scholarly journals Classification of the Microstructural Elements of the Vegetal Tissue of the Pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo L.) Using Convolutional Neural Networks

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 1581
Author(s):  
Jimy Oblitas ◽  
Jezreel Mejia ◽  
Miguel De-la-Torre ◽  
Himer Avila-George ◽  
Lucía Seguí Gil ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Convolutional Neural Networks ◽  
Cucurbita Pepo ◽  
Performance Metrics ◽  
Microstructural Analysis ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Radial Basis Neural Networks ◽  
Vegetable Foods ◽  
Vegetal Tissue

Although knowledge of the microstructure of food of vegetal origin helps us to understand the behavior of food materials, the variability in the microstructural elements complicates this analysis. In this regard, the construction of learning models that represent the actual microstructures of the tissue is important to extract relevant information and advance in the comprehension of such behavior. Consequently, the objective of this research is to compare two machine learning techniques—Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) and Radial Basis Neural Networks (RBNN)—when used to enhance its microstructural analysis. Two main contributions can be highlighted from this research. First, a method is proposed to automatically analyze the microstructural elements of vegetal tissue; and second, a comparison was conducted to select a classifier to discriminate between tissue structures. For the comparison, a database of microstructural elements images was obtained from pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo L.) micrographs. Two classifiers were implemented using CNN and RBNN, and statistical performance metrics were computed using a 5-fold cross-validation scheme. This process was repeated one hundred times with a random selection of images in each repetition. The comparison showed that the classifiers based on CNN produced a better fit, obtaining F1–score average of 89.42% in front of 83.83% for RBNN. In this study, the performance of classifiers based on CNN was significantly higher compared to those based on RBNN in the discrimination of microstructural elements of vegetable foods.

scholarly journals Evaluating Convolutional Neural Networks for COVID-19 classification in chest X-ray images

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonardo Rodrigues ◽  
Larissa Rodrigues ◽  
Danilo Da Silva ◽  
João Fernando Mari
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Convolutional Neural Networks ◽  
Data Augmentation ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Fine Tuning ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Disease Spread ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Chest X Ray ◽  
Scalable Methods

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic rapidly spread globally, impacting the lives of billions of people. The effective screening of infected patients is a critical step to struggle with COVID-19, and treating the patients avoiding this quickly disease spread. The need for automated and scalable methods has increased due to the unavailability of accurate automated toolkits. Recent researches using chest X-ray images suggest they include relevant information about the COVID-19 virus. Hence, applying machine learning techniques combined with radiological imaging promises to identify this disease accurately. It is straightforward to collect these images once it is spreadly shared and analyzed in the world. This paper presents a method for automatic COVID-19 detection using chest Xray images through four convolutional neural networks, namely: AlexNet, VGG-11, SqueezeNet, and DenseNet-121. This method had been providing accurate diagnostics for positive or negative COVID-19 classification. We validate our experiments using a ten-fold cross-validation procedure over the training and test sets. Our findings include the shallow fine-tuning and data augmentation strategies that can assist in dealing with the low number of positive COVID-19 images publicly available. The accuracy for all CNNs is higher than 97.00%, and the SqueezeNet model achieved the best result with 99.20%.

scholarly journals Tree Species Classification of Drone Hyperspectral and RGB Imagery with Deep Learning Convolutional Neural Networks

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 1070 ◽  
Author(s):  
Somayeh Nezami ◽  
Ehsan Khoramshahi ◽  
Olli Nevalainen ◽  
Ilkka Pölönen ◽  
Eija Honkavaara
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Convolutional Neural Networks ◽  
Tree Species ◽  
Classification Accuracy ◽  
Performance Metrics ◽  
Test Site ◽  
Biomass Estimation ◽  
Species Classification ◽  
Tree Species Classification ◽  
3D Cnn

