scholarly journals Unsupervised Machine Learning on Domes in the Lunar Gardner Region: Implications for Dome Classification and Local Magmatic Activities on the Moon

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 845
Author(s):  
Yuchao Chen ◽  
Qian Huang ◽  
Jiannan Zhao ◽  
Xiangyun Hu

Lunar volcanic domes are essential windows into the local magmatic activities on the Moon. Classification of domes is a useful way to figure out the relationship between dome appearances and formation processes. Previous studies of dome classification were manually or semi-automatically carried out either qualitatively or quantitively. We applied an unsupervised machine-learning method to domes that are annularly or radially distributed around Gardner, a unique central-vent volcano located in the northern part of the Mare Tranquillitatis. High-resolution lunar imaging and spectral data were used to extract morphometric and spectral properties of domes in both the Gardner volcano and its surrounding region in the Mare Tranquillitatis. An integrated robust Fuzzy C-Means clustering algorithm was performed on 120 combinations of five morphometric (diameter, area, height, surface volume, and slope) and two elemental features (FeO and TiO2 contents) to find the optimum combination. Rheological features of domes and their dike formation parameters were calculated for dome-forming lava explanations. Results show that diameter, area, surface volume, and slope are the selected optimum features for dome clustering. 54 studied domes can be grouped into four dome clusters (DC1 to DC4). DC1 domes are relatively small, steep, and close to the Gardner volcano, with forming lavas of high viscosities and low effusion rates, representing the latest Eratosthenian dome formation stage of the Gardner volcano. Domes of DC2 to DC4 are relatively large, smooth, and widely distributed, with forming lavas of low viscosities and high effusion rates, representing magmatic activities varying from Imbrian to Eratosthenian in the northern Mare Tranquillitatis. The integrated algorithm provides a new and independent way to figure out the representative properties of lunar domes and helps us further clarify the relationship between dome clusters and local magma activities of the Moon.

Algorithms ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (9) ◽  
pp. 258
Author(s):  
Tran Dinh Khang ◽  
Manh-Kien Tran ◽  
Michael Fowler

Clustering is an unsupervised machine learning method with many practical applications that has gathered extensive research interest. It is a technique of dividing data elements into clusters such that elements in the same cluster are similar. Clustering belongs to the group of unsupervised machine learning techniques, meaning that there is no information about the labels of the elements. However, when knowledge of data points is known in advance, it will be beneficial to use a semi-supervised algorithm. Within many clustering techniques available, fuzzy C-means clustering (FCM) is a common one. To make the FCM algorithm a semi-supervised method, it was proposed in the literature to use an auxiliary matrix to adjust the membership grade of the elements to force them into certain clusters during the computation. In this study, instead of using the auxiliary matrix, we proposed to use multiple fuzzification coefficients to implement the semi-supervision component. After deriving the proposed semi-supervised fuzzy C-means clustering algorithm with multiple fuzzification coefficients (sSMC-FCM), we demonstrated the convergence of the algorithm and validated the efficiency of the method through a numerical example.


2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 780-787
Author(s):  
Ibrahim Hassan Hayatu ◽  
Abdullahi Mohammed ◽  
Barroon Ahmad Isma’eel ◽  
Sahabi Yusuf Ali

Soil fertility determines a plant's development process that guarantees food sufficiency and the security of lives and properties through bumper harvests. The fertility of soil varies according to regions, thereby determining the type of crops to be planted. However, there is no repository or any source of information about the fertility of the soil in any region in Nigeria especially the Northwest of the country. The only available information is soil samples with their attributes which gives little or no information to the average farmer. This has affected crop yield in all the regions, more particularly the Northwest region, thus resulting in lower food production.  Therefore, this study is aimed at classifying soil data based on their fertility in the Northwest region of Nigeria using R programming. Data were obtained from the department of soil science from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. The data contain 400 soil samples containing 13 attributes. The relationship between soil attributes was observed based on the data. K-means clustering algorithm was employed in analyzing soil fertility clusters. Four clusters were identified with cluster 1 having the highest fertility, followed by 2 and the fertility decreases with an increasing number of clusters. The identification of the most fertile clusters will guide farmers on where best to concentrate on when planting their crops in order to improve productivity and crop yield.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 5230
Author(s):  
Isabel Santiago ◽  
Jorge Luis Esquivel-Martin ◽  
David Trillo-Montero ◽  
Rafael Jesús Real-Calvo ◽  
Víctor Pallarés-López

In this work, the automatic classification of daily irradiance profiles registered in a photovoltaic installation located in the south of Spain was carried out for a period of nine years, with a sampling frequency of 5 min, and the subsequent analysis of the operation of the elements of the installation on each type of day was also performed. The classification was based on the total daily irradiance values and the fluctuations of this parameter throughout the day. The irradiance profiles were grouped into nine different categories using unsupervised machine learning algorithms for clustering, implemented in Python. It was found that the behaviour of the modules and the inverter of the installation was influenced by the type of day obtained, such that the latter worked with a better average efficiency on days with higher irradiance and lower fluctuations. However, the modules worked with better average efficiency on days with irradiance fluctuations than on clear sky days. This behaviour of the modules may be due to the presence, on days with passing clouds, of the phenomenon known as cloud enhancement, in which, due to reflections of radiation on the edges of the clouds, irradiance values can be higher at certain moments than those that occur on clear sky days, without passing clouds. This is due to the higher energy generated during these irradiance peaks and to the lower temperatures that the module reaches due to the shaded areas created by the clouds, resulting in a reduction in its temperature losses.


