A Decadal Walk on BCI Technology

2021 ◽  
pp. 158-183
Author(s):  
Ahan Chatterjee ◽  
Aniruddha Mandal ◽  
Swagatam Roy ◽  
Shruti Sinha ◽  
Aditi Priya ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Evoked Potential ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Literature Survey ◽  
Feature Engineering ◽  
Visually Evoked Potential

In this chapter, the authors take a walkthrough in BCI technology. At first, they took a closer look into the kind of waves that are being generated by our brain (i.e., the EEG and ECoG waves). In the next section, they have discussed about patients affected by CLIS and ALS-CLIS and how they can be treated or be benefitted using BCI technology. Visually evoked potential-based BCI technology has also been thoroughly discussed in this chapter. The application of machine learning and deep learning in this field are also being discussed with the need for feature engineering in this paradigm also been said. In the final section, they have done a thorough literature survey on various research-related to this field with proposed methodology and results.

scholarly journals A Survey on Recent Advances in Machine Learning Based Sleep Apnea Detection Systems

Healthcare ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 914
Author(s):  
Anita Ramachandran ◽  
Anupama Karuppiah
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Sleep Apnea ◽  
Gold Standard ◽  
Large Population ◽  
Literature Survey ◽  
Feature Engineering ◽  
Detection Systems ◽  
Recent Advances ◽  
Apnea Detection

Sleep apnea is a sleep disorder that affects a large population. This disorder can cause or augment the exposure to cardiovascular dysfunction, stroke, diabetes, and poor productivity. The polysomnography (PSG) test, which is the gold standard for sleep apnea detection, is expensive, inconvenient, and unavailable to the population at large. This calls for more friendly and accessible solutions for diagnosing sleep apnea. In this paper, we examine how sleep apnea is detected clinically, and how a combination of advances in embedded systems and machine learning can help make its diagnosis easier, more affordable, and accessible. We present the relevance of machine learning in sleep apnea detection, and a study of the recent advances in the aforementioned area. The review covers research based on machine learning, deep learning, and sensor fusion, and focuses on the following facets of sleep apnea detection: (i) type of sensors used for data collection, (ii) feature engineering approaches applied on the data (iii) classifiers used for sleep apnea detection/classification. We also analyze the challenges in the design of sleep apnea detection systems, based on the literature survey.

scholarly journals Validating Deep Neural Networks for Online Decoding of Motor Imagery Movements from EEG Signals

Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zied Tayeb ◽  
Juri Fedjaev ◽  
Nejla Ghaboosi ◽  
Christoph Richter ◽  
Lukas Everding ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Machine Learning ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Motor Imagery ◽  
Classification Performance ◽  
Feature Engineering ◽  
Learning Models ◽  
Eeg Signals ◽  
Learning Methods

Non-invasive, electroencephalography (EEG)-based brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) on motor imagery movements translate the subject’s motor intention into control signals through classifying the EEG patterns caused by different imagination tasks, e.g., hand movements. This type of BCI has been widely studied and used as an alternative mode of communication and environmental control for disabled patients, such as those suffering from a brainstem stroke or a spinal cord injury (SCI). Notwithstanding the success of traditional machine learning methods in classifying EEG signals, these methods still rely on hand-crafted features. The extraction of such features is a difficult task due to the high non-stationarity of EEG signals, which is a major cause by the stagnating progress in classification performance. Remarkable advances in deep learning methods allow end-to-end learning without any feature engineering, which could benefit BCI motor imagery applications. We developed three deep learning models: (1) A long short-term memory (LSTM); (2) a spectrogram-based convolutional neural network model (CNN); and (3) a recurrent convolutional neural network (RCNN), for decoding motor imagery movements directly from raw EEG signals without (any manual) feature engineering. Results were evaluated on our own publicly available, EEG data collected from 20 subjects and on an existing dataset known as 2b EEG dataset from “BCI Competition IV”. Overall, better classification performance was achieved with deep learning models compared to state-of-the art machine learning techniques, which could chart a route ahead for developing new robust techniques for EEG signal decoding. We underpin this point by demonstrating the successful real-time control of a robotic arm using our CNN based BCI.

scholarly journals An Efficient SMOTE-Based Deep Learning Model for Heart Attack Prediction

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Muhammad Waqar ◽  
Hassan Dawood ◽  
Hussain Dawood ◽  
Nadeem Majeed ◽  
Ameen Banjar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Heart Attack ◽  
High Reliability ◽  
Learning Algorithms ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Feature Engineering ◽  
Unequal Distribution ◽  
The Given

