scholarly journals Phenotyping women based on dietary macronutrients, physical activity and body weight using machine-learning tools

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramyaa Ramyaa ◽  
Omid Hosseini ◽  
Giri P Krishnan ◽  
Sridevi Krishnan
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Machine Learning ◽  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Body Weight ◽  
Nearest Neighbor ◽  
Predictive Accuracy ◽  
Nutritional Epidemiology ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Learning Tools ◽  
Numerical Predictions

AbstractBackgroundNutritional phenotyping is a promising approach to achieve personalized nutrition. While conventional statistical approaches haven’t enabled personalizing well yet, machine-learning tools may offer solutions that haven’t been evaluated yet.ObjectiveThe primary aim of this study was to use energy balance components – input (dietary energy intake and macronutrient composition), output (physical activity) to predict energy stores (body weight) as a way to evaluate their ability to identify potential phenotypes based on these parameters.MethodsWe obtained data from the Women’s Health Initiative –Observational Study (WHI-OS) from BioLINCC. We chose dietary macronutrients – carbohydrate, protein, fats, fiber, sugars & physical activity variables – energy expended from mild, moderate and vigorous intensity activity h/wk to predict current body weight either numerically (as kg of body weight) or categorically (as BMI categories). Several machine-learning tools were used for this prediction – k-nearest neighbors (kNN), decision trees, neural networks (NN), Support Vector Machine (SVM) regressions and Random Forest. Further, predictive ability was refined using cluster analysis, in an effort to identify putative phenotypes.ResultsFor the numerical predictions, kNN performed best (Mean Approximate Error (MAE) of 2.71kg, R2 of 0.92, Root mean square error (RMSE) of 4.96kg). For categorical prediction, ensemble trees (with nearest neighbor learner) performed best (93.8% accuracy). K-means cluster analysis identified 11 clusters suggestive of phenotypes, based on significantly improved predictive accuracy. Within clusters, individual macronutrient gain and loss modeling identified that some clusters were strongly predicted by dietary carbohydrate while others by dietary fat.ConclusionsMachine-learning tools in nutritional epidemiology could be used to identify putative phenotypes.

scholarly journals Phenotyping Women Based on Dietary Macronutrients, Physical Activity, and Body Weight Using Machine Learning Tools

Nutrients ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 1681 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramyaa Ramyaa ◽  
Omid Hosseini ◽  
Giri P. Krishnan ◽  
Sridevi Krishnan
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Machine Learning ◽  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Body Weight ◽  
Energy Balance ◽  
Numerical Data ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Learning Tools ◽  
K Nearest Neighbor ◽  
Numerical Predictions

Nutritional phenotyping can help achieve personalized nutrition, and machine learning tools may offer novel means to achieve phenotyping. The primary aim of this study was to use energy balance components, namely input (dietary energy intake and macronutrient composition) and output (physical activity) to predict energy stores (body weight) as a way to evaluate their ability to identify potential phenotypes based on these parameters. From the Women’s Health Initiative Observational Study (WHI OS), carbohydrates, proteins, fats, fibers, sugars, and physical activity variables, namely energy expended from mild, moderate, and vigorous intensity activity, were used to predict current body weight (both as body weight in kilograms and as a body mass index (BMI) category). Several machine learning tools were used for this prediction. Finally, cluster analysis was used to identify putative phenotypes. For the numerical predictions, the support vector machine (SVM), neural network, and k-nearest neighbor (kNN) algorithms performed modestly, with mean approximate errors (MAEs) of 6.70 kg, 6.98 kg, and 6.90 kg, respectively. For categorical prediction, SVM performed the best (54.5% accuracy), followed closely by the bagged tree ensemble and kNN algorithms. K-means cluster analysis improved prediction using numerical data, identified 10 clusters suggestive of phenotypes, with a minimum MAE of ~1.1 kg. A classifier was used to phenotype subjects into the identified clusters, with MAEs <5 kg for 15% of the test set (n = ~2000). This study highlights the challenges, limitations, and successes in using machine learning tools on self-reported data to identify determinants of energy balance.

scholarly journals Execution Assessment of Machine Learning Algorithms for Spam Profile Detection on Instagram

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 1889-1894
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Support Vector Machine ◽  
Random Forest ◽  
Nearest Neighbor ◽  
Learning Algorithms ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Learning Tools ◽  
Learning Models ◽  
K Nearest Neighbor

