Quality prediction of seabream Sparus aurata by deep learning algorithms and explainable artificial intelligence.

COVID-19 pandemic has indeed plunged the global community especially African countries into an alarming difficult situationculminating into a great deal amounts of catastrophes such as economic recession, political instability and loss of jobs. Thepandemic spreads exponentially and causes loss of lives. Following the outbreak of the omicron new variant of concern,forecasting and identification of the COVID-19 infection cases is very vital for government at various levels. Hence, havingknowledge of the spread at a particular point in time, swift actions can be taken by government at various levels with a view toaccordingly formulate new policies and modalities towards minimizing the trajectory of the consequences of COVID-19 pandemicto both public health and economic sectors. Here, a potent combination of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) learning algorithm along with Long Short Term Memory(LSTM) learning algorithm has been proposed in this work in order to produce a hybrid of a deep learning algorithm ConvolutionalNeural Network - Long Short Term Memory (CNN-LSTM) for forecasting COVID-19 infection cases particularly in Nigeria, SouthAfrica and Botswana. Forecasting models for COVID-19 infection cases in Nigeria, South Africa and Botswana, were developedfor 10 days using deep learning-based approaches namely CNN, LSTM and CNN-LSTM deep learning algorithm respectively. The models were evaluated on the basis of four standard performance evaluation metrics which include accuracy, MSE, MAEand RMSE respectively. However, the CNN-LSTM deep learning-based forecasting model achieved the best accuracy of98.30%, 97.60%, and 97.74% for Nigeria, South Africa and Botswana respectively; and in the same manner, achieved lesserMSE, MAE and RMSE values compared to models developed with CNN and LSTM respectively. Taken together, the CNN-LSTM deep learning-based forecasting model for COVID-19 infection cases in Nigeria, South Africaand Botswana dramatically surpasses the two other DL based forecasting models (CNN and LSTM) for COVID-19 infectioncases in Nigeria, South Africa and Botswana in terms of not only the best accuracy of with 98.30%, 97.60%, and 97.74% but alsoin terms of lesser MSE, MAE and RMSE.

This study presents a comparative analysis of the classification performance of facial and emotion recognition systems using Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) algorithms. The primary objective of this work is to evaluate the applicability of emotion recognition in fields such as psychotherapy and crime analysis, using the FER-2013 dataset.The study was conducted with ML algorithms such as Support Vector Machines (SVM), Random Forest (RF), K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN), Decision Trees, and Gradient Boosting, as well as the DL algorithm, Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). Supported by the application of feature selection, preprocessing, and feature extraction techniques, the model’s performance was measured using standard metrics such as accuracy, precision, F1-score, and AUC-ROC.The experimental results showed that the highest classification accuracy (46.61%) was achieved with the CNN model. While the ML models generally offered lower accuracy, they provided advantages in terms of computational efficiency in specific scenarios.This study aims to contribute to the literature by providing a comparative analysis of ML and DL algorithms and by highlighting the effect of data preprocessing on performance. The findings set targets for future work, such as real-time system integration and hybrid model development.

In the field of medicine, with the introduction of computer systems that can collect and analyze massive amounts of data, many non-invasive diagnostic methods are being developed for a variety of conditions. In this study, our aim is to develop a non-invasive method of classifying respiratory sounds that are recorded by an electronic stethoscope and the audio recording software that uses various machine learning algorithms.In order to store respiratory sounds on a computer, we developed a cost-effective and easy-to-use electronic stethoscope that can be used with any device. Using this device, we recorded 17,930 lung sounds from 1630 subjects.We employed two types of machine learning algorithms; mel frequency cepstral coefficient (MFCC) features in a support vector machine (SVM) and spectrogram images in the convolutional neural network (CNN). Since using MFCC features with a SVM algorithm is a generally accepted classification method for audio, we utilized its results to benchmark the CNN algorithm. We prepared four data sets for each CNN and SVM algorithm to classify respiratory audio: (1) healthy versus pathological classification; (2) rale, rhonchus, and normal sound classification; (3) singular respiratory sound type classification; and (4) audio type classification with all sound types. Accuracy results of the experiments were; (1) CNN 86%, SVM 86%, (2) CNN 76%, SVM 75%, (3) CNN 80%, SVM 80%, and (4) CNN 62%, SVM 62%, respectively.As a result, we found out that spectrogram image classification with CNN algorithm works as well as the SVM algorithm, and given the large amount of data, CNN and SVM machine learning algorithms can accurately classify and pre-diagnose respiratory audio.

