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Occupational accident is a serious issue for every industry. Steel industry is considered to be one of the economic sectors having a high number of accidents. Thus, the main aim of this study is to build a model which could predict the occupational incidents (i.e., injury, near-miss, and property damage) using support vector machine (SVM) by utilizing a database comprising almost 5000 occupational...
Reducing the number of features whilst maintaining an acceptable classification accuracy is a fundamental step in the process of constructing cancer predictive models. In this work, we introduce a novel hybrid (MI-LDA) feature selection approach for the diagnosis of ovarian cancer. This hybrid approach is embedded within a global optimization framework and offers a promising improvement on feature...
Functional connectivity, which is indicated by time-course correlations of brain activities among different brain regions, is one of the most useful metrics to represent human brain states. In functional connectivity analysis (FCA), the whole brain is parcellated into a certain number of regions based on anatomical atlases, and the mean time series of brain activities are calculated. Then, the correlation...
Early diagnosis of Breast Cancer is significantly important to treat the disease easily therefore it is necessary to develop techniques that can help physicians to get accurate diagnosis. This study suggests a hybrid classification algorithm which is based upon Genetic Algorithm (GA) and k Nearest neighbor algorithm (kNN). GA algorithm has been used for its primary purpose as an optimization technique...
Predicting price has now become an important task in the operation of electrical power system. Day-ahead prediction provides forecast prices for a day ahead that is useful for daily operation and decision-making. The main challenge for day ahead price forecasting is the accuracy and efficiency. Lower accuracy is produced due to the nature of electricity price that is highly volatile compared to load...
Gray-Box Models which combine a phenomenological model with a black box tool are useful for determining the values of not well known parameters of the model. In this work an indirect strategy for training these gray box models using least-square support vector machine and genetic algorithms is presented. The gray box model was tested in a Continuous Stirred Tank Reactor process with good results (Index...
Image classification is one the important processing done on satellite images. Many algorithm are proposed for such classification of which Support Vector Machine (SVM) is mostly used. Many variants and approaches of SVM are proposed of which GA based classifiers shows better prospects. But increasing size, spectrum and multiple dimension of remote sensing data has made image processing problem more...
This paper proposes a GA-SVM classification method which is applied to the dynamic evaluation of taekwondo. For classifying a dynamic action, we converted a dynamic action signal to a frequency spectrum signal for analysis. However, the useful features were concentrated in a part of the frequency spectrum, and the useless features led to a decline in accuracy, operation speed, and efficiency of the...
In text classification, feature selection is essential to improve the classification effectiveness. This paper provides an empirical study of a feature selection method based on genetic algorithms for different text representation methods. This feature selection algorithm can accomplish two goals: in one hand is the search of a feature subset such that the performance of classifier is best; in other...
In this article, we present an application of metaheuristics optimization approaches to improve medical classifier performance. Genetic Algorithm (GA), Simulated Annealing (SA) and Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) have been applied in conjunction with Least Square Support Vector Machine (LS-SVM) approach to optimize the total misclassification error in term of False Positive and False Negative rates...
The feature subset selection, along with the parameters of classifier significantly influences the classification accuracy. In order to ensure the optimal classification performance, the artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm is proposed to simultaneously optimize the feature subset and the parameters of support vector machines (SVM), meanwhile for improving the optimizing performance of ABC algorithm,...
One of the pivotal issues which must be tackled when an effective brain-computer interface (BCI) is to be designed, is to reduce the enormous space of features extracted from fNIRS signals. BCI researchers often use genetic algorithms (GA) as the technique to extract features. The classic genetic algorithm obtains a feature set with the high classification accuracy; however, it is unable to create...
Feature Selection is the process of selecting a subset of relevant features (i.e. predictors) for use in the construction of predictive models. This paper proposes a hybrid feature selection approach to breast cancer diagnosis which combines a Genetic Algorithm (GA) with Mutual Information (MI) for selecting the best combination of cancer predictors, with maximal discriminative capability. The selected...
Lung cancer is a leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide. The early diagnosis of cancer has demonstrated to be greatly helpful for curing the disease effectively. Microarray technology provides a promising approach of exploiting gene profiles for cancer diagnosis. In this study, the authors propose a gene expression programming (GEP)-based model to predict lung cancer from microarray data...
Country disaster rescue is becoming more and more important and it requires a rapid response for disaster rescue. The key component for disaster rescue is to plan the optimal rescue path. Traditionally, the optimal rescue path seriously relies on the recognition on images of the damaged areas and the corresponding recognition algorithms are proposed for analyzing satellite images. However, due to...
In the wide growth of information technology, security has one challenging phase for computer and networks. Attacks on the web are increasing day-by-day. Intrusion detection system is used to detect several types of malicious attacks that can compromise the security of a computer system. Data mining techniques are used to monitor and analyze large amount of network data & classify these network...
Solar activity has various influences on the global environment. Specifically, it may have serious impacts on the Earth such as satellite damage, etc. and power plant failures causing more serious disaster. For a precise forecast of larger scale solar flares causing serious disaster, it is important to improve the space weather forecast, a daily forecast of the solar flare. In our work so far, a machine-learning...
As to the problem that it is difficult to estimate the parameters of Weibull mixtures accurately, a new parameter estimation method for Weibull mixtures based on the improved cuckoo search algorithm (CSA) is proposed. The optimization model, which is solved by the improved CSA, is established based on the idea of minimizing the residual sum of squares (RSS). The algorithmic improvement has three schemes...
Wavelets are known particularly to be an effective tool for extracting discriminative features in the scattered RF signals of both solid and gaseous emboli. However, the selection of an appropriate mother wavelet for the signal being analyzed is an important criterion. This offers the possibility to perform an optimization procedure to obtain the best wavelet. The purpose of the study is to propose...
Support vector regression (SVR) is a widely used technique for reliability prediction. The key issue for high prediction accuracy is the selection of SVR parameters, which is essentially an optimization problem. As one of the most effective evolutionary optimization methods, particle swarm optimization (PSO) has been successfully applied to tune SVR parameters and is shown to perform well. However,...
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