Photoacoustic tomography seeks to reconstruct an acoustic initial pressure distribution from the measurement of the ultrasound waveforms. Conventional methods assume a-prior knowledge of the sound speed distribution, which practically is unknown. One way to circumvent the issue is to simultaneously reconstruct both the acoustic initial pressure and speed. In this article, we develop a novel data-driven method that integrates an advanced deep neural network through model-based iteration. The image of the initial pressure is significantly improved in our numerical simulation.

One example of an artificial intelligence ethical dilemma is the autonomous vehicle situation presented by Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers in the Moral Machine Experiment. To solve such dilemmas, the MIT researchers used a classic statistical method known as the hierarchical Bayesian (HB) model. This paper builds upon previous work for modeling moral decision making, applies a deep learning method to learn human ethics in this context, and compares it to the HB approach. These methods were tested to predict moral decisions of simulated populations of Moral Machine participants. Overall, test results indicate that deep neural networks can be effective in learning the group morality of a population through observation, and outperform the Bayesian model in the cases of model mismatches.

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Artificial intelligence has made great progresses in medical data analysis, but the lack of robustness and interpretability has kept these methods from being widely deployed. In particular, data-driven models are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, which are small, targeted perturbations that dramatically degrade model performance. As a recent example, while deep learning has shown impressive performance in electrocardiogram (ECG) classification, Han et al. crafted realistic perturbations that fooled the network 74% of the time Han et al. [2020]. Current adversarial defense paradigms are computationally intensive and impractical for many high dimensional problems. Previous research indicates that a network vulnerability is related to the features learned during training. We propose a novel approach based on ensemble decorrelation and Fourier partitioning for training parallel network arms into a decorrelated architecture to learn complementary features, significantly reducing the chance of a perturbation fooling all arms of the deep learning model. We test our approach in ECG classification, demonstrating a much-improved 77.2% chance of at least one correct network arm on the strongest adversarial attack tested, in contrast to a 21.7% chance from a comparable ensemble. Our approach does not require expensive optimization with adversarial samples, and thus can be scaled to large problems. These methods can easily be applied to other tasks for improved network robustness.