Clayton State Digital Repository
The Clayton State Digital Repository (CSDR) collects, preserves, and shares scholarly research with its community of users. These contributions demonstrate the value placed on instruction and research as well as illustrate how the University’s mission is met across our campus community. The uploaded documents will be freely accessible online and will include faculty and student scholarship, electronic theses, open access journals, campus documents and publications, and more.
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Item Deep Learning - Driven Image Intelligence for Robotics and Clinical Diagnostics(Clayton State University)This thesis presents a comprehensive investigation of deep learning applications across two critical domains: intelligent robotics and clinical diagnostics. The work addresses fundamental challenges in real-time human-robot interaction and medical image classification through practical, resource-efficient implementations. In the robotics domain, we developed a real-time face recognition and control system for a Hexapod robot using a PyQt5-based GUI with offline voice feedback. Leveraging DeepFace with the FaceNet model, achieving 93.02% accuracy and 380-420ms response times on Raspberry Pi hardware. Our implementation demonstrates effective edge deployment of deep learning-based facial recognition combined with robot control, sensor monitoring, and obstacle detection through an intuitive graphical interface. The architecture employs multi-threaded processing and TCP/IP communication, with client-side GUI managing movement controls, sensor monitoring, and recognition operations, while the server-side handles hardware interfacing and command execution on the Raspberry Pi. This modular client-server design ensures scalability, maintainability, and responsive concurrent operations video streaming, face recognition, and robot control at a total hardware cost of approximately $150, democratizing advanced human-robot interaction for educational and research applications. In the medical domain, we address three critical barriers to clinical AI adoption: lack of uncertainty quantification, poor minority class performance, and high computational requirements. Using the HAM10000 dataset (10,015 dermoscopic images across 7 diagnostic categories with 58:1 class imbalance), we developed an uncertainty-aware Swin Transformer system that achieves 87.82% test accuracy with 90.15% validation accuracy. Through Monte Carlo Dropout integration, our model provides confidence-calibrated predictions, achieving 97% accuracy on high-confidence cases (80% coverage) while flagging uncertain cases for expert review. A triple-strategy imbalance handling approach combining weighted sampling, class-weighted focal loss, and label smoothing yields an average minority class F1-score of 83.8%, with no class falling below 77%. Memory optimization techniques reduce peak VRAM usage to 8GB and training costs to $3.15, enabling deployment on consumer hardware. Both systems demonstrate that sophisticated deep learning models can be deployed effectively on resource-constrained platforms while maintaining high performance, transparency, and accessibility. This work provides practical frameworks for trustworthy AI in educational robotics and clinical decision support, contributing methodologies applicable across diverse real-world applications.Item "Let Me at Least Be Their Witness": Maternal Crisis and Subverting Tradition in Eavan Boland's "Daughter"(Clayton State University)In 2024, the editor of Citizen Poet, a posthumous collection of Irish poet Eavan Boland’s essays, chose to include a previously unpublished piece from her private papers. The essay, entitled “Daughter,” presents a more complete picture of the poet’s motivations for her subversive work. Written as a series of fragments that reveal different facets of her influences and struggles, the essay’s unifying thread is the serious illness of her child. As her baby suffered, she felt a growing gap between her lived experiences and an art that seemed to have no room for them. Through the fractured narrative, several themes emerge. Boland’s evolution as a poet centered around her recognition of the absence of the authentic lives of women within Irish poetry. As she changed physical location from the literary city of Dublin to a suburban neighborhood, her awareness of this absence intensified while she was observing and participating in the routines of domesticity. Although she faced criticism from both the feminist movement and literary critics within a male-dominated culture, she incorporated domestic and maternal themes in her poetry. Boland worked to subvert poetic authority through prose essays, teaching, and workshops, and disagreed with the separatist position of some feminist writers. She included in “Daughter” four poems, “Night Feed,” “Endings,” “Love,” and “The Journey,” providing examples of her subversive approach to the both the lyric and dream convention poem. The unfinished essay provides a foundational understanding of Boland’s journey to become one of Ireland’s preeminent poets and illuminates her desire to be a poetic foremother to young women poets.Item Subjective Perfection(Clayton State University)This creative thesis is a collection of short stories that examine the complexities of womanhood through the intertwined experiences of marriage, motherhood, and personal identity. Centered on the emotional realities of girls and women navigating various stages of life, the collection explores how societal expectations surrounding femininity, particularly ideals of agreeability, submission, and silence shape and often constrain women’s understanding of themselves and their relationships. Through a diverse cast of characters from different backgrounds, the stories engage in themes of romantic relationships, friendship, postpartum struggles, grief, and enduring love. Each narrative offers an intimate portrayal of the internal and external conflicts women face as they negotiate cultural norms while seeking authenticity and emotional fulfillment. By challenging traditional expectations, the collection highlights the tension between societal roles and individual desires. Collectively, these stories illustrate the layered rationality behind women’s thoughts and actions, particularly within roles that are often idealized yet emotionally demanding. The work brings visibility to suppressed struggles, sacrifices, and unspoken desires, revealing both the risks and resilience inherent in navigating these identities. It underscores the mental and physical strength required to exist within systems that often leave little room for self-expression or acknowledgment of personal needs. Interspersed throughout the collection are three original poems that serve as thematic and emotional bridges between sections. These poems deepen the work’s symbolic and narrative complexity, offering additional perspectives that enhance the exploration of voice, identity, and shared experience. Ultimately, this thesis traces the continuum from adolescence to adulthood, examining the evolving nature of identity, the intensity of female friendships, and the psychological fractures that can emerge within motherhood. By presenting honest, nuanced depictions of women lived experiences, the collection seeks to interrogate and reimagine the social constructs that define and often limit womanhood
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