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Zhang J, Zhang A, Liu Z, He W, Yang S. Multi-index fuzzy comprehensive evaluation model with information entropy of alfalfa salt tolerance based on LiDAR data and hyperspectral image data. Front Plant Sci 2023; 14:1200501. [PMID: 37662154 PMCID: PMC10470838 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1200501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2023] [Accepted: 07/18/2023] [Indexed: 09/05/2023]
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Rapid, non-destructive and automated salt tolerance evaluation is particularly important for screening salt-tolerant germplasm of alfalfa. Traditional evaluation of salt tolerance is mostly based on phenotypic traits obtained by some broken ways, which is time-consuming and difficult to meet the needs of large-scale breeding screening. Therefore, this paper proposed a non-contact and non-destructive multi-index fuzzy comprehensive evaluation model for evaluating the salt tolerance of alfalfa from Light Detection and Ranging data (LiDAR) and HyperSpectral Image data (HSI). Firstly, the structural traits related to growth status were extracted from the LiDAR data of alfalfa, and the spectral traits representing the physical and chemical characteristics were extracted from HSI data. In this paper, these phenotypic traits obtained automatically by computation were called Computing Phenotypic Traits (CPT). Subsequently, the multi-index fuzzy evaluation system of alfalfa salt tolerance was constructed by CPT, and according to the fuzzy mathematics theory, a multi-index Fuzzy Comprehensive Evaluation model with information Entropy of alfalfa salt tolerance (FCE-E) was proposed, which comprehensively evaluated the salt tolerance of alfalfa from the aspects of growth structure, physiology and biochemistry. Finally, comparative experiments showed that: (1) The multi-index FCE-E model based on the CPT was proposed in this paper, which could find more salt-sensitive information than the evaluation method based on the measured Typical Phenotypic Traits (TPT) such as fresh weight, dry weight, water content and chlorophyll. The two evaluation results had 66.67% consistent results, indicating that the multi-index FCE-E model integrates more information about alfalfa and more comprehensive evaluation. (2) On the basis of the CPT, the results of the multi-index FCE-E method were basically consistent with those of Principal Component Analysis (PCA), indicating that the multi-index FCE-E model could accurately evaluate the salt tolerance of alfalfa. Three highly salt-tolerant alfalfa varieties and two highly salt-susceptible alfalfa varieties were screened by the multi-index FCE-E method. The multi-index FCE-E method provides a new method for non-contact non-destructive evaluation of salt tolerance of alfalfa.
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- Jiaxin Zhang
- Key Laboratory of 3D Information Acquisition and Application, Ministry of Education, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China
- Engineering Research Center of Spatial Information Technology, Ministry of Education, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China
- Center for Geographic Environment Research and Education, College of Resource Environment and Tourism, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of 3D Information Acquisition and Application, Ministry of Education, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China
- Engineering Research Center of Spatial Information Technology, Ministry of Education, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China
- Center for Geographic Environment Research and Education, College of Resource Environment and Tourism, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of 3D Information Acquisition and Application, Ministry of Education, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China
- Engineering Research Center of Spatial Information Technology, Ministry of Education, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China
- Center for Geographic Environment Research and Education, College of Resource Environment and Tourism, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of 3D Information Acquisition and Application, Ministry of Education, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China
- Engineering Research Center of Spatial Information Technology, Ministry of Education, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China
- Center for Geographic Environment Research and Education, College of Resource Environment and Tourism, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of 3D Information Acquisition and Application, Ministry of Education, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China
- Engineering Research Center of Spatial Information Technology, Ministry of Education, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China
- Center for Geographic Environment Research and Education, College of Resource Environment and Tourism, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China
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Alvey B, Anderson D, Keller J, Buck A. Linguistic Explanations of Black Box Deep Learning Detectors on Simulated Aerial Drone Imagery. Sensors (Basel) 2023; 23:6879. [PMID: 37571666 PMCID: PMC10422417 DOI: 10.3390/s23156879] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2023] [Revised: 07/21/2023] [Accepted: 07/27/2023] [Indexed: 08/13/2023]
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Deep learning has become increasingly common in aerial imagery analysis. As its use continues to grow, it is crucial that we understand and can explain its behavior. One eXplainable AI (XAI) approach is to generate linguistic summarizations of data and/or models. However, the number of summaries can increase significantly with the number of data attributes, posing a challenge. Herein, we proposed a hierarchical approach for generating and evaluating linguistic statements of black box deep learning models. Our approach scores and ranks statements according to user-specified criteria. A systematic process was outlined for the evaluation of an object detector on a low altitude aerial drone. A deep learning model trained on real imagery was evaluated on a photorealistic simulated dataset with known ground truth across different contexts. The effectiveness and versatility of our approach was demonstrated by showing tailored linguistic summaries for different user types. Ultimately, this process is an efficient human-centric way of identifying successes, shortcomings, and biases in data and deep learning models.
