The classification of lung nodules is a challenging problem as the visual analysis of the nodules and non-nodules revealed homogenous textural patterns.In this work,an Auxiliary Classifier(AC)-Generative Adversarial Net...The classification of lung nodules is a challenging problem as the visual analysis of the nodules and non-nodules revealed homogenous textural patterns.In this work,an Auxiliary Classifier(AC)-Generative Adversarial Network(GAN)based Lung Cancer Classification(LCC)system is developed.The pro-posed AC-GAN-LCC system consists of three modules;preprocessing,Lungs Region Detection(LRD),and AC-GAN classification.A Wienerfilter is employed in the preprocessing module to remove the Gaussian noise.In the LRD module,only the lung regions(left and right lungs)are detected using itera-tive thresholding and morphological operations.In order to extract the lung region only,floodfilling and background subtraction.The detected lung regions are fed to the AC-GAN classifier to detect the nodules.It classifies the nodules into one of the two classes,i.e.,binary classification(such as nodules or non-nodules).The AC-GAN is the extended version of the conditional GAN that predicts the label of a given image.Three different optimization techniques,adaptive gradient optimi-zation,root mean square propagation optimization,and Adam optimization are employed for optimizing the AC-GAN architecture.The proposed AC-GAN-LCC system is evaluated on the Lung Image Database Consortium(LIDC)data-base Computed Tomography(CT)scan images.The proposed AC-GAN-LCC system classifies∼15000 CT slices(7310 non-nodules and 7685 nodules).It pro-vides an overall accuracy of 98.8%on the LIDC database using Adam optimiza-tion by a 10-fold cross-validation approach.展开更多
Background Human-machine dialog generation is an essential topic of research in the field of natural language processing.Generating high-quality,diverse,fluent,and emotional conversation is a challenging task.Based on...Background Human-machine dialog generation is an essential topic of research in the field of natural language processing.Generating high-quality,diverse,fluent,and emotional conversation is a challenging task.Based on continuing advancements in artificial intelligence and deep learning,new methods have come to the forefront in recent times.In particular,the end-to-end neural network model provides an extensible conversation generation framework that has the potential to enable machines to understand semantics and automatically generate responses.However,neural network models come with their own set of questions and challenges.The basic conversational model framework tends to produce universal,meaningless,and relatively"safe"answers.Methods Based on generative adversarial networks(GANs),a new emotional dialog generation framework called EMC-GAN is proposed in this study to address the task of emotional dialog generation.The proposed model comprises a generative and three discriminative models.The generator is based on the basic sequence-to-sequence(Seq2Seq)dialog generation model,and the aggregate discriminative model for the overall framework consists of a basic discriminative model,an emotion discriminative model,and a fluency discriminative model.The basic discriminative model distinguishes generated fake sentences from real sentences in the training corpus.The emotion discriminative model evaluates whether the emotion conveyed via the generated dialog agrees with a pre-specified emotion,and directs the generative model to generate dialogs that correspond to the category of the pre-specified emotion.Finally,the fluency discriminative model assigns a score to the fluency of the generated dialog and guides the generator to produce more fluent sentences.Results Based on the experimental results,this study confirms the superiority of the proposed model over similar existing models with respect to emotional accuracy,fluency,and consistency.Conclusions The proposed EMC-GAN model is capable of generating consistent,smooth,and fluent dialog that conveys pre-specified emotions,and exhibits better performance with respect to emotional accuracy,consistency,and fluency compared to its competitors.展开更多
The imbalance of dissolved gas analysis(DGA)data will lead to over-fitting,weak generalization and poor recognition performance for fault diagnosis models based on deep learning.To handle this problem,a novel transfor...The imbalance of dissolved gas analysis(DGA)data will lead to over-fitting,weak generalization and poor recognition performance for fault diagnosis models based on deep learning.To handle this problem,a novel transformer fault diagnosis method based on improved auxiliary classifier generative adversarial network(ACGAN)under imbalanced data is proposed in this paper,which meets both the requirements of balancing DGA data and supplying accurate diagnosis results.The generator combines one-dimensional convolutional neural networks(1D-CNN)and long short-term memories(LSTM),which can deeply extract the features from DGA samples and be greatly beneficial to ACGAN’s data balancing and fault diagnosis.The discriminator adopts multilayer perceptron networks(MLP),which prevents the discriminator from losing important features of DGA data when the network is too complex and the number of layers is too large.The experimental results suggest that the presented approach can effectively improve the adverse effects of DGA data imbalance on the deep learning models,enhance fault diagnosis performance and supply desirable diagnosis accuracy up to 99.46%.Furthermore,the comparison results indicate the fault diagnosis performance of the proposed approach is superior to that of other conventional methods.Therefore,the method presented in this study has excellent and reliable fault diagnosis performance for various unbalanced datasets.In addition,the proposed approach can also solve the problems of insufficient and imbalanced fault data in other practical application fields.展开更多
