Smart Feature Extraction from Acoustic Camera Multi-sensor Measurements

The paper presents Echo State Network (ESN) as classifier to diagnose the abnormalities in mammogram images. Abnormalities in mammograms can be of different types. An efficient system which can handle these abnormalities and draw correct diagnosis is vital. We experimented with wavelet and Local Energy based Shape Histogram (LESH) features combined with Echo State Network classifier. The suggested system produces high classification accuracy of 98% as well as high sensitivity and specificity rates. We compared the performance of ESN with Support Vector Machine (SVM) and other classifiers and results generated indicate that ESN can compete with benchmark classifier and in some cases beat them. The high rate of Sensitivity and Specificity also signifies the power of ESN classifier to detect positive and negative case correctly.

Communication is the ultimate of man’s search for conveying his ideas, emotions, and concepts. Dance is one of the media of communication through which dancers share notion of feelings, with the spectators through gestures, i.e., mudra. Gesture recognition propagates a concept without verbal speech or listening, and in dance recognition, the notion is transferred through various dance poses and actions. This activity in a way really paves way to enhance Indian Sign Language. This study focuses to solve the mudra resemblance in Bharatanatyam through a new system developed with image processing and classification technique using histogram of oriented gradient (HOG) feature extraction techniques and support vector machine (SVM) classifier. SVM classifies the features of HOG into mudras as text labels. Popular feature vectors such as scale-invariant feature transform (SIFT), speed up robust feature (SURF), and local binary pattern (LBP) are hardened against HOG for accuracy and speediness, and this innovative proposed concept is useful for online dance learners.

The conventional method used in forest inventory is time-consuming, especially in field surveying and requires an expert’s knowledge and observation to do species identification. This standard method can be facilitated by advances in remote sensing technology. An airborne hyperspectral image mosaic was utilised in the research to evaluate the ability of this high spectral fidelity dataset that was incorporated into a feature extraction Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier to successfully detect and map a tree species of interest (Shorea kunstleri King) within the mixed dipterocarp forest stand of the Lambir Hills National Park. In this study, two types of feature extraction Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Spectral Derivative (SD) were applied to classifiers SVM. To demonstrate the effect, classification of the hyperspectral image with no feature extraction was done. The accuracies achieved from different feature extraction were compared statistically. Based on the results, Shorea kunstleri King was able to be discriminated against within 53 species of Shorea. SVM classifier is known for its ability to generalise well even with limited training samples and is commonly used in image classification. The Kernel parameter in SVM classifier alongside feature extraction significantly affects the classification accuracy. Therefore, feature extraction does affect the classification accuracy, but it depends on the morphology of the study area. It is concluded that the SVM method with SD feature extraction could detect tree crowns of Shorea kunstleri with a Kappa coefficient of 0.8126 which showed a great agreement with the observed samples and overall accuracy of 89.89% that shows the accuracy of the final map.

Surface electromyogram (sEMG) signals are widely used to control the myoelectric prosthetic arm for amputees. In this study, the authors investigated the usefulness of discrete wavelet transform (DWT) features from multiple levels of approximation and detail coefficients obtained from sEMG signals. DWT is used for de-noising as well as feature extraction in this study and further tested using Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier and Artificial Neural Network (ANN) Classifier. The performance of SVM classifier is compared with ANN classifier. The classification accuracy of SVM classifiers was found better as compared to ANN in term of speed and robustness. In the first section of paper the authors presented the introduction related to the study. The experimental set-up for recording surface EMG signal is presented in section 2. In section 3 the experimental results are depicted and in section 4 the results are concluded.

With the 3D printing rapidly expanding into various fields, 3D printers, as the equipment, should adopt a low-cost and small-sample fault diagnosis methods. A fault diagnosis method based on echo state networks (ESN) for 3D printers is proposed in this paper. A low-cost attitude sensor installed on the 3D printer is employed to collect raw fault data. Subsequently, feature extraction is carried out on the raw fault data. Using these features, ESN, as a shallow learning network, is modeled to diagnose faults of 3D printers. Experimental results show that the fault diagnosis method based on ESN still effective for 3D printers in low-cost and small-sample, which can make the fault recognition accuracy of 3D printer reach to 97.26%. Furthermore, contrast results indicated that the fault diagnosis accuracy of ESN is higher and most stable when compare with support vector machine (SVM), locality preserving projection support vector machine (LPPSVM) and principal component analysis support vector machine (PCASVM).

