Lambert Leong

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa | UH Manoa · Department of Information and Computer Sciences

Objective: This study examined whether body shape and composition obtained by three-dimensional optical (3DO) scanning improved the prediction of metabolic syndrome (MetS) prevalence compared with BMI and demographics. Methods: A diverse ambulatory adult population underwent whole-body 3DO scanning, blood tests, manual anthropometrics, and blood...

Fundamental differences between natural and medical images have recently favored the use of self-supervised learning (SSL) over ImageNet transfer learning for medical image applications. Differences between image types are primarily due to the imaging modality and medical images utilize a wide range of physics based techniques while natural images...

Background The ability of deep learning (DL) models to classify women as at risk for either screening mammography-detected or interval cancer (not detected at mammography) has not yet been explored in the literature. Purpose To examine the ability of DL models to estimate the risk of interval and screening-detected breast cancers with and without c...

Background While breast imaging such as full-field digital mammography and digital breast tomosynthesis have helped to reduced breast cancer mortality, issues with low specificity exist resulting in unnecessary biopsies. The fundamental information used in diagnostic decisions are primarily based in lesion morphology. We explore a dual-energy compo...

We explore a compositional breast imaging technique known as three compartment breast (3CB) to improve malignancy detection. The addition of 3CB compositional information to computer-aided detection (CAD) software improved malignancy predictions resulting in an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) of 0.81 (confidence interva...

In this paper, we investigate a potential security vulnerability associated with wrist wearable devices. Hardware components on common wearable devices include an accelerometer and gyroscope, among other sensors. We demonstrate that an accelerometer and gyroscope can pick up enough unique wrist movement information to identify digits being written...

The purpose of this work was to perform a network analysis on the rapidly growing bitcoin transaction network. Using a web-socket API, we collected data on all transactions occurring during a six hour window. Sender and receiver addresses as well as the amount of bitcoin exchanged were record. Graphs were generated, using R and Gephi, in which node...

Wireless interconnects based on inductive coupling technology are compelling propositions for designing 3-D integrated chips. This work addresses the heat dissipation problem on such systems. Although effective cooling technologies have been proposed for systems designed based on Through Silicon Via (TSV), their application to systems that use indu...

1599 Background: We previously demonstrated racial disparities in colorectal cancer (CRC) survival despite adjustments for tumor and socioeconomic factors. Molecular differences in breast and lung tumors contribute to racial survival inequality, yet in CRC, molecular tumor characteristics have not been studied extensively in a racially diverse coho...