no code implementations • 15 Mar 2024 • Xiajun Jiang, Sumeet Vadhavkar, Yubo Ye, Maryam Toloubidokhti, Ryan Missel, Linwei Wang
Personalized virtual heart models have demonstrated increasing potential for clinical use, although the estimation of their parameters given patient-specific data remain a challenge.
no code implementations • 13 Mar 2024 • Yubo Ye, Sumeet Vadhavkar, Xiajun Jiang, Ryan Missel, Huafeng Liu, Linwei Wang
Modern applications increasingly require unsupervised learning of latent dynamics from high-dimensional time-series.
no code implementations • 12 Mar 2024 • Yubo Ye, Huafeng Liu, Linwei Wang
We then embed this hybrid model at the latent space of an encoding-decoding framework to enable both supervised and unsupervised identification of the hybrid kinetics and thereby dynamic PET reconstruction.
no code implementations • 11 Mar 2024 • Dingrong Wang, Soheil Azadvar, Jon Heiselman, Xiajun Jiang, Michael Miga, Linwei Wang
The surgical environment imposes unique challenges to the intraoperative registration of organ shapes to their preoperatively-imaged geometry.
no code implementations • 12 Aug 2023 • Nilesh Kumar, Ruby Shrestha, Zhiyuan Li, Linwei Wang
Spurious correlation caused by subgroup underrepresentation has received increasing attention as a source of bias that can be perpetuated by deep neural networks (DNNs).
no code implementations • 25 Jul 2023 • Nilesh Kumar, Prashnna K. Gyawali, Sandesh Ghimire, Linwei Wang
To this end, we propose a novel object-centric data augmentation model that is able to learn the shape variations for the objects of interest and augment the object in place without modifying the rest of the image.
1 code implementation • ICLR 2023 • Xiajun Jiang, Ryan Missel, Zhiyuan Li, Linwei Wang
We compared the presented framework with a comprehensive set of baseline models trained 1) globally on the large meta-training set with diverse dynamics, and 2) individually on single dynamics, both with and without fine-tuning to k-shot support series used by the meta-models.
no code implementations • 2 Nov 2022 • Maryam Toloubidokhti, Nilesh Kumar, Zhiyuan Li, Prashnna K. Gyawali, Brian Zenger, Wilson W. Good, Rob S. MacLeod, Linwei Wang
Prior knowledge about the imaging physics provides a mechanistic forward operator that plays an important role in image reconstruction, although myriad sources of possible errors in the operator could negatively impact the reconstruction solutions.
1 code implementation • 6 Oct 2022 • Xiajun Jiang, Zhiyuan Li, Ryan Missel, Md Shakil Zaman, Brian Zenger, Wilson W. Good, Rob S. MacLeod, John L. Sapp, Linwei Wang
As test time, metaPNS delivers a personalized neural surrogate by fast feed-forward embedding of a small and flexible number of data available from an individual, achieving -- for the first time -- personalization and surrogate construction for expensive simulations in one end-to-end learning framework.
1 code implementation • 26 Sep 2022 • Maryam Toloubidokhti, Ryan Missel, Xiajun Jiang, Niels Otani, Linwei Wang
In a novel neural formulation of state-space models (SSMs), we first introduce causal-effect modeling of the latent dynamics via a system of interacting neural ODEs that separately describes 1) the continuous-time dynamics of the internal intervention, and 2) its effect on the trajectory of the system's native state.
no code implementations • 13 Oct 2021 • Md Shakil Zaman, Jwala Dhamala, Pradeep Bajracharya, John L. Sapp, B. Milan Horacek, Katherine C. Wu, Natalia A. Trayanova, Linwei Wang
In this paper, we present a Bayesian active learning method to directly approximate the posterior pdf function of cardiac model parameters, in which we intelligently select training points to query the simulation model in order to learn the posterior pdf using a small number of samples.
no code implementations • 17 Mar 2021 • Aayush K. Chaudhary, Prashnna K. Gyawali, Linwei Wang, Jeff B. Pelz
Recent advances in appearance-based models have shown improved eye tracking performance in difficult scenarios like occlusion due to eyelashes, eyelids or camera placement, and environmental reflections on the cornea and glasses.
1 code implementation • 23 Sep 2020 • Prashnna Kumar Gyawali, Sandesh Ghimire, Linwei Wang
On three benchmark data sets and one real-world biomedical data set, we demonstrate that this combined regularization results in improved generalization performance of SSL when learning from a small amount of labeled data.
no code implementations • 18 Jul 2020 • Xiajun Jiang, Sandesh Ghimire, Jwala Dhamala, Zhiyuan Li, Prashnna Kumar Gyawali, Linwei Wang
However, many reconstruction problems involve imaging physics that are dependent on the underlying non-Euclidean geometry.
no code implementations • 2 Jun 2020 • Jwala Dhamala, John L. Sapp, B. Milan Horácek, Linwei Wang
However, by sampling from an approximation of the exact posterior probability density function (pdf) of the parameters, the efficiency is gained at the expense of sampling accuracy.
