scholarly journals An App for Classifying Personal Mental Illness at Workplace Using Fit Statistics and Convolutional Neural Networks: Survey-Based Quantitative Study

10.2196/17857 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. e17857
Author(s):  
Yu-Hua Yan ◽  
Tsair-Wei Chien ◽  
Yu-Tsen Yeh ◽  
Willy Chou ◽  
Shu-Chen Hsing

Background Mental illness (MI) is common among those who work in health care settings. Whether MI is related to employees’ mental status at work is yet to be determined. An MI app is developed and proposed to help employees assess their mental status in the hope of detecting MI at an earlier stage. Objective This study aims to build a model using convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and fit statistics based on 2 aspects of measures and outfit mean square errors for the automatic detection and classification of personal MI at the workplace using the emotional labor and mental health (ELMH) questionnaire, so as to equip the staff in assessing and understanding their own mental status with an app on their mobile device. Methods We recruited 352 respiratory therapists (RTs) working in Taiwan medical centers and regional hospitals to fill out the 44-item ELMH questionnaire in March 2019. The exploratory factor analysis (EFA), Rasch analysis, and CNN were used as unsupervised and supervised learnings for (1) dividing RTs into 4 classes (ie, MI, false MI, health, and false health) and (2) building an ELMH predictive model to estimate 108 parameters of the CNN model. We calculated the prediction accuracy rate and created an app for classifying MI for RTs at the workplace as a web-based assessment. Results We observed that (1) 8 domains in ELMH were retained by EFA, (2) 4 types of mental health (n=6, 63, 265, and 18 located in 4 quadrants) were classified using the Rasch analysis, (3) the 44-item model yields a higher accuracy rate (0.92), and (4) an MI app available for RTs predicting MI was successfully developed and demonstrated in this study. Conclusions The 44-item model with 108 parameters was estimated by using CNN to improve the accuracy of mental health for RTs. An MI app developed to help RTs self-detect work-related MI at an early stage should be made more available and viable in the future.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu-Hua Yan ◽  
Tsair-Wei Chien ◽  
Yu-Tsen Yeh ◽  
Willy Chou ◽  
Shu-Chen Hsing

BACKGROUND Mental illness (MI) is common among those who work in health care settings. Whether MI is related to employees’ mental status at work is yet to be determined. An MI app is developed and proposed to help employees assess their mental status in the hope of detecting MI at an earlier stage. OBJECTIVE This study aims to build a model using convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and fit statistics based on 2 aspects of measures and outfit mean square errors for the automatic detection and classification of personal MI at the workplace using the emotional labor and mental health (ELMH) questionnaire, so as to equip the staff in assessing and understanding their own mental status with an app on their mobile device. METHODS We recruited 352 respiratory therapists (RTs) working in Taiwan medical centers and regional hospitals to fill out the 44-item ELMH questionnaire in March 2019. The exploratory factor analysis (EFA), Rasch analysis, and CNN were used as unsupervised and supervised learnings for (1) dividing RTs into 4 classes (ie, MI, false MI, health, and false health) and (2) building an ELMH predictive model to estimate 108 parameters of the CNN model. We calculated the prediction accuracy rate and created an app for classifying MI for RTs at the workplace as a web-based assessment. RESULTS We observed that (1) 8 domains in ELMH were retained by EFA, (2) 4 types of mental health (n=6, 63, 265, and 18 located in 4 quadrants) were classified using the Rasch analysis, (3) the 44-item model yields a higher accuracy rate (0.92), and (4) an MI app available for RTs predicting MI was successfully developed and demonstrated in this study. CONCLUSIONS The 44-item model with 108 parameters was estimated by using CNN to improve the accuracy of mental health for RTs. An MI app developed to help RTs self-detect work-related MI at an early stage should be made more available and viable in the future.


Animals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 1263
Author(s):  
Zhaojun Wang ◽  
Jiangning Wang ◽  
Congtian Lin ◽  
Yan Han ◽  
Zhaosheng Wang ◽  
...  

With the rapid development of digital technology, bird images have become an important part of ornithology research data. However, due to the rapid growth of bird image data, it has become a major challenge to effectively process such a large amount of data. In recent years, deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) have shown great potential and effectiveness in a variety of tasks regarding the automatic processing of bird images. However, no research has been conducted on the recognition of habitat elements in bird images, which is of great help when extracting habitat information from bird images. Here, we demonstrate the recognition of habitat elements using four DCNN models trained end-to-end directly based on images. To carry out this research, an image database called Habitat Elements of Bird Images (HEOBs-10) and composed of 10 categories of habitat elements was built, making future benchmarks and evaluations possible. Experiments showed that good results can be obtained by all the tested models. ResNet-152-based models yielded the best test accuracy rate (95.52%); the AlexNet-based model yielded the lowest test accuracy rate (89.48%). We conclude that DCNNs could be efficient and useful for automatically identifying habitat elements from bird images, and we believe that the practical application of this technology will be helpful for studying the relationships between birds and habitat elements.


