• Fish AI: Sustainable Commercial Fishing Challenge 

      Nordmo, Tor-Arne Schmidt; Kvalsvik, Ove; Kvalsund, Svein Ove; Hansen, Birte; Halvorsen, Pål; Hicks, Steven; Johansen, Dag; Johansen, Håvard D.; Riegler, Michael Alexander (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-06-02)
      FishAI: Sustainable Commercial Fishingis the second chal-lenge at theNordic AI Meetfollowing the successful MedAI,which had a focus on medical image segmentation and trans-parency in machine learning (ML)-based systems. FishAI fo-cuses on a new domain, namely, commercial fishing and howto make it more sustainable with the help of machine learning.A range of public available datasets is used to tackle ...
    • Fishing Trawler Event Detection: An Important Step Towards Digitization of Sustainable Fishing 

      Nordmo, Tor-Arne Schmidt; Ovesen, Aril Bernhard; Dagenborg, Håvard; Halvorsen, Pål; Riegler, Michael Alexander; Johansen, Dag (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2023-08-02)
      Detection of anomalies within data streams is an important task that is useful for different important societal challenges such as in traffic control and fraud detection. To be able to perform anomaly detection, unsupervised analysis of data is an important key factor, especially in domains where obtaining labelled data is difficult or where the anomalies that should be detected are often ...
    • Generation of synthetic tabular healthcare data using generative adversarial networks 

      Nik, Alireza Hossein Zadeh; Riegler, Michael Alexander; Halvorsen, Pål; Storås, Andrea (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2023-03-29)
      High-quality tabular data is a crucial requirement for developing data-driven applications, especially healthcare-related ones, because most of the data nowadays collected in this context is in tabular form. However, strict data protection laws complicates the access to medical datasets. Thus, synthetic data has become an ideal alternative for data scientists and healthcare professionals to circumvent ...
    • GridHTM: Grid-Based Hierarchical Temporal Memory for Anomaly Detection in Videos 

      Monakhov, Vladimir; Thambawita, Vajira L B; Halvorsen, Pål; Riegler, Michael (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-02-13)
      The interest in video anomaly detection systems that can detect different types of anomalies, such as violent behaviours in surveillance videos, has gained traction in recent years. The current approaches employ deep learning to perform anomaly detection in videos, but this approach has multiple problems. For example, deep learning in general has issues with noise, concept drift, explainability, ...
    • HTAD: A Home-Tasks Activities Dataset with Wrist-Accelerometer and Audio Features 

      Garcia-Ceja, Enrique; Thambawita, Vajira L B; Hicks, Steven; Jha, Debesh; Jakobsen, Petter; Hammer, Hugo Lewi; Halvorsen, Pål; Riegler, Michael (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-01-21)
      In this paper, we present HTAD: A Home Tasks Activities Dataset. The dataset contains wrist-accelerometer and audio data from people performing at-home tasks such as sweeping, brushing teeth, washing hands, or watching TV. These activities represent a subset of activities that are needed to be able to live independently. Being able to detect activities with wearable devices in real-time is important ...
    • HyperKvasir, a comprehensive multi-class image and video dataset for gastrointestinal endoscopy 

      Borgli, Hanna; Thambawita, Vajira; Smedsrud, Pia H; Hicks, Steven; Jha, Debesh; Eskeland, Sigrun Losada; Randel, Kristin Ranheim; Pogorelov, Konstantin; Lux, Mathias; Dang Nguyen, Duc Tien; Johansen, Dag; Griwodz, Carsten; Stensland, Håkon Kvale; Garcia-Ceja, Enrique; Schmidt, Peter T; Hammer, Hugo Lewi; Riegler, Michael; Halvorsen, Pål; de Lange, Thomas (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-08-28)
      Artificial intelligence is currently a hot topic in medicine. However, medical data is often sparse and hard to obtain due to legal restrictions and lack of medical personnel for the cumbersome and tedious process to manually label training data. These constraints make it difficult to develop systems for automatic analysis, like detecting disease or other lesions. In this respect, this article ...
    • Identifying Important Proteins in Meibomian Gland Dysfunction with Explainable Artificial Intelligence 

