This paper proposes a perception and path planning pipeline for autonomous racing in an unknown bounded course. The pipeline was initially created for the 2021 evGrandPrix autonomous division and was further improved for the 2022 event, both of which resulting in first place finishes. Using a simple LiDAR-based perception pipeline feeding into an occupancy grid based expansion algorithm, we determine a goal point to drive. This pipeline successfully achieved reliable and consistent laps in addition with occupancy grid algorithm to know the ways around a cone-defined track with an averaging speeds of 6.85 m/s over a distance 434.2 meters for a total lap time of 63.4 seconds.

The number of international benchmarking competitions is steadily increasing in various fields of machine learning (ML) research and practice. So far, however, little is known about the common practice as well as bottlenecks faced by the community in tackling the research questions posed. To shed light on the status quo of algorithm development in the specific field of biomedical imaging analysis, we designed an international survey that was issued to all participants of challenges conducted in conjunction with the IEEE ISBI 2021 and MICCAI 2021 conferences (80 competitions in total). The survey covered participants' expertise and working environments, their chosen strategies, as well as algorithm characteristics. A median of 72% challenge participants took part in the survey. According to our results, knowledge exchange was the primary incentive (70%) for participation, while the reception of prize money played only a minor role (16%). While a median of 80 working hours was spent on method development, a large portion of participants stated that they did not have enough time for method development (32%). 25% perceived the infrastructure to be a bottleneck. Overall, 94% of all solutions were deep learning-based. Of these, 84% were based on standard architectures. 43% of the respondents reported that the data samples (e.g., images) were too large to be processed at once. This was most commonly addressed by patch-based training (69%), downsampling (37%), and solving 3D analysis tasks as a series of 2D tasks. K-fold cross-validation on the training set was performed by only 37% of the participants and only 50% of the participants performed ensembling based on multiple identical models (61%) or heterogeneous models (39%). 48% of the respondents applied postprocessing steps.

Over the years, Machine Learning models have been successfully employed on neuroimaging data for accurately predicting brain age. Deviations from the healthy brain aging pattern are associated to the accelerated brain aging and brain abnormalities. Hence, efficient and accurate diagnosis techniques are required for eliciting accurate brain age estimations. Several contributions have been reported in the past for this purpose, resorting to different data-driven modeling methods. Recently, deep neural networks (also referred to as deep learning) have become prevalent in manifold neuroimaging studies, including brain age estimation. In this review, we offer a comprehensive analysis of the literature related to the adoption of deep learning for brain age estimation with neuroimaging data. We detail and analyze different deep learning architectures used for this application, pausing at research works published to date quantitatively exploring their application. We also examine different brain age estimation frameworks, comparatively exposing their advantages and weaknesses. Finally, the review concludes with an outlook towards future directions that should be followed by prospective studies. The ultimate goal of this paper is to establish a common and informed reference for newcomers and experienced researchers willing to approach brain age estimation by using deep learning models

Large language models (LLMs) have been shown to be able to perform new tasks based on a few demonstrations or natural language instructions. While these capabilities have led to widespread adoption, most LLMs are developed by resource-rich organizations and are frequently kept from the public. As a step towards democratizing this powerful technology, we present BLOOM, a 176B-parameter open-access language model designed and built thanks to a collaboration of hundreds of researchers. BLOOM is a decoder-only Transformer language model that was trained on the ROOTS corpus, a dataset comprising hundreds of sources in 46 natural and 13 programming languages (59 in total). We find that BLOOM achieves competitive performance on a wide variety of benchmarks, with stronger results after undergoing multitask prompted finetuning. To facilitate future research and applications using LLMs, we publicly release our models and code under the Responsible AI License.

In the human brain, essential iron molecules for proper neurological functioning exist in transferrin (tf) and ferritin (Fe3) forms. However, its unusual increment manifests iron overload, which reacts with hydrogen peroxide. This reaction will generate hydroxyl radicals, and irons higher oxidation states. Further, this reaction causes tissue damage or cognitive decline in the brain and also leads to neurodegenerative diseases. The susceptibility difference due to iron overload within the volume of interest (VOI) responsible for field perturbation of MRI and can benefit in estimating the neural disorder. The quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) technique can estimate susceptibility alteration and assist in quantifying the local tissue susceptibility differences. It has attracted many researchers and clinicians to diagnose and detect neural disorders such as Parkinsons, Alzheimers, Multiple Sclerosis, and aging. The paper presents a systematic review illustrating QSM fundamentals and its processing steps, including phase unwrapping, background field removal, and susceptibility inversion. Using QSM, the present work delivers novel predictive biomarkers for various neural disorders. It can strengthen new researchers fundamental knowledge and provides insight into its applicability for cognitive decline disclosure. The paper discusses the future scope of QSM processing stages and their applications in identifying new biomarkers for neural disorders.

