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2023 3rd International Conference on Advances in Electrical, Computing, Communication and Sustainable Technologies, ICAECT 2023 ; 2023.
Article in English | Scopus | ID: covidwho-20234195

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To have control over heart patient health, we need a capable detector which finds out based onhealth records. The idea is to work on coronary artery disease (CAD), which has been the majorhealth issue at present. We took a data set to train our system (machine learning algorithm) towork on the CAD and identify the user's health stage and provide the required information. Asper previous analysis, we got accuracy of 96% now with a minor modification we are trying to impact the accuracy. CAD has been the major health disease that is leading to death in world at present after COVID19, it is causing 33% of death rate by a survey by WHO. So, it is essentialto overcome the disease with proper analysis and prevention, which is all about our project. We are trying to make healthcare handy such that a person that analyze and know about his/her health condition from anywhere and at any time regardless of working hours. © 2023 IEEE.

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Proceedings - 2022 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence of Things, ICAIoT 2022 ; 2022.
Article in English | Scopus | ID: covidwho-20231985

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Artificial intelligence has played a crucial role in medical disease diagnosis. In this research, data mining techniques that included deep learning with different scenarios are presented for extraction and analysis of covid-19 data. The energy of the features is implemented and calculated from the CT scan images. A modified meta-heuristic algorithm is introduced and then used in the suggested way to determine the best and most useful features, which are based on how ants behave. Different patients with different problems are investigated and analyzed. Also, the results are compared with other studies. The results of the proposed method show that the proposed method has higher accuracy than other methods. It is concluded from the results that the most crucial features can be concentrated on during feature selection, which lowers the error rate when separating sick from healthy individuals. © 2022 IEEE.

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2023 IEEE International Conference on Integrated Circuits and Communication Systems, ICICACS 2023 ; 2023.
Article in English | Scopus | ID: covidwho-2325416

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COVID 19 is constantly changing properties because of its contagious as an urgent global challenge, and there are no vaccines or effective drugs. Smart model used to measure and prevent the spread of COVID 19 continues to provide health care services is an urgent need. Previous methods to identify severe symptoms of coronavirus in the early stages, but they have failed to predict the symptoms of coronavirus in an accurate way and also take more time. To overcome these issues the effective severe coronavirus symptoms techniques are proposed. Initially, Gradient Conventional Recursive Neural Classifier based classification and Linear Discriminant Genetic Algorithm used feature selection, mutation, and cross-analysis of features of coronary symptoms. These methods are used to select optimized features and selected features, and then classified by neural network. This Gradient Conventional Recursive Neural Classifier selects features based on the correlation between features that reduce irrelevant features involved in the identification process of coronary symptoms. Gradient Conventional Recursive Neural Classifier based on each function, helping to maximize the correlation between the prediction accuracy of coronavirus symptoms. For this reason, it has always been recommended in an effort to increase the accuracy and reliability of diagnostics to use machine learning to design different classification models. © 2023 IEEE.

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2023 IEEE International Conference on Integrated Circuits and Communication Systems, ICICACS 2023 ; 2023.
Article in English | Scopus | ID: covidwho-2324965

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The world has seen various diseases in different variants, numerous pandemics in the twentieth century like COVID-19. Fly infections are the fundamental driver of contaminations. COVID-19 declared a global pandemic with major impacts on economies and societies around the world. The diagnosis of COVID19 or non-COVID-19 cases early detection at the correct separation early stages of disease are one of the main concerns of the current coronavirus pandemic. At present, accurate detection of coronavirus disease usually takes a long time and is prone to human error. To address this problem, the proposed Deep learning and Design of COVID19 detection based on Relative Eccentric Feature Selection (REFS) Using Deep Vectorized Regressive Neural Network (DVRNN) for corona virus the early detection of the COVID19 virus. Initially collects the COVID19 sample test dataset, then the raw dataset trained into preliminary process is used to remove unwanted noise. After that preliminary processed dataset trained into the feature selection process is done to identify the best features of COVID19 using Ensemble recursive selection. Further, the proposed DVRNN algorithm is done to classify the accurate detection of coronavirus. The proposed model would be useful for the Timely and accurate identification of various stages of coronavirus. Therefore, it can detect the accurate results of COVID19 effectively and accomplish good performance compared with previous methods. © 2023 IEEE.

