Diagnostic radiologists need artificial intelligence (AI) for medical imaging, but access to medical images required for training in AI has become increasingly restrictive. To release and use medical images, we need an algorithm that can simultaneously protect privacy and preserve pathologies in medical images. To develop such an algorithm, here, we propose DP-GLOW, a hybrid of a local differential privacy (LDP) algorithm and one of the flow-based deep generative models (GLOW). By applying a GLOW model, we disentangle the pixelwise correlation of images, which makes it difficult to protect privacy with straightforward LDP algorithms for images. Specifically, we map images onto the latent vector of the GLOW model, each element of which follows an independent normal distribution, and we apply the Laplace mechanism to the latent vector. Moreover, we applied DP-GLOW to chest X-ray images to generate LDP images while preserving pathologies.

从出生到死亡，由于老化，我们都经历了令人惊讶的无处不在的变化。如果我们可以预测数字领域的衰老，即人体的数字双胞胎，我们将能够在很早的阶段检测病变，从而提高生活质量并延长寿命。我们观察到，没有一个先前开发的成年人体数字双胞胎在具有深层生成模型的体积医学图像之间明确训练的纵向转换规则，可能导致例如心室体积的预测性能不佳。在这里，我们建立了一个新的成人人体的数字双胞胎，该数字双胞胎采用纵向获得的头部计算机断层扫描（CT）图像进行训练，从而从一个当前的体积头CT图像中预测了未来的体积头CT图像。我们首次采用了三维基于流动的深层生成模型之一，以实现这种顺序的三维数字双胞胎。我们表明，我们的数字双胞胎在相对较短的程度上优于预测心室体积的最新方法。

This study targets the mixed-integer black-box optimization (MI-BBO) problem where continuous and integer variables should be optimized simultaneously. The CMA-ES, our focus in this study, is a population-based stochastic search method that samples solution candidates from a multivariate Gaussian distribution (MGD), which shows excellent performance in continuous BBO. The parameters of MGD, mean and (co)variance, are updated based on the evaluation value of candidate solutions in the CMA-ES. If the CMA-ES is applied to the MI-BBO with straightforward discretization, however, the variance corresponding to the integer variables becomes much smaller than the granularity of the discretization before reaching the optimal solution, which leads to the stagnation of the optimization. In particular, when binary variables are included in the problem, this stagnation more likely occurs because the granularity of the discretization becomes wider, and the existing modification to the CMA-ES does not address this stagnation. To overcome these limitations, we propose a simple extension of the CMA-ES based on lower-bounding the marginal probabilities associated with the generation of integer variables in the MGD. The numerical experiments on the MI-BBO benchmark problems demonstrate the efficiency and robustness of the proposed method. Furthermore, in order to demonstrate the generality of the idea of the proposed method, in addition to the single-objective optimization case, we incorporate it into multi-objective CMA-ES and verify its performance on bi-objective mixed-integer benchmark problems.

Machine learning (ML) is revolutionizing protein structural analysis, including an important subproblem of predicting protein residue contact maps, i.e., which amino-acid residues are in close spatial proximity given the amino-acid sequence of a protein. Despite recent progresses in ML-based protein contact prediction, predicting contacts with a wide range of distances (commonly classified into short-, medium- and long-range contacts) remains a challenge. Here, we propose a multiscale graph neural network (GNN) based approach taking a cue from multiscale physics simulations, in which a standard pipeline involving a recurrent neural network (RNN) is augmented with three GNNs to refine predictive capability for short-, medium- and long-range residue contacts, respectively. Test results on the ProteinNet dataset show improved accuracy for contacts of all ranges using the proposed multiscale RNN+GNN approach over the conventional approach, including the most challenging case of long-range contact prediction.

目的：基于知识的计划（KBP）通常涉及培训端到端深度学习模型以预测剂量分布。但是，由于经常使用的医疗数据集规模有限，端到端方法可能与实际限制有关。为了解决这些局限性，我们提出了一种基于内容的图像检索（CBIR）方法，用于根据解剖学相似性检索先前计划的患者的剂量分布。方法：我们提出的CBIR方法训练一种代表模型，该模型可产生患者解剖信息的潜在空间嵌入。然后将新患者的潜在空间嵌入与数据库中以前患者的潜在空间嵌入，以检索剂量分布的图像。该项目的所有源代码均可在GitHub上获得。主要结果：在由我们机构的公开计划和临床计划组成的数据集上评估了各种CBIR方法的检索性能。这项研究比较了各种编码方法，从简单的自动编码器到Simsiam等最新的暹罗网络，并且在Multipask Siamese网络中观察到了最佳性能。意义：应用CBIR告知后续的治疗计划可能会解决与端到端KBP相关的许多限制。我们目前的结果表明，可以通过对先前开发的暹罗网络进行轻微更改来获得出色的图像检索性能。我们希望通过Metaplanner框架等方法将CBIR集成到未来工作中的自动化计划工作流程中。

我们考虑使用未知差异的双臂高斯匪徒的固定预算最佳臂识别问题。当差异未知时，性能保证与下限的性能保证匹配的算法最紧密的下限和算法的算法很长。当算法不可知到ARM的最佳比例算法。在本文中，我们提出了一种策略，该策略包括在估计的ARM绘制的目标分配概率之后具有随机采样（RS）的采样规则，并且使用增强的反概率加权（AIPW）估计器通常用于因果推断文学。我们将我们的战略称为RS-AIPW战略。在理论分析中，我们首先推导出鞅的大偏差原理，当第二次孵化的均值时，可以使用，并将其应用于我们提出的策略。然后，我们表明，拟议的策略在错误识别的可能性达到了Kaufmann等人的意义上是渐近最佳的。 （2016）当样品尺寸无限大而双臂之间的间隙变为零。