In schools,
the study of algorithms includes learning about the ways that information and processes can be represented systematically, the common building blocks of algorithms, such as loops and conditional statements, and patterns in the design of algorithms.
Not exact matches
One key limitation
of the recent Fitbit
study, says Dr. Vincent Thijs, an expert on stroke at the University
of Melbourne's Florey Institute
of Neuroscience and Mental Health, is that it demonstrates only that the tracker and
algorithm can detect persistent or permanent atrial fibrillation, rather than paroxysmal AFib (or short, sudden spasms).
If you're in the kind
of a job where maybe someone else can look at the record
of what you've done in the past and — based on looking at that,
studying it, practicing it and repeating it — they could learn your job, then there's a good chance that an
algorithm could also do that.
The
study authors created an
algorithm which «looked at roughly 44,000 Instagram photos posted by 166
study participants — 71
of whom were diagnosed with depression in the past.
The technology has proved to be quite effective in
studies — Embrace's
algorithm detected 100 %
of the seizures in a multi-site clinical
study of 135 patients diagnosed with epilepsy.
While discounting subjective criteria such as eye and skin color, the site scores users out
of 10 according to a specific
algorithm that «takes into account many factors from neoclassical beauty, modern research papers, and our own scientific
studies,» the company said.
I know that getting here required many hours writing
algorithms,
studying computer architectures, learning new languages, fighting your way through problem sets, and holding your breath to see if your code compiles with no errors (and hopefully only a couple
of warnings).
More sensors connected to the child's head allow the
algorithms to create an image
of brain waves that doctors can then
study.
A
study published in the journal Science and written by three members
of the Facebook data science team found that the News Feed
algorithm suppresses what they called «diverse content» by 8 percent for self - identified liberals and 5 percent for self - identified conservatives.
Even though the research
studied 30,000 cases, «there are still a lot
of things that need to be looked at,» he said, «but based on our research and what our testing has shown, we are able to predict the future success
of a new campaign that the machine - learning
algorithm has never seen before with up to 80 per cent accuracy.»
A professor who
studies algorithms and social networks says that YouTube's excuse for not moderating the section
of its site that helps users discover new videos is «absurd.»
It is not new for internet firms to use
algorithms to select content to show to users and Jacob Silverman, author
of Terms
of Service: Social Media, Surveillance, and the Price
of Constant Connection, told Wire magazine on Sunday the internet was already «a vast collection
of market research
studies; we're the subjects».
Among 11
study participants for whom data from the oral food challenge were either inconclusive or not available, a diagnostic
algorithm based on clinical history, the results
of a skin - prick test, and the values for peanut - specific IgE were used to determine whether or not a participant should be considered to have peanut allergy (Fig.
A body that calls itself the CIES Football Observatory (part
of the International Centre for Sports
Studies) have come up with what they say is a science based
algorithm -LRB-!)
Chapter eleven includes
studies in difficult intubations: tricks
of the trade, including an
algorithm for such scenarios.
The aim
of this
study was to evaluate adherence to the Neonatal Resuscitation Program
algorithm by subjects working from memory as compared to subjects using a decision support tool that provides auditory and visual prompts to guide implementation
of the Neonatal Resuscitation Program
algorithm during simulated neonatal resuscitation.Healthcare professionals (physicians, nurse practitioners, obstetrical / neonatal nurses) with a current NRP card were randomized to the control or intervention group and performed three simulated neonatal resuscitations.
Currently, he is undertaking
studies at Chalmers University
of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden in MPALG (Masters Program in
Algorithms, Logic & Languages).
In a new
study published in EPJE, physicists have developed an
algorithm to simulate the molecular dynamics
of these patchy particles.
An earlier
study using that model showed that the
algorithms in the model can predict where in the brain a seizure will originate and which groups
of neurons it will likely spread to as it grows.
Led by Stella K. Kang, a radiologist with the Department
of Radiology at the New York School
of Medicine, the
study was designed to compare the effectiveness
of a treatment
algorithm for small renal tumors incorporating the nephrometry score, a renal tumor anatomy scoring system developed by urologists, with the current standard
of uniformly recommended partial nephrectomy in patients with mild - to - moderate chronic kidney disease (CKD).
I soon got a position in a company working on supply chain management models, where we elaborated
algorithms and software to
study the efficiency
of industrial production processes and distribution phases.
In the
study, researchers used a mathematical
algorithm to analyze the brain scans and eye movements
of 16 young adults between the ages
of 20 to 28.
«The
algorithm is based on an in - depth
study of how video services work, how video content is encoded and how a video player requests information to play it.»
