The effective and timely diagnosis and treatment of ocular diseases are key to the rapid recovery of patients.Today,the mass disease that needs attention in this context is cataracts.Although deep learning has signifi...The effective and timely diagnosis and treatment of ocular diseases are key to the rapid recovery of patients.Today,the mass disease that needs attention in this context is cataracts.Although deep learning has significantly advanced the analysis of ocular disease images,there is a need for a probabilistic model to generate the distributions of potential outcomes and thusmake decisions related to uncertainty quantification.Therefore,this study implements a Bayesian Convolutional Neural Networks(BCNN)model for predicting cataracts by assigning probability values to the predictions.It prepares convolutional neural network(CNN)and BCNN models.The proposed BCNN model is CNN-based in which reparameterization is in the first and last layers of the CNN model.This study then trains them on a dataset of cataract images filtered from the ocular disease fundus images fromKaggle.The deep CNN model has an accuracy of 95%,while the BCNN model has an accuracy of 93.75% along with information on uncertainty estimation of cataracts and normal eye conditions.When compared with other methods,the proposed work reveals that it can be a promising solution for cataract prediction with uncertainty estimation.展开更多
Parkinson’s disease(PD)is a debilitating neurological disorder affecting over 10 million people worldwide.PD classification models using voice signals as input are common in the literature.It is believed that using d...Parkinson’s disease(PD)is a debilitating neurological disorder affecting over 10 million people worldwide.PD classification models using voice signals as input are common in the literature.It is believed that using deep learning algorithms further enhances performance;nevertheless,it is challenging due to the nature of small-scale and imbalanced PD datasets.This paper proposed a convolutional neural network-based deep support vector machine(CNN-DSVM)to automate the feature extraction process using CNN and extend the conventional SVM to a DSVM for better classification performance in small-scale PD datasets.A customized kernel function reduces the impact of biased classification towards the majority class(healthy candidates in our consideration).An improved generative adversarial network(IGAN)was designed to generate additional training data to enhance the model’s performance.For performance evaluation,the proposed algorithm achieves a sensitivity of 97.6%and a specificity of 97.3%.The performance comparison is evaluated from five perspectives,including comparisons with different data generation algorithms,feature extraction techniques,kernel functions,and existing works.Results reveal the effectiveness of the IGAN algorithm,which improves the sensitivity and specificity by 4.05%–4.72%and 4.96%–5.86%,respectively;and the effectiveness of the CNN-DSVM algorithm,which improves the sensitivity by 1.24%–57.4%and specificity by 1.04%–163%and reduces biased detection towards the majority class.The ablation experiments confirm the effectiveness of individual components.Two future research directions have also been suggested.展开更多
The analysis of Android malware shows that this threat is constantly increasing and is a real threat to mobile devices since traditional approaches,such as signature-based detection,are no longer effective due to the ...The analysis of Android malware shows that this threat is constantly increasing and is a real threat to mobile devices since traditional approaches,such as signature-based detection,are no longer effective due to the continuously advancing level of sophistication.To resolve this problem,efficient and flexible malware detection tools are needed.This work examines the possibility of employing deep CNNs to detect Android malware by transforming network traffic into image data representations.Moreover,the dataset used in this study is the CIC-AndMal2017,which contains 20,000 instances of network traffic across five distinct malware categories:a.Trojan,b.Adware,c.Ransomware,d.Spyware,e.Worm.These network traffic features are then converted to image formats for deep learning,which is applied in a CNN framework,including the VGG16 pre-trained model.In addition,our approach yielded high performance,yielding an accuracy of 0.92,accuracy of 99.1%,precision of 98.2%,recall of 99.5%,and F1 score of 98.7%.Subsequent improvements to the classification model through changes within the VGG19 framework improved the classification rate to 99.25%.Through the results obtained,it is clear that CNNs are a very effective way to classify Android malware,providing greater accuracy than conventional techniques.The success of this approach also shows the applicability of deep learning in mobile security along with the direction for the future advancement of the real-time detection system and other deeper learning techniques to counter the increasing number of threats emerging in the future.展开更多
A way of embedded learning convolution neural network(ELCNN) based on the image content is proposed to evaluate the image aesthetic quality in this paper. Our approach can not only solve the problem of small-scale dat...A way of embedded learning convolution neural network(ELCNN) based on the image content is proposed to evaluate the image aesthetic quality in this paper. Our approach can not only solve the problem of small-scale data but also score the image aesthetic quality. First, we chose Alexnet and VGG_S to compare for confirming which is more suitable for this image aesthetic quality evaluation task. Second, to further boost the image aesthetic quality classification performance, we employ the image content to train aesthetic quality classification models. But the training samples become smaller and only using once fine-tuning cannot make full use of the small-scale data set. Third, to solve the problem in second step, a way of using twice fine-tuning continually based on the aesthetic quality label and content label respective is proposed, the classification probability of the trained CNN models is used to evaluate the image aesthetic quality. The experiments are carried on the small-scale data set of Photo Quality. The experiment results show that the classification accuracy rates of our approach are higher than the existing image aesthetic quality evaluation approaches.展开更多
BACKGROUND Artificial intelligence,such as convolutional neural networks(CNNs),has been used in the interpretation of images and the diagnosis of hepatocellular cancer(HCC)and liver masses.CNN,a machine-learning algor...BACKGROUND Artificial intelligence,such as convolutional neural networks(CNNs),has been used in the interpretation of images and the diagnosis of hepatocellular cancer(HCC)and liver masses.CNN,a machine-learning algorithm similar to deep learning,has demonstrated its capability to recognise specific features that can detect pathological lesions.AIM To assess the use of CNNs in examining HCC and liver masses images in the diagnosis of cancer and evaluating the accuracy level of CNNs and their performance.METHODS The databases PubMed,EMBASE,and the Web of Science and research books were systematically searched using related keywords.Studies analysing pathological anatomy,cellular,and radiological images on HCC or liver masses using CNNs were identified according to the study protocol to detect cancer,differentiating cancer from other lesions,or staging the lesion.The data were extracted as per a predefined extraction.The accuracy level and performance of the CNNs in detecting cancer or early stages of cancer were analysed.The primary outcomes of the study were analysing the type of cancer or liver mass and identifying the type of images that showed optimum accuracy in cancer detection.RESULTS A total of 11 studies that met the selection criteria and were consistent with the aims of the study were identified.The studies demonstrated the ability to differentiate liver masses or differentiate HCC from other lesions(n=6),HCC from cirrhosis or development of new tumours(n=3),and HCC nuclei grading or segmentation(n=2).The CNNs showed satisfactory levels of accuracy.The studies aimed at detecting lesions(n=4),classification(n=5),and segmentation(n=2).Several methods were used to assess the accuracy of CNN models used.CONCLUSION The role of CNNs in analysing images and as tools in early detection of HCC or liver masses has been demonstrated in these studies.While a few limitations have been identified in these studies,overall there was an optimal level of accuracy of the CNNs used in segmentation and classification of liver cancers images.展开更多
