Hybrid PSO-based variable translation wavelet neural network and its application to hypoglycemia detection system

To provide the detection of hypoglycemic episodes in Type 1 diabetes mellitus, hypoglycemia detection system is developed by the use of variable translation wavelet neural network (VTWNN) in this paper. A wavelet neural network with variable translation parameter is selected as a suitable classifier because of its excellent characteristics in capturing nonstationary signal analysis and nonlinear function modeling. Due to the variable translation parameters, the network becomes an adaptive network and provides better classification performance. An improved hybrid particle swarm optimization is used to train the parameters of VTWNN. Using the proposed classifier, a sensitivity of 81.40 % and a specificity of 50.91 % were achieved. The comparison results also show that the proposed detection system performs well in terms of good sensitivity and acceptable specificity. © 2012 Springer-Verlag London Limited

Application of advanced neural networks in hypoglycemia detection system

University of Technology, Sydney. Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology.Hypoglycemia is the medical term for a state produced by lower levels of blood glucose. It represents a significant hazard in patients with Type 1 diabetes mellitus (TlDM) which is a chronic medical condition that occurs when the pancreas produces very little or no insulin. The imperfect insulin replacement places patients with TlDM at increased risk for frequent hypoglycemia. Deficient glucose counter-regulation in TlDM patients may even lead to severe hypoglycaemia even with modest insulin elevations. It is very dangerous and can even lead to neurological damage or death. Thus, continuous monitoring of hypoglycemic episodes is important in order to avoid major health complications. Conventionally, the detection of hypoglycemia is performed by puncturing the fingertip of patients and estimate the blood glucose level (BGL) as well as the stage of hypoglycemia. However, the direct monitoring of BGL by extracting blood sample is inconvenient and uncomfortable, a more appealing preposition for preventing hypoglycemia is to monitor changes in relevant physiological parameters. Findings from numerous studies indicate that sudden nocturnal death in type 1 diabetes is thought to be due to ECG QT prolongation with subsequent ventricular tachyarrhythmia in response to nocturnal hypoglycaemia. Though several parameters can be monitored, the most common physiological parameters to be effected from a hypoglycemic reaction are heart rate (HR) and corrected QT interval (QTc) of the ECG signal. Considering the real-time physiological parameters (HR and QTc) changes during hypoglycemia, a non-invasive monitoring of glycemic level is predicted for the hypoglycemia. The topic of this thesis is covered by novel methodologies for the non-invasive hypoglycemia detection system by analyzing the behavioral changes of physiological parameters such as HR and QTc. These algorithms are comprised of three different classification techniques, i) variable translation wavelet neural network (VTWNN), ii) multiple regression-based combinational neural logic network (MR-NLN) and iii) rough-block-based neural network (R-BBNN). By taking the advantages of these proposed network structures, the performance in terms of sensitivity and specificity of non-invasive hypoglycemia monitoring system is improved. The first proposed algorithm is VTWNN in which the wavelets are used as transfer functions in the hidden layer of the network. The network parameters, such as the translation parameters of the wavelets are variable depending on the network inputs. Due to the variable translation parameters, the proposed VTWKN has the ability to model the inputoutput function with input-dependent network parameters. Effectively, it is an adaptive network capable of handling different input patterns and exhibits a better performance. With the adaptive nature, the network provides a better performance and increases the learning ability. For conventional wavelet neural network, a fixed set of weight is offered after the training process and fail to capture nonstationary nature of ECG signal. To overcome with this problem, VTWNN with multiscale wavelet function is firstly introduced in this thesis. With the variable translation parameter, the proposed VTWNN gives faster learning ability with better generalization. The second algorithm, MR-NLN is systematically designed which is based on the characteristics of application. Its design is based on the binary logic gates (AND, OR and NOT) in which the truth table and K-map are constructed and it depends on the knowledge of application. Because the logic theory are used in the network design, the structure becomes systematic and simpler compared to other conventional neural networks (NNs) and enhance the training performance. Traditionally, the conventional NN s with the same structure are applied to handle different applications. The optimal performance may not always guaranteed due to different characteristics of applications. In real-world applications, the knowledge based-neural network that understands all the characteristics of practical applications are preferred for optimal performance. In conventional NNs, the redundant connections and weights of conventional neural networks make the number of network parameters unnecessarily large and downgrades the training performance. But for neural logic network (NLN), the structure becomes simpler. The third algorithm focuses on the hybridization technology using rough sets concepts and neural computing for decision and classification purposes. Based on the rough set properties, the input signal is partitioned to a predictable (certain) part and random (uncertain) part. In this way, the selected block-based neural network (BBNN) is designed to deal only with the boundary region which mainly consists of a random part of applied input signal and caused inaccurate modeling of data set. Due to the rough set properties and the adaptability of BBNN's flexible structures in dynamic environments, the classification performance is improved. Owing to different characteristics of neural network (NN) applications, a conventional neural network with a common structure may not be able to handle every applications. Based on the knowledge of application, BBNN is selected as a suitable classifier due to its modular characteristics and ability in evolving the size and structure of the network. To obtain the optimal set of proposed network parameters, a global learning optimization algorithm called hybrid particle swarm optimization with wavelet mutation (HPSOWM) is introduced in this thesis. Compared to other stochastic optimization methods, the hybrid HPSO\VM has comparable or even superior search performance for some hard optimization problems with faster and more stable convergence rates. During the training process, a fitness function which is characterized by the proposed network design parameters is optimized by reproducing a better fitness value. The proposed systems is validated using clinical trial conducted at the Princess Margaret Hospital for Children in Perth, Western Australia, Australia. A total of 15 children with 529 data points (ages between 14.6 to 16.6 years) with Type 1 diabetes volunteered for the 10-hour overnight for natural occurrence of nocturnal hypoglycemia. Prior to the application of the algorithms, the correlation between the measured physiological parameters, HR and QTc and the actual BGL for each subject were analyzed. The feature extracted ECG parameters, HR and QTc significantly increased under hypoglycemic conditions (BGL ≤ 3.3mmol/l) according to their respective p values, HR (p < 0.06) and QTc (p < 0.001). The observation on these changes within the physiological parameters have provided the groundwork for model classification algorithms.</p

