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Enhanced Position Estimation in Tactile Internet-Enabled Remote Robotic Surgery Using MOESP-Based Kalman Filter
Lashari, Muhammad Hanif, Batayneh, Wafa, Khokhar, Ashfaq, Ahmed, Shakil
Accurately estimating the position of a patient's side robotic arm in real time during remote surgery is a significant challenge, especially within Tactile Internet (TI) environments. This paper presents a new and efficient method for position estimation using a Kalman Filter (KF) combined with the Multivariable Output-Error State Space (MOESP) method for system identification. Unlike traditional approaches that require prior knowledge of the system's dynamics, this study uses the JIGSAW dataset, a comprehensive collection of robotic surgical data, along with input from the Master Tool Manipulator (MTM) to derive the state-space model directly. The MOESP method allows accurate modeling of the Patient Side Manipulator (PSM) dynamics without prior system models, improving the KF's performance under simulated network conditions, including delays, jitter, and packet loss. These conditions mimic real-world challenges in Tactile Internet applications. The findings demonstrate the KF's improved resilience and accuracy in state estimation, achieving over 95 percent accuracy despite network-induced uncertainties.
A Predictive Approach for Enhancing Accuracy in Remote Robotic Surgery Using Informer Model
Lashari, Muhammad Hanif, Ahmed, Shakil, Batayneh, Wafa, Khokhar, Ashfaq
Precise and real-time estimation of the robotic arm's position on the patient's side is essential for the success of remote robotic surgery in Tactile Internet (TI) environments. This paper presents a prediction model based on the Transformer-based Informer framework for accurate and efficient position estimation. Additionally, it combines a Four-State Hidden Markov Model (4-State HMM) to simulate realistic packet loss scenarios. The proposed approach addresses challenges such as network delays, jitter, and packet loss to ensure reliable and precise operation in remote surgical applications. The method integrates the optimization problem into the Informer model by embedding constraints such as energy efficiency, smoothness, and robustness into its training process using a differentiable optimization layer. The Informer framework uses features such as ProbSparse attention, attention distilling, and a generative-style decoder to focus on position-critical features while maintaining a low computational complexity of O(L log L). The method is evaluated using the JIGSAWS dataset, achieving a prediction accuracy of over 90 percent under various network scenarios. A comparison with models such as TCN, RNN, and LSTM demonstrates the Informer framework's superior performance in handling position prediction and meeting real-time requirements, making it suitable for Tactile Internet-enabled robotic surgery.
Depression detection from Social Media Bangla Text Using Recurrent Neural Networks
Ahmed, Sultan, Rakin, Salman, Waliur, Mohammad Washeef Ibn, Islam, Nuzhat Binte, Hossain, Billal, Akbar, Md. Mostofa
Mostofa Akbar Department of CSE Bangladesh University of Engineering & T echnology Dhaka, Bangladesh mostofa@cse.buet.ac.bd Abstract --Emotion artificial intelligence is a field of study that focuses on figuring out how to recognize emotions, especially in the area of text mining. T oday is the age of social media which has opened a door for us to share our individual expressions, emotions, and perspectives on any event. We can analyze sentiment on social media posts to detect positive, negative, or emotional behavior toward society. One of the key challenges in sentiment analysis is to identify depressed text from social media text that is a root cause of mental ill-health. Furthermore, depression leads to severe impairment in day-to-day living and is a major source of suicide incidents. In this paper, we apply natural language processing techniques on Facebook texts for conducting emotion analysis focusing on depression using multiple machine learning algorithms. Preprocessing steps like stemming, stop word removal, etc. are used to clean the collected data, and feature extraction techniques like stylometric feature, TF-IDF, word embedding, etc. are applied to the collected dataset which consists of 983 texts collected from social media posts. In the process of class prediction, LSTM, GRU, support vector machine, and Naive-Bayes classifiers have been used. We have presented the results using the primary classification metrics including F1-score, and accuracy. This work focuses on depression detection from social media posts to help psychologists to analyze sentiment from shared posts which may reduce the undesirable behaviors of depressed individuals through diagnosis and treatment. I NTRODUCTION Text is the most important means of communication in today's world. Popular online social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, etc. are mainly text-based. The rapid growth of Social Media has created enough opportunities to share information across time and space. Users are now comfortable contributing more to the content of social media websites and posting their own material. The emergence of internet-based media sources has resulted in the availability of substantial user data for the emotional analysis of text and images.