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International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering ; 2023.
Article in English | Scopus | ID: covidwho-2318354

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Engaging students' personalized data in the aspects of education has been on focus by different researchers. This paper considers it vital for exploring the student's progress, moreover, it could predict the student's level which consequently leads to identifying the required student material to raise his current education level. Although the topic has been vital before the COVID-19 pandemic, however, the importance of the topic has increased exponentially ever since. The research supports the decision-makers in educational institutions as considering personalized data for the student's educational tasks and activities proved the positive impact of raising the student level. The paper proposes a framework that considers the students' personal data in predicting their learning skills as well as their educational level. The research included engaging five well-known clustering algorithms, one of the most successful classification algorithms, and a set of 10 features selection techniques. The research applied two main experiment phases, the first phase focused on predicting the students' learning skills, and the second focused on predicting the students' level. Two datasets are involved in the experiments and their sources are mentioned. The research revealed the success of the clustering and prediction tasks by applying the selected techniques to the datasets. The research concluded that the highest clustering algorithm accuracy is enhanced k-means (EKM) and the highest contributing features selection method is the evolutionary computation method. © 2023 World Scientific Publishing Company.

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2022 IEEE International Conference on Information Technology, Communication Ecosystem and Management, ITCEM 2022 ; : 66-71, 2022.
Article in English | Scopus | ID: covidwho-2313876

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In 2020, the outbreak of pneumonia caused by novel coronavirus spread rapidly all over the world. In the absence of a specific drug, novel coronavirus is still pandemic all over the world. In this paper, we proposed an improved molecular activity prediction model by adding feature selection method on the basis of comparing different methods to extract molecular features and machine learning models. We first used the anti-SARS-CoV-2 compounds reported in recent literatures to construct the data set, and then constructed three machine learning models. In addition, we tried to use three methods to extract molecular features in each model. In order to further improve the performance of the model, we add three feature selection methods. Through the comparison of different models, finally, we used FCFP to extract molecular features and added lasso feature selection method to establish the SVM model. Its test set accuracy is 90.0%, and the AUC value is 0.961, which could well predict the anti-SARS-CoV-2 activity of the compound. Our model can be used to speed up the research and discovery of anti-SARS-CoV-2 drugs. © 2022 IEEE.

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Comput Biol Med ; 153: 106520, 2023 Feb.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-2306565

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Feature selection (FS) is a popular data pre-processing technique in machine learning to extract the optimal features to maintain or increase the classification accuracy of the dataset, which is a combinatorial optimization problem, requiring a powerful optimizer to obtain the optimum subset. The equilibrium optimizer (EO) is a recent physical-based metaheuristic algorithm with good performance for various optimization problems, but it may encounter premature or the local convergence in feature selection. This work presents a self-adaptive quantum EO with artificial bee colony for feature selection, named SQEOABC. In the proposed algorithm, the quantum theory and the self-adaptive mechanism are employed into the updating rule of EO to enhance convergence, and the updating mechanism from the artificial bee colony is also incorporated into EO to achieve appropriate FS solutions. In the experiments, 25 benchmark datasets from the UCI repository are investigated to verify SQEOABC, which is compared with several state-of-the-art metaheuristic algorithms and the variants of EO. The statistical results of fitness values and accuracy demonstrate that SQEOABC has better performance than the compared algorithms and the variants of EO. Finally, a real-world FS problem from COVID-19 illustrates the effectiveness and superiority of SQEOABC.


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COVID-19 , Humans , Algorithms , Machine Learning
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6th International Conference on Electronics, Communication and Aerospace Technology, ICECA 2022 ; : 1222-1228, 2022.
Article in English | Scopus | ID: covidwho-2277021

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In recent days, cold chain logistic progression has been affected due to covid quarantine because real-time human resources being affected. Agriculture transportation and food safety are essential for human lives to avoid wastage of product. Analyzing the stock hold management needs more prediction accuracy in the seasonal recommendations for producing Agri-products. Increasing information and collaborative approaches in big data leads to more dimensions to analyze the prediction leads to inaccuracy for a recommendation. To improve the cold chain process, intend a Real-time Cold chain forecasting model for agricultural logistic transportation using feature centric deep neural classification for a seasonal recommendation. Initially, the preprocess was carried out to reduce the noise present in the seasonal collective and cold chain logistic dataset, which contains information about agriculture in stock detail, production, seasonal, and daily requirement ratio. The cold chain recommendation big data analytics estimate the seasonal productive margin factor (SPMF) and Stock hold production hit rate (SPHR) for feature logistic margins. Then selects the features using Intensive Agro feature successive rate (IAFSR) be grouped into clusters. Then the selected features are trained with Multi-objective Deep sub spectral neural network (MODS2NN) to categorize the needs of classes for recommendation. This cold chain process improves the prediction accuracy as well than other methods to recommendation the logistic stock hold management by right seasonal recommendation. © 2022 IEEE.

