machine assisted diagnosis using the medical speech translator

... the first VBAR in the induced rule spans the phrase “are the headaches usually”, the second VBAR spans the phrase “caused”, and the POSTMODS span the phrase “by emotional upset” The same rule could ... eliminated A medical speech translation system We have built a prototype medical speech translation system instantiating the functionality outlined in Section and the architecture of Section The system ... strings Speech synthesis is performed either by the Nuance Vocalizer TTS engine or by concatenation of recorded wavefiles, depending on the output language One of the most important questions for a medical...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 16:20

... generated using the MT and the ASR systems Another explanation for the failure of the direct integration method is the independent search to generate the word graphs The search in the MT and the ASR ... and the word order of the ASR output is correct On the other hand, the ASR recognition errors are usually single word errors and they are independent from the context Therefore, the task of the ... results of the MT system are shown first, which are obtained using the phrase-based approach Then the recognition results of the ASR system are shown Afterwards, the results of combined speech recognition...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 12:20

... and the other is the corresponding correct string (the former string is referred to as the ErrorPart, and the latter as the Correct-Part respectively) These parts are extracted from the speech ... similar to the string including errors from the StringDatabase (the former string is referred to as the Similar-String, and the latter as the Error-String) Finally, the correction is made using the ... arbitrary candidates, when one of their Error-Parts includes the other, and their frequencies are the same value, the candidate whose Error-Part includes the other is accepted Condition of Inclusion-2:...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 18:20

... measuring the success of the systems, as well as using previously established metrics A full discussion of these metrics and the results obtained for the Transonics system is beyond the scope ... crude sense, that the USC/HRL system compared favorably against the other systems in the evaluation, and also that there is still significant room for improvement in the state of the art As noted, ... was calculated based on the ASR component output being translated to the other language, while the other was calculated from human transcribed text being translated to the other language Table 2:...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 04:22

... a 1; in other words, the carry is simply the AND of the two addends, while the sum (excluding the carry) is if the first number is or the second number is 1, but not both: the XOR of the two addends ... for example, the local bus connects the CPU with high-speed memory stored on the CPU’s motherboard (often on the CPU chip itself) The system bus connects the memory board, the CPU motherboard, ... Programming the JVM 1.4.1 Java: What the JVM Isn’t Java, it must be stressed, is not the same as the Java Virtual Machine, although they were designed together and often are used together The Java...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 02:20

... sunflower trypsin inhibitor and the Lys fragment of MBTI adopt the same conformation in the nine-residue 3908 Fig (A) The amino acid sequences of the previously synthesized Lys fragment [24] and ... 6.36 · 10)9 m) than the two previously characterized disulfide isoforms of the Lys fragment (Table 1) The second step was to introduce into the reactive site of the Lys template the consensus substrate ... h, whereas the least stable M0 lost more than 60% activity during the same period of time Similar results were also observed with kexin Notably, the higher the Ki value, the faster the activity...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 13:20

... must therefore rely on the pool of information present in the general medical education literature We examined the current technology -assisted education-related medical literature to determine the ... were then instructed on how to complete the article reviews using the data collection sheet The five study investigators who performed the article reviews completed a pilot review using the data ... communication The desire to harness these advantages and the other useful features of technology -assisted education is a driving force behind the efforts of medical educators to determine the most...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 01:20

... used for the synthesis of the signal’s periodic part that was subtracted from the source in order to get the residual All harmonics of the source are modeled by the harmonic analysis when the residual ... correspond to the length of the analysis frame, they can be estimated using DFT: S f = N −∞ ϕ(t) = arc tan H[s(t)] s(t) s(n)e − j2πn f /N , (5) n=0 where N is the length of the frame The transformation ... is the energy of the deterministic part of the signal and σe2 is the energy of its stochastic part All the signals were generated using a specified fundamental frequency contour f0 (n) and the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 08:20

... in the context of the main presenting problem These causes would then be organized in the ‘fish bones’ of an Ishikawa diagram (Figure 1) There is no limit to the number of ‘fish bones’ in the ... necessary to show the relationship of all potential causes to the presenting problem For example, ‘chemotherapy and radiotherapy’ are indicated in the branch of the ‘fishbone’ that shows the cause of ... appropriate diagnosis and levothyroxine replacement therapy is effective and it can prevent inadvertent surgery [13] Furthermore, the reader should appraise the published case to assess the credibility...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 00:23

... part of the same domain where the service components reside The second category of front-end consumers is the external Web service clients and other services, shown at the top of the diagram These ... essential to understanding the material in the second half of the book The remaining chapters of the book cover all of the WS-Specifications that are implemented by WSE 2.0 Finally, the book closes with ... guarantees They are what they are, and you simply use them But what happens if the type definition gets out of sync with the component it is supposed to describe? This happens all the time in the COM+...