Leaf disease identification is one of the most promising applications of convolutional neural networks(CNNs).This method represents a significant step towards revolutionizing agriculture by enabling the quick and accu...Leaf disease identification is one of the most promising applications of convolutional neural networks(CNNs).This method represents a significant step towards revolutionizing agriculture by enabling the quick and accurate assessment of plant health.In this study,a CNN model was specifically designed and tested to detect and categorize diseases on fig tree leaves.The researchers utilized a dataset of 3422 images,divided into four classes:healthy,fig rust,fig mosaic,and anthracnose.These diseases can significantly reduce the yield and quality of fig tree fruit.The objective of this research is to develop a CNN that can identify and categorize diseases in fig tree leaves.The data for this study was collected from gardens in the Amandi and Mamash Khail Bannu districts of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region in Pakistan.To minimize the risk of overfitting and enhance the model’s performance,early stopping techniques and data augmentation were employed.As a result,the model achieved a training accuracy of 91.53%and a validation accuracy of 90.12%,which are considered respectable.This comprehensive model assists farmers in the early identification and categorization of fig tree leaf diseases.Our experts believe that CNNs could serve as valuable tools for accurate disease classification and detection in precision agriculture.We recommend further research to explore additional data sources and more advanced neural networks to improve the model’s accuracy and applicability.Future research will focus on expanding the dataset by including new diseases and testing the model in real-world scenarios to enhance sustainable farming practices.展开更多
Protein Secondary Structure Prediction (PSSP) is considered as one of the major challenging tasks in bioinformatics, so many solutions have been proposed to solve that problem via trying to achieve more accurate predi...Protein Secondary Structure Prediction (PSSP) is considered as one of the major challenging tasks in bioinformatics, so many solutions have been proposed to solve that problem via trying to achieve more accurate prediction results. The goal of this paper is to develop and implement an intelligent based system to predict secondary structure of a protein from its primary amino acid sequence by using five models of Neural Network (NN). These models are Feed Forward Neural Network (FNN), Learning Vector Quantization (LVQ), Probabilistic Neural Network (PNN), Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), and CNN Fine Tuning for PSSP. To evaluate our approaches two datasets have been used. The first one contains 114 protein samples, and the second one contains 1845 protein samples.展开更多
As an interdisciplinary comprehensive subject involving multidisciplinary knowledge,emotional analysis has become a hot topic in psychology,health medicine and computer science.It has a high comprehensive and practica...As an interdisciplinary comprehensive subject involving multidisciplinary knowledge,emotional analysis has become a hot topic in psychology,health medicine and computer science.It has a high comprehensive and practical application value.Emotion research based on the social network is a relatively new topic in the field of psychology and medical health research.The text emotion analysis of college students also has an important research significance for the emotional state of students at a certain time or a certain period,so as to understand their normal state,abnormal state and the reason of state change from the information they wrote.In view of the fact that convolutional neural network cannot make full use of the unique emotional information in sentences,and the need to label a large number of highquality training sets for emotional analysis to improve the accuracy of the model,an emotional analysismodel using the emotional dictionary andmultichannel convolutional neural network is proposed in this paper.Firstly,the input matrix of emotion dictionary is constructed according to the emotion information,and the different feature information of sentences is combined to form different network input channels,so that the model can learn the emotion information of input sentences from various feature representations in the training process.Then,the loss function is reconstructed to realize the semi supervised learning of the network.Finally,experiments are carried on COAE 2014 and self-built data sets.The proposed model can not only extract more semantic information in emotional text,but also learn the hidden emotional information in emotional text.The experimental results show that the proposed emotion analysis model can achieve a better classification performance.Compared with the best benchmark model gram-CNN,the F1 value can be increased by 0.026 in the self-built data set,and it can be increased by 0.032 in the COAE 2014 data set.展开更多
Donggan language, which is a special variant of Mandarin, is used by Donggan people in Central Asia. Donggan language includes Gansu dialect and Shaanxi dialect. This paper proposes a convolutional neural network (CNN...Donggan language, which is a special variant of Mandarin, is used by Donggan people in Central Asia. Donggan language includes Gansu dialect and Shaanxi dialect. This paper proposes a convolutional neural network (CNN) based Donggan language speech recognition method for the Donggan Shaanxi dialect. A text corpus and a pronunciation dictionary were designed for of Donggan Shannxi dialect and the corresponding speech corpus was recorded. Then the acoustic models of Donggan Shaanxi dialect was trained by CNN. Experimental results demonstrate that the recognition rate of proposed CNNbased method achieves lower word error rate than that of the monophonic hidden Markov model (HMM) based method, triphone HMM-based method and DNN- based method.展开更多
In this paper, performance of three classifiers for classification of five mental tasks were investigated. Wavelet Packet Transform (WPT) was used for feature extraction of the relevant frequency bands from raw Electr...In this paper, performance of three classifiers for classification of five mental tasks were investigated. Wavelet Packet Transform (WPT) was used for feature extraction of the relevant frequency bands from raw Electroencephalograph (EEG) signal. The three classifiers namely used were Multilayer Back propagation Neural Network, Support Vector Machine and Radial Basis Function Neural Network. In MLP-BP NN five training methods used were a) Gradient Descent Back Propagation b) Levenberg-Marquardt c) Resilient Back Propagation d) Conjugate Learning Gradient Back Propagation and e) Gradient Descent Back Propagation with movementum.展开更多
The worldwide mortality rate due to cancer is second only to cardiovascular diseases.The discovery of image processing,latest artificial intelligence techniques,and upcoming algorithms can be used to effectively diagn...The worldwide mortality rate due to cancer is second only to cardiovascular diseases.The discovery of image processing,latest artificial intelligence techniques,and upcoming algorithms can be used to effectively diagnose and prognose cancer faster and reduce the mortality rate.Efficiently applying these latest techniques has increased the survival chances during recent years.The research community is making significant continuous progress in developing automated tools to assist dermatologists in decision making.The datasets used for the experimentation and analysis are ISBI 2016,ISBI 2017,and HAM 10000.In this work pertained models are used to extract the efficient feature.The pertained models applied are ResNet,InceptionV3,and classical feature extraction techniques.Before that,efficient preprocessing is conducted on dermoscopic images by applying various data augmentation techniques.Further,for classification,convolution neural networks were implemented.To classify dermoscopic images on HAM 1000 Dataset,the maximum attained accuracy is 89.30%for the proposed technique.The other parameters for measuring the performance attained 87.34%(Sen),86.33%(Pre),88.44%(F1-S),and 11.30%false-negative rate(FNR).The class with the highest TP rate is 97.6%for Melanoma;whereas,the lowest TP rate was for the Dermatofibroma class.For dataset ISBI2016,the accuracy achieved is 97.0%with the proposed classifier,whereas the other parameters for validation are 96.12%(Sen),97.01%(Pre),96.3%(F1-S),and further 3.7%(FNR).For the experiment with the ISBI2017 dataset,Sen,Pre,F1-S,and FNR were 93.9%,94.9%,93.9%,and 5.2%,respectively.展开更多
