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The evaluation of carotid ultrasound image plaque requires a large number of experienced clinicians, and the ultrasound image has the characteristics of blurred boundary and strong noise interference, making the evaluation of plaques time-consuming and laborious. Therefore, a fully automated carotid plaque segmentation method is urgently needed to solve the problem of manpower scarcity. This study proposes a deep neural network model based on Swin-Transformer (Shifted-Windows Transformer) block for the automatic segmentation of carotid plaques. Based on the U-Net(U-Convolutional Network) architecture, the encoding part uses three convolutional blocks for image down-sampling to obtain feature images of different resolution sizes, and then adds six pairs of two consecutive Swin-Transformer blocks for more refined feature extraction. The decoding part up-samples the refined features output by the Swin-Transformer module step by step, and jump-joints them with the feature maps of each resolution level in the encoding part, respectively. The comparison experiments based on the data set of Tong Ren Hospital show that the Dice index of the proposed deep neural network model reaches 0.814 2, which is higher than that of other comparison networks. The results demonstrate that the proposed model can effectively extract the features of carotid ultrasound image plaques and achieve automated and high-precision plaque segmentation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

local feature information at shallow layers. To solve this problem, this study proposes a method using multiple encoders to improve the ability of speech feature extraction. An additional convolutional encoder branch is added to strengthen the capture of local feature information, make up for the neglect of local feature information in shallow Transformer, and effectively realize the integration of global and local dependencies of andio feature se quences. In other words, a multi-encoder model hased on Transformer is proposed. Experiments on the open source Chinese Mandarin data set Aishell 1 show that without an external language model, the proposed Transformer-based multi-encoder model has a relative reduction of 4.00% in character error rate when compared with the Transformer model. On the internal non public Shanghainese dialect data set, the performance improve ment of the proposed model is more obvious, and the character error rate is reduced by 48.24% from 19.92% to 10. 31%. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The studies of automatic Electrocardiograph(ECG) classification based on convolutional neural networks all extract features from the ECG with the default 12-lead sequence, ignore the influence of lead sequence on feature extraction of convolutional network. To solve the problem, this study proposes a 2-end increasing sorting method based on mutual information, which uses mutual information to measure the correlation between leads. According to the correlation between leads and the characteristics of two-dimensional convolution, the adjacent connections of closely related leads are sorted. The experimental results show that the multi-lead ECG sorting method has achieved remarkable results on three databases and three convolutional network classification models.F1, accuracy, recall, accuracy, and Jacquard's coefficient of the proposed method increases by 0.011,0.009,0.007,0.014, and 0.013, while Hamming's loss decreases by 0.002. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Medical image segmentation plays an important role in clinical diagnosis and is the basis of other medical image processing methods. With the improvement of computer hardware performance, image segmentation technology based on deep learning has already become a powerful tool for processing medical images and is widely used in various medical image segmentation tasks. This paper introduces several types of common medical images and their characteristics, analyzes and compares the image segmentation algorithms that have emerged in recent years. Some algorithms have been successfully applied to segmentation tasks such as brain tissue, lungs and blood vessels. In response to the current problems in the development of medical image segmentation technology based on deep learning, corresponding strategies are proposed, and the future development direction is also prospected. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]