A hybrid knowledge and ensemble classification approach for prediction of venous thromboembolism

Clinical narratives such as progress summaries, lab reports, surgical reports, and other narrative texts contain key biomarkers about a patient's health. Evidence-based preventive medicine needs accurate semantic and sentiment analysis to extract and classify medical features as the input to appropriate machine learning classifiers. However, the traditional approach of using single classifiers is limited by the need for dimensionality reduction techniques, statistical feature correlation, a faster learning rate, and the lack of consideration of the semantic relations among features. Hence, extracting semantic and sentiment-based features from clinical text and combining multiple classifiers to create an ensemble intelligent system overcomes many limitations and provides a more robust prediction outcome. The selection of an appropriate approach and its interparameter dependency becomes key for the success of the ensemble method. This paper proposes a hybrid knowledge and ensemble learning framework for prediction of venous thromboembolism (VTE) diagnosis consisting of the following components: a VTE ontology, semantic extraction and sentiment assessment of risk factor framework, and an ensemble classifier. Therefore, a component-based analysis approach was adopted for evaluation using a data set of 250 clinical narratives where knowledge and ensemble achieved the following results with and without semantic extraction and sentiment assessment of risk factor, respectively: a precision of 81.8% and 62.9%, a recall of 81.8% and 57.6%, an F measure of 81.8% and 53.8%, and a receiving operating characteristic of 80.1% and 58.5% in identifying cases of VTE.     

Employing optimized combinations of one-class classifiers for automated currency validation

Automated currency validation requires a decision to be made regarding the authenticity of a banknote presented to the validation system. This decision often has to be made with little or no information regarding the characteristics of possible counterfeits as is the case for issues of new currency. A method for automated currency validation is presented which segments the whole banknote into different regions, builds individual classifiers on each region and then combines a small subset of the region specific classifiers to provide an overall decision. The segmentation and combination of region specific classifiers to provide optimized false positive and false negative rates is achieved by employing a genetic algorithm. Experiments based on high value notes of Sterling currency were carried out to assess the effectiveness of the proposed solution.     

Successive pattern classification based on test feature classifier and its application to defect image classification

A novel successive learning algorithm based on a Test Feature Classifier is proposed for efficient handling of sequentially provided training data. The fundamental characteristics of the successive learning are considered. In the learning, after recognition of a set of unknown data by a classifier, they are fed into the classifier in order to obtain a modified performance. An efficient algorithm is proposed for the incremental definition of prime tests which are irreducible combinations of features and capable of classifying training patterns into correct classes. Four strategies for addition of training patterns are investigated with respect to their precision and performance using real pattern data. A real-world problem of classification of defects on wafer images has been dealt with by the proposed classifier, obtaining excellent performance even through efficient addition strategies.     

连续双向联想记忆模型的稳定性分析

对于连续型Ｈｏｐｆｉｅｌｄ模型的平衡态特征，目前人们已经得到了很多富有意义的成果，本文说明，连续Ｈｏｐｆｉｅｌｄ模型的大部分结论都可以推广到连续双向联想记忆模型，我们重点讨论了平衡态条件、渐近稳定性以及围绕一稳定平衡点的吸引域等问题，所得到的结论对于ＢＡＭ的设计和应用都是很有意义的。     

韶钢第五轧钢厂自动分槽器的设计与应用

介绍了韶钢第五轧钢厂自动分槽器的设计与应用．     

基于ANN实现的供应需求预测方法

基于人工神经网络技术，建立了后勤供应需求的网络预测方法，并以某区域高校后勤保障需求为例，给出了后勤供应需求预测的步骤与实现过程。     

Class normalization in centroid-based text categorization

Centroid-based categorization is one of the most popular algorithms in text classification. In this approach, normalization is an important factor to improve performance of a centroid-based classifier when documents in text collection have quite different sizes and/or the numbers of documents in classes are unbalanced. In the past, most researchers applied document normalization, e.g., document-length normalization, while some consider a simple kind of class normalization, so-called class-length normalization, to solve the unbalancedness problem. However, there is no intensive work that clarifies how these normalizations affect classification performance and whether there are any other useful normalizations. The purpose of this paper is three folds; (1) to investigate the effectiveness of document- and class-length normalizations on several data sets, (2) to evaluate a number of commonly used normalization functions and (3) to introduce a new type of class normalization, called term-length normalization, which exploits term distribution among documents in the class. The experimental results show that a classifier with weight-merge-normalize approach (class-length normalization) performs better than one with weight-normalize-merge approach (document-length normalization) for the data sets with unbalanced numbers of documents in classes, and is quite competitive for those with balanced numbers of documents. For normalization functions, the normalization based on term weighting performs better than the others on average. For term-length normalization, it is useful for improving classification accuracy. The combination of term- and class-length normalizations outperforms pure class-length normalization and pure term-length normalization as well as unnormalization with the gaps of 4.29%, 11.50%, 30.09%, respectively.     

基于模糊神经网络对经济的聚类分析

在现实生活中具有同等人力资本的劳动者在不同的生产力环境下的经济贡献率是不同的 ,有时甚至不可比较的。利用人工神经网络 (SOM网络 ) ,通过 Matlab语言编程 ,根据技术进步增长率对整个经济进行模式分类。分类的结果是大致把 2 9个省市分为 6个类 ,反映了各地区的经济与技术进步增长率情况     

基于SPOT-5多光谱影像的矿区塌塘水体提取方法研究

针对基于遥感影像的水体提取方法存在水体提取不完整和误提的现象,提出了一种基于SPOT-5多光谱影像的矿区塌塘水体提取方法。在利用波段合成增加一个可用波段的基础上对已有的水体提取方法进行适当的改进,并基于决策树分类器和改进后的方法进行矿区水体的四级提取,保证了水体提取的完整性,同时减少了误提率;最后利用实测数据对水体提取的精度进行了评定。试验结果表明,基于决策树分类器的水体提取方法具有较高的精度,能满足矿区实际应用的需要。     

An artificial neural network model for the effects of chicken manure on ground water

In the areas where broiler industry is located, poultry manure from chicken farms could be a major source of ground water pollution, and this may have extensive effects particularly when the farms use nearby ground water as their fresh water supply. Therefore the prediction the extent of this pollution, either from rigorous mathematical diffusion modeling or from the perspective of experimental data evaluation bears importance. In this work, we have investigated modeling of the effects of chicken manure on ground water by artificial neural networks. An ANN model was developed to predict the total coliform in the ground water well in poultry farms. The back-propagation algorithm was employed for training and testing the network, and the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm was utilized for optimization. The MATLAB 7.0 environment with Neural Network Toolbox was used for coding. Given the associated input parameters such as the number of chickens, type of manure pool management and depth of well, the model estimates the possible amount of total coliform in the wells to a satisfactory degree. Therefore it is expected to be of help in future for estimating the ground water pollution resulting from chicken farms.