Manual prescription of the field of view (FOV) by MRI technologists is variable and prolongs the scanning process. Often, the FOV is too large or crops critical anatomy. We propose a deep-learning framework, trained by radiologists' supervision, for automating FOV prescription. An intra-stack shared feature extraction network and an attention network are used to process a stack of 2D image inputs to generate output scalars defining the location of a rectangular region of interest (ROI). The attention mechanism is used to make the model focus on the small number of informative slices in a stack. Then the smallest FOV that makes the neural network predicted ROI free of aliasing is calculated by an algebraic operation derived from MR sampling theory. We retrospectively collected 595 cases between February 2018 and February 2022. The framework's performance is examined quantitatively with intersection over union (IoU) and pixel error on position, and qualitatively with a reader study. We use the t-test for comparing quantitative results from all models and a radiologist. The proposed model achieves an average IoU of 0.867 and average ROI position error of 9.06 out of 512 pixels on 80 test cases, significantly better (P<0.05) than two baseline models and not significantly different from a radiologist (P>0.12). Finally, the FOV given by the proposed framework achieves an acceptance rate of 92% from an experienced radiologist.

展开的神经网络最近实现了最先进的MRI重建。这些网络通过在基于物理的一致性和基于神经网络的正则化之间交替来展开迭代优化算法。但是，它们需要大型神经网络的几次迭代来处理高维成像任务，例如3D MRI。这限制了基于反向传播的传统训练算法，这是由于较大的记忆力和计算梯度和存储中间激活的计算要求。为了应对这一挑战，我们提出了加速MRI（GLEAM）重建的贪婪学习，这是一种高维成像设置的有效培训策略。 GLEAM将端到端网络拆分为脱钩的网络模块。每个模块都以贪婪的方式优化，并通过脱钩的梯度更新，从而减少了训练过程中的内存足迹。我们表明，可以在多个图形处理单元（GPU）上并行执行解耦梯度更新，以进一步减少训练时间。我们介绍了2D和3D数据集的实验，包括多线圈膝，大脑和动态心脏Cine MRI。我们观察到：i）闪闪发光的概括以及最先进的记忆效率基线，例如具有相同内存足迹的梯度检查点和可逆网络，但训练速度更快1.3倍； ii）对于相同的内存足迹，闪光在2D中产生1.1dB PSNR的增益，而3D在端到端基线中产生1.8 dB。

在临床实践中，MR图像通常首先在扫描后长期看到辐射药剂。如果图像质量不充分，则患者必须返回额外的扫描，或者呈现次优解释。自动图像质量评估（IQA）将实现实时修复。对于MRI的现有IQA工作仅提供一般的质量得分，不可知论是对低质量扫描的原因和解决方案。此外，放射科医师的图像质量要求随扫描类型和诊断任务而异。因此，相同的分数可能对不同的扫描具有不同的影响。我们提出了一个训练训练的多任务CNN模型的框架，并用校准标签推断出来。由人类投入校准的标签遵循明确明确和高效的标签任务。图像统治者解决了不同的质量标准，并提供了一种从CNN中解释原始分数的具体方法。该模型支持对MRI中两个最常见的工件的评估：噪音和运动。它达到了约90％的准确度，比以前的最佳方法更好地达到6％，比噪声评估的人类专家更好3％。我们的实验表明，标签校准，图像统治者和多任务培训提高了模型的性能和概括性。

Variational autoencoders model high-dimensional data by positing low-dimensional latent variables that are mapped through a flexible distribution parametrized by a neural network. Unfortunately, variational autoencoders often suffer from posterior collapse: the posterior of the latent variables is equal to its prior, rendering the variational autoencoder useless as a means to produce meaningful representations. Existing approaches to posterior collapse often attribute it to the use of neural networks or optimization issues due to variational approximation. In this paper, we consider posterior collapse as a problem of latent variable non-identifiability. We prove that the posterior collapses if and only if the latent variables are non-identifiable in the generative model. This fact implies that posterior collapse is not a phenomenon specific to the use of flexible distributions or approximate inference. Rather, it can occur in classical probabilistic models even with exact inference, which we also demonstrate. Based on these results, we propose a class of latent-identifiable variational autoencoders, deep generative models which enforce identifiability without sacrificing flexibility. This model class resolves the problem of latent variable non-identifiability by leveraging bijective Brenier maps and parameterizing them with input convex neural networks, without special variational inference objectives or optimization tricks. Across synthetic and real datasets, latent-identifiable variational autoencoders outperform existing methods in mitigating posterior collapse and providing meaningful representations of the data.

With water quality management processes, identifying and interpreting relationships between features, such as location and weather variable tuples, and water quality variables, such as levels of bacteria, is key to gaining insights and identifying areas where interventions should be made. There is a need for a search process to identify the locations and types of phenomena that are influencing water quality and a need to explain why the quality is being affected and which factors are most relevant. This paper addresses both of these issues through the development of a process for collecting data for features that represent a variety of variables over a spatial region, which are used for training and inference, and analysing the performance of the features using the model and Shapley values. Shapley values originated in cooperative game theory and can be used to aid in the interpretation of machine learning results. Evaluations are performed using several machine learning algorithms and water quality data from the Dublin Grand Canal basin.