Cardiac disease treatments are often being subjected to the acquisition and analysis of vast quantity of digital cardiac data. These data can be utilized for various beneficial purposes. These data’s utilization becomes more important when we are dealing with critical diseases like a heart attack where patient life is often at stake. Machine learning and deep learning are two famous techniques that are helping in making the raw data useful. Some of the biggest problems that arise from the usage of the aforementioned techniques are massive resource utilization, extensive data preprocessing, need for features engineering, and ensuring reliability in classification results. The proposed research work presents a cost-effective solution to predict heart attack with high accuracy and reliability. It uses a UCI dataset to predict the heart attack via various machine learning algorithms without the involvement of any feature engineering. Moreover, the given dataset has an unequal distribution of positive and negative classes which can reduce performance. The proposed work uses a synthetic minority oversampling technique (SMOTE) to handle given imbalance data. The proposed system discarded the need of feature engineering for the classification of the given dataset. This led to an efficient solution as feature engineering often proves to be a costly process. The results show that among all machine learning algorithms, SMOTE-based artificial neural network when tuned properly outperformed all other models and many existing systems. The high reliability of the proposed system ensures that it can be effectively used in the prediction of the heart attack.

scholarly journals Comparative Analysis on Machine Learning and Deep Learning to Predict Post-Induction Hypotension

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (16) ◽  
pp. 4575 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jihyun Lee ◽  
Jiyoung Woo ◽  
Ah Reum Kang ◽  
Young-Seob Jeong ◽  
Woohyun Jung ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Machine Learning ◽  
Feature Selection ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Random Forest ◽  
Tracheal Intubation ◽  
Feature Engineering ◽  
Learning Models ◽  
Raw Data ◽  
Vital Records

Hypotensive events in the initial stage of anesthesia can cause serious complications in the patients after surgery, which could be fatal. In this study, we intended to predict hypotension after tracheal intubation using machine learning and deep learning techniques after intubation one minute in advance. Meta learning models, such as random forest, extreme gradient boosting (Xgboost), and deep learning models, especially the convolutional neural network (CNN) model and the deep neural network (DNN), were trained to predict hypotension occurring between tracheal intubation and incision, using data from four minutes to one minute before tracheal intubation. Vital records and electronic health records (EHR) for 282 of 319 patients who underwent laparoscopic cholecystectomy from October 2018 to July 2019 were collected. Among the 282 patients, 151 developed post-induction hypotension. Our experiments had two scenarios: using raw vital records and feature engineering on vital records. The experiments on raw data showed that CNN had the best accuracy of 72.63%, followed by random forest (70.32%) and Xgboost (64.6%). The experiments on feature engineering showed that random forest combined with feature selection had the best accuracy of 74.89%, while CNN had a lower accuracy of 68.95% than that of the experiment on raw data. Our study is an extension of previous studies to detect hypotension before intubation with a one-minute advance. To improve accuracy, we built a model using state-of-art algorithms. We found that CNN had a good performance, but that random forest had a better performance when combined with feature selection. In addition, we found that the examination period (data period) is also important.

scholarly journals MAKEDONKA: Applied Deep Learning Model for Text-to-Speech Synthesis in Macedonian Language

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (19) ◽  
pp. 6882
Author(s):  
Kostadin Mishev ◽  
Aleksandra Karovska Ristovska ◽  
Dimitar Trajanov ◽  
Tome Eftimov ◽  
Monika Simjanoska
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Speech Synthesis ◽  
Feature Engineering ◽  
Learning Approach ◽  
Acoustic Model ◽  
Text To Speech ◽  
Text To Speech Synthesis ◽  
Smooth Transitions ◽  
Deep Learning Model

This paper presents MAKEDONKA, the first open-source Macedonian language synthesizer that is based on the Deep Learning approach. The paper provides an overview of the numerous attempts to achieve a human-like reproducible speech, which has unfortunately shown to be unsuccessful due to the work invisibility and lack of integration examples with real software tools. The recent advances in Machine Learning, the Deep Learning-based methodologies, provide novel methods for feature engineering that allow for smooth transitions in the synthesized speech, making it sound natural and human-like. This paper presents a methodology for end-to-end speech synthesis that is based on a fully-convolutional sequence-to-sequence acoustic model with a position-augmented attention mechanism—Deep Voice 3. Our model directly synthesizes Macedonian speech from characters. We created a dataset that contains approximately 20 h of speech from a native Macedonian female speaker, and we use it to train the text-to-speech (TTS) model. The achieved MOS score of 3.93 makes our model appropriate for application in any kind of software that needs text-to-speech service in the Macedonian language. Our TTS platform is publicly available for use and ready for integration.

scholarly journals Deep learning for biological age estimation

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Syed Ashiqur Rahman ◽  
Peter Giacobbi ◽  
Lee Pyles ◽  
Charles Mullett ◽  
Gianfranco Doretto ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Age Estimation ◽  
Current Data ◽  
Biological Age ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Biological Aging ◽  
Feature Engineering ◽  
Complex Data ◽  
Aging Research

Abstract Modern machine learning techniques (such as deep learning) offer immense opportunities in the field of human biological aging research. Aging is a complex process, experienced by all living organisms. While traditional machine learning and data mining approaches are still popular in aging research, they typically need feature engineering or feature extraction for robust performance. Explicit feature engineering represents a major challenge, as it requires significant domain knowledge. The latest advances in deep learning provide a paradigm shift in eliciting meaningful knowledge from complex data without performing explicit feature engineering. In this article, we review the recent literature on applying deep learning in biological age estimation. We consider the current data modalities that have been used to study aging and the deep learning architectures that have been applied. We identify four broad classes of measures to quantify the performance of algorithms for biological age estimation and based on these evaluate the current approaches. The paper concludes with a brief discussion on possible future directions in biological aging research using deep learning. This study has significant potentials for improving our understanding of the health status of individuals, for instance, based on their physical activities, blood samples and body shapes. Thus, the results of the study could have implications in different health care settings, from palliative care to public health.