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- Brendan Alvey
- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA; (D.A.); (J.K.); (A.B.)
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Sun S, Huang Y, Inoue K, Hara K. Order Space-Based Morphology for Color Image Processing. J Imaging 2023; 9:139. [PMID: 37504816 PMCID: PMC10381322 DOI: 10.3390/jimaging9070139] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2023] [Revised: 06/01/2023] [Accepted: 07/06/2023] [Indexed: 07/29/2023] Open
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Mathematical morphology is a fundamental tool based on order statistics for image processing, such as noise reduction, image enhancement and feature extraction, and is well-established for binary and grayscale images, whose pixels can be sorted by their pixel values, i.e., each pixel has a single number. On the other hand, each pixel in a color image has three numbers corresponding to three color channels, e.g., red (R), green (G) and blue (B) channels in an RGB color image. Therefore, it is difficult to sort color pixels uniquely. In this paper, we propose a method for unifying the orders of pixels sorted in each color channel separately, where we consider that a pixel exists in a three-dimensional space called order space, and derive a single order by a monotonically nondecreasing function defined on the order space. We also fuzzify the proposed order space-based morphological operations, and demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method by comparing with a state-of-the-art method based on hypergraph theory. The proposed method treats three orders of pixels sorted in respective color channels equally. Therefore, the proposed method is consistent with the conventional morphological operations for binary and grayscale images.
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- Shanqian Sun
- Department of Media Design, Faculty of Design, Kyushu University, 4-9-1, Shiobaru, Minami-ku, Fukuoka 815-8540, Japan
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- Department of Media Design, Faculty of Design, Kyushu University, 4-9-1, Shiobaru, Minami-ku, Fukuoka 815-8540, Japan
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- Department of Media Design, Faculty of Design, Kyushu University, 4-9-1, Shiobaru, Minami-ku, Fukuoka 815-8540, Japan
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- Department of Media Design, Faculty of Design, Kyushu University, 4-9-1, Shiobaru, Minami-ku, Fukuoka 815-8540, Japan
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GÜL KOÇ G, DAĞSUYU C, KOKANGÜL A, KOÇ F. Evaluation of ALSFRS-R Scale with Fuzzy Method in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Noro Psikiyatr Ars 2022; 59:54-62. [PMID: 35317505 PMCID: PMC8895801 DOI: 10.29399/npa.27449] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2020] [Accepted: 12/29/2020] [Indexed: 06/14/2023] Open
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INTRODUCTION Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a disease with high morbidity and mortality that adversely affects the activities of daily living. Disease progression in ALS is characterized by loss of function in bulbar, motor, and respiratory parameters. The revised amyotrophic lateral sclerosis functional rating scale (ALSFRS-R), which consists of 12 criteria, is used to determine disease effects on each of these functions. While each criterion is equally important when calculating the total ALSFRS-R score, the importance levels of the 12 criteria may vary in clinical practice. In this classical approach, the relationships among the parameters are not considered and the effects of bulbar, spinal, and respiratory dysfunctions on a patient's activities of daily living may be different. METHODS In this study, we aimed to evaluate ALS cases with the ALSFRS-R fuzzy method. Although each subheading in the ALSFRS-R had the same score, the disease score was determined by the fuzzy ALSFRS-R method, based on whether a subheading had priority in management of the disease. While creating the functional rating scale ALSFRS-R approach, fuzzy ALSFRS-R score values were obtained by creating fuzzy models for each main group and integrating the fuzzy model results of each main group into a separate model. RESULTS In total, 50 patients with definite ALS according to the El Escorial criteria (33 men [66%] and 17 women [34%]; mean age, 58.49±10.01 years) were included in the study. When ALSFRS-R results and fuzzy ALSFRS-R results were compared, the prioritization order of 45 patients increased using the fuzzy ALSFRS-R score, while the prioritization order of five patients remained the same in both evaluations. CONCLUSION The approach obtained by using fuzzy membership functions and decision rules, formed in accordance with expert opinion, was applied to the data of 50 patients from a large-scale hospital. In total, 90% of the patients had increased prioritization when using the fuzzy ALSFRS-R scoring method. Our results showed that the fuzzy approach provided more accurate information regarding a patient's condition.
