Tactically Maximize Game Advantage by Predicting Football Substitutions Using Machine Learning

The increasing prevalence of advanced technology in sports has empowered athletes, coaches, and team management to elevate their performance and fine-tune team tactics. Notably, player collaborations have emerged as a critical factor in reshaping the dynamics of matches, yet a lack of tools for accurate partnership analysis often leads to instinct-driven decisions rather than data-based insights. The aim of this study is to investigate the potential of harnessing machine learning algorithms to evaluate the significance of player partnerships in football and their potential impact on match out-comes. This study innovatively forecasts player partnership formations in live matches, demonstrating adept management of extensive, unstructured datasets to create a robust solution. It offers valuable insights for coaches to predict and build effective player partnerships, resulting in sustainable advantages for the team. The research utilizes machine learning techniques, including Logistic Regression (LR), Decision Tree (DT), K-nearest Neighbor (KNN), Support Vector Machine (SVM), Multinomial Naïve Bayes (MNB), and Random Forest (RF) classifiers. These models were applied and evaluated to construct models and assess player partnerships. Necessary data was sourced from the Kaggle dataset, which encompasses information on 167,798 player assists from 9,074 European league football matches spanning six seasons across five leagues. Machine learning models underwent training and evaluation through an 80 − 20 data split and further verified through cross-validation to ensure robustness across league datasets. Balanced sampling and k-fold cross-validation were used to mitigate data imbalance and validate model generalization. Notably, the SVM, DT and RF models demonstrated impressive accuracy of 99%, with the highest F1-score of 0.99, encompassing all football leagues. The SVM and RF models also achieved the highest precision, at 0.99, albeit with a relatively longer computation time of up to 60 s. Model performance varied marginally across leagues (± 0.3% standard deviation in accuracy and F1-score), indicating stable predictive behaviour across gameplay variations. Unlike prior studies that analyzed team synchronization or motion dynamics, this work uniquely models player partnerships based on assist-goal frequency patterns and forecasts their continuity across matches using machine learning classifiers. This study provides valuable insights for devising strategies that can confer a competitive edge in matches. The findings offer a practical means for team managers and coaches to make well-informed decisions regarding player partnerships.

Electronic commerce (e-commerce) brings huge advantages to businesses for selling products through multiple online shops. However, companies have difficulties in supervising the prices of products set by different retail shops on e-commerce platforms. Addressing these difficulties, we suggest a method to identify and predict products that sell at incorrect prices using a machine learning model combined price analysis. The study uses four machine learning models: K-nearest Neighbor (KNN), Random Forest (RF), Support Vector Machine (SVM), and Multinomial Naive Bayes (MNB) and two text-based information extraction methods: BoW and TF-IDF to find to the best method. The research results show that the RF model and text-based information extraction method by the BoW provide more average accuracy than other specific models, when experimenting on the filter dataset the average accuracy after 10 runs are RF: 98.06%, SVM: 83.92%, MNB: 92.21%, KNN: 94.06%. Experimental results on the product dataset have an accuracy of RF: 83.02%, SVM: 55%, MNB: 79.33%, KNN: 79.36%.

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One of the most serious diseases affecting people is heart disease, which also contributes significantly to the increasing death rate. Recently, Machine Learning (ML) methods have been utilized to detect and identify several types of heart disease, these methods can assist in enhancing the accuracy of heart disease classification. In this research, total ten machine learning (ML) models that’s are used, the first ML technique is Random Forest (rf) second ML technique is Decision Tree (dt), third is Support Vector Machine (svm) fourth ML techniques is K-Nearest Neighbors (knn), fifth ML technique is Logistics Regression (lr) and respectively Extra Trees Classifier (et), Gradient Boosting Classifier (gbc), Naive Bayes (nb), Ridge Classifier (ridge) and tenth ML technique is Linear Discriminant Analysis (ldr) are implemented. In addition, Recursive Feature Elimination (RFE) feature assortment method is used to find the significant features and enhance the efficiency of detecting heart disease using two text-based datasets. Finally, a detailed comparison will be implemented to presented that after smearing the feature selection method to recognize the most efficient model for detecting heart disease and then specify its severity. Some parameters, including accurateness, exactness, recollection, and F1-score, are offered to comparation the efficiency of each classifier. The actual outcomes of this research that improved the classification accurateness.

