Eva Ignatious

Bio: Eva Ignatious is an academic researcher from Charles Darwin University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Binaural recording & Computer science. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 3 publications receiving 22 citations.

Efficient Prediction of Cardiovascular Disease Using Machine Learning Algorithms With Relief and LASSO Feature Selection Techniques

Abstract: Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are among the most common serious illnesses affecting human health. CVDs may be prevented or mitigated by early diagnosis, and this may reduce mortality rates. Identifying risk factors using machine learning models is a promising approach. We would like to propose a model that incorporates different methods to achieve effective prediction of heart disease. For our proposed model to be successful, we have used efficient Data Collection, Data Pre-processing and Data Transformation methods to create accurate information for the training model. We have used a combined dataset (Cleveland, Long Beach VA, Switzerland, Hungarian and Stat log). Suitable features are selected by using the Relief, and Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator (LASSO) techniques. New hybrid classifiers like Decision Tree Bagging Method (DTBM), Random Forest Bagging Method (RFBM), K-Nearest Neighbors Bagging Method (KNNBM), AdaBoost Boosting Method (ABBM), and Gradient Boosting Boosting Method (GBBM) are developed by integrating the traditional classifiers with bagging and boosting methods, which are used in the training process. We have also instrumented some machine learning algorithms to calculate the Accuracy (ACC), Sensitivity (SEN), Error Rate, Precision (PRE) and F1 Score (F1) of our model, along with the Negative Predictive Value (NPR), False Positive Rate (FPR), and False Negative Rate (FNR). The results are shown separately to provide comparisons. Based on the result analysis, we can conclude that our proposed model produced the highest accuracy while using RFBM and Relief feature selection methods (99.05%).

A Comprehensive Unsupervised Framework for Chronic Kidney Disease Prediction

Abstract: The incidence, prevalence, and progression of chronic kidney disease (CKD) conditions have evolved over time, especially in countries that have varied social determinants of health. In most countries, diabetics and hypertension are the main causes of CKDs. The global guidelines classify CKD as a condition that results in decreased kidney function over time, as indicated by glomerular filtration rate (GFR) and markers of kidney damage. People with CKDs are likely to die at an early age. It is crucial for doctors to diagnose various conditions associated with CKD in an early stage because early detection may prevent or even reverse kidney damage. Early detection can provide better treatment and proper care to the patients. In many regional hospital/clinics, there is a shortage of nephrologists or general medical persons who diagnose the symptoms. This has resulted in patients waiting longer to get a diagnosis. Therefore, this research believes developing an intelligent system to classify a patient into classes of ‘CKD’ or ‘Non-CKD’ can help the doctors to deal with multiple patients and provide diagnosis faster. In time, organizations can implement the proposed machine learning framework in regional clinics that have lower medical expert retention, this can provide early diagnosis to patients in regional areas. Although, several researchers have tried to address the situation by developing intelligent systems using supervised machine learning methods, till date limited studies have used unsupervised machine learning algorithms. The primary aim of this research is to implement and compare the performance of various unsupervised algorithms and identify best possible combinations that can provide better accuracy and detection rate. This research has implemented five unsupervised algorithms, K-Means Clustering, DB-Scan, I-Forest, and Autoencoder. And integrating them with various feature selection methods. Integrating feature reduction methods with K-Means Clustering algorithm has achieved an overall accuracy of 99% in classifying the clinical data of CKD and Non-CKD.

Study of Correlation Between EEG Electrodes for the Analysis of Cortical Responses Related to Binaural Hearing

