scholarly journals Performance Analysis of Low-Level and High-Level Intuitive Features for Melanoma Detection

Electronics ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 672 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muniba Ashfaq ◽  
Nasru Minallah ◽  
Zahid Ullah ◽  
Arbab Masood Ahmad ◽  
Aamir Saeed ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Standard Deviation ◽  
Skin Cancer ◽  
Region Of Interest ◽  
Textural Features ◽  
Statistical Parameters ◽  
Melanoma Detection ◽  
Color Features ◽  
Artificial Neural ◽  
Artificial Neural Network Ann ◽  
High Level

This paper presents an intelligent approach for the detection of Melanoma—a deadly skin cancer. The first step in this direction includes the extraction of the textural features of the skin lesion along with the color features. The extracted features are used to train the Multilayer Feed-Forward Artificial Neural Networks. We evaluate the trained networks for the classification of test samples. This work entails three sets of experiments including 50 % , 70 % and 90 % of the data used for training, while the remaining 50 % , 30 % , and 10 % constitute the test sets. Haralick’s statistical parameters are computed for the extraction of textural features from the lesion. Such parameters are based on the Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrices (GLCM) with an offset of 2 , 4 , 8 , 12 , 16 , 20 , 24 and 28, each with an angle of 0 , 45 , 90 and 135 degrees, respectively. In order to distill color features, we have calculated the mean, median and standard deviation of the three color planes of the region of interest. These features are fed to an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) for the detection of skin cancer. The combination of Haralick’s parameters and color features have proven better than considering the features alone. Experimentation based on another set of features such as Asymmetry, Border irregularity, Color and Diameter (ABCD) features usually observed by dermatologists has also been demonstrated. The ‘D’ feature is however modified and named Oblongness. This feature captures the ratio between the length and the width. Furthermore, the use of modified standard deviation coupled with ABCD features improves the detection of Melanoma by an accuracy of 93.7 %

scholarly journals Application of an Artificial Neural Network to Automate the Measurement of Kinematic Characteristics of Punches in Boxing

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 1223
Author(s):  
Ilshat Khasanshin
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Artificial Neural Network ◽  
Kinematic Parameters ◽  
Constant Control ◽  
Measurement Units ◽  
Artificial Neural ◽  
Artificial Neural Network Ann ◽  
Effective Development ◽  
High Level ◽  
Different Levels

This work aimed to study the automation of measuring the speed of punches of boxers during shadow boxing using inertial measurement units (IMUs) based on an artificial neural network (ANN). In boxing, for the effective development of an athlete, constant control of the punch speed is required. However, even when using modern means of measuring kinematic parameters, it is necessary to record the circumstances under which the punch was performed: The type of punch (jab, cross, hook, or uppercut) and the type of activity (shadow boxing, single punch, or series of punches). Therefore, to eliminate errors and accelerate the process, that is, automate measurements, the use of an ANN in the form of a multilayer perceptron (MLP) is proposed. During the experiments, IMUs were installed on the boxers’ wrists. The input parameters of the ANN were the absolute acceleration and angular velocity. The experiment was conducted for three groups of boxers with different levels of training. The developed model showed a high level of punch recognition for all groups, and it can be concluded that the use of the ANN significantly accelerates the collection of data on the kinetic characteristics of boxers’ punches and allows this process to be automated.

scholarly journals Artificial neural network classification-based skin cancer detection

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1.1) ◽  
pp. 591
Author(s):  
M. Shyamala Devi ◽  
A.N. Sruthi ◽  
P. Balamurugan
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Artificial Neural Network ◽  
Skin Cancer ◽  
Back Propagation ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Processing Strategies ◽  
Skin Cancers ◽  
Artificial Neural ◽  
Artificial Neural Network Ann

