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Biometrics is a field that uses behavioral and biological traits to identify/verify a person. Characteristics include handwrittien signature, iris, gait, and fingerprint. Signature-based biometric systems are common due to their simple collection and non-intrusive. Identify the humans using their handwritten signatures has received an important attention in several modern crucial applications such as in automatic bank check, law-enforcements, and historical documents processing. Therefore, in this paper an accurate handwritten signatures system is proposed. The system uses a proposed preprocessing stage for the input handwritten signatures images. Besides, a new deep learning model called MobileNets, which used for classification process. Support vector machine (SVM) used as a classifier with the MobileNets inorder to get a better identifaction results. Experimental results conducted on standard CEDAR, ICDER, sigcomp handwritten signature datasets report 99.8%, 98.2%, 99.5%, identification accuracy, respectively.

Existing no-reference (NR) image quality assessment (IQA) metrics are still not convincing for evaluating the quality of the camera-captured images. Toward tackling this issue, we, in this article, establish a novel NR quality metric for quantifying the quality of the camera-captured images reliably. Since the image quality is hierarchically perceived from the low-level preliminary visual perception to the high-level semantic comprehension in the human brain, in our proposed metric, we characterize the image quality by exploiting both the low-level image properties and the high-level semantics of the image. Specifically, we extract a series of low-level features to characterize the fundamental image properties, including the brightness, saturation, contrast, noiseness, sharpness, and naturalness, which are highly indicative of the camera-captured image quality. Correspondingly, the high-level features are designed to characterize the semantics of the image. The low-level and high-level perceptual features play complementary roles in measuring the image quality. To infer the image quality, we employ the support vector regression (SVR) to map all the informative features to a single quality score. Thorough tests conducted on two standard camera-captured image databases demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed quality metric in assessing the image quality and its superiority over the state-of-the-art NR quality metrics. The source code of the proposed metric for camera-captured images is released at https://github.com/YT2015?tab=repositories.

This article evaluates the performance of the support vector machine (SVM), decision tree (DT), and random forest (RF) on the dataset that contains the medical records of 299 patients with heart failure (HF) collected at the Faisalabad Institute of Cardiology and the Allied hospital in Pakistan. The dataset contains 13 descriptive features of physical, clinical, and lifestyle information. The study compared the performance of three classification algorithms employing pre-processing techniques such as min-max scaling, and principal component analysis (PCA). The simulation result shows that the performance of the DT, and RF decreased with dimensionality reduction while the SVM improved with dimensionality reduction. The SVM achieved 84.44%. Thus, feature scaling improves the performance of the SVM. The RF performs at 82.22%, the DT at 81.11%, and the SVM shows an improvement of 1.64% with scaled features, compared to the original dataset.

Cost, time, and development effort can increase due to errors in analyzing functional and non-functional software requirements. To minimize these errors, previous research has tried to classify software requirements, especially non-functional requirements, on the PROMISE dataset using the Bag of Words (BoW) feature extraction and the Support Vector Machine (SVM) classification algorithm. On the other hand, the unbalanced distribution of class labels tends to decrease the evaluation result. Moreover, most software requirements are usually functional requirements. Therefore, there is a tendency for classifier models to classify test data as functional requirements. Previous research has performed class balancing on a dataset to handle unbalanced data. The study can achieve better classification evaluation results. Based on the previous research, this study proposes to combine the class balancing method and the SVM algorithm. K-fold cross-validation is used to optimize the training and test data to be more consistent in developing the SVM model. Tests were carried out on the value of K in k-fold, i.e., 5, 10, and 15. Results are measured by accuracy, f1-score, precision, and recall. The Public Requirements (PURE) dataset has been used in this research. Results show that SVM with class balancing can classify software requirements more accurately than SVM without class balancing. Random Over Sampling is the class balancing method with the highest evaluation score for classifying software requirements on SVM. The results showed an improvement in the average value of accuracy, f1 score, precision, and recall in SVM by 22.07%, 19.67%, 17.73%, and 19.67%, respectively.

Numerical weather prediction (NWP) data possess internal inaccuracies, such as low NWP wind speed corresponding to high actual wind power generation. This study is intended to reduce the negative effects of such inaccuracies by proposing a pure data-selection framework (PDF) to choose useful data prior to modeling, thus improving the accuracy of day-ahead wind power forecasting. Briefly, we convert an entire NWP training dataset into many small subsets and then select the best subset combination via a validation set to build a forecasting model. Although a small subset can increase selection flexibility, it can also produce billions of subset combinations, resulting in computational issues. To address this problem, we incorporated metamodeling and optimization steps into PDF. We then proposed a design and analysis of the computer experiments-based metamodeling algorithm and heuristic-exhaustive search optimization algorithm, respectively.Experimental results demonstrate that (1) it is necessary to select data before constructing a forecasting model; (2) using a smaller subset will likely increase selection flexibility, leading to a more accurate forecasting model; (3) PDF can generate a better training dataset than similarity-based data selection methods (e.g., K-means and support vector classification); and (4) choosing data before building a forecasting model produces a more accurate forecasting model compared with using a machine learning method to construct a model directly.

Essential voice tremor (EVT) is a voice disorder resulting from dyscoordination within the laryngeal musculature. A low-frequency fluctuations of fundamental voice frequency or the strength of excitation amplitude is the main consequence of the disorder. The automatic classification of healthy control and EVT is useful tool for the clinicians. A typical automatic EVT classification involves three steps. The first step is to compute the pitch contour from the speech. The second step is to compute the features from the pitch contour, and the final step is to use a classifier to classify the features into healthy or EVT. It is shown that a high-resolution pitch contour estimated from the glottal closure instants (GCIs) is useful for EVT classification. The HPRC estimation can be very poor in the presence of noise. Hence, a probabilistic source filter model based noise robust GCI detection is used for HPRC estimation. The Empirical mode decomposition based feature extraction is used followed by a support vector machine classifier. The EVT classification performance is evaluated using recordings from 45 subjects. The proposed method is found to perform better than the baseline techniques in eight different additive noise conditions with six SNR levels.