Female Genital mutilation (FGM) has been associated with numerous negative health effects like sexual dysfunction, chronic pain, infections, infertility, and an increased risk of maternal mortality. To date, no recognized studies in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) have combined machine learning (ML) models with nationally representative Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data to classify FGM. Therefore, this study aims to identify the most effective ML model for classifying FGM in SSA. ML offers the significant advantage of handling extremely large and complex datasets with numerous variables and interactions, providing more accurate classifications than conventional statistical methods. This study used secondary data from the DHS collected between 2015 and 2023 in 11 SSA countries. The DHS employs a cross-sectional study design. A total of 62,249 women who had at least one daughter were included in the analysis. Seven classification algorithms, including Logistic Regression, Decision Tree, Random Forest (RF), Support Vector Machine (SVM), K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN), XGBoost (XGB), and Naive Bayes (NB), were used to classify FGM. The RF classifier yielded the highest performance, achieving 0.85 accuracy, 0.83 precision, 0.88 recall, 0.85 F1 score, and 0.93 AUC. Random Forest (Brier score = 0.1319) and Decision Tree (0.1328) showed best calibration. The SHAP plots provide a comprehensive interpretation of the features influencing the model's classification of whether a mother reports that at least one daughter has undergone FGM. The bar plot shows the global importance of each feature, with opinion on FGM (+ 0.14), country of residence (+ 0.13), respondent's circumcision status (+ 0.11), and religious justification for FGM (+ 0.07) contributing the most on average to the classification of FGM. This study applied seven machine ML techniques to classify FGM in SSA, with the Random Forest classifier demonstrating the best performance. SHAP interpretability findings indicated that maternal opinion on FGM, country of residence, religious justifications for FGM, and the respondent's circumcision status contributed most, on average, to the classification of FGM. These results suggest that education and advocacy efforts aimed at mothers particularly those who have had FGM themselves or who believe that the practice is justified by religion should be given top priority in interventions. Implementing community engagement initiatives that challenge accepted conventions and ideas around FGM may be particularly beneficial, especially when these practices are rooted in religious or cultural justifications.

The prediction of wind energy generation is important to enhance the performance and dependability of renewable energy systems due to the rising demand for wind-generated electricity and advancements in wind energy technology competitiveness. This study leverages advanced machine learning (ML) and some other statistical and deep learning based time series forecasting models to enhance the accuracy of wind energy predictions. This comprehensive analysis includes nine ML models—Linear Regression, Random Forests (RF), Gradient Boosting Machines (GBM), Support Vector Machines (SVM), K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN), AdaBoost, XGBoost, Support Vector Regression (SVR), and Neural Networks—as well as Four time-series forecasting models—ARIMA, Temporal Convolutional Networks (TCNs), Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks and GRU. Each ML model underwent rigorous cross-validation to ensure optimal performance. The assessment criteria utilized here comprised the Mean Squared Error (MSE), Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE), Mean Absolute Error (MAE), and the R² Score. It was found that among the nine ML models, Random Forests, GBM and KNN consistently provided superior accuracy and robustness, making them the top choices for wind energy prediction whereas the performance of linear regression, SVM and SVR were very poor for the considered dataset. From the experiment, Random Forest, GBM, and KNN showed the best performance with low MSE values of 0.77, 1.95, and 1.51 respectively, while other models had MSEs above 7.5, with AdaBoost reaching 30. Their RMSEs (0.88, 1.40, 1.23) and MAEs (0.093, 0.73, 0.10) also indicate strong predictive accuracy compared to the rest.In this paper, time series forecasting, TCNs, LSTM and GRU networks showed strong capabilities in capturing temporal dependencies and trends within the wind energy data. Visualization techniques were employed to compare model performances comprehensively, providing clear insights into their predictive power. Therefore, this present study offers a robust framework for researchers and practitioners aiming to leverage machine learning and time series forecasting in the realm of renewable energy prediction.