At present, skin cancers are extremely the most severe and life-threatening kind of cancer. The majority of the pores and skin cancers are completely remediable at premature periods. Therefore, a premature recognition of pores and skin cancer can effectively protect the patients. Due to the progress of modern technology, premature recognition is very easy to identify. It is not extremely complicated to discover the affected pores and skin cancers with the exploitation of Artificial Neural Network (ANN). The treatment procedure exploits image processing strategies and Artificial Intelligence. It must be noted that, the dermoscopy photograph of pores and skin cancer is effectively determined and it is processed to several pre-processing for the purpose of noise eradication and enrichment in image quality. Subsequently, the photograph is distributed through image segmentation by means of thresholding. Few components distinctive for skin most cancers regions. These features are mined the practice of function extraction scheme - 2D Wavelet Transform scheme. These outcomes are provides to the Back-Propagation Neural (BPN) Network for effective classification. This completely categorizes the data set into either cancerous or non-cancerous. 

scholarly journals Melanoma Detection in Dermoscopic Images using Color Features

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sameena Pathan ◽  
Vatsal Aggarwal ◽  
K. Gopalakrishna Prabhu ◽  
P. C. Siddalingaswamy
Keyword(s):  
Region Of Interest ◽  
Ensemble Classifiers ◽  
Dynamic Selection ◽  
Melanoma Detection ◽  
Color Features ◽  
Melanocytic Lesions ◽  
Average Accuracy ◽  
Malignant Lesions

Color is considered to be a major characteristic feature that is used for distinguishing benign and malignant melanocytic lesions. Most of malignant melanomas are characterized by the presence of six suspicious colors inspired from the ABCD dermoscopic rule. The presence of these suspicious colors histopathologically indicates the presence of melanin in the deeper layers of the epidermis and dermis. The objective of the proposed work is to evaluate the role of color features, a set of fifteen color features have been extracted from the region of interest to determine the role of color in malignancy detection. Further, a set of ensemble classifiers with dynamic selection techniques are used for classification of the extracted features, yielding an average accuracy of 87.5% for classifying benign and malignant lesions.

scholarly journals Comparison of partial least squares and artificial neural network chemometric techniques in determination of sulfamethoxazole and trimethoprim in pharmaceutical suspension by ATR–FTIR spectrometry

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Khanmohammadi ◽  
N. Dallali ◽  
A. Bagheri Garmarudi ◽  
M. Zarnegar ◽  
K. Ghasemi
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Artificial Neural Network ◽  
Partial Least Square ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Statistical Parameters ◽  
Modified Method ◽  
Ftir Spectrometry ◽  
Artificial Neural ◽  
Artificial Neural Network Ann

Partial Least Square (PLS) and Artificial Neural Network (ANN) techniques were compared during development of an analytical method for quantitative determination of sulfamethoxazole (SMX) and trimethoprim (TMP) in Co-Trimoxazole®suspension. The procedure was based on Attenuated Total Reflectance Fourier Transform Infrared (ATR–FTIR) spectrometry. The 800–2500 cm−1spectral region was selected for quantitative analysis.R2and relative error of prediction (REP) in PLS technique were (0.989, 2.128) and (0.986, 1.381) for SMX and TMP, respectively. These statistical parameters were improved using the ANN models considering the complexity of the sample and the speediness and simplicity of the method.R2and RMSEC in modified method were (0.997, 1.064) and (0.997, 0.634) for SMX and TMP, respectively.

scholarly journals A High-Accuracy Mathematical Morphology and Multilayer Perceptron-Based Approach for Melanoma Detection

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 1098 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luz-María Sánchez-Reyes ◽  
Juvenal Rodríguez-Reséndiz ◽  
Sebastián Salazar-Colores ◽  
Gloria Nélida Avecilla-Ramírez ◽  
Gerardo Israel Pérez-Soto
Keyword(s):  
Skin Cancer ◽  
Mathematical Morphology ◽  
Multilayer Perceptron ◽  
Color Space ◽  
Region Of Interest ◽  
World Health ◽  
Assistive Device ◽  
Melanoma Detection ◽  
Art Works ◽  
Health Organization

