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    Detection of Gait Abnormalities caused by Neurological Disorders
    (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2020) Goyal, D.; Jerripothula, K.; Mittal, A.
    In this paper, we leverage gait to potentially detect some of the important neurological disorders, namely Parkinson's disease, Diplegia, Hemiplegia, and Huntington's Chorea. Persons with these neurological disorders often have a very abnormal gait, which motivates us to target gait for their potential detection. Some of the abnormalities involve the circumduction of legs, forward-bending, involuntary movements, etc. To detect such abnormalities in gait, we develop gait features from the key-points of the human pose, namely shoulders, elbows, hips, knees, ankles, etc. To evaluate the effectiveness of our gait features in detecting the abnormalities related to these diseases, we build a synthetic video dataset of persons mimicking the gait of persons with such disorders, considering the difficulty in finding a sufficient number of people with these disorders. We name it NeuroSynGait video dataset. Experiments demonstrated that our gait features were indeed successful in detecting these abnormalities. © 2020 IEEE.
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    Inverse Estimation of Breast Tumor Size and Location with Numerical Thermal Images of Breast Model Using Machine Learning Models
    (Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2023) Venkatapathy, G.; Mittal, A.; Gnanasekaran, N.; Desai, V.H.
    Early screening of cancer plays a vital role in successful treatment. Normally, the temperature of breast surface changes due to the size and location of the underlying tumor. Temperature patterns can be used to estimate the size and location of tumor by an inverse approach using machine learning algorithms. The present study aims to provide an efficient machine learning model that can be relied on to predict the size and location of the tumor using numerical thermal images. There is no availability of actual thermal images labeled with the size and location of the tumor. Consequently, successive numerical simulations are used to develop the numerical thermal image dataset with a three-dimensional breast model solved with COMSOL Multiphysics. The obtained numerical thermal images are uniquely labeled with the corresponding size and location of the tumor and trained using various machine learning regression models such as linear, support vector, K-nearest neighbor, and decision tree regression models. The results are analyzed using parity plots and mean absolute error. The present study found that the decision tree regression model outperformed the other machine learning models and improved the estimation accuracy by rejecting the numerical thermal images which are having slight variation in surface temperature. © 2022 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.