Interest in drone solutions in forestry applications is growing. Using drones, datasets can be captured flexibly and at high spatial and temporal resolutions when needed. In forestry applications, fundamental tasks include the detection of individual trees, tree species classification, biomass estimation, etc. Deep neural networks (DNN) have shown superior results when comparing with conventional machine learning methods such as multi-layer perceptron (MLP) in cases of huge input data. The objective of this research is to investigate 3D convolutional neural networks (3D-CNN) to classify three major tree species in a boreal forest: pine, spruce, and birch. The proposed 3D-CNN models were employed to classify tree species in a test site in Finland. The classifiers were trained with a dataset of 3039 manually labelled trees. Then the accuracies were assessed by employing independent datasets of 803 records. To find the most efficient set of feature combination, we compare the performances of 3D-CNN models trained with hyperspectral (HS) channels, Red-Green-Blue (RGB) channels, and canopy height model (CHM), separately and combined. It is demonstrated that the proposed 3D-CNN model with RGB and HS layers produces the highest classification accuracy. The producer accuracy of the best 3D-CNN classifier on the test dataset were 99.6%, 94.8%, and 97.4% for pines, spruces, and birches, respectively. The best 3D-CNN classifier produced ~5% better classification accuracy than the MLP with all layers. Our results suggest that the proposed method provides excellent classification results with acceptable performance metrics for HS datasets. Our results show that pine class was detectable in most layers. Spruce was most detectable in RGB data, while birch was most detectable in the HS layers. Furthermore, the RGB datasets provide acceptable results for many low-accuracy applications.

scholarly journals Semantic and Structural Image Segmentation for Prosthetic Vision

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melani Sanchez Garcia ◽  
Rubén Martínez Cantín ◽  
José J. Guerrero
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Image Segmentation ◽  
Convolutional Neural Networks ◽  
Vision System ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Indoor Environments ◽  
Schematic Representation ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Structural Image

We present a new approach to build a schematic representation of indoor environments for phosphene images. The proposed method combines a variety of convolutional neural networks for extracting and conveying relevant information about the scene such as structural informative edges of the environment and silhouettes of segmented objects. Experiments were conducted with normal sighted subjects with a Simulated Prosthetic Vision system.

scholarly journals Newspaper Article Classification using Machine Learning Techniques

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 872-877
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Convolutional Neural Networks ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Learning Approach ◽  
Training Time ◽  
Time Prediction ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
Prediction Time ◽  
Newspaper Articles

Newspaper articles offer us insights on several news. They can be one of many categories like sports, politics, Science and Technology etc. Text classification is a need of the day as large uncategorized data is the problem everywhere. Through this study, We intend to compare several algorithms along with data preprocessing approaches to classify the newspaper articles into their respective categories. Convolutional Neural Networks(CNN) is a deep learning approach which is currently a strong competitor to other classification algorithms like SVM, Naive Bayes and KNN. We hence intend to implement Convolutional Neural Networks - a deep learning approach to classify our newspaper articles, develop an understanding of all the algorithms implemented and compare their results. We also attempt to compare the training time, prediction time and accuracies of all the algorithms.

scholarly journals A review of the use of convolutional neural networks in agriculture

2018 ◽  
Vol 156 (3) ◽  
pp. 312-322 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Kamilaris ◽  
F. X. Prenafeta-Boldú
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Image Processing ◽  
Convolutional Neural Networks ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Performance Metrics ◽  
Specific Class ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Future Potential ◽  
Processing Techniques

AbstractDeep learning (DL) constitutes a modern technique for image processing, with large potential. Having been successfully applied in various areas, it has recently also entered the domain of agriculture. In the current paper, a survey was conducted of research efforts that employ convolutional neural networks (CNN), which constitute a specific class of DL, applied to various agricultural and food production challenges. The paper examines agricultural problems under study, models employed, sources of data used and the overall precision achieved according to the performance metrics used by the authors. Convolutional neural networks are compared with other existing techniques, and the advantages and disadvantages of using CNN in agriculture are listed. Moreover, the future potential of this technique is discussed, together with the authors’ personal experiences after employing CNN to approximate a problem of identifying missing vegetation from a sugar cane plantation in Costa Rica. The overall findings indicate that CNN constitutes a promising technique with high performance in terms of precision and classification accuracy, outperforming existing commonly used image-processing techniques. However, the success of each CNN model is highly dependent on the quality of the data set used.

