The design of an interface unit is described, in which RS232 serial data is converted to latched parallel data on 22 independent lines. The data direction of each line is programmable through the serial port. Two picocontrollers are employed in a parallel processing mode to give the required number of I/O pins, and data on the shared serial line is coded to separate data streams to the individu...

Introduction: Subretinal hemorrhage (SRH) is a complication associated with intravitreal injections of antivascular endothelial growth factor for wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD). We recently experienced three cases of massive hemorrhage after intravitreal aflibercept injection (IAI) for wet AMD that was suspected to be polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy (PCV). Case reports: A 75-year-...

Adaptive User Interfaces have a long history rooted in the emergence of such eminent technologies as Artificial Intelligence, Soft Computing, Graphical User Interface, JAVA, Internet, and Mobile Services. More specifically, the advent and advancement of the Web and Mobile Learning Services has brought forward adaptivity as an immensely important issue for both efficacy and acceptability of such...

OBJECTIVE Idiopathic vaginal bleeding, a common complication of pregnancy, increases the risk of small-for-gestational age (SGA) neonate, preeclampsia and preterm delivery and can be the only clinical manifestation of intra-amniotic infection and/or inflammation (IAI). Placenta previa is thought to be protective against ascending intrauterine infection, yet an excess of histologic chorioamnioni...

PURPOSE To evaluate intravitreal aflibercept injections (IAI; also called VEGF Trap-Eye) for patients with macular edema secondary to central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO). DESIGN Randomized controlled trial. METHODS This multicenter study randomized 189 patients (1 eye/patient) with macular edema secondary to CRVO to receive 6 monthly injections of either 2 mg intravitreal aflibercept (IAI...

Modern learning is impossible without automated knowledge testing systems. At present, the most progressive are adaptive models in which complexity of tasks varies depending on correctness patient’s answers. This article describes development an intelligent system using a fuzzy mathematics device. An has been developed; module that implements expert uses production base rules. The input paramet...

OBJECTIVE Pentraxin 3 (PTX3) is a soluble pattern recognition receptor (PRR) that has an important role in immunoregulation and vascular integrity. The aim of this study was to determine if PTX3 is present in amniotic fluid (AF) and whether its concentration changes with gestational age (GA), in the presence of preterm or term labor, and in cases of intra-amniotic infection/inflammation (IAI) a...

In recent years, there has been substantial research on exploring how AI can contribute to Human-Computer Interaction by enabling an interface to understand a user’s needs and act accordingly. Understanding user needs is especially challenging when it involves assessing the user’s high-level mental states not easily reflected by interface actions. In this paper, we present our results on using ...

We are developing a Multimodal Affective User Interface (MAUI) framework shown in Figure 1 and described in [5], aimed at recognizing its users emotions by sensing their various user-centered modalities (or modes), and at giving the users context-aware feedback via an intelligent affective agent by using different agent-centered modes. The agent is built on an adaptive system architecture which...

Evolutionary Adaptive Defuzzification Methods are a kind of defuzzification methods based on using a parametrical defuzzification expression tuned with evolutionary algorithms. Their goal is to increase the accuracy of the fuzzy system without loosing its interpretability. They induce a kind of rule cooperation in the defuzzification interface. 1 This paper deals with Evolutionary Adaptive Defu...