Emotion Detection in Reddit: Comparative Study of Machine Learning and Deep Learning Techniques
Emotion detection is pivotal in human communication, as it significantly influences behavior, relationships, and decision-making processes. This study concentrates on text-based emotion detection by leveraging the GoEmotions dataset, which annotates Reddit comments with 27 distinct emotions. These emotions are subsequently mapped to Ekman's 6 basic categories: joy, anger, fear, sadness, disgust, and surprise. We employed a range of models for this task, including 6 machine learning models, 3 ensemble models, and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) model to determine the optimal model for emotion detection. Results indicate that the Stacking classifier outperforms other models in accuracy and performance. Finally, the Stacking classifier is deployed via a Streamlit web application, underscoring its potential for real-world applications in text-based emotion analysis. Keywords: Text Based Emotion Detection, Machine Learning, Ensemble Learning, Deep Learning, GoEmotions, EmoBERTa, Streamlit Introduction Emotions are complex, subjective experiences, often linked to psychological states such as mood, temperament, and personality. These experiences influence human behavior, impacting decision-making, reactions to stimuli, and interpersonal interactions. In the contemporary world, where mental health disorders such as stress, anxiety, and depression are increasingly prevalent, understanding emotions is more important than ever (Maruf et al., 2024).
Enhancing Robot Navigation Efficiency Using Cellular Automata with Active Cells
Alzoubi, Saleem, Miraz, Mahdi H.
Enhancing robot navigation efficiency is a crucial objective in modern robotics. Robots relying on external navigation systems are often susceptible to electromagnetic interference (EMI) and encounter environmental disturbances, resulting in orientation errors within their surroundings. Therefore, the study employed an internal navigation system to enhance robot navigation efficacy under interference conditions, based on the analysis of the internal parameters and the external signals. This article presents details of the robot's autonomous operation, which allows for setting the robot's trajectory using an embedded map. The robot's navigation process involves counting the number of wheel revolutions as well as adjusting wheel orientation after each straight path section. In this article, an autonomous robot navigation system has been presented that leverages an embedded control navigation map utilising cellular automata with active cells which can effectively navigate in an environment containing various types of obstacles. By analysing the neighbouring cells of the active cell, the cellular environment determines which cell should become active during the robot's next movement step. This approach ensures the robot's independence from external control inputs. Furthermore, the accuracy and speed of the robot's movement have been further enhanced using a hexagonal mosaic for navigation surface mapping. This concept of utilising on cellular automata with active cells has been extended to the navigation of a group of robots on a shared navigation surface, taking into account the intersections of the robots' trajectories over time. To achieve this, a distance control module has been used that records the travelled trajectories in terms of wheel turns and revolutions.
Learning Style Identification Using Semi-Supervised Self-Taught Labeling
Ayyoub, Hani Y., Al-Kadi, Omar S.
Education is a dynamic field that must be adaptable to sudden changes and disruptions caused by events like pandemics, war, and natural disasters related to climate change. When these events occur, traditional classrooms with traditional or blended delivery can shift to fully online learning, which requires an efficient learning environment that meets students' needs. While learning management systems support teachers' productivity and creativity, they typically provide the same content to all learners in a course, ignoring their unique learning styles. To address this issue, we propose a semi-supervised machine learning approach that detects students' learning styles using a data mining technique. We use the commonly used Felder Silverman learning style model and demonstrate that our semi-supervised method can produce reliable classification models with few labeled data. We evaluate our approach on two different courses and achieve an accuracy of 88.83% and 77.35%, respectively. Our work shows that educational data mining and semi-supervised machine learning techniques can identify different learning styles and create a personalized learning environment.
A Deep Learning Approach Towards Student Performance Prediction in Online Courses: Challenges Based on a Global Perspective
Moubayed, Abdallah, Injadat, MohammadNoor, Alhindawi, Nouh, Samara, Ghassan, Abuasal, Sara, Alazaidah, Raed
Analyzing and evaluating students' progress in any learning environment is stressful and time consuming if done using traditional analysis methods. This is further exasperated by the increasing number of students due to the shift of focus toward integrating the Internet technologies in education and the focus of academic institutions on moving toward e-Learning, blended, or online learning models. As a result, the topic of student performance prediction has become a vibrant research area in recent years. To address this, machine learning and data mining techniques have emerged as a viable solution. To that end, this work proposes the use of deep learning techniques (CNN and RNN-LSTM) to predict the students' performance at the midpoint stage of the online course delivery using three distinct datasets collected from three different regions of the world. Experimental results show that deep learning models have promising performance as they outperform other optimized traditional ML models in two of the three considered datasets while also having comparable performance for the third dataset.
