Evaluation of the robusticity of mutual fund performance in Ghana using Enhanced Resilient Backpropagation Neural Network(ERBPNN)and Fast Adaptive Neural Network Classifier(FANNC)

Mutual fund investment continues to play a very important role in the world financial markets especially in developing economies where the capital market is not very matured and tolerant of small scale investors.The total mutual fund asset globally as at the end of 2016 was in excess of$40.4 trillion.Despite its success there are uncertainties as to whether mutual funds in Ghana obtain optimal performance relative to their counterparts in United States,Luxembourg,Ireland,France,Australia,United Kingdom,Japan,China and Brazil.We contribute to the extant literature on mutual fund performance evaluation using a collection of more sophisticated econometric models.We selected six continuous historical years that is 2010-2011,2012-2013 and 2014-2015 to construct a mutual fund performance evaluation model utilizing the fast adaptive neural network classifier(FANNC),and to compare our results with those from an enhanced resilient back propagation neural networks(ERBPNN)model.Our FANNC model outperformed the existing models in terms of processing time and error rate.This makes it ideal for financial application that involves large volume of data and routine updates.

An Adaptive Classifier Based Approach for Crowd Anomaly Detection

Crowd Anomaly Detection has become a challenge in intelligent video surveillance system and security.Intelligent video surveillance systems make extensive use of data mining,machine learning and deep learning methods.In this paper a novel approach is proposed to identify abnormal occurrences in crowded situations using deep learning.In this approach,Adaptive GoogleNet Neural Network Classifier with Multi-Objective Whale Optimization Algorithm are applied to predict the abnormal video frames in the crowded scenes.We use multiple instance learning(MIL)to dynamically develop a deep anomalous ranking framework.This technique predicts higher anomalous values for abnormal video frames by treating regular and irregular video bags and video sections.We use the multi-objective whale optimization algorithm to optimize the entire process and get the best results.The performance parameters such as accuracy,precision,recall,and F-score are considered to evaluate the proposed technique using the Python simulation tool.Our simulation results show that the proposed method performs better than the conventional methods on the public live video dataset.

An Ophthalmic Evaluation of Central Serous Chorioretinopathy

Nowadays in the medicalfield,imaging techniques such as Optical Coherence Tomography(OCT)are mainly used to identify retinal diseases.In this paper,the Central Serous Chorio Retinopathy(CSCR)image is analyzed for various stages and then compares the difference between CSCR before as well as after treatment using different application methods.Thefirst approach,which was focused on image quality,improves medical image accuracy.An enhancement algorithm was implemented to improve the OCT image contrast and denoise purpose called Boosted Anisotropic Diffusion with an Unsharp Masking Filter(BADWUMF).The classifier used here is tofigure out whether the OCT image is a CSCR case or not.150 images are checked for this research work(75 abnormal from Optical Coherence Tomography Image Retinal Database,in-house clinical database,and 75 normal images).This article explicitly decides that the approaches suggested aid the ophthalmologist with the precise retinal analysis and hence the risk factors to be minimized.The total precision is 90 percent obtained from the Two Class Support Vector Machine(TCSVM)classifier and 93.3 percent is obtained from Shallow Neural Network with the Powell-Beale(SNNWPB)classifier using the MATLAB 2019a program.

Impact of Portable Executable Header Features on Malware Detection Accuracy

One aspect of cybersecurity,incorporates the study of Portable Executables(PE)files maleficence.Artificial Intelligence(AI)can be employed in such studies,since AI has the ability to discriminate benign from malicious files.In this study,an exclusive set of 29 features was collected from trusted implementations,this set was used as a baseline to analyze the presented work in this research.A Decision Tree(DT)and Neural Network Multi-Layer Perceptron(NN-MLPC)algorithms were utilized during this work.Both algorithms were chosen after testing a few diverse procedures.This work implements a method of subgrouping features to answer questions such as,which feature has a positive impact on accuracy when added?Is it possible to determine a reliable feature set to distinguish a malicious PE file from a benign one?when combining features,would it have any effect on malware detection accuracy in a PE file?Results obtained using the proposed method were improved and carried few observations.Generally,the obtained results had practical and numerical parts,for the practical part,the number of features and which features included are the main factors impacting the calculated accuracy,also,the combination of features is as crucial in these calculations.Numerical results included,finding accuracies with enhanced values,for example,NN_MLPC attained 0.979 and 0.98;for DT an accuracy of 0.9825 and 0.986 was attained.