One of the fast-growing disease affecting women’s health seriously is breast cancer.It is highly essential to identify and detect breast cancer in the earlier stage.This paper used a novel advanced methodology than m...One of the fast-growing disease affecting women’s health seriously is breast cancer.It is highly essential to identify and detect breast cancer in the earlier stage.This paper used a novel advanced methodology than machine learning algorithms such as Deep learning algorithms to classify breast cancer accurately.Deep learning algorithms are fully automatic in learning,extracting,and classifying the features and are highly suitable for any image,from natural to medical images.Existing methods focused on using various conventional and machine learning methods for processing natural and medical images.It is inadequate for the image where the coarse structure matters most.Most of the input images are downscaled,where it is impossible to fetch all the hidden details to reach accuracy in classification.Whereas deep learning algorithms are high efficiency,fully automatic,have more learning capability using more hidden layers,fetch as much as possible hidden information from the input images,and provide an accurate prediction.Hence this paper uses AlexNet from a deep convolution neural network for classifying breast cancer in mammogram images.The performance of the proposed convolution network structure is evaluated by comparing it with the existing algorithms.展开更多
Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry(GC-MS)is an extremely important analytical technique that is widely used in organic geochemistry.It is the only approach to capture biomarker features of organic matter and provide...Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry(GC-MS)is an extremely important analytical technique that is widely used in organic geochemistry.It is the only approach to capture biomarker features of organic matter and provides the key evidence for oil-source correlation and thermal maturity determination.However,the conventional way of processing and interpreting the mass chromatogram is both timeconsuming and labor-intensive,which increases the research cost and restrains extensive applications of this method.To overcome this limitation,a correlation model is developed based on the convolution neural network(CNN)to link the mass chromatogram and biomarker features of samples from the Triassic Yanchang Formation,Ordos Basin,China.In this way,the mass chromatogram can be automatically interpreted.This research first performs dimensionality reduction for 15 biomarker parameters via the factor analysis and then quantifies the biomarker features using two indexes(i.e.MI and PMI)that represent the organic matter thermal maturity and parent material type,respectively.Subsequently,training,interpretation,and validation are performed multiple times using different CNN models to optimize the model structure and hyper-parameter setting,with the mass chromatogram used as the input and the obtained MI and PMI values for supervision(label).The optimized model presents high accuracy in automatically interpreting the mass chromatogram,with R2values typically above 0.85 and0.80 for the thermal maturity and parent material interpretation results,respectively.The significance of this research is twofold:(i)developing an efficient technique for geochemical research;(ii)more importantly,demonstrating the potential of artificial intelligence in organic geochemistry and providing vital references for future related studies.展开更多
COVID-19 disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus has created social and economic disruption across theworld.The ability of the COVID-19 virus to quickly mutate and transfer has created serious concerns across the world...COVID-19 disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus has created social and economic disruption across theworld.The ability of the COVID-19 virus to quickly mutate and transfer has created serious concerns across the world.It is essential to detectCOVID-19 infection caused by different variants to take preventive measures accordingly.The existing method of detection of infections caused by COVID-19 and its variants is costly and time-consuming.The impacts of theCOVID-19 pandemic in developing countries are very drastic due to the unavailability of medical facilities and infrastructure to handle the pandemic.Pneumonia is the major symptom of COVID-19 infection.The radiology of the lungs in varies in the case of bacterial pneumonia as compared to COVID-19-caused pneumonia.The pattern of pneumonia in lungs in radiology images can also be used to identify the cause associated with pneumonia.In this paper,we propose the methodology of identifying the cause(either due to COVID-19 or other types of infections)of pneumonia from radiology images.Furthermore,because different variants of COVID-19 lead to different patterns of pneumonia,the proposed methodology identifies pneumonia,the COVID-19 caused pneumonia,and Omicron caused pneumonia from the radiology images.To fulfill the above-mentioned tasks,we have used three Convolution Neural Networks(CNNs)at each stage of the proposed methodology.The results unveil that the proposed step-by-step solution enhances the accuracy of pneumonia detection along with finding its cause,despite having a limited dataset.展开更多
Background:Convolutional neural networks(CNN)have achieved remarkable success in medical image analysis.However,unlike some general-domain tasks where model accuracy is paramount,medical applications demand both accur...Background:Convolutional neural networks(CNN)have achieved remarkable success in medical image analysis.However,unlike some general-domain tasks where model accuracy is paramount,medical applications demand both accuracy and explainability due to the high stakes affecting patients'lives.Based on model explanations,clinicians can evaluate the diagnostic decisions suggested by CNN.Nevertheless,prior explainable artificial intelligence methods treat medical image tasks akin to general vision tasks,following end-to-end paradigms to generate explanations and frequently overlooking crucial clinical domain knowledge.Methods:We propose a plug-and-play module that explicitly integrates anatomic boundary information into the explanation process for CNN-based thoracopathy classifiers.To generate the anatomic boundary of the lung parenchyma,we utilize a lung segmentation model developed on external public datasets and deploy it on the unseen target dataset to constrain model ex-planations within the lung parenchyma for the clinical task of thoracopathy classification.Results:Assessed by the intersection over union and dice similarity coefficient between model-extracted explanations and expert-annotated lesion areas,our method consistently outperformed the baseline devoid of clinical domain knowledge in 71 out of 72 scenarios,encompassing 3 CNN architectures(VGG-11,ResNet-18,and AlexNet),2 classification settings(binary and multi-label),3 explanation methods(Saliency Map,Grad-CAM,and Integrated Gradients),and 4 co-occurred thoracic diseases(Atelectasis,Fracture,Mass,and Pneumothorax).Conclusions:We underscore the effectiveness of leveraging radiology knowledge in improving model explanations for CNN and envisage that it could inspire future efforts to integrate clinical domain knowledge into medical image analysis.展开更多
Facial Expression Recognition(FER)has been an interesting area of research in places where there is human-computer interaction.Human psychol-ogy,emotions and behaviors can be analyzed in FER.Classifiers used in FER hav...Facial Expression Recognition(FER)has been an interesting area of research in places where there is human-computer interaction.Human psychol-ogy,emotions and behaviors can be analyzed in FER.Classifiers used in FER have been perfect on normal faces but have been found to be constrained in occluded faces.Recently,Deep Learning Techniques(DLT)have gained popular-ity in applications of real-world problems including recognition of human emo-tions.The human face reflects emotional states and human intentions.An expression is the most natural and powerful way of communicating non-verbally.Systems which form communications between the two are termed Human Machine Interaction(HMI)systems.FER can improve HMI systems as human expressions convey useful information to an observer.This paper proposes a FER scheme called EECNN(Enhanced Convolution Neural Network with Atten-tion mechanism)to recognize seven types of human emotions with satisfying results in its experiments.Proposed EECNN achieved 89.8%accuracy in classi-fying the images.展开更多