Urbanization is one of the biggest challenges for developing countries, and predicting urban growth can help planners and policymakers understand how spatial growth patterns interact. A study was conducted to investigate the spatiotemporal dynamics of land use/land cover changes in Salem and its surrounding communities from 2001 to 2020 and to simulate urban expansion in 2030 using cellular automata (CA)–Markov and geospatial techniques. The findings showed a decrease in aerial vegetation cover and an increase in barren and built-up land, with a rapid transition from vegetation cover to bare land. The transformed barren land is expected to be converted into built-up land in the near future. Urban growth in the area is estimated to be 179.6 sq km in 2030, up from 59.6 sq km in 2001, 76 sq km in 2011, and 133.3 sq km in 2020. Urban sprawl is steadily increasing in Salem and the surrounding towns of Omalur, Rasipuram, Sankari, and Vazhapadi, with sprawl in the neighboring towns surpassing that in directions aligned toward Salem. The city is being developed as a smart city, which will result in significant expansion and intensification of the built-up area in the coming years. The study’s outcomes can serve as spatial guidelines for growth regulation and monitoring.

This article conducts a comparative analysis to investigate the effects of different classification algorithms and structural proximity indexes on the performance of the supervised link prediction approach to anticipating technology convergence at different forecast horizons. For this, we identify relationships between technologies of interest for different time periods and compute 10 structural proximity indexes among unconnected technologies at each period. We develop a set of classification models that identify potential convergence among unconnected technologies where each model is configured differently by a classification algorithm and a combination of the proximity indexes. We compare the performance of the classification models to investigate effective combinations of classification algorithms and proximity indexes at different forecast horizons. The empirical analysis on Wikipedia articles about artificial intelligence technology indicates that random forest outperforms others in short-term forecasting while support vector machine outperforms others in mid-term forecasting. We also identify structural proximity indexes that produce higher performance when combined with the most effective algorithm at each forecast horizon. The results of this article are expected to offer guidelines for choosing classification algorithms and indexes when applying the supervised link prediction approach in anticipating technology convergence.

The reduction of childhood mortality is an ongoing struggle and a commonly used factor in determining progress in the medical field. The under-5 mortality number is around 5 million around the world, with many of the deaths being preventable. In light of this issue, cardiotocograms (CTGs) have emerged as a leading tool to determine fetal health. By using ultrasound pulses and reading the responses, CTGs help healthcare professionals assess the overall health of the fetus to determine the risk of child mortality. However, interpreting the results of the CTGs is time consuming and inefficient, especially in underdeveloped areas where an expert obstetrician is hard to come by. Using a support vector machine (SVM) and oversampling, this paper proposes a model that classifies fetal health with an accuracy of 99.59%. To further explain the CTG measurements, an algorithm based off of RISE (Randomized Input Sampling for Explanation of Black-box Models) was created, called Feature Alteration for explanation of Black Box Models (FAB). The findings of this novel algorithm were compared to SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) and Local Interpretable Model Agnostic Explanations (LIME). Overall, this technology allows doctors and medical professionals to classify fetal health with high accuracy and determine which features were most influential in the process.

Facial expressions, which are important social communication tools in our daily life, provide important information about the mental state of people. Research is being done to obtain this information accurately. The importance of these researchs in the field of human-computer interaction is increasing. Many methods have been used for the recognition of universal facial expressions such as neutral, happiness, surprise, sadness, anger, disgust, and fear by intelligent systems with high accuracy. Emotion recognition is an example of difficult classification due to factors such as ambient light, age, race, gender, and facial position. In this article, a 3-stage system is proposed for emotion detection from facial images. In the first stage, the CNN-based network is trained with the Fer+ dataset. The Binary Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm is applied for feature selection to the feature vector in the fully connected layer of the CNN network trained in the second stage. Selected features are classified by Support Vector Machine. The performance of the proposed system has been tested with the Fer+ dataset. As a result of the test, 85.74% accuracy was measured. The results show that the combination of BPSO and SVM contributes to the classification accuracy and speed of the FER+ dataset.

脳活動から直接に外部デバイスの制御を目指すブレインマシンインタフェース（BMI）技術の実現のためには神経活動からの信頼性のある情報復号化が必要である。本研究では動物の視覚皮質から同時記録された複数の神経細胞活動にサポートベクターマシンによる機械学習を適用して，提示された刺激種類の判別課題を行った。情報復号化におけるサポートベクターマシンの有効性の確認と合わせて細胞間の発火数相関およびその刺激依存性を含めることで復号化能力が高まることを示した。

Pan Sharpening is normally applied to sharpen a multispectral image with low resolution by using a panchromatic image with a higher resolution, to generate a high resolution multispectral image. The present study aims at assessing the power of Pan Sharpening on improvement of the accuracy of image classification and land cover mapping in Landsat 8 OLI imagery. In this respect, different Pan Sharpening algorithms including Brovey, Gram-Schmidt, NNDiffuse, and Principal Components were applied to merge the Landsat OLI panchromatic band (15 m) with the Landsat OLI multispectral: visible and infrared bands (30 m), to generate a new multispectral image with a higher spatial resolution (15 m). Subsequently, the support vector machine approach was utilized to classify the original Landsat and resulting Pan Sharpened images to generate land cover maps of the study area. The outcomes were then compared through the generation of confusion matrix and calculation of kappa coefficient and overall accuracy. The results indicated superiority of NNDiffuse algorithm in Pan Sharpening and improvement of classification accuracy in Landsat OLI imagery, with an overall accuracy and kappa coefficient of about 98.66% and 0.98, respectively. Furthermore, the result showed that the Gram-Schmidt and Principal Components algorithms also slightly improved the accuracy of image classification compared to original Landsat image. The study concluded that image Pan Sharpening is useful to improve the accuracy of image classification in Landsat OLI imagery, depending on the Pan Sharpening algorithm used for this purpose.