Recent work in large language modeling (LLMs) has used fine-tuning to align outputs with the preferences of a prototypical user. This work assumes that human preferences are static and homogeneous across individuals, so that aligning to a a single "generic" user will confer more general alignment. Here, we embrace the heterogeneity of human preferences to consider a different challenge: how might a machine help people with diverse views find agreement? We fine-tune a 70 billion parameter LLM to generate statements that maximize the expected approval for a group of people with potentially diverse opinions. Human participants provide written opinions on thousands of questions touching on moral and political issues (e.g., "should we raise taxes on the rich?"), and rate the LLM's generated candidate consensus statements for agreement and quality. A reward model is then trained to predict individual preferences, enabling it to quantify and rank consensus statements in terms of their appeal to the overall group, defined according to different aggregation (social welfare) functions. The model produces consensus statements that are preferred by human users over those from prompted LLMs (>70%) and significantly outperforms a tight fine-tuned baseline that lacks the final ranking step. Further, our best model's consensus statements are preferred over the best human-generated opinions (>65%). We find that when we silently constructed consensus statements from only a subset of group members, those who were excluded were more likely to dissent, revealing the sensitivity of the consensus to individual contributions. These results highlight the potential to use LLMs to help groups of humans align their values with one another.

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.

Online clothing catalogs lack diversity in body shape and garment size. Brands commonly display their garments on models of one or two sizes, rarely including plus-size models. In this work, we propose a new method, SizeGAN, for generating images of garments on different-sized models. To change the garment and model size while maintaining a photorealistic image, we incorporate image alignment ideas from the medical imaging literature into the StyleGAN2-ADA architecture. Our method learns deformation fields at multiple resolutions and uses a spatial transformer to modify the garment and model size. We evaluate our approach along three dimensions: realism, garment faithfulness, and size. To our knowledge, SizeGAN is the first method to focus on this size under-representation problem for modeling clothing. We provide an analysis comparing SizeGAN to other plausible approaches and additionally provide the first clothing dataset with size labels. In a user study comparing SizeGAN and two recent virtual try-on methods, we show that our method ranks first in each dimension, and was vastly preferred for realism and garment faithfulness. In comparison to most previous work, which has focused on generating photorealistic images of garments, our work shows that it is possible to generate images that are both photorealistic and cover diverse garment sizes.

The meaningful use of electronic health records (EHR) continues to progress in the digital era with clinical decision support systems augmented by artificial intelligence. A priority in improving provider experience is to overcome information overload and reduce the cognitive burden so fewer medical errors and cognitive biases are introduced during patient care. One major type of medical error is diagnostic error due to systematic or predictable errors in judgment that rely on heuristics. The potential for clinical natural language processing (cNLP) to model diagnostic reasoning in humans with forward reasoning from data to diagnosis and potentially reduce the cognitive burden and medical error has not been investigated. Existing tasks to advance the science in cNLP have largely focused on information extraction and named entity recognition through classification tasks. We introduce a novel suite of tasks coined as Diagnostic Reasoning Benchmarks, DR.BENCH, as a new benchmark for developing and evaluating cNLP models with clinical diagnostic reasoning ability. The suite includes six tasks from ten publicly available datasets addressing clinical text understanding, medical knowledge reasoning, and diagnosis generation. DR.BENCH is the first clinical suite of tasks designed to be a natural language generation framework to evaluate pre-trained language models. Experiments with state-of-the-art pre-trained generative language models using large general domain models and models that were continually trained on a medical corpus demonstrate opportunities for improvement when evaluated in DR. BENCH. We share DR. BENCH as a publicly available GitLab repository with a systematic approach to load and evaluate models for the cNLP community.

估计越野环境中的地形横穿性需要关于机器人和这些地形之间复杂相互作用动态的推理。但是，建立准确的物理模型，或创建有益的标签来以有监督的方式学习模型是有挑战性的。我们提出了一种方法，该方法通过将外部感受性的环境信息与本体感受性的地形相互作用反馈相结合，以自我监督的方式将遍历性成本映像结合在一起。此外，我们提出了一种将机器人速度纳入Costmap预测管道中的新型方法。我们在具有挑战性的越野地形上，在多个大型，自动的全地形车辆（ATV）上验证了我们的方法，并在单独的大型地面机器人上易于集成。我们的短尺寸导航结果表明，使用我们学到的Costmaps可以使整体航行更顺畅，并为机器人提供了对机器人与不同地形类型（例如草和砾石）之间相互作用的更细粒度的了解。我们的大规模导航试验表明，与基于占用率的导航基线相比，我们可以将干预措施的数量减少多达57％，这是在挑战400 m至3150 m不等的越野课程中。