Assessing AI Chatbots Performance in Comprehensive Standardized Test Preparation; A Case Study with GRE
Abu-Haifa, Mohammad, Etawi, Bara'a, Alkhatatbeh, Huthaifa, Ababneh, Ayman
This research paper presents an analysis of how well three artificial intelligence chatbots, Bing, ChatGPT, and GPT-4, perform when answering questions from standardized tests. The Graduate Record Examination (GRE) is used in this paper as a case study. A total of 137 questions with different forms of quantitative reasoning and 157 questions with verbal categories were used to assess their capabilities. This paper presents the performance of each chatbot across various skills and styles tested in the exam. This paper also explores the proficiency of these chatbots in addressing image-based questions and illustrates the uncertainty level of each chatbot. The results show varying degrees of success across the chatbots, where GPT-4 served as the most proficient, especially in complex language understanding tasks and image-based questions. Results highlight the ability of these chatbots to pass the GRE with a high score, which encourages the use of these chatbots in test preparation. The results also show how important it is to ensure that, if the test is administered online, as it was during COVID, the test taker is segregated from these resources for a fair competition on higher education opportunities.
Spatio-Temporal Anomaly Detection with Graph Networks for Data Quality Monitoring of the Hadron Calorimeter
Asres, Mulugeta Weldezgina, Omlin, Christian Walter, Wang, Long, Yu, David, Parygin, Pavel, Dittmann, Jay, Karapostoli, Georgia, Seidel, Markus, Venditti, Rosamaria, Lambrecht, Luka, Usai, Emanuele, Ahmad, Muhammad, Menendez, Javier Fernandez, Maeshima, Kaori, Collaboration, the CMS-HCAL
The compact muon solenoid (CMS) experiment is a general-purpose detector for high-energy collision at the large hadron collider (LHC) at CERN. It employs an online data quality monitoring (DQM) system to promptly spot and diagnose particle data acquisition problems to avoid data quality loss. In this study, we present semi-supervised spatio-temporal anomaly detection (AD) monitoring for the physics particle reading channels of the hadronic calorimeter (HCAL) of the CMS using three-dimensional digi-occupancy map data of the DQM. We propose the GraphSTAD system, which employs convolutional and graph neural networks to learn local spatial characteristics induced by particles traversing the detector, and global behavior owing to shared backend circuit connections and housing boxes of the channels, respectively. Recurrent neural networks capture the temporal evolution of the extracted spatial features. We have validated the accuracy of the proposed AD system in capturing diverse channel fault types using the LHC Run-2 collision data sets. The GraphSTAD system has achieved production-level accuracy and is being integrated into the CMS core production system--for real-time monitoring of the HCAL. We have also provided a quantitative performance comparison with alternative benchmark models to demonstrate the promising leverage of the presented system.
An Interactive Automation for Human Biliary Tree Diagnosis Using Computer Vision
AL-Oudat, Mohammad, Alomari, Saleh, Qattous, Hazem, Azzeh, Mohammad, AL-Munaizel, Tariq
The biliary tree is a network of tubes that connects the liver to the gallbladder, an organ right beneath it. The bile duct is the major tube in the biliary tree. The dilatation of a bile duct is a key indicator for more major problems in the human body, such as stones and tumors, which are frequently caused by the pancreas or the papilla of vater. The detection of bile duct dilatation can be challenging for beginner or untrained medical personnel in many circumstances. Even professionals are unable to detect bile duct dilatation with the naked eye. This research presents a unique vision-based model for biliary tree initial diagnosis. To segment the biliary tree from the Magnetic Resonance Image, the framework used different image processing approaches (MRI). After the image's region of interest was segmented, numerous calculations were performed on it to extract 10 features, including major and minor axes, bile duct area, biliary tree area, compactness, and some textural features (contrast, mean, variance and correlation). This study used a database of images from King Hussein Medical Center in Amman, Jordan, which included 200 MRI images, 100 normal cases, and 100 patients with dilated bile ducts. After the characteristics are extracted, various classifiers are used to determine the patients' condition in terms of their health (normal or dilated). The findings demonstrate that the extracted features perform well with all classifiers in terms of accuracy and area under the curve. This study is unique in that it uses an automated approach to segment the biliary tree from MRI images, as well as scientifically correlating retrieved features with biliary tree status that has never been done before in the literature.