BackgroundThis study aimed to screen the feature modules and characteristic genes related to ulcerative colitis (UC) and construct a support vector machine (SVM) classifier to distinguish UC patients.MethodsFour datasets that contained UC and control samples were obtained from the Gene Expression Omnibus database. Differentially expressed genes (DEGs) with consistency were screened via the MetaDE method. The weighted gene coexpression network (WGCNA) was used to distinguish significant modules based on the four datasets. The protein–protein interaction network was established based on intersection genes. Enrichment analysis of Gene Ontology (GO) biological processes (BPs) and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) pathway enrichment were established based on DAVID. An SVM combined with recursive feature elimination was also applied to construct a disease classifier for the disease diagnosis of UC patients. The efficacy of the SVM classifier was evaluated through receiver operating characteristic curves.ResultsTwelve highly preserved modules were obtained using the WGCNA, and 2009 DEGs with significant consistency were selected using the MetaDE method. Sixteen significantly related GO BPs and 12 KEGG pathways were obtained, such as cytokine-cytokine receptor interaction, cell adhesion molecules, and leukocyte transendothelial migration. Subsequently, 41 genes were used to construct an SVM classifier, such as CXCL1, CCR2, IL1B, and IL1A. The area under the curve (AUC) was 0.999 in the training dataset, whereas the AUC was 0.886, 0.790, and 0.819 in the validation set (GSE65114, GSE37283, and GSE36807, respectively).ConclusionsAn SVM classifier based on feature genes might correctly identify healthy people or UC patients.

e14528 Background: Treatment monitoring in patients with High-Grade Glioma (HGG) and identification of disease progression, remains a major challenge in clinical neurooncology. We aimed to develop a support vector machine (SVM) classifier utilising combined longitudinal conventional and Dynamic Susceptibility Contrast (DSC) perfusion MRI to classify between Stable Disease (SD), Pseudoprogression (PsP) and Progressive Disease (PD) in glioma patients under surveillance. Methods: Conventional (269) and perfusion (62) MRI studies of HGG patients acquired between 2012 and 2018 were prospectively analysed. Study participants were separated into two groups: Group I with a single DSC time point (64 participants) and Group II with multiple DSC time points (19 participants). The SVM classifier was trained using all available MRI for each group. Classification accuracy was assessed for the use of features extracted from different feature dataset and time point combinations and compared to the experienced radiologists’ predictions. Results: The study included 64 participants (mean age: 48.5 ± 12.8 yrs [standard deviation], 24 female). SVM classification based on combined perfusion and structural features outperformed standalone datasets across all groups. For the clinically relevant classification step (SD/PSP vs PD), both feature combination as well as the addition of multiple DSC time points, improved classification performance (lowest median error rate: 0.016). The SVM algorithm outperformed radiologists in predicting lesion destiny in both groups. Optimal performance was observed in Group II, in which SVM sensitivity/specificity/accuracy was 100/91.67/94.7% for analysis based on the first time point and 85.71/100/ 94.7% based on multiple time points compared to 60/78/68% and 70/90/84.2% for the respective radiologist classifications. In Group I, the SVM also exceeded radiologist predictions, albeit by a smaller margin and resulted in sensitivity/specificity of 86.49/75.00/81.53% (SVM) compared to 75.7/68.9/73.84% (radiologists). Conclusions: Our results indicate that the addition of multiple longitudinal perfusion time points as well as the combination of structural and perfusion features significantly enhance classification outcome in treatment monitoring of HGGs and machine-learning-assisted diagnosis has potentially superior accuracy than the radiologist's visual evaluation and expertise.

Failure of power transformer is very complex, so that it is difficult to use the mathematical model to describe their faults. In this study, an intelligent diagnostic method based on ant colony-support vector machine (AC-SVM) approach is presented for fault diagnosis of power transformer. The AC-SVM selects kernel function parameter and soft margin constant C penalty parameter of support vector machine (SVM) classifier. The performance of the AC-SVM system proposed in this study is evaluated by cases in China. The test results show that this AC-SVM model is effective to detect failure of power transformer.

This paper presents a comparison between several features normalization methods, and a comparison between different types of Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) based supervectors normalizations for robust Speaker Verification. We implemented the methods of normalizations as a part of speaker verification system using Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier and GMM-based supervectors. When implementing the speaker recognition system, we used Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC) feature extraction. A valid question is which features normalization to use, if any. We examine the most common methods of feature normalizations, such as: Feature Warping mapping, and Cepstral Mean Subtraction (CMS) normalization with and without variance normalization. These methods were compared to features without normalization at all, and to a basic [-1, 1] normalization. In addition, we applied few types of normalizations to the GMM-mean supervectors, in order to improve the performance of the SVM classifier. All comparisons of the speaker verification system had been done in terms of DET curve, EER (Equal Error Rate) and Min. DCF. The best results we achieved were on combined supervector normalizations of Universal Background Model (UBM) Standard Deviation (STD) and [-1, 1] normalization. The type of the MFCC normalization has no big influence on the verification performance. The best results were: EER about 5.0% and MIN. DCF of 0.02.

Text classification which is an integral part of text mining has caught much attention in various industries and fields recently. The ability is in assigning text documents to one or more pre-defined categories based on content similarity. While most of application of text classification focuses on document level, question classification works at much granular level such as sentence and phrase. There have been numerous studies on question classification in accordance to Bloom taxonomy in assessments to measure cognitive level of learners in higher learning institutions. But it has not been effective yet to resolve overlapping issue of Bloom taxonomy verb keywords being assigned to more than one category of Bloom taxonomy. The presence of this poses a problem in respect of classifying a particular question into a right category of Bloom taxonomy. And feature extraction plays an important role in improving the accuracy of classifier such as Support Vector Machine in question classification. Much of the past related research work focus on feature extraction methods such as bag of word (BOW) and syntactic analysis to classify questions and to address the issue, an improvement in feature extraction is needed. In view of this, this study proposes an integrated approach in feature extraction involving semantic aspect in classifying questions in accordance to Bloom taxonomy. Support Vector Machine classifier is used as it is well known for its high accuracy in text classification. With all this in place, an improved accuracy in classifying questions in accordance to Bloom taxonomy can be expected.