Faced with the massive amount of online shopping clothing images,how to classify them quickly and accurately is a challenging task in image classification.In this paper,we propose a novel method,named Multi_XMNet,to s...Faced with the massive amount of online shopping clothing images,how to classify them quickly and accurately is a challenging task in image classification.In this paper,we propose a novel method,named Multi_XMNet,to solve the clothing images classification problem.The proposed method mainly consists of two convolution neural network(CNN)branches.One branch extracts multiscale features from the whole expressional image by Multi_X which is designed by improving the Xception network,while the other extracts attention mechanism features from the whole expressional image by MobileNetV3-small network.Both multiscale and attention mechanism features are aggregated before making classification.Additionally,in the training stage,global average pooling(GAP),convolutional layers,and softmax classifiers are used instead of the fully connected layer to classify the final features,which speed up model training and alleviate the problem of overfitting caused by too many parameters.Experimental comparisons are made in the public DeepFashion dataset.The experimental results show that the classification accuracy of this method is 95.38%,which is better than InceptionV3,Xception and InceptionV3_Xception by 5.58%,3.32%,and 2.22%,respectively.The proposed Multi_XMNet image classification model can help enterprises and researchers in the field of clothing e-commerce to automaticly,efficiently and accurately classify massive clothing images.展开更多
Background Coronary artery calcification is a well-known marker of atherosclerotic plaque burden.High-resolution intravascular optical coherence tomography(OCT)imaging has shown the potential to characterize the detai...Background Coronary artery calcification is a well-known marker of atherosclerotic plaque burden.High-resolution intravascular optical coherence tomography(OCT)imaging has shown the potential to characterize the details of coronary calcification in vivo.In routine clinical practice,it is a time-consuming and laborious task for clinicians to review the over 250 images in a single pullback.Besides,the imbalance label distribution within the entire pullbacks is another problem,which could lead to the failure of the classifier model.Given the success of deep learning methods with other imaging modalities,a thorough understanding of calcified plaque detection using Convolutional Neural Networks(CNNs)within pullbacks for future clinical decision was required.Methods All 33 IVOCT clinical pullbacks of 33 patients were taken from Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital,Nanjing University between December 2017 and December 2018.For ground-truth annotation,three trained experts determined the type of plaque that was present in a B-Scan.The experts assigned the labels'no calcified plaque','calcified plaque'for each OCT image.All experts were provided the all images for labeling.The final label was determined based on consensus between the experts,different opinions on the plaque type were resolved by asking the experts for a repetition of their evaluation.Before the implement of algorithm,all OCT images was resized to a resolution of 300×300,which matched the range used with standard architectures in the natural image domain.In the study,we randomly selected 26 pullbacks for training,the remaining data were testing.While,imbalance label distribution within entire pullbacks was great challenge for various CNNs architecture.In order to resolve the problem,we designed the following experiment.First,we fine-tuned twenty different CNNs architecture,including customize CNN architectures and pretrained CNN architectures.Considering the nature of OCT images,customize CNN architectures were designed that the layers were fewer than 25 layers.Then,three with good performance were selected and further deep fine-tuned to train three different models.The difference of CNNs was mainly in the model architecture,such as depth-based residual networks,width-based inception networks.Finally,the three CNN models were used to majority voting,the predicted labels were from the most voting.Areas under the receiver operating characteristic curve(ROC AUC)were used as the evaluation metric for the imbalance label distribution.Results The imbalance label distribution within pullbacks affected both convergence during the training phase and generalization of a CNN model.Different labels of OCT images could be classified with excellent performance by fine tuning parameters of CNN architectures.Overall,we find that our final result performed best with an accuracy of 90%of'calcified plaque'class,which the numbers were less than'no calcified plaque'class in one pullback.Conclusions The obtained results showed that the method is fast and effective to classify calcific plaques with imbalance label distribution in each pullback.The results suggest that the proposed method could be facilitating our understanding of coronary artery calcification in the process of atherosclerosis andhelping guide complex interventional strategies in coronary arteries with superficial calcification.展开更多
Biometric security systems based on facial characteristics face a challenging task due to variability in the intrapersonal facial appearance of subjects traced to factors such as pose, illumination, expression and agi...Biometric security systems based on facial characteristics face a challenging task due to variability in the intrapersonal facial appearance of subjects traced to factors such as pose, illumination, expression and aging. This paper innovates as it proposes a deep learning and set-based approach to face recognition subject to aging. The images for each subject taken at various times are treated as a single set, which is then compared to sets of images belonging to other subjects. Facial features are extracted using a convolutional neural network characteristic of deep learning. Our experimental results show that set-based recognition performs better than the singleton-based approach for both face identification and face verification. We also find that by using set-based recognition, it is easier to recognize older subjects from younger ones rather than younger subjects from older ones.展开更多
Several available mechanistic-empirical pavement design methods fail to include predictive model for permanent deformation(PD)of unbound granular materials(UGMs),which make these methods more conservative.In addition,...Several available mechanistic-empirical pavement design methods fail to include predictive model for permanent deformation(PD)of unbound granular materials(UGMs),which make these methods more conservative.In addition,there are limited regression models capable of predicting the PD under multistress levels,and these models have regression limitations and generally fail to cover the complexity of UGM behaviour.Recent researches are focused on using new methods of computational intelligence systems to address the problems,such as artificial neural network(ANN).In this context,we aim to develop an artificial neural model to predict the PD of UGMs exposed to repeated loads.Extensive repeated load triaxial tests(RLTTs)were conducted on base and subbase materials locally available in Victoria,Australia to investigate the PD properties of the tested materials and to prepare the database of the neural networks.Specimens were prepared over different moisture contents and gradations to cover a wide testing matrix.The ANN model consists of one input layer with five neurons,one hidden layer with twelve neurons,and one output layer with one neuron.The five inputs were the number of load cycles,deviatoric stress,moisture content,coefficient of uniformity,and coefficient of curvature.The sensitivity analysis showed that the most important indicator that impacts PD is the number of load cycles with influence factor of 41%.It shows that the ANN method is rapid and efficient to predict the PD,which could be implemented in the Austroads pavement design method.展开更多
基金Saudi Arabia for funding this work through Small Research Group Project under Grant Number RGP.1/316/45.