EDMON - Electronic Disease Surveillance and Monitoring Network: A Personalized Health Model-based Digital Infectious Disease Detection Mechanism using Self-Recorded Data from People with Type 1 Diabetes

Through time, we as a society have been tested with infectious disease outbreaks of different magnitude, which often pose major public health challenges. To mitigate the challenges, research endeavors have been focused on early detection mechanisms through identifying potential data sources, mode of data collection and transmission, case and outbreak detection methods. Driven by the ubiquitous nature of smartphones and wearables, the current endeavor is targeted towards individualizing the surveillance effort through a personalized health model, where the case detection is realized by exploiting self-collected physiological data from wearables and smartphones. This dissertation aims to demonstrate the concept of a personalized health model as a case detector for outbreak detection by utilizing self-recorded data from people with type 1 diabetes. The results have shown that infection onset triggers substantial deviations, i.e. prolonged hyperglycemia regardless of higher insulin injections and fewer carbohydrate consumptions. Per the findings, key parameters such as blood glucose level, insulin, carbohydrate, and insulin-to-carbohydrate ratio are found to carry high discriminative power. A personalized health model devised based on a one-class classifier and unsupervised method using selected parameters achieved promising detection performance. Experimental results show the superior performance of the one-class classifier and, models such as one-class support vector machine, k-nearest neighbor and, k-means achieved better performance. Further, the result also revealed the effect of input parameters, data granularity, and sample sizes on model performances. The presented results have practical significance for understanding the effect of infection episodes amongst people with type 1 diabetes, and the potential of a personalized health model in outbreak detection settings. The added benefit of the personalized health model concept introduced in this dissertation lies in its usefulness beyond the surveillance purpose, i.e. to devise decision support tools and learning platforms for the patient to manage infection-induced crises

