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Deep learning is a popular topic among machine learning researchers nowadays, with great strides being made in recent years to develop robust artificial neural networks for faster convergence to a reasonable accuracy. Network architecture and hyperparameters of the model are fundamental aspects of model convergence. One such important parameter is the initial values of weights, also known as weight initialization. In this paper, we perform two research tasks concerned with the weights of neural networks. First, we develop three novel weight initialization algorithms inspired by the neuroscientific construction of the mammalian brains and then test them on benchmark datasets against other algorithms to compare and assess their performance. We call these algorithms the lognormal weight initialization, modified lognormal weight initialization, and skewed weight initialization. We observe from our results that these initialization algorithms provide state-of-the-art results on all of the benchmark datasets. Second, we analyze the influence of training an artificial neural network on its weight distribution by measuring the correlation between the quantitative metrics of skewness and kurtosis against the model accuracy using linear regression for different weight initializations. Results indicate a positive correlation between network accuracy and skewness of the weight distribution but no affirmative relation between accuracy and kurtosis. This analysis provides further insight into understanding the inner mechanism of neural network training using the shape of weight distribution. Overall, the works in this paper are the first of their kind in incorporating neuroscientific knowledge into the domain of artificial neural network weights. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Model pruning is one of the main methods of deep neural network model compression. However, the existing model pruning methods are inefficient, there is still a lot of redundancy in the network, and the pruning has a great impact on the accuracy. In addition, the traditional pruning process usually needs to fine-tune the network to restore accuracy, and fine-tuning has a limited effect on accuracy recovery, so it is difficult to achieve a high level of accuracy. In this paper, we propose a new neural network pruning framework: the channel sparsity is realized by introducing a scale factor, and the sparse network is pruned by setting a global threshold, which greatly improves the efficiency of pruning. After pruning, this paper proposes a rewind method to restore the accuracy, that is, save the weight after training, and then reload it on the network for training to restore the accuracy. In addition, we also study the best rewind point of the three networks. The experimental results show that our method significantly reduces the number of parameters and FLOPs without affecting or even improving the accuracy, and the rewind method proposed by us achieves a better accuracy recovery effect than fine-tuning. At the same time, we find that the epoch with the highest accuracy is the best rewind point, and the accuracy is the highest after saving its corresponding weight and retraining the model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

EEG has been proved to be an effective tool for researchers' cognition and mental workload by detecting the changes of brain activity potential. The mental workload of pilots in aviation flight is closely related to the characteristics of flight tasks. The previous methods have problems such as lack of objectivity, low EEG analysis ability and lack of real-time analysis ability. In order to solve these problems, this paper proposes a multi-dimensional data fusion brain workload calculation method based on flight effect evaluation, which integrates vision, operational behavior and visual gaze, and classifies and analyzes them in combination with EEG data. This method evaluates the mental workload of pilots from three aspects: visual gaze behavior, control behavior and flight effect in the simulated flight experimental environment, and realizes a more objective mental workload analysis. Then, the synchronously collected EEG data are segmented and sampled to form a dataset, and an LSTM neural network model integrating attention mechanism is established, in which the attention mechanism is used to improve the feature processing ability of the network model for the classification of complex EEG data. After machine learning training, the final model can achieve 94% detection accuracy for 2-s EEG data, and has the ability of real-time analysis in the application environment. Compared with the previous similar LSTM model, the accuracy is improved by 6%, which also shows the effectiveness of the model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Situational awareness is the ability of pilots to master flight status, which is of great significance to aviation flight safety and flight effect. According to the information processing model, the pilot's main steps of processing information are feeling, perception and execution. There are many problems in situation awareness analysis guided by visual gaze, such as large analysis deviation and high delay due to various influencing factors and complex characteristics. In order to solve this problem, this paper proposes a situation awareness assessment method based on artificial intelligence neural network and integrating visual gaze and flight control. First, this paper carries out simulated flight training experiments for flight cadets, and collects the data of eye