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Ebolavirus species including Zaire (EBOV), Sudan (SUDV) and Bundibugyo (BDBV) are responsible for severe hemorrhagic fever outbreaks with high case fatalities in Africa [1,2]. Outbreaks of EBOV in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as well as the 2014-2016 outbreak in West Africa highlight the danger that these zoonotic viruses pose through mucosal routes of infection and secondary human t ...

Arenaviruses comprise a diverse group of Old (Africa) and New World (Americas) species. Several species are associated with hemorrhagic fever (HF) with case-fatality rates as high as 30%. Arenavirus infections typically occur via the mucosal route through contact with excretions of an infected rodents or the inhalation of aerosolized particles from soiled rodent urine or saliva although direct hum ...

In Phase II we will explore further what processing of synthetic image generation produces training data that optimizes the model’s performance on real world images. While existing work on CycleGAN optimizes for human visual perception of domain adaptation it may not necessarily be optimal for training a network to generalize to real scenarios. We will look at modifications of the loss functions ...

The threat of organophosphate (OP) chemical warfare agents (CWA) to United States military personnel is a persistent problem due to the relative ease of manufacturing chemical threats compared to nuclear and biological agents. Human butyrylcholinesterase (HuBChE) has been identified as a probable bio-scavenger of OP CWAs that could be used to protect individuals that could be exposed to OP CWAs. T ...

Vadum will implement and test a software capability for rapid matching of time series data to a database of previously observed time series. The Clustered, Shingled Hashing of Random Projections (CSHARP) capability will generate efficient fingerprint representations of time series data. This capability will enable rapidly query for matches to newly observed, high-volume and velocity signal streams ...

In its effort to provide necessary intelligence and analysis, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) utilizes extensive traffic camera systems. However, the large amount of data overwhelms both analysts and existing processing methods. In order to provide a better understanding and reduce the search space for common problems such as target tracking, it is necessary to extract the camera ...

Infections of the central nervous system (CNS) are associated with brain swelling and increased cerebral blood volume, as well as focal cerebral perfusion deficits, variable levels of cerebral blood flow and cerebral vasculitis. The net result is increased intracranial pressure (ICP) along with significant risk of brain tissue herniation and ischemic syndromes. ICP monitoring is critical in the ma ...

BlueLightAI will build a suite of novel automated object detection and annotation tools for use on massive image data sets.  Based on topological constructions that use our proprietary geometric feature technology, the BlueLightAI suite will incorporate expanded prior knowledge into innate detection, segmentation, identification, and annotation of images. Replacing current Convolutional Neural Ne ...

DHS CISA seeks to develop a capability to identify and mitigate threats toward Soft Targets and Crowded Places (ST-CPs) with a software application. Advanced technologies such as Augmented Reality, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence must be incorporated into the application to enable security professionals to view their environment through a mobile device to identify potential threats, ...

Device Solutions and Wireless Research Center teamed to develop a prototype digital paging system for emergency responders using public television ATSC 3.0.Leveraging open standards, broadcast and public safety infrastructure, modern network devices, and new wireless electronics, our approach is to provide responders and incident commanders with improved pager coverage and capacity, quicker dispat ...