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Exploiting Weak Ties in Incomplete Network Datasets Using Simplified Graph Convolutional Neural Networks
by Neda H. Bidoki, Alexander V. Mantzaris and Gita Sukthankar
Mach. Learn. Knowl. Extr. 2020, 2(2), 125-146; https://doi.org/10.3390/make2020008 - 21 May 2020
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This paper explores the value of weak-ties in classifying academic literature with the use of graph convolutional neural networks. Our experiments look at the results of treating weak-ties as if they were strong-ties to determine if that assumption improves performance. This is done [...] Read more.
This paper explores the value of weak-ties in classifying academic literature with the use of graph convolutional neural networks. Our experiments look at the results of treating weak-ties as if they were strong-ties to determine if that assumption improves performance. This is done by applying the methodological framework of the Simplified Graph Convolutional Neural Network (SGC) to two academic publication datasets: Cora and Citeseer. The performance of SGC is compared to the original Graph Convolutional Network (GCN) framework. We also examine how node removal affects prediction accuracy by selecting nodes according to different centrality measures. These experiments provide insight for which nodes are most important for the performance of SGC. When removal is based on a more localized selection of nodes, augmenting the network with both strong-ties and weak-ties provides a benefit, indicating that SGC successfully leverages local information of network nodes. Full article
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Analysis of Personality and EEG Features in Emotion Recognition Using Machine Learning Techniques to Classify Arousal and Valence Labels
by Laura Alejandra Martínez-Tejada, Yasuhisa Maruyama, Natsue Yoshimura and Yasuharu Koike
Mach. Learn. Knowl. Extr. 2020, 2(2), 99-124; https://doi.org/10.3390/make2020007 - 13 Apr 2020
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We analyzed the contribution of electroencephalogram (EEG) data, age, sex, and personality traits to emotion recognition processes—through the classification of arousal, valence, and discrete emotions labels—using feature selection techniques and machine learning classifiers. EEG traits and age, sex, and personality traits were retrieved [...] Read more.
We analyzed the contribution of electroencephalogram (EEG) data, age, sex, and personality traits to emotion recognition processes—through the classification of arousal, valence, and discrete emotions labels—using feature selection techniques and machine learning classifiers. EEG traits and age, sex, and personality traits were retrieved from a well-known dataset—AMIGOS—and two sets of traits were built to analyze the classification performance. We found that age, sex, and personality traits were not significantly associated with the classification of arousal, valence and discrete emotions using machine learning. The added EEG features increased the classification accuracies (compared with the original report), for arousal and valence labels. Classification of arousal and valence labels achieved higher than chance levels; however, they did not exceed 70% accuracy in the different tested scenarios. For discrete emotions, the mean accuracies and the mean area under the curve scores were higher than chance; however, F1 scores were low, implying that several false positives and false negatives were present. This study highlights the performance of EEG traits, age, sex, and personality traits using emotion classifiers. These findings could help to understand the traits relationship in a technological and data level for personalized human-computer interactions systems. Full article
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The Importance of Loss Functions for Increasing the Generalization Abilities of a Deep Learning-Based Next Frame Prediction Model for Traffic Scenes
by Sandra Aigner and Marco Körner
Mach. Learn. Knowl. Extr. 2020, 2(2), 78-98; https://doi.org/10.3390/make2020006 - 9 Apr 2020
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This paper analyzes in detail how different loss functions influence the generalization abilities of a deep learning-based next frame prediction model for traffic scenes. Our prediction model is a convolutional long-short term memory (ConvLSTM) network that generates the pixel values of the next [...] Read more.
This paper analyzes in detail how different loss functions influence the generalization abilities of a deep learning-based next frame prediction model for traffic scenes. Our prediction model is a convolutional long-short term memory (ConvLSTM) network that generates the pixel values of the next frame after having observed the raw pixel values of a sequence of four past frames. We trained the model with 21 combinations of seven loss terms using the Cityscapes Sequences dataset and an identical hyper-parameter setting. The loss terms range from pixel-error based terms to adversarial terms. To assess the generalization abilities of the resulting models, we generated predictions up to 20 time-steps into the future for four datasets of increasing visual distance to the training dataset—KITTI Tracking, BDD100K, UA-DETRAC, and KIT AIS Vehicles. All predicted frames were evaluated quantitatively with both traditional pixel-based evaluation metrics, that is, mean squared error (MSE), peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR), and structural similarity index (SSIM), and recent, more advanced, feature-based evaluation metrics, that is, Fréchet inception distance (FID), and learned perceptual image patch similarity (LPIPS). The results show that solely by choosing a different combination of losses, we can boost the prediction performance on new datasets by up to 55%, and by up to 50% for long-term predictions. Full article
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AIBH: Accurate Identification of Brain Hemorrhage Using Genetic Algorithm Based Feature Selection and Stacking
by Duaa Mohammad Alawad, Avdesh Mishra and Md Tamjidul Hoque
Mach. Learn. Knowl. Extr. 2020, 2(2), 56-77; https://doi.org/10.3390/make2020005 - 1 Apr 2020
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Brain hemorrhage is a type of stroke which is caused by a ruptured artery, resulting in localized bleeding in or around the brain tissues. Among a variety of imaging tests, a computerized tomography (CT) scan of the brain enables the accurate detection and [...] Read more.
Brain hemorrhage is a type of stroke which is caused by a ruptured artery, resulting in localized bleeding in or around the brain tissues. Among a variety of imaging tests, a computerized tomography (CT) scan of the brain enables the accurate detection and diagnosis of a brain hemorrhage. In this work, we developed a practical approach to detect the existence and type of brain hemorrhage in a CT scan image of the brain, called Accurate Identification of Brain Hemorrhage, abbreviated as AIBH. The steps of the proposed method consist of image preprocessing, image segmentation, feature extraction, feature selection, and design of an advanced classification framework. The image preprocessing and segmentation steps involve removing the skull region from the image and finding out the region of interest (ROI) using Otsu’s method, respectively. Subsequently, feature extraction includes the collection of a comprehensive set of features from the ROI, such as the size of the ROI, centroid of the ROI, perimeter of the ROI, the distance between the ROI and the skull, and more. Furthermore, a genetic algorithm (GA)-based feature selection algorithm is utilized to select relevant features for improved performance. These features are then used to train the stacking-based machine learning framework to predict different types of a brain hemorrhage. Finally, the evaluation results indicate that the proposed predictor achieves a 10-fold cross-validation (CV) accuracy (ACC), precision (PR), Recall, F1-score, and Matthews correlation coefficient (MCC) of 99.5%, 99%, 98.9%, 0.989, and 0.986, respectively, on the benchmark CT scan dataset. While comparing AIBH with the existing state-of-the-art classification method of the brain hemorrhage type, AIBH provides an improvement of 7.03%, 7.27%, and 7.38% based on PR, Recall, and F1-score, respectively. Therefore, the proposed approach considerably outperforms the existing brain hemorrhage classification approach and can be useful for the effective prediction of brain hemorrhage types from CT scan images (The code and data can be found here: http://cs.uno.edu/~tamjid/Software/AIBH/code_data.zip). Full article
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