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), melanoma is the most severe type of skin cancer and is the leading cause of death from skin cancer worldwide. Certain features of melanoma include size, shape, color, or texture changes of a mole. In this work, a novel, robust and efficient method for the detection and classification of melanoma in simple and dermatological images is proposed. It is achieved by using HSV (Hue, Saturation, Value) color space along with mathematical morphology and a Gaussian filter to detect the region of interest and estimate four descriptors: symmetry, edge, color, and size. Although these descriptors have been used for several years, the way they are computed for this proposal is one of the things that enhances the results. Subsequently, a multilayer perceptron is employed to classify between malignant and benign melanoma. Three datasets of simple and dermatological images commonly used in the literature were employed to train and evaluate the performance of the proposed method. According to k-fold cross-validation, the method outperforms three state-of-art works, achieving an accuracy of 98.5% and 98.6%, a sensitivity of 96.68% and 98.05%, and a specificity of 98.15%, and 98.01%, in simple and dermatological images, respectively. The results have proven that its use as an assistive device for the detection of melanoma would improve reliability levels compared to conventional methods.

scholarly journals Prediction of annual runoff using Artificial Neural Network and Regression approaches

MAUSAM ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
N. VIVEKANANDAN
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Artificial Neural Network ◽  
Absolute Error ◽  
Annual Runoff ◽  
Rainfall Runoff ◽  
Statistical Parameters ◽  
Runoff Prediction ◽  
Model Efficiency ◽  
Artificial Neural ◽  
Artificial Neural Network Ann

Prediction of runoff is often important for optimal design of water storage and drainage works andmanagement of extreme events like floods and droughts. Rainfall-runoff (RR) models are considered to be most effectiveand expedient tool for runoff prediction. Number of models like stochastic, conceptual, deterministic, black-box, etc. iscommonly available for RR modelling. This paper details a study involving the use of Artificial Neural Network (ANN)and Regression (REG) approaches for prediction of runoff for Betwa and Chambal regions. Model performanceindicators such as model efficiency, correlation coefficient, root mean square error and root mean absolute error are usedto evaluate the performance of ANN and REG for runoff prediction. Statistical parameters are employed to find theaccuracy in prediction by ANN and REG for the data under study. The paper presents that ANN approach is found to besuitable for prediction of runoff for Betwa and Chambal regions.

scholarly journals Prediction of University Student Performance Based on Tracer Study Dataset Using Artificial Neural Network

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 72-82
Author(s):  
Zahrina Aulia Adriani ◽  
Irma Palupi
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Artificial Neural Network ◽  
Standard Deviation ◽  
Student Performance ◽  
Cross Validation ◽  
Training Data ◽  
Tracer Study ◽  
Artificial Neural ◽  
Artificial Neural Network Ann ◽  
Fold Cross Validation

In order to increase student performance, several universities use machine learning to analyze and evaluate their data so that it enables to improve the quality of education in the university. To get a new insight from the tracer study dataset as the relevance between university performance and student capability with business and industries work, the author will develop a model to predict student performance based on the tracer study dataset using Artificial Neural Network (ANN). For obtaining attributes that correspond to labels, Phi Coefficient Correlation will be used to select the attributes with high correlation as Feature Selection. The author is also performing the oversampling method using Synthetic Minority Oversampling Technique (SMOTE) because this dataset is imbalanced and evaluates the model using K-Fold Cross-Validation. According to K-Fold Cross Validation, the result shows that K = 3 has a low standard deviation of evaluation score and it's the best candidate of K to split the dataset. The average standard deviation is 0.038 for all score evaluations (Accuracy, Precision, Recall, and F-1 Score). After applied SMOTE to treating the imbalanced dataset with the data splitting 65 training data and 35 testing data, the accuracy value increases by 10% from 0.77 to 0.87.

scholarly journals Biometric handwriting analysis to support Parkinson’s Disease assessment and grading

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (S9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Giacomo Donato Cascarano ◽  
Claudio Loconsole ◽  
Antonio Brunetti ◽  
Antonio Lattarulo ◽  
Domenico Buongiorno ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Parkinson’S Disease ◽  
Parkinson's Disease ◽  
Healthy Subjects ◽  
Muscle Activation ◽  
Medical Decision ◽  
Disease Assessment ◽  
Handwriting Analysis ◽  
Artificial Neural ◽  
Artificial Neural Network Ann ◽  
High Level

