A Machine Learning Approach Involving Functional Connectivity Features to Classify Rest-EEG Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures from Healthy Controls

Until now, clinicians are not able to evaluate the Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures (PNES) from the rest-electroencephalography (EEG) readout. No EEG marker can help differentiate PNES cases from healthy subjects. In this paper, we have investigated the power spectrum density (PSD), in resting-state EEGs, to evaluate the abnormalities in PNES affected brains. Additionally, we have used functional connectivity tools, such as phase lag index (PLI), and graph-derived metrics to better observe the integration of distributed information of regular and synchronized multi-scale communication within and across inter-regional brain areas. We proved the utility of our method after enrolling a cohort study of 20 age- and gender-matched PNES and 19 healthy control (HC) subjects. In this work, three classification models, namely support vector machine (SVM), linear discriminant analysis (LDA), and Multilayer perceptron (MLP), have been employed to model the relationship between the functional connectivity features (rest-HC versus rest-PNES). The best performance for the discrimination of participants was obtained using the MLP classifier, reporting a precision of 85.73%, a recall of 86.57%, an F1-score of 78.98%, and, finally, an accuracy of 91.02%. In conclusion, our results hypothesized two main aspects. The first is an intrinsic organization of functional brain networks that reflects a dysfunctional level of integration across brain regions, which can provide new insights into the pathophysiological mechanisms of PNES. The second is that functional connectivity features and MLP could be a promising method to classify rest-EEG data of PNES form healthy controls subjects.

LSBR Speech Steganalysis Based on Percent of Equal Adjacent Samples

Wide utilization of audio files has attracted the attention of cyber-criminals to employ this media as a cover for their concealed communications. As a countermeasure and to protect cyberspace, several techniques have been introduced for steganalysis of various audio formats, such as MP3, VoIP, etc. The combination of machine learning and signal processing techniques has helped steganalyzers to obtain higher accuracies. However, as the statistical characteristics of a normal audio file differ from the speech ones, the current methods cannot discriminate clean and stego speech instances efficiently. Another problem is the high numbers of extracted features and analysis dimensions that drastically increase the implementation cost. To tackle these, this paper proposes the Percent of Equal Adjacent Samples (PEAS) feature for single-dimension least-significant-bit replacement (LSBR) speech steganalysis. The model first classifies the samples into speech and silence groups according to a threshold which has been determined through extensive experiments. It then uses an MLP classifier to detect stego instances and determine the embedding ratio. PEAS steganalysis detects 99.8% of stego instances in the lowest analyzed embedding ratio — 12.5% — and its sensitivity increases to 100% for the ratios of 37.5% and above.

Detection of “Legbreaker” Antipersonnel Landmines by Analysis of Aerial Thermographic Images of the Soil

An automatic detection methodology for “legbreaker” Antipersonnel Landmines (APL) was developed based on digital image processing techniques and pattern recognition, applied to thermal images acquired by means of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) equipped with a thermal camera. The images were acquired from the inspection of a natural terrain with sparse vegetation and under uncontrolled conditions, in which prototypes of “legbreaker” APL were buried at different depths. Remarkable results were obtained using a Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) classifier, reaching a 97.1% success rate in detecting areas with the presence of these artifacts.

Developmental Deconvolution for Classification of Cancer Origin

Cancer is a disease manifesting in abrogation of developmental programs, and malignancies are named based on their cell or tissue of origin. However, a systematic atlas of tumor origins is lacking. Here we map the single cell organogenesis of 56 developmental trajectories to the transcriptomes of over 10,000 tumors across 33 cancer types. We use this map to deconvolute individual tumors into their constituent developmental trajectories. Based on these deconvoluted developmental programs, we construct a Developmental Multilayer Perceptron (D-MLP) classifier that outputs cancer origin. The D-MLP classifier (ROC-AUC: 0.974 for top prediction) outperforms classification based on expression of either oncogenes or highly variable genes. We analyze tumors from patients with cancer of unknown primary (CUP), selecting the most difficult cases where extensive multimodal workup yielded no definitive tumor type. D-MLP revealed insights into developmental origins and diagnosis for most patient tumors. Our results provide a map of tumor developmental origins, provide a tool for diagnostic pathology, and suggest developmental classification may be a useful approach for otherwise unclassified patient tumors.