Witheverypassingsecondsocialnetworkcommunityisgrowingrapidly,becauseofthat,attackershaveshownkeeninterestinthesekindsofplatformsandwanttodistributemischievouscontentsontheseplatforms.Withthefocus on introducing new set of characteristics and features forcounteractivemeasures,agreatdealofstudieshasresearchedthe possibility of lessening the malicious activities on social medianetworks. This research was to highlight features for identifyingspammers on Instagram and additional features were presentedto improve the performance of different machine learning algorithms. Performance of different machine learning algorithmsnamely, Multilayer Perceptron (MLP), Random Forest (RF), K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN) and Support Vector Machine (SVM)were evaluated on machine learning tools named, RapidMinerand WEKA. The results from this research tells us that RandomForest (RF) outperformed all other selected machine learningalgorithmsonbothselectedmachinelearningtools.OverallRandom Forest (RF) provided best results on RapidMiner. Theseresultsareusefulfortheresearcherswhoarekeentobuildmachine learning models to find out the spamming activities onsocialnetworkcommunities.

scholarly journals YouTube Spam Comment Detection Using Support Vector Machine and K–Nearest Neighbor

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 612 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aqliima Aziz ◽  
Cik Feresa Mohd Foozy ◽  
Palaniappan Shamala ◽  
Zurinah Suradi
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Support Vector Machine ◽  
Feature Selection ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Nearest Neighbor ◽  
Good Accuracy ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Learning Tools ◽  
K Nearest Neighbor ◽  
Accuracy Result

<p>Social networking such as YouTube, Facebook and others are very popular nowadays. The best thing about YouTube is user can subscribe also giving opinion on the comment section. However, this attract the spammer by spamming the comments on that videos. Thus, this study develop a YouTube detection framework by using Support Vector Machine (SVM) and K-Nearest Neighbor (k-NN). There are five (5) phases involved in this research such as Data Collection, Pre-processing, Feature Selection, Classification and Detection. The experiments is done by using Weka and RapidMiner. The accuracy result of SVM and KNN by using both machine learning tools show good accuracy result. Others solution to avoid spam attack is trying not to click the link on comments to avoid any problems.</p>

Application of Machine Learning Approaches for the Design and Study of Anticancer Drugs

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 488-500 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan Hu ◽  
Yi Lu ◽  
Shuo Wang ◽  
Mengying Zhang ◽  
Xiaosheng Qu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Drug Design ◽  
Anticancer Drugs ◽  
Nearest Neighbor ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
K Nearest Neighbor ◽  
Activity Prediction ◽  
Linear Discriminant

Background: Globally the number of cancer patients and deaths are continuing to increase yearly, and cancer has, therefore, become one of the world&#039;s highest causes of morbidity and mortality. In recent years, the study of anticancer drugs has become one of the most popular medical topics. </P><P> Objective: In this review, in order to study the application of machine learning in predicting anticancer drugs activity, some machine learning approaches such as Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA), Principal components analysis (PCA), Support Vector Machine (SVM), Random forest (RF), k-Nearest Neighbor (kNN), and Naïve Bayes (NB) were selected, and the examples of their applications in anticancer drugs design are listed. </P><P> Results: Machine learning contributes a lot to anticancer drugs design and helps researchers by saving time and is cost effective. However, it can only be an assisting tool for drug design. </P><P> Conclusion: This paper introduces the application of machine learning approaches in anticancer drug design. Many examples of success in identification and prediction in the area of anticancer drugs activity prediction are discussed, and the anticancer drugs research is still in active progress. Moreover, the merits of some web servers related to anticancer drugs are mentioned.

Efficient detection of hacker community based on twitter data using complex networks and machine learning algorithm

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Ahmed Al-Tarawneh ◽  
Ja’afer Al-Saraireh
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Complex Networks ◽  
Nearest Neighbor ◽  
Learning Algorithm ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
K Nearest Neighbor ◽  
Efficient Detection ◽  
Suggested Keywords

