Search Results for author: Pengcheng Xi

Found 15 papers, 2 papers with code

NutritionVerse: Empirical Study of Various Dietary Intake Estimation Approaches

no code implementations14 Sep 2023 Chi-en Amy Tai, Matthew Keller, Saeejith Nair, Yuhao Chen, Yifan Wu, Olivia Markham, Krish Parmar, Pengcheng Xi, Heather Keller, Sharon Kirkpatrick, Alexander Wong

Recent work has focused on using computer vision and machine learning to automatically estimate dietary intake from food images, but the lack of comprehensive datasets with diverse viewpoints, modalities and food annotations hinders the accuracy and realism of such methods.

Transferring Knowledge for Food Image Segmentation using Transformers and Convolutions

no code implementations15 Jun 2023 Grant Sinha, Krish Parmar, Hilda Azimi, Amy Tai, Yuhao Chen, Alexander Wong, Pengcheng Xi

To address these issues, two models are trained and compared, one based on convolutional neural networks and the other on Bidirectional Encoder representation for Image Transformers (BEiT).

Image Segmentation Segmentation +1

NutritionVerse-Thin: An Optimized Strategy for Enabling Improved Rendering of 3D Thin Food Models

no code implementations12 Apr 2023 Chi-en Amy Tai, Jason Li, Sriram Kumar, Saeejith Nair, Yuhao Chen, Pengcheng Xi, Alexander Wong

With the growth in capabilities of generative models, there has been growing interest in using photo-realistic renders of common 3D food items to improve downstream tasks such as food printing, nutrition prediction, or management of food wastage.

Management Nutrition

NutritionVerse-3D: A 3D Food Model Dataset for Nutritional Intake Estimation

no code implementations12 Apr 2023 Chi-en Amy Tai, Matthew Keller, Mattie Kerrigan, Yuhao Chen, Saeejith Nair, Pengcheng Xi, Alexander Wong

Unlike existing datasets, a collection of 3D models with nutritional information allow for view synthesis to create an infinite number of 2D images for any given viewpoint/camera angle along with the associated nutritional information.

Nutrition

COVID-Net USPro: An Open-Source Explainable Few-Shot Deep Prototypical Network to Monitor and Detect COVID-19 Infection from Point-of-Care Ultrasound Images

no code implementations4 Jan 2023 Jessy Song, Ashkan Ebadi, Adrian Florea, Pengcheng Xi, Stéphane Tremblay, Alexander Wong

As the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) continues to impact many aspects of life and the global healthcare systems, the adoption of rapid and effective screening methods to prevent further spread of the virus and lessen the burden on healthcare providers is a necessity.

A Trustworthy Framework for Medical Image Analysis with Deep Learning

no code implementations6 Dec 2022 Kai Ma, Siyuan He, Pengcheng Xi, Ashkan Ebadi, Stéphane Tremblay, Alexander Wong

Computer vision and machine learning are playing an increasingly important role in computer-assisted diagnosis; however, the application of deep learning to medical imaging has challenges in data availability and data imbalance, and it is especially important that models for medical imaging are built to be trustworthy.

Towards Trustworthy Healthcare AI: Attention-Based Feature Learning for COVID-19 Screening With Chest Radiography

no code implementations19 Jul 2022 Kai Ma, Pengcheng Xi, Karim Habashy, Ashkan Ebadi, Stéphane Tremblay, Alexander Wong

In this study, we propose a feature learning approach using Vision Transformers, which use an attention-based mechanism, and examine the representation learning capability of Transformers as a new backbone architecture for medical imaging.

Representation Learning

COVID-Net UV: An End-to-End Spatio-Temporal Deep Neural Network Architecture for Automated Diagnosis of COVID-19 Infection from Ultrasound Videos

no code implementations18 May 2022 Hilda Azimi, Ashkan Ebadi, Jessy Song, Pengcheng Xi, Alexander Wong

Besides vaccination, as an effective way to mitigate the further spread of COVID-19, fast and accurate screening of individuals to test for the disease is yet necessary to ensure public health safety.

Improving Classification Model Performance on Chest X-Rays through Lung Segmentation

no code implementations22 Feb 2022 Hilda Azimi, Jianxing Zhang, Pengcheng Xi, Hala Asad, Ashkan Ebadi, Stephane Tremblay, Alexander Wong

Our approach is designed in a cascaded manner and incorporates two modules: a deep neural network with criss-cross attention modules (XLSor) for localizing lung region in CXR images and a CXR classification model with a backbone of a self-supervised momentum contrast (MoCo) model pre-trained on large-scale CXR data sets.

Classification Segmentation

COVID-Net US: A Tailored, Highly Efficient, Self-Attention Deep Convolutional Neural Network Design for Detection of COVID-19 Patient Cases from Point-of-care Ultrasound Imaging

1 code implementation5 Aug 2021 Alexander MacLean, Saad Abbasi, Ashkan Ebadi, Andy Zhao, Maya Pavlova, Hayden Gunraj, Pengcheng Xi, Sonny Kohli, Alexander Wong

The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has impacted many aspects of life globally, and a critical factor in mitigating its effects is screening individuals for infections, thereby allowing for both proper treatment for those individuals as well as action to be taken to prevent further spread of the virus.

COVIDx-US -- An open-access benchmark dataset of ultrasound imaging data for AI-driven COVID-19 analytics

2 code implementations18 Mar 2021 Ashkan Ebadi, Pengcheng Xi, Alexander MacLean, Stéphane Tremblay, Sonny Kohli, Alexander Wong

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a devastating effect on the health and well-being of the global population.

Understanding the temporal evolution of COVID-19 research through machine learning and natural language processing

no code implementations22 Jul 2020 Ashkan Ebadi, Pengcheng Xi, Stéphane Tremblay, Bruce Spencer, Raman Pall, Alexander Wong

The outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has been continuously affecting human lives and communities around the world in many ways, from cities under lockdown to new social experiences.

BIG-bench Machine Learning

Abnormality Detection in Mammography using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks

no code implementations5 Mar 2018 Pengcheng Xi, Chang Shu, Rafik Goubran

State-of-the-art deep convolutional neural networks are compared on their performance of classifying the abnormalities.

Anomaly Detection

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