scholarly journals A Machine Learning Method Based on the Combination of Nonlinear and Texture Features to Diagnose Malignant Melanoma From Dermoscopic Images

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sepehr Salem Ghahfarrokhi ◽  
Hamed Khodadadi
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Machine Learning ◽  
Skin Cancer ◽  
Active Contour Model ◽  
Malignant Tumors ◽  
Learning Algorithms ◽  
Skin Lesions ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Nsga Ii

Abstract Skin cancer affects people of all skin tones, including those with darker complexions. Melanomas are known as the malignant tumors of skin cancer, resulting in an adverse prognosis, responsible for most deaths relating to skin cancer. Early diagnosis and treatment of skin cancer from dermoscopic images can significantly reduce mortality and save lives. Although several Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CAD) systems with satisfactory performance have been introduced in the literature for skin cancer detection, the high false detection rate has made it inevitable to have an expert physician for more examination. In this paper, a CAD system based on machine learning algorithms is provided to classify various skin cancer types. The proposed method uses the Online Region-based Active Contour Model (ORACM) to extract the Region Of Interest (ROI) of skin lesions. This model uses a new binary level set equation and regularization operation such as morphological opening and closing.Additionally, various combinations of different textures and nonlinear features are extracted for the ROI to show the multiple aspects of skin lesions. Several metaheuristic optimization algorithms are used to remove redundant or irrelevant features and reduce the feature space dimension. These are applied to the combination of the extracted features in which, Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm (NSGA II) as a multi-objective optimization algorithm has the best performance. Furthermore, various machine learning algorithms include K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN), Support Vector Machine (SVM), Fitting neural network (Fit net), Feed-Forward neural network (FF net), and Pattern recognition network (Pat net) are employed for the classification. Accordingly, the best-obtained precision of 99.24% based on five-fold cross-validation is attained by the selected features of texture and nonlinear indices through NSGA II, applying the pattern net classifier. Also, the comparison between this paper's experimental results and other similar works with the same dataset demonstrates the proposed method's efficiency.

scholarly journals Classification of Children’s Sitting Postures Using Machine Learning Algorithms

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 1280 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yong Kim ◽  
Youngdoo Son ◽  
Wonjoon Kim ◽  
Byungki Jin ◽  
Myung Yun
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Machine Learning ◽  
Monitoring System ◽  
Multinomial Logistic Regression ◽  
Learning Algorithms ◽  
Feedback System ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Sensor Data ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Support Vector

Sitting on a chair in an awkward posture or sitting for a long period of time is a risk factor for musculoskeletal disorders. A postural habit that has been formed cannot be changed easily. It is important to form a proper postural habit from childhood as the lumbar disease during childhood caused by their improper posture is most likely to recur. Thus, there is a need for a monitoring system that classifies children’s sitting postures. The purpose of this paper is to develop a system for classifying sitting postures for children using machine learning algorithms. The convolutional neural network (CNN) algorithm was used in addition to the conventional algorithms: Naïve Bayes classifier (NB), decision tree (DT), neural network (NN), multinomial logistic regression (MLR), and support vector machine (SVM). To collect data for classifying sitting postures, a sensing cushion was developed by mounting a pressure sensor mat (8 × 8) inside children’s chair seat cushion. Ten children participated, and sensor data was collected by taking a static posture for the five prescribed postures. The accuracy of CNN was found to be the highest as compared with those of the other algorithms. It is expected that the comprehensive posture monitoring system would be established through future research on enhancing the classification algorithm and providing an effective feedback system.

scholarly journals Wheat Lodging Detection from UAS Imagery Using Machine Learning Algorithms

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 1838 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhao Zhang ◽  
Paulo Flores ◽  
C. Igathinathane ◽  
Dayakar L. Naik ◽  
Ravi Kiran ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Machine Learning ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Standard Deviation ◽  
Learning Algorithm ◽  
Learning Algorithms ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Superior Performance ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Unmanned Aerial Systems