Author(s):  
Maoan Wei ◽  
Shijiu Jin ◽  
Likun Wang ◽  
Yan Zhou

It is very difficult to generalize the relationship between MFL signal and the defect geometric parameters of the pipeline because the relationship is nonlinear. Many applications of wavelet neural network on this field show that the defect geometric parameters can be obtained with this method to some extent. However, the initial centers have great influence on performance of the network. Hierarchical clustering algorithm is proposed in this paper and applied to classification of defect samples, centers selection and calculation of basis function width. With this algorithm, clusters similarity is computed to create tree structure and the perfect clustering is obtained. The sample set created from finite element defect simulation are used to train and validate the efficiency and reliability of the network based on hierarchical clustering algorithm. The experiment shows that the training speed and the prediction precision of the network can be improved simulataneously.


Electronics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 554 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Cardone ◽  
Ferdinando Di Martino

One of the main drawbacks of the well-known Fuzzy C-means clustering algorithm (FCM) is the random initialization of the centers of the clusters as it can significantly affect the performance of the algorithm, thus not guaranteeing an optimal solution and increasing execution times. In this paper we propose a variation of FCM in which the initial optimal cluster centers are obtained by implementing a weighted FCM algorithm in which the weights are assigned by calculating a Shannon Fuzzy Entropy function. The results of the comparison tests applied on various classification datasets of the UCI Machine Learning Repository show that our algorithm improved in all cases relating to the performances of FCM.


2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 4476-4480

Detection of lesions and classification of Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) play an important role in day-to-day life. In this proposed system, colour fundus image is pre-processed using morphological operations to recover from noises and it is converted into HSV colorspace. Fuzzy C-Means Clustering algorithm (FCMC) is used for segmenting the early stage lesions such as Microaneurysms (Ma), Haemorrhages (HE) and Exudates. Hybrid features such as colour correlogram and speeded up robust features (surf) are extracted to train the classifier. Cascaded Rotation Forest (CRF) classifier is used for classification of diabetic retinopathy. The proposed system increases the accuracy of detection and it has got high sensitivity.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anil Kumar ◽  
Manish Prateek

Abstract Background: This study aimed significance of Ki-67 labels and calculated the proliferation score based on the counting of immunopositive and immunonegative nuclear sections with the help of machine learning to predict the intensity of breast carcinoma.Methods: BreCaHAD (Breast Cancer Histopathological Annotation and Diagnosis) dataset includes various malignant cases of different patients in their routine diagnosis. It contains H&E stained microscopic histopathological images at 40x magnification and stored in .tiff format using RGB band. In this study, the method start with preprocessing that focuses on resizing, smoothing and enhancement. After preprocessing, it is decomposed RGB sample into HSI values. BreCaHAD data set is hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) stained, where brown and blue color level have a major role to differentiate the immunopositive and immunonegative nuclear sections. Blue color in RGB and Hue in HSI are the intrinsic characteristic of H&E Ki-67. The shape parameters are calculated after segmentation preceded by Otsu thresholding and unsupervised machine learning. Morphological operators help to solve the problem of overlapping of nucleus section in sample images so that the counting will be correct and increase the accuracy of automatic segmentation.Result: With the help of nine morphological features and supported by unsupervised machine learning technique on BreCaHAD dataset, it is predicted the label of breast carcinoma. The performance measures like precision: 95.7%, recall: 93.8%, f-score: 94.74%, accuracy: 0.9088, specificity: 0.6803, BCR: 0.7975 and MCC: 0.5855 are obtained in proposed methodology which is better than existing techniques. Conclusion: This study developed an efficient automated nuclear section segmentation model implemented on BreCaHAD dataset contains H&E stained microscopic biopsy images. Potentially, this model will assist the pathologist for fast, effective, efficient and accurate computation of Ki-67 proliferation score on breast IHC carcinoma images.


India is an agricultural country. A total of 61.5% of the people cultivate in India. Due to lack of agricultural land and change of weather, manytypes of diseases occur on crops and insects are born.Therefore, the production of crops is coming down. To reduce this problem, Internet of Things technology will prove to be an important role. In this system, a sensor network will be created on agricultural land using Raspberry Pi 3 model. The images of the crops will be taken by sensor cameras and these images will be sent to the cloud server via Raspberry Pi 3 model. In this proposed methodology, various image processing techniques willbe apply on acquired images for classification of crop diseases using k-means clustering algorithm with unsupervised machine learning. This paper will also shows the method of image processing technique such as image acquisition, image pre-processing, image segmentation and feature extraction for classification of crop diseases.In bad natural environment, the farmers can produce quality crops and people will get healthy foodby this proposed methodologyand make more profit.In real time treatme


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