Arabic Handwritten Word Recognition Based on Stationary Wavelet Transform Technique using Machine Learning

This paper is aimed at improving the performance of the word recognition system (WRS) of handwritten Arabic text by extracting features in the frequency domain using the Stationary Wavelet Transform (SWT) method using machine learning, which is a wavelet transform approach created to compensate for the absence of translation invariance in the Discrete Wavelets Transform (DWT) method. The proposed SWT-WRS of Arabic handwritten text consists of three main processes: word normalization, feature extraction based on SWT, and recognition. The proposed SWT-WRS based on the SWT method is evaluated on the IFN/ENIT database applying the Gaussian, linear, and polynomial support vector machine, the k-nearest neighbors, and ANN classifiers. ANN performance was assessed by applying the Bayesian Regularization (BR) and Levenberg-Marquardt (LM) training methods. Numerous wavelet transform (WT) families are applied, and the results prove that level 19 of the Daubechies family is the best WT family for the proposed SWT-WRS. The results also confirm the effectiveness of the proposed SWT-WRS in improving the performance of handwritten Arabic word recognition using machine learning. Therefore, the suggested SWT-WRS overcomes the lack of translation invariance in the DWT method by eliminating the up-and-down samplers from the proposed machine learning method.

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OFFLINE YORÙBÁ HANDWRITTEN WORD RECOGNITION USING GEOMETRIC FEATURE EXTRACTION AND SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE CLASSIFIER

MALAYSIAN JOURNAL OF COMPUTING ◽

10.24191/mjoc.v5i2.8947 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

pp. 504

Author(s):

Matthias Omotayo Oladele ◽

Temilola Morufat Adepoju ◽

Olaide ` Abiodun Olatoke ◽

Oluwaseun Adewale Ojo

Keyword(s):

Support Vector Machine ◽

Feature Extraction ◽

Word Recognition ◽

Support Vector Machine Classifier ◽

Recognition Accuracy ◽

Recognition System ◽

Support Vector ◽

Geometric Features ◽

Total Length ◽

Yoruba Language

Yorùbá language is one of the three main languages that is been spoken in Nigeria. It is a tonal language that carries an accent on the vowel alphabets. There are twenty-five (25) alphabets in Yorùbá language with one of the alphabets a digraph (GB). Due to the difficulty in typing handwritten Yorùbá documents, there is a need to develop a handwritten recognition system that can convert the handwritten texts to digital format. This study discusses the offline Yorùbá handwritten word recognition system (OYHWR) that recognizes Yorùbá uppercase alphabets. Handwritten characters and words were obtained from different writers using the paint application and M708 graphics tablets. The characters were used for training and the words were used for testing. Pre-processing was done on the images and the geometric features of the images were extracted using zoning and gradient-based feature extraction. Geometric features are the different line types that form a particular character such as the vertical, horizontal, and diagonal lines. The geometric features used are the number of horizontal lines, number of vertical lines, number of right diagonal lines, number of left diagonal lines, total length of all horizontal lines, total length of all vertical lines, total length of all right slanting lines, total length of all left-slanting lines and the area of the skeleton. The characters are divided into 9 zones and gradient feature extraction was used to extract the horizontal and vertical components and geometric features in each zone. The words were fed into the support vector machine classifier and the performance was evaluated based on recognition accuracy. Support vector machine is a two-class classifier, hence a multiclass SVM classifier least square support vector machine (LSSVM) was used for word recognition. The one vs one strategy and RBF kernel were used and the recognition accuracy obtained from the tested words ranges between 66.7%, 83.3%, 85.7%, 87.5%, and 100%. The low recognition rate for some of the words could be as a result of the similarity in the extracted features.