The design of a Dielectric Resonator Antenna (DRA) utilizing machine learning approaches is presented in this study. Antennas are an essential part of a wireless network. An antenna with a decent design will reduce system requirements and improve overall system performance. Full-wave electromagnetic simulation is exact and necessary in antenna design. Still, it takes more time to perform, resulting in enormous challenges in designing, optimizing, and performing sensitivity analysis. The data in this study is subjected to several Machine Learning (ML) algorithms for optimizing antenna efficiency and S-parameter value. To expedite antenna design, machine learning-assisted optimization (MLAO) has proven to be the most effective method. A wide range of regression techniques, including as Support Vector Machine (SVM), Decision Tree Regression (DTR), and Random Forest Regression (RFR), have been used in machine learning (ML) techniques to develop antenna models, enabling quick response prediction and optimum S11 value. Multiple MLAO algorithms have been implemented using these machine-learning techniques for various applications out of which Decision Tree Regression and Random Forest Regression outperforms among all the above-mentioned algorithms with 99.98% and 99.99% of accuracy. First, a broad overview of recent advancements in ML approaches for antenna modelling is presented.

Currently, the smart cities, smart vehicles, and smart gadgets will improve the way of living standard. Cloud connectivity of IoT sensed devices will capture real-time data in the cloud which helps to improve the system performance and quick response to queries. Electric Vehicle battery health diagnosis plays an important role in the proper functioning of the battery management system, guarantees safety, and warranty claim. Society 5.0 develops with the advancement in the road, infrastructure, better connectivity, transportation, and options available to purchase. Battery health cannot be measured directly. There are internal and external factors that affect battery health such as State of Charge, model parameters, charging/discharging method, temperature, Depth of Discharge, C-rate, battery chemistry, form factor, thermal management, and load change effect. Battery degrades due to both calendar ageing and cyclic ageing. Artificial Intelligence plays a significant role in Battery management system due to the nonlinear behavior of lithium-ion battery. Prediction of battery health accurately and in due time will reduce the risk of recklessness. Timely maintenance will reduce the risk of fatal accidents. This paper presents different batteries analysis under different discharge voltage and capacity conditions. Different machine learning algorithms such as Neural Network, Modified Support Vector Machine (M-SVM) and Linear Regression are used to predict state of health. The proposed M-SVM performs well with less error for all four-battery discharge data.

In machining, the tool condition has to be monitored by condition monitoring techniques to prevent damage by the use of tools and the workpiece. Cutting forces acting on the tool between zero and maximum values cause the cutting edge to crack and break. Predetection of this situation in the cutting tool is very important to prevent any negative situation that may occur. This study introduces a vibration-based intelligent tool condition monitoring technique to detect involute form cutter faults such as tool breakage at different levels during gear production on a milling machine. Machine learning algorithms such as artificial neural network, random forest, support vector machine, and K-nearest neighbor were used to detect the broken teeth and its level of breakage. According to the results obtained, it was observed that all the algorithms are successful in detecting faults in different teeth; also they have identification advantages according to different fault levels. In addition, the time and frequency domain analysis and continuous wavelet transform were used to determine the local faults. The developed machine learning-based detection performances compared the classical time and frequency domain analyses and continuous wavelet transform to prove the effectiveness and precision of the proposed methods. The results showed that all of the machine learning techniques have satisfactory performance to be used as fast and precise detection tools without complex calculations for detecting tool breakage.

Accurate and fast detection of abnormal hydroponic lettuce leaves is primary technology for robotic sorting. Yellow and rotten leaves are main types of abnormal leaves in hydroponic lettuce. This study aims to demonstrate a feasibility of detecting yellow and rotten leaves of hydroponic lettuce by machine learning models, i.e. Multiple Linear Regression (MLR), K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN), and Support Vector Machine (SVM). One-way analysis of variance was applied to reduce RGB, HSV, and L*a*b* features number of hydroponic lettuce images. Image binarization, image mask, and image filling methods were employed to segment hydroponic lettuce from an image for models testing. Results showed that G, H, and a* were selected from RGB, HSV, and L*a*b* for training models. It took about 20.25 s to detect an image with 3 024 × 4 032 pixels by KNN, which was much longer than MLR (0.61 s) and SVM (1.98 s). MLR got detection accuracies of 89.48% and 99.29% for yellow and rotten leaves, respectively, while SVM reached 98.33% and 97.91%, respectively. SVM was more robust than MLR in detecting yellow and rotten leaves of hydroponic. Thus, it was possible for abnormal hydroponic lettuce leaves detection by machine learning methods.

Type 1 diabetes (T1D) disease is considered one of the most prevalent chronic diseases in the world, it causes a high level of glucose in the human blood. Despite the seriousness of this disease, T1D may affect people and their condition develops to an advanced stage without feeling it, which makes it difficult to control the disease. Early prediction of the presence of this disease may significantly reduce its risks. There are many attempts to overcome this disease, some of them are heading towards biological solutions and others towards bioinformatic solutions. Several studies have used a single feature selection method with a machine learning (ML) model to predict or classify T1D. In this paper, ML techniques were used for classification, such as Naive Bayes (NB), support vector machine (SVM), and random forest (RF) using a T1D gene expression dataset that has a multiclass to classify the genes associated with this disease. The proposed model can identify the genes related to T1D with high efficiency, which helps a lot in predicting a person carrying the disease before symptoms appear. The highest accuracy of 89.1% was obtained when applying SVM with chi2 as the feature selection method.