movement, line of sight tracking, flight control and flight parameters of pilot cadets. Then, aiming at the flight subjects, a situation awareness analysis method based on events is established, and the situation awareness state in the experiment is evaluated and analyzed through the flight parameter data. Then, the visual gaze and flight control data are sliced in the unit of situational awareness events, and the data set is constructed. Finally, this paper designs a multi-channel sequence data classification and analysis model based on transformer, in which the situation awareness characteristics of visual gaze and operation behavior are analyzed through the attention mechanism. The experimental results show that the accuracy of situation awareness classification of the designed neural network model to the experimental data set is 96%, and can classify and evaluate the pilot's situation awareness state in 5 s. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mathematical morphology intends to extract object features such as geometric and topological structures in digital images. Given a set of target images and original images, it is cumbersome and time-consuming to determine the suitable morphological operations and structuring elements. In this paper, we propose deep morphological neural networks, which include a nonlinear feature extraction layer to learn the structuring element correctly and an adaptive layer to select appropriate morphological operations automatically. We demonstrate the applications of object recognition, including hand-written digits, geometric shapes, traffic signs, and brain tumor. Experimental results show the higher computational efficiency and higher accuracy of our developed model as compared against existing convolutional neural network models. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To improve the recognition ability of clinical named entity recognition (CNER) in a limited number of Chinese electronic medical records, it provides meaningful support for clinical advanced knowledge extraction. In this paper, using CCKS2019 Chinese electronic medical record as an experimental data source, a fusion model enhanced by knowledge graph (KG) is proposed, and the model is applied to specific Chinese CNER tasks. This study consists of three main parts: single-mode model construction and comparison experiment, KG enhancement experiment, and model fusion experiment. The model has achieved good performance in CNER from the results. The accuracy rate, recall rate, and F1 value are 83.825%, 84.705%, and 84.263%, respectively, which is the global optimal, which proves the effectiveness of the model. This provides a good help for further research of medical information. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The recognition of steel microstructure images plays a crucial role in the metallographic analysis process. Although some progress has been made through the application of artificial intelligence algorithms, several challenges remain. First, existing algorithms exhibit weak nonlinear feature extraction capabilities and noticeable limitations. Second, they overlook the intrinsic noise and redundant interference present in microscopic images. To address these issues, this paper investigates the automatic recognition of metallographic tissues by leveraging residual structures in deep neural networks. An enhanced residual network model based on transfer learning is proposed, which utilizes the pre-trained weights from the ImageNet dataset to facilitate learning with small sample data. This network offers higher classification accuracy and higher F1 scores. In addition, a deep residual shrinkage network model based on an attention mechanism is proposed. This model incorporates an attention sub-network into the original residual module and employs a soft threshold function to eliminate redundant features, including noise. The proposed algorithms are evaluated against various convolutional neural networks using 20 types of metallographic test sets. The experimental results showed that both methods have high accuracy rates of 95% and 94.44%, respectively, and F1 scores of 0.9464 and 0.9419. While maintaining the complexity of the model, there has been a significant improvement in accuracy, and the models exhibit strong generalization capabilities. Our research contributes to enhancing production efficiency, strengthening quality control, and improving material performance through computer vision technology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Adversarial training is by far one of the most effective methods to improve the robustness of deep neural networks against adversarial examples. However, the trade-off between robustness and accuracy is still a challenge in adversarial training. Previous methods used adversarial examples with a fixed perturbation budget or specific perturbation budgets for each example, which is inefficient in improving the trade-off and lacks the ability to control the trade-off flexibly. In this paper, we show that the largest element of logit, z max , can roughly represent the minimum distance between an example and its neighboring decision boundary. Thus, we propose group adaptive adversarial training (GAAT) that divides the training dataset into several groups based on z max and develops a binary search algorithm to determine the group perturbation budgets for each group. Using the group perturbation budgets to perform adversarial training can fine-tune the trade-off between robustness and accuracy. Extensive experiments conducted on CIFAR-10 and ImageNet-30 show that our GAAT can achieve a more perfect trade-off than TRADES, MMA, and MART. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Pests and diseases of tomato fruits are the foremost factors leading to the reduction in produce quantity. Effective and prompt differentiation of these lesion symptoms is essential for agricultural production. Due to the lack of a global receptive field, commonly used convolution neural network models restrict the capability on tomato images under complicated backgrounds. In this paper, we present an efficient and robust method for field diagnosis of tomato fruits based on the context data fusion and capsule network. First, in order to make better the point of inadequate images, the Cycle-GAN algorithm is used to realize the augmentation of the diseases dataset. To improve the quality of the generated images, the feature reconstruction loss function is proposed for the Cycle-GAN method, named Fruit-GAN. The proposed Fruit-GAN learns features of healthy and diseased tomatoes, respectively, and forms lesions based on healthy tomato fruit images. Adding lesion tomato images produced on Fruit-GAN to training sets improves the diagnostic capability compared to classical data augmentation techniques. Subsequently, context fusion studies were used to construct intermediate feature maps from different layers into the fruit diseases recognition compact representation to efficiently leverage the feature reuse mechanism. Finally, the fusion model's enlightened multi-scale capsule network is integrated to form deep features and determine the disease diagnosis. After analyzing the hyper-parameters, the integral technique provides 96.16% accuracy. This research of tomato diseases diagnosis demonstrates the context capsule network model is efficient and establishes a foundation for tomato fruits determination in natural growing environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Vocal fold, a significant body structure, is accountable for phonation, which regulates air motion within and out of the lungs. The disorders in the vocal fold influence the quality of life. Thus, diagnosis of vocal fold disorders has a significant need, and CT of the neck is employed for an effective imaging scheme. Accordingly, this paper proposes an advanced multi-resolution algorithm (MRA) that optimally identifies and classifies pathologies. The vocal regions are acquired using the genetic k-means algorithm. The pathology features are generated using the local directional pattern (LDP) fed to pathology classification using moth search-rider optimization-based deep convolutional neural networks (MRA-based DCNN). The hybrid optimization (MRA), integrates the standard rider optimization algorithm (ROA) and moth search algorithm (MS) that trains deep learning classifier (DCNN). The analysis using the real databases regarding the performance metrics divulge that the proposed pathology detection module obtained the accuracy, specificity, and sensitivity of 97.020%, 91.698%, and 96.624%. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Aiming at the defects of pronunciation errors and limited collection of pronunciation data resources in traditional artificial neural networks, an English pronunciation judgment and detection model based on deep learning neural networks data stream fusion is proposed. Taking Chinese English pronunciation as the research object, three groups of phonetic data were selected as experimental auxiliary data, based on the convolutional neural network, through the preset reset of the pronunciation detection system of the model, the sampling and recognition extraction of the speech system, the wrong speech detection and the feature analysis of the multi-level data stream tandem, the experiments are carried out with CU-CHLOE language learning database, WSJ1 database and 863 Mandarin database. The experimental results show that the recognition accuracy of this model is higher than that of the traditional neural network model, the accuracy of error type diagnosis is significantly improved, and its noise robustness is the best. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the advent of deep neural networks, medical image analysis is able to predict results in advance in early detection and diagnosis of diseases found in the human body. Several deep neural network methodologies have been implemented for a quick and efficient analysis of medical images that detect and diagnose cancerous cell growth in any part of the human body. For improving the segmentation and classification accuracy, the paper has proposed a framework comprising modified DoubleU-Net for image segmentation and PolyNet architecture for image classification. The modified DoubleU-Net is composed of two U-Net architectures, in which U-Net1 makes use of ResNet-50 as an encoder in the place of VGG-16 (existing) and Atrous Spatial Pyramid Pooling (ASPP) is replaced by Waterfall Atrous Spatial Pooling (WASP) architecture in both U-Nets to improve the semantic image segmentation. For classifying the segmented medical images as benign or malignant, PolyNet architecture is implemented in the research. The research involves experiments on the brain tumor dataset and lung cancer dataset to analyze the performance of the proposed approach. The processing of the DoubleU-Net and modified DoubleU-Net is evaluated based on precision, Recall, Intersection over Union (IoU), and Dice Score as the performance metrics. Experimental findings indicate that the modified DoubleU-Net design outperformed the existing DoubleU-Net architecture in terms of performance parameters for segmentation. The efficiency of the PolyNet classifier has