Edge Machine Learning(EdgeML)and Tiny Machine Learning(TinyML)are fast-growing fields that bring machine learning to resource-constrained devices,allowing real-time data processing and decision-making at the network’...Edge Machine Learning(EdgeML)and Tiny Machine Learning(TinyML)are fast-growing fields that bring machine learning to resource-constrained devices,allowing real-time data processing and decision-making at the network’s edge.However,the complexity of model conversion techniques,diverse inference mechanisms,and varied learning strategies make designing and deploying these models challenging.Additionally,deploying TinyML models on resource-constrained hardware with specific software frameworks has broadened EdgeML’s applications across various sectors.These factors underscore the necessity for a comprehensive literature review,as current reviews do not systematically encompass the most recent findings on these topics.Consequently,it provides a comprehensive overview of state-of-the-art techniques in model conversion,inference mechanisms,learning strategies within EdgeML,and deploying these models on resource-constrained edge devices using TinyML.It identifies 90 research articles published between 2018 and 2025,categorizing them into two main areas:(1)model conversion,inference,and learning strategies in EdgeML and(2)deploying TinyML models on resource-constrained hardware using specific software frameworks.In the first category,the synthesis of selected research articles compares and critically reviews various model conversion techniques,inference mechanisms,and learning strategies.In the second category,the synthesis identifies and elaborates on major development boards,software frameworks,sensors,and algorithms used in various applications across six major sectors.As a result,this article provides valuable insights for researchers,practitioners,and developers.It assists them in choosing suitable model conversion techniques,inference mechanisms,learning strategies,hardware development boards,software frameworks,sensors,and algorithms tailored to their specific needs and applications across various sectors.展开更多
Together,the heart and lung sound comprise the thoracic cavity sound,which provides informative details that reflect patient conditions,particularly heart failure(HF)patients.However,due to the limitations of human he...Together,the heart and lung sound comprise the thoracic cavity sound,which provides informative details that reflect patient conditions,particularly heart failure(HF)patients.However,due to the limitations of human hearing,a limited amount of information can be auscultated from thoracic cavity sounds.With the aid of artificial intelligence–machine learning,these features can be analyzed and aid in the care of HF patients.Machine learning of thoracic cavity sound data involves sound data pre-processing by denoising,resampling,segmentation,and normalization.Afterwards,the most crucial step is feature extraction and se-lection where relevant features are selected to train the model.The next step is classification and model performance evaluation.This review summarizes the currently available studies that utilized different machine learning models,different feature extraction and selection methods,and different classifiers to generate the desired output.Most studies have analyzed the heart sound component of thoracic cavity sound to distinguish between normal and HF patients.Additionally,some studies have aimed to classify HF patients based on thoracic cavity sounds in their entirety,while others have focused on risk strati-fication and prognostic evaluation of HF patients using thoracic cavity sounds.Overall,the results from these studies demonstrate a promisingly high level of accuracy.Therefore,future prospective studies should incorporate these machine learning models to expedite their integration into daily clinical practice for managing HF patients.展开更多
The advanced driver assistance system(ADAS)primarily serves to assist drivers in monitoring the speed of the car and helps them make the right decision,which leads to fewer fatal accidents and ensures higher safety.In...The advanced driver assistance system(ADAS)primarily serves to assist drivers in monitoring the speed of the car and helps them make the right decision,which leads to fewer fatal accidents and ensures higher safety.In the artificial Intelligence domain,machine learning(ML)was developed to make inferences with a degree of accuracy similar to that of humans;however,enormous amounts of data are required.Machine learning enhances the accuracy of the decisions taken by ADAS,by evaluating all the data received from various vehicle sensors.This study summarizes all the critical algorithms used in ADAS technologies and presents the evolution of ADAS technology.Initially,ADAS technology is introduced,along with its evolution,to understand the objectives of developing this technology.Subsequently,the critical algorithms used in ADAS technology,which include face detection,head-pose estimation,gaze estimation,and link detection are discussed.A further discussion follows on the impact of ML on each algorithm in different environments,leading to increased accuracy at the expense of additional computing,to increase efficiency.The aim of this study was to evaluate all the methods with or without ML for each algorithm.展开更多