Abstract: Binaural hearing is the ability of the human auditory system to integrate information received from both ears simultaneously. Binaural hearing is fundamental in understanding speech in noisy backgrounds. Any disfunction in one or both ears could cause a disruption in the processing mechanism. Auditory evoked potentials (AEPs) are electrical potentials evoked by externally presented auditory stimuli from any part of the auditory system. A non-invasive technology, electroencephalography (EEG) is used for the monitoring of AEPs. The research aims to identify the best suited electrode positions through correlation analysis and analyse the AEP signals from the selected electrodes in order to detect binaural sensitivity of the human brain. The study evaluates the time-averaged EEG responses of normal hearing subjects to auditory stimuli. The stimuli used for the study are 500 Hz Blackman windowed pure tones, presented in either homophasic (the same phase in both ears) or antiphasic (180-degree phase difference between the two ears) conditions. The study focuses on understanding the effect of phase reversal of auditory stimuli, an under interaural time difference (ITD) cue, on the middle latency response (MLR) region of the AEPs. A correlation analysis was carried out between the eight different locations and as a result, Cz and Pz electrode positions were selected as the best suited positions for further analysis. The selected electrode signals were further processed in the time domain and frequency domain analysis. In the time domain analysis, it was found that Cz electrode for eight subjects out of nine and Pz electrode for seven subjects out of nine, had the larger area under signal curve obtained in the antiphasic condition than in the homophasic signals. Frequency domain analysis showed that the frequency bands 20 to 25Hz and 25 to 30Hz had the most energy when elicited by antiphasic stimuli than by homophasic stimuli. The findings of this study can be further utilised for the detection of binaural processing in a human brain.

Binaural masking level difference for pure tone signals

Abstract: The binaural masking level difference (BMLD) is a psychoacoustic method to determine binaural interaction and central auditory processes. The BMLD is the difference in hearing thresholds in homophasic and antiphasic conditions. The duration, phase and frequency of the stimuli can affect the BMLD. The main aim of the study is to evaluate the BMLD for stimuli of different durations and frequencies which could also be used in future electrophysiological studies. To this end we developed a GUI to present different frequency signals of variable duration and determine the BMLD. Three different durations and five different frequencies are explored. The results of the study confirm that the hearing threshold for the antiphasic condition is lower than the hearing threshold for the homophasic condition and that differences are significant for signals of 18ms and 48ms duration. Future objective binaural processing studies will be based on 18ms and 48ms stimuli with the same frequencies as used in the current study.

Heart Disease Risk Prediction Using Machine Learning Classifiers with Attribute Evaluators

Abstract: Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) kill about 20.5 million people every year. Early prediction can help people to change their lifestyles and to ensure proper medical treatment if necessary. In this research, ten machine learning (ML) classifiers from different categories, such as Bayes, functions, lazy, meta, rules, and trees, were trained for efficient heart disease risk prediction using the full set of attributes of the Cleveland heart dataset and the optimal attribute sets obtained from three attribute evaluators. The performance of the algorithms was appraised using a 10-fold cross-validation testing option. Finally, we performed tuning of the hyperparameter number of nearest neighbors, namely, ‘k’ in the instance-based (IBk) classifier. The sequential minimal optimization (SMO) achieved an accuracy of 85.148% using the full set of attributes and 86.468% was the highest accuracy value using the optimal attribute set obtained from the chi-squared attribute evaluator. Meanwhile, the meta classifier bagging with logistic regression (LR) provided the highest ROC area of 0.91 using both the full and optimal attribute sets obtained from the ReliefF attribute evaluator. Overall, the SMO classifier stood as the best prediction method compared to other techniques, and IBk achieved an 8.25% accuracy improvement by tuning the hyperparameter ‘k’ to 9 with the chi-squared attribute set.

Implementation of Deep Learning Methods to Identify Rotten Fruits

Abstract: Mostly in the agriculture sector, identifying rotten fruits has been critical. The classification of fresh and rotting fruits is typically carried out by humans, which is ineffective for fruit growers. Humans wear out by doing the same role many days, but robots do not. As a result, the study proposed a method for reducing human effort, lowering production costs, and shortening production time by detecting defects in agricultural fruits. If the defects are not detected, the contaminated fruits can contaminate the good fruits. As a result, we proposed a model to prevent the propagation of rottenness. From the input fruit images, the proposed model classifies the fresh and rotting fruits. We utilized three different varieties of fruits in this project: apple, banana, and oranges. The features from input fruit images are collected using a Convolutional Neural Network, and the images are categorized using Max pooling, Average pooling, and MobileNetV2 architecture. The proposed model's performance is tested on a Kaggle dataset, and it achieves the highest accuracy in training data is 99.46% and in the validation set is 99.61% by applying MobileNetV2. The Max pooling achieved 94.49% training accuracy and validation accuracy is 94.97%. Besides, the Average pooling achieved 93.06% training accuracy and validation accuracy is 93.72%. The findings revealed that the proposed CNN model is capable of distinguishing between fresh and rotting fruits.

