Automatic Detection and Classification of Cough Events Based on Deep Learning

AbstractIn this paper, a deep learning approach for classification of cough sound segments is presented. The architecture of the network is based on a pre-trained network and the spectrogram images of three recording channels have been extracted for the sake of training the network. The classification accuracy based on three recording channels is 92% for a binary classification model and the network converges fast. Two classification models based on binary and multi-class problems are proposed. Relevant classification parameters including the Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curve are reported.

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Fine-Grained Image Classification for Crop Disease Based on Attention Mechanism

Frontiers in Plant Science ◽

10.3389/fpls.2020.600854 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 11 ◽

Author(s):

Guofeng Yang ◽

Yong He ◽

Yong Yang ◽

Beibei Xu

Keyword(s):

Image Classification ◽

Classification Accuracy ◽

Attention Mechanism ◽

Classification Model ◽

Classification Models ◽

Fine Grained ◽

Complex Scenes ◽

Crop Disease ◽

Visual Disturbances

Fine-grained image classification is a challenging task because of the difficulty in identifying discriminant features, it is not easy to find the subtle features that fully represent the object. In the fine-grained classification of crop disease, visual disturbances such as light, fog, overlap, and jitter are frequently encountered. To explore the influence of the features of crop leaf images on the classification results, a classification model should focus on the more discriminative regions of the image while improving the classification accuracy of the model in complex scenes. This paper proposes a novel attention mechanism that effectively utilizes the informative regions of an image, and describes the use of transfer learning to quickly construct several fine-grained image classification models of crop disease based on this attention mechanism. This study uses 58,200 crop leaf images as a dataset, including 14 different crops and 37 different categories of healthy/diseased crops. Among them, different diseases of the same crop have strong similarities. The NASNetLarge fine-grained classification model based on the proposed attention mechanism achieves the best classification effect, with an F1 score of up to 93.05%. The results show that the proposed attention mechanism effectively improves the fine-grained classification of crop disease images.

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Assessment of Facial Homogeneity with Regard to Genealogical Aspects Based on Deep Learning Approach

Turkish Journal of Computer and Mathematics Education (TURCOMAT) ◽

10.17762/turcomat.v12i3.962 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 (3) ◽

pp. 1550-1556

Author(s):

Ravi Kumar Y B Et.al

Keyword(s):

Machine Learning ◽

Deep Learning ◽

Binary Classification ◽

Learning Algorithms ◽

Research Work ◽

Machine Learning Algorithms ◽

Facial Features ◽

Learning Approach

The current research work encompasses the assessment of similarity based facial features of images with erected method so as to determines the genealogical similarity. It is based on the principle of grouping the closer features, as compared to those which are away from the predefined threshold for a better ascertainment of the extracted features. The system developed is trained using deep learning-oriented architecture incorporating these closer features for a binary classification of the subjects considered into genealogic non-genealogic. The genealogic set of data is further used to calculate the percentage of similarity with erected methods. The present work considered XX datasets from XXXX source for the assessment of facial similarities. The results portrayed an accuracy of 96.3% for genealogic data, the salient among them being those of father-daughter (98.1%), father-son(98.3%), mother-daughter(96.6%), mother-son(96.1%) genealogy in case of the datasets from “kinface W-I”. Extending this work onto “kinface W-II” set of data, the results were promising with father-daughter(98.5%), father-son(96.7%), mother-daughter(93.4%) and mother-son(98.9%) genealogy. Such an approach could be further extended to larger database so as to assess the genealogical similarity with the aid of machine-learning algorithms.

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Classification of Neurodegenerative Diseases Based on VGG 19 Deep Transfer Learning Architecture: A Deep Learning Approach

Bioscience Biotechnology Research Communications ◽

10.21786/bbrc/13.4/51 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 13 (4) ◽

pp. 1972-1980

Author(s):

Kirti Raj Bhatele

Keyword(s):

Deep Learning ◽

Neurodegenerative Diseases ◽

Transfer Learning ◽

Learning Approach

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Uncertainty-Aware Deep Learning-Based Cardiac Arrhythmias Classification Model of Electrocardiogram Signals

Computers ◽

10.3390/computers10060082 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (6) ◽

pp. 82

Author(s):

Ahmad O. Aseeri

Keyword(s):

