Aggregated Pattern Classification Method for improving neural disorder stage detection.

BACKGROUND: Neurological disorders pose a significant health challenge, and their early detection is critical for effective treatment planning and prognosis. Traditional classification of neural disorders based on causes, symptoms, developmental stage, severity, and nervous system effects has limitations. Leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) for pattern recognition provides a potent solution to address these challenges. Therefore, this study focuses on proposing an innovative approach-the Aggregated Pattern Classification Method (APCM)-for precise identification of neural disorder stages. METHOD: The APCM was introduced to address prevalent issues in neural disorder detection, such as overfitting, robustness, and interoperability. This method utilizes aggregative patterns and classification learning functions to mitigate these challenges and enhance overall recognition accuracy, even in imbalanced data. The analysis involves neural images using observations from healthy individuals as a reference. Action response patterns from diverse inputs are mapped to identify similar features, establishing the disorder ratio. The stages are correlated based on available responses and associated neural data, with a preference for classification learning. This classification necessitates image and labeled data to prevent additional flaws in pattern recognition. Recognition and classification occur through multiple iterations, incorporating similar and diverse neural features. The learning process is finely tuned for minute classifications using labeled and unlabeled input data. RESULTS: The proposed APCM demonstrates notable achievements, with high pattern recognition (15.03%) and controlled classification errors (CEs) (10.61% less). The method effectively addresses overfitting, robustness, and interoperability issues, showcasing its potential as a powerful tool for detecting neural disorders at different stages. The ability to handle imbalanced data contributes to the overall success of the algorithm. CONCLUSION: The APCM emerges as a promising and effective approach for identifying precise neural disorder stages. By leveraging AI and ML, the method successfully resolves key challenges in pattern recognition. The high pattern recognition and reduced CEs underscore the method's potential for clinical applications. However, it is essential to acknowledge the reliance on high-quality neural image data, which may limit the generalizability of the approach. The proposed method allows future research to refine further and enhance its interpretability, providing valuable insights into neural disorder progression and underlying biological mechanisms.

Dispersed differential hunger games search for high dimensional gene data feature selection.

The realms of modern medicine and biology have provided substantial data sets of genetic roots that exhibit a high dimensionality. Clinical practice and associated processes are primarily dependent on data-driven decision-making. However, the high dimensionality of the data in these domains increases the complexity and size of processing. It can be challenging to determine representative genes while reducing the data's dimensionality. A successful gene selection will serve to mitigate the computing costs and refine the accuracy of the classification by eliminating superfluous or duplicative features. To address this concern, this research suggests a wrapper gene selection approach based on the HGS, combined with a dispersed foraging strategy and a differential evolution strategy, to form a new algorithm named DDHGS. Introducing the DDHGS algorithm to the global optimization field and its binary derivative bDDHGS to the feature selection problem is anticipated to refine the existing search balance between explorative and exploitative cores. We assess and confirm the efficacy of our proposed method, DDHGS, by comparing it with DE and HGS combined with a single strategy, seven classic algorithms, and ten advanced algorithms on the IEEE CEC 2017 test suite. Furthermore, to further evaluate DDHGS' performance, we compare it with several CEC winners and DE-based techniques of great efficiency on 23 popular optimization functions and the IEEE CEC 2014 benchmark test suite. The experimentation asserted that the bDDHGS approach was able to surpass bHGS and a variety of existing methods when applied to fourteen feature selection datasets from the UCI repository. The metrics measured--classification accuracy, the number of selected features, fitness scores, and execution time--all showed marked improvements with the use of bDDHGS. Considering all results, it can be concluded that bDDHGS is an optimal optimizer and an effective feature selection tool in the wrapper mode.

Improving the melting performance in a triple-pipe latent heat storage system using hemispherical and quarter-spherical fins with a staggered arrangement.

This study aims to evaluate the melting characteristics of a phase change material (PCM) in a latent heat storage system equipped with hemispherical and quarter-spherical fins. A vertical triple-pipe heat exchanger is used as the PCM-based heat storage unit to improve the melting performance compared with a double-pipe system. Furthermore, the fins are arranged in inline and staggered configurations to improve heat transfer performance. For the quarter-spherical fins, both upward and downward directions are examined. The results of the system equipped with novel fins are compared with those without fins. Moreover, a fin is added to the heat exchanger's base to compensate for the natural convection effect at the bottom of the heat exchanger. Considering similar fin volumes, the results show that the system equipped with four hemispherical fins on the side walls and an added fin on the bottom wall has the best performance compared with the other cases with hemispherical fins. The staggered arrangement of the fins results in a higher heat transfer rate. The downward quarter-spherical fins with a staggered configuration show the highest performance among all the studied cases. Compared with the case without fins, the heat storage rate improves by almost 78% (from 35.6 to 63.5 W), reducing the melting time by 45%.

