Accurate Pseudo Log Prediction Using Machine Learning Based Automatic Log Regularization and Feature Augmentation Method

Objectives/Scope: The performance of ML-based rock properties prediction from seismic with limited and sparse well data is very often inadequate. To address this limitation, we propose a novel automatic well log regularization (ALR) method with specially designed feature augmentation strategy to improve the prediction accuracy. The effectiveness of ALR method is showcased on field data in Malay basin where we successfully predict elastic logs with 30% higher accuracy, while using only 28% less training dataset. Methods, Procedures, Process: The ALR workflow (Figure 1): (1) feature selection and augmentation; (2) training and prediction and (3) prediction optimizations. The workflow starts with predicting any logs type which are available at training but not in blind wells using standard ML workflow for all blind wells (Step 1-2). Then, these intermediately predicted logs at blind well were jointly used as input features together with seismic-derived attributes using a specially designed feature augmentation strategy (Step 3). Finally, Step 1and 2 are then repeated to predict the elastic logs using these augmented input features. Results, Observations, Conclusions: The ALR method was applied on an oil/gas field data in Malay basin to predict elastic logs (AI and SI) at five blind wells from seismic data only and compared to the standard ML workflow. Two wells were used as training (28% of all data). The prediction performance of standard ML workflow (Figure 2a) is poor and can only capture general mean values of the actual AI/SI logs. The results of ALR workflow (Figure 2b) shows 30% better prediction performance compared to the standard ML workflow. In general, the background and high-resolution trend are well captured, and the overall prediction performance is improved using the new proposed prediction method. There are conceivably two explanations for this result: a) the background (low frequency) trend of the well log is properly reconstructed in ALR using only using seismic data. This could mainly lie in the ability of augmented features in better learning the uncertain reflection-reception relationship between seismic data and elastic logs, as well as the spatial/time-varying property of seismic data; (b) The ability to learn meaningful nonlinear feature relationship between input (feature) and output (label) variables with little or no supervision seems to work properly using specially designed feature augmentation. Novel/Additive Information: The ALR method is an ML-based pseudo log generation from seismic data using specially designed feature augmentation strategy. The novel ALR implementation relaxes the requirement of having a massive amount of high-quality labeled data for training and can therefore be applied in areas with limited well data information. ALR method is proven to be highly accurate for direct elastic logs prediction and can potentially be extended to estimate petrophysical properties from seismic data.

A Data Augmentation Method for Skeleton-Based Action Recognition with Relative Features

In recent years, skeleton-based human action recognition (HAR) approaches using convolutional neural network (CNN) models have made tremendous progress in computer vision applications. However, using relative features to depict human actions, in addition to preventing overfitting when the CNN model is trained on a few samples, is still a challenge. In this paper, a new motion image is introduced to transform spatial-temporal motion information into image-based representations. For each skeleton sequence, three relative features are extracted to describe human actions. The three relative features are consisted of relative coordinates, immediate displacement, and immediate motion orientation. In particular, the relative coordinates introduced in our paper not only depict the spatial relations of human skeleton joints but also provide long-term temporal information. To address the problem of small sample sizes, a data augmentation strategy consisting of three simple but effective data augmentation methods is proposed to expand the training samples. Because the generated color images are small in size, a shallow CNN model is suitable to extract the deep features of the generated motion images. Two small-scale but challenging skeleton datasets were used to evaluate the method, scoring 96.59% and 97.48% on the Florence 3D Actions dataset and UTkinect-Action 3D dataset, respectively. The results show that the proposed method achieved a competitive performance compared with the state-of-the-art methods. Furthermore, the augmentation strategy proposed in this paper effectively solves the overfitting problem and can be widely adopted in skeleton-based action recognition.

Augmentative Pharmacological Strategies in Treatment-Resistant Major Depression: A Comprehensive Review

Treatment resistant depression (TRD) is associated with poor outcomes, but a consensus is lacking in the literature regarding which compound represents the best pharmacological augmentation strategy to antidepressants (AD). In the present review, we identify the available literature regarding the pharmacological augmentation to AD in TRD. Research in the main psychiatric databases was performed (PubMed, ISI Web of Knowledge, PsychInfo). Only original articles in English with the main topic being pharmacological augmentation in TRD and presenting a precise definition of TRD were included. Aripiprazole and lithium were the most investigated molecules, and aripiprazole presented the strongest evidence of efficacy. Moreover, olanzapine, quetiapine, cariprazine, risperidone, and ziprasidone showed positive results but to a lesser extent. Brexpiprazole and intranasal esketamine need further study in real-world practice. Intravenous ketamine presented an evincible AD effect in the short-term. The efficacy of adjunctive ADs, antiepileptic drugs, psychostimulants, pramipexole, ropinirole, acetyl-salicylic acid, metyrapone, reserpine, testosterone, T3/T4, naltrexone, SAMe, and zinc cannot be precisely estimated in light of the limited available data. Studies on lamotrigine and pindolol reported negative results. According to our results, aripiprazole and lithium may be considered by clinicians as potential effective augmentative strategies in TRD, although the data regarding lithium are somewhat controversial. Reliable conclusions about the other molecules cannot be drawn. Further controlled comparative studies, standardized in terms of design, doses, and duration of the augmentative treatments, are needed to formulate definitive conclusions.

Fabric defect detection with an attention mechanism based on hard sample training

In view of the various types of fabric defects, and the problems of confusion, density unevenness and small target defects, which are difficult to detect, this paper builds a deep learning defect detection network incorporating an attention mechanism. The data augmentation strategy is used to enrich the number of samples of each defective type, and the enriched samples were extracted by the feature extraction network integrated with the attention mechanism, which can improve the feature extraction ability of confusable defect types and small defect types. Region proposal generation generates a proposal box for extracted features, and adds an online hard example mining strategy to re-learn hard examples to accelerate network convergence. Region feature aggregation maps the proposal box to the feature map to obtain the region of interest. Finally, the defect features are classified and the bounding boxes are regressed. The results show that this algorithm can effectively detect 39 categories of fabric defects with a detection speed of 0.085 s and a detection accuracy of 0.9338.

The overlapping effect and fusion protocols of data augmentation techniques in iris PAD

Iris Presentation Attack Detection (PAD) algorithms address the vulnerability of iris recognition systems to presentation attacks. With the great success of deep learning methods in various computer vision fields, neural network-based iris PAD algorithms emerged. However, most PAD networks suffer from overfitting due to insufficient iris data variability. Therefore, we explore the impact of various data augmentation techniques on performance and the generalizability of iris PAD. We apply several data augmentation methods to generate variability, such as shift, rotation, and brightness. We provide in-depth analyses of the overlapping effect of these methods on performance. In addition to these widely used augmentation techniques, we also propose an augmentation selection protocol based on the assumption that various augmentation techniques contribute differently to the PAD performance. Moreover, two fusion methods are performed for more comparisons: the strategy-level and the score-level combination. We demonstrate experiments on two fine-tuned models and one trained from the scratch network and perform on the datasets in the Iris-LivDet-2017 competition designed for generalizability evaluation. Our experimental results show that augmentation methods improve iris PAD performance in many cases. Our least overlap-based augmentation selection protocol achieves the lower error rates for two networks. Besides, the shift augmentation strategy also exceeds state-of-the-art (SoTA) algorithms on the Clarkson and IIITD-WVU datasets.

COVID-19 ResNet: Residual neural network for COVID-19 classification with bayesian data augmentation

COVID-19 is an infectious disease caused by a novel coronavirus called SARS-CoV-2. The first case appeared in December 2019, and until now it still represents a significant challenge to many countries in the world. Accurately detecting positive COVID-19 patients is a crucial step to reduce the spread of the disease, which is characterize by a strong transmission capacity. In this work we implement a Residual Convolutional Neural Network (ResNet) for an automated COVID-19 diagnosis. The implemented ResNet can classify a patient´s Chest-Xray image into COVID-19 positive, pneumonia caused from another virus or bacteria, and healthy. Moreover, to increase the accuracy of the model and overcome the data scarcity of COVID-19 images, a personalized data augmentation strategy using a three-step Bayesian hyperparameter optimization approach is applied to enrich the dataset during the training process. The proposed COVID-19 ResNet achieves a 94% accuracy, 95% recall, and 95% F1-score in test set. Furthermore, we also provide an insight into which data augmentation operations are successful in increasing a CNNs performance when doing medical image classification with COVID-19 CXR.

Enhancement of Multi-Class Structural Defect Recognition Using Generative Adversarial Network

Recently, in the building and infrastructure fields, studies on defect detection methods using deep learning have been widely implemented. For robust automatic recognition of defects in buildings, a sufficiently large training dataset is required for the target defects. However, it is challenging to collect sufficient data from degrading building structures. To address the data shortage and imbalance problem, in this study, a data augmentation method was developed using a generative adversarial network (GAN). To confirm the effect of data augmentation in the defect dataset of old structures, two scenarios were compared and experiments were conducted. As a result, in the models that applied the GAN-based data augmentation experimentally, the average performance increased by approximately 0.16 compared to the model trained using a small dataset. Based on the results of the experiments, the GAN-based data augmentation strategy is expected to be a reliable alternative to complement defect datasets with an unbalanced number of objects.

Managing Recurrent Clozapine-Induced Constipation in a Patient with Resistant Schizophrenia

Clozapine is an effective antipsychotic for the treatment of resistant schizophrenia. However, clozapine can lead to serious side effects. One of the most common side effects is constipation and in rare cases ileus, which is associated with a considerable case fatality rate. Our patient exhibited repeated episodes of ileus while being treated with clozapine. We adapted the treatment of the patient in several ways to manage these severe side effects. First, we reduced clozapine dosage by opting for an augmentation strategy of clozapine through paliperidone. Then, we added linaclotide as a nonconventional laxative. We further adapted treatment after the occurrence of a volvulus prompting surgical intervention which revealed a malformation of the intestines’ peritoneal attachment. A gastrostomy to facilitate the treatment of any further episode was performed and bethanechol was introduced alongside linaclotide. Follow-up revealed the efficacy of our strategy involving the use of linaclotide in managing the side effects of clozapine in this patient.