19 research outputs found
Reliable Sarcoidosis Detection Using Chest X-rays with EfficientNets and Stain-Normalization Techniques
No full textSarcoidosis is frequently misdiagnosed as tuberculosis (TB) and consequently mistreated due to inherent limitations in radiological presentations. Clinically, to distinguish sarcoidosis from TB, physicians usually employ biopsy tissue diagnosis and blood tests; this approach is painful for patients, time-consuming, expensive, and relies on techniques prone to human error. This study proposes a computer-aided diagnosis method to address these issues. This method examines seven EfficientNet designs that were fine-tuned and compared for their abilities to categorize X-ray images into three categories: normal, TB-infected, and sarcoidosis-infected. Furthermore, the effects of stain normalization on performance were investigated using Reinhard’s and Macenko’s conventional stain normalization procedures. This procedure aids in improving diagnostic efficiency and accuracy while cutting diagnostic costs. A database of 231 sarcoidosis-infected, 563 TB-infected, and 1010 normal chest X-ray images was created using public databases and information from several national hospitals. The EfficientNet-B4 model attained accuracy, sensitivity, and precision rates of 98.56%, 98.36%, and 98.67%, respectively, when the training X-ray images were normalized by the Reinhard stain approach, and 97.21%, 96.9%, and 97.11%, respectively, when normalized by Macenko’s approach. Results demonstrate that Reinhard stain normalization can improve the performance of EfficientNet -B4 X-ray image classification. The proposed framework for identifying pulmonary sarcoidosis may prove valuable in clinical use
A Hybrid Multi-Objective Optimizer-Based SVM Model for Enhancing Numerical Weather Prediction: A Study for the Seoul Metropolitan Area
No full textTemperature forecasting is an area of ongoing research because of its importance in all life aspects. However, because a variety of climate factors controls the temperature, it is a never-ending challenge. The numerical weather prediction (NWP) model has been frequently used to forecast air temperature. However, because of its deprived grid resolution and lack of parameterizations, it has systematic distortions. In this study, a gray wolf optimizer (GWO) and a support vector machine (SVM) are used to ensure accuracy and stability of the next day forecasting for minimum and maximum air temperatures in Seoul, South Korea, depending on local data assimilation and prediction system (LDAPS; a model of local NWP over Korea). A total of 14 LDAPS models forecast data, the daily maximum and minimum air temperatures of in situ observations, and five auxiliary data were used as input variables. The LDAPS model, the multimodal array (MME), the particle swarm optimizer with support vector machine (SVM-PSO), and the conventional SVM were selected as comparison models in this study to illustrate the advantages of the proposed model. When compared to the particle swarm optimizer and traditional SVM, the Gray Wolf Optimizer produced more accurate results, with the average RMSE value of SVM for T max and T min Forecast prediction reduced by roughly 51 percent when combined with GWO and 31 percent when combined with PSO. In addition, the hybrid model (SVM-GWO) improved the performance of the LDAPS model by lowering the RMSE values for T max Forecast and T min Forecast forecasting from 2.09 to 0.95 and 1.43 to 0.82, respectively. The results show that the proposed hybrid (GWO-SVM) models outperform benchmark models in terms of prediction accuracy and stability and that the suggested model has a lot of application potentials
Development of a Hybrid Support Vector Machine with Grey Wolf Optimization Algorithm for Detection of the Solar Power Plants Anomalies
No full textSolar energy utilization in the industry has grown substantially, resulting in heightened recognition of renewable energy sources from power plants and intelligent grid systems. One of the most important challenges in the solar energy field is detecting anomalies in photovoltaic systems. This paper aims to address this by using various machine learning algorithms and regression models to identify internal and external abnormalities in PV components. The goal is to determine which models can most accurately distinguish between normal and abnormal behavior of PV systems. Three different approaches have been investigated for detecting anomalies in solar power plants in India. The first model is based on a physical model, the second on a support vector machine (SVM) regression model, and the third on an SVM classification model. Grey wolf optimizer was used for tuning the hyper model for all models. Our findings will clarify that the SVM classification model is the best model for anomaly identification in solar power plants by classifying inverter states into two categories (normal and fault)
Improving emergency departments: simulation-based optimization of patients waiting time and the number of staff present in a hospital