1 code implementation • 22 May 2020 • Prashnna Kumar Gyawali, Sandesh Ghimire, Pradeep Bajracharya, Zhiyuan Li, Linwei Wang
In this work, we argue that regularizing the global smoothness of neural functions by filling the void in between data points can further improve SSL.
no code implementations • 15 May 2020 • Jwala Dhamala, Sandesh Ghimire, John L. Sapp, B. Milan Horácek, Linwei Wang
The estimation of patient-specific tissue properties in the form of model parameters is important for personalized physiological models.
no code implementations • 25 Feb 2020 • Sandesh Ghimire, Prashnna K Gyawali, Linwei Wang
Based on this theory, we then present a scalable way to control the complexity of the discriminator for a reliable estimation of KL divergence.
1 code implementation • ICLR 2020 • Zhiyuan Li, Jaideep Vitthal Murkute, Prashnna Kumar Gyawali, Linwei Wang
By drawing on the respective advantage of hierarchical representation learning and progressive learning, this is to our knowledge the first attempt to improve disentanglement by progressively growing the capacity of VAE to learn hierarchical representations.
no code implementations • 10 Dec 2019 • Huiting Ma, Linwei Wang, Peter Gichangi, Vernon Mochache, Griffins Manguro, Helgar K Musyoki, Parinita Bhattacharjee, François Cholette, Paul Sandstrom, Marissa L Becker, Sharmistha Mishra
We compared the HIV cascade among AGYW who sell sex (YSW, N=408) versus those who do not (NSW, N=891); and triangulated the potential (100% test acceptance and accuracy) and feasible (accounting for test acceptance and sensitivity) number of AGYW that could be newly diagnosed via hotspot-based HIV rapid testing in Mombasa.
no code implementations • 26 Oct 2019 • Prashnna K Gyawali, Rudra Shah, Linwei Wang, VSR Veeravasarapu, Maneesh Singh
Variational Autoencoders (VAE) are probabilistic deep generative models underpinned by elegant theory, stable training processes, and meaningful manifold representations.
1 code implementation • 3 Sep 2019 • Prashnna Kumar Gyawali, Zhiyuan Li, Cameron Knight, Sandesh Ghimire, B. Milan Horacek, John Sapp, Linwei Wang
We note that the independence within and the complexity of the latent density are two different properties we constrain when regularizing the posterior density: while the former promotes the disentangling ability of VAE, the latter -- if overly limited -- creates an unnecessary competition with the data reconstruction objective in VAE.
1 code implementation • 22 Jul 2019 • Prashnna Kumar Gyawali, Zhiyuan Li, Sandesh Ghimire, Linwei Wang
In this work, we hypothesize -- from the generalization perspective -- that self-ensembling can be improved by exploiting the stochasticity of a disentangled latent space.
1 code implementation • 1 Jul 2019 • Jwala Dhamala, Sandesh Ghimire, John L. Sapp, B. Milan Horacek, Linwei Wang
In this paper, we present a novel graph convolutional VAE to allow generative modeling of non-Euclidean data, and utilize it to embed Bayesian optimization of large graphs into a small latent space.
no code implementations • 12 May 2019 • Sandesh Ghimire, Jwala Dhamala, Prashnna Kumar Gyawali, John L. Sapp, B. Milan Horacek, Linwei Wang
We introduce a novel model-constrained inference framework that replaces conventional physiological models with a deep generative model trained to generate TMP sequences from low-dimensional generative factors.
1 code implementation • 5 Mar 2019 • Sandesh Ghimire, Prashnna Kumar Gyawali, Jwala Dhamala, John L. Sapp, Milan Horacek, Linwei Wang
Deep learning networks have shown state-of-the-art performance in many image reconstruction problems.
no code implementations • 31 Oct 2018 • Prashnna K Gyawali, Cameron Knight, Sandesh Ghimire, B. Milan Horacek, John L. Sapp, Linwei Wang
While deep representation learning has become increasingly capable of separating task-relevant representations from other confounding factors in the data, two significant challenges remain.
no code implementations • 12 Oct 2018 • Sandesh Ghimire, Prashnna Kumar Gyawali, John L. Sapp, Milan Horacek, Linwei Wang
The results demonstrate that the generalization ability of an inverse reconstruction network can be improved by constrained stochasticity combined with global aggregation of temporal information in the latent space.
1 code implementation • 4 Aug 2018 • Prashnna K Gyawali, B. Milan Horacek, John L. Sapp, Linwei Wang
In this work, we present a conditional variational autoencoder (VAE) to extract the subject-specific adjustment to the ECG data, conditioned on task-specific representations learned from a deterministic encoder.
no code implementations • CVPR 2014 • Jingjia Xu, Azar Rahimi Dehaghani, Fei Gao, Linwei Wang
This paper describes the development and application of a new approach to total-variation (TV) minimization for reconstruction problems on geometrically-complex and unstructured volumetric mesh.