Electrocardiogram (ECG) is a tool to help judge heart activity. In recent years, the convolutional neural network (CNN) and various deep learning algorithms have been widely used in ECG diagnosis. CNN only considers the local feature. However, the ECG signal is susceptible to noise, and the waveform is complex, making it difficult for existing methods to get a good result. This article presents a novel neural network architecture for ECG diagnosis based on deformable CNN (Deform-CNN). The architecture makes good use of the feature-learning capability of deformable convolution to learn the time-domain and lead characteristics of multilead ECG signals. The proposed end-to-end method can achieve an overall diagnostic accuracy of 86.3% in the 12-lead ECG data of CPSC-2018, with good antinoise ability, which makes the method have a more competitive performance than other deep learning algorithms. The source code is publicly available at <monospace xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><uri>https://github.com/HeartbeatAI/Deform-CNN</uri></monospace> .

The objective of this thesis was to evaluate the viability of implementation of an object recognition algorithm driven by deep learning for aerospace manufacturing, maintenance and assembly tasks. Comparison research has found that current computer vision methods such as, spatial mapping was limited to macro-object recognition because of its nodal wireframe analysis. An optical object recognition algorithm was trained to learn complex geometric and chromatic characteristics, therefore allowing for micro-object recognition, such as cables and other critical components. This thesis investigated the use of a convolutional neural network with object recognition algorithms. The viability of two categories of object recognition algorithms were analyzed: image prediction and object detection. Due to a viral epidemic, this thesis was limited in analytical consistency as resources were not readily available. The prediction-class algorithm was analyzed using a custom dataset comprised of 15 552 images of the MaxFlight V2002 Full Motion Simulator’s inverter system, and a model was created by transfer-learning that dataset onto the InceptionV3 convolutional neural network (CNN). The detection-class algorithm was analyzed using a custom dataset comprised of 100 images of two SUVs of different brand and style, and a model was created by transfer-learning that dataset onto the YOLOv3 deep learning architecture. The tests showed that the object recognition algorithms successfully identified the components with good accuracy, 99.97% mAP for prediction-class and 89.54% mAP. For detection-class. The accuracies and data collected with literature review found that object detection algorithms are accuracy, created for live -feed analysis and were suitable for the significant applications of AVI and aircraft assembly. In the future, a larger dataset needs to be complied to increase reliability and a custom convolutional neural network and deep learning algorithm needs to be developed specifically for aerospace assembly, maintenance and manufacturing applications.

Wind energy has the possibility for bringing out energy in a very constant and sustainable manner being a notable and eligible source. Although, wind energy does include numerous challenges like, the halted asset of wind plants, early investment costs, and therefore, the strain in discovering areas of wind efficiency. The major objective for proposing this work is to determine the power efficiency of wind turbines, which will also aid in the formulation of a proposal to reduce wind turbine maintenance costs. During this research, data analysis of turbine generators is performed on day to day wind speed info using machine learning and deep learning algorithms. A way is put forward by us to support deep learning and machine learning algorithms which can predict different values of power reliably. Hence, the execution of machine and deep learning algorithms are analyzed. For forecasting for a longer term these algorithms may be used for wind generation rate with historical relation to wind speed info. Index Terms: Wind turbine,machine learning algorithm

An intrusion detection system (IDS) is an important protection instrument for detecting complex network attacks. Various machine learning (ML) or deep learning (DL) algorithms have been proposed for implementing anomaly-based IDS (AIDS). Our review of the AIDS literature identifies some issues in related work, including the randomness of the selected algorithms, parameters, and testing criteria, the application of old datasets, or shallow analyses and validation of the results. This paper comprehensively reviews previous studies on AIDS by using a set of criteria with different datasets and types of attacks to set benchmarking outcomes that can reveal the suitable AIDS algorithms, parameters, and testing criteria. Specifically, this paper applies 10 popular supervised and unsupervised ML algorithms for identifying effective and efficient ML-AIDS of networks and computers. These supervised ML algorithms include the artificial neural network (ANN), decision tree (DT), k-nearest neighbor (k-NN), naive Bayes (NB), random forest (RF), support vector machine (SVM), and convolutional neural network (CNN) algorithms, whereas the unsupervised ML algorithms include the expectation-maximization (EM), k-means, and self-organizing maps (SOM) algorithms. Several models of these algorithms are introduced, and the turning and training parameters of each algorithm are examined to achieve an optimal classifier evaluation. Unlike previous studies, this study evaluates the performance of AIDS by measuring the true positive and negative rates, accuracy, precision, recall, and F-Score of 31 ML-AIDS models. The training and testing time for ML-AIDS models are also considered in measuring their performance efficiency given that time complexity is an important factor in AIDSs. The ML-AIDS models are tested by using a recent and highly unbalanced multiclass CICIDS2017 dataset that involves real-world network attacks. In general, the k-NN-AIDS, DT-AIDS, and NB-AIDS models obtain the best results and show a greater capability in detecting web attacks compared with other models that demonstrate irregular and inferior results.

