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A review of denoising medical images using machine learning approaches

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Machine learning techniques are increasingly demonstrating success in image-based diagnosis, disease detection and disease prognosis. To reduce operator dependency and get better diagnostic accuracy, a computer aided diagnositic (CAD) system is a valuable and beneficial means for breast tumor detection and classification, fetal development and growth, Brain functioning, skin lesions and Lungs diseases [1]. Image denoising using machine learning techniques plays important role in the various application area of medical imaging such as pre-processing (noise removal from Ultrasound (US) images, segmentation (MRI of brain tumors and lung infections using X-rays), Computer aided diagnosis (CAD) for breast cancer, fetus development and many more). Further, denoising of medical images using data mining methods are analyzed. This paper focuses on the review of various denoising methods along with machine learning approaches to develop a systematic decision for diagnosing and prediction for medical images. The representation of the machine learning i.e. based on various numbers of methods which focuses on prediction, based on known properties learned from the training data has been considered.


Simplifying Decision Tree Interpretability with Python & Scikit-learn

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When discussing classifiers, decision trees are often thought of as easily interpretable models when compared to numerous more complex classifiers, especially those of the blackbox variety. And this is generally true. This is especially true of rather comparatively simple models created from simple data. This is much-less true of complex decision trees crafted from large amounts of (high-dimensional) data. Even otherwise straightforward decision trees which are of great depth and/or breadth, consisting of heavy branching, can be difficult to trace.


Comparison of Decision Tree Based Classification Strategies to Detect External Chemical Stimuli from Raw and Filtered Plant Electrical Response

arXiv.org Machine Learning

Plants monitor their surrounding environment and control their physiological functions by producing an electrical response. We recorded electrical signals from different plants by exposing them to Sodium Chloride (NaCl), Ozone (O3) and Sulfuric Acid (H2SO4) under laboratory conditions. After applying pre-processing techniques such as filtering and drift removal, we extracted few statistical features from the acquired plant electrical signals. Using these features, combined with different classification algorithms, we used a decision tree based multi-class classification strategy to identify the three different external chemical stimuli. We here present our exploration to obtain the optimum set of ranked feature and classifier combination that can separate a particular chemical stimulus from the incoming stream of plant electrical signals. The paper also reports an exhaustive comparison of similar feature based classification using the filtered and the raw plant signals, containing the high frequency stochastic part and also the low frequency trends present in it, as two different cases for feature extraction. The work, presented in this paper opens up new possibilities for using plant electrical signals to monitor and detect other environmental stimuli apart from NaCl, O3 and H2SO4 in future.


Machine Learning Will Reshape Diagnostic Medicine

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Diagnosing disease is one of the more labor-intensive aspects of the healthcare system. It also happens to be one that is particularly well-suited to being performed by machine learning algorithms. While work in this area is in its early stages, the technology is evolving rapidly and appears poised to transform diagnostic medicine. Thanks largely to the huge volumes of data collected from patients, medical diagnostics is an ideal domain for machine learning. Much of the diagnostic data is image-based, such as X-rays, MRI scans, and ultrasound imagery, but can also include things like genomic profiles, epidemiological data, blood tests, biopsy results, and even medical research papers.


Evaluating boosted decision trees for billions of users

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Facebook uses machine learning and ranking models to deliver the best experiences across many different parts of the app, such as which notifications to send, which stories you see in News Feed, or which recommendations you get for Pages you might want to follow. To surface the most relevant content, it's important to have high-quality machine learning models. We look at a number of real-time signals to determine optimal ranking; for example, in the notifications filtering use case, we look at whether someone has already clicked on similar notifications or how many likes the story corresponding to a notification has gotten. Because we perform this every time a new notification is generated, we want to return the decision for sending notifications as quickly as possible. More complex models can help improve the precision of our predictions and show more relevant content, but the trade-off is that they require more CPU cycles and can take longer to return results.