Trafic fow prediction is crucial for intelligent transportation and aids in route planning and navigation.However,existing studies often focus on prediction accuracy improvement,while neglecting external influences an...Trafic fow prediction is crucial for intelligent transportation and aids in route planning and navigation.However,existing studies often focus on prediction accuracy improvement,while neglecting external influences and practical issues like resource constraints and data sparsity on edge devices.We propose an online transfer learning(OTL)framework with a multi-layer perceptron(MLP)-assisted graph convolutional network(GCN),termed OTL-GM,which consists of two parts:transferring source-domain features to edge devices and using online learning to bridge domain gaps.Experiments on four data sets demonstrate OTL's effectiveness;in a comparison with models not using OTL,the reduction in the convergence time of the OTL models ranges from 24.77% to 95.32%.展开更多
Machine learning(ML)has been increasingly adopted to solve engineering problems with performance gauged by accuracy,efficiency,and security.Notably,blockchain technology(BT)has been added to ML when security is a part...Machine learning(ML)has been increasingly adopted to solve engineering problems with performance gauged by accuracy,efficiency,and security.Notably,blockchain technology(BT)has been added to ML when security is a particular concern.Nevertheless,there is a research gap that prevailing solutions focus primarily on data security using blockchain but ignore computational security,making the traditional ML process vulnerable to off-chain risks.Therefore,the research objective is to develop a novel ML on blockchain(MLOB)framework to ensure both the data and computational process security.The central tenet is to place them both on the blockchain,execute them as blockchain smart contracts,and protect the execution records on-chain.The framework is established by developing a prototype and further calibrated using a case study of industrial inspection.It is shown that the MLOB framework,compared with existing ML and BT isolated solutions,is superior in terms of security(successfully defending against corruption on six designed attack scenario),maintaining accuracy(0.01%difference with baseline),albeit with a slightly compromised efficiency(0.231 second latency increased).The key finding is MLOB can significantly enhances the computational security of engineering computing without increasing computing power demands.This finding can alleviate concerns regarding the computational resource requirements of ML-BT integration.With proper adaption,the MLOB framework can inform various novel solutions to achieve computational security in broader engineering challenges.展开更多
The Indian Himalayan region is frequently experiencing climate change-induced landslides.Thus,landslide susceptibility assessment assumes greater significance for lessening the impact of a landslide hazard.This paper ...The Indian Himalayan region is frequently experiencing climate change-induced landslides.Thus,landslide susceptibility assessment assumes greater significance for lessening the impact of a landslide hazard.This paper makes an attempt to assess landslide susceptibility in Shimla district of the northwest Indian Himalayan region.It examined the effectiveness of random forest(RF),multilayer perceptron(MLP),sequential minimal optimization regression(SMOreg)and bagging ensemble(B-RF,BSMOreg,B-MLP)models.A landslide inventory map comprising 1052 locations of past landslide occurrences was classified into training(70%)and testing(30%)datasets.The site-specific influencing factors were selected by employing a multicollinearity test.The relationship between past landslide occurrences and influencing factors was established using the frequency ratio method.The effectiveness of machine learning models was verified through performance assessors.The landslide susceptibility maps were validated by the area under the receiver operating characteristic curves(ROC-AUC),accuracy,precision,recall and F1-score.The key performance metrics and map validation demonstrated that the BRF model(correlation coefficient:0.988,mean absolute error:0.010,root mean square error:0.058,relative absolute error:2.964,ROC-AUC:0.947,accuracy:0.778,precision:0.819,recall:0.917 and F-1 score:0.865)outperformed the single classifiers and other bagging ensemble models for