Channel identification is a useful function to support wireless telecommunication operations because the knowledge of the radio frequency propagation channel characteristics can improve communication efficiency and robustness. In recent times, the application of machine learning (ML) algorithms to the problem of channel identification has been proposed in the literature. In particular, Deep Learning (DL) has demonstrated superior performance to ’shallow’ machine learning algorithms for many wireless communication functions. Inspired by the success of DL in literature, the authors in this paper apply Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) to the problem of channel identification, which is still an emerging research area. CNN is a deep learning algorithm that has demonstrated superior performance to ML algorithms, in particular for image processing tasks. Because the digitized RF signal is a one-dimensional time series, different algorithms are applied to convert the time series to images using various Time Frequency Transform (TFT) including the CWTs, spectrogram, and Wigner Ville distribution. The images are then provided as input to the CNN. The approach is applied to a data set based on weather radar pulse signals generated in the laboratory of the author’s facilities on which different fading models are applied. These models are inspired by the tap-delay-line 3GPP configurations defined in the standards, but they have been customized with Nakagami-m fading distribution (3GPP-like fading models). The results show the superior performance of time–frequency CNN in comparison to 1D CNN for different values of Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) in dB. In particular, the study shows that the Continuous Wavelet Transform (CWT) has the optimal performance in this data set, but the choice of the mother wavelet remains a problem to be solved (this is a well-known problem in the research literature). Then, this study also proposes an adaptive technique for the choice of the optimal mother wavelet, which is evaluated on the mentioned data set. The results show that the adaptive proposed approach is able to obtain the optimal performance for most of the SNR conditions.

Artificial intelligence (AI) technology has shown tremendous contributions in various applications like speech recognition, expert systems, computer vision, robotics, and gaming. machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) algorithms under AI address problems such as prediction, classification, and regression. AI has touched many domains. The results or the predictions generated by these algorithms are not easily accepted by the user. Especially, the Healthcare domain is facing a great challenge in accepting the results or the predictions with the concern, Are AI results reliable, correct, and ethical? Doctors or medical practitioners are not ready to treat patients based on results or suggestions generated by AI algorithms. Hence, a technology that can explain how the results returned by AI algorithms are trustworthy, transparent, and interpretable was strongly needed. This need has given rise to the latest technology-explainable artificial intelligence (XAI). With the use of XAI, all the predictions, classifications made by AI algorithms are explainable, auditable, comprehensive, validating, and socially acceptable. This paper discusses explaining the results of breast cancer prediction as a case study. The results show that such an explanation will build trust in the doctors and hence will increase the acceptance of the AI-based systems.

Handwritten documents in an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system can come from different sources and usually have different designs, sizes, and subjects (i.e. bills, checks, invoices, etc.). Given these documents were filled manually, they have to be inspected to detect various kinds of issues (missing signature or stamp, missing name, etc.) before being saved in the ERP system or processed by an OCR engine. In this paper, the authors present a transfer learning approach to detect issues in scanned handwritten documents, using an award-winning deep convolutional neural network (InceptionV3) and different machine learning algorithms such as Logistic Regression (LR), Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Naive Bayes (NB). The experiment shows that the combination of InceptionV3 and LR got an accuracy of 91.8% for missing stamp detection. This can allow using this approach in an ERP system as an automatic verification procedure in a document processing flow.