Prediction for rice yield using data mining approach in Ranga Reddy district of Telangana, India

In order to explore the possibility of crop estimation, data mining approach being multidisciplinary was followed. The district of Ranga Reddy, Telangana State, India has been chosen for the study and its year wise average yield data of rice and daily weather over a period of 31 years i.e. from 1988-2019 (30th to 47th Standard Meteorological Weeks). Data mining tool WEKA (V3.8.1). Min- Max Normalization technique followed by Feature Selection algorithm, ‘cfsSubsetEval’ was also adopted to improve quality and accuracy of data mining algorithms. Thus, after cleaning and sorting of data, five classifiers viz., Logistic, MLP (Multi Layer Perceptron), J48 Classifier, LMT (Logistic Model Trees) and PART Classifier were employed over the trained data. The results indicated that the function based and tree based models have better performance over rule based model. In case of function based two models examined, viz., Logistic and MLP, the later performed better over Logistic model. Between tree based two models, LMT performed better over J48. Thus, MLP classifier model found to be the best fit model in predicting rice yields as it recorded an accuracy of 74.19 %, sensitivity of 0.742 and precision of 0.743 as compared with other models. The MLP has also achieved the highest F1 score of (0.742) and MCC (0.581).

Artificial intelligence and infrared thermography as auxiliary tools in the diagnosis of temporomandibular disorder

Objective: To assess three machine learning (ML) attribute extraction methods: radiomic, semantic and radiomic-semantic association on temporomandibular disorder (TMD) detection using infrared thermography (IT); and to determine which ML classifier, KNN, SVM and MLP, is the most efficient for this purpose. Methods and materials: 78 patients were selected by applying the Fonseca questionnaire and RDC/TMD to categorize control patients (37) and TMD patients (41). IT lateral projections of each patient were acquired. The masseter and temporal muscles were selected as regions of interest (ROI) for attribute extraction. Three methods of extracting attributes were assessed: radiomic, semantic and radiomic-semantic association. For radiomic attribute extraction, 20 texture attributes were assessed using co-occurrence matrix in a standardized angulation of 0°. The semantic features were the ROI mean temperature and pain intensity data. For radiomic-semantic association, a single dataset composed of 28 features was assessed. The classification algorithms assessed were KNN, SVM and MLP. Hopkins’s statistic, Shapiro–Wilk, ANOVA and Tukey tests were used to assess data. The significance level was set at 5% (p < 0.05). Results: Training and testing accuracy values differed statistically for the radiomic-semantic association (p = 0.003). MLP differed from the other classifiers for the radiomic-semantic association (p = 0.004). Accuracy, precision and sensitivity values of semantic and radiomic-semantic association differed statistically from radiomic features (p = 0.008, p = 0.016 and p = 0.013). Conclusion: Semantic and radiomic-semantic-associated ML feature extraction methods and MLP classifier should be chosen for TMD detection using IT images and pain scale data. IT associated with ML presents promising results for TMD detection.

