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Special Issue "Deep Learning and Big Data for Healthcare and Industry (Industry 5.0)"

A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Intelligent Sensors".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2022.

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Muhammad Fazal Ijaz
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Department of Intelligent Mechatronics Engineering, Sejong University, Seoul 05006, Korea
Interests: machine learning; blockchain; big data; healthcare engineering; Internet of Things; data mining
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Dr. Imran Razzak
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School of Information Technology, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC 3220, Australia
Interests: database usability; advanced data analytics; graph data management
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Deep learning, also called deep structured learning or hierarchical learning, is an essential member of the family's machine learning method. It allows computational models composed of multiple processing layers to be fed with raw data and automatically learn various abstract representations of data for detection and classification.

Healthcare is now an open field to get advantageous use of deep learning. Big data advances and challenges are open to provide systems that can be accurate enough to be useful to the clinician and the patient in the health itinerary. Industrial data is also massive and can be efficiently and effectively utilized for the industry's early warning system.

The goal of this Special Issue is to put together relevant contributions of deep learning and big data applications in healthcare and industry (Industry 5.0). On the one hand, the applications can include works with medical images (magnetic resonance, radioscopy, and tomography, echography, nuclear medicine), contributions to signal processing (cardiac, neural, long-term monitoring, wellness devices), data from large forms (primary attention, specialized medicine, clinical practice, electronic health recordings, hospital information systems, interoperability), or industrial data for an early warning system in assembly lines.

This Special Issue will bring together researchers from diverse fields and specialization, such as healthcare engineering, bioinformatics, medical doctors, computer engineering, computer science, information technology, statistics, production engineering, operations management, manufacturing, and mathematics. To sum up, feature interpretation remains an open issue in deep learning and the state of the art of big data. Still, it takes particular relevance in healthcare and industry applications, so contributions, including insights into this hot and open topic, are welcomed.

Dr. Muhammad Fazal Ijaz
Prof. Dr. Marcin Woźniak
Dr. Imran Razzak
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • Deep learning architectures and training procedures
  • Big data safety and security
  • Computer-aided diagnosis
  • Image guided therapy for personalized medicine
  • Personalized medicine (System, Algorithms, IoT Architecture)
  • Automated intelligent manufacturing for Industry 5.0
  • Data-driven health systems
  • Biomedical data (Images, Signal, Digital information, etc.)
  • Feature extraction and interpretation
  • Electronic health recording (Devices, Sensors, etc.)
  • Nano science for healthcare
  • Early warning system and fault detection

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A Tri-Stage Wrapper-Filter Feature Selection Framework for Disease Classification
Sensors 2021, 21(16), 5571; https://doi.org/10.3390/s21165571 - 18 Aug 2021
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In machine learning and data science, feature selection is considered as a crucial step of data preprocessing. When we directly apply the raw data for classification or clustering purposes, sometimes we observe that the learning algorithms do not perform well. One possible reason [...] Read more.
In machine learning and data science, feature selection is considered as a crucial step of data preprocessing. When we directly apply the raw data for classification or clustering purposes, sometimes we observe that the learning algorithms do not perform well. One possible reason for this is the presence of redundant, noisy, and non-informative features or attributes in the datasets. Hence, feature selection methods are used to identify the subset of relevant features that can maximize the model performance. Moreover, due to reduction in feature dimension, both training time and storage required by the model can be reduced as well. In this paper, we present a tri-stage wrapper-filter-based feature selection framework for the purpose of medical report-based disease detection. In the first stage, an ensemble was formed by four filter methods—Mutual Information, ReliefF, Chi Square, and Xvariance—and then each feature from the union set was assessed by three classification algorithms—support vector machine, naïve Bayes, and k-nearest neighbors—and an average accuracy was calculated. The features with higher accuracy were selected to obtain a preliminary subset of optimal features. In the second stage, Pearson correlation was used to discard highly correlated features. In these two stages, XGBoost classification algorithm was applied to obtain the most contributing features that, in turn, provide the best optimal subset. Then, in the final stage, we fed the obtained feature subset to a meta-heuristic algorithm, called whale optimization algorithm, in order to further reduce the feature set and to achieve higher accuracy. We evaluated the proposed feature selection framework on four publicly available disease datasets taken from the UCI machine learning repository, namely, arrhythmia, leukemia, DLBCL, and prostate cancer. Our obtained results confirm that the proposed method can perform better than many state-of-the-art methods and can detect important features as well. Less features ensure less medical tests for correct diagnosis, thus saving both time and cost. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Learning and Big Data for Healthcare and Industry (Industry 5.0))
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Deep Convolutional Neural Network Regularization for Alcoholism Detection Using EEG Signals
Sensors 2021, 21(16), 5456; https://doi.org/10.3390/s21165456 - 13 Aug 2021
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Alcoholism is attributed to regular or excessive drinking of alcohol and leads to the disturbance of the neuronal system in the human brain. This results in certain malfunctioning of neurons that can be detected by an electroencephalogram (EEG) using several electrodes on a [...] Read more.
Alcoholism is attributed to regular or excessive drinking of alcohol and leads to the disturbance of the neuronal system in the human brain. This results in certain malfunctioning of neurons that can be detected by an electroencephalogram (EEG) using several electrodes on a human skull at appropriate positions. It is of great interest to be able to classify an EEG activity as that of a normal person or an alcoholic person using data from the minimum possible electrodes (or channels). Due to the complex nature of EEG signals, accurate classification of alcoholism using only a small dataset is a challenging task. Artificial neural networks, specifically convolutional neural networks (CNNs), provide efficient and accurate results in various pattern-based classification problems. In this work, we apply CNN on raw EEG data and demonstrate how we achieved 98% average accuracy by optimizing a baseline CNN model and outperforming its results in a range of performance evaluation metrics on the University of California at Irvine Machine Learning (UCI-ML) EEG dataset. This article explains the stepwise improvement of the baseline model using the dropout, batch normalization, and kernel regularization techniques and provides a comparison of the two models that can be beneficial for aspiring practitioners who aim to develop similar classification models in CNN. A performance comparison is also provided with other approaches using the same dataset. Full article
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