scholarly journals Automated and accurate assessment for postural abnormalities in patients with Parkinson’s disease based on Kinect and machine learning

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhuoyu Zhang ◽  
Ronghua Hong ◽  
Ao Lin ◽  
Xiaoyun Su ◽  
Yue Jin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Parkinson’S Disease ◽  
Parkinson's Disease ◽  
Decision Tree ◽  
Medical Decision ◽  
Accurate Assessment ◽  
Decision Tree Classifier ◽  
Tree Classifier ◽  
Body Joints ◽  
Postural Abnormalities

Abstract Background Automated and accurate assessment for postural abnormalities is necessary to monitor the clinical progress of Parkinson’s disease (PD). The combination of depth camera and machine learning makes this purpose possible. Methods Kinect was used to collect the postural images from 70 PD patients. The collected images were processed to extract three-dimensional body joints, which were then converted to two-dimensional body joints to obtain eight quantified coronal and sagittal features (F1-F8) of the trunk. The decision tree classifier was carried out over a data set established by the collected features and the corresponding doctors’ MDS-UPDRS-III 3.13 (the 13th item of the third part of Movement Disorder Society-Sponsored Revision of the Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale) scores. An objective function was implanted to further improve the human–machine consistency. Results The automated grading of postural abnormalities for PD patients was realized with only six selected features. The intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) between the machine’s and doctors’ score was 0.940 (95%CI, 0.905–0.962), meaning the machine was highly consistent with the doctors’ judgement. Besides, the decision tree classifier performed outstandingly, reaching 90.0% of accuracy, 95.7% of specificity and 89.1% of sensitivity in rating postural severity. Conclusions We developed an intelligent evaluation system to provide accurate and automated assessment of trunk postural abnormalities in PD patients. This study demonstrates the practicability of our proposed method in the clinical scenario to help making the medical decision about PD.

Successful Case Study of Machine Learning Application to Streamline and Improve History Matching Process for Complex Gas-Condensate Reservoirs in Hai Thach Field, Offshore Vietnam

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Son Hoang ◽  
Tung Tran ◽  
Tan Nguyen ◽  
Tu Truong ◽  
Duy Pham ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Decision Tree ◽  
History Matching ◽  
Dynamic Models ◽  
Naive Bayes ◽  
Naïve Bayes ◽  
Gas Condensate ◽  
Decision Tree Classifier ◽  
Matching Process ◽  
Tree Classifier

Abstract This paper reports a successful case study of applying machine learning to improve the history matching process, making it easier, less time-consuming, and more accurate, by determining whether Local Grid Refinement (LGR) with transmissibility multiplier is needed to history match gas-condensate wells producing from geologically complex reservoirs as well as determining the required LGR setup to history match those gas-condensate producers. History matching Hai Thach gas-condensate production wells is extremely challenging due to the combined effect of condensate banking, sub-seismic fault network, complex reservoir distribution and connectivity, uncertain HIIP, and lack of PVT data for most reservoirs. In fact, for some wells, many trial simulation runs were conducted before it became clear that LGR with transmissibility multiplier was required to obtain good history matching. In order to minimize this time-consuming trial-and-error process, machine learning was applied in this study to analyze production data using synthetic samples generated by a very large number of compositional sector models so that the need for LGR could be identified before the history matching process begins. Furthermore, machine learning application could also determine the required LGR setup. The method helped provide better models in a much shorter time, and greatly improved the efficiency and reliability of the dynamic modeling process. More than 500 synthetic samples were generated using compositional sector models and divided into separate training and test sets. Multiple classification algorithms such as logistic regression, Gaussian Naive Bayes, Bernoulli Naive Bayes, multinomial Naive Bayes, linear discriminant analysis, support vector machine, K-nearest neighbors, and Decision Tree as well as artificial neural networks were applied to predict whether LGR was used in the sector models. The best algorithm was found to be the Decision Tree classifier, with 100% accuracy on the training set and 99% accuracy on the test set. The LGR setup (size of LGR area and range of transmissibility multiplier) was also predicted best by the Decision Tree classifier with 91% accuracy on the training set and 88% accuracy on the test set. The machine learning model was validated using actual production data and the dynamic models of history-matched wells. Finally, using the machine learning prediction on wells with poor history matching results, their dynamic models were updated and significantly improved.