文摘The effective and timely diagnosis and treatment of ocular diseases are key to the rapid recovery of patients.Today,the mass disease that needs attention in this context is cataracts.Although deep learning has significantly advanced the analysis of ocular disease images,there is a need for a probabilistic model to generate the distributions of potential outcomes and thusmake decisions related to uncertainty quantification.Therefore,this study implements a Bayesian Convolutional Neural Networks(BCNN)model for predicting cataracts by assigning probability values to the predictions.It prepares convolutional neural network(CNN)and BCNN models.The proposed BCNN model is CNN-based in which reparameterization is in the first and last layers of the CNN model.This study then trains them on a dataset of cataract images filtered from the ocular disease fundus images fromKaggle.The deep CNN model has an accuracy of 95%,while the BCNN model has an accuracy of 93.75% along with information on uncertainty estimation of cataracts and normal eye conditions.When compared with other methods,the proposed work reveals that it can be a promising solution for cataract prediction with uncertainty estimation.
基金The work described in this paper was fully supported by a grant from Hong Kong Metropolitan University(RIF/2021/05).
文摘Parkinson’s disease(PD)is a debilitating neurological disorder affecting over 10 million people worldwide.PD classification models using voice signals as input are common in the literature.It is believed that using deep learning algorithms further enhances performance;nevertheless,it is challenging due to the nature of small-scale and imbalanced PD datasets.This paper proposed a convolutional neural network-based deep support vector machine(CNN-DSVM)to automate the feature extraction process using CNN and extend the conventional SVM to a DSVM for better classification performance in small-scale PD datasets.A customized kernel function reduces the impact of biased classification towards the majority class(healthy candidates in our consideration).An improved generative adversarial network(IGAN)was designed to generate additional training data to enhance the model’s performance.For performance evaluation,the proposed algorithm achieves a sensitivity of 97.6%and a specificity of 97.3%.The performance comparison is evaluated from five perspectives,including comparisons with different data generation algorithms,feature extraction techniques,kernel functions,and existing works.Results reveal the effectiveness of the IGAN algorithm,which improves the sensitivity and specificity by 4.05%–4.72%and 4.96%–5.86%,respectively;and the effectiveness of the CNN-DSVM algorithm,which improves the sensitivity by 1.24%–57.4%and specificity by 1.04%–163%and reduces biased detection towards the majority class.The ablation experiments confirm the effectiveness of individual components.Two future research directions have also been suggested.
基金funded by the Deanship of Scientific Research at Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University,through the Research Funding Program,Grant No.(FRP-1443-15).
文摘The analysis of Android malware shows that this threat is constantly increasing and is a real threat to mobile devices since traditional approaches,such as signature-based detection,are no longer effective due to the continuously advancing level of sophistication.To resolve this problem,efficient and flexible malware detection tools are needed.This work examines the possibility of employing deep CNNs to detect Android malware by transforming network traffic into image data representations.Moreover,the dataset used in this study is the CIC-AndMal2017,which contains 20,000 instances of network traffic across five distinct malware categories:a.Trojan,b.Adware,c.Ransomware,d.Spyware,e.Worm.These network traffic features are then converted to image formats for deep learning,which is applied in a CNN framework,including the VGG16 pre-trained model.In addition,our approach yielded high performance,yielding an accuracy of 0.92,accuracy of 99.1%,precision of 98.2%,recall of 99.5%,and F1 score of 98.7%.Subsequent improvements to the classification model through changes within the VGG19 framework improved the classification rate to 99.25%.Through the results obtained,it is clear that CNNs are a very effective way to classify Android malware,providing greater accuracy than conventional techniques.The success of this approach also shows the applicability of deep learning in mobile security along with the direction for the future advancement of the real-time detection system and other deeper learning techniques to counter the increasing number of threats emerging in the future.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.61271361,61163019,61462093 and 61761046)the Research Foundation of Yunnan Province(Nos.2014FA021 and 2014FB113)the Digital Media Technology Key Laboratory of Universities in Yunnan Province
文摘A way of embedded learning convolution neural network(ELCNN) based on the image content is proposed to evaluate the image aesthetic quality in this paper. Our approach can not only solve the problem of small-scale data but also score the image aesthetic quality. First, we chose Alexnet and VGG_S to compare for confirming which is more suitable for this image aesthetic quality evaluation task. Second, to further boost the image aesthetic quality classification performance, we employ the image content to train aesthetic quality classification models. But the training samples become smaller and only using once fine-tuning cannot make full use of the small-scale data set. Third, to solve the problem in second step, a way of using twice fine-tuning continually based on the aesthetic quality label and content label respective is proposed, the classification probability of the trained CNN models is used to evaluate the image aesthetic quality. The experiments are carried on the small-scale data set of Photo Quality. The experiment results show that the classification accuracy rates of our approach are higher than the existing image aesthetic quality evaluation approaches.