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Use of Machine Learning to Investigate the Quantitative Checklist for Autism in Toddlers (Q-CHAT) towards Early Autism Screening

Diagnostics ◽

10.3390/diagnostics11030574 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (3) ◽

pp. 574

Author(s):

Gennaro Tartarisco ◽

Giovanni Cicceri ◽

Davide Di Pietro ◽

Elisa Leonardi ◽

Stefania Aiello ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Machine Learning ◽

High Performance ◽

Behavioral Science ◽

Autistic Traits ◽

Classification Performance ◽

Recursive Feature Elimination ◽

Diagnostic Tools ◽

Support Vector ◽

K Nearest Neighbors ◽

Autism Screening

In the past two decades, several screening instruments were developed to detect toddlers who may be autistic both in clinical and unselected samples. Among others, the Quantitative CHecklist for Autism in Toddlers (Q-CHAT) is a quantitative and normally distributed measure of autistic traits that demonstrates good psychometric properties in different settings and cultures. Recently, machine learning (ML) has been applied to behavioral science to improve the classification performance of autism screening and diagnostic tools, but mainly in children, adolescents, and adults. In this study, we used ML to investigate the accuracy and reliability of the Q-CHAT in discriminating young autistic children from those without. Five different ML algorithms (random forest (RF), naïve Bayes (NB), support vector machine (SVM), logistic regression (LR), and K-nearest neighbors (KNN)) were applied to investigate the complete set of Q-CHAT items. Our results showed that ML achieved an overall accuracy of 90%, and the SVM was the most effective, being able to classify autism with 95% accuracy. Furthermore, using the SVM–recursive feature elimination (RFE) approach, we selected a subset of 14 items ensuring 91% accuracy, while 83% accuracy was obtained from the 3 best discriminating items in common to ours and the previously reported Q-CHAT-10. This evidence confirms the high performance and cross-cultural validity of the Q-CHAT, and supports the application of ML to create shorter and faster versions of the instrument, maintaining high classification accuracy, to be used as a quick, easy, and high-performance tool in primary-care settings.

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Low-Pass Filtering Empirical Wavelet Transform Machine Learning Based Fault Diagnosis for Combined Fault of Wind Turbines

Entropy ◽

10.3390/e23080975 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 23 (8) ◽

pp. 975

Author(s):

Yancai Xiao ◽

Jinyu Xue ◽

Mengdi Li ◽

Wei Yang

Keyword(s):

Machine Learning ◽

Wavelet Transform ◽

Fault Diagnosis ◽

Wind Turbine ◽

Wind Turbines ◽

Gear Tooth ◽

Support Vector ◽

Grey Wolf Optimizer ◽

Empirical Wavelet Transform ◽

Low Pass

Fault diagnosis of wind turbines is of great importance to reduce operating and maintenance costs of wind farms. At present, most wind turbine fault diagnosis methods are focused on single faults, and the methods for combined faults usually depend on inefficient manual analysis. Filling the gap, this paper proposes a low-pass filtering empirical wavelet transform (LPFEWT) machine learning based fault diagnosis method for combined fault of wind turbines, which can identify the fault type of wind turbines simply and efficiently without human experience and with low computation costs. In this method, low-pass filtering empirical wavelet transform is proposed to extract fault features from vibration signals, LPFEWT energies are selected to be the inputs of the fault diagnosis model, a grey wolf optimizer hyperparameter tuned support vector machine (SVM) is employed for fault diagnosis. The method is verified on a wind turbine test rig that can simulate shaft misalignment and broken gear tooth faulty conditions. Compared with other models, the proposed model has superiority for this classification problem.

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Human Activity Recognition using Machine Learning

International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology ◽

10.22214/ijraset.2021.35694 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 (VI) ◽

pp. 3553-3556

Author(s):

Chaudhari Shraddha

Keyword(s):

Machine Learning ◽

Random Forest ◽

Activity Recognition ◽

Human Activity ◽

Recognition System ◽

Human Activity Recognition ◽

Machine Learning Techniques ◽

K Nearest Neighbors ◽

Random Forest Classification ◽

Medical Health Care

Activity recognition in humans is one of the active challenges that find its application in numerous fields such as, medical health care, military, manufacturing, assistive techniques and gaming. Due to the advancements in technologies the usage of smartphones in human lives has become inevitable. The sensors in the smartphones help us to measure the essential vital parameters. These measured parameters enable us to monitor the activities of humans, which we call as human activity recognition. We have applied machine learning techniques on a publicly available dataset. K-Nearest Neighbors and Random Forest classification algorithms are applied. In this paper, we have designed and implemented an automatic human activity recognition system that independently recognizes the actions of the humans. This system is able to recognize the activities such as Laying, Sitting, Standing, Walking, Walking downstairs and Walking upstairs. The results obtained show that, the KNN and Random Forest Algorithms gives 90.22% and 92.70% respectively of overall accuracy in detecting the activities.