Face Mask Detection using Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to reduce the spread of Covid-19

Abstract: The COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic is wreaking havoc on the world's health. The healthcare sector is in a state of disaster. Many precautionary steps have been taken to prevent the spread of this disease, including the usage of a mask, which is strongly recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO). In this paper, we used three deep learning methods for face mask detection, including Max pooling, Average pooling, and MobileNetV2 architecture, and showed the methods detection accuracy. A dataset containing 1845 images from various sources and 120 co-author pictures taken with a webcam and a mobile phone camera is used to train a deep learning architecture. The Max pooling achieved 96.49% training accuracy and validation accuracy is 98.67%. Besides, the Average pooling achieved 95.190/0 training accuracy and validation accuracy is 96.23%. MobileNetV2 architecture gained the highest accuracy 99.72% for training and 99.82 % for validation.

Efficient Medical Diagnosis of Human Heart Diseases Using Machine Learning Techniques With and Without GridSearchCV

Abstract: Predicting cardiac disease is considered one of the most challenging tasks in the medical field. It takes a lot of time and effort to figure out what’s causing this, especially for doctors and other medical experts. In this paper, various Machine Learning algorithms such as LR, KNN, SVM, and GBC, together with the GridSearchCV, predict cardiac disease. The system uses a 5-fold cross-validation technique for verification. A comparative study is given for these four methodologies. The Datasets for both Cleveland, Hungary, Switzerland, and Long Beach V and UCI Kaggle are used to analyze the models’ performance. It is found in the analysis that the Extreme Gradient Boosting Classifier with GridSearchCV gives the highest and nearly comparable testing and training accuracies as 100% and 99.03% for both the datasets (Hungary, Switzerland &; Long Beach V and UCI Kaggle). Moreover, it is found in the analysis that XGBoost Classifier without GridSearchCV gives the highest and nearly comparable testing and training accuracies as 98.05% and 100% for both the datasets (Hungary, Switzerland & Long Beach V and UCI Kaggle). Furthermore, the analytical results of the proposed technique are compared with previous heart disease prediction studies. It is evident that amongst the proposed approach, the Extreme Gradient Boosting Classifier with GridSearchCV is producing the best hyperparameter for testing accuracy. The primary aim of this paper is to develop a unique model-creation technique for solving real-world problems.

Efficient Medical Diagnosis of Human Heart Diseases using Machine Learning Techniques with and without GridSearchCV

Abstract: Predicting cardiac disease is considered one of the most challenging tasks in the medical field. It takes a lot of time and effort to figure out what’s causing this, especially for doctors and other medical experts. In this paper, various Machine Learning algorithms such as LR, KNN, SVM, and GBC, together with the GridSearchCV, predict cardiac disease. The system uses a 5-fold cross-validation technique for verification. A comparative study is given for these four methodologies. The Datasets for both Cleveland, Hungary, Switzerland, and Long Beach V and UCI Kaggle are used to analyze the models’ performance. It is found in the analysis that the Extreme Gradient Boosting Classifier with GridSearchCV gives the highest and nearly comparable testing and training accuracies as 100% and 99.03% for both the datasets (Hungary, Switzerland & Long Beach V and UCI Kaggle). Moreover, it is found in the analysis that XGBoost Classifier without GridSearchCV gives the highest and nearly comparable testing and training accuracies as 98.05% and 100% for both the datasets (Hungary, Switzerland & Long Beach V and UCI Kaggle). Furthermore, the analytical results of the proposed technique are compared with previous heart disease prediction studies. It is evident that amongst the proposed approach, the Extreme Gradient Boosting Classifier with GridSearchCV is producing the best hyperparameter for testing accuracy. The primary aim of this paper is to develop a unique model-creation technique for solving real-world problems.