landslide susceptibility.The results show that the largest area was found under the very high susceptibility zone(33.87%),followed by the low(27.30%),high(20.68%)and moderate(18.16%)susceptibility zones.The factors,namely average annual rainfall,slope,lithology,soil texture and earthquake magnitude have been identified as the influencing factors for very high landslide susceptibility.Soil texture,lineament density and elevation have been attributed to high and moderate susceptibility.Thus,the study calls for devising suitable landslide mitigation measures in the study area.Structural measures,an immediate response system,community participation and coordination among stakeholders may help lessen the detrimental impact of landslides.The findings from this study could aid decision-makers in mitigating future catastrophes and devising suitable strategies in other geographical regions with similar geological characteristics.展开更多
Wheat is a critical crop,extensively consumed worldwide,and its production enhancement is essential to meet escalating demand.The presence of diseases like stem rust,leaf rust,yellow rust,and tan spot significantly di...Wheat is a critical crop,extensively consumed worldwide,and its production enhancement is essential to meet escalating demand.The presence of diseases like stem rust,leaf rust,yellow rust,and tan spot significantly diminishes wheat yield,making the early and precise identification of these diseases vital for effective disease management.With advancements in deep learning algorithms,researchers have proposed many methods for the automated detection of disease pathogens;however,accurately detectingmultiple disease pathogens simultaneously remains a challenge.This challenge arises due to the scarcity of RGB images for multiple diseases,class imbalance in existing public datasets,and the difficulty in extracting features that discriminate between multiple classes of disease pathogens.In this research,a novel method is proposed based on Transfer Generative Adversarial Networks for augmenting existing data,thereby overcoming the problems of class imbalance and data scarcity.This study proposes a customized architecture of Vision Transformers(ViT),where the feature vector is obtained by concatenating features extracted from the custom ViT and Graph Neural Networks.This paper also proposes a Model AgnosticMeta Learning(MAML)based ensemble classifier for accurate classification.The proposedmodel,validated on public datasets for wheat disease pathogen classification,achieved a test accuracy of 99.20%and an F1-score of 97.95%.Compared with existing state-of-the-art methods,this proposed model outperforms in terms of accuracy,F1-score,and the number of disease pathogens detection.In future,more diseases can be included for detection along with some other modalities like pests and weed.展开更多
Early identification and treatment of stroke can greatly improve patient outcomes and quality of life.Although clinical tests such as the Cincinnati Pre-hospital Stroke Scale(CPSS)and the Face Arm Speech Test(FAST)are...Early identification and treatment of stroke can greatly improve patient outcomes and quality of life.Although clinical tests such as the Cincinnati Pre-hospital Stroke Scale(CPSS)and the Face Arm Speech Test(FAST)are commonly used for stroke screening,accurate administration is dependent on specialized training.In this study,we proposed a novel multimodal deep learning approach,based on the FAST,for assessing suspected stroke patients exhibiting symptoms such as limb weakness,facial paresis,and speech disorders in acute settings.We collected a dataset comprising videos and audio recordings of emergency room patients performing designated limb movements,facial expressions,and speech tests based on the FAST.We compared the constructed deep learning model,which was designed to process multi-modal datasets,with six prior models that achieved good action classification performance,including the I3D,SlowFast,X3D,TPN,TimeSformer,and MViT.We found that the findings of our deep learning model had a higher clinical value compared with the other approaches.Moreover,the multi-modal model outperformed its single-module variants,highlighting the benefit of utilizing multiple types of patient data,such as action videos and speech audio.These results indicate that a multi-modal deep learning model combined with the FAST could greatly improve the accuracy and sensitivity of early stroke identification of stroke,thus providing a practical and powerful tool for assessing stroke patients in an emergency clinical setting.展开更多