The existence of machine learning has been exploited to solve difficulties in various fields, including the classification of leaf species in agriculture. Betel leaf is one of the plants that provide health advantages. The objective of using a machine learning approach is to classify the betel leaf species. This study involved several processes: image acquisition, region of interest (ROI) detection, pre-processing, feature extraction, and classification. The feature extraction used the combination features of color and texture. Furthermore, the classification applied four classifiers, including artificial neural network (ANN), K-nearest neighbors (KNN), Naive Bayes, and support vector machine (SVM). The evaluation in this study implemented cross-validation with a K-fold value of 5. The method performance produced the highest accuracy value of 100% using the color and texture features with the SVM classifier.

Load forecasting is a significant element in the energy management system of power systems. Precise load forecasting aids electric utilities to conduct decisions of unit commitment, reduction of spinning reserve capacity, and schedule device maintenance plan. Furthermore, load forecasting contributes to reducing the generation cost, and it is fundamental to the reliability of the power systems. On the other hand, short-term load forecasting is substantial for economic running. The forecasting precision directly affects the reliability, economy running and supplying power quality of the power system. Hence, finding the required load forecasting method to enhance the accuracy is valuable for forecasting precision. This paper proposed particle swarm optimization (PSO) to improve working support vector machine (SVM), SVM regression model is derived; also derived SVM with PSO. Support vector machine (SVM) model is adopted with and without PSO based on the historical load data and meteorological data of Tajikistan country, analysis the various factors affecting the forecast. The historical data and the load forecasting factors to be considered are normalized. The two parameters of SVM significantly influenced the model, and therefore it optimized using evolutionary algorithm.

Shopping of day-to-day items and keeping track of the shopping list can be a tedious and a time-consuming procedure, especially if it has to be done frequently. mySmartCart is a mobile application design proposed to transform the traditional way of writing a shopping list to a digitalized smart list which implements voice recognition and handwriting recognition for processing the natural language input of the user. The system design comprises four modules: i) input- which takes voice and handwritten list image input from the user; ii) processing- natural language processing of input data and converted to digital shopping list; iii) classification - list items classified into respective categories using machine learning algorithms; iv) output - searching on e-commerce applications and adding to shopping cart. The design proposed utilizes natural languages to communicate with the user thus enhancing their shopping experience. Google cloud speech recognition and tesseract optical character recognition (OCR) for natural language processing have been utilized in the prototype along with Support Vector Machine classifier for categorization.

Nowadays, machine learning (ML) algorithms have been widely chosen for classifying satellite images for mapping Earth's surface. Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Random Forest (RF) stand out among these algorithms with their accurate results in the literature. The aim of this study is to analyze the performances of these algorithms on land use and land cover (LULC) classification, especially wetlands which have significant ecological functions. For this purpose, Sentinel-2 satellite image, which is freely provided by European Space Agency (ESA), was used to monitor not only the open surface water body but also around Marmara Lake. The performance evaluation was made with the increasing number of the training dataset. 3 different training datasets having 10, 15, and 20 areas of interest (AOI) per class, respectively were used for the classification of the satellite images acquired in 2015 and 2020. The most accurate results were obtained from the classification with RF algorithm and 20 AOIs. According to obtained results, the change detection analysis of Marmara Lake was investigated for possible reasons. Whereas the water body and wetland have decreased more than 50% between 2015 and 2020, crop sites have increased approximately 50%.

The seamless integration of sensors and smart communication technologies has led to the development of various supporting systems for Financial Technology (FinTech). The emergence of the Next-Generation Internet of Things (Nx-IoT) for FinTech applications enhances the customer satisfaction ratio. The main research challenge for FinTech applications is to analyse the incoming tasks at the edge of the networks with minimum delay and power consumption while increasing the prediction accuracy. Motivated by the above-mentioned challenge, in this paper, we develop a ranked-based service deployment strategy and an Artificial Intelligence technique for financial data analysis at edge networks. Initially, a risk-based task classification strategy has been developed for classifying the incoming financial tasks and providing the importance to the risk-based task for meeting users’ satisfaction ratio. Besides that, an efficient service deployment strategy is developed using Hall’s theorem to assign the ranked-based financial data to the suitable edge or cloud servers with minimum delay and power consumption. Finally, the standard support vector machines (SVM) algorithm is used at edge networks for analysing the financial data with higher accuracy. The experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed strategy and SVM model at edge networks over the baseline algorithms and classification models, respectively.

Waste management has become a new challenge for the construction industries since rapid urbanization is taking place worldwide. Ceramic waste is one such material which is being originated from construction sites and industries, imposing a significant risk to the environment due to its non-biodegradable nature. With the goal of waste utilization, this study aims to predict the compressive and splitting tensile strength of concrete made with waste Coarse Ceramic aggregate (CCA) and Nylon Fiber (NF) by using two distinct machine learning algorithms, namely, Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Gradient Boosting Machine (GBM). A comprehensive data set for testing and training the models containing 162 records of compressive and splitting tensile strength test results were considered from nine mix proportions. For training the dataset, parameters like cement content, sand content, stone content, ceramic content, nylon fiber content, curing duration, and concrete strength were taken as input variables. The predicted strengths obtained from the SVM and GBM based models are found to be in close agreement with the experimental results. In terms of coefficient of determination (R2), GBM showed significantly better result for both compressive strength (e.g., SVM Overall R2 = 0.879 & GBM Overall R2 = 0.981) and tensile strength (e.g., SVM Overall R2 = 0.706 & GBM Overall R2 = 0.923) prediction. Furthermore, based on the statistical accuracy measures like the mean absolute error (MAE), mean square error (MSE), root mean square error (RMSE), it has been observed that GBM has yielded much better performance compared to SVM in predicting the mechanical strength of concrete.