The current mainstream approach of using manual measurements and visual inspections for crop lodging detection is inefficient, time-consuming, and subjective. An innovative method for wheat lodging detection that can overcome or alleviate these shortcomings would be welcomed. This study proposed a systematic approach for wheat lodging detection in research plots (372 experimental plots), which consisted of using unmanned aerial systems (UAS) for aerial imagery acquisition, manual field evaluation, and machine learning algorithms to detect the occurrence or not of lodging. UAS imagery was collected on three different dates (23 and 30 July 2019, and 8 August 2019) after lodging occurred. Traditional machine learning and deep learning were evaluated and compared in this study in terms of classification accuracy and standard deviation. For traditional machine learning, five types of features (i.e. gray level co-occurrence matrix, local binary pattern, Gabor, intensity, and Hu-moment) were extracted and fed into three traditional machine learning algorithms (i.e., random forest (RF), neural network, and support vector machine) for detecting lodged plots. For the datasets on each imagery collection date, the accuracies of the three algorithms were not significantly different from each other. For any of the three algorithms, accuracies on the first and last date datasets had the lowest and highest values, respectively. Incorporating standard deviation as a measurement of performance robustness, RF was determined as the most satisfactory. Regarding deep learning, three different convolutional neural networks (simple convolutional neural network, VGG-16, and GoogLeNet) were tested. For any of the single date datasets, GoogLeNet consistently had superior performance over the other two methods. Further comparisons between RF and GoogLeNet demonstrated that the detection accuracies of the two methods were not significantly different from each other (p > 0.05); hence, the choice of any of the two would not affect the final detection accuracies. However, considering the fact that the average accuracy of GoogLeNet (93%) was larger than RF (91%), it was recommended to use GoogLeNet for wheat lodging detection. This research demonstrated that UAS RGB imagery, coupled with the GoogLeNet machine learning algorithm, can be a novel, reliable, objective, simple, low-cost, and effective (accuracy > 90%) tool for wheat lodging detection.

Survey of Machine Learning Algorithms to Detect Malware in Consumer Internet of Things Devices

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (04) ◽  
pp. 2150020
Author(s):  
Luke Holbrook ◽  
Miltiadis Alamaniotis
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Machine Learning ◽  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Deep Neural Network ◽  
Learning Algorithms ◽  
Cyber Attacks ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Coefficient Of Determination ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Iot Devices

With the increase of cyber-attacks on millions of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, the poor network security measures on those devices are the main source of the problem. This article aims to study a number of these machine learning algorithms available for their effectiveness in detecting malware in consumer internet of things devices. In particular, the Support Vector Machines (SVM), Random Forest, and Deep Neural Network (DNN) algorithms are utilized for a benchmark with a set of test data and compared as tools in safeguarding the deployment for IoT security. Test results on a set of 4 IoT devices exhibited that all three tested algorithms presented here detect the network anomalies with high accuracy. However, the deep neural network provides the highest coefficient of determination R2, and hence, it is identified as the most precise among the tested algorithms concerning the security of IoT devices based on the data sets we have undertaken.

scholarly journals A new ML-based approach to enhance student engagement in online environment

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (11) ◽  
pp. e0258788
Author(s):  
Sarra Ayouni ◽  
Fahima Hajjej ◽  
Mohamed Maddeh ◽  
Shaha Al-Otaibi
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Machine Learning ◽  
Artificial Neural Network ◽  
Support Vector Machine ◽  
Student Engagement ◽  
Decision Tree ◽  
Learning Algorithms ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Online Environment

The educational research is increasingly emphasizing the potential of student engagement and its impact on performance, retention and persistence. This construct has emerged as an important paradigm in the higher education field for many decades. However, evaluating and predicting the student’s engagement level in an online environment remains a challenge. The purpose of this study is to suggest an intelligent predictive system that predicts the student’s engagement level and then provides the students with feedback to enhance their motivation and dedication. Three categories of students are defined depending on their engagement level (Not Engaged, Passively Engaged, and Actively Engaged). We applied three different machine-learning algorithms, namely Decision Tree, Support Vector Machine and Artificial Neural Network, to students’ activities recorded in Learning Management System reports. The results demonstrate that machine learning algorithms could predict the student’s engagement level. In addition, according to the performance metrics of the different algorithms, the Artificial Neural Network has a greater accuracy rate (85%) compared to the Support Vector Machine (80%) and Decision Tree (75%) classification techniques. Based on these results, the intelligent predictive system sends feedback to the students and alerts the instructor once a student’s engagement level decreases. The instructor can identify the students’ difficulties during the course and motivate them through e-mail reminders, course messages, or scheduling an online meeting.

scholarly journals Mood Detection from Physical and Neurophysical Data Using Deep Learning Models

Complexity ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Zeynep Hilal Kilimci ◽  
Aykut Güven ◽  
Mitat Uysal ◽  
Selim Akyokus
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Machine Learning ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Learning Algorithms ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Behavioral Data ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Learning Models ◽  
Physical Data ◽  
Conventional Machine