基金Supported by the College of Medicine Research Centre,Deanship of Scientific Research,King Saud University,Riyadh,Saudi Arabia
文摘BACKGROUND Artificial intelligence,such as convolutional neural networks(CNNs),has been used in the interpretation of images and the diagnosis of hepatocellular cancer(HCC)and liver masses.CNN,a machine-learning algorithm similar to deep learning,has demonstrated its capability to recognise specific features that can detect pathological lesions.AIM To assess the use of CNNs in examining HCC and liver masses images in the diagnosis of cancer and evaluating the accuracy level of CNNs and their performance.METHODS The databases PubMed,EMBASE,and the Web of Science and research books were systematically searched using related keywords.Studies analysing pathological anatomy,cellular,and radiological images on HCC or liver masses using CNNs were identified according to the study protocol to detect cancer,differentiating cancer from other lesions,or staging the lesion.The data were extracted as per a predefined extraction.The accuracy level and performance of the CNNs in detecting cancer or early stages of cancer were analysed.The primary outcomes of the study were analysing the type of cancer or liver mass and identifying the type of images that showed optimum accuracy in cancer detection.RESULTS A total of 11 studies that met the selection criteria and were consistent with the aims of the study were identified.The studies demonstrated the ability to differentiate liver masses or differentiate HCC from other lesions(n=6),HCC from cirrhosis or development of new tumours(n=3),and HCC nuclei grading or segmentation(n=2).The CNNs showed satisfactory levels of accuracy.The studies aimed at detecting lesions(n=4),classification(n=5),and segmentation(n=2).Several methods were used to assess the accuracy of CNN models used.CONCLUSION The role of CNNs in analysing images and as tools in early detection of HCC or liver masses has been demonstrated in these studies.While a few limitations have been identified in these studies,overall there was an optimal level of accuracy of the CNNs used in segmentation and classification of liver cancers images.
基金the Deanship of Graduate Studies and Scientific Research at Qassim University for financial support(QU-APC-2025).
文摘Leaf disease identification is one of the most promising applications of convolutional neural networks(CNNs).This method represents a significant step towards revolutionizing agriculture by enabling the quick and accurate assessment of plant health.In this study,a CNN model was specifically designed and tested to detect and categorize diseases on fig tree leaves.The researchers utilized a dataset of 3422 images,divided into four classes:healthy,fig rust,fig mosaic,and anthracnose.These diseases can significantly reduce the yield and quality of fig tree fruit.The objective of this research is to develop a CNN that can identify and categorize diseases in fig tree leaves.The data for this study was collected from gardens in the Amandi and Mamash Khail Bannu districts of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region in Pakistan.To minimize the risk of overfitting and enhance the model’s performance,early stopping techniques and data augmentation were employed.As a result,the model achieved a training accuracy of 91.53%and a validation accuracy of 90.12%,which are considered respectable.This comprehensive model assists farmers in the early identification and categorization of fig tree leaf diseases.Our experts believe that CNNs could serve as valuable tools for accurate disease classification and detection in precision agriculture.We recommend further research to explore additional data sources and more advanced neural networks to improve the model’s accuracy and applicability.Future research will focus on expanding the dataset by including new diseases and testing the model in real-world scenarios to enhance sustainable farming practices.
文摘Protein Secondary Structure Prediction (PSSP) is considered as one of the major challenging tasks in bioinformatics, so many solutions have been proposed to solve that problem via trying to achieve more accurate prediction results. The goal of this paper is to develop and implement an intelligent based system to predict secondary structure of a protein from its primary amino acid sequence by using five models of Neural Network (NN). These models are Feed Forward Neural Network (FNN), Learning Vector Quantization (LVQ), Probabilistic Neural Network (PNN), Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), and CNN Fine Tuning for PSSP. To evaluate our approaches two datasets have been used. The first one contains 114 protein samples, and the second one contains 1845 protein samples.
基金This paper was supported by the 2018 Science and Technology Breakthrough Project of Henan Provincial Science and Technology Department(No.182102310694).
文摘As an interdisciplinary comprehensive subject involving multidisciplinary knowledge,emotional analysis has become a hot topic in psychology,health medicine and computer science.It has a high comprehensive and practical application value.Emotion research based on the social network is a relatively new topic in the field of psychology and medical health research.The text emotion analysis of college students also has an important research significance for the emotional state of students at a certain time or a certain period,so as to understand their normal state,abnormal state and the reason of state change from the information they wrote.In view of the fact that convolutional neural network cannot make full use of the unique emotional information in sentences,and the need to label a large number of highquality training sets for emotional analysis to improve the accuracy of the model,an emotional analysismodel using the emotional dictionary andmultichannel convolutional neural network is proposed in this paper.Firstly,the input matrix of emotion dictionary is constructed according to the emotion information,and the different feature information of sentences is combined to form different network input channels,so that the model can learn the emotion information of input sentences from various feature representations in the training process.Then,the loss function is reconstructed to realize the semi supervised learning of the network.Finally,experiments are carried on COAE 2014 and self-built data sets.The proposed model can not only extract more semantic information in emotional text,but also learn the hidden emotional information in emotional text.The experimental results show that the proposed emotion analysis model can achieve a better classification performance.Compared with the best benchmark model gram-CNN,the F1 value can be increased by 0.026 in the self-built data set,and it can be increased by 0.032 in the COAE 2014 data set.
文摘Donggan language, which is a special variant of Mandarin, is used by Donggan people in Central Asia. Donggan language includes Gansu dialect and Shaanxi dialect. This paper proposes a convolutional neural network (CNN) based Donggan language speech recognition method for the Donggan Shaanxi dialect. A text corpus and a pronunciation dictionary were designed for of Donggan Shannxi dialect and the corresponding speech corpus was recorded. Then the acoustic models of Donggan Shaanxi dialect was trained by CNN. Experimental results demonstrate that the recognition rate of proposed CNNbased method achieves lower word error rate than that of the monophonic hidden Markov model (HMM) based method, triphone HMM-based method and DNN- based method.
文摘In this paper, performance of three classifiers for classification of five mental tasks were investigated. Wavelet Packet Transform (WPT) was used for feature extraction of the relevant frequency bands from raw Electroencephalograph (EEG) signal. The three classifiers namely used were Multilayer Back propagation Neural Network, Support Vector Machine and Radial Basis Function Neural Network. In MLP-BP NN five training methods used were a) Gradient Descent Back Propagation b) Levenberg-Marquardt c) Resilient Back Propagation d) Conjugate Learning Gradient Back Propagation and e) Gradient Descent Back Propagation with movementum.