Photovoltaic panels use the sun’s radiation on their surface to convert solar energy into electricity. This process is dependent on the temperature of the surface and the intensity of the sun's radiation. To escalate the energy transformation, the solar system must be functioned at its maximum power point (MPP). Every maximum power point tracking (MPPT) technique has a distinct mechanism for tracking maximum power point (MPP). The support vector machine (SVM) regression algorithm is used in this work to develop a novel method for tracking the MPP of a PV panel. The solar panel technical parameters were used to prepare the data for training and testing the SVM model. The SVM algorithm predicts the PV panel's maximum power and relevant voltage for specific irradiation and temperature. The duty cycle of the boost converter corresponding to the maximum power was evaluated using the predicted values. The result of the simulation shows that the proposed control strategy forces the solar panel to work near the predicted MPP. The SVM regression control strategy gives the MPP tracking efficiency of more than 94% for the solar PV system despite variable climatic conditions during its stable state operation. In addition, a comparative analysis of the proposed method was carried out with the existing approaches to confirm the effective tracking of the proposed technique.

Communication is the basic need of humans to interact with their surroundings. BCI acts as a great tool for providing the means of basic communication to people with locked-in syndrome. For such patients, these basic things matter most and give them a sense of independence. Communication through BCI can be done using various paradigms, P300 speller is one of these paradigms in which the user is instructed to focus their attention on the desired character and able to produce negative and positive slow cortical potential changes which is then interpreted by the BCI system. Although P300 based BCI was introduced over twenty years ago, the past few years have seen a rapid increase in P300 based BCI research. In this paper, we overview the current status of P300 BCI technology and also discussed and compare different approaches using Random Forest, Support Vector Machine (SVM), and Extreme Gradient Boosting (XgBoost) classification algorithm.

Data mining for healthcare is an interdisciplinary field of study that originated in database statistics and is useful in examining the effectiveness of medical therapies. Machine learning and data visualization Diabetes-related heart disease is a kind of heart disease that affects diabetics. Diabetes is a chronic condition that occurs when the pancreas fails to produce enough insulin or when the body fails to properly use the insulin that is produced. Heart disease, often known as cardiovascular disease, refers to a set of conditions that affect the heart or blood vessels. Despite the fact that various data mining classification algorithms exist for predicting heart disease, there is inadequate data for predicting heart disease in a diabetic individual. Because the decision tree model consistently beat the naive Bayes and support vector machine models, we fine-tuned it for best performance in forecasting the likelihood of heart disease in diabetes individuals.

Players-based emotion recognition can help understanding game players emotional states, contributing to the improvement of the games quality and value. This paper proposes a new hybrid neural network learning framework called convolutional smooth feedback fuzzy network (CSFFN) to detect a players emotional states in real-time during a gaming process based on electroencephalogram (EEG) signals. Specifically, CSFFN rationally combines three subnetworks: a convolutional neural network (CNN), a fuzzy neural network (FNN), and a recurrent neural network (RNN). CNN not only captures spatial characteristics between EEG signals from different channels but also eliminates noise from EEG signals, effectively improving the accuracy and anti-noise performance in game emotion recognition. FNN effectively extracts the membership degree of a players different emotional states, further improving the emotion recognition accuracy. Since a players current emotional state is influenced by the previous emotional states during the entire game process, RNN is employed to capture the temporal characteristics of EEG signals, better improving the emotion recognition accuracy. Experimental results show that the CSFFN model has higher recognition accuracy and better noise resistance in identifying four emotional states (happiness, sadness, superiority, and anger) compared to support vector machine (SVM) with different kernels, linear discrimination analysis (LDA), AlexNet, and VGG16 methods.

Chronic kidney disease (CKD), due to rising patients, the high probability of deterioration towards end-stage renal disease and inaccurate estimates of morbidity and mortality, constitutes a heavy burden on the sanitary infrastructure. The aim of this research is to build a model for machine-learning, which uses comorbidity and data on drugs and predicts population prevalence. Predictive health care prediction using machine learning is a daunting activity to help clinicians assess the precise therapies for life-saving. In this paper, the study applies machine learning method in combination with ensemble learning for estimation of chronic kidney disease with clinical evidence. They are based on chronic kidney disease datasets and the efficiency of these models is compared to choose the best classifier for chronic kidney disease prediction. The comparative analysis is estimated in terms of various metrics like classification accuracy, f-measure, percentage error, etc. The results of simulation shows that the proposed ensemble machine learning classifier namely Ensemble Support Vector Machine predicts well the chronic kidney disease from the datasets than other existing ensemble methods.

To enhance the specificity of Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) based cirrhosis stage-diagnosis, a method of diagnosis incorporating the scan image texture discovery with classification techniques are suggested. First of all the liver MRI images are preprocessed and Region of Interest (ROI) image field is retrieved from the MRI images and the Lloyd method is compressed and quantified. Then a Local Binary Pattern (LBP) process filtering the ROI image and then extracts the texture features of the LBP images from four directions with a twenty directional Gray-Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM). After that, the Support Vector Machine (SVM) technique has been used for MRI image classification and cirrhosis disease prediction. The experimental findings indicate that the procedure suggested will diagnose hepatic cirrhosis correctly.

Plants make up more than 80 percent of the human diet. As a result, they are critical for food security and ensuring that we all have access to enough, cheap, clean, and nutritional food to lead healthy and active living. This research focuses on plant diseases as they create a major threat to food security. Expert people are hired in traditional farming to physically evaluate line by line for host disease plants, which would be labor-intensive, time taking and potentially error-prone activity because it is done by people manually. This work focus on, supervised machine learning algorithms like RF, SVM, DT, KNN, NB, and KNN with image processing methods and also analysis algorithm results with each other and finds the best algorithm for plant disease classification. RF algorithm achieved 89 percent accuracy compared with other algorithms.