Abstract Background Handwriting represents one of the major symptom in Parkinson’s Disease (PD) patients. The computer-aided analysis of the handwriting allows for the identification of promising patterns that might be useful in PD detection and rating. In this study, we propose an innovative set of features extracted by geometrical, dynamical and muscle activation signals acquired during handwriting tasks, and evaluate the contribution of such features in detecting and rating PD by means of artificial neural networks. Methods Eleven healthy subjects and twenty-one PD patients were enrolled in this study. Each involved subject was asked to write three different patterns on a graphic tablet while wearing the Myo Armband used to collect the muscle activation signals of the main forearm muscles. We have then extracted several features related to the written pattern, the movement of the pen and the pressure exerted with the pen and the muscle activations. The computed features have been used to classify healthy subjects versus PD patients and to discriminate mild PD patients from moderate PD patients by using an artificial neural network (ANN). Results After the training and evaluation of different ANN topologies, the obtained results showed that the proposed features have high relevance in PD detection and rating. In particular, we found that our approach both detect and rate (mild and moderate PD) with a classification accuracy higher than 90%. Conclusions In this paper we have investigated the representativeness of a set of proposed features related to handwriting tasks in PD detection and rating. In particular, we used an ANN to classify healthy subjects and PD patients (PD detection), and to classify mild and moderate PD patients (PD rating). The implemented and tested methods showed promising results proven by the high level of accuracy, sensitivity and specificity. Such results suggest the usability of the proposed setup in clinical settings to support the medical decision about Parkinson’s Disease.

scholarly journals On logical inference over brains, behaviour, and artificial neural networks

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olivia Guest ◽  
Andrea E. Martin
Keyword(s):  
Brain Activity ◽  
Modus Ponens ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Logical Inference ◽  
Ann Model ◽  
Mind And Brain ◽  
Artificial Neural ◽  
Affirming The Consequent ◽  
Artificial Neural Network Ann ◽  
High Level

In the cognitive, computational, and neuro- sciences, we often reason about what models (viz., formal and/or computational) represent, learn, or "know", as well as what algorithm they instantiate. The putative goal of such reasoning is to generalize claims about the model in question to claims about the mind and brain. This reasoning process typically presents as inference about the representations, processes, or algorithms the human mind and brain instantiate. Such inference is often based on a model's performance on a task, and whether that performance approximates human behaviour or brain activity. The model in question is often an artificial neural network (ANN) model, though the problems we discuss are generalizable to all reasoning over models. Arguments typically take the form "the brain does what the ANN does because the ANN reproduced the pattern seen in brain activity" or "cognition works this way because the ANN learned to approximate task performance." Then, the argument concludes that models achieve this outcome by doing what people do or having the capacities people have. At first blush, this might appear as a form of modus ponens, a valid deductive logical inference rule. However, as we explain in this article, this is not the case, and thus, this form of argument eventually results in affirming the consequent – a logical or inferential fallacy. We discuss what this means broadly for research in cognitive science, neuroscience, and psychology; what it means for models when they lose the ability to mediate between theory and data in a meaningful way; and what this means for the logic, the metatheoretical calculus, our fields deploy in high-level scientific inference.

scholarly journals Prophecy of Stock Price of Bharat Immunological & Biological Corporation Ltd using Hybrid ANN and PSO Model

2021 ◽  
pp. 27-35
Author(s):  
Mohammed Siddique ◽  
Siba Prasad Mishra
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Artificial Neural Network ◽  
Stock Market ◽  
Stock Price ◽  
Financial Risk ◽  
Ann Model ◽  
Empirical Prediction ◽  
Artificial Neural ◽  
Artificial Neural Network Ann ◽  
High Level

The prediction of the time series has always attracted much interest from investors and researchers to evaluate financial risk. Stock market movements are extremely complex and are influenced by different factors. Hence it is very important to find the most important factors for the stock market. But the high level of noise and complexity of the financial data makes this job very difficult. Many authors have already used artificial neural network for this kind of forecasting tasks, but hybridization model of artificial neural network is considered to be widely used and better performing forecasting model among others. The dormant high noises data mess up the performance, so to enhance the prediction accuracy. We considered a set of seven technical attribute of stock market to perform the hybrid model of Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and Particle Swarm Optimization algorithms. The efficiency of the proposed method is measured by the stock price of Bharat Immunological & Biological Corporation Ltd with 3945 number of daily transactional data. Empirical prediction analysis shows that the proposed model enhances the performance in comparison to simple ANN model.

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