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Expert Systems with Applications ; 221, 2023.
Article in English | Scopus | ID: covidwho-2273738

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In today's era of data-driven digital society, there is a huge demand for optimized solutions that essentially reduce the cost of operation, thereby aiming to increase productivity. Processing a huge amount of data, like the Microarray based gene expression data, using machine learning and data mining algorithms has certain limitations in terms of memory and time requirements. This would be more concerning, when a dataset comes with redundant and non-important information. For example, many report-based medical datasets have several non-informative attributes which mislead the classification algorithms. To this end, researchers have been developing several feature selection algorithms that try to discard the redundant information from the raw datasets before feeding them to machine learning algorithms. Metaheuristic based optimization algorithms provide an excellent option to solve feature selection problems. In this paper, we propose a music-inspired harmony search (HS) algorithm based wrapper feature selection method. At the beginning, we use a chaotic mapping to initialize the population of the HS algorithm in order to better coverage of the search space. Further to complement the inferior exploitation of the HS algorithm, we integrate it with the Late Acceptance Hill Climbing (LAHC) method. Thus the combination of these two algorithms provides a good balance between the exploration and exploitation of the HS algorithm. We evaluate the proposed feature selection method on 15 UCI datasets and the obtained results are found to be better than many state-of-the-art methods both in terms of the classification accuracy and the number of features selected. To evaluate the effectiveness of our algorithm, we utilize a combination of precision, recall, F1 score, fitness value, and execution time as performance indicators. These metrics enable us to obtain a comprehensive assessment of the algorithm's abilities and limitations. We also apply our method on 3 microarray based gene expression datasets used for prediction of cancer to ensure the scalability and robustness as a feature selection method in real-life scenarios. In addition to this, we test our approach using the COVID-19 dataset, and it performs better than several metaheuristic based optimization techniques. © 2023

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IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems ; : 1-13, 2023.
Article in English | Scopus | ID: covidwho-2269927

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Because of community quarantines and lockdowns during COVID–19 times, the Philippine’s Department of Education (DepEd) implemented blended learning (BL) both online and offline distance learning modalities (LM) among basic educational institutions in the hope of continuing learners’learning experiences amidst the pandemic. Learners’LM are classified through the use of an Algorithm for Learning Delivery Modality as recommended by DepEd. Based on initial investigation, mismatches in learners’LM were, however, observed, resulting in learners’massive shifting from one LM to another in the middle of the school year. In this study, we introduced an approach to classifying learner’s LM using machine learning (ML) techniques. We compared the effectiveness of five ML classifiers, namely the random forest (RF), multilayer perceptron neural network (MLP NN), K-nearest neighbor (KNN), support vector machine (SVM), and Naïve Bayes (NB). Learner’s enrolment and survey form (LESF) data from the repository of a local private high school in the Philippines is used in model formulation. We also compared three existing feature selection (FS) algorithms (recursive feature elimination (RFE), Boruta algorithm (BA), and ReliefF)–integrated into the five ML classifiers as data feature reduction techniques. Results show that the combination of MLP NN and BA yielded a considerably high performance among the rest of the formulated models. Sensitivity analysis revealed that asynchronous LM is most sensitive to “existing health condition”feature, modified asynchronously, is highly characterized by low educational attainment and unstable employment status of parents or guardians, while synchronous learners have high socio–economic status as compared to other LM. IEEE

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2022 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Big Data 2022 ; : 3891-3894, 2022.
Article in English | Scopus | ID: covidwho-2268110

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In recent years, feature selection has become an increasingly active field of data science and machine learning research. Most of the datasets that are being used nowadays for various machine learning tasks consist of thousands of features (columns), which make them extremely complex and difficult to work with. In this paper, we propose a feature selection methodological pipeline that can be used to reduce the complexity of high dimensional datasets through the elimination of redundant and/or non-informative features as well as to improve the performance of machine learning models which are trained on high dimensional datasets. The proposed method has been applied to high-dimensional biomedical data and compared against a classic filter-based feature selection algorithm. Specifically, the method was applied to gene expression profiles of a single-cell RNA-seq dataset from healthy and infected by covid-19 human samples. © 2022 IEEE.