been evaluated against VGG-16 and Inception-V3 classifiers, in terms of accuracy, specificity, sensitivity, error rate, and computation time as the performance metrics. From the experimental results, it has been proved that the PolyNet classifier performs better than VGG-16 and Inception-V3 with improved accuracy, specificity, sensitivity, and computation time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Siamese network-based object tracking algorithms have recently gained popularity due to continuous improvement in tracking accuracy and robustness. However, these trackers are often limited by inefficient initialization and unstable online update. The model drift accumulates as more frames are processed. To address the above issues, this paper introduced a method that combines both deep learning and conventional regression algorithms (SVR, Support Vector Regression). Specifically, we propose a feature projection algorithm, which can effectively reduce the dimension of the features extracted from deep neural networks and improve the distinguishability of them at the same time. To make the features more robust for SVR training, we further propose two feature aggregation methods at both the channel level and the spatial level. We update the SVR model online instead of the deep neural network to make the tracking process more robust. Extensive experiments on four challenging benchmarks indicate that our proposed tracker is superior to baseline methods both qualitatively and quantitatively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Aggregate depth residual network (ResNeXt) can not only improve the accuracy without increasing the parameter complexity, but also reduce the number of super parameters. It is one of the popular convolutional neural network models for image recognition. Maize diseases have a great impact on maize yield, quality and farmers' income. Rapid and effective identification of the severity of maize diseases plays an important role in accurate control and accurate drug use. The general ResNeXt model has large spots in extracting image features, but the spots of corn diseases are small and the extracted features are not obvious, which affects the recognition accuracy. Therefore, an improved ResNeXt model is proposed to recognize the occurrence degree of corn diseases. First, the original data of maize disease degree are classified according to national standards. Second, the original data are extended through data enhancement. Third, the original ResNeXt101 model is improved. The first layer convolution kernel is changed to three 3 * 3 convolution kernels, and the cardinality is adjusted to 64. Finally, the improved model is verified. The recognition accuracy of corn disease degree is 89.667%, which is 0.98% higher than the original model. Through testing on 276 actually collected corn disease images, the recognition accuracy is 90.22%. Therefore, this method is feasible for the diagnosis of corn disease degree and can provide an important basis for accurate prevention and control. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Aiming to solve the problem of tracking drift during movement, which was caused by the lack of discriminability of the feature information and the failure of a fixed template to adapt to the change of object appearance, the paper proposes an object tracking algorithm combining attention mechanism and correlation filter theory based on the framework of full convolutional Siamese neural networks. Firstly, the apparent information is processed by using the attention mechanism thought, where the object and search area features are optimized according to the spatial attention and channel attention module. At the same time, the cross-attention module is introduced to process the template branch and search area branch, respectively, which makes full use of the diversified context information of the search area. Then, the background perception correlation filter model with scale adaptation and learning rate adjustment is adopted into the model construction, using as a layer in the network model to realize the object template update. Finally, the optimal object location is determined according to the confidence map with similarity calculation. Experimental results show that the designed method in the paper can promote the object tracking performance under various challenging environments effectively; the success rate increases by 16.2%, and the accuracy rate increases by 16%. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Over the past few years, scene text detection has witnessed rapid progress due to the development of deep neural networks. However, segmentation-based methods may fail to detect pixels near boundary well, and scale variations of text instances may lead to small text missing. To tackle these problems, we propose a novel segmentation-based detector for scene text detection, which can improve the quality of the detected texts. Specifically, a Multi-dimensional Feature Fusion module is used to extract structural and spatial text features from the perspective of height, width and channel, which helps to improve the representation ability of the network. In order to obtain more accurate boundaries of the detected text instances, a Boundary Refinement Branch is introduced to strengthen the supervision for pixels adjacent to boundary. Meanwhile, we propose an Instance-wise Loss to deal with text instances of different scales. Extensive ablation studies validate the effectiveness of these proposed modules. Experiments on several benchmark datasets show that our method achieves better results compared with the