scholarly journals Reliable and automatic epilepsy classification with affordable, consumer-grade electroencephalography in rural sub-Saharan Africa

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincent T. van Hees ◽  
Eric van Diessen ◽  
Michel R.T. Sinke ◽  
Jan W. Buitenhuis ◽  
Frank van der Maas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Classification Model ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Guinea Bissau ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
Eeg Data ◽  
Unseen Data

AbstractEpilepsy is largely under-diagnosed in low-income and middle-income countries, due to lack of medical specialists and expensive electroencephalography (EEG) hardware. In this study we investigate if low-cost consumer-grade EEG in combination with machine learning techniques can offer a reliable screening tool to improve diagnosis rates.We acquired brain signals in people with epilepsy (N=163) and healthy controls (N=138) in two difficult-to-reach areas in rural Guinea-Bissau and Nigeria. Five minutes of fourteen channel resting-state EEG data were acquired with a portable, low-cost consumer-grade EEG recording headset. EEG channel time-series were divided in four-second artifact-free epochs and transformed into delta, theta, alpha, beta and gamma wavelet frequencies. Summary measures such as the mean, standard deviation, minimal value and maximal value of the epoch signal fluctuations were used to train a random forest classifier. Epilepsy diagnosis based on at least three months seizure calendar data was used as the gold standard diagnosis. To prevent too optimistic classification the trained model was evaluated with EEG data from subjects not used in the training. In addition, we tested a classification model trained on Nigeria data against data from people in Guinea-Bissau and vice versa. The most contributing data features in the EEG were found in the beta and theta frequencies in Guinea-Bissau and Nigeria, respectively. Within-country model performance was good with area under the receiver-operating curves of 0.85 and 0.78 (± 0.02 standard errors) in unseen data in Guinea-Bissau and Nigeria, respectively. Across-country performance was moderate (0.62 and 0.64 ± 0.02).Our data suggests that a combination of low cost electroencephalography and machine learning techniques may facilitate diagnostic screening for epilepsy in the most remote areas of the world.

scholarly journals Implementation of machine learning techniques to control the speed of the vehicles

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4.5) ◽  
pp. 654
Author(s):  
M. S. Satyanarayana ◽  
Aruna T.M ◽  
Divyaraj G.N
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
New Technique ◽  
Vehicle Speed ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
Traffic Awareness ◽  
Alarm Sound ◽  
The Government ◽  
A New Technique

Accidents have become major issue in Developing countries like India now a day. As per the Surveys 60% of the accidents are happening due to over speed. Though the government has taken so many initiatives like Traffic Awareness & Driving Awareness Week etc.., but still the percentage of accidents are not getting reduced. In this paper a new technique has been introduced to reduce the percentage of accidents. The new technique is implemented using the concept of Machine Learning [1]. The Machine Learning based systems can be implemented in all vehicles to avoid the accidents at low cost [1]. The main objective of this system is to calculate the speed of the vehicle at three various locations based on the place where the vehicle speed must be controlled and if the speed is greater than the designated speed in that road then the vehicle automatically detects the problem and same will be intimated to the driver to control the speed of the vehicle. If the speed is less or equal to the designated speed in that road then the vehicle will be passed without any disturbance. The system will be giving beep sound along with color indication to driver in each and every scenario. The other option implemented in this system is if the driver is driving the vehicle in the night and if he feel drowsy the system detects it immediately and alarm sound will be initiated to wake up the driver. This system though it won’t avoid 100% accidents at least it will reduce the percentage of accidents. This system is not only to avoid accidents it will also intelligently control the speed of the vehicles and creates awareness amongst the drivers.  

Explore the Use of Handwriting Information and Machine Learning Techniques in Evaluating Mental Workload

2020 ◽  
pp. 1423-1439
Author(s):  
Zhiming Wu ◽  
Tao Lin ◽  
Ningjiu Tang
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Interaction Design ◽  
Mental Stress ◽  
Mental Workload ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
Psychological Evidence

Mental workload is considered one of the most important factors in interaction design and how to detect a user's mental workload during tasks is still an open research question. Psychological evidence has already attributed a certain amount of variability and “drift” in an individual's handwriting pattern to mental stress, but this phenomenon has not been explored adequately. The intention of this paper is to explore the possibility of evaluating mental workload with handwriting information by machine learning techniques. Machine learning techniques such as decision trees, support vector machine (SVM), and artificial neural network were used to predict mental workload levels in the authors' research. Results showed that it was possible to make prediction of mental workload levels automatically based on handwriting patterns with relatively high accuracy, especially on patterns of children. In addition, the proposed approach is attractive because it requires no additional hardware, is unobtrusive, is adaptable to individual users, and is of very low cost.