With the rapid development of artificial intelligence,the Internet of Things(IoT)can deploy various machine learning algorithms for network and application management.In the IoT environment,many sensors and devices ge...With the rapid development of artificial intelligence,the Internet of Things(IoT)can deploy various machine learning algorithms for network and application management.In the IoT environment,many sensors and devices generatemassive data,but data security and privacy protection have become a serious challenge.Federated learning(FL)can achieve many intelligent IoT applications by training models on local devices and allowing AI training on distributed IoT devices without data sharing.This review aims to deeply explore the combination of FL and the IoT,and analyze the application of federated learning in the IoT from the aspects of security and privacy protection.In this paper,we first describe the potential advantages of FL and the challenges faced by current IoT systems in the fields of network burden and privacy security.Next,we focus on exploring and analyzing the advantages of the combination of FL on the Internet,including privacy security,attack detection,efficient communication of the IoT,and enhanced learning quality.We also list various application scenarios of FL on the IoT.Finally,we propose several open research challenges and possible solutions.展开更多
In the realm of Intelligent Railway Transportation Systems,effective multi-party collaboration is crucial due to concerns over privacy and data silos.Vertical Federated Learning(VFL)has emerged as a promising approach...In the realm of Intelligent Railway Transportation Systems,effective multi-party collaboration is crucial due to concerns over privacy and data silos.Vertical Federated Learning(VFL)has emerged as a promising approach to facilitate such collaboration,allowing diverse entities to collectively enhance machine learning models without the need to share sensitive training data.However,existing works have highlighted VFL’s susceptibility to privacy inference attacks,where an honest but curious server could potentially reconstruct a client’s raw data from embeddings uploaded by the client.This vulnerability poses a significant threat to VFL-based intelligent railway transportation systems.In this paper,we introduce SensFL,a novel privacy-enhancing method to against privacy inference attacks in VFL.Specifically,SensFL integrates regularization of the sensitivity of embeddings to the original data into the model training process,effectively limiting the information contained in shared embeddings.By reducing the sensitivity of embeddings to the original data,SensFL can effectively resist reverse privacy attacks and prevent the reconstruction of the original data from the embeddings.Extensive experiments were conducted on four distinct datasets and three different models to demonstrate the efficacy of SensFL.Experiment results show that SensFL can effectively mitigate privacy inference attacks while maintaining the accuracy of the primary learning task.These results underscore SensFL’s potential to advance privacy protection technologies within VFL-based intelligent railway systems,addressing critical security concerns in collaborative learning environments.展开更多
Sentiment analysis is a fine‐grained analysis task that aims to identify the sentiment polarity of a specified sentence.Existing methods in Chinese sentiment analysis tasks only consider sentiment features from a sin...Sentiment analysis is a fine‐grained analysis task that aims to identify the sentiment polarity of a specified sentence.Existing methods in Chinese sentiment analysis tasks only consider sentiment features from a single pole and scale and thus cannot fully exploit and utilise sentiment feature information,making their performance less than ideal.To resolve the problem,the authors propose a new method,GP‐FMLNet,that integrates both glyph and phonetic information and design a novel feature matrix learning process for phonetic features with which to model words that have the same pinyin information but different glyph information.Our method solves the problem of misspelling words influencing sentiment polarity prediction results.Specifically,the authors iteratively mine character,glyph,and pinyin features from the input comments sentences.Then,the authors use soft attention and matrix compound modules to model the phonetic features,which empowers their model to keep on zeroing in on the dynamic‐setting words in various positions and to dispense with the impacts of the deceptive‐setting ones.Ex-periments on six public datasets prove that the proposed model fully utilises the glyph and phonetic information and improves on the performance of existing Chinese senti-ment analysis algorithms.展开更多
为保证复杂仿真系统达到可信度要求和缩短开发周期,应在构建复杂仿真系统之初确定各个仿真子系统的可信度。为此,提出一种复杂仿真系统可信度智能分配方法,在明确复杂仿真系统总体可信度的情况下获取各仿真子系统的可信度分配结果。根...为保证复杂仿真系统达到可信度要求和缩短开发周期,应在构建复杂仿真系统之初确定各个仿真子系统的可信度。为此,提出一种复杂仿真系统可信度智能分配方法,在明确复杂仿真系统总体可信度的情况下获取各仿真子系统的可信度分配结果。根据复杂仿真系统的组成和结构,提出基于多层成对马尔可夫随机场(multi-layer pairwise Markov random field,ML-PMRF)的复杂仿真系统可信度分配模型构建方法。基于最大后验推理和离散萤火虫群优化,提出一种面向ML-PMRF的智能推理方法。通过实例应用及对比实验,验证了所提方法的有效性和合理性。展开更多
