Feature Selection Scheme Based on Multi-time-scales for Analyzing Congestive Heart Failure

Author(s):  
Chunyuan Wang ◽  
Yatao Zhang ◽  
Xinge Jiang ◽  
Feifei Liu ◽  
Zhimin Zhang ◽  
...  

Abstract This paper proposed a feature selection method combined with multi-time-scales analysis and heart rate variability (HRV) analysis for middle and early diagnosis of congestive heart failure (CHF). In previous studies regarding the diagnosis of CHF, researchers have tended to increase the variety of HRV features by searching for new ones or to use different machine learning algorithms to optimize the classification of CHF and normal sinus rhythms subject (NSR). In fact, the full utilization of traditional HRV features can also improve classification accuracy. The proposed method constructs a multi-time-scales feature matrix according to traditional HRV features that exhibit good stability in multiple time-scales and differences in different time-scales. The multi-scales features yield better performance than the traditional single-time-scales features when the features are fed into a support vector machine (SVM) classifier, and the results of the SVM classifier exhibit a sensitivity, a specificity, and an accuracy of 99.52%, 100.00%, and 99.83%, respectively. These results indicate that the proposed feature selection method can effectively reduce redundant features and computational load when used for automatic diagnosis of CHF.

Author(s):  
B. Venkatesh ◽  
J. Anuradha

In Microarray Data, it is complicated to achieve more classification accuracy due to the presence of high dimensions, irrelevant and noisy data. And also It had more gene expression data and fewer samples. To increase the classification accuracy and the processing speed of the model, an optimal number of features need to extract, this can be achieved by applying the feature selection method. In this paper, we propose a hybrid ensemble feature selection method. The proposed method has two phases, filter and wrapper phase in filter phase ensemble technique is used for aggregating the feature ranks of the Relief, minimum redundancy Maximum Relevance (mRMR), and Feature Correlation (FC) filter feature selection methods. This paper uses the Fuzzy Gaussian membership function ordering for aggregating the ranks. In wrapper phase, Improved Binary Particle Swarm Optimization (IBPSO) is used for selecting the optimal features, and the RBF Kernel-based Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier is used as an evaluator. The performance of the proposed model are compared with state of art feature selection methods using five benchmark datasets. For evaluation various performance metrics such as Accuracy, Recall, Precision, and F1-Score are used. Furthermore, the experimental results show that the performance of the proposed method outperforms the other feature selection methods.


Author(s):  
Gang Liu ◽  
Chunlei Yang ◽  
Sen Liu ◽  
Chunbao Xiao ◽  
Bin Song

A feature selection method based on mutual information and support vector machine (SVM) is proposed in order to eliminate redundant feature and improve classification accuracy. First, local correlation between features and overall correlation is calculated by mutual information. The correlation reflects the information inclusion relationship between features, so the features are evaluated and redundant features are eliminated with analyzing the correlation. Subsequently, the concept of mean impact value (MIV) is defined and the influence degree of input variables on output variables for SVM network based on MIV is calculated. The importance weights of the features described with MIV are sorted by descending order. Finally, the SVM classifier is used to implement feature selection according to the classification accuracy of feature combination which takes MIV order of feature as a reference. The simulation experiments are carried out with three standard data sets of UCI, and the results show that this method can not only effectively reduce the feature dimension and high classification accuracy, but also ensure good robustness.


2022 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-86
Author(s):  
Parth C. Upadhyay ◽  
John A. Lory ◽  
Guilherme N. DeSouza ◽  
Timotius A. P. Lagaunne ◽  
Christine M. Spinka

HighlightsA machine learning framework estimated residue cover in RGB images taken at three resolutions from 88 locations.The best results primarily used texture features, the RFE-SVM feature selection method, and the SVM classifier.Accounting for shadows and plants plus modifying and optimizing the texture features may improve performance.An automated system developed using machine learning is a viable strategy to estimate residue cover from RGB images obtained with handheld or UAV platforms.Abstract. Maintaining plant residue on the soil surface contributes to sustainable cultivation of arable land. Applying machine learning methods to RGB images of residue could overcome the subjectivity of manual methods. The objectives of this study were to use supervised machine learning while identifying the best feature selection method, the best classifier, and the most effective image feature types for classifying residue levels in RGB imagery. Imagery was collected from 88 locations in 40 row-crop fields in five Missouri counties between early May and late June in 2018 and 2019 using a tripod-mounted camera (0.014 cm pixel-1 ground sampling distance, GSD) and an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV, 0.05 and 0.14 GSD). At each field location, 50 contiguous 0.3 × 0.2 m region of interest (ROI) images were extracted from the imagery, resulting in a dataset of 4,400 ROI images at each GSD. Residue percentages for ground truth were estimated using a bullseye grid method (n = 100 points) based on the 0.014 GSD images. Representative color, texture, and shape features were extracted and evaluated using four feature selection methods and two classifiers. Recursive feature elimination using support vector machine (RFE-SVM) was the best feature selection method, and the SVM classifier performed best for classifying the amount of residue as a three-class problem. The best features for this application were associated with texture, with local binary pattern (LBP) features being the most prevalent for all three GSDs. Shape features were irrelevant. The three residue classes were correctly identified with 88%, 84%, and 81% 10-fold cross-validation scores for the 2018 training data and 81%, 69%, and 65% accuracy for the 2019 testing data in decreasing resolution order. Converting image-wise data (0.014 GSD) to location residue estimates using a Bayesian model showed good agreement with the location-based ground truth (r2 = 0.90). This initial assessment documents the use of RGB images to match other methods of estimating residue, with potential to replace or be used as a quality control for line-transect assessments. Keywords: Feature selection, Soil erosion, Support vector machine, Texture features, Unmanned aerial vehicle.


