Shao Kuo Tai

Dr. Shao Kuo Tai

Chaoyang University of Technology, Taiwan
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Academic Career Length

7Years (2020-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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24 April 2021 in Neural Computing and Applications
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Christine DewiChristine Dewi
Christine Dewi
Rung-Ching ChenRung-Ching Chen
Rung-Ching Chen
YLYan-Ting Liu
Yan-Ting Liu
Shao Kuo TaiShao Kuo Tai
Shao Kuo Tai

7 October 2020 in Applied Sciences
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Shao Kuo TaiShao Kuo Tai
Shao Kuo Tai
Christine DewiChristine Dewi
Christine Dewi
Rung-Ching ChenRung-Ching Chen
Rung-Ching Chen
YLYan-Ting Liu
Yan-Ting Liu
XJXiaoyi Jiang
Xiaoyi Jiang
Hui YuHui Yu
Hui Yu
In the area of traffic sign detection (TSD) methods, deep learning has been implemented and achieves outstanding performance. The detection of a traffic sign, as it has a dual function in monitoring and directing the driver, is a big concern for driver support systems. A core feature of autonomous vehicle systems is the identification of the traffic sign. This article focuses on the prohibitive sign. The objective is to detect in real-time and reduce processing time considerably. In this study, we implement the spatial pyramid pooling (SPP) principle to boost Yolo V3’s backbone network for the extraction of functionality. Our work uses SPP for more comprehensive learning of multiscale object features. Then, perform a comparative investigation of Yolo V3 and Yolo V3 SPP across various scales to recognize the prohibitory sign. Comparisons with Yolo V3 SPP models reveal that their mean average precision (mAP) is higher than Yolo V3. Furthermore, the test accuracy findings indicate that the Yolo V3 SPP model performs better than Yolo V3 for different sizes.

27 May 2020 in Electronics
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Christine DewiChristine Dewi
Christine Dewi
Rung-Ching ChenRung-Ching Chen
Rung-Ching Chen
Shao Kuo TaiShao Kuo Tai
Shao Kuo Tai
Traffic sign recognition (TSR) is a noteworthy issue for real-world applications such as systems for autonomous driving as it has the main role in guiding the driver. This paper focuses on Taiwan’s prohibitory sign due to the lack of a database or research system for Taiwan’s traffic sign recognition. This paper investigates the state-of-the-art of various object detection systems (Yolo V3, Resnet 50, Densenet, and Tiny Yolo V3) combined with spatial pyramid pooling (SPP). We adopt the concept of SPP to improve the backbone network of Yolo V3, Resnet 50, Densenet, and Tiny Yolo V3 for building feature extraction. Furthermore, we use a spatial pyramid pooling to study multi-scale object features thoroughly. The observation and evaluation of certain models include vital metrics measurements, such as the mean average precision (mAP), workspace size, detection time, intersection over union (IoU), and the number of billion floating-point operations (BFLOPS). Our findings show that Yolo V3 SPP strikes the best total BFLOPS (65.69), and mAP (98.88%). Besides, the highest average accuracy is Yolo V3 SPP at 99%, followed by Densenet SPP at 87%, Resnet 50 SPP at 70%, and Tiny Yolo V3 SPP at 50%. Hence, SPP can improve the performance of all models in the experiment.

1 January 2020 in Communications in Mathematical Biology and Neuroscience
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Rezzy Eko CarakaRezzy Eko Caraka
Rezzy Eko Caraka
NNNyityasmono Tri Nugroho
Nyityasmono Tri Nugroho
Shao Kuo TaiShao Kuo Tai
Shao Kuo Tai
Rung-Ching ChenRung-Ching Chen
Rung-Ching Chen
TTToni Toharudin
Toni Toharudin
Bens PardameanBens Pardamean
Bens Pardamean
A retrospective study of the abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) with EVAR treated patients. The third-party collected the data from twelve vascular centres in Indonesia during 2012-2017. Patient demographics and computed tomography data were evaluated with Osirix MD Software. During five years, we had 148 EVAR cases done using Endurant stent graft (Medtronic). In this paper, we perform Bayesian modelling and selection of feature selection by Boruta. Before performing the models, we will determine the selection of dependent variables start with the Age, Class, and Sex. It will get what is important to be dependent and independent. The difference between Bayesian and classical method is the introduction of prior information in the form of probability distributions. In addition, to determine the parameters using the Bayesian method obtained from the probability statement. Parameter estimation in Bayesian is no longer a point estimate but, on the contrary, is a statistical distribution. In other words, Bayesian states that a parameter is a variable that has a distribution. Bayesian has become a popular method in modern statistical analysis. Bayesian is applied to a broad spectrum in the scientific and research fields. Bayesian data analysis involves learning from data that uses probability models for many observations and some information to be studied. In other words, analysing statistical models are by combining prior knowledge about the model or parameters of the model. In a nutshell, the simulation results obtained modelling with Bayesian-ZIP-MCMC R-2 87.52 and Bayesian-Boruta R-2 88.28%.