Mental health is a significant issue worldwide,and the utilization of technology to assist mental health has seen a growing trend.This aims to alleviate the workload on healthcare professionals and aid individuals.Num...Mental health is a significant issue worldwide,and the utilization of technology to assist mental health has seen a growing trend.This aims to alleviate the workload on healthcare professionals and aid individuals.Numerous applications have been developed to support the challenges in intelligent healthcare systems.However,because mental health data is sensitive,privacy concerns have emerged.Federated learning has gotten some attention.This research reviews the studies on federated learning and mental health related to solving the issue of intelligent healthcare systems.It explores various dimensions of federated learning in mental health,such as datasets(their types and sources),applications categorized based on mental health symptoms,federated mental health frameworks,federated machine learning,federated deep learning,and the benefits of federated learning in mental health applications.This research conducts surveys to evaluate the current state of mental health applications,mainly focusing on the role of Federated Learning(FL)and related privacy and data security concerns.The survey provides valuable insights into how these applications are emerging and evolving,specifically emphasizing FL’s impact.展开更多
文摘Edge Machine Learning(EdgeML)and Tiny Machine Learning(TinyML)are fast-growing fields that bring machine learning to resource-constrained devices,allowing real-time data processing and decision-making at the network’s edge.However,the complexity of model conversion techniques,diverse inference mechanisms,and varied learning strategies make designing and deploying these models challenging.Additionally,deploying TinyML models on resource-constrained hardware with specific software frameworks has broadened EdgeML’s applications across various sectors.These factors underscore the necessity for a comprehensive literature review,as current reviews do not systematically encompass the most recent findings on these topics.Consequently,it provides a comprehensive overview of state-of-the-art techniques in model conversion,inference mechanisms,learning strategies within EdgeML,and deploying these models on resource-constrained edge devices using TinyML.It identifies 90 research articles published between 2018 and 2025,categorizing them into two main areas:(1)model conversion,inference,and learning strategies in EdgeML and(2)deploying TinyML models on resource-constrained hardware using specific software frameworks.In the first category,the synthesis of selected research articles compares and critically reviews various model conversion techniques,inference mechanisms,and learning strategies.In the second category,the synthesis identifies and elaborates on major development boards,software frameworks,sensors,and algorithms used in various applications across six major sectors.As a result,this article provides valuable insights for researchers,practitioners,and developers.It assists them in choosing suitable model conversion techniques,inference mechanisms,learning strategies,hardware development boards,software frameworks,sensors,and algorithms tailored to their specific needs and applications across various sectors.
文摘Together,the heart and lung sound comprise the thoracic cavity sound,which provides informative details that reflect patient conditions,particularly heart failure(HF)patients.However,due to the limitations of human hearing,a limited amount of information can be auscultated from thoracic cavity sounds.With the aid of artificial intelligence–machine learning,these features can be analyzed and aid in the care of HF patients.Machine learning of thoracic cavity sound data involves sound data pre-processing by denoising,resampling,segmentation,and normalization.Afterwards,the most crucial step is feature extraction and se-lection where relevant features are selected to train the model.The next step is classification and model performance evaluation.This review summarizes the currently available studies that utilized different machine learning models,different feature extraction and selection methods,and different classifiers to generate the desired output.Most studies have analyzed the heart sound component of thoracic cavity sound to distinguish between normal and HF patients.Additionally,some studies have aimed to classify HF patients based on thoracic cavity sounds in their entirety,while others have focused on risk strati-fication and prognostic evaluation of HF patients using thoracic cavity sounds.Overall,the results from these studies demonstrate a promisingly high level of accuracy.Therefore,future prospective studies should incorporate these machine learning models to expedite their integration into daily clinical practice for managing HF patients.