Parking space management has become a critical challenge in urban areas due to increasing vehicle numbers and limited parking infrastructure. This paper presents a comprehensive study of machine learning (ML) models in IoT‐enabled environments focusing on proposing an ML‐based model for predicting available parking space. The study evaluates the performance of various models including K‐nearest neighbors (KNNs), support vector machines (SVMs), random forest (RF), decision tree (DT), logistic regression (LR), and Naïve Bayes (NB) based on “precision, recall, accuracy, and F1‐score performance metrics”. The results obtained by implementing ML models on the data with 65% and 85% threshold values are compared to draw meaningful conclusions regarding their performance in predicting parking space availability. Among the evaluated models, random forest (RF) demonstrates superior performance with high precision, recall, accuracy, and F1‐score values. It showcases its effectiveness in accurately predicting parking space availability in the IoT‐enabled environment. On the other hand, models such as K‐nearest neighbors (KNNs), decision tree (DT), logistic regression (LR), and Naïve Bayes (NB) show relatively lower performance in complex parking scenarios. The paper concludes that the use of advanced predictive models, particularly random forest, significantly enhances the accuracy and reliability of IoT‐enabled parking management systems and also reduces the waiting time of the vehicles, leading to more efficient resource utilization, reduced traffic congestion in real‐time scenarios, and better user satisfaction in the IoT‐enabled environment.

Diabetes is a major chronic syndrome caused by a series of metabolic abnormalities in which blood glucose levels are abnormally high for an indeterminate amount of time. It influences various organs in the human body, resulting in a variety of complex diseases such as stroke, renal disease, pulmonary embolism, eyesight, and so on. Diabetes Disorders (DD) are presently one of the healthcare top causes of mortality. Predictive analytics in the health care system is a huge obstacle, but if accurate early prediction is achieved, the potential risk and degree of diabetes may be significantly decreased. Machine learning (ML) techniques are now used to analyze medical datasets at an earlier stage of life in keeping people safe. In this research, we utilized several ML approaches notably Logistic Regression, Decision Tree (DT), XGBoost, Support Vector Machine (SVM), K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN), and Random Forest (RF) on PIMA Indian Diabetes Dataset in order to monitor and evaluate their performances in diabetes prediction. The performance of the various ML algorithms employed in this research suggests which algorithm is most suitable in diabetes prediction. It is observed that among all the models XGBoost had outperformed the other ML techniques with an accuracy of 80.73% while SVM was the second-best performing model with a classification accuracy of 80.21%. Thus, employing ML techniques, this study aims to assist doctors as well as clinicians in the early detection of diabetes.

Student’s mental health problems have been explored previously in higher education literature in various contexts including empirical work involving quantitative and qualitative methods. Nevertheless, comparatively few research could be found, aiming for computational methods that learn information directly from data without relying on set parameters for a predetermined equation as an analytical method. This study aims to investigate the performance of Machine learning (ML) models used in higher education. ML models considered are Naïve Bayes, Support Vector Machine, K-Nearest Neighbor, Logistic Regression, Stochastic Gradient Descent, Decision Tree, Random Forest, XGBoost (Extreme Gradient Boosting Decision Tree), and NGBoost (Natural) algorithm. Considering the factors of mental health illness among students, we follow three phases of data processing: segmentation, feature extraction, and classification. We evaluate these ML models against classification performance metrics such as accuracy, precision, recall, F1 score, and predicted run time. The empirical analysis includes two contributions: 1. It examines the performance of various ML models on a survey-based educational dataset, inferring a significant classification performance by a tree-based XGBoost algorithm; 2. It explores the feature importance [variables] from the datasets to infer the significant importance of social support, learning environment, and childhood adversities on a student’s mental health illness.

BackgroundHeart failure (HF) is a life-threatening complication of cardiovascular disease. HF patients are more likely to progress to acute kidney injury (AKI) with a poor prognosis. However, it is difficult for doctors to distinguish which patients will develop AKI accurately. This study aimed to construct a machine learning (ML) model to predict AKI occurrence in HF patients.Materials and methodsThe data of HF patients from the Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care-IV (MIMIC-IV) database was retrospectively analyzed. A ML model was established to predict AKI development using decision tree, random forest (RF), support vector machine (SVM), K-nearest neighbor (KNN), and logistic regression (LR) algorithms. Thirty-nine demographic, clinical, and treatment features were used for model establishment. Accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, and the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUROC) were used to evaluate the performance of the ML algorithms.ResultsA total of 2,678 HF patients were engaged in this study, of whom 919 developed AKI. Among 5 ML algorithms, the RF algorithm exhibited the highest performance with the AUROC of 0.96. In addition, the Gini index showed that the sequential organ function assessment (SOFA) score, partial pressure of oxygen (PaO2), and estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) were highly relevant to AKI development. Finally, to facilitate clinical application, a simple model was constructed using the 10 features screened by the Gini index. The RF algorithm also exhibited the highest performance with the AUROC of 0.95.ConclusionUsing the ML model could accurately predict the development of AKI in HF patients.

