scholarly journals Application of Artificial Intelligence to Determined Unconfined Compressive Strength of Cement-Stabilized Soil in Vietnam

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 1949
Author(s):  
Huong Thi Thanh Ngo ◽  
Tuan Anh Pham ◽  
Huong Lan Thi Vu ◽  
Loi Van Giap

Cement stabilized soil is one of the commonly used as ground reinforcement solutions in geotechnical engineering. In this study, the main object was to apply three machine learning (ML) methods namely gradient boosting (GB), artificial neural network (ANN) and support vector machine (SVM) to predict unconfined compressive strength (UCS) of cement stabilized soil. Soil samples were collected at Hai Duong city, Vietnam. A total of 216 soil–cement samples were mixed in the laboratory and compressed to determine the UCS. This data set is divided into two parts of the training data set (80%) and testing set (20%) to build and test the model, respectively. To verify the performance of ML model, various criteria named correlation coefficient (R), mean absolute error (MAE) and root mean square error (RMSE) were used. The results show that all three ML models were effective methods to predict the UCS of cement-stabilized soil. Amongst three model used in this study, optimized ANN model provided superior performance compare to two others models with performance indicator R = 0.925, RMSE = 419.82 and MAE = 292.2 for testing part. This study can provide an effective tool to quickly predict the UCS of cement stabilized soil with high accuracy.

2020 ◽  
pp. 865-874
Author(s):  
Enrico Santus ◽  
Tal Schuster ◽  
Amir M. Tahmasebi ◽  
Clara Li ◽  
Adam Yala ◽  
...  

PURPOSE Literature on clinical note mining has highlighted the superiority of machine learning (ML) over hand-crafted rules. Nevertheless, most studies assume the availability of large training sets, which is rarely the case. For this reason, in the clinical setting, rules are still common. We suggest 2 methods to leverage the knowledge encoded in pre-existing rules to inform ML decisions and obtain high performance, even with scarce annotations. METHODS We collected 501 prostate pathology reports from 6 American hospitals. Reports were split into 2,711 core segments, annotated with 20 attributes describing the histology, grade, extension, and location of tumors. The data set was split by institutions to generate a cross-institutional evaluation setting. We assessed 4 systems, namely a rule-based approach, an ML model, and 2 hybrid systems integrating the previous methods: a Rule as Feature model and a Classifier Confidence model. Several ML algorithms were tested, including logistic regression (LR), support vector machine (SVM), and eXtreme gradient boosting (XGB). RESULTS When training on data from a single institution, LR lags behind the rules by 3.5% (F1 score: 92.2% v 95.7%). Hybrid models, instead, obtain competitive results, with Classifier Confidence outperforming the rules by +0.5% (96.2%). When a larger amount of data from multiple institutions is used, LR improves by +1.5% over the rules (97.2%), whereas hybrid systems obtain +2.2% for Rule as Feature (97.7%) and +2.6% for Classifier Confidence (98.3%). Replacing LR with SVM or XGB yielded similar performance gains. CONCLUSION We developed methods to use pre-existing handcrafted rules to inform ML algorithms. These hybrid systems obtain better performance than either rules or ML models alone, even when training data are limited.


2020 ◽  
Vol 986 ◽  
pp. 9-17
Author(s):  
Ashraf Shaqadan

A laboratory analysis of concrete samples requires significant experimental time and cost. In addition, advancement in data mining provide valuable tool for researchers to extract information regarding relations among experiment and physical properties in a more elaborate way to improve prediction models performance and guide concrete mix design. A 90 samples data set is developed and used in this research. The experiment is designed to study the effect of natural silica addition at different levels on physical properties of concrete mainly compressive strength. Compressive strength is measured after 3 and 28 days for different levels of milling time. Support vector regression and neural network models are developed for predicting the compressive strength of concrete using five input variables including silica additive fraction. The SVR model metrics are compared with ANN model and showed good correlation coefficient of 0.929 but less than ANN. The advantage of SVR over ANN is shown in the developed regression model which can be interpreted physically. The silica fraction variable ranked third after curing time and cement ratio variable which indicates its importance.


2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (9) ◽  
pp. 662-669 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junnan Zhao ◽  
Lu Zhu ◽  
Weineng Zhou ◽  
Lingfeng Yin ◽  
Yuchen Wang ◽  
...  