This paper addresses the problem of anomaly detection for high-dimensional sensing data. The one-class support vector machine (OCSVM) is one of the most popular unsupervised methods for anomaly detection. When data are high dimensional and large scale, however, the efficiency of OCSVM-based methods in anomaly detection suffers. Although dimensionality-reduction tools, such as deep belief networks, can be applied to compress the high-dimensional data to alleviate the problem, the accuracy and timely detection are still hard to improve due to the inherent features of OCSVM. In this paper, we propose a new form of OCSVM model based on the structure of the compressed data and the characteristics of OCSVM. Based on the new model, we design both optimal and approximate methods for model training and testing. We evaluate the performance of our methods with extensive experiments on four real-world datasets. The experimental results demonstrate that our new methods, both optimal and approximate ones, not only significantly outperform the state-of-the-art in accuracy and efficiency, but also achieve the good performance without the need of manual parameter tuning. In addition, our approximate training and testing mechanism can reduce the computing time by three orders of magnitude with a negligible loss in accuracy.

Introduction: Nowadays, deep learning and convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have become widespread tools in many biomedical engineering studies. CNN is an end-to-end tool, which makes the processing procedure integrated, but in some situations, this processing tool requires to be fused with machine learning methods to be more accurate. Methods: In this paper, a hybrid approach based on deep features extracted from wavelet CNNs (WCNNs) weighted layers and multiclass support vector machine (MSVM) was proposed to improve the recognition of emotional states from electroencephalogram (EEG) signals. First, EEG signals were preprocessed and converted to Time-Frequency (T-F) color representation or scalogram using the continuous wavelet transform (CWT) method. Then, scalograms were fed into four popular pre-trained CNNs, AlexNet, ResNet-18, VGG-19, and Inception-v3 to fine-tune them. Then, the best feature layer from each one was used as input to the MSVM method to classify four quarters of the valence-arousal model. Finally, the subject-independent leave-one-subject-out criterion was used to evaluate the proposed method on DEAP and MAHNOB-HCI databases. Results: Results showed that extracting deep features from the earlier convolutional layer of ResNet-18 (Res2a) and classifying using the MSVM increased the average accuracy, precision, and recall by about 20% and 12% for MAHNOB-HCI and DEAP databases, respectively. Also, combining scalograms from four regions of pre-frontal, frontal, parietal, and parietal-occipital and two regions of frontal and parietal achieved the higher average accuracy of 77.47% and 87.45% for MAHNOB-HCI and DEAP databases, respectively. Conclusion: Combining CNN and MSVM increased the recognition of emotion from EEG signals and the results were comparable to state-of-the art studies.

This paper is a unique effort to resolve the scaling issues of machine learning using the multi-node environment of Big Data. For this purpose, it incorporates the concept of machine learning with big data. Machine learning is a branch of Artificial Intelligence which trains the computers to learn without being explicitly programmed. Machine learning works on the development of computer programs and software that work according to the input dataset. In machine learning, classification is used to identify the class of instances. In this the category or class or a group provides the new observation to which it belongs on the basis of the training dataset. Training datasets contain those instances whose class is already known. An algorithm that implements classification is known as a classifier. The main aim of this paper is to evaluate how different classifiers work on two different datasets, one is a real time dataset of MP Election nomination (2018), while the other is a standard Breast Cancer dataset, released by University of Wisconsin (1995). There are various classifiers available like Decision Trees, K-Nearest Neighbors, Support Vector Machine, Logistic Regression, Naive Bayes etc. Different classifiers work differently on different datasets, giving different accuracy according to the kind and the size of the dataset. So we have used different classifiers for our work. When we were applying machine learning classifier on a real-time dataset, i.e. MPSEC dataset, Accuracy goes down. Similarly, these classifiers apply to Standard Breast Cancer dataset then results show outstanding accuracy. This research work shows the exciting patterns to study the case of a real-time and standard dataset using different machine learning classifiers with a combination of big data. This research work also incorporates the concept of parallelization using a multi-nodes environment which is able to deal with scalability issues.

A machine learning technique provides rapid access to various information models, approaches, complex systems, and algorithms. In the present scenario the artificial neural network, multiple linear regression, support vector machine, water cycle algorithm, and linear regression have much accessible. Continuously advancements of these techniques become a high impact on civil engineering, especially for the construction and infrastructure sector. In the present study, the historical perspective of research and development and application of machine learning techniques on fly ash-based concrete is presented. The models, algorithms, and approaches developed for predicting engineering properties of fly ash-based concrete were also discussed. These predictions using machine learning techniques have been much impacted on fly ash utilization in concrete. The utilization of fly ash in concrete also has revolutionary impacts on the environment and human health in the future. Machine learning is a useful and powerful technique that can predict concrete engineering properties and represent the scientific challenge in the construction and infrastructure sectors.

Physiological studies have shown that there are some differences in speech and facial activities between depressive and healthy individuals. Based on this fact, we propose a novel Spatio-Temporal Attention (STA) network and a Multimodal Attention Feature Fusion (MAFF) strategy to obtain the multimodal representation of depression cues for predicting the individual depression level. Specifically, we firstly divide the speech amplitude spectrum/video into fixed-length segments and input these segments into the STA network, which not only integrates the spatial and temporal information through attention mechanism, but also emphasizes the audio/video frames related to depression detection. The audio/video segment-level feature is obtained from the output of the last full connection layer of the STA network. Secondly, this paper employs the eigen evolution pooling method to summarize the changes of each dimension of the audio/video segment-level features to aggregate them into the audio/video level feature. Thirdly, the multimodal representation with modal complementary information is generated using the MAFF and inputs into the support vector regression predictor for estimating depression severity. Experimental results on the AVEC2013 and AVEC2014 depression databases illustrate the effectiveness of our method.