Structural alterations have been thoroughly investigated in the brain during the early onset of schizophrenia (SCZ) with the development of neuroimaging methods. The objective of the paper is an efficient classification of SCZ in 2 different classes: Cognitive Normal (CN), and SCZ using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images. This paper proposed a lightweight 3D convolutional neural network (CNN) based framework for SCZ diagnosis using MRI images. In the proposed model, lightweight 3D CNN is used to extract both spatial and spectral features simultaneously from 3D volume MRI scans, and classification is done using an ensemble bagging classifier. Ensemble bagging classifier contributes to preventing overfitting, reduces variance, and improves the model's accuracy. The proposed algorithm is tested on datasets taken from three benchmark databases available as open-source: MCICShare, COBRE, and fBRINPhase-II. These datasets have undergone preprocessing steps to register all the MRI images to the standard template and reduce the artifacts. The model achieves the highest accuracy 92.22%, sensitivity 94.44%, specificity 90%, precision 90.43%, recall 94.44%, F1-score 92.39% and G-mean 92.19% as compared to the current state-of-the-art techniques. The performance metrics evidenced the use of this model to assist the clinicians for automatic accurate diagnosis of SCZ.

最近，分布式的半监督学习（DSSL）算法表明，它们在利用未标记的样本优于互连网络方面的有效性，在这些网络上，代理无法彼此共享其原始数据，并且只能与邻居传达非敏感信息。但是，现有的DSSL算法无法应对数据不确定性，并且可能会遭受高度计算和通信开销问题的困扰。为了解决这些问题，我们提出了一个分布式的半监督模糊回归（DSFR）模型，该模型具有模糊的规则和插值一致性正则化（ICR）。 ICR最近是针对半监督问题的，可以迫使决策边界通过稀疏的数据区域，从而增加模型的鲁棒性。但是，尚未考虑其在分布式方案中的应用。在这项工作中，我们提出了分布式模糊C均值（DFCM）方法和分布式插值一致性正则化（DICR）（DICR）构建在众所周知的乘数交替方向方法上，以分别定位DSFR的先行和结果组件中的参数。值得注意的是，DSFR模型的收敛非常快，因为它不涉及后传播过程，并且可扩展到从DFCM和DICR的利用率中受益的大规模数据集。人工和现实世界数据集的实验结果表明，就损失价值和计算成本而言，提出的DSFR模型可以比最新的DSSL算法获得更好的性能。

播客本质上是对话性的，说话者的变化很频繁 - 需要说话者诊断以了解内容。我们在不依赖语言特定组件的情况下提出了一种无监督的技术诊断技术。该算法是重叠的，不需要有关说话者数量的信息。我们的方法显示，针对播客数据的Google Cloud Platform解决方案，纯度得分（F-评分为34％）的纯度得分提高了79％。

标准人工神经网络（ANNS）使用无内存非线性激活的总和产生或多功能节点操作。这些神经网络已知具有通用功能近似功能。先前提出的形态学感知器使用Max-sum，代替总产量，节点处理，并具有有希望的电路实现属性。在本文中，我们表明这些Max-SUM ANN没有通用近似功能。此外，我们考虑了形态学上的签名签名的最大和最大 - 明星和最大 - 星级概括，并表明这些变体也没有通用的近似能力。我们将这些变化与对数数字系统（LNS）的实现进行对比，这些变化也避免了乘法，但确实具有通用的近似功能。

定量超声（QUS）提供了有关组织特性的重要信息。可以通过将包络数据分为小重叠贴片并计算不同的斑点统计信息，例如中Nakagami的参数和knody k-Distribution（HK-Distribution）来形成QUS参数图像。计算出的QUS参数图像可能是错误的，因为补丁中只有几个独立的样本可用。另一个挑战是，假定斑块内的包膜样品来自相同的分布，这一假设通常会违反，因为该组织通常不是同质的。在本文中，我们提出了一种基于卷积神经网络（CNN）的方法，以估算QUS参数图像而无需修补。我们构建一个从HK分布中采样的大数据集，具有随机形状和QUS参数值的区域。然后，我们使用众所周知的网络以多任务学习方式估算QUS参数。我们的结果证实，所提出的方法能够减少错误并改善QUS参数图像中的边界定义。