Get PDFThe emergency department (ED), operating around the clock every day of the year, serves a diverse range of patients with varying medical conditions, making it the vital core of a hospital. Consequently, optimizing and simulating the ED's processes becomes essential to enhance the quality of care provided. This study offers a case analysis employing simulation to assess patient flows in a hospital's emergency department. Our objective is to evaluate the impacts of system enhancements within the ED. This model aims to measure patients' time from their ED entry, determine daily patient numbers, and calculate the overall patient movement time within the department. If the patient's condition is serious, he will be presented immediately to the doctor without waiting. A doctor will be added to the unit if the number of patients exceeds the standard limit.</p
Assessment of mixing efficiency in a planar passive micromixer With t-shaped configuration
Get PDFMicrofluidic devices have garnered considerable interest owing to their prospective utilization in diverse domains, encompassing chemical synthesis, biological analysis, and medicinal research. Micromixers are critical in adequate fluid mixing at a microscale within the array of devices under consideration. This study aims to offer a comprehensive analysis of the efficacy of the T-shaped micromixer configuration in scenarios that necessitate accurate and expeditious mixing. This study examines the performance of a T micromixer through simulation and analysis. The findings demonstrate that T micromixers exhibit some drawbacks that result in suboptimal mixing efficiency. The attainment of a desirable level of mixing efficiency can be accomplished by utilizing splitting-recombination and chaotic advection mechanisms. The study's outcomes indicate that the T micromixer demonstrates its maximum mixing effectiveness, roughly 60% when the Reynolds number (Re) is at or below 0.5. Nevertheless, it has been observed that the T micromixer encounters a decrease in mixing effectiveness as the Reynolds number escalates within the range of 0.5 to 15.</p
Development of a hybrid LSTM with chimp optimization algorithm for the pressure ventilator prediction
No full textAbstract The utilization of mechanical ventilation is of utmost importance in the management of individuals afflicted with severe pulmonary conditions. During periods of a pandemic, it becomes imperative to build ventilators that possess the capability to autonomously adapt parameters over the course of treatment. In order to fulfil this requirement, a research investigation was undertaken with the aim of forecasting the magnitude of pressure applied on the patient by the ventilator. The aforementioned forecast was derived from a comprehensive analysis of many variables, including the ventilator's characteristics and the patient's medical state. This analysis was conducted utilizing a sophisticated computational model referred to as Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM). To enhance the predictive accuracy of the LSTM model, the researchers utilized the Chimp Optimization method (ChoA) method. The integration of LSTM and ChoA led to the development of the LSTM-ChoA model, which successfully tackled the issue of hyperparameter selection for the LSTM model. The experimental results revealed that the LSTM-ChoA model exhibited superior performance compared to alternative optimization algorithms, namely whale grey wolf optimizer (GWO), optimization algorithm (WOA), and particle swarm optimization (PSO). Additionally, the LSTM-ChoA model outperformed regression models, including K-nearest neighbor (KNN) Regressor, Random and Forest (RF) Regressor, and Support Vector Machine (SVM) Regressor, in accurately predicting ventilator pressure. The findings indicate that the suggested predictive model, LSTM-ChoA, demonstrates a reduced mean square error (MSE) value. Specifically, when comparing ChoA with GWO, the MSE fell by around 14.8%. Furthermore, when comparing ChoA with PSO and WOA, the MSE decreased by approximately 60%. Additionally, the analysis of variance (ANOVA) findings revealed that the p-value for the LSTM-ChoA model was 0.000, which is less than the predetermined significance level of 0.05. This indicates that the results of the LSTM-ChoA model are statistically significant
A Benchmark Arabic Dataset for Arabic Question Classification using AAFAQ Framework
No full textAbstract Arabic Natural Language Processing (NLP) is still faced with the complexity of the language’s morphology and the limited availability of quality annotated resources. In this paper, we introduce an open-domain dataset of 5,009 Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) questions labeled according to AAFAQ framework that has11 linguistic and cognitive aspects, e.g., Question Particle, Question Particle Type, Intent, Answer Type, Cognitive Level, and Temporal Context. Based on the AAFAQ Framework (Arabic Analytical Framework for Advanced Questions), the dataset is designed to support semantic and cognitive understanding for Arabic Question Classification and related tasks. The dataset’s effectiveness was validated by fine-tuning state-of-the-art models. AraBERT achieved 100% accuracy on Question Particle Type classification and 94.95% on Intent classification. Integration within a generative question-answering system with Alpaca + Gemma-9B Unsloth improved evaluation metrics, including BLEU (+37.6%), ROUGE-1 (+132%), and BERTScore (+17.3%), validating the dataset’s value in both classification and generation tasks. Despite its broad coverage, the dataset includes underrepresented categories, e.g., Sociology and Volunteering, to be considered in future extensions. AAFAQ is a foundation benchmark for the advancement of Arabic question comprehension, with prospective applications in education, cognitive computing, and multilingual AI system creation
