scholarly journals Artificial Neural Network Application in the Diagnosis of Disease Conditions with Liver Ultrasound Images

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karthik Kalyan ◽  
Binal Jakhia ◽  
Ramachandra Dattatraya Lele ◽  
Mukund Joshi ◽  
Abhay Chowdhary

The preliminary study presented within this paper shows a comparative study of various texture features extracted from liver ultrasonic images by employing Multilayer Perceptron (MLP), a type of artificial neural network, to study the presence of disease conditions. An ultrasound (US) image shows echo-texture patterns, which defines the organ characteristics. Ultrasound images of liver disease conditions such as “fatty liver,” “cirrhosis,” and “hepatomegaly” produce distinctive echo patterns. However, various ultrasound imaging artifacts and speckle noise make these echo-texture patterns difficult to identify and often hard to distinguish visually. Here, based on the extracted features from the ultrasonic images, we employed an artificial neural network for the diagnosis of disease conditions in liver and finding of the best classifier that distinguishes between abnormal and normal conditions of the liver. Comparison of the overall performance of all the feature classifiers concluded that “mixed feature set” is the best feature set. It showed an excellent rate of accuracy for the training data set. The gray level run length matrix (GLRLM) feature shows better results when the network was tested against unknown data.

2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gurjeet Singh ◽  
Rabindra K. Panda ◽  
Marc Lamers

The reported study was undertaken in a small agricultural watershed, namely, Kapgari in Eastern India having a drainage area of 973 ha. The watershed was subdivided into three sub-watersheds on the basis of drainage network and land topography. An attempt was made to relate the continuously monitored runoff data from the sub-watersheds and the whole-watershed with the rainfall and temperature data using the artificial neural network (ANN) technique. The reported study also evaluated the bias in the prediction of daily runoff with shorter length of training data set using different resampling techniques with the ANN modeling. A 10-fold cross-validation (CV) technique was used to find the optimum number of hidden neurons in the hidden layer and to avoid neural network over-fitting during the training process for shorter length of data. The results illustrated that the ANN models developed with shorter length of training data set avoid neural network over-fitting during the training process, using a 10-fold CV method. Moreover, the biasness was investigated using the bootstrap resampling technique based ANN (BANN) for short length of training data set. In comparison with the 10-fold CV technique, the BANN is more efficient in solving the problems of the over-fitting and under-fitting during training of models for shorter length of data set.


2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Manjula Devi ◽  
S. Kuppuswami ◽  
R. C. Suganthe

Artificial neural network has been extensively consumed training model for solving pattern recognition tasks. However, training a very huge training data set using complex neural network necessitates excessively high training time. In this correspondence, a new fast Linear Adaptive Skipping Training (LAST) algorithm for training artificial neural network (ANN) is instituted. The core essence of this paper is to ameliorate the training speed of ANN by exhibiting only the input samples that do not categorize perfectly in the previous epoch which dynamically reducing the number of input samples exhibited to the network at every single epoch without affecting the network’s accuracy. Thus decreasing the size of the training set can reduce the training time, thereby ameliorating the training speed. This LAST algorithm also determines how many epochs the particular input sample has to skip depending upon the successful classification of that input sample. This LAST algorithm can be incorporated into any supervised training algorithms. Experimental result shows that the training speed attained by LAST algorithm is preferably higher than that of other conventional training algorithms.


2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 132-143
Author(s):  
ABBAS M. ABD ◽  
SAAD SH. SAMMEN

The prediction of different hydrological phenomenon (or system) plays an increasing role in the management of water resources. As engineers; it is required to predict the component of natural reservoirs’ inflow for numerous purposes. Resulting prediction techniques vary with the potential purpose, characteristics, and documented data. The best prediction method is of interest of experts to overcome the uncertainty, because the most hydrological parameters are subjected to the uncertainty. Artificial Neural Network (ANN) approach has adopted in this paper to predict Hemren reservoir inflow. Available data including monthly discharge supplied from DerbendiKhan reservoir and rain fall intensity falling on the intermediate catchment area between Hemren-DerbendiKhan dams were used.A Back Propagation (LMBP) algorithm (Levenberg-Marquardt) has been utilized to construct the ANN models. For the developed ANN model, different networks with different numbers of neurons and layers were evaluated. A total of 24 years of historical data for interval from 1980 to 2004 were used to train and test the networks. The optimum ANN network with 3 inputs, 40 neurons in both two hidden layers and one output was selected. Mean Squared Error (MSE) and the Correlation Coefficient (CC) were employed to evaluate the accuracy of the proposed model. The network was trained and converged at MSE = 0.027 by using training data subjected to early stopping approach. The network could forecast the testing data set with the accuracy of MSE = 0.031. Training and testing process showed the correlation coefficient of 0.97 and 0.77 respectively and this is refer to a high precision of that prediction technique.


Author(s):  
Bassel El-Sari ◽  
Max Biegler ◽  
Michael Rethmeier

Resistance spot welding is an established joining process in the production of safety-relevant components in the automotive industry. Therefore, a consecutive process monitoring is essential to meet the high-quality requirements. Artificial neural networks can be used to evaluate the process parameters and signals to ensure the individual spot weld quality. The predictive accuracy of such algorithms depends on the provided training data set and the prediction of untrained data is challenging. The aim of this paper is to investigate the extrapolation capability of the multi-layer perceptron model. That means, that the predictive performance of the model will be tested with data that clearly differs from the training data in terms of material and coating composition. Therefore, three multi-layer perceptron regression models were implemented to predict the nugget diameter from process data. The three models were able to predict the trained datasets very well. The models, which were provided with features from the dynamic resistance curve predicted the new dataset better than the model with only process parameters. This study shows the beneficial influence of the process signals on the predictive accuracy and robustness of artificial neural network algorithms. Especially, when predicting a data set from outside of the training space.


