Tea Category Identification Using a Novel Fractional Fourier Entropy and Jaya Algorithm

This work proposes a tea-category identification (TCI) system, which can automatically determine tea category from images captured by a 3 charge-coupled device (CCD) digital camera. Three-hundred tea images were acquired as the dataset. Apart from the 64 traditional color histogram features that were extracted, we also introduced a relatively new feature as fractional Fourier entropy (FRFE) and extracted 25 FRFE features from each tea image. Furthermore, the kernel principal component analysis (KPCA) was harnessed to reduce 64 + 25 = 89 features. The four reduced features were fed into a feedforward neural network (FNN). Its optimal weights were obtained by Jaya algorithm. The 10 × 10-fold stratified cross-validation (SCV) showed that our TCI system obtains an overall average sensitivity rate of 97.9%, which was higher than seven existing approaches. In addition, we used only four features less than or equal to state-of-the-art approaches. Our proposed system is efficient in terms of tea-category identification

Tea Verification Using Triplet Loss Convolutional Network

To solve tea image classification problems, this study focuses on triplet loss convolutional neural network to classify six high-mountain oolong tea classes. In the experiment, instead of using traditional deep learning training approach for local feature of tea images, an innovative image verification approach is proposed to learn the global feature of tea images by integrating the distributed tea leaves’ features of all tea sub-images and using a majority voting mechanism to do classification. The results show that the proposed approach can work for small sample size dataset and have higher accuracy than normal transfer learning approach. The average accuracy of the proposed approach achieves 99.54%

Breast Cancer Detection Via Wavelet Energy and Support Vector Machine

© 2018 IEEE. Breast cancer as one of the most feared killers of women, there are still no effective means of prevention and treatment on it. However, the popularity of its research continues to rise in academic field. The traditional medical diagnosis is mainly by observing the patient's symptoms to confirm the variety of diseases, but the efficiency is undesirable, and the scientific contribution is poor. At present, due to the dramatical development of the application of machine learning in data detection, the application of computer technology in disease diagnosis has become a new and effective means. This paper used the wavelet energy to extract features of breast cancer, then established a breast cancer predicting model, while re-use data grouping function of support vector machine (SVM), then algorithm would accurately distinguish the characteristics of the data among benign malignant tumors. So, the accuracy of intelligent diagnosis in breast cancer has be improved, and proven to be better than two state-of-the-art approaches

Near-infrared hyperspectral imaging for non-destructive classification of commercial tea products

Tea is the most consumed manufactured drink in the world. In recent years, various high end analytical techniques such as high-performance liquid chromatography have been used to analyse tea products. However, these techniques require complex sample preparation, are time consuming, expensive and require a skilled analyst to carry out the experiments. Therefore, to support rapid and non-destructive assessment of tea products, the use of near infrared (NIR) (950-1760 nm) hyperspectral imaging (HSI) for classification of six different commercial tea products (oolong, green, yellow, white, black and Pu-erh) is presented. To visualise the HSI data, linear (principal component analysis (PCA) and multidimensional scaling (MDS)) and non-linear (t-distributed stochastic neighbour embedding (t-SNE) and isometric mapping (ISOMAP)) data visualisation methods were compared. t-SNE provided separation of the six commercial tea products into three groups based on the extent of processing: minimally processed, oxidised and fermented. To perform the classification of different tea products, a multi-class error-correcting output code (ECOC) model containing support vector machine (SVM) binary learners was developed. The classification model was further used to predict classes for pixels in the HSI hypercube to obtain the classification maps. The SVM-ECOC model provided a classification accuracy of 97.41±0.16 % for the six commercial tea products. The methodology developed provides a means for rapid, non-destructive, in situ testing of tea products, which would be of considerable benefit for process monitoring, quality control, authenticity and adulteration detection

Pathological Brain Detection by a Novel Image Feature—Fractional Fourier Entropy

Aim: To detect pathological brain conditions early is a core procedure for patients so as to have enough time for treatment. Traditional manual detection is either cumbersome, or expensive, or time-consuming. We aim to offer a system that can automatically identify pathological brain images in this paper.Method: We propose a novel image feature, viz., Fractional Fourier Entropy (FRFE), which is based on the combination of Fractional Fourier Transform(FRFT) and Shannon entropy. Afterwards, the Welch’s t-test (WTT) and Mahalanobis distance (MD) were harnessed to select distinguishing features. Finally, we introduced an advanced classifier: twin support vector machine (TSVM). Results: A 10 x K-fold stratified cross validation test showed that this proposed “FRFE +WTT + TSVM” yielded an accuracy of 100.00%, 100.00%, and 99.57% on datasets that contained 66, 160, and 255 brain images, respectively. Conclusions: The proposed “FRFE +WTT + TSVM” method is superior to 20 state-of-the-art methods

Shape-Attributes of Brain Structures as Biomarkers for Alzheimer’s Disease

We describe a fully automatic framework for classification of two types of dementia based on the differences in the shape of brain structures. We consider Alzheimer’s disease (AD), mild cognitive impairment of individuals who converted to AD within 18 months (MCIc), and normal controls (NC). Our approach uses statistical learning and a feature space consisting of projection-based shape descriptors, allowing for canonical representation of brain regions. Our framework automatically identifies the structures most affected by the disease. We evaluate our results by comparing to other methods using a standardized data set of 375 adults available from the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI). Our framework is sensitive to identifying the onset of Alzheimer’s disease, achieving up to 88.13% accuracy in classifying MCIc versus NC, outperforming previous methods.National Science Foundation (U.S.) (1502435

Hybrid Neural Network and Linear Model for Natural Produce Recognition Using Computer Vision

Natural produce recognition is a classification problem with various applications in the food industry. This paper proposes a natural produce recognition method using computer vision. The proposed method uses simple features consisting of statistical color features and the derivative of radius function. A hybrid neural network and linear model based on a Kalman filter (NN-LMKF) was employed as classifier. One thousand images from ten categories of natural produce were used to validate the proposed method by using 5-fold cross validation. The experimental result showed that the proposed method achieved classification accuracy of 98.40%. This means it performed better than the original neural network and k-nearest neighborhood