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Towards Secure Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning: Adversarial Attacks and Countermeasures (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zheng, C., Zhen, C., Xie, H., & Yang, S. (2022). Towards Secure Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning: Adversarial Attacks and Countermeasures. In 2022 IEEE Conference on Dependable and Secure Computing (DSC). https://doi.org/10.1109/dsc54232.2022.9888

Reinforcement Learning (RL) is one of the most popular methods for solving complex sequential decision-making problems. Deep RL needs careful sensing of the environment, selecting algorithms as well as hyper-parameters via soft agents, and simultaneo... Read More about Towards Secure Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning: Adversarial Attacks and Countermeasures.

Semi-supervised Representative Learning for Measuring Epidermal Thickness in Human Subjects in Optical Coherence Tomography by Leveraging Datasets from Rodent Models (2022)
Journal Article
Ji, Y., Yang, S., Zhou, K., Lu, J., Wang, R., Rocliffe, H. R., …Huang, Z. (2022). Semi-supervised Representative Learning for Measuring Epidermal Thickness in Human Subjects in Optical Coherence Tomography by Leveraging Datasets from Rodent Models. Jour

Aim: Morphological changes in the epidermis layer are critical for the diagnosis and assessment of various skin diseases. Due to its non-invasiveness, optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a good candidate for observing microstructural changes of ski... Read More about Semi-supervised Representative Learning for Measuring Epidermal Thickness in Human Subjects in Optical Coherence Tomography by Leveraging Datasets from Rodent Models.

Thermography for Disease Detection in Livestock: A Scoping Review (2022)
Journal Article
McManus, R., Boden, L., Weir, W., Viora, L., Barker, R., Kim, Y., …Yang, S. (2022). Thermography for Disease Detection in Livestock: A Scoping Review. Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 9, Article 965622. https://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2022.965622

Infra-red thermography (IRT) offers potential opportunities as a tool for disease detection in livestock. Despite considerable research in this area, there are no common standards or protocols for managing IRT parameters in animal disease detection r... Read More about Thermography for Disease Detection in Livestock: A Scoping Review.

Co-optimization method to improve lateral resolution in photoacoustic computed tomography (2022)
Journal Article
Zhang, Y., Yang, S., Xia, Z., Hou, R., Xu, B., Hou, L., …Xiong, J. (2022). Co-optimization method to improve lateral resolution in photoacoustic computed tomography. Biomedical Optics Express, 13(9), 4621-4636. https://doi.org/10.1364/BOE.469744

In biomedical imaging, photoacoustic computed tomography (PACT) has recently gained increased interest as this imaging technique has good optical contrast and depth of acoustic penetration. However, a spinning blur will be introduced during the image... Read More about Co-optimization method to improve lateral resolution in photoacoustic computed tomography.

Machine learning-enabled quantitative ultrasound techniques for tissue differentiation (2022)
Journal Article
Thomson, H., Yang, S., & Cochran, S. (2022). Machine learning-enabled quantitative ultrasound techniques for tissue differentiation. Journal of Medical Ultrasonics, 49, 517-528. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10396-022-01230-6

Purpose: Quantitative ultrasound (QUS) infers properties about tissue microstructure from backscattered radio-frequency ultrasound data. This paper describes how to implement the most practical QUS parameters using an ultrasound research system for t... Read More about Machine learning-enabled quantitative ultrasound techniques for tissue differentiation.

A Fast Inference Framework for Medical Image Semantic Segmentation Tasks Using Deep Learning Framework (2022)
Book Chapter
Yang, S., & Li, Y. (2022). A Fast Inference Framework for Medical Image Semantic Segmentation Tasks Using Deep Learning Framework. In C. H. Chen (Ed.), Computational Intelligence and Image Processing in Medical Applications (157-174). World Scientific Pub

Deep neural network powered semantic segmentation implementation has great advantages of providing accurate object detection using pixel-based classification; however, when this technique is applied within resource-constrained platforms, such as mobi... Read More about A Fast Inference Framework for Medical Image Semantic Segmentation Tasks Using Deep Learning Framework.

Deep Learning Approach for Automated Thickness Measurement of Epithelial Tissue and Scab using Optical Coherence Tomography (2022)
Journal Article
Ji, Y., Yang, S., Zhou, K., Rocliffe, H. R., Pellicoro, A., Cash, J. L., …Huang, Z. (2022). Deep Learning Approach for Automated Thickness Measurement of Epithelial Tissue and Scab using Optical Coherence Tomography. Journal of Biomedical Optics, 27(1),

Significance: In order to elucidate therapeutic treatment to accelerate wound healing, it is crucial to understand the process underlying skin wound healing, especially re-epithelialization. Epidermis and scab detection is of importance in the wound... Read More about Deep Learning Approach for Automated Thickness Measurement of Epithelial Tissue and Scab using Optical Coherence Tomography.