scholarly journals Prediction of the Hardness of X12m Using Barkhausen Noise and Chebyshev Polynomials Regression Methods

Author(s):  
Zibo Li ◽  
Shicheng Li ◽  
Donghao Wang ◽  
Guangmin Sun ◽  
Cunfu He ◽  
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Barkhausen noise (BN) is electromagnetic pulse sequence that could be used to nondestructively predict the properties of materials such as hardness, residual stress and carbon content. Current BN signal analysis methods fail to describe the highly variated BN signal and achieve high regression accuracy due to the low interpretability of neural network and limited capacity of mathematical regression tools. In this paper, two multi-variable regression tools, named partial Chebyshev polynomial regression (PCPR) and Mutual Information-based Feature Selection with Class-dependent Redundancy and multi-variable Chebyshev polynomials regression (MIFS-CR+MCPR), are employed for the first time to predict the hardness of Cr12MoV steel (i.e. X12m). Combined with Chebyshev polynomials, our regression tools are designed on the basis of cascaded regression and mutual-information-based feature selection. As represented by the experimental results for predicting the hardness of X12m, the proposed method outperforms other comparative methods including neural network and partial linear square regression method.

Entropy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 711
Author(s):  
Mina Basirat ◽  
Bernhard C. Geiger ◽  
Peter M. Roth

Information plane analysis, describing the mutual information between the input and a hidden layer and between a hidden layer and the target over time, has recently been proposed to analyze the training of neural networks. Since the activations of a hidden layer are typically continuous-valued, this mutual information cannot be computed analytically and must thus be estimated, resulting in apparently inconsistent or even contradicting results in the literature. The goal of this paper is to demonstrate how information plane analysis can still be a valuable tool for analyzing neural network training. To this end, we complement the prevailing binning estimator for mutual information with a geometric interpretation. With this geometric interpretation in mind, we evaluate the impact of regularization and interpret phenomena such as underfitting and overfitting. In addition, we investigate neural network learning in the presence of noisy data and noisy labels.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Li-Hsin Cheng ◽  
Te-Cheng Hsu ◽  
Che Lin

AbstractBreast cancer is a heterogeneous disease. To guide proper treatment decisions for each patient, robust prognostic biomarkers, which allow reliable prognosis prediction, are necessary. Gene feature selection based on microarray data is an approach to discover potential biomarkers systematically. However, standard pure-statistical feature selection approaches often fail to incorporate prior biological knowledge and select genes that lack biological insights. Besides, due to the high dimensionality and low sample size properties of microarray data, selecting robust gene features is an intrinsically challenging problem. We hence combined systems biology feature selection with ensemble learning in this study, aiming to select genes with biological insights and robust prognostic predictive power. Moreover, to capture breast cancer's complex molecular processes, we adopted a multi-gene approach to predict the prognosis status using deep learning classifiers. We found that all ensemble approaches could improve feature selection robustness, wherein the hybrid ensemble approach led to the most robust result. Among all prognosis prediction models, the bimodal deep neural network (DNN) achieved the highest test performance, further verified by survival analysis. In summary, this study demonstrated the potential of combining ensemble learning and bimodal DNN in guiding precision medicine.


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