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1st IEEE International Interdisciplinary Humanitarian Conference for Sustainability, IIHC 2022 ; : 1027-1033, 2022.
Article in English | Scopus | ID: covidwho-2265650

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The world has seen various diseases in different variants, numerous pandemics in the twentieth century like covid-19. Fly infections are the fundamental driver of contaminations. An epidemic known as COVID-19 has been declared, and it has had a significant impact on society and the global economy. The diagnosis of Covid19 or non-Covid-19 cases early detection at the correct separation at the lowest cost early stages of the disease is one of the major problems in the current coronavirus pandemic. To address this problem, the proposed Deep learning and Design of covid19 detection based on Relative Eccentric Feature Selection (REFS) Using Deep Vectorized Regressive Neural Network (DVRNN) for corona virus the early detection of the Covid19 virus. Initially collects the covid19 sample test dataset, then the raw dataset trained into preliminary process is used to remove unwanted noise. After that preliminary processed dataset trained into the feature selection process is done to identify the best features of covid19 using Ensemble recursive feature selection. Further, the proposed DVRNN algorithm is done to classify the accurate detection of coronavirus. The proposed model would be useful for the timely and accurate identification of the coronavirus at different stages. Therefore it can detect the accurate results of covid19 effectively and accomplish good performance compared with previous methods. © 2022 IEEE.

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International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowlege-Based Systems ; 31(1):163-185, 2023.
Article in English | Scopus | ID: covidwho-2258868

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COVID-19 is a challenging worldwide pandemic disease nowadays that spreads from person to person in a very fast manner. It is necessary to develop an automated technique for COVID-19 identification. This work investigates a new framework that predicts COVID-19 based on X-ray images. The suggested methodology contains core phases as preprocessing, feature extraction, selection and categorization. The Guided and 2D Gaussian filters are utilized for image improvement as a preprocessing phase. The outcome is then passed to 2D-superpixel method for region of interest (ROI). The pre-trained models such as Darknet-53 and Densenet-201 are then applied for features extraction from the segmented images. The entropy coded GLEO features selection is based on the extracted and selected features, and ensemble serially to produce a single feature vector. The single vector is finally supplied as an input to the variations of the SVM classifier for the categorization of the normal/abnormal (COVID-19) X-rays images. The presented approach is evaluated with different measures known as accuracy, recall, F1 Score, and precision. The integrated framework for the proposed system achieves the acceptable accuracies on the SVM Classifiers, which authenticate the proposed approach's effectiveness. © World Scientific Publishing Company.

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Research on Biomedical Engineering ; 2023.
Article in English | Scopus | ID: covidwho-2258370

