[Chicago] ChiPy Topics

[De Kelsey]

Thanks Jerry!

On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Jerry Dumblauskas <jdumblauskas at gmail.com>
wrote:

> It's on the 13th
> On Nov 7, 2014 12:37 PM, "De Kelsey" <dkh2oit at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> the meeting @ Loyola is still on for tonight right?
>>
>> RES
>>
>> Demarco
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 8:23 PM, Brian Ray <brianhray at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> A couple really great talks up for the ChiPy meeting next week:
>>>
>>>
>>>    - *Hidden Markov Models to improve activity recognition in patients
>>>    with spinal cord injury*
>>>    (0:15:00 Minutes)
>>>    By: Asma Mehjabeen
>>>    Fitness tracking is great for calories and steps, but similar
>>>    sensors are capable of reporting much more about how we move throughout the
>>>    day. This is especially important in assessing the quality of movement for
>>>    those with limited mobility. Doctors often want to know more detail about
>>>    patient behavior after therapy to select and adjust the appropriate
>>>    intervention. Using machine learning on wearable accelerometer signals, we
>>>    estimate the activities patients with incomplete spinal cord injury are
>>>    performing. By combining windowed classifier estimates over time using a
>>>    hidden markov model, we show how error rates can be significantly
>>>    decreased, which brings more detailed assessments of patient activity
>>>    closer to a clinical reality.
>>>    - *Innate learning: training the brain before the eyes open*
>>>    (0:15:00 Minutes)
>>>    By: Isaac Adorno
>>>    Amorphous, blob-like patterns of neural activity form and move over
>>>    the eye during visual development in animals. Why do such patterns exist?
>>>    We show that these patterns are this way to better prepare the visual
>>>    system for natural vision. Essentially, these are movies played in the eyes
>>>    to refine the visual system before the eyes even open. We use python to
>>>    model the developing visual system, produce an efficient code based on
>>>    those patterns, and show how that code matches what is seen biologically.
>>>    In this way, we show that during your early development you are learning
>>>    from innately generated patterns - a unique twist in the debates of nature
>>>    and nurture.
>>>
>>>
>>> RSVP here is open http://chipy.org
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Brian Ray
>>> @brianray
>>> (773) 669-7717
>>>
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>>
>>
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>> just take the first step."
>>
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