Background: Thrombin is the central protease of the vertebrate blood coagulation cascade, which is closely related to cardiovascular diseases. The inhibitory constant Ki is the most significant property of thrombin inhibitors. Method: This study was carried out to predict Ki values of thrombin inhibitors based on a large data set by using machine learning methods. Taking advantage of finding non-intuitive regularities on high-dimensional datasets, machine learning can be used to build effective predictive models. A total of 6554 descriptors for each compound were collected and an efficient descriptor selection method was chosen to find the appropriate descriptors. Four different methods including multiple linear regression (MLR), K Nearest Neighbors (KNN), Gradient Boosting Regression Tree (GBRT) and Support Vector Machine (SVM) were implemented to build prediction models with these selected descriptors. Results: The SVM model was the best one among these methods with R2=0.84, MSE=0.55 for the training set and R2=0.83, MSE=0.56 for the test set. Several validation methods such as yrandomization test and applicability domain evaluation, were adopted to assess the robustness and generalization ability of the model. The final model shows excellent stability and predictive ability and can be employed for rapid estimation of the inhibitory constant, which is full of help for designing novel thrombin inhibitors.


2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (8) ◽  
pp. 1088-1105
Author(s):  
Nafiseh Vahedi ◽  
Majid Mohammadhosseini ◽  
Mehdi Nekoei

Background: The poly(ADP-ribose) polymerases (PARP) is a nuclear enzyme superfamily present in eukaryotes. Methods: In the present report, some efficient linear and non-linear methods including multiple linear regression (MLR), support vector machine (SVM) and artificial neural networks (ANN) were successfully used to develop and establish quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) models capable of predicting pEC50 values of tetrahydropyridopyridazinone derivatives as effective PARP inhibitors. Principal component analysis (PCA) was used to a rational division of the whole data set and selection of the training and test sets. A genetic algorithm (GA) variable selection method was employed to select the optimal subset of descriptors that have the most significant contributions to the overall inhibitory activity from the large pool of calculated descriptors. Results: The accuracy and predictability of the proposed models were further confirmed using crossvalidation, validation through an external test set and Y-randomization (chance correlations) approaches. Moreover, an exhaustive statistical comparison was performed on the outputs of the proposed models. The results revealed that non-linear modeling approaches, including SVM and ANN could provide much more prediction capabilities. Conclusion: Among the constructed models and in terms of root mean square error of predictions (RMSEP), cross-validation coefficients (Q2 LOO and Q2 LGO), as well as R2 and F-statistical value for the training set, the predictive power of the GA-SVM approach was better. However, compared with MLR and SVM, the statistical parameters for the test set were more proper using the GA-ANN model.


Author(s):  
Mehdi Bouslama ◽  
Leonardo Pisani ◽  
Diogo Haussen ◽  
Raul Nogueira

Introduction : Prognostication is an integral part of clinical decision‐making in stroke care. Machine learning (ML) methods have gained increasing popularity in the medical field due to their flexibility and high performance. Using a large comprehensive stroke center registry, we sought to apply various ML techniques for 90‐day stroke outcome predictions after thrombectomy. Methods : We used individual patient data from our prospectively collected thrombectomy database between 09/2010 and 03/2020. Patients with anterior circulation strokes (Internal Carotid Artery, Middle Cerebral Artery M1, M2, or M3 segments and Anterior Cerebral Artery) and complete records were included. Our primary outcome was 90‐day functional independence (defined as modified Rankin Scale score 0–2). Pre‐ and post‐procedure models were developed. Four known ML algorithms (support vector machine, random forest, gradient boosting, and artificial neural network) were implemented using a 70/30 training‐test data split and 10‐fold cross‐validation on the training data for model calibration. Discriminative performance was evaluated using the area under the receiver operator characteristics curve (AUC) metric. Results : Among 1248 patients with anterior circulation large vessel occlusion stroke undergoing thrombectomy during the study period, 1020 had complete records and were included in the analysis. In the training data (n = 714), 49.3% of the patients achieved independence at 90‐days. Fifteen baseline clinical, laboratory and neuroimaging features were used to develop the pre‐procedural models, with four additional parameters included in the post‐procedure models. For the preprocedural models, the highest AUC was 0.797 (95%CI [0.75‐ 0.85]) for the gradient boosting model. Similarly, the same ML technique performed best on post‐procedural data and had an improved discriminative performance compared to the pre‐procedure model with an AUC of 0.82 (95%CI [0.77‐ 0.87]). Conclusions : Our pre‐and post‐procedural models reliably estimated outcomes in stroke patients undergoing thrombectomy. They represent a step forward in creating simple and efficient prognostication tools to aid treatment decision‐making. A web‐based platform and related mobile app are underway.