      Storås, Andrea; Magnø, Morten Schjerven; Fineide, Fredrik; Thiede, Bernd; Chen, Xiangjun; Strumke, Inga; Halvorsen, Pål; Utheim, Tor Paaske; Riegler, Michael Alexander; Jensen, Janicke L.; Galtung, Hilde (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-07-17)
      Meibomian gland dysfunction is the most common cause of dry eye disease and leads to significantly reduced quality of life and social burdens. Because meibomian gland dysfunction results in impaired function of the tear film lipid layer, studying the expression of tear proteins might increase the understanding of the etiology of the condition. Machine learning is able to detect patterns in ...
    • Kvasir-Capsule, a video capsule endoscopy dataset 

      Smedsrud, Pia H; Thambawita, Vajira L B; Hicks, Steven; Gjestang, Henrik; Olsen Nedrejord, Oda; Næss, Espen; Borgli, Hanna; Jha, Debesh; Berstad, Tor Jan; Eskeland, Sigrun Losada; Lux, Mathias; Espeland, Håvard; Petlund, Andreas; Dang Nguyen, Duc Tien; Garcia, Enrique; Johansen, Dag; Schmidt, Peter Thelin; Toth, Ervin; Hammer, Hugo Lewi; de Lange, Thomas; Riegler, Michael Alexander; Halvorsen, Pål (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-05-27)
      Artificial intelligence (AI) is predicted to have profound effects on the future of video capsule endoscopy (VCE) technology. The potential lies in improving anomaly detection while reducing manual labour. Existing work demonstrates the promising benefits of AI-based computer-assisted diagnosis systems for VCE. They also show great potential for improvements to achieve even better results. Also, ...
    • Kvasir-SEG: A Segmented Polyp Dataset 

      Jha, Debesh; Pia H, Smedsrud; Riegler, Michael; Halvorsen, Pål; de Lange, Thomas; Johansen, Dag; Johansen, Håvard D. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-01-24)
      Pixel-wise image segmentation is a highly demanding task in medical-image analysis. In practice, it is difficult to find annotated medical images with corresponding segmentation masks. In this paper, we present Kvasir-SEG: an open-access dataset of gastrointestinal polyp images and corresponding segmentation masks, manually annotated by a medical doctor and then verified by an experienced ...
    • LightLayers: Parameter Efficient Dense and Convolutional Layers for Image Classification 

      Jha, Debesh; Yazidi, Anis; Riegler, Michael Alexander; Johansen, Dag; Johansen, Håvard D.; Halvorsen, Pål (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2021-02-21)
      Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have become the de-facto standard in computer vision, as well as in many other pattern recognition tasks. A key drawback of DNNs is that the training phase can be very computationally expensive. Organizations or individuals that cannot afford purchasing state-of-the-art hardware or tapping into cloud hosted infrastructures may face a long waiting time before the training ...
    • Livestreaming Technology and Online Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse: A Scoping Review 

      Drejer, Catharina Sofie Rodenburg; Riegler, Michael; Halvorsen, Pål; S. Johnson, Miriam; Baugerud, Gunn Astrid (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2023-02-02)
      Livestreaming of child sexual abuse (LSCSA) is an established form of online child sexual exploitation and abuse (OCSEA). However, only a limited body of research has examined this issue. The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated internet use and user knowledge of livestreaming services emphasizing the importance of understanding this crime. In this scoping review, existing literature was brought together ...
    • Meta-learning with implicit gradients in a few-shot setting for medical image segmentation 

      Khadka, Rabindra; Jha, Debesh; Riegler, Michael A.; Hicks, Steven; Thambawita, Vajira; Ali, Sharib; Halvorsen, Pål (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-01-12)
      Widely used traditional supervised deep learning methods require a large number of training samples but often fail to generalize on unseen datasets. Therefore, a more general application of any trained model is quite limited for medical imaging for clinical practice. Using separately trained models for each unique lesion category or a unique patient population will require sufficiently large curated ...
    • MSRF-Net: A Multi-Scale Residual Fusion Network for Biomedical Image Segmentation 

      Srivastava, Abhishek; Jha, Debesh; Chanda, Sukalpa; Pal, Umapada; Johansen, Håvard D.; Johansen, Dag; Riegler, Michael; Ali, Sharib; Halvorsen, Pål (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-12-23)
      Methods based on convolutional neural networks have improved the performance of biomedical image segmentation. However, most of these methods cannot efficiently segment objects of variable sizes and train on small and biased datasets, which are common for biomedical use cases. While methods exist that incorporate multi-scale fusion approaches to address the challenges arising with variable ...
    • A multi-centre polyp detection and segmentation dataset for generalisability assessment 

