Frontiers

Human Functioning as the Third Health Indicator: Epidemiology, Classification, and Measurement

Human functioning is increasingly recognized as the third indicator of health, complementing mortality and morbidity. While these indicators describe ...
C&EN

Porous-Structure Flexible Muscle Sensor for Monitoring Muscle Function and Mass

Muscle function and composition are important indicators of age-related health. However, current assessment methods are often complex and expensive, making the early detection of related problems ...
Medical Xpress

Gene therapy may slow loss of motor function in ALS

Researchers have developed a gene therapy that significantly slowed motor function loss in preclinical models of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), offering new hope for treating the devastating ...
IEEE

Enhancing ECG Classification in Cardiac Diagnostics: A Novel Approach Using Adaptive Focal Cross-Entropy Loss Function

Abstract: Heart disease is the leading cause of mortality globally. Electrocardiograms (ECGs) are standard instruments for the examination of heart conditions, but traditional analysis is ...
IEEE

A Framework for Imbalanced SAR Ship Classification: Curriculum Learning, Weighted Loss Functions, and a Novel Evaluation Metric

Abstract: Accurate ship classification is essential for maritime traffic monitoring applications but is significantly hindered by imbalanced datasets. In this paper, we propose a novel methodology ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Mushava, J. and Murray, M. (2024) Flexible Loss Functions for Binary Classification in Gradient-Boosted Decision Trees: An Application to Credit Scoring. Expert Systems with ...

ABSTRACT: Delirium is a common yet critical condition among Intensive Care Unit (ICU) patients, characterized by acute cognitive disturbances that can lead to severe complications, prolonged hospital ...