The Micro-expressions (MEs) are very important nonverbal communication clues. However, due to their local and short nature, spotting them is challenging. In this paper, we address this problem by using a dedicated local and temporal pattern (LTP) of facial movement. This pattern has a specific shape (S-pattern) when ME are displayed. Thus, by using a classical classification algorithm (SVM), MEs are distinguished from other facial movements. We also propose a global final fusion analysis on the whole face to improve the distinction between ME (local) and head (global) movements. However, the learning of S-patterns is limited by the small number of ME databases and the low volume of ME samples. Hammerstein models (HMs) are known to be a good approximation of muscle movements. By approximating each S-pattern with a HM, we can both filter outliers and generate new similar S-patterns. By this way, we perform a data augmentation for S-pattern training dataset and improve the ability to differentiate micro-expressions from other facial movements. The spotting results, performed on CASME and CASME, show that our proposed LTP outperforms the most popular spotting method in terms of F1-score. Adding the fusion process and data augmentation improve even more the spotting performance.

In today's competitive world, it is critical for an institute to forecast student performance, classify individuals based on their talents, and attempt to enhance their performance in future tests. Students should be advised well in advance to concentrate their efforts in a specific area in order to improve their academic achievement. This type of analysis assists an institute in lowering its failure rates. Based on their prior performance in comparable courses, this study predicts students' performance in a course. Data mining is a collection of techniques used to uncover hidden patterns in massive amounts of existing data. These patterns may be valuable for analysis and prediction. Education data mining refers to the collection of data mining applications in the field of education. These applications are concerned with the analysis of data from students and teachers. The analysis might be used for categorization or prediction. Machine learning such as Nave Bayes, ID3, C4.5, and SVM are investigated. UCI machinery student performance data set is used in experimental study. Algorithms are analysed on certain parameters like- accuracy, error rate.

Text Neck Syndrome is repeated stress injury to the neck, or it is a pain encountered in the neck due to excessive usage of handheld devices for a prolonged period. In this paper, we have used the Microsoft Kinect sensor to create the dataset for normal and abnormal sitting postures by obtaining 3D skeletal coordinates of people. Features are extracted from the data collected from the Kinect sensor data based on the various parameters like Minkowski distance, Euclidean distance, Manhattan distance, etc. Then we have applied different machine learning algorithms, namely, K-nearest neighbours, Random forest, Support vector machine, Logistic and Linear Regression, to classify them. The performance of various algorithms is analysed. The best testing accuracy achieved is 92.85% by using Random Forest and Support Vector Machine algorithms.

In the future, wind power is expected to become widely used due to its environmentally friendly and sustainable nature. Recent advancements in technology have also allow for the efficient use of this energy in the form of electrical power. Increased research has resulted in the development of wind turbines as energy converters. For the safety and proper operation of wind turbines, condition monitoring is imperative. According to Condition Monitoring (CM), the most common rotating equipment failure is found in wind turbines is a lack of good bearing grease. Using machine learning techniques, we've performed a CM of the wind turbine and validated our methods with fault-seeded data from a previous test. We isolate two primary characteristics from the data: kurtosis, which measures the non-Gaussianity, and then we rate it based on the kurtosis measure (NGS). In order to identify malfunctioning data, the robustness of this method is then checked using an “anomaly detection” to carry out the classification. This research shows that anomaly detection produces a better result in terms of accuracy and sensitivity as compared to SVMs.

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease of the human brain that affects neurotransmitters, tissue, and neurons that impair the senses, memories, and behaviors. Still, now there is no remedy for Alzheimer's disease. Even so, prescribed drugs can help reduce the development of the disease. That's why Alzheimer's early detection is very essential for treatment, and further research. Very limited numbers of trained samples and the higher volume of feature descriptions are the major difficulties in early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease using different classification strategies. In this article, we proposed and related Alzheimer's disease early diagnostic method using Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), Structural Magnetic Resonance (sMR) imaging for AD-discrimination and healthy control participants (HC) with Import Vector Machine (IVM), Regularized Extreme Learning Machine (RELM) and a Support vector machine (SVM).The greedy score-based strategy for choosing essential function vectors is used. Furthermore, a discriminatory, kernel-based method is taken to treat dynamic data transformations. For volume sMR scan image data from Alzheimer's disease neuroimaging initiative (ADNI) repositories, we compare the performance of these classification models. An ADNI datasets experimental study reveals that RELM can greatly enhance the accuracy for classification of AD from MCIs as well as HC individuals along with feature selection methodology.

As a metropolitan city with high mobility, public transportation plays an important role in facilitating economic, business and government activities in DKI Jakarta. DKI Jakarta provincial government launched the JakLingko program to create an integrated, convenient, efficient, and affordable public transportation system. Knowledge of public opinion can help improve the service quality of the JakLingko program. The use of social media is becoming very popular nowadays. Through social media, anyone can easily express their opinion about an issue. It is used to obtain objective and latest public opinion. Sentiment analysis is a method that can be used to analyze public opinion. Through sentiment analysis whose data was collected from Twitter, it can be seen how the public opinion toward JakLingko program. In this study, public sentiment will be classified into positive sentiment or negative sentiment. As for the classification, the Support Vector Machine (SVM) algorithm is used.

In this paper we assess how intra-day electricity prices can improve the prediction of zonal day-ahead wholesale electricity prices in Italy. We consider linear autoregressive models with exogenous variables (ARX) with and without interactions among predictors, and non-parametric models taken from the machine learning literature. In particular, we implement Random Forests and support vector machines, which should automatically capture the relevant interactions among predictors. Given the large number of predictors, ARX models are also estimated using LASSO regularization, which improves predictions when regressors are many and selects the important variables. In addition to zonal intra-day prices, among the predictors we include also the official demand forecasts and wind generation expectations. Our results show that the prediction performance of the simple ARX model is mostly superior to those of machine learning models. The analysis of the relevance of exogenous variables, using variable importance measures, reveals that intra-day market information successfully contributes to the forecasting performance, although the impact differs among the estimated models.