Efficient Heat Transfer Augmentation in Channels with Semicircle Ribs and Hybrid Al2O3-Cu/Water Nanofluids.

Global technological advancements drive daily energy consumption, generating additional carbon-induced climate challenges. Modifying process parameters, optimizing design, and employing high-performance working fluids are among the techniques offered by researchers for improving the thermal efficiency of heating and cooling systems. This study investigates the heat transfer enhancement of hybrid "Al2O3-Cu/water" nanofluids flowing in a two-dimensional channel with semicircle ribs. The novelty of this research is in employing semicircle ribs combined with hybrid nanofluids in turbulent flow regimes. A computer modeling approach using a finite volume approach with k-ω shear stress transport turbulence model was used in these simulations. Six cases with varying rib step heights and pitch gaps, with Re numbers ranging from 10,000 to 25,000, were explored for various volume concentrations of hybrid nanofluids Al2O3-Cu/water (0.33%, 0.75%, 1%, and 2%). The simulation results showed that the presence of ribs enhanced the heat transfer in the passage. The Nusselt number increased when the solid volume fraction of "Al2O3-Cu/water" hybrid nanofluids and the Re number increased. The Nu number reached its maximum value at a 2 percent solid volume fraction for a Reynolds number of 25,000. The local pressure coefficient also improved as the Re number and volume concentration of "Al2O3-Cu/water" hybrid nanofluids increased. The creation of recirculation zones after and before each rib was observed in the velocity and temperature contours. A higher number of ribs was also shown to result in a larger number of recirculation zones, increasing the thermal performance.

Intelligent Epileptic Seizure Detection and Classification Model Using Optimal Deep Canonical Sparse Autoencoder.

Epileptic seizures are a chronic and persistent neurological illness that mainly affects the human brain. Electroencephalogram (EEG) is considered an effective tool among neurologists to detect various brain disorders, including epilepsy, owing to its advantages, such as its low cost, simplicity, and availability. In order to reduce the severity of epileptic seizures, it is necessary to design effective techniques to identify the disease at an earlier stage. Since the traditional way of diagnosing epileptic seizures is laborious and time-consuming, automated tools using machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) models may be useful. This paper presents an intelligent deep canonical sparse autoencoder-based epileptic seizure detection and classification (DCSAE-ESDC) model using EEG signals. The proposed DCSAE-ESDC technique involves two major processes, namely, feature selection and classification. The DCSAE-ESDC technique designs a novel coyote optimization algorithm (COA)-based feature selection technique for the optimal selection of feature subsets. Moreover, the DCSAE-based classifier is derived for the detection and classification of different kinds of epileptic seizures. Finally, the parameter tuning of the DSCAE model takes place via the krill herd algorithm (KHA). The design of the COA-based feature selection and KHA-based parameter tuning shows the novelty of the work. For examining the enhanced classification performance of the DCSAE-ESDC technique, a detailed experimental analysis was conducted using a benchmark epileptic seizure dataset. The comparative results analysis portrayed the better performance of the DCSAE-ESDC technique over existing techniques, with maximum accuracy of 98.67% and 98.73% under binary and multi-classification, respectively.

Optimal Deep Transfer Learning-Based Human-Centric Biomedical Diagnosis for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Detection.

Human-centric biomedical diagnosis (HCBD) becomes a hot research topic in the healthcare sector, which assists physicians in the disease diagnosis and decision-making process. Leukemia is a pathology that affects younger people and adults, instigating early death and a number of other symptoms. Computer-aided detection models are found to be useful for reducing the probability of recommending unsuitable treatments and helping physicians in the disease detection process. Besides, the rapid development of deep learning (DL) models assists in the detection and classification of medical-imaging-related problems. Since the training of DL models necessitates massive datasets, transfer learning models can be employed for image feature extraction. In this view, this study develops an optimal deep transfer learning-based human-centric biomedical diagnosis model for acute lymphoblastic detection (ODLHBD-ALLD). The presented ODLHBD-ALLD model mainly intends to detect and classify acute lymphoblastic leukemia using blood smear images. To accomplish this, the ODLHBD-ALLD model involves the Gabor filtering (GF) technique as a noise removal step. In addition, it makes use of a modified fuzzy c-means (MFCM) based segmentation approach for segmenting the images. Besides, the competitive swarm optimization (CSO) algorithm with the EfficientNetB0 model is utilized as a feature extractor. Lastly, the attention-based long-short term memory (ABiLSTM) model is employed for the proper identification of class labels. For investigating the enhanced performance of the ODLHBD-ALLD approach, a wide range of simulations were executed on open access dataset. The comparative analysis reported the betterment of the ODLHBD-ALLD model over the other existing approaches.

