scholarly journals Non Invasive Skin Hydration Level Detection Using Machine Learning

Electronics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 1086 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sidrah Liaqat ◽  
Kia Dashtipour ◽  
Kamran Arshad ◽  
Naeem Ramzan
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Learning Algorithms ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Skin Hydration ◽  
Body Postures ◽  
Hydration Level ◽  
Non Invasive ◽  
Conductance Data

Dehydration and overhydration can help to improve medical implications on health. Therefore, it is vital to track the hydration level (HL) specifically in children, the elderly and patients with underlying medical conditions such as diabetes. Most of the current approaches to estimate the hydration level are not sufficient and require more in-depth research. Therefore, in this paper, we used the non-invasive wearable sensor for collecting the skin conductance data and employed different machine learning algorithms based on feature engineering to predict the hydration level of the human body in different body postures. The comparative experimental results demonstrated that the random forest with an accuracy of 91.3% achieved better performance as compared to other machine learning algorithms to predict the hydration state of human body. This study paves a way for further investigation in non-invasive proactive skin hydration detection which can help in the diagnosis of serious health conditions.

scholarly journals Non-Invasive Risk Stratification of Hypertension: A Systematic Comparison of Machine Learning Algorithms

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 34
Author(s):  
Giovanna Sannino ◽  
Ivanoe De Falco ◽  
Giuseppe De Pietro
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Blood Pressure ◽  
Risk Stratification ◽  
Learning Algorithms ◽  
Circulatory System ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Learning Mechanisms ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Non Invasive ◽  
Blood Pressure Estimation

One of the most important physiological parameters of the cardiovascular circulatory system is Blood Pressure. Several diseases are related to long-term abnormal blood pressure, i.e., hypertension; therefore, the early detection and assessment of this condition are crucial. The identification of hypertension, and, even more the evaluation of its risk stratification, by using wearable monitoring devices are now more realistic thanks to the advancements in Internet of Things, the improvements of digital sensors that are becoming more and more miniaturized, and the development of new signal processing and machine learning algorithms. In this scenario, a suitable biomedical signal is represented by the PhotoPlethysmoGraphy (PPG) signal. It can be acquired by using a simple, cheap, and wearable device, and can be used to evaluate several aspects of the cardiovascular system, e.g., the detection of abnormal heart rate, respiration rate, blood pressure, oxygen saturation, and so on. In this paper, we take into account the Cuff-Less Blood Pressure Estimation Data Set that contains, among others, PPG signals coming from a set of subjects, as well as the Blood Pressure values of the latter that is the hypertension level. Our aim is to investigate whether or not machine learning methods applied to these PPG signals can provide better results for the non-invasive classification and evaluation of subjects’ hypertension levels. To this aim, we have availed ourselves of a wide set of machine learning algorithms, based on different learning mechanisms, and have compared their results in terms of the effectiveness of the classification obtained.

scholarly journals Novel Privacy Preserving Non-Invasive Sensing-Based Diagnoses of Pneumonia Disease Leveraging Deep Network Model

Sensors ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 461
Author(s):  
Mujeeb Ur Rehman ◽  
Arslan Shafique ◽  
Kashif Hesham Khan ◽  
Sohail Khalid ◽  
Abdullah Alhumaidi Alotaibi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Medical Records ◽  
Learning Algorithms ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Non Invasive ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Pneumonia Diagnosis ◽  
Better Than

This article presents non-invasive sensing-based diagnoses of pneumonia disease, exploiting a deep learning model to make the technique non-invasive coupled with security preservation. Sensing and securing healthcare and medical images such as X-rays that can be used to diagnose viral diseases such as pneumonia is a challenging task for researchers. In the past few years, patients’ medical records have been shared using various wireless technologies. The wireless transmitted data are prone to attacks, resulting in the misuse of patients’ medical records. Therefore, it is important to secure medical data, which are in the form of images. The proposed work is divided into two sections: in the first section, primary data in the form of images are encrypted using the proposed technique based on chaos and convolution neural network. Furthermore, multiple chaotic maps are incorporated to create a random number generator, and the generated random sequence is used for pixel permutation and substitution. In the second part of the proposed work, a new technique for pneumonia diagnosis using deep learning, in which X-ray images are used as a dataset, is proposed. Several physiological features such as cough, fever, chest pain, flu, low energy, sweating, shaking, chills, shortness of breath, fatigue, loss of appetite, and headache and statistical features such as entropy, correlation, contrast dissimilarity, etc., are extracted from the X-ray images for the pneumonia diagnosis. Moreover, machine learning algorithms such as support vector machines, decision trees, random forests, and naive Bayes are also implemented for the proposed model and compared with the proposed CNN-based model. Furthermore, to improve the CNN-based proposed model, transfer learning and fine tuning are also incorporated. It is found that CNN performs better than other machine learning algorithms as the accuracy of the proposed work when using naive Bayes and CNN is 89% and 97%, respectively, which is also greater than the average accuracy of the existing schemes, which is 90%. Further, K-fold analysis and voting techniques are also incorporated to improve the accuracy of the proposed model. Different metrics such as entropy, correlation, contrast, and energy are used to gauge the performance of the proposed encryption technology, while precision, recall, F1 score, and support are used to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed machine learning-based model for pneumonia diagnosis. The entropy and correlation of the proposed work are 7.999 and 0.0001, respectively, which reflects that the proposed encryption algorithm offers a higher security of the digital data. Moreover, a detailed comparison with the existing work is also made and reveals that both the proposed models work better than the existing work.