A: I'm drawing on the field
of computational psychiatry, which assumes we can learn about a patient who's depressed or hallucinating from
studying AI
algorithms like reinforcement learning.
He is working on a National Institutes
of Health grant
studying how to develop
algorithms that will work across institutions.
Studies that demonstrate embodied cognition seem to defy conventional wisdom, which paints thought as a set
of computer - like
algorithms that unfold entirely within the skull.
The REACT (Randomized Evaluation
of an
Algorithm for Crohn's Treatment)
study, led by Robarts Clinical Trials at Western University (London, Canada) provides valuable new insights for community gastroenterologists which should benefit patients.
For the
study, researchers programmed machines with an
algorithm called S # and ran them through a variety
of two - player games to see how well they would cooperate in certain relationships.
Researchers at the A * STAR Data Storage Institute (DSI) in Singapore have now developed a computational
algorithm for
studying the properties
of the slider in a hard drive that is faster than existing algorithms1.
For his Ph.D., he focused on biological questions, for example developing an
algorithm to
study populations that are mixtures
of other populations, which is the result
of a process called admixture, and infer properties
of the original populations.
Newman's team are
studying how
algorithms can make sense
of data streaming from a 3D laser rangefinder and quickly decide whether an object is a car or pedestrian, for example.
By teaming up with the laboratory
of TSRI Professor John Yates, the researchers in this
study successfully used a computer
algorithm to rapidly analyze results instead.
Then they ran a series
of tests to
study how the various control
algorithms they had designed affected the ability
of the device to absorb energy.
«For all three types
of studies, the
algorithms showed significantly better performance in tracking the nostril area than other state -
of - the - art methods,» said Cho.
«We're relying on the chemistry to generate the ground truth and act as the «supervisor» for a supervised learning
algorithm,» said David Mayerich, first author
of the
study.
Despite the claims
of basically every online dating site, a new
study published in Psychological Science suggests that
algorithms and attraction don't mix.
Despite such known limitations, a group
of researchers recently released a
study asserting that an
algorithm can infer whether someone is a convicted criminal by assessing facial features.
The
study asserts that human brains apply an
algorithm known as a Kalman filter when tracking an object's position, which helps the brain process less than perfect visual signals, such as when objects move to the periphery
of our visual field where acuity is low.
Thanks to an improved
algorithm to analyze the images, Schrabback's team could
study in great detail the shapes
of over 446,000 galaxies in a 1.64 square degree patch
of sky.
The
study to be presented by Jason Talbot, assistant professor
of radiology at the University
of California, San Francisco, involved using semiautomated image analysis with machine - learning
algorithms to assess the accuracy
of axial T2 - weighted radiomic features for classifying patients by degree
of neurologic injury.
For the current
study, his team has developed
algorithms that accelerate the complete processing
of the photo data right up to the animatable avatar.
Over the past five to 10 years,
studies of brain activity during sleep have provided some
of the first direct evidence that the brain employs a Boltzmann - like learning
algorithm in order to integrate new information and memories into its structure.
«Our
algorithm is a small step,» says Ilya Nemenman, lead author
of the
study and a professor
of physics and biology at Emory University.
«We are currently waiting for the results
of a larger, randomized
study currently being conducted in the United Kingdom that uses the same Risk
of Ovarian Cancer
Algorithm in a similar population
of women.
At the level
of the synapses, «this
algorithm can be implemented in several different ways,» said Sejnowski, who earlier this year became an advisor on the Obama administration's new BRAIN Initiative, a $ 100 million research effort to develop new techniques for
studying the brain.
Now, a new
study by statcheck's developers — posted to a preprint server this week — suggests their
algorithm gets it right in more than 95 %
of cases.
The
study, published today in Nature Ecology & Evolution, analysed data
of 2415 species
of mammals alive today using computer
algorithms to reconstruct the likely activity patterns
of their ancient ancestors who lived millions
of years ago.
Called the high - dimensional propensity score
algorithm (hd - PS), it is a tool for improving not randomized clinical trials but broader observational
studies, in which researchers watch a large pool
of participants and look for correlations — like the fact that wine drinkers live longer than other drinkers.
In another
study, Dirk Westermann, M.D.,
of University Hospital Hamburg - Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany and colleagues aimed to develop an
algorithm for accurate and rapid exclusion and diagnosis
of AMI after 1 hour.
By
studying video footage
of children interacting with a psychiatrist, computer - vision
algorithms learn to identify behavioural markers as designated on the Autism Observation Scale for Infants.