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With the increased use of social network sites, such as Twitter, attackers exploit these platforms to spread counterfeit content. Such content can be fake advertisements or illegal content. Classifying such content is a challenging task, especially in Arabic. The Arabic language has a complex structure and makes classification tasks more difficult. This paper presents an approach to classifying Arabic tweets using classical machine learning (non-deep machine learning) and deep learning techniques. Tweets corpus were collected through Twitter API and labelled manually to get a reliable dataset. For an efficient classifier, feature extraction is applied to the corpus dataset. Then, two learning techniques are used for each feature extraction technique on the created dataset using N-gram models (uni-gram, bi-gram, and char-gram). The applied classical machine learning algorithms are support vector machines, neural networks, logistics regression, and naïve Bayes. Global vector (GloVe) and fastText learning models are utilised for the deep learning approaches. The Precision, Recall, and F1-score are the suggested performance measures calculated in this paper. Afterwards, the dataset is increased using the synthetic minority oversampling technique class to create a balanced dataset. After applying the classical machine learning models, the experimental results show that the neural network algorithm outperforms the other algorithms. Moreover, the GloVe outperforms the fastText model for the deep learning approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Skin cancer, primarily resulting from the abnormal growth of skin cells, is among the most common cancer types. In recent decades, the incidence of skin cancer cases worldwide has risen significantly (one in every three newly diagnosed cancer cases is a skin cancer). Such an increase can be attributed to changes in our social and lifestyle habits coupled with devastating man-made alterations to the global ecosystem. Despite such a notable increase, diagnosis of skin cancer is still challenging, which becomes critical as its early detection is crucial for increasing the overall survival rate. This calls for advancements of innovative computer-aided systems to assist medical experts with their decision making. In this context, there has been a recent surge of interest in machine learning (ML), in particular, deep neural networks (DNNs), to provide complementary assistance to expert physicians. While DNNs have a high processing capacity far beyond that of human experts, their outputs are deterministic, i.e., providing estimates without prediction confidence. Therefore, it is of paramount importance to develop DNNs with uncertainty-awareness to provide confidence in their predictions. Monte Carlo dropout (MCD) is vastly used for uncertainty quantification; however, MCD suffers from overconfidence and being miss calibrated. In this paper, we use MCD algorithm to develop an uncertainty-aware DNN that assigns high predictive entropy to erroneous predictions and enable the model to optimize the hyper-parameters during training, which leads to more accurate uncertainty quantification. We use two synthetic (two moons and blobs) and a real dataset (skin cancer) to validate our algorithm. Our experiments on these datasets prove effectiveness of our approach in quantifying reliable uncertainty. Our method achieved 85.65 ± 0.18 prediction accuracy, 83.03 ± 0.25 uncertainty accuracy, and 1.93 ± 0.3 expected calibration error outperforming vanilla MCD and MCD with loss enhanced based on predicted entropy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The spread of the COVID-19 started back in 2019; and so far, more than 4 million people around the world have lost their lives to this deadly virus and its variants. In view of the high transmissibility of the Corona virus, which has turned this disease into a global pandemic, artificial intelligence can be employed as an effective tool for an earlier detection and treatment of this illness. In this review paper, we evaluate the performance of the deep learning models in processing the X-Ray and CT-Scan images of the Corona patients' lungs and describe the changes made to these models in order to enhance their Corona detection accuracy. To this end, we introduce the famous deep learning models such as VGGNet, GoogleNet and ResNet and after reviewing the research works in which these models have been used for the detection of COVID-19, we compare the performances of the newer models such as DenseNet, CapsNet, MobileNet and EfficientNet. We then present the deep learning techniques of GAN, transfer learning, and data augmentation and examine the statistics of using these techniques. Here, we also describe the datasets introduced since the onset of the COVID-19. These datasets contain the lung images of Corona patients, healthy individuals, and the patients with non-Corona pulmonary diseases. Lastly, we elaborate on the existing challenges in the use of artificial intelligence for COVID-19 detection and the prospective trends of using this method in similar situations and conditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is one of the most common inflammatory neurological diseases in young adults. There are three types of MS: (1) In relapsing remitting MS (RRMS), people have temporarily periods of relapses (attacks) for days or weeks, and then symptoms seem to disappear (remitting stage). (2) In secondary progressive MS (SPMS), symptoms worsen more steadily over time. Attacks (relapses) may occur time to time but the disease can progress in non-attack periods. It is estimated that half of the RRMS patients progress to SPMS in 10 years. (3) Primary progressive MS (PPMS) is characterized by slowly worsening symptoms from the beginning, with no relapses or remissions. For PPMS patients, disability progresses slowly. Researchers have found out that in the first year, MS causes more damage than following 5–10 years. Therefore, early diagnosis is vital. In this context, deep learning models started to be popular for assisting identification/diagnosis/classification of MS patients using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). This paper provides an in-depth review of deep learning approaches for identification and classification of MS using brain MRI images. We discuss recent trends of deep learning methods for MS identification under three categories: CNN models, hybrid models (CNN with a classifier) and deep transfer learning models. Existing deep learning algorithms are analyzed and compared according to their architecture, image modality, pre-processing, feature extraction, classifier, dataset, categories and accuracy. This survey paper would provide a valuable source for researchers who are interested in state-of-the-art deep learning methods for MS identification using MRI images. