Selecting differentially expressed genes with respect to some phenotype of interest is a difficult task, especially in the presence of confounding factors. We propose to use a spatiotemporal independent component analysis to model those factors, and to combine information from different spatiotemporal parameter values to improve the set of selected genes. We show on real datasets that the propo...

Independent component analysis (ICA) of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data is commonly carried out under the assumption that each source may be represented as a spatially fixed pattern of activation, which leads to the instantaneous mixing model. To allow modeling patterns of spatiotemporal dynamics, in particular, the flow of oxygenated blood, we have developed a convolutive ICA...

Abstract— After summarizing typical approaches for solving independent component analysis (ICA) problems, advances on the ICA studies that consider hybrid sources of both subGaussians and superGaussians and the ICA extensions that consider noise and temporal dependence among observations have been overviewed from the perspective of Bayesian Ying-Yang independence learning. Not only new insights...

PURPOSE In light of the increasing elderly population and the growing demand for home care, the potential of robot support is given increasing attention. In this paper, an inventory of activities was made that threaten independent living of elderly when becoming problematic. Results will guide the further development of an existing service robot, the Care-O-bot®. METHOD A systematic literatur...

In this paper we study the dependencies of features found by independent component analysis (ICA) in image data by examining how the activation of one feature changes certain statistics of the data. We look at how the PCA components are affected when we know a certain ICA feature is highly active, and also study the ICA components in this situation. This can be thought of as a simple form of tw...

Selenium-containing heterocyclic compounds have been well recognized, not only because of their remarkable reactivities and chemical properties, but also because of their diverse pharmaceutical applications. In this context, isoselenocyanates have been emerged as a powerful tool for the synthesis of selenium-containing heterocycles, since they are easy to prepare and store and are safe to handl...

For many decades, ecologists have asked what prevents herbivores from consuming most of the plant biomass in terrestrial ecosystems, or "Why is the world green?" Here I ask the analogous question for detritivores: what prevents them from degrading most of the organic material in soils, or "Why is the ground brown?" For fresh plant detritus, constraints on decomposition closely parallel constrai...