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- Gizem GÜL KOÇ
- Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Çukurova University, Adana, Turkey
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- Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Alparslan Turkeş Science and Technology University, Adana, Turkey
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- Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Çukurova University, Adana, Turkey
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- Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Çukurova University, Adana, Turkey
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Lotfi R, Kargar B, Rajabzadeh M, Hesabi F, Özceylan E. Hybrid Fuzzy and Data-Driven Robust Optimization for Resilience and Sustainable Health Care Supply Chain with Vendor-Managed Inventory Approach. Int. J. Fuzzy Syst. 2022. [PMCID: PMC8805141 DOI: 10.1007/s40815-021-01209-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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One of the problems that government managers deal with are medical inventory management in COVID-19 conditions. Based on this situation, the best strategy for managing and reducing inventory costs can be Vendor-Managed Inventory (VMI) policy in the recent decade. Therefore, a hybrid fuzzy and data-driven robust optimization for Resilience and Sustainable Health Care Supply Chain (RSHCSC) with VMI approach is appropriate for improving the inventory management system and tackling uncertainty and disruption in this situation. Three RSHCSC models are suggested using hybrid fuzzy and data-driven robust optimization with a stochastic programming approach. The first model is average and mean absolute function, the second model is Conditional Value at Risk (CVaR), the third model is Minimax model, and the final model is the traditional inventory model. Each of the proposed models has advantages and disadvantages that depend on the conservative level of decision-maker. Sensitivity analysis is done on essential parameters like fuzzy cut, confidence level, robust and resilience coefficient, and size models. The results show that increasing fuzzy cut, confidence level, robustification coefficient, resiliency coefficient, and CVaR confidence level amount of costs grows. The Minimax function is suitable for conservative decision-makers.
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- Reza Lotfi
- Department of Industrial Engineering, Yazd University, Yazd, Iran
- Behineh Gostar Sanaye Arman, Tehran, Iran
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- School of Industrial Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Business Administration, Kheradgarayan Motahar Institute of Higher Education, Mashhad, Iran
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- Department of Information Technology Management, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Industrial Engineering, Gaziantep University, Gaziantep, Turkey
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Ghahremani-Nahr J, Kian R, Sabet E, Akbari V. A bi-objective blood supply chain model under uncertain donation, demand, capacity and cost: a robust possibilistic-necessity approach. Oper Res Int J 2022; 22:4685-4723. [PMCID: PMC9098156 DOI: 10.1007/s12351-022-00710-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2021] [Revised: 04/04/2022] [Accepted: 04/11/2022] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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This paper addresses a multi-objective blood supply chain network design, considering economic and environmental aspects. The objective of this model is to simultaneously minimize a blood supply chain operational cost and its logistical carbon footprint. In order to embed the uncertainty of transportation costs, blood demand, capacity of facilities and carbon emission, a novel robust possibilistic-necessity optimization used regarding a hybrid optimistic-pessimistic form. For solving our bi-objective model, three multi-objective decision making approaches including LP-metric, Goal-Programming and Torabi- Hassini methods are examined. These approaches are assessed and ranked with respect to several attributes using a statistical test and TOPSIS method. Our proposed model can accommodate a wide range of decision-makers’ viewpoints with the normalized objective weights, both at the operational or strategic level. The trade-offs between the cost and carbon emission for each method has been depicted in our analyses and a Pareto frontier is determined, using a real case study data of 21 cities in the North-West of Iran considering a 12-month implementation time window.
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- Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, NG1 4FQ UK
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- Wolfson School of Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering, Loughborough University, Leicestershire, LE11 3TU UK
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- Nottingham University Business School, University of Nottingham, Jubilee Campus, Nottingham, NG8 1BB UK
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Schmarje L, Brünger J, Santarossa M, Schröder SM, Kiko R, Koch R. Fuzzy Overclustering: Semi-Supervised Classification of Fuzzy Labels with Overclustering and Inverse Cross-Entropy. Sensors (Basel) 2021; 21:6661. [PMID: 34640981 PMCID: PMC8512301 DOI: 10.3390/s21196661] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2021] [Revised: 10/01/2021] [Accepted: 10/02/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Deep learning has been successfully applied to many classification problems including underwater challenges. However, a long-standing issue with deep learning is the need for large and consistently labeled datasets. Although current approaches in semi-supervised learning can decrease the required amount of annotated data by a factor of 10 or even more, this line of research still uses distinct classes. For underwater classification, and uncurated real-world datasets in general, clean class boundaries can often not be given due to a limited information content in the images and transitional stages of the depicted objects. This leads to different experts having different opinions and thus producing fuzzy labels which could also be considered ambiguous or divergent. We propose a novel framework for handling semi-supervised classifications of such fuzzy labels. It is based on the idea of overclustering to detect substructures in these fuzzy labels. We propose a novel loss to improve the overclustering capability of our framework and show the benefit of overclustering for fuzzy labels. We show that our framework is superior to previous state-of-the-art semi-supervised methods when applied to real-world plankton data with fuzzy labels. Moreover, we acquire 5 to 10% more consistent predictions of substructures.
