Nidhi Arora

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a chronic medical ailment characterized by accumulation of excessive fat in the liver of non-alcoholic patients. In absence of any early visible indications, application of machine learning based predictive techniques for early prediction of NAFLD are quite beneficial. The objective of this paper is to present a complete framework for guided development of varied predictive machine learning models and predict NAFLD disease with high accuracy. The framework employs step–by-step data quality enhancement to medical data such as cleaning, normalization, data upscaling using SMOTE (for handling class imbalances) and correlation analysis-based feature selection to predict NAFLD with high accuracy using only clinically recorded identifiers. Comprehensive comparative analysis of prediction results of seven machine learning predictive models is done using unprocessed as well as quality enhanced data. As per the observed results, XGBoost, random forest and neural network machine learning models reported significantly higher accuracies with improved ‘AUC’ and ‘ROC’ values using preprocessed data in contrast to unprocessed data. The prediction results are also assessed on various quality metrics such as ‘accuracy’, ‘f1-score’, ‘precision’, and ‘recall’ significantly support the need for presented methodologies for qualitative NAFLD prediction modelling.

Currently, there is a notable prevalence of substantial traffic congestion and frequent vehicular accidents on roadways in contemporary times. Amalgamation of latest front-line technologies involving Internet of Things (IoT) and image classification has immense potential to advance the progress of a proficient traffic regulation system. To mitigate the occurrence of vehicular accidents, our research endeavors revolve around the comprehensive analysis of the prevailing road conditions. This meticulous examination allows us to effectively automate traffic routes orchestration, ensuring smooth vehicular movement across all lanes of the road network. The analysis of traffic patterns is conducted through the utilization of visual data images. The real time captured traffic images undergo processing using various object detection models named RetinaNet and the YOLO (You Only Look Once) models. A series of comparative evaluations suggests an improved traffic object identification capacity for the RetinaNet model as compared to all YOLO models.

Mental health disorders are primarily life style driven disorders, which are mostly unidentifiable by clinical or direct observations, but act as a silent killer for the impacted individuals. Using machine learning (ML), the prediction of mental ailments has taken significant interest in medical informatics community especially when clinical indicators are not there. But, majority studies now focus on usual machine learning methods used to predict mental disorders with few organized health data, this may give wrong signals. To overcome the drawbacks of the conventional ML prediction models, this work presents Deep Learning (DL) trained prediction model for automated feature extraction to realistically predict mental health disorders from the online textual posts of individuals indicating suicidal and depressive contents. The proposed model encompasses three phases named pre-processing, feature extraction and optimal prediction phase. The developed model utilizes a novel Sparse Auto-Encoder based Optimal Bi-LSTM (SAE-O-Bi-LSTM) model, which integrates Bi-LSTM and Adaptive Harris-Hawk Optimizer (AHHO) for extracting the most relevant mental illness indicating features from the textual content in the dataset. The dataset utilized for training consist of 232074 unique posts from the "SuicideWatch" and "Depression" subreddits of the Reddit platform during December 2009 to Jan 2021 downloaded from Kaggle. In-depth comparative analysis of the testing results is conducted using accuracy, precisions, F1 score, specificity, and Recall and ROC curve. The results depict considerable improvement for our developed approach with an accuracy of 98.8% and precision of 98.7% respectively, which supports the efficacy of our proposed model.

Cotton plant (Gossypium herbaceum), is one of the significant fiber crop grown worldwide. However, the crop is quite prone to leaves diseases, for which deep learning (DL) techniques can be utilized for early disease prediction and prevent stakeholders from losing the harvest. The objective of this paper is to develop a novel ensemble based deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) model developed on two base pretrained models named: VGG16 and InceptionV3 for early detection of cotton leaves diseases. The proposed ensemble model trained on cotton leaves dataset reports higher training and testing prediction accuracies as compared to the base pretrained models. Given that, deep learning architectures have hyper-parameters, this paper presents exhaustive experimental evaluations on ensemble model to tune hyper-parameters named learning rate, optimizer and no of epochs. The suggested hyper-parameter settings can be directly utilized while employing the ensemble model for cotton plant leaves disease detection and prediction. With suggested hyper-parameters settings of learning rate 0.0001, 20 epochs and stochastic gradient descent (SGD) optimizer, ensemble model reported training and testing accuracies of 98% and 95% respectively, which was higher than the training and testing accuracies of VGG16 and InceptionV3 pretrained DCNN models.

Artificial intelligence (AI) based automated disease prediction has recently taken a significant place in the field of health informatics. However, due to unavailability of real time large scale medical data, the dynamic learning of prediction models remains principally subsided. This paper, therefore proposes a dynamic predictive modelling framework for chronic diseases prediction in real-time. The framework premise suggests creation of a centralized patient-indexed medical database to dynamically train machine learning (ML) models and predict risk levels of chronic diseases in real time. In this study, comprehensive empirical evaluations to train seven state-of-the-art ML models for diabetes risk prediction are performed in context of phase 2 of the suggested framework. The selected optimal model can then be dynamically applied to predict diabetes in phase 3 of the framework. Various metrics such as accuracy, precision, Recall, F1-score and receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve are employed for evaluating performances of the trained models. Parameter tunings using different type of kernels, different number of neighbors and estimators are rigorously performed in order to create a suggestive literature for healthcare prediction ecosystem. Comparative analysis indicates high prediction accuracies on diabetes test data records for neural network and support vector machine (SVM) models as compared to other applied models.

Influence maximization is a fundamental problem in the study of complex relationship networks, such as viral marketing in business application areas. It is directed towards extracting a minimal (or k-sized) subset of most influential nodes with largest cascading effect across the network as per seeding budget. The problem is categorized as NP hard and hence greedy/heuristic techniques are extensively studied in the literature for generating reasonably acceptable solutions. This article proposes a novel nature based heuristic optimization algorithm IM-GSO to dynamically evolve near to optimal K-sized influential seed nodes for varied structural real world networks. IM-GSO smartly incorporates hidden structural patterns like communities, node degrees, betweenness and similarities for efficient candidate population generation. This smartly initialized population is then evolved using a discrete adaption of Group Search Optimization (GSO) algorithm. Correctness of IM-GSO is verified by optimizing two prominent spread estimation functions SIMPATH and MAGA, on varied sized (small/medium/large) networks. Detailed experimental evaluations by execution of 10,000 Monte Carlo simulations under Information Cascade (IC) model indicates a significantly high influence spread for IM-GSO seeds in contrast to standard heuristics techniques.