Deep Learning and parallelization of Meta-heuristic Methods for IoT Cloud

Healthcare 4.0 is one of the Fourth Industrial Revolution’s outcomes that make a big revolution in the medical field. Healthcare 4.0 came with more facilities advantages that improved the average life expectancy and reduced population mortality. This paradigm depends on intelligent medical devices (wearable devices, sensors), which are supposed to generate a massive amount of data that need to be analyzed and treated with appropriate data-driven algorithms powered by Artificial Intelligence such as machine learning and deep learning (DL). However, one of the most significant limits of DL techniques is the long time required for the training process. Meanwhile, the realtime application of DL techniques, especially in sensitive domains such as healthcare, is still an open question that needs to be treated. On the other hand, meta-heuristic achieved good results in optimizing machine learning models. The Internet of Things (IoT) integrates billions of smart devices that can communicate with one another with minimal human intervention. IoT technologies are crucial in enhancing several real-life smart applications that can improve life quality. Cloud Computing has emerged as a key enabler for IoT applications because it provides scalable and on-demand, anytime, anywhere access to the computing resources. In this thesis, we are interested in improving the efficacity and performance of Computer-aided diagnosis systems in the medical field by decreasing the complexity of the model and increasing the quality of data. To accomplish this, three contributions have been proposed. First, we proposed a computer aid diagnosis system for neonatal seizures detection using metaheuristics and convolutional neural network (CNN) model to enhance the system’s performance by optimizing the CNN model. Secondly, we focused our interest on the covid-19 pandemic and proposed a computer-aided diagnosis system for its detection. In this contribution, we investigate Marine Predator Algorithm to optimize the configuration of the CNN model that will improve the system’s performance. In the third contribution, we aimed to improve the performance of the computer aid diagnosis system for covid-19. This contribution aims to discover the power of optimizing the data using different AI methods such as Principal Component Analysis (PCA), Discrete wavelet transform (DWT), and Teager Kaiser Energy Operator (TKEO). The proposed methods and the obtained results were validated with comparative studies using benchmark and public medical data

Towards a more efficient and cost-sensitive extreme learning machine: A state-of-the-art review of recent trend

In spite of the prominence of extreme learning machine model, as well as its excellent features such as insignificant intervention for learning and model tuning, the simplicity of implementation, and high learning speed, which makes it a fascinating alternative method for Artificial Intelligence, including Big Data Analytics, it is still limited in certain aspects. These aspects must be treated to achieve an effective and cost-sensitive model. This review discussed the major drawbacks of ELM, which include difficulty in determination of hidden layer structure, prediction instability and Imbalanced data distributions, the poor capability of sample structure preserving (SSP), and difficulty in accommodating lateral inhibition by direct random feature mapping. Other drawbacks include multi-graph complexity, global memory size, one-by-one or chuck-by-chuck (a block of data), global memory size limitation, and challenges with big data. The recent trend proposed by experts for each drawback is discussed in detail towards achieving an effective and cost-sensitive mode

Multimodel Approaches for Plasma Glucose Estimation in Continuous Glucose Monitoring. Development of New Calibration Algorithms

ABSTRACT Diabetes Mellitus (DM) embraces a group of metabolic diseases which main characteristic is the presence of high glucose levels in blood. It is one of the diseases with major social and health impact, both for its prevalence and also the consequences of the chronic complications that it implies. One of the research lines to improve the quality of life of people with diabetes is of technical focus. It involves several lines of research, including the development and improvement of devices to estimate "online" plasma glucose: continuous glucose monitoring systems (CGMS), both invasive and non-invasive. These devices estimate plasma glucose from sensor measurements from compartments alternative to blood. Current commercially available CGMS are minimally invasive and offer an estimation of plasma glucose from measurements in the interstitial fluid CGMS is a key component of the technical approach to build the artificial pancreas, aiming at closing the loop in combination with an insulin pump. Yet, the accuracy of current CGMS is still poor and it may partly depend on low performance of the implemented Calibration Algorithm (CA). In addition, the sensor-to-patient sensitivity is different between patients and also for the same patient in time. It is clear, then, that the development of new efficient calibration algorithms for CGMS is an interesting and challenging problem. The indirect measurement of plasma glucose through interstitial glucose is a main confounder of CGMS accuracy. Many components take part in the glucose transport dynamics. Indeed, physiology might suggest the existence of different local behaviors in the glucose transport process. For this reason, local modeling techniques may be the best option for the structure of the desired CA. Thus, similar input samples are represented by the same local model. The integration of all of them considering the input regions where they are valid is the final model of the whole data set. Clustering is tBarceló Rico, F. (2012). Multimodel Approaches for Plasma Glucose Estimation in Continuous Glucose Monitoring. Development of New Calibration Algorithms [Tesis doctoral no publicada]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/17173Palanci

2015 Oklahoma Research Day Full Program

This document contains all abstracts from the 2015 Oklahoma Research Day held at Northeastern State University