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The monitoring of physical activities and recognition of motion disorders belong to important diagnostical tools in neurology and rehabilitation. The goal of the present paper is in the contribution to this topic by (1) analysis of accelerometric signals recorded by wearable sensors located at specific body positions and by (2) implementation of deep learning methods to classify signal features. This paper uses the general methodology to analysis of accelerometric signals acquired during cycling at different routes followed by the global positioning system. The experimental dataset includes 850 observations that were recorded by a mobile device in the spine area (L3 verterbra) for cycling routes with the different slope. The proposed methodology includes the use of deep learning convolutional neural networks with five layers applied to signal values transformed into the frequency domain without specification of any signal features. The accuracy of discrimination between different motion patterns for the uphill and downhill cycling and recognition of 4 classes associated with different route slopes was 96.6% with the loss criterion of 0.275 for sigmoidal activation functions. These results were compared with those evaluated for selected sets of features estimated for each observation and classified by the support vector machine, Bayesian methods, and the two-layer neural network. The best cross-validation error of 0.361 was achieved for the two-layer neural network model with the sigmoidal and softmax transfer functions. Our methodology suggests that deep learning neural networks are efficient in the assessment of motion activities for automated data processing and have a wide range of applications, including rehabilitation, early diagnosis of neurological problems, and possible use in engineering as well. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main aim of this paper is to help bank management in scoring credit card clients using machine learning by modelling and predicting the consumer behaviour concerning three aspects: the probability of single and consecutive missed payments for credit card customers, the purchasing behaviour of customers, and grouping customers based on a mathematical expectation of loss. Two models are developed: the first provides the probability of a missed payment during the next month for each customer, which is described as Missed payment prediction Long Short Term Memory model (MP-LSTM), whilst the second estimates the total monthly amount of purchases, which is defined as Purchase Estimation Prediction Long Short Term Memory model (PE-LSTM). Based on both models, a customer behavioural grouping is provided, which can be helpful for the bank's decision-making. Both models are trained on real credit card transactional datasets. Customer behavioural scores are analysed using classical performance evaluation measures. Calibration analysis of MP-LSTM scores showed that they could be considered as probabilities of missed payments. Obtained purchase estimations were analysed using mean square error and absolute error. The MP-LSTM model was compared to four traditional well-known machine learning algorithms. Experimental results show that, compared with conventional methods based on feature extraction, the consumer credit scoring method based on the MP-LSTM neural network has significantly improved consumer credit scoring. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The oddity in large information is rising step by step so that the current programming instruments faces trouble in supervision of huge information. Moreover, the pace of the irregularity information in the immense datasets is a key imperative to the exploration business. Along these lines, this paper proposes a novel method for taking care of the large information utilizing Spark structure. The proposed method experiences two stages for arranging the enormous information, which includes highlight choice and arrangement, which is acted in the underlying hubs of Spark engineering. The proposed improvement calculation is named Rider Chaotic Biography streamlining (RCBO) calculation, which is the incorporation of the Rider Optimization Algorithm (ROA) and the standard confused biogeography-based-advancement (CBBO). The proposed RCBO-profound stacked auto-encoder utilizing Spark structure successfully handles the large information for achieving powerful huge information arrangement. Here, the proposed RCBO is utilized for choosing reasonable highlights from the monstrous dataset. Besides, the profound stacked auto-encoder utilizes RCBO for preparing so as to characterize colossal datasets. In this research we focused on problem of supervision related to big information of The Cover type Data in UCI machine learning repository. The dataset describes the forest cover set data to predict the forest cover type from cartographic variables. The dataset is multivariate in nature with number of web hits 263,361. The number of instances is 581012 with 54 numbers of attributes and the task associated for the dataset is classification. The examination of the proposed RCBO-profound stacked auto-encoder-based Spark structure utilizing the UCI AI datasets uncovered that the proposed technique beat different strategies, by procuring maximal exactness of 86.71%, dice coefficient of 92.7%, affectability of 75.2% and explicitness of 95.4% separately. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]