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20172023
most citedCTformer: Convolution-free Token2Token Dilated Vision Transformer for Low-dose CT Denoising

249 citations · 434 across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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25 papers

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

BearingPGA-Net: A Lightweight and Deployable Bearing Fault Diagnosis Network via Decoupled Knowledge Distillation and FPGA Acceleration

Jing-Xiao Liao, Sheng-Lai Wei, Chen-Long Xie +5

Deep learning has achieved remarkable success in the field of bearing fault diagnosis. However, this success comes with larger models and more complex computations, which cannot be…

cs.LG2023

Deep ReLU Networks Have Surprisingly Simple Polytopes

Feng-Lei Fan, Wei Huang, Xiangru Zhong +4

A ReLU network is a piecewise linear function over polytopes. Figuring out the properties of such polytopes is of fundamental importance for the research and development of neural…

cs.LG2023★ 6 cited

One Neuron Saved Is One Neuron Earned: On Parametric Efficiency of Quadratic Networks

Feng-Lei Fan, Hang-Cheng Dong, Zhongming Wu +4

Inspired by neuronal diversity in the biological neural system, a plethora of studies proposed to design novel types of artificial neurons and introduce neuronal diversity into art…

q-bio.MN2023★ 2 cited

Quadratic Graph Attention Network (Q-GAT) for Robust Construction of Gene Regulatory Networks

Hui Zhang, Xuexin An, Qiang He +4

Gene regulatory relationships can be abstracted as a gene regulatory network (GRN), which plays a key role in characterizing complex cellular processes and pathways. Recently, grap…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

ACTIVE: A Deep Model for Sperm and Impurity Detection in Microscopic Videos

Ao Chen, Jinghua Zhang, Md Mamunur Rahaman +6

The accurate detection of sperms and impurities is a very challenging task, facing problems such as the small size of targets, indefinite target morphologies, low contrast and reso…

cs.NE2023★ 3 cited

Towards NeuroAI: Introducing Neuronal Diversity into Artificial Neural Networks

Feng-Lei Fan, Yingxin Li, Hanchuan Peng +2

Throughout history, the development of artificial intelligence, particularly artificial neural networks, has been open to and constantly inspired by the increasingly deepened under…

eess.IV2022★ 2 cited

Retinex Image Enhancement Based on Sequential Decomposition With a Plug-and-Play Framework

Tingting Wu, Wenna Wu, Ying Yang +2

The Retinex model is one of the most representative and effective methods for low-light image enhancement. However, the Retinex model does not explicitly tackle the noise problem,…

cs.LG2022★ 82 cited

Attention-embedded Quadratic Network (Qttention) for Effective and Interpretable Bearing Fault Diagnosis

Jing-Xiao Liao, Hang-Cheng Dong, Zhi-Qi Sun +3

Bearing fault diagnosis is of great importance to decrease the damage risk of rotating machines and further improve economic profits. Recently, machine learning, represented by dee…

cs.NE2022★ 6 cited

Quadratic Neuron-empowered Heterogeneous Autoencoder for Unsupervised Anomaly Detection

Jing-Xiao Liao, Bo-Jian Hou, Hang-Cheng Dong +5

Inspired by the complexity and diversity of biological neurons, a quadratic neuron is proposed to replace the inner product in the current neuron with a simplified quadratic functi…

eess.IV2022★ 249 cited

CTformer: Convolution-free Token2Token Dilated Vision Transformer for Low-dose CT Denoising