Author(s):  
Jian-Wu Xu ◽  
Kenji Suzuki

One of the major challenges in current Computer-Aided Detection (CADe) of polyps in CT Colonography (CTC) is to improve the specificity without sacrificing the sensitivity. If a large number of False Positive (FP) detections of polyps are produced by the scheme, radiologists might lose their confidence in the use of CADe. In this chapter, the authors used a nonlinear regression model operating on image voxels and a nonlinear classification model with extracted image features based on Support Vector Machines (SVMs). They investigated the feasibility of a Support Vector Regression (SVR) in the massive-training framework, and the authors developed a Massive-Training SVR (MTSVR) in order to reduce the long training time associated with the Massive-Training Artificial Neural Network (MTANN) for reduction of FPs in CADe of polyps in CTC. In addition, the authors proposed a feature selection method directly coupled with an SVM classifier to maximize the CADe system performance. They compared the proposed feature selection method with the conventional stepwise feature selection based on Wilks’ lambda with a linear discriminant analysis classifier. The FP reduction system based on the proposed feature selection method was able to achieve a 96.0% by-polyp sensitivity with an FP rate of 4.1 per patient. The performance is better than that of the stepwise feature selection based on Wilks’ lambda (which yielded the same sensitivity with 18.0 FPs/patient). To test the performance of the proposed MTSVR, the authors compared it with the original MTANN in the distinction between actual polyps and various types of FPs in terms of the training time reduction and FP reduction performance. The authors’ CTC database consisted of 240 CTC datasets obtained from 120 patients in the supine and prone positions. With MTSVR, they reduced the training time by a factor of 190, while achieving a performance (by-polyp sensitivity of 94.7% with 2.5 FPs/patient) comparable to that of the original MTANN (which has the same sensitivity with 2.6 FPs/patient).


IEEE Access ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 17862-17871 ◽  
Author(s):  
Baiyang Hu ◽  
Shoushui Wei ◽  
Dingwen Wei ◽  
Lina Zhao ◽  
Guohun Zhu ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 370-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jie Cai ◽  
Lingjing Hu ◽  
Zhou Liu ◽  
Ke Zhou ◽  
Huailing Zhang

Background: Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) patients are a high-risk group for Alzheimer's disease (AD). Each year, the diagnosed of 10–15% of MCI patients are converted to AD (MCI converters, MCI_C), while some MCI patients remain relatively stable, and unconverted (MCI stable, MCI_S). MCI patients are considered the most suitable population for early intervention treatment for dementia, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is clinically the most recommended means of imaging examination. Therefore, using MRI image features to reliably predict the conversion from MCI to AD can help physicians carry out an effective treatment plan for patients in advance so to prevent or slow down the development of dementia. Methods: We proposed an embedded feature selection method based on the least squares loss function and within-class scatter to select the optimal feature subset. The optimal subsets of features were used for binary classification (AD, MCI_C, MCI_S, normal control (NC) in pairs) based on a support vector machine (SVM), and the optimal 3-class features were used for 3-class classification (AD, MCI_C, MCI_S, NC in triples) based on one-versus-one SVMs (OVOSVMs). To ensure the insensitivity of the results to the random train/test division, a 10-fold cross-validation has been repeated for each classification. Results: Using our method for feature selection, only 7 features were selected from the original 90 features. With using the optimal subset in the SVM, we classified MCI_C from MCI_S with an accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity of 71.17%, 68.33% and 73.97%, respectively. In comparison, in the 3-class classification (AD vs. MCI_C vs. MCI_S) with OVOSVMs, our method selected 24 features, and the classification accuracy was 81.9%. The feature selection results were verified to be identical to the conclusions of the clinical diagnosis. Our feature selection method achieved the best performance, comparing with the existing methods using lasso and fused lasso for feature selection. Conclusion: The results of this study demonstrate the potential of the proposed approach for predicting the conversion from MCI to AD by identifying the affected brain regions undergoing this conversion.


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