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Predicting Student’s Performance Using Machine Learning Algorithm

International Journal of Advanced Research in Science, Communication and Technology ◽

10.48175/ijarsct-1209 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 53-58

Author(s):

Sheela Rani P ◽

Dhivya S ◽

Dharshini Priya M ◽

Dharmila Chowdary A

Keyword(s):

Machine Learning ◽

Support Vector Machine ◽

Prediction Model ◽

Naive Bayes ◽

Learning Algorithm ◽

Naïve Bayes ◽

Machine Learning Algorithms ◽

Support Vector ◽

Learning Approaches ◽

K Nearest Neighbors

Machine learning is a new analysis discipline that uses knowledge to boost learning, optimizing the training method and developing the atmosphere within which learning happens. There square measure 2 sorts of machine learning approaches like supervised and unsupervised approach that square measure accustomed extract the knowledge that helps the decision-makers in future to require correct intervention. This paper introduces an issue that influences students' tutorial performance prediction model that uses a supervised variety of machine learning algorithms like support vector machine , KNN(k-nearest neighbors), Naïve Bayes and supplying regression and logistic regression. The results supported by various algorithms are compared and it is shown that the support vector machine and Naïve Bayes performs well by achieving improved accuracy as compared to other algorithms. The final prediction model during this paper may have fairly high prediction accuracy .The objective is not just to predict future performance of students but also provide the best technique for finding the most impactful features that influence student’s while studying.

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Classifications of Breast Cancer Diagnosis using Machine Learning

International Journal of Computers ◽

10.46300/9108.2020.14.13 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 14 ◽

Keyword(s):

Breast Cancer ◽

Machine Learning ◽

Random Forest ◽

Breast Cancer Diagnosis ◽

Performance Comparison ◽

Support Vector ◽

Breast Cancer Dataset ◽

K Nearest Neighbors ◽

Cancer Dataset ◽

Machine Learning Classification

Breast Cancer (BC) is amongst the most common and leading causes of deaths in women throughout the world. Recently, classification and data analysis tools are being widely used in the medical field for diagnosis, prognosis and decision making to help lower down the risks of people dying or suffering from diseases. Advanced machine learning methods have proven to give hope for patients as this has helped the doctors in early detection of diseases like Breast Cancer that can be fatal, in support with providing accurate outcomes. However, the results highly depend on the techniques used for feature selection and classification which will produce a strong machine learning model. In this paper, a performance comparison is conducted using four classifiers which are Multilayer Perceptron (MLP), Support Vector Machine (SVM), K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN) and Random Forest on the Wisconsin Breast Cancer dataset to spot the most effective predictors. The main goal is to apply best machine learning classification methods to predict the Breast Cancer as benign or malignant using terms such as accuracy, f-measure, precision and recall. Experimental results show that Random forest is proven to achieve the highest accuracy of 99.26% on this dataset and features, while SVM and KNN show 97.78% and 97.04% accuracy respectively. MLP shows the least accuracy of 94.07%. All the experiments are conducted using RStudio as the data mining tool platform.

