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Bio-Neuro Informatics Models and Algorithms

A special issue of Entropy (ISSN 1099-4300). This special issue belongs to the section "Complexity".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 December 2023) | Viewed by 7210

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Grade II, Symbiosis Institute of Digital and Telecom Management (Constituents of Symbiosis International—Deemed University), Pune 412115, India
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1. Neuroscience and Cognitive Technology Laboratory, Innopolis University, 420500 Innopolis, Russia
2. Institute of Biology and Biomedicine, Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod, 603950 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Interests: computational neuroscience; spiking neuron networks; neurointerfaces; neurocontrol; biomorphic robotics; nonlinear dynamics
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Dear Colleagues,

The Special Issue targets state-of-the-art, as well as emerging, areas pertaining to bio-neuro informatics, biotechnology, technology in healthcare, technological innovation, emerging technologies in ICT, engineering, and medical sciences.

The objective of this Special Issue is to endow opportunities for academicians, scientists, and research scholars, as well as professionals, decision makers, industrial practitioners, and students, to interact and exchange ideas, experiences, and expertise in the recent trending areas in the fields of bio-neuro informatics, healthcare, engineering, and medical sciences.

We encourage the authors addressing the latest problems, advances, and diversity within the bio-neuro informatics scientific fields, within the scope of the journal Entropy, to submit an original research paper to be considered for publication in this Special Issue. 

Prof. Dr. Saikat Gochhait
Prof. Dr. Victor B. Kazantsev
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Keywords

  • Bioinformatics and Data Mining of Biological Data
  • Biomedical Informatics
  • Technology in Healthcare
  • Technological Innovation

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Effective Approaches to Fetal Brain Segmentation in MRI and Gestational Age Estimation by Utilizing a Multiview Deep Inception Residual Network and Radiomics
by Moona Mazher, Abdul Qayyum, Domenec Puig and Mohamed Abdel-Nasser
Entropy 2022, 24(12), 1708; https://doi.org/10.3390/e24121708 - 23 Nov 2022
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To completely comprehend neurodevelopment in healthy and congenitally abnormal fetuses, quantitative analysis of the human fetal brain is essential. This analysis requires the use of automatic multi-tissue fetal brain segmentation techniques. This paper proposes an end-to-end automatic yet effective method for a multi-tissue [...] Read more.
To completely comprehend neurodevelopment in healthy and congenitally abnormal fetuses, quantitative analysis of the human fetal brain is essential. This analysis requires the use of automatic multi-tissue fetal brain segmentation techniques. This paper proposes an end-to-end automatic yet effective method for a multi-tissue fetal brain segmentation model called IRMMNET. It includes a inception residual encoder block (EB) and a dense spatial attention (DSAM) block, which facilitate the extraction of multi-scale fetal-brain-tissue-relevant information from multi-view MRI images, enhance the feature reuse, and substantially reduce the number of parameters of the segmentation model. Additionally, we propose three methods for predicting gestational age (GA)—GA prediction by using a 3D autoencoder, GA prediction using radiomics features, and GA prediction using the IRMMNET segmentation model’s encoder. Our experiments were performed on a dataset of 80 pathological and non-pathological magnetic resonance fetal brain volume reconstructions across a range of gestational ages (20 to 33 weeks) that were manually segmented into seven different tissue categories. The results showed that the proposed fetal brain segmentation model achieved a Dice score of 0.791±0.18, outperforming the state-of-the-art methods. The radiomics-based GA prediction methods achieved the best results (RMSE: 1.42). We also demonstrated the generalization capabilities of the proposed methods for tasks such as head and neck tumor segmentation and the prediction of patients’ survival days. Full article
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On the Inherent Instability of Biocognition: Toward New Probability Models and Statistical Tools
by Rodrick Wallace, Irina Leonova and Saikat Gochhait
Entropy 2022, 24(8), 1070; https://doi.org/10.3390/e24081070 - 3 Aug 2022
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A central conundrum enshrouds biocognition: almost all such phenomena are inherently unstable and must be constantly controlled by external regulatory machinery to ensure proper function, in much the same sense that blood pressure and the ‘stream of consciousness’ require persistent delicate regulation for [...] Read more.
A central conundrum enshrouds biocognition: almost all such phenomena are inherently unstable and must be constantly controlled by external regulatory machinery to ensure proper function, in much the same sense that blood pressure and the ‘stream of consciousness’ require persistent delicate regulation for the survival of higher organisms. Here, we derive the Data Rate Theorem of control theory that characterizes such instability via the Rate Distortion Theorem of information theory for adiabatically stationary nonergodic systems. We then outline a novel approach to building new statistical tools for data analysis based on those theorems, focusing on groupoid symmetry-breaking phase transitions characterized by Fisher Zero analogs. Full article
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