Thalassemia Screening by Sentiment Analysis on Social Media Platform Twitter

Thalassemia syndrome is a genetic blood disorder induced by the reduction of normal hemoglobin production,resulting in a drop in the size of red blood cells.In severe forms,it can lead to death.This genetic disorder has posed a major burden on public health wherein patients with severe thalassemia need periodic therapy of iron chelation and blood transfusion for survival.Therefore,controlling thalassemia is extremely important and is made by promoting screening to the general population,particularly among thalassemia carriers.Today Twitter is one of the most influential social media platforms for sharing opinions and discussing different topics like people’s health conditions and major public health affairs.Exploring individuals’sentiments in these tweets helps the research centers to formulate strategies to promote thalassemia screening to the public.An effective Lexiconbased approach has been introduced in this study by highlighting a classifier called valence aware dictionary for sentiment reasoning(VADER).In this study applied twitter intelligence tool(TWINT),Natural Language Toolkit(NLTK),and VADER constitute the three main tools.VADER represents a gold-standard sentiment lexicon,which is basically tailored to attitudes that are communicated by using social media.The contribution of this study is to introduce an effective Lexicon-based approach by highlighting a classifier calledVADERto analyze the sentiment of the general population,particularly among thalassemia carriers on the social media platform Twitter.In this study,the results showed that the proposed approach achieved 0.829,0.816,and 0.818 regarding precision,recall,together with F-score,respectively.The tweets were crawled using the search keywords,“thalassemia screening,”thalassemia test,“and thalassemia diagnosis”.Finally,results showed that India and Pakistan ranked the highest in mentions in tweets by the public’s conversations on thalassemia screening with 181 and 164 tweets,respectively.

Improved-Equalized Cluster Head Election Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

Throughout the use of the small battery-operated sensor nodes encou-rage us to develop an energy-efficient routing protocol for wireless sensor networks(WSNs).The development of an energy-efficient routing protocol is a mainly adopted technique to enhance the lifetime of WSN.Many routing protocols are available,but the issue is still alive.Clustering is one of the most important techniques in the existing routing protocols.In the clustering-based model,the important thing is the selection of the cluster heads.In this paper,we have proposed a scheme that uses the bubble sort algorithm for cluster head selection by considering the remaining energy and the distance of the nodes in each cluster.Initially,the bubble sort algorithm chose the two nodes with the maximum remaining energy in the cluster and chose a cluster head with a small distance.The proposed scheme performs hierarchal routing and direct routing with some energy thresholds.The simulation will be performed in MATLAB to justify its performance and results and compared with the ECHERP model to justify its performance.Moreover,the simulations will be performed in two scenarios,gate-way-based and without gateway to achieve more energy-efficient results.

Optimizing Steering Angle Predictive Convolutional Neural Network for Autonomous Car

Deep learning techniques,particularly convolutional neural networks(CNNs),have exhibited remarkable performance in solving visionrelated problems,especially in unpredictable,dynamic,and challenging environments.In autonomous vehicles,imitation-learning-based steering angle prediction is viable due to the visual imagery comprehension of CNNs.In this regard,globally,researchers are currently focusing on the architectural design and optimization of the hyperparameters of CNNs to achieve the best results.Literature has proven the superiority of metaheuristic algorithms over the manual-tuning of CNNs.However,to the best of our knowledge,these techniques are yet to be applied to address the problem of imitationlearning-based steering angle prediction.Thus,in this study,we examine the application of the bat algorithm and particle swarm optimization algorithm for the optimization of the CNN model and its hyperparameters,which are employed to solve the steering angle prediction problem.To validate the performance of each hyperparameters’set and architectural parameters’set,we utilized the Udacity steering angle dataset and obtained the best results at the following hyperparameter set:optimizer,Adagrad;learning rate,0.0052;and nonlinear activation function,exponential linear unit.As per our findings,we determined that the deep learning models show better results but require more training epochs and time as compared to shallower ones.Results show the superiority of our approach in optimizing CNNs through metaheuristic algorithms as compared with the manual-tuning approach.Infield testing was also performed using the model trained with the optimal architecture,which we developed using our approach.

Sentiment Analysis of Roman Urdu on E-Commerce Reviews Using Machine Learning

Sentiment analysis task has widely been studied for various languages such as English and French.However,Roman Urdu sentiment analysis yet requires more attention from peer-researchers due to the lack of Off-the-Shelf Natural Language Processing(NLP)solutions.The primary objective of this study is to investigate the diverse machine learning methods for the sentiment analysis of Roman Urdu data which is very informal in nature and needs to be lexically normalized.To mitigate this challenge,we propose a fine-tuned Support Vector Machine(SVM)powered by Roman Urdu Stemmer.In our proposed scheme,the corpus data is initially cleaned to remove the anomalies from the text.After initial pre-processing,each user review is being stemmed.The input text is transformed into a feature vector using the bag-of-word model.Subsequently,the SVM is used to classify and detect user sentiment.Our proposed scheme is based on a dictionary based Roman Urdu stemmer.The creation of the Roman Urdu stemmer is aimed at standardizing the text so as to minimize the level of complexity.The efficacy of our proposed model is also empirically evaluated with diverse experimental configurations,so as to fine-tune the hyper-parameters and achieve superior performance.Moreover,a series of experiments are conducted on diverse machine learning and deep learning models to compare the performance with our proposed model.We also introduced the largest dataset on Roman Urdu,i.e.,Roman Urdu e-commerce dataset(RUECD),which contains 26K+user reviews annotated by the group of experts.The RUECD is challenging and the largest dataset available of Roman Urdu.The experiments show that the newly generated dataset is quite challenging and requires more attention from the peer researchers for Roman Urdu sentiment analysis.