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Purpose: Based on medical reports, it is hard to find levels of different hospitalized symptomatic COVID-19 patients according to their features in a short time. Besides, there are common and special features for COVID-19 patients at different levels based on physicians' knowledge that make diagnosis difficult. For this purpose, a hierarchical model is proposed in this paper based on experts' knowledge, fuzzy C-mean (FCM) clustering, and adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) classifier. Methods: Experts considered a special set of features for different groups of COVID-19 patients to find their treatment plans. Accordingly, the structure of the proposed hierarchical model is designed based on experts' knowledge. In the proposed model, we applied clustering methods to patients' data to determine some clusters. Then, we learn classifiers for each cluster in a hierarchical model. Regarding different common and special features of patients, FCM is considered for the clustering method. Besides, ANFIS had better performances than other classification methods. Therefore, FCM and ANFIS were considered to design the proposed hierarchical model. FCM finds the membership degree of each patient's data based on common and special features of different clusters to reinforce the ANFIS classifier. Next, ANFIS identifies the need of hospitalized symptomatic COVID-19 patients to ICU and to find whether or not they are in the end-stage (mortality target class). Two real datasets about COVID-19 patients are analyzed in this paper using the proposed model. One of these datasets had only clinical features and another dataset had both clinical and image features. Therefore, some appropriate features are extracted using some image processing and deep learning methods. Results: According to the results and statistical test, the proposed model has the best performance among other utilized classifiers. Its accuracies based on clinical features of the first and second datasets are 92% and 90% to find the ICU target class. Extracted features of image data increase the accuracy by 94%. Conclusion: The accuracy of this model is even better for detecting the mortality target class among different classifiers in this paper and the literature review. Besides, this model is compatible with utilized datasets about COVID-19 patients based on clinical data and both clinical and image data, as well. Highlights: • A new hierarchical model is proposed using ANFIS classifiers and FCM clustering method in this paper. Its structure is designed based on experts' knowledge and real medical process. FCM reinforces the ANFIS classification learning phase based on the features of COVID-19 patients. • Two real datasets about COVID-19 patients are studied in this paper. One of these datasets has both clinical and image data. Therefore, appropriate features are extracted based on its image data and considered with available meaningful clinical data. Different levels of hospitalized symptomatic COVID-19 patients are considered in this paper including the need of patients to ICU and whether or not they are in end-stage. • Well-known classification methods including case-based reasoning (CBR), decision tree, convolutional neural networks (CNN), K-nearest neighbors (KNN), learning vector quantization (LVQ), multi-layer perceptron (MLP), Naive Bayes (NB), radial basis function network (RBF), support vector machine (SVM), recurrent neural networks (RNN), fuzzy type-I inference system (FIS), and adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) are designed for these datasets and their results are analyzed for different random groups of the train and test data;• According to unbalanced utilized datasets, different performances of classifiers including accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, precision, F-score, and G-mean are compared to find the best classifier. ANFIS classifiers have the best results for both datasets. • To reduce the computational time, the effects of the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) feature reduction method are studied on th performances of the proposed model and classifiers. According to the results and statistical test, the proposed hierarchical model has the best performances among other utilized classifiers. Graphical : [Figure not available: see fulltext.] © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to The Brazilian Society of Biomedical Engineering.

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IEEE Access ; 11:15002-15013, 2023.
Article in English | Scopus | ID: covidwho-2254963

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As people have become accustomed to non-face-to-face education because of the COVID-19 pandemic, adaptive and personalized learning is being emphasized in the field of education. Learning paths suitable for each student may differ from those normally provided by teachers. To support coaching based on the concept of adaptive learning, the first step is to discover the relationships among the concepts in the curriculum provided in the form of a knowledge graph. In this study, feature reduction for the target knowledge-concept was first performed using Elastic Net and Random Forest algorithms, which are known to have the best performance in machine learning. Deep knowledge tracing (DKT) in the form of a dual-net, which is more efficient because of the already slimmer data, was then applied to increase the accuracy of feature selection. The new approach, termed the optimal knowledge component extracting (OKCE) model, was proven to be superior to a feature reduction approach using only Elastic Net and Random Forest using both open and commercial datasets. Finally, the OKCE model showed a meaningful knowledge-concept graph that could help teachers in adaptive and personalized learning. © 2013 IEEE.

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2022 International Conference on Augmented Intelligence and Sustainable Systems, ICAISS 2022 ; : 581-588, 2022.
Article in English | Scopus | ID: covidwho-2289143

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Binary version of the ant lion optimizer (ALO) are suggested and utilized in wrapper-mode to pick the best feature subset for classification. ALO is a recently developed bio-inspired optimization approach that mimics ant lion hunting behavior. Furthermore, ALO balances exploration and exploitation utilizing a unique operator to explore the space of solutions adaptively for the best solution. The difficulties of a plethora of noisy, irrelevant, and misleading features, as well as the capacity to deal with incorrect and inconsistent data in real-world subjects, provide rationale for feature selection to become one of the most important requirements. A difficult machine learning problem is to choose a subset of important characteristics from a vast number of features that characterize a dataset. Choosing the most informative markers and conducting a high-accuracy classification across the data may be a difficult process, especially if the data is complex. The feature selection task is usually expressed as a bio-objective optimization challenge, with the goal of enhancing the performance of the prediction model (data training fitting quality) while decreasing the number of features used. Various evaluation criteria are employed to determine the success of the suggested approach. The findings show that the suggested chaotic binary algorithm can explore the feature space for optimum feature set efficiently. © 2022 IEEE.