Twitter is one of the most popular platforms used to share and post ideas. Hackers and anonymous attackers use these platforms maliciously, and their behavior can be used to predict the risk of future attacks, by gathering and classifying hackers’ tweets using machine-learning techniques. Previous approaches for detecting infected tweets are based on human efforts or text analysis, thus they are limited to capturing the hidden text between tweet lines. The main aim of this research paper is to enhance the efficiency of hacker detection for the Twitter platform using the complex networks technique with adapted machine learning algorithms. This work presents a methodology that collects a list of users with their followers who are sharing their posts that have similar interests from a hackers’ community on Twitter. The list is built based on a set of suggested keywords that are the commonly used terms by hackers in their tweets. After that, a complex network is generated for all users to find relations among them in terms of network centrality, closeness, and betweenness. After extracting these values, a dataset of the most influential users in the hacker community is assembled. Subsequently, tweets belonging to users in the extracted dataset are gathered and classified into positive and negative classes. The output of this process is utilized with a machine learning process by applying different algorithms. This research build and investigate an accurate dataset containing real users who belong to a hackers’ community. Correctly, classified instances were measured for accuracy using the average values of K-nearest neighbor, Naive Bayes, Random Tree, and the support vector machine techniques, demonstrating about 90% and 88% accuracy for cross-validation and percentage split respectively. Consequently, the proposed network cyber Twitter model is able to detect hackers, and determine if tweets pose a risk to future institutions and individuals to provide early warning of possible attacks.

scholarly journals Framing Twitter Public Sentiment on Nigerian Government COVID-19 Palliatives Distribution Using Machine Learning

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 3497
Author(s):  
Hassan Adamu ◽  
Syaheerah Lebai Lutfi ◽  
Nurul Hashimah Ahamed Hassain Malim ◽  
Rohail Hassan ◽  
Assunta Di Vaio ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Support Vector Machine ◽  
Nearest Neighbor ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Standard English ◽  
Emotion Classification ◽  
K Nearest Neighbor ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Government

Sustainable development plays a vital role in information and communication technology. In times of pandemics such as COVID-19, vulnerable people need help to survive. This help includes the distribution of relief packages and materials by the government with the primary objective of lessening the economic and psychological effects on the citizens affected by disasters such as the COVID-19 pandemic. However, there has not been an efficient way to monitor public funds’ accountability and transparency, especially in developing countries such as Nigeria. The understanding of public emotions by the government on distributed palliatives is important as it would indicate the reach and impact of the distribution exercise. Although several studies on English emotion classification have been conducted, these studies are not portable to a wider inclusive Nigerian case. This is because Informal Nigerian English (Pidgin), which Nigerians widely speak, has quite a different vocabulary from Standard English, thus limiting the applicability of the emotion classification of Standard English machine learning models. An Informal Nigerian English (Pidgin English) emotions dataset is constructed, pre-processed, and annotated. The dataset is then used to classify five emotion classes (anger, sadness, joy, fear, and disgust) on the COVID-19 palliatives and relief aid distribution in Nigeria using standard machine learning (ML) algorithms. Six ML algorithms are used in this study, and a comparative analysis of their performance is conducted. The algorithms are Multinomial Naïve Bayes (MNB), Support Vector Machine (SVM), Random Forest (RF), Logistics Regression (LR), K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN), and Decision Tree (DT). The conducted experiments reveal that Support Vector Machine outperforms the remaining classifiers with the highest accuracy of 88%. The “disgust” emotion class surpassed other emotion classes, i.e., sadness, joy, fear, and anger, with the highest number of counts from the classification conducted on the constructed dataset. Additionally, the conducted correlation analysis shows a significant relationship between the emotion classes of “Joy” and “Fear”, which implies that the public is excited about the palliatives’ distribution but afraid of inequality and transparency in the distribution process due to reasons such as corruption. Conclusively, the results from this experiment clearly show that the public emotions on COVID-19 support and relief aid packages’ distribution in Nigeria were not satisfactory, considering that the negative emotions from the public outnumbered the public happiness.

Remote sensing inversion of water quality in coastal sea area based on machine learning: a case study of Shenzhen bay, China

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaotong Zhu ◽  
Jinhui Jeanne Huang
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Water Quality ◽  
Predictive Accuracy ◽  
Water Environment ◽  
Quality Parameters ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Dynamic Monitoring ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Seawater Quality

&lt;p&gt;Remote sensing monitoring has the characteristics of wide monitoring range, celerity, low cost for long-term dynamic monitoring of water environment. With the flourish of artificial intelligence, machine learning has enabled remote sensing inversion of seawater quality to achieve higher prediction accuracy. However, due to the physicochemical property of the water quality parameters, the performance of algorithms differs a lot. In order to improve the predictive accuracy of seawater quality parameters, we proposed a technical framework to identify the optimal machine learning algorithms using Sentinel-2 satellite and in-situ seawater sample data. In the study, we select three algorithms, i.e. support vector regression (SVR), XGBoost and deep learning (DL), and four seawater quality parameters, i.e. dissolved oxygen (DO), total dissolved solids (TDS), turbidity(TUR) and chlorophyll-a (Chla). The results show that SVR is a more precise algorithm to inverse DO (R&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; = 0.81). XGBoost has the best accuracy for Chla and Tur inversion (R&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; = 0.75 and 0.78 respectively) while DL performs better in TDS (R&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; =0.789). Overall, this research provides a theoretical support for high precision remote sensing inversion of offshore seawater quality parameters based on machine learning.&lt;/p&gt;