基金This research project was supported by a grant from the“Research Center of the Female Scientific and Medical Colleges,”Deanship of Scientific Research,King Saud University。
文摘The worldwide mortality rate due to cancer is second only to cardiovascular diseases.The discovery of image processing,latest artificial intelligence techniques,and upcoming algorithms can be used to effectively diagnose and prognose cancer faster and reduce the mortality rate.Efficiently applying these latest techniques has increased the survival chances during recent years.The research community is making significant continuous progress in developing automated tools to assist dermatologists in decision making.The datasets used for the experimentation and analysis are ISBI 2016,ISBI 2017,and HAM 10000.In this work pertained models are used to extract the efficient feature.The pertained models applied are ResNet,InceptionV3,and classical feature extraction techniques.Before that,efficient preprocessing is conducted on dermoscopic images by applying various data augmentation techniques.Further,for classification,convolution neural networks were implemented.To classify dermoscopic images on HAM 1000 Dataset,the maximum attained accuracy is 89.30%for the proposed technique.The other parameters for measuring the performance attained 87.34%(Sen),86.33%(Pre),88.44%(F1-S),and 11.30%false-negative rate(FNR).The class with the highest TP rate is 97.6%for Melanoma;whereas,the lowest TP rate was for the Dermatofibroma class.For dataset ISBI2016,the accuracy achieved is 97.0%with the proposed classifier,whereas the other parameters for validation are 96.12%(Sen),97.01%(Pre),96.3%(F1-S),and further 3.7%(FNR).For the experiment with the ISBI2017 dataset,Sen,Pre,F1-S,and FNR were 93.9%,94.9%,93.9%,and 5.2%,respectively.
文摘One of the fast-growing disease affecting women’s health seriously is breast cancer.It is highly essential to identify and detect breast cancer in the earlier stage.This paper used a novel advanced methodology than machine learning algorithms such as Deep learning algorithms to classify breast cancer accurately.Deep learning algorithms are fully automatic in learning,extracting,and classifying the features and are highly suitable for any image,from natural to medical images.Existing methods focused on using various conventional and machine learning methods for processing natural and medical images.It is inadequate for the image where the coarse structure matters most.Most of the input images are downscaled,where it is impossible to fetch all the hidden details to reach accuracy in classification.Whereas deep learning algorithms are high efficiency,fully automatic,have more learning capability using more hidden layers,fetch as much as possible hidden information from the input images,and provide an accurate prediction.Hence this paper uses AlexNet from a deep convolution neural network for classifying breast cancer in mammogram images.The performance of the proposed convolution network structure is evaluated by comparing it with the existing algorithms.
基金financially supported by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(Grant No.2023M730365)Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province of China(Grant No.2023AFB232)。
文摘Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry(GC-MS)is an extremely important analytical technique that is widely used in organic geochemistry.It is the only approach to capture biomarker features of organic matter and provides the key evidence for oil-source correlation and thermal maturity determination.However,the conventional way of processing and interpreting the mass chromatogram is both timeconsuming and labor-intensive,which increases the research cost and restrains extensive applications of this method.To overcome this limitation,a correlation model is developed based on the convolution neural network(CNN)to link the mass chromatogram and biomarker features of samples from the Triassic Yanchang Formation,Ordos Basin,China.In this way,the mass chromatogram can be automatically interpreted.This research first performs dimensionality reduction for 15 biomarker parameters via the factor analysis and then quantifies the biomarker features using two indexes(i.e.MI and PMI)that represent the organic matter thermal maturity and parent material type,respectively.Subsequently,training,interpretation,and validation are performed multiple times using different CNN models to optimize the model structure and hyper-parameter setting,with the mass chromatogram used as the input and the obtained MI and PMI values for supervision(label).The optimized model presents high accuracy in automatically interpreting the mass chromatogram,with R2values typically above 0.85 and0.80 for the thermal maturity and parent material interpretation results,respectively.The significance of this research is twofold:(i)developing an efficient technique for geochemical research;(ii)more importantly,demonstrating the potential of artificial intelligence in organic geochemistry and providing vital references for future related studies.
文摘COVID-19 disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus has created social and economic disruption across theworld.The ability of the COVID-19 virus to quickly mutate and transfer has created serious concerns across the world.It is essential to detectCOVID-19 infection caused by different variants to take preventive measures accordingly.The existing method of detection of infections caused by COVID-19 and its variants is costly and time-consuming.The impacts of theCOVID-19 pandemic in developing countries are very drastic due to the unavailability of medical facilities and infrastructure to handle the pandemic.Pneumonia is the major symptom of COVID-19 infection.The radiology of the lungs in varies in the case of bacterial pneumonia as compared to COVID-19-caused pneumonia.The pattern of pneumonia in lungs in radiology images can also be used to identify the cause associated with pneumonia.In this paper,we propose the methodology of identifying the cause(either due to COVID-19 or other types of infections)of pneumonia from radiology images.Furthermore,because different variants of COVID-19 lead to different patterns of pneumonia,the proposed methodology identifies pneumonia,the COVID-19 caused pneumonia,and Omicron caused pneumonia from the radiology images.To fulfill the above-mentioned tasks,we have used three Convolution Neural Networks(CNNs)at each stage of the proposed methodology.The results unveil that the proposed step-by-step solution enhances the accuracy of pneumonia detection along with finding its cause,despite having a limited dataset.
文摘Background:Convolutional neural networks(CNN)have achieved remarkable success in medical image analysis.However,unlike some general-domain tasks where model accuracy is paramount,medical applications demand both accuracy and explainability due to the high stakes affecting patients'lives.Based on model explanations,clinicians can evaluate the diagnostic decisions suggested by CNN.Nevertheless,prior explainable artificial intelligence methods treat medical image tasks akin to general vision tasks,following end-to-end paradigms to generate explanations and frequently overlooking crucial clinical domain knowledge.Methods:We propose a plug-and-play module that explicitly integrates anatomic boundary information into the explanation process for CNN-based thoracopathy classifiers.To generate the anatomic boundary of the lung parenchyma,we utilize a lung segmentation model developed on external public datasets and deploy it on the unseen target dataset to constrain model ex-planations within the lung parenchyma for the clinical task of thoracopathy classification.Results:Assessed by the intersection over union and dice similarity coefficient between model-extracted explanations and expert-annotated lesion areas,our method consistently outperformed the baseline devoid of clinical domain knowledge in 71 out of 72 scenarios,encompassing 3 CNN architectures(VGG-11,ResNet-18,and AlexNet),2 classification settings(binary and multi-label),3 explanation methods(Saliency Map,Grad-CAM,and Integrated Gradients),and 4 co-occurred thoracic diseases(Atelectasis,Fracture,Mass,and Pneumothorax).Conclusions:We underscore the effectiveness of leveraging radiology knowledge in improving model explanations for CNN and envisage that it could inspire future efforts to integrate clinical domain knowledge into medical image analysis.