15 August 2025 in AI
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Sheng-Ming KuoSheng-Ming Kuo
Sheng-Ming Kuo
Shao Kuo TaiShao Kuo Tai
Shao Kuo Tai
HLHung-Yu Lin
Hung-Yu Lin
Rung-Ching ChenRung-Ching Chen
Rung-Ching Chen
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) combined with Large Language Models (LLMs) introduces a new paradigm for clinical-trial data analysis that is both real-time and knowledge-traceable. This study targets a multi-site, real-world data environment. It builds a hierarchical RAG pipeline spanning an electronic health record (EHR), National Health Insurance (NHI) billing codes, and image-vector indices. The LLM is optimized through lightweight LoRA/QLoRA fine-tuning and reinforcement-learning-based alignment. The system first retrieves key textual and imaging evidence from heterogeneous data repositories and then fuses these artifacts into the contextual window for clinical report generation. Experimental results show marked improvements over traditional manual statistics and prompt-only models in retrieval accuracy, textual coherence, and response latency while reducing human error and workload. In evaluation, the proposed multimodal RAG-LLM workflow achieved statistically significant gains in three core metrics—recall, factual consistency, and expert ratings—and substantially shortened overall report-generation time, demonstrating clear efficiency advantages versus conventional manual processes. However, LLMs alone often face challenges such as limited real-world grounding, hallucination risks, and restricted context windows. Similarly, RAG systems, while improving factual consistency, depend heavily on retrieval quality and may yield incoherent synthesis if evidence is misaligned. These limitations underline the complementary nature of integrating RAG and LLM architectures in a clinical reporting context. Quantitatively, the proposed system achieved a Composite Quality Index (CQI) of 78.3, outperforming strong baselines such as Med-PaLM 2 (72.6) and PMC-LLaMA (74.3), and reducing the report drafting time by over 75% (p < 0.01). These findings confirm the practical feasibility of the framework to support fully automated clinical reporting.

12 September 2024 in Applied Sciences
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IGIbrahim Yahaya Garta
Ibrahim Yahaya Garta
Shao Kuo TaiShao Kuo Tai
Shao Kuo Tai
Rung-Ching ChenRung-Ching Chen
Rung-Ching Chen
Various factors such as natural disasters, vandalism, weather, and environmental conditions can affect the physical state of traffic signs. The proposed model aims to improve detection of traffic signs affected by partial occlusion as a result of overgrown vegetation, displaced signs (those knocked down, bent), perforated signs (those damaged with holes), faded signs (color degradation), rusted signs (corroded surface), and de-faced signs (placing graffiti, etc., by vandals). This research aims to improve the detection of bad traffic signs using three approaches. In the first approach, Spiral Pooling Pyramid-Fast (SPPF) and C3TR modules are introduced to the architecture of Yolov5 models. SPPF helps provide a multi-scale representation of the input feature map by pooling at different scales, which is useful in improving the quality of feature maps and detecting bad traffic signs of various sizes and perspectives. The C3TR module uses convolutional layers to enhance local feature extraction and transformers to boost understanding of the global context. Secondly, we use predictions of Yolov5 as base models to implement a mean ensemble to improve performance. Thirdly, test time augmentation (TTA) is applied at test time by using scaling and flipping to improve accuracy. Some signs are generated using stable diffusion techniques to augment certain classes. We test the proposed models on the CCTSDB2021, TT100K, GTSDB, and GTSRD datasets to ensure generalization and use k-fold cross-validation to further evaluate the performance of the models. The proposed models outperform other state-of-the-art models in comparison.