state-of-the-art methods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) represents a type of active remote sensing technology that uses microwave electromagnetic radiation to produce and send data to the surface of a target location. SAR imaging is frequently used in national security applications since it is unaffected by weather, geographical location, or time. In this system, many approaches are examined, to improve automation for segmentation and classification. The utilization of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) to classify SAR images has gotten a lot of attention, and it usually requires several layers of deep models for feature learning. With insufficient training data, however, the DNN will get affected by the overfitting issue. The major purpose of this work is to make a development on introducing a new framework for SAR image segmentation and categorization using deep learning. Owing to the coherent nature of the backscattering signal, SARs create speckle noise in their images. If the image has noisy material, classification becomes more challenging. Hence, the pre-processing of the images is employed by linear spatial filtering to remove the noise. Further, the Optimized U-Net is used for the segmentation. For the segmented images, the Binary Robust Independent Elementary Features (BRIEF) concept is adopted as the feature descriptor. These features are inputted to the Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) with Tuned Weight DNN (C-TWDNN) for the classification. In both segmentation and classification, the parameter tuning is employed by the combination of Galactic Swarm Optimization (GSO) and Deer Hunting Optimization Algorithm (DHOA) called the Self-adaptive-Galactic Deer Hunting Optimization (SA-GDHO). Experiments are conducted on a variety of public datasets, demonstrating that our method is capable of outperforming various expert systems and deep structured architectures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The advancement of healthcare technology is impossible without machine learning (ML). There have been numerous advances in ML to analyze, predict, and diagnose medical data. Integrating a centralized scheme and therapy for classifying and diagnosing illnesses and disorders is a major obstacle in modern healthcare. To standardize all medical data into a single repository, researchers have proposed using ML using the centralized artificial neural network model (ML-CANNM). Random tree, support vector machine, and gradient booster are just a few proposed ML classifiers. Artificial neural networks (ANNs) have been trained using a variety of medical datasets to predict and analyze outcomes. ML-CANNM collects patient data from various studies and uses ML and ANNs to determine the results. Three layers make up an ANN. ML is used to classify the given patients' data in the input layer. In the hidden layer, classification data are compared to a training dataset. The output layer's job is to identify, classify, and diagnose diseases. As a result, disease diagnosis and detection are integrated into a single healthcare database. The proposed framework has proven that ML-CANNM works with more accuracy and lesser execution time. Thus, the numerical outcome suggested ML-CANNM increased accuracy ratio of 99.2% and a prediction ratio of 97.5%. The findings further show that the execution time is enhanced by less than 2 h, decision table using ML and results in an efficiency ratio of 97.5%. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Monitoring corn crop growth status is of great significance to crop production, breeding, and seed production. The Unmanned Aerial Vehicles' (UAVs) technology makes it possible to use computer vision technology to identify corn growth stage intelligently. A model customized for corn growth status monitoring based on a dense convolutional neural network (CM-CNN) was proposed, including a two-way dense module and a new activation function ELU. The two-way dense module enlarges the receptive field, while the ELU alleviates gradient disappearance and speeds up learning in deep neural networks. Dense architecture concatenates all the previous layer features to enhance feature reuse. The proposed CM-CNN performs well in classifying corn growth stages. Experimental results show that CM-CNN is a state-of-the-art method, with an accuracy of its relevant data up to 99.3%. Compared with other CNN models, viz. AlexNet, ZFNet, VGG, InceptionV3, Xception and ResNet, fewer parameters are in CM-CNN. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Graph neural network (GNN) is a powerful representation learning framework for graph-structured data. Some GNN-based graph embedding methods, including variational graph autoencoder (VGAE), have been presented recently. However, existing VGAE-based methods typically focus on reconstructing the adjacent matrix, i.e. topological structure, instead of the node features matrix, this strategy makes graphical features difficult to be fully learned, which weakens and restricts the capacity of a generative network to learn higher-quality representations. To address the issue, we use a contrastive estimator on the representation mechanism, i.e. on the encoding process under the framework of VGAE. In particular, we maximize the mutual information (MI) between encoded latent representation and node attributes which acts as a regularizer forcing the encoder to select the most informative with respect to the node attributes. Additionally, we also solve another key question how to effectively estimate the mutual information by drawing samples from the joint and marginal, and explain why the maximization of MI can contribute to the encoder obtaining more node feature information. Ultimately, extensive experiments on three citation networks and four web-age networks show that our method outperforms contemporary popular algorithms (such as DGI) on node classifications and clustering tasks, and the best result is an 8. 