Limb Sensors for Equine Diagnostics, Performance Evaluations

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Lamenesses are frequently characterized by asymmetric limb motion, Braganรงa said. Strapped to different sections of a horse's body, inertial measurement units (IMUs) are becoming useful tools for evaluating asymmetry and body lean angles. Dutch and Belgian scientists are now looking at ways to gather reliable movement data from IMUs placed on horses' limbs, head, body, and pelvis. And this, they say, can lead to even greater accuracy in both veterinary diagnoses and performance evaluations. "It is important that we have methods to objectively quantify and record limb motion since we are now, more and more, aware of the limitations of the human eye as an instrument to detect motion asymmetries, especially at high speeds," said Filipe Serra Braganรงa, DVM, a PhD candidate in equine musculoskeletal biology at Utrecht University's Faculty of Veterinary Medicine Department of Equine Sciences, in The Netherlands.


A Comparative Study for Predicting Heart Diseases Using Data Mining Classification Methods

arXiv.org Machine Learning

Improving the precision of heart diseases detection has been investigated by many researchers in the literature. Such improvement induced by the overwhelming health care expenditures and erroneous diagnosis. As a result, various methodologies have been proposed to analyze the disease factors aiming to decrease the physicians practice variation and reduce medical costs and errors. In this paper, our main motivation is to develop an effective intelligent medical decision support system based on data mining techniques. In this context, five data mining classifying algorithms, with large datasets, have been utilized to assess and analyze the risk factors statistically related to heart diseases in order to compare the performance of the implemented classifiers (e.g., Na\"ive Bayes, Decision Tree, Discriminant, Random Forest, and Support Vector Machine). To underscore the practical viability of our approach, the selected classifiers have been implemented using MATLAB tool with two datasets. Results of the conducted experiments showed that all classification algorithms are predictive and can give relatively correct answer. However, the decision tree outperforms other classifiers with an accuracy rate of 99.0% followed by Random forest. That is the case because both of them have relatively same mechanism but the Random forest can build ensemble of decision tree. Although ensemble learning has been proved to produce superior results, but in our case the decision tree has outperformed its ensemble version.


Building AI Applications: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

AI Magazine

AI applications have been deployed and used for industrial, government, and consumer purposes for many years. The experiences have been documented in IAAI conference proceedings since 1989. Over the years, the breadth of applications has expanded many times over and AI systems have become more commonplace. Indeed, AI has recently become a focal point in the industrial and consumer consciousness. This article focuses on changes in the world of computing over the last three decades that made building AI applications more feasible. We then examine lessons learned during this time and distill these lessons into succinct advice for future application builders.


A.I. Versus M.D.

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One evening last November, a fifty-four-year-old woman from the Bronx arrived at the emergency room at Columbia University's medical center with a grinding headache. Her vision had become blurry, she told the E.R. doctors, and her left hand felt numb and weak. The doctors examined her and ordered a CT scan of her head. A few months later, on a morning this January, a team of four radiologists-in-training huddled in front of a computer in a third-floor room of the hospital. The room was windowless and dark, aside from the light from the screen, which looked as if it had been filtered through seawater. The residents filled a cubicle, and Angela Lignelli-Dipple, the chief of neuroradiology at Columbia, stood behind them with a pencil and pad. She was training them to read CT scans. "It's easy to diagnose a stroke once the brain is dead and gray," she said. "The trick is to diagnose the stroke before too many nerve cells begin to die." Strokes are usually caused by blockages or bleeds, and a neuroradiologist has about a forty-five-minute window to make a diagnosis, so that doctors might be able to intervene--to dissolve a growing clot, say. "Imagine you are in the E.R.," Lignelli-Dipple continued, raising the ante. "Every minute that passes, some part of the brain is dying. Time lost is brain lost." She glanced at a clock on the wall, as the seconds ticked by. "So where's the problem?" she asked. The blood supply to the brain branches left and right and then breaks into rivulets and tributaries on each side. A clot or a bleed usually affects only one of these branches, leading to a one-sided deficit in a part of the brain. As the nerve cells lose their blood supply and die, the tissue swells subtly.


Google Uses AI System to Detect Cancer

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Detecting cancer sooner rather than later can help prevent worst outcomes in many cases. Yet diagnosing different types of cancers in their earliest stages is not often possible. It requires years of training to gain the expertise and experience to do well in detecting cancerous tumor. Even with extensive training, some symptoms may be hard to distinguish from the signs of other similar diseases. For example, agreement in diagnosis for some forms of breast cancer can be as low as 48% and this percentage of disagreement is not surprising given the massive amount of information needed to review in order to make an accurate diagnoses and often within a limited time. To overcome these issues, Google researchers have developed an automated detection algorithm that is effective at identifying breast cancer.