Twitter sentiment analysis for the estimation of voting intention in the 2017 Chilean elections

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 1141-1160
Author(s):  
Tomás Alegre Sepúlveda ◽  
Brian Keith Norambuena
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Support Vector Machines ◽  
Sentiment Analysis ◽  
Classification Model ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Traditional Methods ◽  
Actual Result ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
Vector Machines

In this paper, we apply sentiment analysis methods in the context of the first round of the 2017 Chilean elections. The purpose of this work is to estimate the voting intention associated with each candidate in order to contrast this with the results from classical methods (e.g., polls and surveys). The data are collected from Twitter, because of its high usage in Chile and in the sentiment analysis literature. We obtained tweets associated with the three main candidates: Sebastián Piñera (SP), Alejandro Guillier (AG) and Beatriz Sánchez (BS). For each candidate, we estimated the voting intention and compared it to the traditional methods. To do this, we first acquired the data and labeled the tweets as positive or negative. Afterward, we built a model using machine learning techniques. The classification model had an accuracy of 76.45% using support vector machines, which yielded the best model for our case. Finally, we use a formula to estimate the voting intention from the number of positive and negative tweets for each candidate. For the last period, we obtained a voting intention of 35.84% for SP, compared to a range of 34–44% according to traditional polls and 36% in the actual elections. For AG we obtained an estimate of 37%, compared with a range of 15.40% to 30.00% for traditional polls and 20.27% in the elections. For BS we obtained an estimate of 27.77%, compared with the range of 8.50% to 11.00% given by traditional polls and an actual result of 22.70% in the elections. These results are promising, in some cases providing an estimate closer to reality than traditional polls. Some differences can be explained due to the fact that some candidates have been omitted, even though they held a significant number of votes.

Drought Stress Detection Using Low-Cost Computer Vision Systems and Machine Learning Techniques

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 27-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula Ramos-Giraldo ◽  
Chris Reberg-Horton ◽  
Anna M. Locke ◽  
Steven Mirsky ◽  
Edgar Lobaton
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Computer Vision ◽  
Drought Stress ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Stress Detection ◽  
Vision Systems ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
Computer Vision Systems

scholarly journals Detecting Suspicious Texts Using Machine Learning Techniques

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (18) ◽  
pp. 6527 ◽  
Author(s):  
Omar Sharif ◽  
Mohammed Moshiul Hoque ◽  
A. S. M. Kayes ◽  
Raza Nowrozy ◽  
Iqbal H. Sarker
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Instant Messaging ◽  
Classification Model ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Text Documents ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Malicious Activity ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
The Web

Due to the substantial growth of internet users and its spontaneous access via electronic devices, the amount of electronic contents has been growing enormously in recent years through instant messaging, social networking posts, blogs, online portals and other digital platforms. Unfortunately, the misapplication of technologies has increased with this rapid growth of online content, which leads to the rise in suspicious activities. People misuse the web media to disseminate malicious activity, perform the illegal movement, abuse other people, and publicize suspicious contents on the web. The suspicious contents usually available in the form of text, audio, or video, whereas text contents have been used in most of the cases to perform suspicious activities. Thus, one of the most challenging issues for NLP researchers is to develop a system that can identify suspicious text efficiently from the specific contents. In this paper, a Machine Learning (ML)-based classification model is proposed (hereafter called STD) to classify Bengali text into non-suspicious and suspicious categories based on its original contents. A set of ML classifiers with various features has been used on our developed corpus, consisting of 7000 Bengali text documents where 5600 documents used for training and 1400 documents used for testing. The performance of the proposed system is compared with the human baseline and existing ML techniques. The SGD classifier ‘tf-idf’ with the combination of unigram and bigram features are used to achieve the highest accuracy of 84.57%.

scholarly journals Machine Learning Techniques for Land Use/Land Cover Classification of Medium Resolution Optical Satellite Imagery Focusing on Temporary Inundated Areas

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 43-52
Author(s):  
Boudewijn van Leeuwen ◽  
Zalán Tobak ◽  
Ferenc Kovács
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Machine Learning ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Land Cover ◽  
Classification Model ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Land Use Land Cover ◽  
Learning Techniques

AbstractClassification of multispectral optical satellite data using machine learning techniques to derive land use/land cover thematic data is important for many applications. Comparing the latest algorithms, our research aims to determine the best option to classify land use/land cover with special focus on temporary inundated land in a flat area in the south of Hungary. These inundations disrupt agricultural practices and can cause large financial loss. Sentinel 2 data with a high temporal and medium spatial resolution is classified using open source implementations of a random forest, support vector machine and an artificial neural network. Each classification model is applied to the same data set and the results are compared qualitatively and quantitatively. The accuracy of the results is high for all methods and does not show large overall differences. A quantitative spatial comparison demonstrates that the neural network gives the best results, but that all models are strongly influenced by atmospheric disturbances in the image.

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