scholarly journals First report of rapid, non-invasive, and reagent-free detection of malaria through the skin of patients with a beam of infrared light

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriela Garcia ◽  
Tharanga Kariyawasam ◽  
Anton Lord ◽  
Cristiano Costa ◽  
Lana Chaves ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Near Infrared ◽  
Predictive Accuracy ◽  
Human Subjects ◽  
Learning Algorithms ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Supervised Machine Learning ◽  
Infrared Light ◽  
Non Invasive ◽  
Full Capacity

Abstract We describe the first application of the Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) technique to detect Plasmodium falciparum and P. vivax malaria parasites through the skin of malaria positive and negative human subjects. NIRS is a rapid, non-invasive and reagent free technique which involves rapid interaction of a beam of light with a biological sample to produce diagnostic signatures in seconds. We used a handheld, miniaturized spectrometer to shine NIRS light on the ear, arm and finger of P. falciparum (n=7) and P. vivax (n=20) positive people and malaria negative individuals (n=33) in a malaria endemic setting in Brazil. Supervised machine learning algorithms for predicting the presence of malaria were applied to predict malaria infection status in independent individuals (n=12). Separate machine learning algorithms for differentiating P. falciparum from P. vivax infected subjects were developed using spectra from the arm and ear of P. falciparum and P. vivax (n=108) and the resultant model predicted infection in spectra of their fingers (n=54).NIRS non-invasively detected malaria positive and negative individuals that were excluded from the model with 100% sensitivity, 83% specificity and 92% accuracy (n=12) with spectra collected from the arm. Moreover, NIRS also correctly differentiated P. vivax from P. falciparum positive individuals with a predictive accuracy of 93% (n=54). These findings are promising but further work on a larger scale is needed to address several gaps in knowledge and establish the full capacity of NIRS as a non-invasive diagnostic tool for malaria. It is recommended that the tool is further evaluated in multiple epidemiological and demographic settings where other factors such as age, mixed infection and skin colour can be incorporated into predictive algorithms to produce more robust models for universal diagnosis of malaria.

Gradient Boosting for Parkinson’s Disease Diagnosis from Voice Recordings

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ibrahim Karabayir ◽  
Samuel Goldman ◽  
Suguna Pappu ◽  
Oguz Akbilgic
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Parkinson’S Disease ◽  
Parkinson's Disease ◽  
Learning Algorithms ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Gradient Boosting ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Acoustic Features ◽  
Non Invasive ◽  
Light Gradient

Abstract Background: Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is a clinically diagnosed neurodegenerative disorder that affects both motor and non-motor neural circuits. Speech deterioration (hypokinetic dysarthria) is a common symptom, which often presents early in the disease course. Machine learning can help movement disorders specialists improve their diagnostic accuracy using non-invasive and inexpensive voice recordings.Method: We used “Parkinson Dataset with Replicated Acoustic Features Data Set” from the UCI-Machine Learning repository. The dataset included 44 speech-test based acoustic features from patients with PD and controls. We analyzed the data using various machine learning algorithms including Light and Extreme Gradient Boosting, Random Forest, Support Vector Machines, K-nearest neighborhood, Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator Regression, as well as logistic regression. We also implemented a variable importance analysis to identify important variables classifying patients with PD. Results: The cohort included a total of 80 subjects: 40 patients with PD (55% men) and 40 controls (67.5% men). Disease duration was 5 years or less for all subjects, with a mean Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS) score of 19.6 (SD 8.1), and none were taking PD medication. The mean age for PD subjects and controls was 69.6 (SD 7.8) and 66.4 (SD 8.4), respectively. Our best-performing model used Light Gradient Boosting to provide an AUC of 0.951 with 95% confidence interval 0.946-0.955 in 4-fold cross validation using only seven acoustic features.Conclusions: Machine learning can accurately detect Parkinson’s disease using an inexpensive and non-invasive voice recording. Light Gradient Boosting outperformed other machine learning algorithms. Such approaches could be used to inexpensively screen large patient populations for Parkinson’s disease.