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Using Machine Learning to Predict the pKa of C–H Bonds. Relevance to Catalytic Methane Functionalization

10.26434/chemrxiv.12646772 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Christopher Zhou ◽

William Grumbles ◽

Thomas Cundari

Keyword(s):

Machine Learning ◽

Support Vector ◽

Learning Models ◽

K Nearest Neighbors ◽

Network Support ◽

Highest Occupied Molecular Orbital ◽

Conjugate Acid ◽

Organometallic Catalyst ◽

Conjugate Base ◽

Machine Learning Models

Six machine learning models (random forest, neural network, support vector machine, k-nearest neighbors, Bayesian ridge regression, least squares linear regression) were trained on a dataset of 3d transition metal-methyl and -methane complexes to predict pKa(C–H), a property demonstrated to be important in catalytic activity and selectivity. Results illustrate that the machine learning models are quite promising, with RMSE metrics ranging from 4.6 to 8.8 pKa units, despite the relatively modest amount of data available to train on. Importantly, the machine learning models agreed that (a) conjugate base properties were more impactful than those of the corresponding conjugate acid, and (b) the energy of the highest occupied molecular orbital conjugate base was the most significant input feature in the prediction of pKa(C–H). Furthermore, results from additional testing conducted using an external dataset of Sc-methyl complexes demonstrated the robustness of all models, with RMSE metrics ranging from 1.5 to 6.6 pKa units. In all, this research demonstrates the potential of machine learning models in organometallic catalyst development.

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Online Handwritten Gujarati Word Recognition

International Journal of Computer Vision and Image Processing ◽

10.4018/ijcvip.2019010103 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 35-50 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Vishal A. Naik ◽

Apurva A. Desai

Keyword(s):

Word Recognition ◽

Recognition System ◽

Support Vector ◽

Post Processing ◽

Mapping Rule ◽

Hybrid Features ◽

Rule Based ◽

Chain Code ◽

Handwritten Word Recognition ◽

Gujarati Language

In this article, an online handwritten word recognition system for the Gujarati language is presented by combining strokes, characters, punctuation marks, and diacritics. The authors have used a support vector machine classification algorithm with a radial basis function kernel. The authors used a hybrid features set. The hybrid feature set consists of directional features with curvature data. The authors have used a normalized chain code and zoning-based chain code features. Words are a combination of characters and diacritics. Recognized strokes require post-processing to form a word. The authors have used location-based and mapping rule-based post-processing methods. The authors have achieved an accuracy of 95.3% for individual characters, 91.5% for individual words, and 83.3% for sentences. The average processing time for individual characters is 0.071 seconds.

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Machine Learning Classification Algorithms to Predict aGvHD following Allo-HSCT: A Systematic Review

Methods of Information in Medicine ◽

10.1055/s-0040-1709150 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 58 (06) ◽

pp. 205-212

Author(s):

Cirruse Salehnasab ◽

Abbas Hajifathali ◽

Farkhondeh Asadi ◽

Elham Roshandel ◽

Alireza Kazemi ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Machine Learning ◽

Systemic Review ◽

Predictor Variables ◽

Support Vector ◽

Classification Algorithms ◽

K Nearest Neighbors ◽

Hematopoietic Stem ◽

Machine Learning Classification ◽

Graft Versus Host ◽

Meta Analyses

Abstract Background The acute graft-versus-host disease (aGvHD) is the most important cause of mortality in patients receiving allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Given that it occurs at the stage of severe tissue damage, its diagnosis is late. With the advancement of machine learning (ML), promising real-time models to predict aGvHD have emerged. Objective This article aims to synthesize the literature on ML classification algorithms for predicting aGvHD, highlighting algorithms and important predictor variables used. Methods A systemic review of ML classification algorithms used to predict aGvHD was performed using a search of the PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, Scopus, Springer, and IEEE Xplore databases undertaken up to April 2019 based on Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) statements. The studies with a focus on using the ML classification algorithms in the process of predicting of aGvHD were considered. Results After applying the inclusion and exclusion criteria, 14 studies were selected for evaluation. The results of the current analysis showed that the algorithms used were Artificial Neural Network (79%), Support Vector Machine (50%), Naive Bayes (43%), k-Nearest Neighbors (29%), Regression (29%), and Decision Trees (14%), respectively. Also, many predictor variables have been used in these studies so that we have divided them into more abstract categories, including biomarkers, demographics, infections, clinical, genes, transplants, drugs, and other variables. Conclusion Each of these ML algorithms has a particular characteristic and different proposed predictors. Therefore, it seems these ML algorithms have a high potential for predicting aGvHD if the process of modeling is performed correctly.

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