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EEG sleep stages identification based on weighted undirected complex networks
Sleep scoring is important in sleep research because any errors in the scoring of the patient's sleep electroencephalography (EEG) recordings can cause serious problems such as incorrect diagnosis, medication errors, and misinterpretations of patient's EEG recordings. The aim of this research is to develop a new automatic method for EEG sleep stages classification based on a statistical model and weighted brain networks.
Methods
each EEG segment is partitioned into a number of blocks using a sliding window technique. A set of statistical features are extracted from each block. As a result, a vector of features is obtained to represent each EEG segment. Then, the vector of features is mapped into a weighted undirected network. Different structural and spectral attributes of the networks are extracted and forwarded to a least square support vector machine (LS-SVM) classifier. At the same time the network's attributes are also thoroughly investigated. It is found that the network's characteristics vary with their sleep stages. Each sleep stage is best represented using the key features of their networks.
Results
In this paper, the proposed method is evaluated using two datasets acquired from different channels of EEG (Pz-Oz and C3-A2) according to the R&K and the AASM without pre-processing the original EEG data. The obtained results by the LS-SVM are compared with those by Naïve, k-nearest and a multi-class-SVM. The proposed method is also compared with other benchmark sleep stages classification methods. The comparison results demonstrate that the proposed method has an advantage in scoring sleep stages based on single channel EEG signals.
Conclusions
An average accuracy of 96.74% is obtained with the C3-A2 channel according to the AASM standard, and 96% with the Pz-Oz channel based on the R&K standard
Elephant Search with Deep Learning for Microarray Data Analysis
Even though there is a plethora of research in Microarray gene expression
data analysis, still, it poses challenges for researchers to effectively and
efficiently analyze the large yet complex expression of genes. The feature
(gene) selection method is of paramount importance for understanding the
differences in biological and non-biological variation between samples. In
order to address this problem, a novel elephant search (ES) based optimization
is proposed to select best gene expressions from the large volume of microarray
data. Further, a promising machine learning method is envisioned to leverage
such high dimensional and complex microarray dataset for extracting hidden
patterns inside to make a meaningful prediction and most accurate
classification. In particular, stochastic gradient descent based Deep learning
(DL) with softmax activation function is then used on the reduced features
(genes) for better classification of different samples according to their gene
expression levels. The experiments are carried out on nine most popular Cancer
microarray gene selection datasets, obtained from UCI machine learning
repository. The empirical results obtained by the proposed elephant search
based deep learning (ESDL) approach are compared with most recent published
article for its suitability in future Bioinformatics research.Comment: 12 pages, 5 Tabl
A Comparative Study of Machine Learning Models for Tabular Data Through Challenge of Monitoring Parkinson's Disease Progression Using Voice Recordings
People with Parkinson's disease must be regularly monitored by their
physician to observe how the disease is progressing and potentially adjust
treatment plans to mitigate the symptoms. Monitoring the progression of the
disease through a voice recording captured by the patient at their own home can
make the process faster and less stressful. Using a dataset of voice recordings
of 42 people with early-stage Parkinson's disease over a time span of 6 months,
we applied multiple machine learning techniques to find a correlation between
the voice recording and the patient's motor UPDRS score. We approached this
problem using a multitude of both regression and classification techniques.
Much of this paper is dedicated to mapping the voice data to motor UPDRS scores
using regression techniques in order to obtain a more precise value for unknown
instances. Through this comparative study of variant machine learning methods,
we realized some old machine learning methods like trees outperform cutting
edge deep learning models on numerous tabular datasets.Comment: Accepted at "HIMS'20 - The 6th Int'l Conf on Health Informatics and
Medical Systems"; https://americancse.org/events/csce2020/conferences/hims2
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