文摘The classification of lung nodules is a challenging problem as the visual analysis of the nodules and non-nodules revealed homogenous textural patterns.In this work,an Auxiliary Classifier(AC)-Generative Adversarial Network(GAN)based Lung Cancer Classification(LCC)system is developed.The pro-posed AC-GAN-LCC system consists of three modules;preprocessing,Lungs Region Detection(LRD),and AC-GAN classification.A Wienerfilter is employed in the preprocessing module to remove the Gaussian noise.In the LRD module,only the lung regions(left and right lungs)are detected using itera-tive thresholding and morphological operations.In order to extract the lung region only,floodfilling and background subtraction.The detected lung regions are fed to the AC-GAN classifier to detect the nodules.It classifies the nodules into one of the two classes,i.e.,binary classification(such as nodules or non-nodules).The AC-GAN is the extended version of the conditional GAN that predicts the label of a given image.Three different optimization techniques,adaptive gradient optimi-zation,root mean square propagation optimization,and Adam optimization are employed for optimizing the AC-GAN architecture.The proposed AC-GAN-LCC system is evaluated on the Lung Image Database Consortium(LIDC)data-base Computed Tomography(CT)scan images.The proposed AC-GAN-LCC system classifies∼15000 CT slices(7310 non-nodules and 7685 nodules).It pro-vides an overall accuracy of 98.8%on the LIDC database using Adam optimiza-tion by a 10-fold cross-validation approach.
文摘Background Human-machine dialog generation is an essential topic of research in the field of natural language processing.Generating high-quality,diverse,fluent,and emotional conversation is a challenging task.Based on continuing advancements in artificial intelligence and deep learning,new methods have come to the forefront in recent times.In particular,the end-to-end neural network model provides an extensible conversation generation framework that has the potential to enable machines to understand semantics and automatically generate responses.However,neural network models come with their own set of questions and challenges.The basic conversational model framework tends to produce universal,meaningless,and relatively"safe"answers.Methods Based on generative adversarial networks(GANs),a new emotional dialog generation framework called EMC-GAN is proposed in this study to address the task of emotional dialog generation.The proposed model comprises a generative and three discriminative models.The generator is based on the basic sequence-to-sequence(Seq2Seq)dialog generation model,and the aggregate discriminative model for the overall framework consists of a basic discriminative model,an emotion discriminative model,and a fluency discriminative model.The basic discriminative model distinguishes generated fake sentences from real sentences in the training corpus.The emotion discriminative model evaluates whether the emotion conveyed via the generated dialog agrees with a pre-specified emotion,and directs the generative model to generate dialogs that correspond to the category of the pre-specified emotion.Finally,the fluency discriminative model assigns a score to the fluency of the generated dialog and guides the generator to produce more fluent sentences.Results Based on the experimental results,this study confirms the superiority of the proposed model over similar existing models with respect to emotional accuracy,fluency,and consistency.Conclusions The proposed EMC-GAN model is capable of generating consistent,smooth,and fluent dialog that conveys pre-specified emotions,and exhibits better performance with respect to emotional accuracy,consistency,and fluency compared to its competitors.
基金The authors gratefully acknowledge financial support of national natural science foundation of China(No.52067021)natural science foundation of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region(2022D01C35)+1 种基金excellent youth scientific and technological talents plan of Xinjiang(No.2019Q012)major science&technology special project of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region(2022A01002-2).
文摘The imbalance of dissolved gas analysis(DGA)data will lead to over-fitting,weak generalization and poor recognition performance for fault diagnosis models based on deep learning.To handle this problem,a novel transformer fault diagnosis method based on improved auxiliary classifier generative adversarial network(ACGAN)under imbalanced data is proposed in this paper,which meets both the requirements of balancing DGA data and supplying accurate diagnosis results.The generator combines one-dimensional convolutional neural networks(1D-CNN)and long short-term memories(LSTM),which can deeply extract the features from DGA samples and be greatly beneficial to ACGAN’s data balancing and fault diagnosis.The discriminator adopts multilayer perceptron networks(MLP),which prevents the discriminator from losing important features of DGA data when the network is too complex and the number of layers is too large.The experimental results suggest that the presented approach can effectively improve the adverse effects of DGA data imbalance on the deep learning models,enhance fault diagnosis performance and supply desirable diagnosis accuracy up to 99.46%.Furthermore,the comparison results indicate the fault diagnosis performance of the proposed approach is superior to that of other conventional methods.Therefore,the method presented in this study has excellent and reliable fault diagnosis performance for various unbalanced datasets.In addition,the proposed approach can also solve the problems of insufficient and imbalanced fault data in other practical application fields.