文摘Facial Expression Recognition(FER)has been an interesting area of research in places where there is human-computer interaction.Human psychol-ogy,emotions and behaviors can be analyzed in FER.Classifiers used in FER have been perfect on normal faces but have been found to be constrained in occluded faces.Recently,Deep Learning Techniques(DLT)have gained popular-ity in applications of real-world problems including recognition of human emo-tions.The human face reflects emotional states and human intentions.An expression is the most natural and powerful way of communicating non-verbally.Systems which form communications between the two are termed Human Machine Interaction(HMI)systems.FER can improve HMI systems as human expressions convey useful information to an observer.This paper proposes a FER scheme called EECNN(Enhanced Convolution Neural Network with Atten-tion mechanism)to recognize seven types of human emotions with satisfying results in its experiments.Proposed EECNN achieved 89.8%accuracy in classi-fying the images.
基金Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of Ministry of Education of China(No.19D111201)。
文摘Faced with the massive amount of online shopping clothing images,how to classify them quickly and accurately is a challenging task in image classification.In this paper,we propose a novel method,named Multi_XMNet,to solve the clothing images classification problem.The proposed method mainly consists of two convolution neural network(CNN)branches.One branch extracts multiscale features from the whole expressional image by Multi_X which is designed by improving the Xception network,while the other extracts attention mechanism features from the whole expressional image by MobileNetV3-small network.Both multiscale and attention mechanism features are aggregated before making classification.Additionally,in the training stage,global average pooling(GAP),convolutional layers,and softmax classifiers are used instead of the fully connected layer to classify the final features,which speed up model training and alleviate the problem of overfitting caused by too many parameters.Experimental comparisons are made in the public DeepFashion dataset.The experimental results show that the classification accuracy of this method is 95.38%,which is better than InceptionV3,Xception and InceptionV3_Xception by 5.58%,3.32%,and 2.22%,respectively.The proposed Multi_XMNet image classification model can help enterprises and researchers in the field of clothing e-commerce to automaticly,efficiently and accurately classify massive clothing images.
基金supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China ( NSFC ) ( 11772093)ARC ( FT140101152)
文摘Background Coronary artery calcification is a well-known marker of atherosclerotic plaque burden.High-resolution intravascular optical coherence tomography(OCT)imaging has shown the potential to characterize the details of coronary calcification in vivo.In routine clinical practice,it is a time-consuming and laborious task for clinicians to review the over 250 images in a single pullback.Besides,the imbalance label distribution within the entire pullbacks is another problem,which could lead to the failure of the classifier model.Given the success of deep learning methods with other imaging modalities,a thorough understanding of calcified plaque detection using Convolutional Neural Networks(CNNs)within pullbacks for future clinical decision was required.Methods All 33 IVOCT clinical pullbacks of 33 patients were taken from Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital,Nanjing University between December 2017 and December 2018.For ground-truth annotation,three trained experts determined the type of plaque that was present in a B-Scan.The experts assigned the labels'no calcified plaque','calcified plaque'for each OCT image.All experts were provided the all images for labeling.The final label was determined based on consensus between the experts,different opinions on the plaque type were resolved by asking the experts for a repetition of their evaluation.Before the implement of algorithm,all OCT images was resized to a resolution of 300×300,which matched the range used with standard architectures in the natural image domain.In the study,we randomly selected 26 pullbacks for training,the remaining data were testing.While,imbalance label distribution within entire pullbacks was great challenge for various CNNs architecture.In order to resolve the problem,we designed the following experiment.First,we fine-tuned twenty different CNNs architecture,including customize CNN architectures and pretrained CNN architectures.Considering the nature of OCT images,customize CNN architectures were designed that the layers were fewer than 25 layers.Then,three with good performance were selected and further deep fine-tuned to train three different models.The difference of CNNs was mainly in the model architecture,such as depth-based residual networks,width-based inception networks.Finally,the three CNN models were used to majority voting,the predicted labels were from the most voting.Areas under the receiver operating characteristic curve(ROC AUC)were used as the evaluation metric for the imbalance label distribution.Results The imbalance label distribution within pullbacks affected both convergence during the training phase and generalization of a CNN model.Different labels of OCT images could be classified with excellent performance by fine tuning parameters of CNN architectures.Overall,we find that our final result performed best with an accuracy of 90%of'calcified plaque'class,which the numbers were less than'no calcified plaque'class in one pullback.Conclusions The obtained results showed that the method is fast and effective to classify calcific plaques with imbalance label distribution in each pullback.The results suggest that the proposed method could be facilitating our understanding of coronary artery calcification in the process of atherosclerosis andhelping guide complex interventional strategies in coronary arteries with superficial calcification.
文摘Biometric security systems based on facial characteristics face a challenging task due to variability in the intrapersonal facial appearance of subjects traced to factors such as pose, illumination, expression and aging. This paper innovates as it proposes a deep learning and set-based approach to face recognition subject to aging. The images for each subject taken at various times are treated as a single set, which is then compared to sets of images belonging to other subjects. Facial features are extracted using a convolutional neural network characteristic of deep learning. Our experimental results show that set-based recognition performs better than the singleton-based approach for both face identification and face verification. We also find that by using set-based recognition, it is easier to recognize older subjects from younger ones rather than younger subjects from older ones.
文摘Several available mechanistic-empirical pavement design methods fail to include predictive model for permanent deformation(PD)of unbound granular materials(UGMs),which make these methods more conservative.In addition,there are limited regression models capable of predicting the PD under multistress levels,and these models have regression limitations and generally fail to cover the complexity of UGM behaviour.Recent researches are focused on using new methods of computational intelligence systems to address the problems,such as artificial neural network(ANN).In this context,we aim to develop an artificial neural model to predict the PD of UGMs exposed to repeated loads.Extensive repeated load triaxial tests(RLTTs)were conducted on base and subbase materials locally available in Victoria,Australia to investigate the PD properties of the tested materials and to prepare the database of the neural networks.Specimens were prepared over different moisture contents and gradations to cover a wide testing matrix.The ANN model consists of one input layer with five neurons,one hidden layer with twelve neurons,and one output layer with one neuron.The five inputs were the number of load cycles,deviatoric stress,moisture content,coefficient of uniformity,and coefficient of curvature.The sensitivity analysis showed that the most important indicator that impacts PD is the number of load cycles with influence factor of 41%.It shows that the ANN method is rapid and efficient to predict the PD,which could be implemented in the Austroads pavement design method.