Nowadays, smart devices as a part of daily life collect data about their users with the help of sensors placed on them. Sensor data are usually physical data but mobile applications collect more than physical data like device usage habits and personal interests. Collected data are usually classified as personal, but they contain valuable information about their users when it is analyzed and interpreted. One of the main purposes of personal data analysis is to make predictions about users. Collected data can be divided into two major categories: physical and behavioral data. Behavioral data are also named as neurophysical data. Physical and neurophysical parameters are collected as a part of this study. Physical data contains measurements of the users like heartbeats, sleep quality, energy, movement/mobility parameters. Neurophysical data contain keystroke patterns like typing speed and typing errors. Users’ emotional/mood statuses are also investigated by asking daily questions. Six questions are asked to the users daily in order to determine the mood of them. These questions are emotion-attached questions, and depending on the answers, users’ emotional states are graded. Our aim is to show that there is a connection between users’ physical/neurophysical parameters and mood/emotional conditions. To prove our hypothesis, we collect and measure physical and neurophysical parameters of 15 users for 1 year. The novelty of this work to the literature is the usage of both combinations of physical and neurophysical parameters. Another novelty is that the emotion classification task is performed by both conventional machine learning algorithms and deep learning models. For this purpose, Feedforward Neural Network (FFNN), Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), Recurrent Neural Network (RNN), and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) neural network are employed as deep learning methodologies. Multinomial Naïve Bayes (MNB), Support Vector Regression (SVR), Decision Tree (DT), Random Forest (RF), and Decision Integration Strategy (DIS) are evaluated as conventional machine learning algorithms. To the best of our knowledge, this is the very first attempt to analyze the neurophysical conditions of the users by evaluating deep learning models for mood analysis and enriching physical characteristics with neurophysical parameters. Experiment results demonstrate that the utilization of deep learning methodologies and the combination of both physical and neurophysical parameters enhances the classification success of the system to interpret the mood of the users. A wide range of comparative and extensive experiments shows that the proposed model exhibits noteworthy results compared to the state-of-art studies.

scholarly journals Cell Cycle-Regulated Genes Classification using Machine Learning and Deep Learning Techniques on Processed Microarrays Images

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 1100-1107
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Machine Learning ◽  
Cell Cycle ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Gene Evolution ◽  
Learning Algorithms ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Test Accuracy

Nowadays, machine learning and deep learning algorithms, are considered as new technologies increasingly used in the biomedical field. Machine learning is a branch of Artificial Intelligence that aims to automatically find patterns in existing data. A new Machine Learning subfield, the deep learning theory, has emerged. It deals with object recognition in images. In this paper, our goal is DNA Microarrays’analysis with these algorithms to classify two genes’ types. The first class represents cell cycle regulated genes and the second is non cell cycle regulated ones. In the current state of the art, the researchers are processing the numerical data associated to gene evolution to achieve this classification. Here, we propose a new and different approach, based on the microarrays images’ treatment. To classify images, we use three machine learning algorithms which are: Support Vector Machine, KNearest Neighbors and Random Forest Classifier. We also use the Convolutional Neural Network and the fully connected neural network algorithms. Experiments demonstrate that our approaches outperform the state of art by a margin of 14.73 per cent by using machine learning algorithms and a margin of 22.39 per cent by using deep learning models. Our models accomplish real time test accuracy of ~ 92.39 % at classifying using CNNand 94.73% using machine learning algorithms.

scholarly journals A Smart Machine Learning Model for the Detection of Brain Hemorrhage Diagnosis Based Internet of Things in Smart Cities

Complexity ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Hang Chen ◽  
Sulaiman Khan ◽  
Bo Kou ◽  
Shah Nazir ◽  
Wei Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Machine Learning ◽  
Support Vector Machine ◽  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Learning Algorithms ◽  
Feedforward Neural Network ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Brain Hemorrhage ◽  
Smart Machine

Generally, the emergence of Internet of Things enabled applications inspired the world during the last few years, providing state-of-the-art and novel-based solutions for different problems. This evolutionary field is mainly lead by wireless sensor network, radio frequency identification, and smart mobile technologies. Among others, the IoT plays a key role in the form of smart medical devices and wearables, with the ability to collect varied and longitudinal patient-generated health data, and at the same time also offering preliminary diagnosis options. In terms of efforts made for helping the patients using IoT-based solutions, experts exploit capabilities of the machine learning algorithms to provide efficient solutions in hemorrhage diagnosis. To reduce the death rates and propose accurate treatment, this paper presents a smart IoT-based application using machine learning algorithms for the human brain hemorrhage diagnosis. Based on the computerized tomography scan images for intracranial dataset, the support vector machine and feedforward neural network have been applied for the classification purposes. Overall, classification results of 80.67% and 86.7% are calculated for the support vector machine and feedforward neural network, respectively. It is concluded from the resultant analysis that the feedforward neural network outperforms in classifying intracranial images. The output generated from the classification tool gives information about the type of brain hemorrhage that ultimately helps in validating expert’s diagnosis and is treated as a learning tool for trainee radiologists to minimize the errors in the available systems.