Handwritten documents in an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system can come from different sources and usually have different designs, sizes, and subjects (i.e. bills, checks, invoices, etc.). Given these documents were filled manually, they have to be inspected to detect various kinds of issues (missing signature or stamp, missing name, etc.) before being saved in the ERP system or processed by an OCR engine. In this paper, the authors present a transfer learning approach to detect issues in scanned handwritten documents, using an award-winning deep convolutional neural network (InceptionV3) and different machine learning algorithms such as Logistic Regression (LR), Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Naive Bayes (NB). The experiment shows that the combination of InceptionV3 and LR got an accuracy of 91.8% for missing stamp detection. This can allow using this approach in an ERP system as an automatic verification procedure in a document processing flow.

Convolutional neural network(CNN) and related deep learning algorithms represent the state-of-art ability in several computer vision tasks, such as image classification and video analysis. However, model complexity and massive computational operations restrain CNN deployment on embedded systems with limited computing capability and low power budgets including smartphones, drones and robots. In this paper, we propose a scalable FPGA-based CNN hardware accelerator for embedded systems based on 8-bit fixed point approximation of a hardware-friendly CNN model named SqueezeNet v1.1. Proposed FPGA accelerator is implemented with OpenCL framework and achieves 1.9x energy efficiency compared to previous work. Besides, performance and resource occupation of proposed FPGA accelerator are capable of being customized to fit in different FPGA platforms by changing a single hyperparameter.

In the era of artificial intelligence, machine learning methods are successfully used in various fields. Machine learning has attracted extensive attention from investors in the financial market, especially in stock price prediction. However, one argument for the machine learning methods used in stock price prediction is that they are black-box models which are difficult to interpret. In this paper, we focus on the future stock price prediction with the historical stock price by machine learning and deep learning methods, such as support vector machine (SVM), random forest (RF), Bayesian classifier (BC), decision tree (DT), multilayer perceptron (MLP), convolutional neural network (CNN), bi-directional long-short term memory (BiLSTM), the embedded CNN, and the embedded BiLSTM. Firstly, we manually design several financial time series where the future price correlates with the historical stock prices in pre-designed modes, namely the curve-shape-feature (CSF) and the non-curve-shape-feature (NCSF) modes. In the CSF mode, the future prices can be extracted from the curve shapes of the historical stock prices. Conversely, in the NCSF mode, they can’t. Secondly, we apply various algorithms to those pre-designed and real financial time series. We find that the existing machine learning and deep learning algorithms fail in stock price prediction because in the real financial time series, less information of future prices is contained in the CSF mode, and perhaps more information is contained in the NCSF. Various machine learning and deep learning algorithms are good at handling the CSF in historical data, which are successfully applied in image recognition and natural language processing. However, they are inappropriate for stock price prediction on account of the NCSF. Therefore, accurate stock price prediction is the key to successful investment, and new machine learning algorithms handling the NCSF series are needed.&#x0D;

The discussion of "can machines think?" which started with the invention of the modern computer, brought along the question of "can machines design?" by researchers in the design field. These developments in information technologies have also affected the architecture. Artificial intelligence applications are encountered in many areas such as pricing estimation, energy conservation security systems of buildings, ventilation systems, user-oriented interactive design solutions, computer-aided programs used in the plan production phase and design process. When the literature on artificial intelligence applications in the architecture is reviewed, it can be seen that it generally includes shape grammars, graph theory, decision trees, constraint-based models, machine learning methods, RNN (Recursive Neural Networks), CNN (Convolutional Neural Network) and GAN (Generative Adversarial Network) algorithms. In this study, the use of artificial intelligence algorithms in architecture was examined, and an example was designed to determine the architectural structures of different periods by using CNN (Convolutional Neural Network). In the study, the open source TensorFlow library developed by Google and the Python programming language were used. Employing a statistical approach and utilizing convolutional neural networks (CNNs), a study has successfully classified the current flow patterns of buildings based on datasets comprising facades of Gothic, Modern, and Deconstructivist architectural styles. The findings demonstrate the efficacy of CNNs in accurately distinguishing the intricate details of diverse architectural styles. Recognizing elements from different periods using the CNN algorithm can examine not only individual buildings but also the relationship of buildings with their environments. It can also gain an important place in the field of conservation of the architectural discipline. The historical processes, aesthetic features and changes of protected buildings can be learned with the CNN algorithm and can guide restoration decisions. As a result of the study, the employed CNN-based model can correctly classify structures with 84.66% accuracy rate.

Designing of VehiNet Using Convolutional Neural Networks and Deep Learning Techniques