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2022 International Conference on Augmented Intelligence and Sustainable Systems, ICAISS 2022 ; : 563-569, 2022.
Article in English | Scopus | ID: covidwho-2283637

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Globally, the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak is causing chaos in human health and therefore, the healthcare sector is in serious disarray. Many precautions have been taken to prevent the spread of this disease, including the usage of masks, which is strongly recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO). This research study has used the Viola-Jones algorithm for detecting face masks, where Histogram Equalization, Unsharp Filter and Gamma Correction are used as the preferred image pre-processing techniques to improve the overall accuracy. Haar Feature Selection is applied for creating integral images and AdaBoost training is performed on these images. Cascade classifier, a machine learning-based approach, is also integrated with the base algorithm where a cascade function assists Viola-Jones in accurately detecting objects in images. A total number of 1670 images is used in this work and our system is compared with four other machine learning algorithms, where Viola-Jones outperforms these ML-based classifiers and the overall accuracy obtained is 96%. © 2022 IEEE.

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4th IEEE International Conference of Computer Science and Information Technology, ICOSNIKOM 2022 ; 2022.
Article in English | Scopus | ID: covidwho-2281749

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COVID-19 is a disease caused by a virus and increasing in cases every day. This is because the large number of patients makes it difficult to be treated at the hospital. This is behind the need for survival prediction of COVID-19 patients within 48 days so that the medical team can prioritize patients who are predicted to not survive on that period. In this research, the firefly algorithm is used which aims to select attributes and will perform comparisons for data that is balance or imbalance and combined with data that do feature selection and does not feature selection. The data that will be used are age, asthma, diabetes, gender, COPD, pregnancy, hypertension, obesity, ICU, chronic kidney disease, smoking, heart disease, immune deficiency, pneumonia, and other medical history. In this research, the selected attributes were gender, type of patient, intubation, pneumonia, age, pregnancy, diabetes, COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease), asthma, hypertension, other diseases, obesity, chronic kidney disease, smokers, contact with COVID patients, and ICU. The prediction model with the highest level of performance is a model with balanced data with a recall value of 0.79, then a precision value of 0.93, then an f score of 0.85, then an accuracy value of 0.86, then a specificity 0,93, then a NPV 0,82 and a geometric mean value of 0.87 © 2022 IEEE.

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International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology ; 69(3):273-281, 2022.
Article in English | Scopus | ID: covidwho-2249262

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In a world now starkly divided into pre- and post-COVID times, it's imperative to examine the impact of this public health crisis on the banking functions - particularly overindebtedness risks. In this work, a flexible analytics-based model is proposed to improve the banking process of detecting customers who are likely to have difficulty in managing their debt. The proposed model assists the banks in improving their predictions. The proposed meta-model extracts information from existing data to determine patterns and to predict future outcomes and trends. We test and evaluate a large variety of Machine Learning Algorithms (MLAs) by using new techniques like feature selection. Moreover, models of previous months are combined in order to build a meta-model representing several months using stacked generalisation technique. The new model will identify 91% of the customers potentially unable to repay their debt six months ahead and enable the bank to implement targeted collections strategies. Copyright © 2022 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.

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IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement ; 72, 2023.
Article in English | Scopus | ID: covidwho-2246402

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Blood pressure (BP) is generally regarded as the vital sign most strongly correlated with human health. However, for decades, BP measurement has involved a cuff, which causes discomfort and even carries a risk of infection, given the current prevalence of COVID-19. Some studies address these problems using remote photoplethysmography (rPPG), which has shown great success in heart rate detection. Nevertheless, these approaches are not robust, and few have been evaluated with a sufficiently large dataset. We propose an rPPG-based BP estimation algorithm that predicts BP by leveraging the Windkessel model and hand-crafted waveform characteristics. A waveform processing procedure is presented for the rPPG signals to obtain a robust waveform template and thus extract BP-related features. Redundant and unstable features are eliminated via Monte Carlo simulation and according to their relationship with latent parameters (LSs) in the Windkessel model. For a comprehensive evaluation, the Chiao Tung BP (CTBP) dataset was constructed. The experiment was conducted over a four-week period of time to evaluate the validity period of the personalization in our system. On all the data, the proposed method outperforms the benchmark algorithms and yields mean absolute errors (MAEs) of 6.48 and 5.06 mmHg for systolic BP (SBP) and diastolic BP (DBP), respectively. The performance achieves a 'B' grade according to the validation protocol from the British Hypertension Society (BHS) for both SBP and DBP. © 1963-2012 IEEE.

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