2 8 % increase on node clustering task. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Improving the reliability of nighttime pedestrian detection is a crucial challenge towards the design of robust autonomous systems. Not surprisingly, most pedestrian fatalities occur in low-illumination settings, thus emphasizing the need for new algorithmic advances. This work presents a novel pedestrian detection approach that makes a number of crucial modifications to the state-of-the-art YOLOV5-PANet architecture, in order to improve the reliability of features extracted from nighttime images. More specifically, the proposed architecture systematically incorporates powerful shuffle attention mechanisms and a transformer module to improve the feature learning pipeline. Instead of advocating the use of other sensing modalities that are better suited for nighttime detection, our approach relies only on conventional RGB cameras and is hence broadly applicable. Our empirical studies with nighttime pedestrian detection benchmarks show that with only minimal increase in model complexity, our approach provides significant improvements in detection efficacy over existing solutions. Finally, we explore the impact of post-hoc network pruning on the speed-accuracy trade-off of our approach and demonstrate that it is well suited for reduced memory/compute requirements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recently, many studies have shown that deep convolutional neural network can achieve superior performance in image super resolution (SR). The majority of current CNN-based SR methods tend to use deeper architecture to get excellent performance. However, with the growing depth and width of network, the hierarchical features from low-resolution (LR) images cannot be exploited effectively. On the other hand, most models lack the ability of discriminating different types of information and treating them equally, which results in limiting the representational capacity of the models. In this study, we propose the multi-attention residual network (MARN) to address these problems. Specifically, we propose a new multi-attention residual block (MARB), which is composed of attention mechanism and multi-scale residual network. At the beginning of each residual block, the channel importance of image features is adaptively recalibrated by attention mechanism. Then, we utilize convolutional kernels of different sizes to adaptively extract the multi-attention features on different scales. At the end of blocks, local multi-attention features fusion is applied to get more effective hierarchical features. After obtaining the outputs of each MARB, global hierarchical feature fusion jointly fuses all hierarchical features for reconstructing images. Our extensive experiments show that our model outperforms most of the state-of-the-art methods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Building good 3D maps is a challenging and expensive task, which requires high-quality sensors and careful, time-consuming scanning. We seek to reduce the cost of building good reconstructions by correcting views of existing low-quality ones in a post-hoc fashion using learnt priors over surfaces and appearance. We train a convolutional neural network model to predict the difference in inverse-depth from varying viewpoints of two meshes — one of low-quality that we wish to correct, and one of high-quality that we use as a reference. Our full model runs at 11.3 Hz when aggregating four input views. In contrast to previous work, we pay attention to the problem of excessive smoothing in corrected meshes. We address this with a suitable network architecture, and introduce a loss-weighting mechanism that emphasizes edges in the prediction. Furthermore, smooth predictions result in geometrical inconsistencies. To deal with this issue, we present a loss function which penalizes re-projection differences that are not due to occlusions. Future applications of this work will incorporate semantic scene understanding in a multi-task learning setting. We explore the efficacy of the proposed system in terms of gross error correction and generalization capability by showing its performance in practice on a subset of the Kitti Odometry dataset, complete with a component-wise ablation study. We evaluate correctness and completeness measures of surface reconstruction across viewpoints and show that the proposed system is introspective in regions lacking sufficient high-quality supervision — indeed, models trained with geometric consistency loss create a lot more surface in areas that were not supervised, in one case filling in 67.97% or 8010 m2 of an unlabeled input region. Finally, we assess the practical applicability of our method at large-scale by experiments over the full scope of the Kitti Odometry dataset. Broadly, as a measure of effectiveness, our model reduces gross errors by 45.3–77.5%, up to five times more than previous work. We also assess the practical applicability of our method to 3D reconstruction at large scales and find that compared to the baseline our model shows better stability in correctness when improving completeness of surfaces, and is effective in reducing median total error by up to 21.8 cm. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]