English, Polish, and Portuguese

Autores
Tomaszewska, A; Silvano, P; Leal, A; Amorim, E;

Publicação
ISA 2024: 20th Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation at LREC-COLING 2024, Workshop Proceedings

Abstract
The main objective of this study is to contribute to multilingual discourse research by employing ISO-24617 Part 8 (Semantic Relations in Discourse, Core Annotation Schema – DR-core) for annotating discourse relations. Centering around a parallel discourse relations corpus that includes English, Polish, and European Portuguese, we initiate one of the few ISO-based comparative analyses through a multilingual corpus that aligns discourse relations across these languages. In this paper, we discuss the project’s contributions, including the annotated corpus, research findings, and statistics related to the use of discourse relations. The paper further discusses the challenges encountered in complying with the ISO standard, such as defining the scope of arguments and annotating specific relation types like Expansion. Our findings highlight the necessity for clearer definitions of certain discourse relations and more precise guidelines for argument spans, especially concerning the inclusion of connectives. Additionally, the study underscores the importance of ongoing collaborative efforts to broaden the inclusion of languages and more comprehensive datasets, with the objective of widening the reach of ISO-guided multilingual discourse research. © 2024 ELRA Language Resource Association: CC BY-NC 4.0.

2024

Memory Optimization for FPGA Implementation of Correlation-Based Beamforming

Autores
Avelar, H; Ferreira, JC;

Publicação
2024 IEEE 22ND MEDITERRANEAN ELECTROTECHNICAL CONFERENCE, MELECON 2024

Abstract
This paper proposes a method to avoid using a CORDIC or external memory to process the steering vectors to calculate the pseudospectrum of correlation-based beamforming algorithms. We show that if we decompose the steering vector equation, the size of the matrix to be saved in memory becomes independent of the antenna array size. Besides, the amount of data needed is small enough to be saved in the internal block RAMs of the FPGA SoC. Besides, this method greatly reduces the number of memory accesses, by offloading some processing to hardware, while keeping the frequency at 300MHz with a precision of 0.25 degrees. Finally, we show that this approach is scalable since the complexity grows logarithmically for bigger arrays, and the symmetry in the matrices obtained allows even more compact data.

2024

<i>DeViL</i>: Decoding Vision features into Language

Autores
Dani, M; Rio Torto, I; Alaniz, S; Akata, Z;

Publicação
PATTERN RECOGNITION, DAGM GCPR 2023

Abstract
Post-hoc explanation methods have often been criticised for abstracting away the decision-making process of deep neural networks. In this work, we would like to provide natural language descriptions for what different layers of a vision backbone have learned. Our DeViL method generates textual descriptions of visual features at different layers of the network as well as highlights the attribution locations of learned concepts. We train a transformer network to translate individual image features of any vision layer into a prompt that a separate off-the-shelf language model decodes into natural language. By employing dropout both per-layer and per-spatial-location, our model can generalize training on image-text pairs to generate localized explanations. As it uses a pre-trained language model, our approach is fast to train and can be applied to any vision backbone. Moreover, DeViL can create open-vocabulary attribution maps corresponding to words or phrases even outside the training scope of the vision model. We demonstrate that DeViL generates textual descriptions relevant to the image content on CC3M, surpassing previous lightweight captioning models and attribution maps, uncovering the learned concepts of the vision backbone. Further, we analyze fine-grained descriptions of layers as well as specific spatial locations and show that DeViL outperforms the current state-of-the-art on the neuron-wise descriptions of the MILANNOTATIONS dataset.

2024

Bridging the Digital Divide: A Study on the Feasibility of Smart University Integration in Timor-Leste

Autores
Soares, RP; Goncalves, R; Briga Sa, A; Martins, J; Branco, F;

Publicação
GOOD PRACTICES AND NEW PERSPECTIVES IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES, VOL 3, WORLDCIST 2024

Abstract
Education is vital in fostering economic growth and societal development, particularly in developing countries like Timor-Leste. As technology has revolutionised education in the digital transformation era, the concept of a smart university, driven by advanced technologies and data analytics, has gained prominence globally. Timor-Leste, amid its progress in institutional structures and public infrastructure, is also exploring integrating smart technologies in higher education. This underscores a commitment of The East Timor National Education Strategic Plan (NESP) 2011-2030 to meet national and international standards, positioning the country at the forefront of educational innovation. This study aims to assess the feasibility of implementing a Smart University in Timor-Leste to evaluate the readiness of the country to embrace digital technologies and integrate them into higher education practices. The research employs a Design Science Research methodology where qualitative and quantitative data are gathered through interviews, surveys, and document analysis. Design artefacts, including system architecture and an evaluation framework, are developed to comprehensively understand the technological and informatics aspects of implementing a Smart University in Timor-Leste. The findings will contribute to decision-making and inform the implementation plan, offering valuable insights into stakeholders' perspectives and perceptions, and will support the advancement of the educational landscape in Timor Leste by integrating smart technologies and innovative practices in higher education.

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