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    Objective: Development of a contact microphone-driven screening framework for the diagnosis of coexisting valvular heart diseases (VHDs). Methods: A sensitive accelerometer contact microphone (ACM) is employed to capture heart-induced acoustic components on the chest wall. Inspired by the human auditory system, ACM recordings are initially transformed into Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCCs) and their first and second derivatives, resulting in 3-channel images. An image-to-sequence translation network based on the convolution-meets-transformer (CMT) architecture is then applied to each image to find local and global dependencies in images, and predict a 5-digit binary sequence, where each digit corresponds to the presence of a specific type of VHD. The performance of the proposed framework is evaluated on 58 VHD patients and 52 healthy individuals using a 10-fold leave-subject-out cross-validation (10-LSOCV) approach. Results: Statistical analyses suggest an average sensitivity

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    Previous studies have shown that there is a strong correlation between radiologists’ diagnoses and their gaze when reading medical images. The extent to which gaze is attracted by content in a visual scene can be characterised as visual saliency. There is a potential for the use of visual saliency in computer-aided diagnosis in radiology. However, little is known about what methods are effective for diagnostic images, and how these methods could be adapted to address specific applications in diagnostic imaging. In this study, we investigate 20 state-of-the-art saliency models including 10 traditional models and 10 deep learning-based models in predicting radiologists’ visual attention while reading 196 mammograms. We found that deep learning-based models represent the most effective type of methods for predicting radiologists’ gaze in mammogram reading; and that the performance of these saliency models can be significantly improved by transfer learning. In particular, an enhanced model

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    We report on a naturalistic study investigating the effects of routine driving on cardiovascular activation. We recruited 21 healthy young adults from a broad geographic area in the Southwestern United States. Using the participants’ own smartphones and smartwatches, we monitored for a week both their driving and non-driving activities. Monitoring included the continuous recording of a) heart…

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    Objective: Modern lifestyles are triggering stress at a disproportionate rate for longer periods of time. Chronic or long-lasting stress can pose a risk to our health. Despite advances in physiological recording methods, mental stress remains challenging to quantify and monitor. Methods: We describe an Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) device with electrocardiogram (ECG) recording features. The…

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