Recent Trends in the Use of Graph Neural Network Models for Natural Language Processing

2020 ◽  
pp. 274-289
Author(s):  
BURCU YILMAZ ◽  
Hilal Genc ◽  
Mustafa Agriman ◽  
Bugra Kaan Demirdover ◽  
Mert Erdemir ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Network Models ◽  
Feature Engineering ◽  
Graph Structure ◽  
Neural Network Models ◽  
Graph Models ◽  
Learning Tasks ◽  
Low Dimensional

Graphs are powerful data structures that allow us to represent varying relationships within data. In the past, due to the difficulties related to the time complexities of processing graph models, graphs rarely involved machine learning tasks. In recent years, especially with the new advances in deep learning techniques, increasing number of graph models related to the feature engineering and machine learning are proposed. Recently, there has been an increase in approaches that automatically learn to encode graph structure into low dimensional embedding. These approaches are accompanied by models for machine learning tasks, and they fall into two categories. The first one focuses on feature engineering techniques on graphs. The second group of models assembles graph structure to learn a graph neighborhood in the machine learning model. In this chapter, the authors focus on the advances in applications of graphs on NLP using the recent deep learning models.

scholarly journals Deep-ACTINet: End-to-End Deep Learning Architecture for Automatic Sleep-Wake Detection Using Wrist Actigraphy

Electronics ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 1461 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taeheum Cho ◽  
Unang Sunarya ◽  
Minsoo Yeo ◽  
Bosun Hwang ◽  
Yong Seo Koo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Sleep Disorders ◽  
Learning Algorithms ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Feature Engineering ◽  
Model Based ◽  
Wrist Actigraphy ◽  
End To End ◽  
Wake Detection

Sleep scoring is the first step for diagnosing sleep disorders. A variety of chronic diseases related to sleep disorders could be identified using sleep-state estimation. This paper presents an end-to-end deep learning architecture using wrist actigraphy, called Deep-ACTINet, for automatic sleep-wake detection using only noise canceled raw activity signals recorded during sleep and without a feature engineering method. As a benchmark test, the proposed Deep-ACTINet is compared with two conventional fixed model based sleep-wake scoring algorithms and four feature engineering based machine learning algorithms. The datasets were recorded from 10 subjects using three-axis accelerometer wristband sensors for eight hours in bed. The sleep recordings were analyzed using Deep-ACTINet and conventional approaches, and the suggested end-to-end deep learning model gained the highest accuracy of 89.65%, recall of 92.99%, and precision of 92.09% on average. These values were approximately 4.74% and 4.05% higher than those for the traditional model based and feature based machine learning algorithms, respectively. In addition, the neuron outputs of Deep-ACTINet contained the most significant information for separating the asleep and awake states, which was demonstrated by their high correlations with conventional significant features. Deep-ACTINet was designed to be a general model and thus has the potential to replace current actigraphy algorithms equipped in wristband wearable devices.

scholarly journals Comparison of Feature Extraction Methods for Physiological Signals for Heat-Based Pain Recognition

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (14) ◽  
pp. 4838
Author(s):  
Philip Gouverneur ◽  
Frédéric Li ◽  
Wacław M. Adamczyk ◽  
Tibor M. Szikszay ◽  
Kerstin Luedtke ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Feature Extraction ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Feature Learning ◽  
Recognition System ◽  
Extraction Methods ◽  
Feature Engineering ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
Physiological Sensors ◽  
Pain Recognition

While even the most common definition of pain is under debate, pain assessment has remained the same for decades. But the paramount importance of precise pain management for successful healthcare has encouraged initiatives to improve the way pain is assessed. Recent approaches have proposed automatic pain evaluation systems using machine learning models trained with data coming from behavioural or physiological sensors. Although yielding promising results, machine learning studies for sensor-based pain recognition remain scattered and not necessarily easy to compare to each other. In particular, the important process of extracting features is usually optimised towards specific datasets. We thus introduce a comparison of feature extraction methods for pain recognition based on physiological sensors in this paper. In addition, the PainMonit Database (PMDB), a new dataset including both objective and subjective annotations for heat-induced pain in 52 subjects, is introduced. In total, five different approaches including techniques based on feature engineering and feature learning with deep learning are evaluated on the BioVid and PMDB datasets. Our studies highlight the following insights: (1) Simple feature engineering approaches can still compete with deep learning approaches in terms of performance. (2) More complex deep learning architectures do not yield better performance compared to simpler ones. (3) Subjective self-reports by subjects can be used instead of objective temperature-based annotations to build a robust pain recognition system.

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