Evaluating Malware Detection System using Machine Learning Algorithms

Malware, is any program or document that is unsafe to a PC client. Kinds of malware can incorporate PC infections, worms, Trojan ponies and spyware. These noxious projects can play out an assortment of capacities like taking, scrambling or erasing touchy information, adjusting or commandeering center processing capacities and observing clients' PC action. Malware identification is the way toward checking the PC and documents to distinguish malware. It is viable at distinguishing malware on the grounds that it includes numerous instruments and approaches. It's anything but a single direction measure, it's very intricate. The beneficial thing is malware identification and evacuation take under 50 seconds as it were. The outstanding development of malware is representing an extraordinary risk to the security of classified data. The issue with a significant number of the current order calculations is their small presentation in term of their capacity to identify and forestall malware from tainting the PC framework. There is a critical need to assess the exhibition of the current Machine Learning characterization calculations utilized for malware identification. This will help in making more hearty and productive calculations that have the ability to conquer the shortcomings of the current calculations. As of late, AI methods have been the main focus of the security specialists to distinguish malware and foresee their families powerfully. Yet, to the best of our information, there exists no complete work that looks at and assesses a sufficient number of machine learning strategies for characterizing malware and favorable examples. In this work, we led a set of examinations to assess AI strategies for distinguishing malware and their classification into respective families powerfully. This investigation did the presentation assessment of some characterization calculations like J45, LMT, Naive Bayes, Random Forest, MLP Classifier, Random Tree, AdaBoost, KStar. The presentation of the calculations was assessed as far as Accuracy, Precision, Recall, Kappa Statistics, F-Measure, Matthew Correlation Coefficient, Receiver Operator Characteristics Area and Root Mean Squared Error utilizing WEKA AI and information mining recreation device. Our test results showed that Random Forest calculation delivered the best exactness of 99.2%. This decidedly shows that the Random Forest calculation accomplishes great precision rates in identifying malware.

3D-DCDAE: Unsupervised Music Latent Representations Learning Method Based on a Deep 3D Convolutional Denoising Autoencoder for Music Genre Classification

With unlabeled music data widely available, it is necessary to build an unsupervised latent music representation extractor to improve the performance of classification models. This paper proposes an unsupervised latent music representation learning method based on a deep 3D convolutional denoising autoencoder (3D-DCDAE) for music genre classification, which aims to learn common representations from a large amount of unlabeled data to improve the performance of music genre classification. Specifically, unlabeled MIDI files are applied to 3D-DCDAE to extract latent representations by denoising and reconstructing input data. Next, a decoder is utilized to assist the 3D-DCDAE in training. After 3D-DCDAE training, the decoder is replaced by a multilayer perceptron (MLP) classifier for music genre classification. Through the unsupervised latent representations learning method, unlabeled data can be applied to classification tasks so that the problem of limiting classification performance due to insufficient labeled data can be solved. In addition, the unsupervised 3D-DCDAE can consider the musicological structure to expand the understanding of the music field and improve performance in music genre classification. In the experiments, which utilized the Lakh MIDI dataset, a large amount of unlabeled data was utilized to train the 3D-DCDAE, obtaining a denoising and reconstruction accuracy of approximately 98%. A small amount of labeled data was utilized for training a classification model consisting of the trained 3D-DCDAE and the MLP classifier, which achieved a classification accuracy of approximately 88%. The experimental results show that the model achieves state-of-the-art performance and significantly outperforms other methods for music genre classification with only a small amount of labeled data.

Speech Emotion Recognition

Speech Emotion Recognition, abbreviated as SER, the act of trying to identify a person's feelings and relationships. Affected situations from speech. This is because the truth often reflects the basic feelings of tone and tone of voice. Emotional awareness is a fast-growing field of research in recent years. Unlike humans, machines do not have the power to comprehend and express emotions. But human communication with the computer can be improved by using automatic sensory recognition, accordingly reducing the need for human intervention. In this project, basic emotions such as peace, happiness, fear, disgust, etc. are analyzed signs of emotional expression. We use machine learning techniques such as Multilayer perceptron Classifier (MLP Classifier) which is used to separate information provided by groups to be divided equally. Coefficients of Mel-frequency cepstrum (MFCC), chroma and mel features are extracted from speech signals and used to train MLP differentiation. By accomplishing this purpose, we use python libraries such as Librosa, sklearn, pyaudio, numpy and audio file to analyze speech patterns and see the feeling. Keywords: Speech emotion recognition, mel cepstral coefficient, neural artificial network, multilayer perceptrons, mlp classifier, python.