Dayang Wang, Fenglei Fan, Zhan Wu +3

Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) denoising is an important problem in CT research. Compared to the normal dose CT (NDCT), LDCT images are subjected to severe noise and artifacts…

cs.LG2022★ 4 cited

Manifoldron: Direct Space Partition via Manifold Discovery

Dayang Wang, Feng-Lei Fan, Bo-Jian Hou +6

A neural network with the widely-used ReLU activation has been shown to partition the sample space into many convex polytopes for prediction. However, the parameterized way a neura…

cs.LG2021★ 4 cited

On Expressivity and Trainability of Quadratic Networks

Feng-Lei Fan, Mengzhou Li, Fei Wang +2

Inspired by the diversity of biological neurons, quadratic artificial neurons can play an important role in deep learning models. The type of quadratic neurons of our interest repl…

cs.LG2020★ 8 cited

Suppression of Correlated Noise with Similarity-based Unsupervised Deep Learning

Chuang Niu, Mengzhou Li, Fenglei Fan +4

Image denoising is a prerequisite for downstream tasks in many fields. Low-dose and photon-counting computed tomography (CT) denoising can optimize diagnostic performance at minimi…

eess.IV2020★ 2 cited

Low-dimensional Manifold Constrained Disentanglement Network for Metal Artifact Reduction

Chuang Niu, Wenxiang Cong, Fenglei Fan +4

Deep neural network based methods have achieved promising results for CT metal artifact reduction (MAR), most of which use many synthesized paired images for training. As synthesiz…

cs.LG2020★ 2 cited

Quasi-Equivalence of Width and Depth of Neural Networks

Feng-Lei Fan, Rongjie Lai, Ge Wang

While classic studies proved that wide networks allow universal approximation, recent research and successes of deep learning demonstrate the power of deep networks. Based on a sym…

cs.LG2020★ 46 cited

On Interpretability of Artificial Neural Networks: A Survey

Fenglei Fan, Jinjun Xiong, Mengzhou Li +1

Deep learning as represented by the artificial deep neural networks (DNNs) has achieved great success in many important areas that deal with text, images, videos, graphs, and so on…

cs.LG2019★ 2 cited

Quadratic Autoencoder (Q-AE) for Low-dose CT Denoising

Fenglei Fan, Hongming Shan, Mannudeep K. Kalra +6

Inspired by complexity and diversity of biological neurons, our group proposed quadratic neurons by replacing the inner product in current artificial neurons with a quadratic opera…

cs.LG2018★ 1 cited

Soft Autoencoder and Its Wavelet Adaptation Interpretation

Fenglei Fan, Mengzhou Li, Yueyang Teng +1

Recently, deep learning becomes the main focus of machine learning research and has greatly impacted many important fields. However, deep learning is criticized for lack of interpr…

cs.LG2018★ 3 cited

On a Sparse Shortcut Topology of Artificial Neural Networks

Fenglei Fan, Dayang Wang, Hengtao Guo +4

In established network architectures, shortcut connections are often used to take the outputs of earlier layers as additional inputs to later layers. Despite the extraordinary effe…

cs.LG2018★ 6 cited

Universal Approximation with Quadratic Deep Networks

Fenglei Fan, Jinjun Xiong, Ge Wang

Recently, deep learning has achieved huge successes in many important applications. In our previous studies, we proposed quadratic/second-order neurons and deep quadratic neural ne…

cs.NE2018★ 1 cited

Fuzzy Logic Interpretation of Quadratic Networks

Fenglei Fan, Ge Wang

Over past several years, deep learning has achieved huge successes in various applications. However, such a data-driven approach is often criticized for lack of interpretability. R…

cs.LG2018

Shamap: Shape-based Manifold Learning

Fenglei Fan, Ziyu Su, Yueyang Teng +1

For manifold learning, it is assumed that high-dimensional sample/data points are embedded on a low-dimensional manifold. Usually, distances among samples are computed to capture a…

cs.LG2018

Learning from Pseudo-Randomness With an Artificial Neural Network - Does God Play Pseudo-Dice?

Fenglei Fan, Ge Wang

Inspired by the fact that the neural network, as the mainstream for machine learning, has brought successes in many application areas, here we propose to use this approach for deco…

cs.LG2017★ 2 cited

General Backpropagation Algorithm for Training Second-order Neural Networks

Fenglei Fan, Wenxiang Cong, Ge Wang

The artificial neural network is a popular framework in machine learning. To empower individual neurons, we recently suggested that the current type of neurons could be upgraded to…