Proceedings ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Joaquim de Moura ◽  
Lucía Ramos ◽  
Plácido L. Vidal ◽  
Jorge Novo ◽  
Marcos Ortega

The new coronavirus (COVID-19) is a disease that is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). On 11 March 2020, the coronavirus outbreak has been labelled a global pandemic by the World Health Organization. In this context, chest X-ray imaging has become a remarkably powerful tool for the identification of patients with COVID-19 infections at an early stage when clinical symptoms may be unspecific or sparse. In this work, we propose a complete analysis of separability of COVID-19 and pneumonia in chest X-ray images by means of Convolutional Neural Networks. Satisfactory results were obtained that demonstrated the suitability of the proposed system, improving the efficiency of the medical screening process in the healthcare systems.


2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1514-1519

Finger vein beneath our skin is one of the unique features for identifying an individual. Because of its uniqueness and security the finger vein recognition is considered as a powerful biometric identifier for user authentication. Several techniques have been evolved for finger vein recognition from its early stage of development, but majority approaches were based on hand crafted features which had limitations on quality of the image, positioning of the finger etc. The emergence of neural networks led to the development of various Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) based approaches for identity verification. This paper surveys various finger vein verification techniques using CNN and determines the factors that will affect the final result. Publicly available finger vein datasets as well as user designed ones, which are of different qualities, are used for the experimental analysis of these techniques. Though CNN is used in all the cases each one differs in the number of layers used, weight updating methods, results obtained etc. It is found that higher recognition accuracy and lower equal error rate (EER) makes the finger vein verification system an effective one. This field has emerged wide popularity recently and is used in different applications where security is of prime importance


Author(s):  
Mohammed Abdulla Salim Al Husaini ◽  
Mohamed Hadi Habaebi ◽  
Teddy Surya Gunawan ◽  
Md Rafiqul Islam ◽  
Elfatih A. A. Elsheikh ◽  
...  

AbstractBreast cancer is one of the most significant causes of death for women around the world. Breast thermography supported by deep convolutional neural networks is expected to contribute significantly to early detection and facilitate treatment at an early stage. The goal of this study is to investigate the behavior of different recent deep learning methods for identifying breast disorders. To evaluate our proposal, we built classifiers based on deep convolutional neural networks modelling inception V3, inception V4, and a modified version of the latter called inception MV4. MV4 was introduced to maintain the computational cost across all layers by making the resultant number of features and the number of pixel positions equal. DMR database was used for these deep learning models in classifying thermal images of healthy and sick patients. A set of epochs 3–30 were used in conjunction with learning rates 1 × 10–3, 1 × 10–4 and 1 × 10–5, Minibatch 10 and different optimization methods. The training results showed that inception V4 and MV4 with color images, a learning rate of 1 × 10–4, and SGDM optimization method, reached very high accuracy, verified through several experimental repetitions. With grayscale images, inception V3 outperforms V4 and MV4 by a considerable accuracy margin, for any optimization methods. In fact, the inception V3 (grayscale) performance is almost comparable to inception V4 and MV4 (color) performance but only after 20–30 epochs. inception MV4 achieved 7% faster classification response time compared to V4. The use of MV4 model is found to contribute to saving energy consumed and fluidity in arithmetic operations for the graphic processor. The results also indicate that increasing the number of layers may not necessarily be useful in improving the performance.


2021 ◽  
pp. 2740-2747
Author(s):  
Ehsan Ali Al-Zubaidi ◽  
Maad M. Mijwil

     The coronavirus is a family of viruses that cause different dangerous diseases that lead to death. Two types of this virus have been previously found: SARS-CoV, which causes a severe respiratory syndrome, and MERS-CoV, which causes a respiratory syndrome in the Middle East. The latest coronavirus, originated in the Chinese city of Wuhan, is known as the COVID-19 pandemic. It is a new kind of coronavirus that can harm people and was first discovered in Dec. 2019. According to the statistics of the World Health Organization (WHO), the number of people infected with this serious disease has reached more than seven million people from all over the world. In Iraq, the number of people infected has reached more than twenty-two thousand people until April 2020. In this article, we have applied convolutional neural networks (ConvNets) for the detection of the accuracy of computed tomography (CT) coronavirus images that assist medical staffs in hospitals on categorization chest CT-coronavirus images at an early stage. The ConvNets are able to automatically learn and extract features from the medical image dataset. The objective of this study is to train the GoogleNet ConvNet architecture, using the COVID-CT dataset, to classify 425 CT-coronavirus images. The experimental results show that the validation accuracy of GoogleNet in training the dataset is 82.14% with an elapsed time of 74 minutes and 37 seconds.