Background: Osteoporosis is a systemic skeletal disorder marked by reduced bone density and microarchitectural deterioration, leading to increased fracture risk. While the dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) scan is the World Health Organization (WHO)-recommended diagnostic standard, its limitations necessitate alternative methods. Emerging magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques, radiomics, and machine learning promise to enhance osteoporosis diagnosis through detailed analysis of lumbar MRI apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) maps, potentially revolutionizing early detection and treatment strategies. Objectives: In this study, we are going to evaluate the performance of machine learning (ML) models using radiomics features of lumbar MRI ADC map for osteoporosis detection, and to identify significant features and their diagnostic thresholds. Specific performance metrics such as accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, and Area Under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) Curve (AUC) were assessed. Patients and Methods: This retrospective study employed a cross-sectional design, with a total of 140 cases, including 21 with osteoporosis. The study's inclusion criteria consisted of concurrent lumbar MRI and DEXA within a year, while exclusion criteria included infectious or neoplastic lumbar lesions, fractures, instrumentation, significant osteodegenerative changes, cases where the first four lumbar vertebrae were not included in the imaging field, and absence of diffusion-weighted imaging. Manual segmentation of lumbar vertebrae from ADC maps was performed to create a comprehensive dataset, comprising 5,580 radiomics features per case. Subsequently, the top five features selected by fast correlation-based filter (FCBF) were used to test the performance of seven Machine Learning algorithms (k-Nearest neighbors, decision tree, random forest, logistic regression, support vector machine, naive bayes, and neural network). Statistical tests and ROC curve analysis were conducted to determine the significance and thresholds of these features. Results: The study included 140 cases, with 132 females (94.3%) and 8 males (5.7%), and a mean age of 65.32 ± 8.50 years. The mean BMI was 31.43 ± 5.53 kg/m² for females and 26 ± 3.59 kg/m² for males. In terms of demographic differences, no significant age difference was found between the osteoporotic and non-osteoporotic groups (P = 0.889). However, the osteoporotic group had significantly lower mean body weight (64.90 ± 10.13 kg vs. 74.68 ± 13.94 kg, P = 0.003) and BMI (27.40 ± 4.38 kg/m² vs. 31.77 ± 5.52 kg/m², P = 0.001) compared to the non-osteoporotic group. The median interval between DEXA and lumbar MRI was 1 month (range 0.1 - 11.87 months). The Neural Network model demonstrated the highest performance with an AUC of 0.616 and a classification accuracy of 0.764 using all features. The Naive Bayes model, using the top five features selected by FCBF, showed the highest performance with an AUC of 0.913, accuracy of 0.907, sensitivity of 0.667, and specificity of 0.95. All ML models’ performance were elevated by feature selection. Independent t-tests and Mann-Whitney U tests identified 521 and 670 significant features, respectively (P < 0.05). ROC analysis revealed 58 features with AUC values above 0.70. Conclusion: This study's findings suggest that ML models, particularly the Naive Bayes algorithm, can effectively use lumbar ADC map radiomics to diagnose osteoporosis. These findings could enhance early detection and treatment strategies, potentially improving patient outcomes and reducing the burden of osteoporotic fractures. This study also established threshold values for significant features.