Spontaneous speech differs from any other type of speech in many ways. And the presence of speech disfluencies is its prominent characteristic. These phenomena are important feature in human-human communication and at the same time a challenging obstacle for the speech processing tasks. This paper reports the experiment results on automatic detection of filled pauses and sound lengthenings basing on the automatically extracted acoustic features. We have performed machine learning experiments using support vector machine (SVM) classifier on the mixed and quality diverse corpus of Russian spontaneous speech. We applied Gaussian filtering and morphological opening to post-process the probability estimates from an SVM classifier. As the result we achieved F1–score of 0.54, with precision and recall being 0.55 and 0.53 respectively.

The increasing need of a handwritten character recognition system in the Indian offices such as banks, post offices and so forth, has made it an imperative field of research. In present paper, Authors have presented a novel hierarchical technique for isolated offline handwritten Gurmukhi character recognition. A robust feature set of 105 feature elements is proposed under this work for recognition of offline handwritten Gurmukhi characters using four types of topological features, namely, horizontally peak extent features, vertically peak extent features, diagonal features, and centroid features. For classification Support Vector Machines (SVMs) classifier has been used in this work. SVMs classifier has been considered with four different kernels, namely, linear kernel, polynomial kernel, RBF kernel and sigmoid kernel. For training and testing of a classifier, we have used 3,500 samples of isolated offline handwritten Gurmukhi characters written by one hundred different writers. Maximum recognition accuracy of 91.80 % have been achieved with proposed technique, while using PCA feature set and SVM with a linear kernel classifier.

Human ovarian tissue features extracted from photoacoustic spectra data, beam envelopes and co-registered ultrasound and photoacoustic images are used to characterize cancerous vs. normal processes using a support vector machine (SVM) classifier. The centers of suspicious tumor areas are estimated from the Gaussian fitting of the mean Radon transforms of the photoacoustic image along 0 and 90 degrees. Normalized power spectra are calculated using the Fourier transform of the photoacoustic beamformed data across these suspicious areas, where the spectral slope and 0-MHz intercepts are extracted. Image statistics, envelope histogram fitting and maximum output of 6 composite filters of cancerous or normal patterns along with other previously used features are calculated to compose a total of 17 features. These features are extracted from 169 datasets of 19 ex vivo ovaries. Half of the cancerous and normal datasets are randomly chosen to train a SVM classifier with polynomial kernel and the remainder is used for testing. With 50 times data resampling, the SVM classifier, for the training group, gives 100% sensitivity and 100% specificity. For the testing group, it gives 89.68± 6.37% sensitivity and 93.16± 3.70% specificity. These results are superior to those obtained earlier by our group using features extracted from photoacoustic raw data or image statistics only.

This paper presents a robust user authentication system by gleaning raw mouse movement data. The data was collected using a publicly available tool called Recording User Input (RUI) from 23 subjects analyzed for three types of mouse actions - Mouse Move, Point-and-Click on Left or Right mouse button, and Drag-and-Drop. Samples are broken down to unit blocks comprising a certain number of actions and from each block seventy-four features are extracted to construct feature vectors. The proposed system was rigorously tested against public benchmark data. Experiment results generated by using the Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier shows a False Rejection Rate (FRR) of 1.1594 % and a False Acceptance Rate (FAR) of 1.9053 % when the block size was set for 600 actions. After reducing dimensions using Principle Component Analysis (PCA), SVM classifier shows FRR of 1.2081 % and FAR of 2.3604 %. Compared with the existing methods based on mouse movements, our method shows significantly lower error rates, which we opine are viable enough to become an alternate to conventional authentication systems.

Scene classification from images is a challenging problem in computer vision due to its significant variability of scale, illumination, and view. Recently, Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) model has grown popular in computer vision field, especially in scene labeling and classification. However, the effectiveness of the LDA model for the scene classification has not yet been addressed thoroughly. Especially, there is little experimental evaluation on the model's performance for different types of features. Fusion of multiple types of features is usually necessary in the scene classification due to the complexity of scene images. In this paper, we investigate the effectiveness of the LDA model in scene classification by using 7 types of features (i.e. uniform grid based interest points, Harris corner based interest points, scale invariant feature transform (SIFT), texture, shape, color, and location) and their various combinations. Furthermore, we compare the performance of the LDA model with Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier. All experiments are performed on the UIUC Sport Scene database. The experiments demonstrate that the performance of the LDA model 1) is significantly lower than the SVM classifier for the scene classification over different types of features; and 2) decreases by fusing multiple features while improvement shown in SVM classifier.