Author(s):  
Ching Wai Yong ◽  
Khin Wee Lai ◽  
Belinda Pingguan Murphy ◽  
Yan Chai Hum

Background: Osteoarthritis (OA) is a common degenerative joint inflammation which may lead to disability. Although OA is not lethal, this disease will remarkably affect patient’s mobility and their daily lives. Detecting OA at an early stage allows for early intervention and may slow down disease progression. Introduction: Magnetic resonance imaging is a useful technique to visualize soft tissues within the knee joint. Cartilage delineation in magnetic resonance (MR) images helps in understanding the disease progressions. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown promising results in computer vision tasks, and various encoder–decoder-based segmentation neural networks are introduced in the last few years. However, the performances of such networks are unknown in the context of cartilage delineation. Methods: This study trained and compared 10 encoder–decoder-based CNNs in performing cartilage delineation from knee MR images. The knee MR images are obtained from Osteoarthritis Initiative (OAI). The benchmarking process is to compare various CNNs based on the physical specifications and segmentation performances. Results: LadderNet has the least trainable parameters with model size of 5 MB. UNetVanilla crowned the best performances by having 0.8369, 0.9108, and 0.9097 on JSC, DSC, and MCC. Conclusion: UNetVanilla can be served as a benchmark for cartilage delineation in knee MR images while LadderNet served as alternative if there are hardware limitations during production.


Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (8) ◽  
pp. 2627
Author(s):  
Mei-Yi Wu ◽  
Jia-Hong Lee ◽  
Chuan-Ying Hsueh

In recent years, the technology of artificial intelligence (AI) and robots is rapidly spreading to countries around the world. More and more scholars and industry experts have proposed AI deep learning models and methods to solve human life problems and improve work efficiency. Modern people’s lives are very busy, which led us to investigate whether the demand for Bento buffet cafeterias has gradually increased in Taiwan. However, when eating at a buffet in a cafeteria, people often encounter two problems. The first problem is that customers need to queue up to check out after they have selected and filled their dishes from the buffet. However, it always takes too much time waiting, especially at lunch or dinner time. The second problem is sometimes customers question the charges calculated by cafeteria staff, claiming they are too expensive at the checkout counter. Therefore, it is necessary to develop an AI-enabled checkout system. The AI-enabled self-checkout system will help the Bento buffet cafeterias reduce long lineups without the need to add additional workers. In this paper, we used computer vision and deep-learning technology to design and implement an AI-enabled checkout system for Bento buffet cafeterias. The prototype contains an angle steel shelf, a Kinect camera, a light source, and a desktop computer. Six baseline convolutional neural networks were applied for comparison on food recognition. In our experiments, there were 22 different food categories in a Bento buffet cafeteria employed. Experimental results show that the inception_v4 model can achieve the highest average validation accuracy of 99.11% on food recognition, but it requires the most training and recognition time. AlexNet model achieves a 94.5% accuracy and requires the least training time and recognition time. We propose a hierarchical approach with two stages to achieve good performance in both the recognition accuracy rate and the required training and recognition time. The approach is designed to perform the first step of identification and the second step of recognizing similar food images, respectively. Experimental results show that the proposed approach can achieve a 96.3% accuracy rate on our test dataset and required very little recognition time for input images. In addition, food volumes could be estimated using the depth images captured by the Kinect camera, and a framework of visual checkout system was successfully built.


Author(s):  
Shu-Ching Ma ◽  
Willy Chou ◽  
Tsair-Wei Chien ◽  
Julie Chi Chow ◽  
Yu-Tsen Yeh ◽  
...  

BACKGROUND Workplace bullying has been measured in many studies to investigate its effects on mental health issues. However, none have used web-based computerized adaptive testing (CAT) with bully classifications and convolutional neural networks (CNN) for reporting the extent of individual bullying in the workplace. OBJECTIVE This study aims to build a model using CNN to develop an app for automatic detection and classification of nurse bullying-levels, incorporated with online Rasch computerized adaptive testing, to help assess nurse bullying at an earlier stage. METHODS We recruited 960 nurses working in a Taiwan Ch-Mei hospital group to fill out the 22-item Negative Acts Questionnaire-Revised (NAQ-R) in August 2012. The k-mean and the CNN were used as unsupervised and supervised learnings, respectively, for: (1) dividing nurses into three classes (n=918, 29, and 13 with suspicious mild, moderate, and severe extent of being bullied, respectively); and (2) building a bully prediction model to estimate 69 different parameters. Finally, data were separated into training and testing sets in a proportion of 70:30, where the former was used to predict the latter. We calculated the sensitivity, specificity, and receiver operating characteristic curve (area under the curve [AUC]), along with the accuracy across studies for comparison. An app predicting the respondent bullying-level was developed, involving the model’s 69 estimated parameters and the online Rasch CAT module as a website assessment. RESULTS We observed that: (1) the 22-item model yields higher accuracy rates for three categories, with an accuracy of 94% for the total 960 cases, and accuracies of 99% (AUC 0.99; 95% CI 0.99-1.00) and 83% (AUC 0.94; 95% CI 0.82-0.99) for the lower and upper groups (cutoff points at 49 and 66 points) based on the 947 cases and 42 cases, respectively; and (2) the 700-case training set, with 95% accuracy, predicts the 260-case testing set reaching an accuracy of 97. Thus, a NAQ-R app for nurses that predicts bullying-level was successfully developed and demonstrated in this study. CONCLUSIONS The 22-item CNN model, combined with the Rasch online CAT, is recommended for improving the accuracy of the nurse NAQ-R assessment. An app developed for helping nurses self-assess workplace bullying at an early stage is required for application in the future.


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