2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (16) ◽  
pp. 2757-2765 ◽  
Author(s):  
Balachandran Manavalan ◽  
Shaherin Basith ◽  
Tae Hwan Shin ◽  
Leyi Wei ◽  
Gwang Lee

AbstractMotivationCardiovascular disease is the primary cause of death globally accounting for approximately 17.7 million deaths per year. One of the stakes linked with cardiovascular diseases and other complications is hypertension. Naturally derived bioactive peptides with antihypertensive activities serve as promising alternatives to pharmaceutical drugs. So far, there is no comprehensive analysis, assessment of diverse features and implementation of various machine-learning (ML) algorithms applied for antihypertensive peptide (AHTP) model construction.ResultsIn this study, we utilized six different ML algorithms, namely, Adaboost, extremely randomized tree (ERT), gradient boosting (GB), k-nearest neighbor, random forest (RF) and support vector machine (SVM) using 51 feature descriptors derived from eight different feature encodings for the prediction of AHTPs. While ERT-based trained models performed consistently better than other algorithms regardless of various feature descriptors, we treated them as baseline predictors, whose predicted probability of AHTPs was further used as input features separately for four different ML-algorithms (ERT, GB, RF and SVM) and developed their corresponding meta-predictors using a two-step feature selection protocol. Subsequently, the integration of four meta-predictors through an ensemble learning approach improved the balanced prediction performance and model robustness on the independent dataset. Upon comparison with existing methods, mAHTPred showed superior performance with an overall improvement of approximately 6–7% in both benchmarking and independent datasets.Availability and implementationThe user-friendly online prediction tool, mAHTPred is freely accessible at http://thegleelab.org/mAHTPred.Supplementary informationSupplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.


2009 ◽  
Vol 2009 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aly Ahmed ◽  
Medhat Shehata ◽  
Said Easa

An experimental work was conducted to study the use of factory-waste roof shingles to enhance the properties of fine-grained soil used in road works. Cement kiln dust (CKD), a cogenerated product of Portland cement manufacturing, was used as a stabilizing agent while the processed shingles were added to enhance the soil tensile strength. The effects of shingles on strength and stability were evaluated using the unconfined compressive strength, splitting tensile strength, and California Bearing Ratio (CBR) tests. The results showed that the use of CKD alone resulted in a considerable increase in the unconfined compressive strength but had a small effect on the tensile strength. The addition of shingles substantially improved the tensile strength of the stabilized soil. A significant reduction in the capillary rise and a slight decrease in the permeability were obtained as a result of shingle addition. An optimal shingle content of 10% is recommended to stabilize the soil.


2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 569-581 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sujata Rani ◽  
Parteek Kumar

Abstract In this article, an innovative approach to perform the sentiment analysis (SA) has been presented. The proposed system handles the issues of Romanized or abbreviated text and spelling variations in the text to perform the sentiment analysis. The training data set of 3,000 movie reviews and tweets has been manually labeled by native speakers of Hindi in three classes, i.e. positive, negative, and neutral. The system uses WEKA (Waikato Environment for Knowledge Analysis) tool to convert these string data into numerical matrices and applies three machine learning techniques, i.e. Naive Bayes (NB), J48, and support vector machine (SVM). The proposed system has been tested on 100 movie reviews and tweets, and it has been observed that SVM has performed best in comparison to other classifiers, and it has an accuracy of 68% for movie reviews and 82% in case of tweets. The results of the proposed system are very promising and can be used in emerging applications like SA of product reviews and social media analysis. Additionally, the proposed system can be used in other cultural/social benefits like predicting/fighting human riots.


Measurement ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 113 ◽  
pp. 99-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sepehr Soleimani ◽  
Shabnam Rajaei ◽  
Pengcheng Jiao ◽  
Arash Sabz ◽  
Sina Soheilinia

Materials ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 489
Author(s):  
Fadi Almohammed ◽  
Parveen Sihag ◽  
Saad Sh. Sammen ◽  
Krzysztof Adam Ostrowski ◽  
Karan Singh ◽  
...  

In this investigation, the potential of M5P, Random Tree (RT), Reduced Error Pruning Tree (REP Tree), Random Forest (RF), and Support Vector Regression (SVR) techniques have been evaluated and compared with the multiple linear regression-based model (MLR) to be used for prediction of the compressive strength of bacterial concrete. For this purpose, 128 experimental observations have been collected. The total data set has been divided into two segments such as training (87 observations) and testing (41 observations). The process of data set separation was arbitrary. Cement, Aggregate, Sand, Water to Cement Ratio, Curing time, Percentage of Bacteria, and type of sand were the input variables, whereas the compressive strength of bacterial concrete has been considered as the final target. Seven performance evaluation indices such as Correlation Coefficient (CC), Coefficient of determination (R2), Mean Absolute Error (MAE), Root Mean Square Error (RMSE), Bias, Nash-Sutcliffe Efficiency (NSE), and Scatter Index (SI) have been used to evaluate the performance of the developed models. Outcomes of performance evaluation indices recommend that the Polynomial kernel function based SVR model works better than other developed models with CC values as 0.9919, 0.9901, R2 values as 0.9839, 0.9803, NSE values as 0.9832, 0.9800, and lower values of RMSE are 1.5680, 1.9384, MAE is 0.7854, 1.5155, Bias are 0.2353, 0.1350 and SI are 0.0347, 0.0414 for training and testing stages, respectively. The sensitivity investigation shows that the curing time (T) is the vital input variable affecting the prediction of the compressive strength of bacterial concrete, using this data set.


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