文摘The advanced driver assistance system(ADAS)primarily serves to assist drivers in monitoring the speed of the car and helps them make the right decision,which leads to fewer fatal accidents and ensures higher safety.In the artificial Intelligence domain,machine learning(ML)was developed to make inferences with a degree of accuracy similar to that of humans;however,enormous amounts of data are required.Machine learning enhances the accuracy of the decisions taken by ADAS,by evaluating all the data received from various vehicle sensors.This study summarizes all the critical algorithms used in ADAS technologies and presents the evolution of ADAS technology.Initially,ADAS technology is introduced,along with its evolution,to understand the objectives of developing this technology.Subsequently,the critical algorithms used in ADAS technology,which include face detection,head-pose estimation,gaze estimation,and link detection are discussed.A further discussion follows on the impact of ML on each algorithm in different environments,leading to increased accuracy at the expense of additional computing,to increase efficiency.The aim of this study was to evaluate all the methods with or without ML for each algorithm.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.62171182)the Natural Science Foundation of Chongqing,the Chongqing Science and Technology Commission(No.CSTB2022NSCQ-MSX0770)+1 种基金the Science and Technology Plan Project of Hunan Provincial Department of Transportation,China(No.202306)the Hunan Emergency Management Science and Technology Project(No.yjtkjxm_202407)。
文摘Trafic fow prediction is crucial for intelligent transportation and aids in route planning and navigation.However,existing studies often focus on prediction accuracy improvement,while neglecting external influences and practical issues like resource constraints and data sparsity on edge devices.We propose an online transfer learning(OTL)framework with a multi-layer perceptron(MLP)-assisted graph convolutional network(GCN),termed OTL-GM,which consists of two parts:transferring source-domain features to edge devices and using online learning to bridge domain gaps.Experiments on four data sets demonstrate OTL's effectiveness;in a comparison with models not using OTL,the reduction in the convergence time of the OTL models ranges from 24.77% to 95.32%.
文摘Machine learning(ML)has been increasingly adopted to solve engineering problems with performance gauged by accuracy,efficiency,and security.Notably,blockchain technology(BT)has been added to ML when security is a particular concern.Nevertheless,there is a research gap that prevailing solutions focus primarily on data security using blockchain but ignore computational security,making the traditional ML process vulnerable to off-chain risks.Therefore,the research objective is to develop a novel ML on blockchain(MLOB)framework to ensure both the data and computational process security.The central tenet is to place them both on the blockchain,execute them as blockchain smart contracts,and protect the execution records on-chain.The framework is established by developing a prototype and further calibrated using a case study of industrial inspection.It is shown that the MLOB framework,compared with existing ML and BT isolated solutions,is superior in terms of security(successfully defending against corruption on six designed attack scenario),maintaining accuracy(0.01%difference with baseline),albeit with a slightly compromised efficiency(0.231 second latency increased).The key finding is MLOB can significantly enhances the computational security of engineering computing without increasing computing power demands.This finding can alleviate concerns regarding the computational resource requirements of ML-BT integration.With proper adaption,the MLOB framework can inform various novel solutions to achieve computational security in broader engineering challenges.
文摘The Indian Himalayan region is frequently experiencing climate change-induced landslides.Thus,landslide susceptibility assessment assumes greater significance for lessening the impact of a landslide hazard.This paper makes an attempt to assess landslide susceptibility in Shimla district of the northwest Indian Himalayan region.It examined the effectiveness of random forest(RF),multilayer perceptron(MLP),sequential minimal optimization regression(SMOreg)and bagging ensemble(B-RF,BSMOreg,B-MLP)models.A landslide inventory map comprising 1052 locations of past landslide occurrences was classified into training(70%)and testing(30%)datasets.The site-specific influencing factors were selected by employing a multicollinearity test.The relationship between past landslide occurrences and influencing factors was established using the frequency ratio method.The effectiveness of machine learning models was verified through performance assessors.The landslide susceptibility maps were validated by the area under the receiver operating characteristic curves(ROC-AUC),accuracy,precision,recall and F1-score.The key performance metrics and map validation demonstrated that the BRF model(correlation coefficient:0.988,mean absolute error:0.010,root mean square error:0.058,relative absolute error:2.964,ROC-AUC:0.947,accuracy:0.778,precision:0.819,recall:0.917 and F-1 score:0.865)outperformed the single classifiers and other bagging ensemble models for landslide susceptibility.The results show that the largest area was found under the very high susceptibility zone(33.87%),followed by the low(27.30%),high(20.68%)and moderate(18.16%)susceptibility zones.The factors,namely average annual rainfall,slope,lithology,soil texture and earthquake magnitude have been identified as the influencing factors for very high landslide susceptibility.Soil texture,lineament density and elevation have been attributed to high and moderate susceptibility.Thus,the study calls for devising suitable landslide mitigation measures in the study area.Structural measures,an immediate response system,community participation and coordination among stakeholders may help lessen the detrimental impact of landslides.The findings from this study could aid decision-makers in mitigating future catastrophes and devising suitable strategies in other geographical regions with similar geological characteristics.