scholarly journals Non-Invasive Prediction Model to Detect Sepsis using Supervised Machine Learning Algorithms

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (5S) ◽  
pp. 50-52
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Prediction Model ◽  
Tissue Damage ◽  
Learning Algorithms ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Supervised Machine Learning ◽  
Blood Samples ◽  
Non Invasive ◽  
Life Threatening

Sepsis is a life-threatening disease that causes tissue damage, organ failure and results in the death of millions of people. Sepsis is one of the highest risky diseases identified globally. A large proportion of these deaths occur in developing countries due to inaccessibility of hospitals or lack of resources. Blood samples are taken to confirm sepsis, but it requires the presence of laboratory and is time-consuming. The aim and objective of this study is to develop a practical, non-invasive sepsis prediction model that can be used to detect sepsis using supervised machine Learning algorithms. For this retrospective analysis, we used the data available from Physio-Net database.

scholarly journals Heart Disease Detection Using Machine Learning

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chithambaram T ◽  
Logesh Kannan N ◽  
Gowsalya M
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Heart Disease ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Cardiac Disease ◽  
Learning Algorithms ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Individual Data ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Python Programming ◽  
Target Output

Abstract This paper analyzes the detection of heart disease using machine learning algorithms and python programming. Over the post decades, heart disease is common and dangerous disease caused by fat containment. This disease occurs due to over pressure in the human body. Using different types of parameters in the dataset we can predict the cardiac-disease. We have observed a dataset consists of 12 parameters and 70000 individual data values[5] to analyze the performance of patients. The main objective of the paper is to get a better accuracy to detect the heart-disease using algorithms in which the target output counts that a person having heart disease or not.

scholarly journals Classification of Control and Neurodegenerative Disease Subjects Using Tree Based Classifiers

2020 ◽  
pp. 63-73
Author(s):  
Syed Ahsin Ali Shah ◽  
Nazneen Habib ◽  
Wajid Aziz ◽  
Ehsan Ullah Khan ◽  
Malik Sajjad Ahmed Nadeem
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Early Detection ◽  
Classification Accuracy ◽  
Neural Control ◽  
Learning Algorithms ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Pharmacological Interventions ◽  
Non Invasive

Background: The medical researchers are developing different non-invasive methods for early detection of Neurodegenerative Diseases (NDDs) when pharmacological interventions are still possible to further prevent the disease progression. The NDDs are associated with the degradation in the complex gait dynamics and motor activity. The classification of gait data using machine learning techniques can assist the physicians for early diagnosis of the neural disorder when clinical manifestation of the diseases is not yet apparent. Aims: The present study was undertaken to classify the control and NDD subjects using decision trees based classifiers (Random Forest (RF), J48 and REPTree). Methodology: The data used in the study comprises of 16 control, 20 Huntington’s Disease (HD), 15 Parkinson’s Disease (PD), and 13 Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) subjects, which were taken from publicly available database from Physionet. The age range of control subjects was 20-74, HD subjects was 36-70, PD subjects was 44-80, and ALS subjects was 29-71. There were 13 attributes associated with the data. Important features/attributes of the data were selected using correlation feature selection - subset evaluation (cfs) method. Three tree based machine learning algorithms (RF, J48 and REPTree) were used to classify the control and NDD subjects. The performance of classifiers were evaluated using Precision, Recall, F-Measure, MAE and RMSE. Results: In order to evaluate the performance of tree based classifiers, two different settings of data i.e. complete features and selected features were used. In classifying control vs HD subjects, RF provides the robust separation with classification accuracy of 84.79% using complete features and 83.94% using selected features. While in classifying control vs PD subjects, and control vs ALS subjects, RF also provides the best separation with classification accuracy of 86.51% and 94.95% respectively using complete features and 85.19% and 93.64% respectively using selected features. Conclusion: The variability analysis of physiological signals provides a valuable non-invasive tool for quantifying the system of dynamics of healthy subjects and to examine the alternations in the controlling mechanism of these systems with aging and disease. It is concluded that selected features encode adequate information about neural control of the gait. Moreover, the selected features along with tree based machine learning algorithms can play a vital for early detection of NDDs, when pharmacological interventions are still possible.

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