Analysis of sEMG signal for KOA classification

The sEMG signals are collected from the vastus lateralis,vastus medialis,biceps femoris,and semitendinosus of lower extremity during level walking among control subjects and knee osteoarthritis (OA) patients,the latter including mild,moderate and severe degree.The 5-fold cross-validation is used to measure the accuracy of the proposed analysis algorithm on collected sEMG recordings.For comparison,the more classical feature vectors of form factor,degree of skewness,kurtosis,and wavelet entropy are also tested.In experiment,the normalized energy ratio and marginal spectrum ratio achieve larger accuracy than the other features for all the four muscular groups.Moreover the accuracy of vastus medialis and biceps femoris are larger than that of vastus lateralis and semitendinosus.These results suggest that the normalized energy ratio and marginal spectrum ratio via the analysis of knee sEMG signals by HHT can server as characteristic parameters to easily classify osteoarthritis with noninvasive method.The more important muscular groups for maintaining the knee joint function are medialis and biceps femoris;as a result of that they should be exercise especially for rehabilitation.

Material discrimination using cosmic ray muon scattering tomography with an artificial neural network

Introduction Muon scattering tomography(MST)can be employed to scan cargo containers and vehicles for special nuclear materials by using cosmic muons.However,the flux of cosmic ray muons is relatively low for direct detection.Thus,the detection has to be done in a short timescale with small numbers of muons to satisfy the demands of practical applications.Method In this paper,we propose an artificial neural network(ANN)algorithm for material discrimination using MST.The muon scattering angles were simulated using Geant4 to formulate the training set,and the muon scatter angles were measured by Micromegas detection system to create the test set.Results The ANN-based algorithm presented here ensures a discrimination accuracy of 98.0%between aluminum,copper and tungsten in a 5 min measurement of 4×4×4 cm^(3)blocks.

HDLIDP: A Hybrid Deep Learning Intrusion Detection and Prevention Framework

Distributed denial-of-service(DDoS)attacks are designed to interrupt network services such as email servers and webpages in traditional computer networks.Furthermore,the enormous number of connected devices makes it difficult to operate such a network effectively.Software defined networks(SDN)are networks that are managed through a centralized control system,according to researchers.This controller is the brain of any SDN,composing the forwarding table of all data plane network switches.Despite the advantages of SDN controllers,DDoS attacks are easier to perpetrate than on traditional networks.Because the controller is a single point of failure,if it fails,the entire network will fail.This paper offers a Hybrid Deep Learning Intrusion Detection and Prevention(HDLIDP)framework,which blends signature-based and deep learning neural networks to detect and prevent intrusions.This framework improves detection accuracy while addressing all of the aforementioned problems.To validate the framework,experiments are done on both traditional and SDN datasets;the findings demonstrate a significant improvement in classification accuracy.

An Efficient Approach for Segmentation, Feature Extraction and Classification of Audio Signals

Due to the presence of non-stationarities and discontinuities in the audio signal, segmentation and classification of audio signal is a really challenging task. Automatic music classification and annotation is still considered as a challenging task due to the difficulty of extracting and selecting the optimal audio features. Hence, this paper proposes an efficient approach for segmentation, feature extraction and classification of audio signals. Enhanced Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficient (EMFCC)-Enhanced Power Normalized Cepstral Coefficients (EPNCC) based feature extraction is applied for the extraction of features from the audio signal. Then, multi-level classification is done to classify the audio signal as a musical or non-musical signal. The proposed approach achieves better performance in terms of precision, Normalized Mutual Information (NMI), F-score and entropy. The PNN classifier shows high False Rejection Rate (FRR), False Acceptance Rate (FAR), Genuine Acceptance rate (GAR), sensitivity, specificity and accuracy with respect to the number of classes.