Ngày tải lên: 20/08/2012, 13:59

... in surgical patients the rate of MET review exceeded the death rate for virtually the entire duration of the study In contrast, for medical patients, the death rate exceeded the rate of MET review ... unexpected deaths [24] This further supports the view that the more preventive intervention by an emergency team is delivered, the lower the number of cardiac arrests The dose of the Rapid Response System ... Importantly, the rate of emergency review calls in the Medical Early Response Intervention and Therapy (MERIT) study was only 8.3 per 1,000 admissions (0.83%) during the 6-month period following the intervention...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:06

... usually use the 95% CI, the range that includes the true mortality rate 95% of the time The narrower the CI, the closer the lower and upper boundaries of the CI are to the point estimate, the greater ... through the following three questions 1) Are the results of the study valid? This question considers whether the mortality estimates reported in the article accurately represent the magnitude of the ... findings? What are the results? • How large is the mortality rate? • How precise is the estimate of the mortality rates? • What is the absolute death toll over the period of analysis? Will the results...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:31

... vacuum -assisted closure therapy Vacuum -assisted closure therapy (VAC Vakuumquellen, KCI Therapiegeräte, Höchstadt, Germany) was designed to promote the formation of granulation tissue in the wound ... respect to the tsunami's psychoemotional aftermath, the full impact of the wave on the mental health of the survivors is still unknown [2] In February 2005 the World Health Organization, among others, ... injured during the tsunami disaster in southeast Asia on 26 December 2004 These patients were initially stabilized in local medical facilities [8,9] and were then airlifted to the CMMC via German...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:41

... activation of the MET service during these hours in the years following the introduction of the MET system When directly compared with the study conducted by Lee and coworkers [5], 46.2% of the 2568 ... from the hospital switchboard log and did not provide information on the member of staff who activated the system It would be interesting to known whether there was variation in the nature of the ... of the daily medical shift (08:00–18:00) Statistical analysis The frequency of MET service activation during peak periods was compared with the average activation over the 24-hour period In the...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:45

... components of the immune system to the infected area is facilitated, which leads to a significant reduction of the bacterial count The efficacy of the V.A.C therapy has been 245 proven in the treatment ... reduction, the V.A.C.-system is not often used in the treatment of prosthesis – related infections Currently, there exist only four reports about the use of the V.A.C – system in the infection ... of the V.A.C.-therapy at the site of an early hip joint infection We believe that the careful patients’ selection as well as the modified technique is responsible for the good outcome In the...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:53

... to the others For example, the flow from University to Industry and vice versa Therefore, these flows become the main factor in the individual model and are considered as the third level The ... structural The former is the familiar contextual dependence of elements on other elements in performing their function, whereas the later is the dependence of the priority of elements on the priority ... from the top with the goal having the greatest influence of importance The AHP model formulation process starts both from bottom (the alternatives) and from the top (the objective, goal) or the...

Ngày tải lên: 23/04/2013, 10:29

... that the organic matter for the rest of the soil profile (the third layer to the eighth layer) were half of the previous layer We did not have field measurements for the microbial pools; therefore ... load into the RBS and the runoff depth from the cornfield increased the atrazine mass loss in runoff leaving the RBS increased (Table 4) Atrazine mass in runoff leaving the RBS were in the range ... concentrations in the seepage under the RBS were many orders of magnitude below 1-µg L-1 This may be due to the fact that there was no residual atrazine in the RBS soil profile at the beginning of the simulation...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 09:08

... is also possible to realize that the longer the portion of AC-Fe, the higher the adsorbent cost Therefore, optimizing the AC-Fe portion in the column is one of the key factors for a feasible arsenic ... ratio, the value of V/WACFe (V, the volume of drinkable water produced from the start using adsorbents until breakthrough / WACFe, the weight of AC-Fe in the column) was calculated and found that the ... solute (arsenic anions) in the bed is decreased resulting to shorter contact between the feed and the adsorbent In addition, the higher the flow rate, the smaller the film resistance, implying...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 09:38

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2013, 05:29

... Check whether the file has the set-group-id bit set -h file Check whether the file is a symbolic link (same as –L) -k file Check whether the file has the sticky bit set -L file Check whether the file ... displays only the path to the man page (the second element on the line) Using backticks, you can execute one section of a command line first and feed the output of that command to the rest of the command ... bash` The first command line in the preceding example finds the full path of the ps command and finds the package that contains that ps command The second command line finds the full path to the...

Ngày tải lên: 29/09/2013, 22:20