      Ali, Sharib; Jha, Debesh; Ghatwary, Noha; Realdon, Stefano; Cannizzaro, Renato; Salem, Osama E.; Lamarque, Dominique; Daul, Christian; Riegler, Michael Alexander; Ånonsen, Kim Vidar; Petlund, Andreas; Halvorsen, Pål; Rittscher, Jens; de Lange, Thomas; East, James E (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-02-06)
      Polyps in the colon are widely known cancer precursors identifed by colonoscopy. Whilst most polyps are benign, the polyp’s number, size and surface structure are linked to the risk of colon cancer. Several methods have been developed to automate polyp detection and segmentation. However, the main issue is that they are not tested rigorously on a large multicentre purpose-built dataset, one reason ...
    • Njord: a fishing trawler dataset 

      Nordmo, Tor-Arne Schmidt; Ovesen, Aril Bernhard; Juliussen, Bjørn Aslak; Hicks, Steven; Thambawita, Vajira L B; Johansen, Håvard D.; Halvorsen, Pål; Riegler, Michael Alexander; Johansen, Dag (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2022-08-05)
      Fish is one of the main sources of food worldwide. The commercial fishing industry has a lot of different aspects to consider, ranging from sustainability to reporting. The complexity of the domain also attracts a lot of research from different fields like marine biology, fishery sciences, cybernetics, and computer science. In computer science, detection of fishing vessels via for example remote ...
    • The Nornir run-time system for parallel programs using Kahn process networks on multi-core machines – A flexible alternative to MapReduce 

      Johansen, Dag; Vrba, Zeljko; Halvorsen, Pål; Griwodz, Carsten; Beskow, Paul; Espeland, Håvard (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2010)
    • The Nornir run-time system for parallel programs using Kahn process networks on multi-core machines-a flexible alternative to MapReduce 

      Vrba, Zeljko; Halvorsen, Pål; Griwodz, Carsten; Beskow, Paul; Espeland, Håvard; Johansen, Dag (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      Even though shared-memory concurrency is a paradigm frequently used for developing parallel applications on small- and middle-sized machines, experience has shown that it is hard to use. This is largely caused by synchronization primitives which are low-level, inherently non-deterministic, and, consequently, non-intuitive to use. In this paper, we present the Nornir run-time system. Nornir is ...
    • On evaluation metrics for medical applications of artificial intelligence 

      Hicks, Steven A.; Strumke, Inga; Thambawita, Vajira L B; Hammou, Malek; Riegler, Michael Alexander; Halvorsen, Pål (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-04-08)
      Clinicians and software developers need to understand how proposed machine learning (ML) models could improve patient care. No single metric captures all the desirable properties of a model, which is why several metrics are typically reported to summarize a model’s performance. Unfortunately, these measures are not easily understandable by many clinicians. Moreover, comparison of models across studies ...
    • Performance of data enhancements and training optimization for neural network: A polyp detection case study 

      Henriksen, Fredrik Lund; Jensen, Rune; Stensland, Håkon Kvale; Johansen, Dag; Riegler, Michael; Halvorsen, Pål (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-08-05)
      Deep learning using neural networks is becoming more and more popular. It is frequently used in areas like video analysis, image retrieval, traffic forecast and speech recognition. In this respect, the learning and training process usually requires a lot of data. However, in many areas, data is scarce which is definitely the case in our medical application scenario, i.e., polyp detection in the ...
    • Predicting peek readiness-to-train of soccer players using long short-term memory recurrent neural networks 

      Wiik, Theodor; Johansen, Håvard D.; Pettersen, Svein Arne; Matias Do Vale Baptista, Ivan Andre; Kupka, Tomas; Johansen, Dag; Riegler, Michael; Halvorsen, Pål (Conference object; Konferansebidrag, 2019-10-21)
      We are witnessing the emergence of a myriad of hardware and software systems that quantifies sport and physical activities. These are frequently touted as game changers and important for future sport developments. The vast amount of generated data is often visualized in graphs and dashboards, for use by coaches and other sports professionals to make decisions on training and match strategies. Modern ...