Deep Learning ◽

Cardiac Arrhythmias ◽

Large Scale ◽

Clinical Decision Making ◽

Probabilistic Approach ◽

Classification Model ◽

Gating Mechanism ◽

Uncertainty Estimates ◽

Wide Range

Deep Learning-based methods have emerged to be one of the most effective and practical solutions in a wide range of medical problems, including the diagnosis of cardiac arrhythmias. A critical step to a precocious diagnosis in many heart dysfunctions diseases starts with the accurate detection and classification of cardiac arrhythmias, which can be achieved via electrocardiograms (ECGs). Motivated by the desire to enhance conventional clinical methods in diagnosing cardiac arrhythmias, we introduce an uncertainty-aware deep learning-based predictive model design for accurate large-scale classification of cardiac arrhythmias successfully trained and evaluated using three benchmark medical datasets. In addition, considering that the quantification of uncertainty estimates is vital for clinical decision-making, our method incorporates a probabilistic approach to capture the model’s uncertainty using a Bayesian-based approximation method without introducing additional parameters or significant changes to the network’s architecture. Although many arrhythmias classification solutions with various ECG feature engineering techniques have been reported in the literature, the introduced AI-based probabilistic-enabled method in this paper outperforms the results of existing methods in outstanding multiclass classification results that manifest F1 scores of 98.62% and 96.73% with (MIT-BIH) dataset of 20 annotations, and 99.23% and 96.94% with (INCART) dataset of eight annotations, and 97.25% and 96.73% with (BIDMC) dataset of six annotations, for the deep ensemble and probabilistic mode, respectively. We demonstrate our method’s high-performing and statistical reliability results in numerical experiments on the language modeling using the gating mechanism of Recurrent Neural Networks.

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Understanding Natural Disaster Scenes from Mobile Images Using Deep Learning

Applied Sciences ◽

10.3390/app11093952 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (9) ◽

pp. 3952

Author(s):

Shimin Tang ◽

Zhiqiang Chen

Keyword(s):

Deep Learning ◽

Natural Disaster ◽

Scene Understanding ◽

Computing Methods ◽

Classification Model ◽

Learning Approach ◽

Learning Models ◽

Damage Level ◽

Feature Extractor ◽

Mobile Imaging

With the ubiquitous use of mobile imaging devices, the collection of perishable disaster-scene data has become unprecedentedly easy. However, computing methods are unable to understand these images with significant complexity and uncertainties. In this paper, the authors investigate the problem of disaster-scene understanding through a deep-learning approach. Two attributes of images are concerned, including hazard types and damage levels. Three deep-learning models are trained, and their performance is assessed. Specifically, the best model for hazard-type prediction has an overall accuracy (OA) of 90.1%, and the best damage-level classification model has an explainable OA of 62.6%, upon which both models adopt the Faster R-CNN architecture with a ResNet50 network as a feature extractor. It is concluded that hazard types are more identifiable than damage levels in disaster-scene images. Insights are revealed, including that damage-level recognition suffers more from inter- and intra-class variations, and the treatment of hazard-agnostic damage leveling further contributes to the underlying uncertainties.

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An Imbalanced Image Classification Method for the Cell Cycle Phase

Information ◽

10.3390/info12060249 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 (6) ◽

pp. 249

Author(s):

Xin Jin ◽

Yuanwen Zou ◽

Zhongbing Huang

Keyword(s):

Cell Cycle ◽

Deep Learning ◽

Image Classification ◽

Classification Accuracy ◽

Data Augmentation ◽

Cycle Phase ◽

Generative Adversarial Network ◽

Adversarial Network ◽

Cellular Life

The cell cycle is an important process in cellular life. In recent years, some image processing methods have been developed to determine the cell cycle stages of individual cells. However, in most of these methods, cells have to be segmented, and their features need to be extracted. During feature extraction, some important information may be lost, resulting in lower classification accuracy. Thus, we used a deep learning method to retain all cell features. In order to solve the problems surrounding insufficient numbers of original images and the imbalanced distribution of original images, we used the Wasserstein generative adversarial network-gradient penalty (WGAN-GP) for data augmentation. At the same time, a residual network (ResNet) was used for image classification. ResNet is one of the most used deep learning classification networks. The classification accuracy of cell cycle images was achieved more effectively with our method, reaching 83.88%. Compared with an accuracy of 79.40% in previous experiments, our accuracy increased by 4.48%. Another dataset was used to verify the effect of our model and, compared with the accuracy from previous results, our accuracy increased by 12.52%. The results showed that our new cell cycle image classification system based on WGAN-GP and ResNet is useful for the classification of imbalanced images. Moreover, our method could potentially solve the low classification accuracy in biomedical images caused by insufficient numbers of original images and the imbalanced distribution of original images.

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