Improved argumentative paragraphs detection in academic theses supported with unit segmentation

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Jesús Miguel García-Gorrostieta ◽  
Aurelio López-López ◽  
Samuel González-López ◽  
Adrián Pastor López-Monroy
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Decision Tree ◽  
Automatic Detection ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Svm Classifier ◽  
Complex Task ◽  
Decision Tree Classifier ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
Tree Classifier ◽  
Academic Author

Academic theses writing is a complex task that requires the author to be skilled in argumentation. The goal of the academic author is to communicate clear ideas and to convince the reader of the presented claims. However, few students are good arguers, and this is a skill that takes time to master. In this paper, we present an exploration of lexical features used to model automatic detection of argumentative paragraphs using machine learning techniques. We present a novel proposal, which combines the information in the complete paragraph with the detection of argumentative segments in order to achieve improved results for the detection of argumentative paragraphs. We propose two approaches; a more descriptive one, which uses the decision tree classifier with indicators and lexical features; and another more efficient, which uses an SVM classifier with lexical features and a Document Occurrence Representation (DOR). Both approaches consider the detection of argumentative segments to ensure that a paragraph detected as argumentative has indeed segments with argumentation. We achieved encouraging results for both approaches.

scholarly journals An Adaptive Multi-Layer Botnet Detection Technique Using Machine Learning Classifiers

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 2375 ◽  
Author(s):  
Riaz Ullah Khan ◽  
Xiaosong Zhang ◽  
Rajesh Kumar ◽  
Abubakar Sharif ◽  
Noorbakhsh Amiri Golilarz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Decision Tree ◽  
Network Traffic ◽  
Traffic Classification ◽  
Decision Tree Classifier ◽  
Machine Learning Classifiers ◽  
Learning Classifiers ◽  
Average Accuracy ◽  
Final Layer ◽  
Tree Classifier

In recent years, the botnets have been the most common threats to network security since it exploits multiple malicious codes like a worm, Trojans, Rootkit, etc. The botnets have been used to carry phishing links, to perform attacks and provide malicious services on the internet. It is challenging to identify Peer-to-peer (P2P) botnets as compared to Internet Relay Chat (IRC), Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and other types of botnets because P2P traffic has typical features of the centralization and distribution. To resolve the issues of P2P botnet identification, we propose an effective multi-layer traffic classification method by applying machine learning classifiers on features of network traffic. Our work presents a framework based on decision trees which effectively detects P2P botnets. A decision tree algorithm is applied for feature selection to extract the most relevant features and ignore the irrelevant features. At the first layer, we filter non-P2P packets to reduce the amount of network traffic through well-known ports, Domain Name System (DNS). query, and flow counting. The second layer further characterized the captured network traffic into non-P2P and P2P. At the third layer of our model, we reduced the features which may marginally affect the classification. At the final layer, we successfully detected P2P botnets using decision tree Classifier by extracting network communication features. Furthermore, our experimental evaluations show the significance of the proposed method in P2P botnets detection and demonstrate an average accuracy of 98.7%.

scholarly journals A Preliminary Look at Heuristic Analysis for Assessing Artificial Intelligence Explainability

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 61-72
Author(s):  
Kara Combs ◽  
Mary Fendley ◽  
Trevor Bihl
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Machine Learning ◽  
Decision Tree ◽  
Human Factors ◽  
Black Box ◽  
Decision Processes ◽  
Decision Tree Classifier ◽  
Tree Classifier ◽  
Explainable Ai ◽  
Heuristic Analysis

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) models are increasingly criticized for their “black-box” nature. Therefore, eXplainable AI (XAI) approaches to extract human-interpretable decision processes from algorithms have been explored. However, XAI research lacks understanding of algorithmic explainability from a human factors’ perspective. This paper presents a repeatable human factors heuristic analysis for XAI with a demonstration on four decision tree classifier algorithms.

scholarly journals Automatic Classification of Hypertension Types Based on Personal Features by Machine Learning Algorithms

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Majid Nour ◽  
Kemal Polat
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Blood Pressure ◽  
Random Forest ◽  
Decision Tree ◽  
Systolic Blood Pressure ◽  
Diastolic Blood Pressure ◽  
Decision Tree Classifier ◽  
Tree Classifier ◽  
C4.5 Decision Tree