YouTube based religious hate speech and extremism detection dataset with machine learning baselines

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Noman Ashraf ◽  
Abid Rafiq ◽  
Sabur Butt ◽  
Hafiz Muhammad Faisal Shehzad ◽  
Grigori Sidorov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Nearest Neighbor ◽  
Hate Speech ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
K Nearest Neighbor ◽  
Speech Detection ◽  
Supervised Learning Algorithms ◽  
Youtube Videos

On YouTube, billions of videos are watched online and millions of short messages are posted each day. YouTube along with other social networking sites are used by individuals and extremist groups for spreading hatred among users. In this paper, we consider religion as the most targeted domain for spreading hate speech among people of different religions. We present a methodology for the detection of religion-based hate videos on YouTube. Messages posted on YouTube videos generally express the opinions of users’ related to that video. We provide a novel dataset for religious hate speech detection on Youtube comments. The proposed methodology applies data mining techniques on extracted comments from religious videos in order to filter religion-oriented messages and detect those videos which are used for spreading hate. The supervised learning algorithms: Support Vector Machine (SVM), Logistic Regression (LR), and k-Nearest Neighbor (k-NN) are used for baseline results.

Application of machine learning in predicting construction project profit in Ghana using Support Vector Regression Algorithm (SVRA)

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Adinyira ◽  
Emmanuel Akoi-Gyebi Adjei ◽  
Kofi Agyekum ◽  
Frank Desmond Kofi Fugar
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Support Vector Regression ◽  
Cash Flow ◽  
Predictive Accuracy ◽  
Model Development ◽  
Construction Project ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Sensitivity Index ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Hyperparameter Selection

PurposeKnowledge of the effect of various cash-flow factors on expected project profit is important to effectively manage productivity on construction projects. This study was conducted to develop and test the sensitivity of a Machine Learning Support Vector Regression Algorithm (SVRA) to predict construction project profit in Ghana.Design/methodology/approachThe study relied on data from 150 institutional projects executed within the past five years (2014–2018) in developing the model. Eighty percent (80%) of the data from the 150 projects was used at hyperparameter selection and final training phases of the model development and the remaining 20% for model testing. Using MATLAB for Support Vector Regression, the parameters available for tuning were the epsilon values, the kernel scale, the box constraint and standardisations. The sensitivity index was computed to determine the degree to which the independent variables impact the dependent variable.FindingsThe developed model's predictions perfectly fitted the data and explained all the variability of the response data around its mean. Average predictive accuracy of 73.66% was achieved with all the variables on the different projects in validation. The developed SVR model was sensitive to labour and loan.Originality/valueThe developed SVRA combines variation, defective works and labour with other financial constraints, which have been the variables used in previous studies. It will aid contractors in predicting profit on completion at commencement and also provide information on the effect of changes to cash-flow factors on profit.

Forecasting Repair and Maintenance Services of Medical Devices Using Support Vector Machine

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hao-yu Liao ◽  
Willie Cade ◽  
Sara Behdad
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Support Vector Machine ◽  
Medical Devices ◽  
Kernel Functions ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Quality Level ◽  
Learning Tools ◽  
Physical Damage ◽  
Repair Service ◽  
Product Failure

Abstract Accurate prediction of product failures and the need for repair services become critical for various reasons, including understanding the warranty performance of manufacturers, defining cost-efficient repair strategies, and compliance with safety standards. The purpose of this study is to use machine learning tools to analyze several parameters crucial for achieving a robust repair service system, including the number of repairs, the time of the next repair ticket or product failure, and the time to repair. A large dataset of over 530,000 repairs and maintenance of medical devices has been investigated by employing the Support Vector Machine (SVM) tool. SVM with four kernel functions is used to forecast the timing of the next failure or repair request in the system for two different products and two different failure types, namely random failure and physical damage. A frequency analysis is also conducted to explore the product quality level based on product failure and the time to repair it. Besides, the best probability distributions are fitted for the number of failures, the time between failures, and the time to repair. The results reveal the value of data analytics and machine learning tools in analyzing post-market product performance and the cost of repair and maintenance operations.

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