基金Researchers Supporting Project Number(RSPD2024R 553),King Saud University,Riyadh,Saudi Arabia.
文摘Wheat is a critical crop,extensively consumed worldwide,and its production enhancement is essential to meet escalating demand.The presence of diseases like stem rust,leaf rust,yellow rust,and tan spot significantly diminishes wheat yield,making the early and precise identification of these diseases vital for effective disease management.With advancements in deep learning algorithms,researchers have proposed many methods for the automated detection of disease pathogens;however,accurately detectingmultiple disease pathogens simultaneously remains a challenge.This challenge arises due to the scarcity of RGB images for multiple diseases,class imbalance in existing public datasets,and the difficulty in extracting features that discriminate between multiple classes of disease pathogens.In this research,a novel method is proposed based on Transfer Generative Adversarial Networks for augmenting existing data,thereby overcoming the problems of class imbalance and data scarcity.This study proposes a customized architecture of Vision Transformers(ViT),where the feature vector is obtained by concatenating features extracted from the custom ViT and Graph Neural Networks.This paper also proposes a Model AgnosticMeta Learning(MAML)based ensemble classifier for accurate classification.The proposedmodel,validated on public datasets for wheat disease pathogen classification,achieved a test accuracy of 99.20%and an F1-score of 97.95%.Compared with existing state-of-the-art methods,this proposed model outperforms in terms of accuracy,F1-score,and the number of disease pathogens detection.In future,more diseases can be included for detection along with some other modalities like pests and weed.
基金supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China,No.2020AAA0109605(to XL)Meizhou Major Scientific and Technological Innovation PlatformsProjects of Guangdong Provincial Science & Technology Plan Projects,No.2019A0102005(to HW).
文摘Early identification and treatment of stroke can greatly improve patient outcomes and quality of life.Although clinical tests such as the Cincinnati Pre-hospital Stroke Scale(CPSS)and the Face Arm Speech Test(FAST)are commonly used for stroke screening,accurate administration is dependent on specialized training.In this study,we proposed a novel multimodal deep learning approach,based on the FAST,for assessing suspected stroke patients exhibiting symptoms such as limb weakness,facial paresis,and speech disorders in acute settings.We collected a dataset comprising videos and audio recordings of emergency room patients performing designated limb movements,facial expressions,and speech tests based on the FAST.We compared the constructed deep learning model,which was designed to process multi-modal datasets,with six prior models that achieved good action classification performance,including the I3D,SlowFast,X3D,TPN,TimeSformer,and MViT.We found that the findings of our deep learning model had a higher clinical value compared with the other approaches.Moreover,the multi-modal model outperformed its single-module variants,highlighting the benefit of utilizing multiple types of patient data,such as action videos and speech audio.These results indicate that a multi-modal deep learning model combined with the FAST could greatly improve the accuracy and sensitivity of early stroke identification of stroke,thus providing a practical and powerful tool for assessing stroke patients in an emergency clinical setting.
基金supported by the Shandong Province Science and Technology Project(2023TSGC0509,2022TSGC2234)Qingdao Science and Technology Plan Project(23-1-5-yqpy-2-qy)Open Topic Grants of Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Intelligent Building&Building Energy Saving,Anhui Jianzhu University(IBES2024KF08).
文摘With the rapid development of artificial intelligence,the Internet of Things(IoT)can deploy various machine learning algorithms for network and application management.In the IoT environment,many sensors and devices generatemassive data,but data security and privacy protection have become a serious challenge.Federated learning(FL)can achieve many intelligent IoT applications by training models on local devices and allowing AI training on distributed IoT devices without data sharing.This review aims to deeply explore the combination of FL and the IoT,and analyze the application of federated learning in the IoT from the aspects of security and privacy protection.In this paper,we first describe the potential advantages of FL and the challenges faced by current IoT systems in the fields of network burden and privacy security.Next,we focus on exploring and analyzing the advantages of the combination of FL on the Internet,including privacy security,attack detection,efficient communication of the IoT,and enhanced learning quality.We also list various application scenarios of FL on the IoT.Finally,we propose several open research challenges and possible solutions.