Hypertension (high blood pressure) is an important disease seen among the public, and early detection of hypertension is significant for early treatment. Hypertension is depicted as systolic blood pressure higher than 140 mmHg or diastolic blood pressure higher than 90 mmHg. In this paper, in order to detect the hypertension types based on the personal information and features, four machine learning (ML) methods including C4.5 decision tree classifier (DTC), random forest, linear discriminant analysis (LDA), and linear support vector machine (LSVM) have been used and then compared with each other. In the literature, we have first carried out the classification of hypertension types using classification algorithms based on personal data. To further explain the variability of the classifier type, four different classifier algorithms were selected for solving this problem. In the hypertension dataset, there are eight features including sex, age, height (cm), weight (kg), systolic blood pressure (mmHg), diastolic blood pressure (mmHg), heart rate (bpm), and BMI (kg/m2) to explain the hypertension status and then there are four classes comprising the normal (healthy), prehypertension, stage-1 hypertension, and stage-2 hypertension. In the classification of the hypertension dataset, the obtained classification accuracies are 99.5%, 99.5%, 96.3%, and 92.7% using the C4.5 decision tree classifier, random forest, LDA, and LSVM. The obtained results have shown that ML methods could be confidently used in the automatic determination of the hypertension types.

scholarly journals On Internet Traffic Classification: A Two-Phased Machine Learning Approach

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taimur Bakhshi ◽  
Bogdan Ghita
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Decision Tree ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Traffic Classification ◽  
Decision Tree Classifier ◽  
Internet Applications ◽  
Adaptive Boosting ◽  
Machine Learning Classification ◽  
Computational Performance ◽  
Tree Classifier

Traffic classification utilizing flow measurement enables operators to perform essential network management. Flow accounting methods such as NetFlow are, however, considered inadequate for classification requiring additional packet-level information, host behaviour analysis, and specialized hardware limiting their practical adoption. This paper aims to overcome these challenges by proposing two-phased machine learning classification mechanism with NetFlow as input. The individual flow classes are derived per application throughk-means and are further used to train a C5.0 decision tree classifier. As part of validation, the initial unsupervised phase used flow records of fifteen popular Internet applications that were collected and independently subjected tok-means clustering to determine unique flow classes generated per application. The derived flow classes were afterwards used to train and test a supervised C5.0 based decision tree. The resulting classifier reported an average accuracy of 92.37% on approximately 3.4 million test cases increasing to 96.67% with adaptive boosting. The classifier specificity factor which accounted for differentiating content specific from supplementary flows ranged between 98.37% and 99.57%. Furthermore, the computational performance and accuracy of the proposed methodology in comparison with similar machine learning techniques lead us to recommend its extension to other applications in achieving highly granular real-time traffic classification.

scholarly journals Swindling Shonky Anatomization of Credit Card Transactions using Machine Learning

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 1477-1483
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Random Forest ◽  
Decision Tree ◽  
Credit Card ◽  
Naive Bayes ◽  
Gradient Boosting ◽  
Decision Tree Classifier ◽  
Tree Classifier ◽  
Feature Importance

With the fast moving technological advancement, the internet usage has been increased rapidly in all the fields. The money transactions for all the applications like online shopping, banking transactions, bill settlement in any industries, online ticket booking for travel and hotels, Fees payment for educational organization, Payment for treatment to hospitals, Payment for super market and variety of applications are using online credit card transactions. This leads to the fraud usage of other accounts and transaction that result in the loss of service and profit to the institution. With this background, this paper focuses on predicting the fraudulent credit card transaction. The Credit Card Transaction dataset from KAGGLE machine learning Repository is used for prediction analysis. The analysis of fraudulent credit card transaction is achieved in four ways. Firstly, the relationship between the variables of the dataset is identified and represented by the graphical notations. Secondly, the feature importance of the dataset is identified using Random Forest, Ada boost, Logistic Regression, Decision Tree, Extra Tree, Gradient Boosting and Naive Bayes classifiers. Thirdly, the extracted feature importance if the credit card transaction dataset is fitted to Random Forest classifier, Ada boost classifier, Logistic Regression classifier, Decision Tree classifier, Extra Tree classifier, Gradient Boosting classifier and Naive Bayes classifier. Fourth, the Performance Analysis is done by analyzing the performance metrics like Accuracy, FScore, AUC Score, Precision and Recall. The implementation is done by python in Anaconda Spyder Navigator Integrated Development Environment. Experimental Results shows that the Decision Tree classifier have achieved the effective prediction with the precision of 1.0, recall of 1.0, FScore of 1.0 , AUC Score of 89.09 and Accuracy of 99.92%.

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