Automated Triage System for Intensive Care Admissions during the COVID-19 Pandemic Using Hybrid XGBoost-AHP Approach
No full textThe sudden increase in patients with severe COVID-19 has obliged doctors to make admissions to intensive care units (ICUs) in health care practices where capacity is exceeded by the demand. To help with difficult triage decisions, we proposed an integration system Xtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) classifier and Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to assist health authorities in identifying patients’ priorities to be admitted into ICUs according to the findings of the biological laboratory investigation for patients with COVID-19. The Xtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) classifier was used to decide whether or not they should admit patients into ICUs, before applying them to an AHP for admissions’ priority ranking for ICUs. The 38 commonly used clinical variables were considered and their contributions were determined by the Shapley’s Additive explanations (SHAP) approach. In this research, five types of classifier algorithms were compared: Support Vector Machine (SVM), Decision Tree (DT), K-Nearest Neighborhood (KNN), Random Forest (RF), and Artificial Neural Network (ANN), to evaluate the XGBoost performance, while the AHP system compared its results with a committee formed from experienced clinicians. The proposed (XGBoost) classifier achieved a high prediction accuracy as it could discriminate between patients with COVID-19 who need ICU admission and those who do not with accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity rates of 97%, 96%, and 96% respectively, while the AHP system results were close to experienced clinicians’ decisions for determining the priority of patients that need to be admitted to the ICU. Eventually, medical sectors can use the suggested framework to classify patients with COVID-19 who require ICU admission and prioritize them based on integrated AHP methodologies
Evaluation of the mixing performance in a planar passive micromixer with T micromixer with square chamber mixing units (SAR)
Get PDFMicroscale mixing methods are crucial in various disciplines, encompassing chemical reactions and biological investigations. The present study used simulation methodologies to investigate the operational efficiency of splitting recombination (SAR) micromixers. The study demonstrates that SAR micromixers offer a notable advantage in enhancing mixing efficiency. The advantage above is a consequence of the effective combination of splitting-recombination and chaotic advection processes within the micromixer architecture. An in-depth analysis of the micromixer's behavior demonstrates that its performance is supported by intricate fluid dynamics, which provide remarkably high mixing efficiency. It is worth noting that the micromixer exhibits its maximum mixing efficiency, which is roughly 99% when the Reynolds number (Re) is at or below 0.5. Nevertheless, it is seen that as the Reynolds number grows, there is a steady decrease in mixing efficiency. At a Reynolds number of 70, the measurement of mixing efficiency yields a value of 75%. However, when the Reynolds number is further increased to a range of 90-100, the efficiency decreases to its lowest value of approximately 60%. The results above highlight the exceptional mixing ability of the SAR micromixer, hence stressing its potential for various applications that demand improved mixing capabilities. The results emphasize the promise of SAR micromixers as a reliable solution for complex mixing processes in many applications, providing valuable insights that may contribute to future developments in microscale mixing technologies.</p
Decoding Queries: An In-Depth Survey of Quality Techniques for Question Analysis in Arabic Question Answering Systems
No full textIn the field of natural language processing (NLP), natural language understanding (NLU) plays a critical role in transforming human languages into machine-interpretable formats. This paper provides an overview of methodologies and resources that have been developed so far concerning Arabic QAS, focusing on NLU regarding question analysis and classification. These components perform an important role in obtaining accurate, quality, context-sensitive answers. Findings indicate that deep learning models work wonders for complex languages, but machine learning algorithms usually do the job in most classification tasks. Further, there is mention of the potential of rule-based and hybrid approaches, whose research in the future should be integrated with evolving evaluation methods necessary to keep pace with the advances in NLP. Challenges especially pertinent to Arabic QAS are complex syntax, dialectal diversity, limited tool support, and a lack of benchmark datasets. Other directions for the future are the development of complete datasets, standardized test bed frameworks, and extra question classification, adopting a hybrid approach considering interrogative words along with question multiplicity. This survey would therefore be helpful in highlighting shortcomings in the literature, suggesting new directions for research, and emphasizing that innovation concerning NLU within QASs is an ongoing necessity
