Developing Machine Learning Models to Predict Roadway Traffic Noise: An Opportunity to Escape Conventional Techniques

Author(s):  
Mohamad Ali Khalil ◽  
Khaled Hamad ◽  
Abdallah Shanableh

Accurate prediction of roadway traffic noise remains challenging. Many researchers continue to improve the performance of their models by either adding more variables or improving their modeling algorithms. In this research, machine learning (ML) modeling techniques were developed to predict roadway traffic noise accurately. The ML techniques applied were: regression decision trees, support vector machine, ensembles, and artificial neural network. The parameters of each of these models were fine-tuned to achieve the best performance results. In addition, a state-of-the-art hybrid feature-selection technique has been employed to select a minimum set of input features (variables) while maintaining the accuracy of the developed models. By optimizing the number of features used in the model, the resources needed to develop and utilize a model to predict roadway noise would be less, hence decreasing the development cost. The proposed approach has been applied to develop a free-field roadway traffic noise model for Sharjah City in the United Arab Emirates. The best developed ML model was compared with a conventional regression model which was developed earlier under the same conditions. The cross-validated results clearly indicate that the best ML model outperformed the regression modeling. The performance of the ML model was also assessed after reducing the number of its input features based on the outcome of the feature-selection algorithm; the model performance was slightly affected. This result emphasizes the importance of considering only features that greatly influence the roadway traffic noise.

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Jianming Ye ◽  
He Huang ◽  
Weiwei Jiang ◽  
Xiaomei Xu ◽  
Chun Xie ◽  
...  

Glioma is one of the most common and deadly malignant brain tumors originating from glial cells. For personalized treatment, an accurate preoperative prognosis for glioma patients is highly desired. Recently, various machine learning-based approaches have been developed to predict the prognosis based on preoperative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) radiomics, which extract quantitative features from radiographic images. However, major challenges remain for methodologic developments to optimize feature extraction and provide rapid information flow in clinical settings. This study investigates two machine learning-based prognosis prediction tasks using radiomic features extracted from preoperative multimodal MRI brain data: (i) prediction of tumor grade (higher-grade vs. lower-grade gliomas) from preoperative MRI scans and (ii) prediction of patient overall survival (OS) in higher-grade gliomas (<12 months vs. > 12 months) from preoperative MRI scans. Specifically, these two tasks utilize the conventional machine learning-based models built with various classifiers. Moreover, feature selection methods are applied to increase model performance and decrease computational costs. In the experiments, models are evaluated in terms of their predictive performance and stability using a bootstrap approach. Experimental results show that classifier choice and feature selection technique plays a significant role in model performance and stability for both tasks; a variability analysis indicates that classification method choice is the most dominant source of performance variation for both tasks.


2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 2862-2867

E-commerce is a website or mobile application platform that help people to buy products. Before purchasing the product, customer will decide to buy it or not by reading the review from previous buyer. There is a problem that there are a lot of review so it will take a long time for customer to read it all. This research will be using sentiment analysis method to classify the review data. Sentiment analysis or opinion mining is a machine learning approach to classify and analyse texts or documents about human’s sentiments, emotions, and opinions. In this research, sentiment analysis was used to classify product reviews from e-commerce websites into positive or negative classes. The results could be processed further and be used to summarize customers' opinions about a certain product without reading every single review. The goal of this research is to optimize classification performance by using feature selection technique. Terms Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency (TF-IDF) feature extraction, Backward Elimination feature selection, and five different classifiers (Naïve Bayes, Support Vector Machine, K-Nearest Neighbour, Decision Tree, Random Forest) were used in analysing the sentiment of the reviews. In this research, the dataset used are Indonesian language and classified into two classes(positive and negative). The best accuracy is achieved by using TF-IDF, Backward Elimination and Support Vector Machine (SVM) with a score of 85.97%, which increases by 7.91% if compared to the process without feature selection. Based on the results, Backward Elimination feature selection succeeded in improving all performance for all classifiers used in this research.