scholarly journals Comparative analysis of machine learning algorithms in water extraction

2021 ◽  
Vol 2076 (1) ◽  
pp. 012045
Author(s):  
Aimin Li ◽  
Meng Fan ◽  
Guangduo Qin
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Machine Learning ◽  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Random Forest ◽  
Decision Tree ◽  
Water Body ◽  
Learning Algorithms ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Support Vector

Abstract There are many traditional methods available for water body extraction based on remote sensing images, such as normalised difference water index (NDWI), modified NDWI (MNDWI), and the multi-band spectrum method, but the accuracy of these methods is limited. In recent years, machine learning algorithms have developed rapidly and been applied widely. Using Landsat-8 images, models such as decision tree, logistic regression, a random forest, neural network, support vector method (SVM), and Xgboost were adopted in the present research within machine learning algorithms. Based on this, through cross validation and a grid search method, parameters were determined for each model.Moreover, the merits and demerits of several models in water body extraction were discussed and a comparative analysis was performed with three methods for determining thresholds in the traditional NDWI. The results show that the neural network has excellent performances and is a stable model, followed by the SVM and the logistic regression algorithm. Furthermore, the ensemble algorithms including the random forest and Xgboost were affected by sample distribution and the model of the decision tree returned the poorest performance.

scholarly journals Comparison between the different Artificial Neural Network (ANN) accuracy in diagnosis of asthma: مقارنة بين اختلاف دقة الشبكات العصبية الاصطناعية في تشخيص مرض الربو

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 172-165
Author(s):  
Hanein Omar Mohamed, Basma.F.Idris Hanein Omar Mohamed, Basma.F.Idris
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Machine Learning ◽  
Artificial Neural Network ◽  
Learning Algorithms ◽  
High Accuracy ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Data Mining Algorithms ◽  
Artificial Neural

Asthma is a chronic disease that is caused by inflammation of airways. Diagnosis, predication and classification of asthmatic are one of the major attractive areas of research for decades by using different and recent techniques, however the main problem of asthma is misdiagnosis. This paper simplifies and compare between different Artificial Neural Network techniques used to solve this problem by using different algorithms to getting a high level of accuracyin diagnosis, prediction, and classification of asthma like: (data mining algorithms, machine learning algorithms, deep machine learning algorithms), depending and passing through three stages: data acquisition, feature extracting, data classification. According to the comparison of different techniques the high accuracy achieved by ANN was (98.85%), and the low accuracy of it was (80%), despite of the accuracy achieved by Support Vector Machine (SVM) was (86%) when used Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficient MFCC for feature extraction, while the accuracy was (99.34%) when used Relief for extracting feature. Based in our comparison we recommend that if the researchers used the same techniques they should to return to previous studies it to get high accuracy.

scholarly journals Predicting rural patients� use of eHealth through supervised machine learning algorithms: A study on Portable Health Clinic in Bangladesh (Preprint)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nazmul Hossain ◽  
Fumihiko Yokota ◽  
Akira Fukuda ◽  
Ashir Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Machine Learning ◽  
Support Vector Machine ◽  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Predictive Accuracy ◽  
Learning Algorithms ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Supervised Machine Learning ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Rural Patients

BACKGROUND Predictive analytics through machine learning has been extensively using across industries including eHealth and mHealth for analyzing patient’s health data, predicting diseases, enhancing the productivity of technology or devices used for providing healthcare services and so on. However, not enough studies were conducted to predict the usage of eHealth by rural patients in developing countries. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study is to predict rural patients’ use of eHealth through supervised machine learning algorithms and propose the best-fitted model after evaluating their performances in terms of predictive accuracy. METHODS Data were collected between June and July 2016 through a field survey with structured questionnaire form 292 randomly selected rural patients in a remote North-Western sub-district of Bangladesh. Four supervised machine learning algorithms namely logistic regression, boosted decision tree, support vector machine, and artificial neural network were chosen for this experiment. A ‘correlation-based feature selection’ technique was applied to include the most relevant but not redundant features into the model. A 10-fold cross-validation technique was applied to reduce bias and over-fitting of the data. RESULTS Logistic regression outperformed other three algorithms with 85.9% predictive accuracy, 86.4% precision, 90.5% recall, 88.1% F-score, and AUC of 91.5% followed by neural network, decision tree and support vector machine with the accuracy rate of 84.2%, 82.9 %, and 80.4% respectively. CONCLUSIONS The findings of this study are expected to be helpful for eHealth practitioners in selecting appropriate areas to serve and dealing with both under-capacity and over-capacity by predicting the patients’ response in advance with a certain level of accuracy and precision.

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