Ensemble Learning for Fetal Health Classification

Cardiotocography(CTG)represents the fetus’s health inside the womb during labor.However,assessment of its readings can be a highly subjective process depending on the expertise of the obstetrician.Digital signals from fetal monitors acquire parameters(i.e.,fetal heart rate,contractions,acceleration).Objective:This paper aims to classify the CTG readings containing imbalanced healthy,suspected,and pathological fetus readings.Method:We perform two sets of experiments.Firstly,we employ five classifiers:Random Forest(RF),Adaptive Boosting(AdaBoost),Categorical Boosting(CatBoost),Extreme Gradient Boosting(XGBoost),and Light Gradient Boosting Machine(LGBM)without over-sampling to classify CTG readings into three categories:healthy,suspected,and pathological.Secondly,we employ an ensemble of the above-described classifiers with the oversamplingmethod.We use a random over-sampling technique to balance CTG records to train the ensemble models.We use 3602 CTG readings to train the ensemble classifiers and 1201 records to evaluate them.The outcomes of these classifiers are then fed into the soft voting classifier to obtain the most accurate results.Results:Each classifier evaluates accuracy,Precision,Recall,F1-scores,and Area Under the Receiver Operating Curve(AUROC)values.Results reveal that the XGBoost,LGBM,and CatBoost classifiers yielded 99%accuracy.Conclusion:Using ensemble classifiers over a balanced CTG dataset improves the detection accuracy compared to the previous studies and our first experiment.A soft voting classifier then eliminates the weakness of one individual classifier to yield superior performance of the overall model.

CD-FL:Cataract Images Based Disease Detection Using Federated Learning

A cataract is one of the most significant eye problems worldwide that does not immediately impair vision and progressively worsens over time.Automatic cataract prediction based on various imaging technologies has been addressed recently,such as smartphone apps used for remote health monitoring and eye treatment.In recent years,advances in diagnosis,prediction,and clinical decision support using Artificial Intelligence(AI)in medicine and ophthalmology have been exponential.Due to privacy concerns,a lack of data makes applying artificial intelligence models in the medical field challenging.To address this issue,a federated learning framework named CDFL based on a VGG16 deep neural network model is proposed in this research.The study collects data from the Ocular Disease Intelligent Recognition(ODIR)database containing 5,000 patient records.The significant features are extracted and normalized using the min-max normalization technique.In the federated learning-based technique,the VGG16 model is trained on the dataset individually after receiving model updates from two clients.Before transferring the attributes to the global model,the suggested method trains the local model.The global model subsequently improves the technique after integrating the new parameters.Every client analyses the results in three rounds to decrease the over-fitting problem.The experimental result shows the effectiveness of the federated learning-based technique on a Deep Neural Network(DNN),reaching a 95.28%accuracy while also providing privacy to the patient’s data.The experiment demonstrated that the suggested federated learning model outperforms other traditional methods,achieving client 1 accuracy of 95.0%and client 2 accuracy of 96.0%.

An Ensemble Machine Learning Technique for Stroke Prognosis

Stroke is a life-threatening disease usually due to blockage of blood or insufficient blood flow to the brain.It has a tremendous impact on every aspect of life since it is the leading global factor of disability and morbidity.Strokes can range from minor to severe(extensive).Thus,early stroke assessment and treatment can enhance survival rates.Manual prediction is extremely time and resource intensive.Automated prediction methods such as Modern Information and Communication Technologies(ICTs),particularly those inMachine Learning(ML)area,are crucial for the early diagnosis and prognosis of stroke.Therefore,this research proposed an ensemble voting model based on three Machine Learning(ML)algorithms:Random Forest(RF),Extreme Gradient Boosting(XGBoost),and Light Gradient Boosting Machine(LGBM).We apply data preprocessing to manage the outliers and useless instances in the dataset.Furthermore,to address the problem of imbalanced data,we enhance the minority class’s representation using the Synthetic Minority Over-Sampling Technique(SMOTE),allowing it to engage in the learning process actively.Results reveal that the suggested model outperforms existing studies and other classifiers with 0.96%accuracy,0.97%precision,0.97%recall,and 0.96%F1-score.The experiment demonstrates that the proposed ensemble voting model outperforms state-of-the-art and other traditional approaches.