Sentiment analysis is an area of natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning where the text is to be categorized into predefined classes i.e. positive and negative. As the field of internet and social media, both are increasing day by day, the product of these two nowadays is having many more feedbacks from the customer than before. Text generated through social media, blogs, post, review on any product, etc. has become the bested suited cases for consumer sentiment, providing a best-suited idea for that particular product. Features are an important source for the classification task as more the features are optimized, the more accurate are results. Therefore, this research paper proposes a hybrid feature selection which is a combination of Particle swarm optimization (PSO) and cuckoo search. Due to the subjective nature of social media reviews, hybrid feature selection technique outperforms the traditional technique. The performance factors like f-measure, recall, precision, and accuracy tested on twitter dataset using Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier and compared with convolution neural network. Experimental results of this paper on the basis of different parameters show that the proposed work outperforms the existing work


2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-27
Author(s):  
Saikin Saikin ◽  
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Sofiansyah Fadli ◽  
Maulana Ashari ◽  
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...  

The performance of the organizations or companiesare based on the qualities possessed by their employee. Both of good or bad employee performance will have an impact on productivity and the impact of profits obtained by the company. Support Vector Machine (SVM) is a machine learning method based on statistical learning theory and can solve high non-linearity, regression, etc. In machine learning, the optimization model is a part for improving the accuracy of the model for data learning. Several techniques are used, one of which is feature selection, namely reducing data dimensions so that it can reduce computation in data modeling. This study aims to apply the method of machine learning to the employee data of the Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI) company. The method used is SVM method by increasing the accuracy of learning data by using a feature selection technique using a wrapper algorithm. From the results of the classification test, the average accuracy obtained is 72 percent with a precision value of 71 and the recall value is rounded off to 72 percent, with a combination of SVM and cross-validation. Data obtained from Kaggle data, which consists of training data and testing data. each consisting of 30 columns and 22005 rows in the training data and testing data consisting of 29 col-umns and 6000 rows. The results of this study get a classification score of 82 percent. The precision value obtained is rounded off to 82 percent, a recall of 86 percent and an f1-score of 81 percent.


2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anam Mustaqeem ◽  
Syed Muhammad Anwar ◽  
Muahammad Majid

Arrhythmia is considered a life-threatening disease causing serious health issues in patients, when left untreated. An early diagnosis of arrhythmias would be helpful in saving lives. This study is conducted to classify patients into one of the sixteen subclasses, among which one class represents absence of disease and the other fifteen classes represent electrocardiogram records of various subtypes of arrhythmias. The research is carried out on the dataset taken from the University of California at Irvine Machine Learning Data Repository. The dataset contains a large volume of feature dimensions which are reduced using wrapper based feature selection technique. For multiclass classification, support vector machine (SVM) based approaches including one-against-one (OAO), one-against-all (OAA), and error-correction code (ECC) are employed to detect the presence and absence of arrhythmias. The SVM method results are compared with other standard machine learning classifiers using varying parameters and the performance of the classifiers is evaluated using accuracy, kappa statistics, and root mean square error. The results show that OAO method of SVM outperforms all other classifiers by achieving an accuracy rate of 81.11% when used with 80/20 data split and 92.07% using 90/10 data split option.


2021 ◽  
Vol 186 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 445-451
Author(s):  
Yifei Sun ◽  
Navid Rashedi ◽  
Vikrant Vaze ◽  
Parikshit Shah ◽  
Ryan Halter ◽  
...  

ABSTRACT Introduction Early prediction of the acute hypotensive episode (AHE) in critically ill patients has the potential to improve outcomes. In this study, we apply different machine learning algorithms to the MIMIC III Physionet dataset, containing more than 60,000 real-world intensive care unit records, to test commonly used machine learning technologies and compare their performances. Materials and Methods Five classification methods including K-nearest neighbor, logistic regression, support vector machine, random forest, and a deep learning method called long short-term memory are applied to predict an AHE 30 minutes in advance. An analysis comparing model performance when including versus excluding invasive features was conducted. To further study the pattern of the underlying mean arterial pressure (MAP), we apply a regression method to predict the continuous MAP values using linear regression over the next 60 minutes. Results Support vector machine yields the best performance in terms of recall (84%). Including the invasive features in the classification improves the performance significantly with both recall and precision increasing by more than 20 percentage points. We were able to predict the MAP with a root mean square error (a frequently used measure of the differences between the predicted values and the observed values) of 10 mmHg 60 minutes in the future. After converting continuous MAP predictions into AHE binary predictions, we achieve a 91% recall and 68% precision. In addition to predicting AHE, the MAP predictions provide clinically useful information regarding the timing and severity of the AHE occurrence. Conclusion We were able to predict AHE with precision and recall above 80% 30 minutes in advance with the large real-world dataset. The prediction of regression model can provide a more fine-grained, interpretable signal to practitioners. Model performance is improved by the inclusion of invasive features in predicting AHE, when compared to predicting the AHE based on only the available, restricted set of noninvasive technologies. This demonstrates the importance of exploring more noninvasive technologies for AHE prediction.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 1742
Author(s):  
Ignacio Rodríguez-Rodríguez ◽  
José-Víctor Rodríguez ◽  
Wai Lok Woo ◽  
Bo Wei ◽  
Domingo-Javier Pardo-Quiles