基金supported by Systematic Major Project of Shuohuang Railway Development Co.,Ltd.,National Energy Group(Grant Number:SHTL-23-31)Beijing Natural Science Foundation(U22B2027).
文摘In the realm of Intelligent Railway Transportation Systems,effective multi-party collaboration is crucial due to concerns over privacy and data silos.Vertical Federated Learning(VFL)has emerged as a promising approach to facilitate such collaboration,allowing diverse entities to collectively enhance machine learning models without the need to share sensitive training data.However,existing works have highlighted VFL’s susceptibility to privacy inference attacks,where an honest but curious server could potentially reconstruct a client’s raw data from embeddings uploaded by the client.This vulnerability poses a significant threat to VFL-based intelligent railway transportation systems.In this paper,we introduce SensFL,a novel privacy-enhancing method to against privacy inference attacks in VFL.Specifically,SensFL integrates regularization of the sensitivity of embeddings to the original data into the model training process,effectively limiting the information contained in shared embeddings.By reducing the sensitivity of embeddings to the original data,SensFL can effectively resist reverse privacy attacks and prevent the reconstruction of the original data from the embeddings.Extensive experiments were conducted on four distinct datasets and three different models to demonstrate the efficacy of SensFL.Experiment results show that SensFL can effectively mitigate privacy inference attacks while maintaining the accuracy of the primary learning task.These results underscore SensFL’s potential to advance privacy protection technologies within VFL-based intelligent railway systems,addressing critical security concerns in collaborative learning environments.
基金Science and Technology Innovation 2030‐“New Generation Artificial Intelligence”major project,Grant/Award Number:2020AAA0108703。
文摘Sentiment analysis is a fine‐grained analysis task that aims to identify the sentiment polarity of a specified sentence.Existing methods in Chinese sentiment analysis tasks only consider sentiment features from a single pole and scale and thus cannot fully exploit and utilise sentiment feature information,making their performance less than ideal.To resolve the problem,the authors propose a new method,GP‐FMLNet,that integrates both glyph and phonetic information and design a novel feature matrix learning process for phonetic features with which to model words that have the same pinyin information but different glyph information.Our method solves the problem of misspelling words influencing sentiment polarity prediction results.Specifically,the authors iteratively mine character,glyph,and pinyin features from the input comments sentences.Then,the authors use soft attention and matrix compound modules to model the phonetic features,which empowers their model to keep on zeroing in on the dynamic‐setting words in various positions and to dispense with the impacts of the deceptive‐setting ones.Ex-periments on six public datasets prove that the proposed model fully utilises the glyph and phonetic information and improves on the performance of existing Chinese senti-ment analysis algorithms.
文摘为保证复杂仿真系统达到可信度要求和缩短开发周期,应在构建复杂仿真系统之初确定各个仿真子系统的可信度。为此,提出一种复杂仿真系统可信度智能分配方法,在明确复杂仿真系统总体可信度的情况下获取各仿真子系统的可信度分配结果。根据复杂仿真系统的组成和结构,提出基于多层成对马尔可夫随机场(multi-layer pairwise Markov random field,ML-PMRF)的复杂仿真系统可信度分配模型构建方法。基于最大后验推理和离散萤火虫群优化,提出一种面向ML-PMRF的智能推理方法。通过实例应用及对比实验,验证了所提方法的有效性和合理性。
文摘Mental health is a significant issue worldwide,and the utilization of technology to assist mental health has seen a growing trend.This aims to alleviate the workload on healthcare professionals and aid individuals.Numerous applications have been developed to support the challenges in intelligent healthcare systems.However,because mental health data is sensitive,privacy concerns have emerged.Federated learning has gotten some attention.This research reviews the studies on federated learning and mental health related to solving the issue of intelligent healthcare systems.It explores various dimensions of federated learning in mental health,such as datasets(their types and sources),applications categorized based on mental health symptoms,federated mental health frameworks,federated machine learning,federated deep learning,and the benefits of federated learning in mental health applications.This research conducts surveys to evaluate the current state of mental health applications,mainly focusing on the role of Federated Learning(FL)and related privacy and data security concerns.The survey provides valuable insights into how these applications are emerging and evolving,specifically emphasizing FL’s impact.