The recognition of handwritten digits has aroused the interest of the scientific community and is the subject of a large number of research works thanks to its various applications. The objective of this paper is to develop a system capable of recognizing handwritten digits using a convolutional neural network (CNN) combined with machine learning approaches to ensure diversity in automatic classification tools. In this work, we propose a classification method based on deep learning, in particular the convolutional neural network for feature extraction, it is a powerful tool that has had great success in image classification, followed by the support vector machine (SVM) for higher performance. We used the dataset (MNIST), and the results obtained showed that the combination of CNN with SVM improves the performance of the model as well as the classification accuracy with a rate of 99.12%.

Lung nodules are tiny lumps of tissue that are common in the lungs. The nodule may be benign or malignant; malignant nodules are cancerous and can grow rapidly. For a long time, X-ray images of the chest have been utilized to diagnose lung cancer. We developed in this paper a computer aid diagnosis system (CAD) to atomically classify a set of lung x-ray images into normal and abnormal (with nodule and no-nodule) cases. We used 180 images in this work, the images are in full size no filtering or segmenting process were applied, 75 of them are for normal cases and the other 105 are for abnormal cases, at the same time 120 of the images have been used to train the classifier and 60 for testing. Our classifiers were fed with a variety of features, including LBP (local binary pattern) and statistical features. And a classifier was able to identify cases with nodule from cases without nodule with an accuracy (ACC) of 86.7%

In this research, we built a system to detect fire using the ViBe (Visual Background Extractor) algorithm to extract dynamic targets. The ViBe algorithm is better at detecting moving target objects such as flame combustion. In this research we combined the ViBe algorithm with three frame differencing to gain better results on movement object. The HSI color space model was applied after the movement object was obtained. We used Local Binary Pattern-Three Orthogonal Planes to obtain the feature extraction to be classified with Support Vector Machine. Our result has shown that the proposed system were able to detect the fire using the LBP-TOP and ViBe algorithm methods with an average accuracy rate of 88.10%, and the best accuracy was 90.37%. The parameters used to achieve this accuracy in the feature extraction process were T=120, Radius=2, and frame gap=15, then the threshold value parameter for three-frame difference parameter was 25.

Industrial systems are difficult to control and supervise efficiently because of the complexity of the production process. The aim is to automatically control in real-time as an alternative for operators as possible and highlight the importance of machine learning in the field of industry. Integrating SVM into the industrial supervision system in the cement factory (SCIMAT) permits the classification of different measurements coming from sensors to the Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) that indicates when the process is in good functioning or bad indicating that a default has occurred. These measurements are classified after training in three classes of level (low, medium, and high) that are classified in their turn into two classes (good and bad functioning). The three classes present the inputs of the fuzzy controllers. Based on this classification, the PLC makes orders for industrial equipment. Then a regression of variation of measurements in real-time is carried out to predict the good or the bad functioning of the production line. In conclusion, the proposed approach innovates the complex supervision system to learn how to control and preserve the habitual linguistic language used by operators, react in the right way, and prevent critical situations.

It is critical to use research methods to collect and regulate surface water to provide water while avoiding damage. Following accurate runoff prediction, principled planning for optimal runoff is implemented. In recent years, there has been an increase in the use of machine learning approaches to model rainfall-runoff. In this study, the accuracy of rainfall-runoff modeling approaches such as support vector machine (SVM), gene expression programming (GEP), wavelet-SVM (WSVM), and wavelet-GEP (WGEP) is evaluated. Python is used to run the simulation. The research area is the Yellow River Basin in central China, and in the west of the region, the Tang-Nai-Hai hydrometric station has been selected. The train state data ranges from 1950 to 2000, while the test state data ranges from 2000 to 2020. The analysis looks at two different types of rainy and non-rainy days. The WGEP simulation performed best, with a Nash-Sutcliffe efficiency (NSE) of 0.98, while the WSVM, GEP, and SVM simulations performed poorly, with NSEs of 0.94, 0.89, and 0.77, respectively. As a result, combining hybrid methods with wavelet improved simulation accuracy, which is now the highest for the WGEP method.

Surrogate-assisted multi-objective evolutionary algorithms have advanced the field of computationally expensive optimization, but their progress is often restricted to low-dimensional problems. This manuscript presents a multiple classifiers-assisted evolutionary algorithm based on decomposition, which is adapted for high-dimensional expensive problems in terms of the following two insights. Compared to approximation-based surrogates, the accuracy of classification-based surrogates is robust for few high-dimensional training samples. Further, multiple local classifiers can hedge the risk of over-fitting issues. Accordingly, the proposed algorithm builds multiple classifiers with support vector machines on a decomposition-based multi-objective algorithm, wherein each local classifier is trained for a corresponding scalarization function. Experimental results statistically confirm that the proposed algorithm is competitive to the state-of-the-art algorithms and computationally efficient as well.

Available data in machine learning applications is becoming increasingly complex, due to higher dimensionality and difficult classes. There exists a wide variety of approaches to measuring complexity of labeled data, according to class overlap, separability or boundary shapes, as well as group morphology. Many techniques can transform the data in order to find better features, but few focus on specifically reducing data complexity. Most data transformation methods mainly treat the dimensionality aspect, leaving aside the available information within class labels which can be useful when classes are somehow complex. This paper proposes an autoencoder-based approach to complexity reduction, using class labels in order to inform the loss function about the adequacy of the generated variables. This leads to three different new feature learners, Scorer, Skaler and Slicer. They are based on Fisher's discriminant ratio, the Kullback-Leibler divergence and least-squares support vector machines, respectively. They can be applied as a preprocessing stage for a binary classification problem. A thorough experimentation across a collection of 27 datasets and a range of complexity and classification metrics shows that class-informed autoencoders perform better than 4 other popular unsupervised feature extraction techniques, especially when the final objective is using the data for a classification task., This paper has been accepted for publication by IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence