Intelligent Computational Model for the Classification of Covid-19 with Chest Radiography Compared to other Respiratory Diseases

Lung X-ray images, if processed using statistical and computational methods, can distinguish pneumonia from COVID-19. The present work shows that it is possible to extract lung X-ray characteristics to improve the methods of examining and diagnosing patients with suspected COVID-19, distinguishing them from malaria, dengue, H1N1, tuberculosis, and Streptococcus pneumonia. More precisely, an intelligent computational model was developed to process lung X-ray images and classify whether the image is of a patient with COVID-19. The images were processed and extracted their characteristics. These characteristics were the input data for an unsupervised statistical learning method, PCA, and clustering, which identified specific attributes of X-ray images with Covid-19. The introduction of statistical models allowed a fast algorithm, which used the X-means clustering method associated with the Bayesian Information Criterion (CIB). The developed algorithm efficiently distinguished each pulmonary pathology from X-ray images. The method exhibited excellent sensitivity. The average recognition accuracy of COVID-19 was 0.93 ± 0.051.

System Log Detection Model Based on Conformal Prediction

With the rapid development of the Internet of Things, the combination of the Internet of Things with machine learning, Hadoop and other fields are current development trends. Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) is one of the core components of Hadoop, which is used to process files that are divided into data blocks distributed in the cluster. Once the distributed log data are abnormal, it will cause serious losses. When using machine learning algorithms for system log anomaly detection, the output of threshold-based classification models are only normal or abnormal simple predictions. This paper used the statistical learning method of conformity measure to calculate the similarity between test data and past experience. Compared with detection methods based on static threshold, the statistical learning method of the conformity measure can dynamically adapt to the changing log data. By adjusting the maximum fault tolerance, a system administrator can better manage and monitor the system logs. In addition, the computational efficiency of the statistical learning method for conformity measurement was improved. This paper implemented an intranet anomaly detection model based on log analysis, and conducted trial detection on HDFS data sets quickly and efficiently.

Structure-mechanics statistical learning unravels the linkage between local rigidity and global flexibility in nucleic acids

The mechanical properties of nucleic acids underlie biological processes ranging from genome packaging to gene expression. We devise structural mechanics statistical learning method to reveal their molecular origin in terms of chemical interactions.

On the Use of Optimal Transportation Theory to Recode Variables and Application to Database Merging

Merging databases is a strategy of paramount interest especially in medical research. A common problem in this context comes from a variable which is not coded on the same scale in both databases we aim to merge. This paper considers the problem of finding a relevant way to recode the variable in order to merge these two databases. To address this issue, an algorithm, based on optimal transportation theory, is proposed. Optimal transportation theory gives us an application to map the measure associated with the variable in database A to the measure associated with the same variable in database B. To do so, a cost function has to be introduced and an allocation rule has to be defined. Such a function and such a rule is proposed involving the information contained in the covariates. In this paper, the method is compared to multiple imputation by chained equations and a statistical learning method and has demonstrated a better average accuracy in many situations. Applications on both simulated and real datasets show that the efficiency of the proposed merging algorithm depends on how the covariates are linked with the variable of interest.

The Strategy of Datum Reference Frame Selection Based on Statistical Learning

A datum selection strategy based on statistical learning is proposed. The datum selection is an important part of tolerance specification which is the base of geometric tolerance selection and tolerance principle selection. The problem of datum selection is to deduce the datum reference frame (DRF) based on geometrical, contact, and positioning characteristics. Currently, heuristic rules are used for DRF selection, leading to suboptimal choice of DRF in many cases. The proposed strategy formulates normalized vectors computed from the geometric, contact, and positioning characteristics of surfaces. The surfaces of different parts can be compared by their normalized vectors. Then the statistical learning method is used for building a classifier which can discriminate datum feature vectors based on training samples. Finally, a case study is given to verify the strategy and the different algorithms are compared and discussed.