Can Crowds serve as useful allies in policy design? How do non-expert Crowds perform relative to experts in the assessment of policy measures? Does the geographic location of non-expert Crowds, with relevance to the policy context, alter the performance of nonexperts Crowds in the assessment of policy measures? In this work, we investigate these questions by undertaking experiments designed to ...

ObjectiveTo identify women with high-risk endometrial cancers using expert and non-expert transvaginal ultrasonography (TVS) MRI.Study designMyometrial involvement was prospectively evaluated in patients atypical hyperplasia or cancer on ultrasound by non-experts at first visit (non-expert-TVS: n = 266) experts (expert-TVS: 188) second visit. MRI (n 175) performed when suspected non-expert-TVS....

The expert method of exposure assignment involves relying on chemists or hygienists to estimate occupational exposures using information collected on study subjects. Once the estimation method for a particular contaminant has been made available in the literature, it is not known whether a non-expert, briefly trained by an expert remaining available to answer ad hoc questions, can provide relia...

This work proposes a new confidence measure for evaluating text-to-speech alignment systems outputs, which is a key component for many applications, such as semi-automatic corpus anonymization, lips syncing, film dubbing, corpus preparation for speech synthesis and speech recognition acoustic models training. This confidence measure exploits deep neural networks that are trained on large corpor...