False-positive reduction in computer-aided mass detection using mammographic texture analysis and classification.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: The aim of computer-aided-detection (CAD) systems for mammograms is to assist radiologists by marking region of interest (ROIs) depicting abnormalities. However, the confusing appearance of some normal tissues that visually look like masses results in a large proportion of marked ROIs with normal tissues. This paper copes with this problem and proposes a framework to reduce false positive masses detected by CAD. METHODS: To avoid the error induced by the segmentation step, we proposed a segmentation-free framework with particular attention to improve feature extraction and classification steps. We investigated for the first time in mammogram analysis, Hilbert's image representation, Kolmogorov-Smirnov distance and maximum subregion descriptors. Then, a feature selection step is performed to select the most discriminative features. Moreover, we considered several classifiers such as Random Forest, Support Vector Machine and Decision Tree to distinguish between normal tissues and masses. Our experiments were carried out on a large dataset of 10168 ROIs (8254 normal tissues and 1914 masses) constructed from the Digital Database for Screening Mammography (DDSM). To simulate practical scenario, our normal regions are false positives asserted by a CAD system from healthy cases. RESULTS: The combination of all the descriptors yields better results than each feature set used alone, and the difference is statistically significant. Besides, the feature selection steps yields a statistically significant increase in the accuracy values for the three classifiers. Finally, the random forest achieves the highest accuracy (81.09%), outperforming the SVM classifier (80.01%)) and decision tree (79.12%), but the difference is not statistically significant. CONCLUSIONS: The accuracy of discrimination between normal and abnormal ROIs in mammograms obtained with the proposed gray level texture features sets are encouraging and comparable to these obtained with multiresolution features. Combination of several features as well as feature selection steps improve the results. To improve false positives reduction in CAD systems for breast cancer diagnosis, these features could be combined with multiresolution features.

Breast cancer diagnosis in digitized mammograms using curvelet moments.

BACKGROUND: Feature extraction is a key issue in designing a computer aided diagnosis system. Recent researches on breast cancer diagnosis have reported the effectiveness of multiscale transforms (wavelets and curvelets) for mammogram analysis and have shown the superiority of curvelet transform. However, the curse of dimensionality problem arises when using the curvelet coefficients and therefore a reduction method is required to extract a reduced set of discriminative features. METHODS: This paper deals with this problem and proposes a feature extraction method based on curvelet transform and moment theory for mammogram description. First, we performed discrete curvelet transform and we computed the four first-order moments from curvelet coefficients distribution. Hence, two feature sets can be obtained: moments from each band and moments from each level. In this work, both sets are studied. Then, the t-test ranking technique was applied to select the best features from each set. Finally, a k-nearest neighbor classifier was used to distinguish between normal and abnormal breast tissues and to classify tumors as malignant or benign. Experiments were performed on 252 mammograms from the Mammographic Image Analysis Society (mini-MIAS) database using the leave-one-out cross validation as well as on 11553 mammograms from the Digital Database for Screening Mammography (DDSM) database using 2×5-fold cross validation. RESULTS: Experimental results prove the effectiveness and the superiority of curvelet moments for mammogram analysis. Indeed, results on the mini-MIAS database show that curvelet moments yield an accuracy of 91.27% (resp. 81.35 %) with 10 (resp. 8) features for abnormality (resp. malignancy) detection. In addition, empirical comparisons of the proposed method against state-of-the-art curvelet-based methods on the DDSM database show that the suggested method does not only lead to a more reduced feature set, but it also statistically outperforms all the compared methods in terms of accuracy. CONCLUSIONS: In summary, curvelet moments are an efficient and effective way to extract a reduced set of discriminative features for breast cancer diagnosis.