SABOS-Net: Self-supervised attention based network for automatic organ segmentation of head and neck CT images

The segmentation of Organs At Risk (OAR) in Computed Tomography (CT) images is an essential part of the planning phase of radiation treatment to avoid the adverse effects of cancer radiotherapy treatment. Accurate segmentation is a tedious task in the head and neck region due to a large number of small and sensitive organs and the low contrast of CT images. Deep learning-based automatic contouring algorithms can ease this task even when the organs have irregular shapes and size variations. This paper proposes a fully automatic deep learning-based self-supervised 3D Residual UNet architecture with CBAM(Convolution Block Attention Mechanism) for the organ segmentation in head and neck CT images. The Model Genesis structure and image context restoration techniques are used for self-supervision, which can help the network learn image features from unlabeled data, hence solving the annotated medical data scarcity problem in deep networks. A new loss function is applied for training by integrating Focal loss, Tversky loss, and Cross-entropy loss. The proposed model outperforms the state-of-the-art methods in terms of dice similarity coefficient in segmenting the organs. Our self-supervised model could achieve a 4% increase in the dice score of Chiasm, which is a small organ that is present only in a very few CT slices. The proposed model exhibited better accuracy for 5 out of 7 OARs than the recent state-of-the-art models. The proposed model could simultaneously segment all seven organs in an average time of 0.02 s. The source code of this work is made available at https://github.com/seeniafrancis/SABOSNet .     

Statistical Approach on High Temperature Dry Sliding Wear Behavior of Al-Li-Si3N4 Metal Matrix Composite

Silicon - Light weight composites with elevated temperature wear resistance are all time requirements even though many research articles available in the past three decades. This study concentrates...     

Classification analysis of burnout people's brain images using ontology-based speculative sense model

Burnout is a state of exhaustion that results from prolonged, excessive workplace stress. This can be examined with the biological explications of burnout and physical consequences and classified against prolonged vigorous activities. The research aims to classify burnout people's brain images against prolonged emotional activities using ontology analysis of treatment and prevention and intermediate layers formation based on a speculative sense model. In this segment, the Ontology analysis of Treatment and prevention and intermediate layers formation based on a hypothetical sense model is employed for burnout people's classification analysis. The methodology is performed in the platform of ontology creation and performs the classification analysis. The calculation analysis found the result, and the brain images were classified. The classification analysis of burnout people's brain images, separation of prolonged vigorous activities, and the ontology creation for treatment and prevention against burnout people's brain images were obtained. The analysis received the result, and the results of the precision, recall, storage, computation time, specificity, and classification of burnout people's brain images were obtained. Furthermore, all these Ontology analysis of Treatment and prevention and intermediate layers formation based on a hypothetical sense model had the prediction sensitivity (SN) over 50% and specificity (SP) over 90%. The Classification of Burnout People's Brain performance comparison shows that the proposed system is much more successful than existing methods, especially on a scoring accuracy of 98%.     

Breast milk from healthy women has higher anti-Candida properties than women with vaginal infections during pregnancy

Food Science and Biotechnology - The aim of this study was to investigate the different immunological and antimicrobial properties of breast milk from women with (W) or without (WO) vaginal yeast...     

Dry Sliding Wear Behavior of Aluminum Metal Matrix Composite Reinforced with Lithium and Silicon Nitride

Silicon - In this study aluminium 2024 metal matrix composite was fabricated with lithium, silicon nitride and composite containing both lithium and silicon nitride using stir casting route. XRD...