Metals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 1874
Author(s):  
Bassel El-Sari ◽  
Max Biegler ◽  
Michael Rethmeier

Resistance spot welding is an established joining process for the production of safety-relevant components in the automotive industry. Therefore, consecutive process monitoring is essential to meet the high quality requirements. Artificial neural networks can be used to evaluate the process parameters and signals, to ensure individual spot weld quality. The predictive accuracy of such algorithms depends on the provided training data set, and the prediction of untrained data is challenging. The aim of this paper was to investigate the extrapolation capability of a multi-layer perceptron model. That means, the predictive performance of the model was tested with data that clearly differed from the training data in terms of material and coating composition. Therefore, three multi-layer perceptron regression models were implemented to predict the nugget diameter from process data. The three models were able to predict the training datasets very well. The models, which were provided with features from the dynamic resistance curve predicted the new dataset better than the model with only process parameters. This study shows the beneficial influence of process signals on the predictive accuracy and robustness of artificial neural network algorithms. Especially, when predicting a data set from outside of the training space.


Author(s):  
Brian Bucci ◽  
Jeffrey Vipperman

Civilian noise complaints and damage claims have created the need for stations to monitor the production of military impulse noise. However, these stations suffer from numerous false positive detections (due to wind noise) of impulse events and often miss many events of interest. There is also interest in identifying specific noise sources, such different types of ordinance or different types of aircraft. To improve the accuracy of military impulse noise monitoring and make and initial effort to specifically classify noise source, an algorithm based upon an artificial neural network with inputs of conventional and custom acoustic metrics was proposed. To train and evaluate the noise classifier approximately 1,000 waveforms were field collected (110 military aircraft noise, 330 military impulse noise, and 560 non-impulse noise). The final noise classifier used kurtosis and crest factor and the custom metrics spectral slope and weighted square error as inputs. The classifier was able to achieve 99.7% accuracy on the training data set and 99.4% accuracy on the validation data set.


Author(s):  
William Kirchner ◽  
Steve Southward ◽  
Mehdi Ahmadian

This work presents a generic passive non-contact based acoustic health monitoring approach using ultrasonic acoustic emissions (UAE) to facilitate classification of bearing health via neural networks. This generic approach is applied to classifying the operating condition of conventional ball bearings. The acoustic emission signals used in this study are in the ultrasonic range (20–120 kHz), which is significantly higher than the majority of the research in this area thus far. A direct benefit of working in this frequency range is the inherent directionality of microphones capable of measurement in this range, which becomes particularly useful when operating in environments with low signal-to-noise ratios that are common in the rail industry. Using the UAE power spectrum signature, it is possible to pose the health monitoring problem as a multi-class classification problem, and make use of a multi-layer artificial neural network (ANN) to classify the UAE signature. One major problem limiting the usefulness of ANN’s for failure classification is the need for large quantities of training data. This becomes a particularly important issue when considering applications involving higher value components such as the turbo mechanisms and traction motors on diesel locomotives. Artificial training data, based on the statistical properties of a significantly smaller experimental data set is created to train the artificial neural network. The combination of the artificial training methods and ultrasonic frequency range being used results in an approach generic enough to suggest that this particular method is applicable to a variety of systems and components where persistent UAE exist.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oded Medina ◽  
Roi Yozevitch ◽  
Nir Shvalb

It is often hard to relate the sensor’s electrical output to the physical scenario when a multidimensional measurement is of interest. An artificial neural network may be a solution. Nevertheless, if the training data set is extracted from a real experimental setup, it can become unreachable in terms of time resources. The same issue arises when the physical measurement is expected to extend across a wide range of values. This paper presents a novel method for overcoming the long training time in a physical experiment set up by bootstrapping a relatively small data set for generating a synthetic data set which can be used for training an artificial neural network. Such a method can be applied to various measurement systems that yield sensor output which combines simultaneous occurrences or wide-range values of physical phenomena of interest. We discuss to which systems our method may be applied. We exemplify our results on three study cases: a seismic sensor array, a linear array of strain gauges, and an optical sensor array. We present the experimental process, its results, and the resulting accuracies.


Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (18) ◽  
pp. 4787 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mehdi Jadidi ◽  
Stevan Kostic ◽  
Leonardo Zimmer ◽  
Seth B. Dworkin

Soot formation in combustion systems is a growing concern due to its adverse environmental and health effects. It is considered to be a tremendously complicated phenomenon which includes multiphase flow, thermodynamics, heat transfer, chemical kinetics, and particle dynamics. Although various numerical approaches have been developed for the detailed modeling of soot evolution, most industrial device simulations neglect or rudimentarily approximate soot formation due to its high computational cost. Developing accurate, easy to use, and computationally inexpensive numerical techniques to predict or estimate soot concentrations is a major objective of the combustion industry. In the present study, a supervised Artificial Neural Network (ANN) technique is applied to predict the soot concentration fields in ethylene/air laminar diffusion flames accurately with a low computational cost. To gather validated data, eight different flames with various equivalence ratios, inlet velocities, and burner geometries are modeled using the CoFlame code (a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) parallel combustion and soot model) and the Lagrangian histories of soot-containing fluid parcels are computed and stored. Then, an ANN model is developed and optimized using the Levenberg-Marquardt approach. Two different scenarios are introduced to validate the network performance; testing the prediction capabilities of the network for the same eight flames that are used to train the network, and for two new flames that are not within the training data set. It is shown that for both of these cases the ANN is able to predict the overall soot concentration field very well with a relatively low integrated error.


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