Obesity is one of the fastest-growing health risks today, especially in countries like India, where lifestyle changes and poor physical activity are becoming common. Obesity causes diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, and high blood pressure. Regular health check-ups sometimes miss early symptoms. There is a need for smarter, continuous monitoring systems. This work proposes a health monitoring solution that uses Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) with machine learning (ML) techniques to identify obesity levels and detect irregular health patterns. A Real-world obesity dataset was used, containing personal and habit features like age, weight, height, food habits, physical activity, and family history. These were used to imitate data that wearable sensors may collect. Several ML models were trained and tested-including Support Vector Machine (SVM), K- Nearest Neighbours (KNN). Decision Tree (DT), Random Forest (RF), Logistic Regression (LR), and XGBoost - as well as a hybrid SVM+KNN model. The models were evaluated using various performance metrics. Among them, XGBoost gave the best overall accuracy of around 96%, followed by Random Forest and SVM. The hybrid model offered stable and reliable results in borderline cases. By integrating wearable sensors along with ML algorithms, the proposed system supports the detection of obesity-related risks beforehand and provides continuous health status, especially useful in remote and mobile healthcare settings.

Heart disease is a major cause of death worldwide. About 31% of global deaths occur due to this disease. According to the WHO report, approximately 17.9 million people worldwide die each year due to this disease. Early detection of heart disease can reduce the chance of the disease progressing to a more severe stage by providing appropriate treatment. Coronary angiography is the most precise method of detecting the disease; nevertheless, it is a painful and expensive procedure, and patients do not prefer it in the early stages. As a result, a non-invasive and reliable method that can be employed as a screening tool for disease diagnosis is required. Machine learning has influenced every element of human life in the modern era, and it has a huge impact in the health care sector also. Machine learning (ML) based decision support systems can be used to diagnose heart disease by evaluating the clinical parameters of a patient. Various ML techniques have been investigated in this paper, and a system has been designed for the diagnosis of heart disease, with an emphasis on coronary artery disease. Relevant features were selected using the Extra Tree feature selection method and classification was done by XGBoost (extreme gradient boosting), KNN (K-nearest neighbor), SVM (support vector machine), logistic regression (LR), decision tree (DT), random forest (RF) and neural network (NN) classifiers. A regularized NN model for heart disease diagnosis is also developed that has provided 84.0% accuracy and 85.0% accuracy for RF on the Kaggle dataset.

Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs), driven by environmental pollution, pose significant threats to water quality, public health, and aquatic ecosystems. This study aims to enhance the prediction of HABs in Lake Erie, part of the Great Lakes system, by utilizing ensemble machine learning (ML) models coupled with explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) for interpretability. Using water quality data from 2013 to 2020, various physical, chemical, and biological parameters were analyzed to predict chlorophyll-a (Chl-a) concentrations, a proxy for algal blooms. The study employed multiple ensemble ML models, including Random Forest (RF), Deep Forest (DF), Gradient Boosting (GB), and XGBoost, and compared their performance against individual models such as Support Vector Machine (SVM), Decision Tree (DT), and Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP). The findings reveal that ensemble models, particularly XGBoost and Deep Forest (DF), achieve superior predictive accuracy with R² values of 0.8517 and 0.8544, respectively. The application of SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) provided insights into the relative importance of input features, identifying Particulate Organic Nitrogen (PON), Particulate Organic Carbon (POC), and Total Phosphorus (TP) as critical factors influencing Chl-a concentrations. This research demonstrates the effectiveness of integrating ensemble ML models with XAI to improve HAB prediction accuracy and interpretability. The results support the development of proactive water quality management strategies and highlight the potential of advanced ML techniques in environmental monitoring.

For the various climatic zones of India, machine learning (ML) models are created in the current work to forecast monthly-average diffuse solar radiation (DSR). The long-term solar radiation data are taken from Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), Pune, provided for 21 cities that span all of India’s climatic zones. The diffusion coefficient and diffuse fraction are the two groups of ML models with dual input parameters (sunshine ratio and clearness index) that are built and compared (each category has seven models). To create ML models, two well-known ML techniques, random forest (RF) and k-nearest neighbours (KNN), are used. The proposed ML models are compared with well-known models that are found in the literature. The ML models are ranked according to their overall and within predictive power using the Global Performance Indicator (GPI). It is discovered that KNN models generally outperform RF models. The results reveal that in diffusion coefficient models perform well than diffuse fraction models. Moreover, functional form 2 is the best followed by form 6. The ML models created here can be effectively used to accurately forecast DSR in various climates.