Type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM1) is a metabolic disease derived from falls in pancreatic insulin production resulting in chronic hyperglycemia. DM1 subjects usually have to undertake a number of assessments of blood glucose levels every day, employing capillary glucometers for the monitoring of blood glucose dynamics. In recent years, advances in technology have allowed for the creation of revolutionary biosensors and continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) techniques. This has enabled the monitoring of a subject’s blood glucose level in real time. On the other hand, few attempts have been made to apply machine learning techniques to predicting glycaemia levels, but dealing with a database containing such a high level of variables is problematic. In this sense, to the best of the authors’ knowledge, the issues of proper feature selection (FS)—the stage before applying predictive algorithms—have not been subject to in-depth discussion and comparison in past research when it comes to forecasting glycaemia. Therefore, in order to assess how a proper FS stage could improve the accuracy of the glycaemia forecasted, this work has developed six FS techniques alongside four predictive algorithms, applying them to a full dataset of biomedical features related to glycaemia. These were harvested through a wide-ranging passive monitoring process involving 25 patients with DM1 in practical real-life scenarios. From the obtained results, we affirm that Random Forest (RF) as both predictive algorithm and FS strategy offers the best average performance (Root Median Square Error, RMSE = 18.54 mg/dL) throughout the 12 considered predictive horizons (up to 60 min in steps of 5 min), showing Support Vector Machines (SVM) to have the best accuracy as a forecasting algorithm when considering, in turn, the average of the six FS techniques applied (RMSE = 20.58 mg/dL).


2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lei Li ◽  
Desheng Wu

PurposeThe infraction of securities regulations (ISRs) of listed firms in their day-to-day operations and management has become one of common problems. This paper proposed several machine learning approaches to forecast the risk at infractions of listed corporates to solve financial problems that are not effective and precise in supervision.Design/methodology/approachThe overall proposed research framework designed for forecasting the infractions (ISRs) include data collection and cleaning, feature engineering, data split, prediction approach application and model performance evaluation. We select Logistic Regression, Naïve Bayes, Random Forest, Support Vector Machines, Artificial Neural Network and Long Short-Term Memory Networks (LSTMs) as ISRs prediction models.FindingsThe research results show that prediction performance of proposed models with the prior infractions provides a significant improvement of the ISRs than those without prior, especially for large sample set. The results also indicate when judging whether a company has infractions, we should pay attention to novel artificial intelligence methods, previous infractions of the company, and large data sets.Originality/valueThe findings could be utilized to address the problems of identifying listed corporates' ISRs at hand to a certain degree. Overall, results elucidate the value of the prior infraction of securities regulations (ISRs). This shows the importance of including more data sources when constructing distress models and not only focus on building increasingly more complex models on the same data. This is also beneficial to the regulatory authorities.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Fei Tan ◽  
Xiaoqing Xie

Human motion recognition based on inertial sensor is a new research direction in the field of pattern recognition. It carries out preprocessing, feature selection, and feature selection by placing inertial sensors on the surface of the human body. Finally, it mainly classifies and recognizes the extracted features of human action. There are many kinds of swing movements in table tennis. Accurately identifying these movement modes is of great significance for swing movement analysis. With the development of artificial intelligence technology, human movement recognition has made many breakthroughs in recent years, from machine learning to deep learning, from wearable sensors to visual sensors. However, there is not much work on movement recognition for table tennis, and the methods are still mainly integrated into the traditional field of machine learning. Therefore, this paper uses an acceleration sensor as a motion recording device for a table tennis disc and explores the three-axis acceleration data of four common swing motions. Traditional machine learning algorithms (decision tree, random forest tree, and support vector) are used to classify the swing motion, and a classification algorithm based on the idea of integration is designed. Experimental results show that the ensemble learning algorithm developed in this paper is better than the traditional machine learning algorithm, and the average recognition accuracy is 91%.


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