Hybrid pooling with wavelets for convolutional neural networks

2022 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Daniel Trevino-Sanchez ◽  
Vicente Alarcon-Aquino
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Convolutional Neural Networks ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Computational Cost ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Accuracy Improvement ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Benchmark Datasets ◽  
Augmentation Techniques ◽  
High Computational Cost

The need to detect and classify objects correctly is a constant challenge, being able to recognize them at different scales and scenarios, sometimes cropped or badly lit is not an easy task. Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have become a widely applied technique since they are completely trainable and suitable to extract features. However, the growing number of convolutional neural networks applications constantly pushes their accuracy improvement. Initially, those improvements involved the use of large datasets, augmentation techniques, and complex algorithms. These methods may have a high computational cost. Nevertheless, feature extraction is known to be the heart of the problem. As a result, other approaches combine different technologies to extract better features to improve the accuracy without the need of more powerful hardware resources. In this paper, we propose a hybrid pooling method that incorporates multiresolution analysis within the CNN layers to reduce the feature map size without losing details. To prevent relevant information from losing during the downsampling process an existing pooling method is combined with wavelet transform technique, keeping those details "alive" and enriching other stages of the CNN. Achieving better quality characteristics improves CNN accuracy. To validate this study, ten pooling methods, including the proposed model, are tested using four benchmark datasets. The results are compared with four of the evaluated methods, which are also considered as the state-of-the-art.

scholarly journals Estimating Body Condition Score in Dairy Cows From Depth Images Using Convolutional Neural Networks, Transfer Learning and Model Ensembling Techniques

Agronomy ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Rodríguez Alvarez ◽  
Mauricio Arroqui ◽  
Pablo Mangudo ◽  
Juan Toloza ◽  
Daniel Jatip ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Dairy Cows ◽  
Transfer Learning ◽  
Convolutional Neural Networks ◽  
Body Condition ◽  
Body Condition Score ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Estimation Accuracy ◽  
Base System ◽  
Condition Score

BCS (Body Condition Score) is a method to estimate body fat reserves and accumulated energy balance of cows, placing estimations (or BCS values) in a scale of 1 to 5. Periodically rating BCS of dairy cows is very important since BCS values are associated with milk production, reproduction, and health of cows. However, in practice, obtaining BCS values is a time-consuming and subjective task performed visually by expert scorers. There have been several efforts to automate BCS of dairy cows by using image analysis and machine learning techniques. In a previous work, an automatic system to estimate BCS values was proposed, which is based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). In this paper we significantly extend the techniques exploited by that system via using transfer learning and ensemble modeling techniques to further improve BCS estimation accuracy. The improved system has achieved good estimations results in comparison with the base system. Overall accuracy of BCS estimations within 0.25 units of difference from true values has increased 4% (up to 82%), while overall accuracy within 0.50 units has increased 3% (up to 97%).

scholarly journals Dark matter density extraction using Convolutional Neural Networks

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pratik Dongre
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Dark Matter ◽  
Convolutional Neural Networks ◽  
Matter Density ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Microwave Background ◽  
Vast Amount ◽  
Dark Matter Density ◽  
The Neural Networks ◽  
To Come

Abstract Ever since its discovery back in 1964 Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) has been of great interest to cosmologists and played a crucial role in understanding and studying the early universe .One of the most interesting topic of current interest is dark matter and its existence is by now well established. By analyzing the CMB data we can estimate the dark matter density of the universe.With vast amount of astronomical data already present and a more vast amount which is to come in future, Machine Learning techniques can provide a variety of benefits in astrophysical and cosomological research. Here I explore the use of deep learning to estimate dark matter density. I have used convolutional neural networks in this paper. I have used simulated CMB temprature maps as a dataset to train the neural networks and correlate the dark matter density from the power spectrum of the corrseponding simlutaed CMB temprature map.

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