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- Lars Schmarje
- Multimedia Information Processing Group, Kiel University, 24118 Kiel, Germany; (J.B.); (M.S.); (S.-M.S.); (R.K.)
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- Multimedia Information Processing Group, Kiel University, 24118 Kiel, Germany; (J.B.); (M.S.); (S.-M.S.); (R.K.)
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- Multimedia Information Processing Group, Kiel University, 24118 Kiel, Germany; (J.B.); (M.S.); (S.-M.S.); (R.K.)
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- Multimedia Information Processing Group, Kiel University, 24118 Kiel, Germany; (J.B.); (M.S.); (S.-M.S.); (R.K.)
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- Laboratoire d’Océanographie de Villefranche, Sorbonne Université, 06230 Villefranche-sur-Mer, France;
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- Multimedia Information Processing Group, Kiel University, 24118 Kiel, Germany; (J.B.); (M.S.); (S.-M.S.); (R.K.)
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Shaukat N, Moinuddin M, Otero P. Underwater Vehicle Positioning by Correntropy-Based Fuzzy Multi-Sensor Fusion. Sensors (Basel) 2021; 21:6165. [PMID: 34577372 PMCID: PMC8470692 DOI: 10.3390/s21186165] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2021] [Revised: 09/06/2021] [Accepted: 09/10/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The ability of the underwater vehicle to determine its precise position is vital to completing a mission successfully. Multi-sensor fusion methods for underwater vehicle positioning are commonly based on Kalman filtering, which requires the knowledge of process and measurement noise covariance. As the underwater conditions are continuously changing, incorrect process and measurement noise covariance affect the accuracy of position estimation and sometimes cause divergence. Furthermore, the underwater multi-path effect and nonlinearity cause outliers that have a significant impact on positional accuracy. These non-Gaussian outliers are difficult to handle with conventional Kalman-based methods and their fuzzy variants. To address these issues, this paper presents a new and improved adaptive multi-sensor fusion method by using information-theoretic, learning-based fuzzy rules for Kalman filter covariance adaptation in the presence of outliers. Two novel metrics are proposed by utilizing correntropy Gaussian and Versoria kernels for matching theoretical and actual covariance. Using correntropy-based metrics and fuzzy logic together makes the algorithm robust against outliers in nonlinear dynamic underwater conditions. The performance of the proposed sensor fusion technique is compared and evaluated using Monte-Carlo simulations, and substantial improvements in underwater position estimation are obtained.
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- Nabil Shaukat
- Institute of Oceanic Engineering Research, University of Malaga, 29010 Malaga, Spain;
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia;
- Center of Excellence in Intelligent Engineering Systems, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia
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- Institute of Oceanic Engineering Research, University of Malaga, 29010 Malaga, Spain;
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Bazaluk O, Kotenko S, Nitsenko V. Entropy as an Objective Function of Optimization Multimodal Transportations. Entropy (Basel) 2021; 23:946. [PMID: 34441086 DOI: 10.3390/e23080946] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2021] [Revised: 07/21/2021] [Accepted: 07/22/2021] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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This article considers the use of the entropy method in the optimization and forecasting of multimodal transport under conditions of risks that can be determined simultaneously by deterministic, stochastic and fuzzy quantities. This will allow to change the route of transportation in real time in an optimal way with an unacceptable increase in the risk at one of its next stages and predict the redistribution of the load of transport nodes. The aim of this study is to develop a mathematical model for the optimal choice of an alternative route, the best for one or more objective functions in real time. In addition, it is proposed to use this mathematical model to estimate the dynamic change in turnover through intermediate transport nodes, forecasting their loading over time under different conditions that also include long-term risks which are significant in magnitude. To substantiate the feasibility of the proposed mathematical model, the analysis and forecast of cargo turnover through the seaports of Ukraine are presented, taking into account and analysing the existing risks.
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Batista EA, de Brito MAG, Siqueira JC, Dias JC, Gomez RC, Catharino MFR, Gomes MB. A Multifunctional Smart Meter Using ANN-PSO Flux Estimation and Harmonic Active Compensation with Fuzzy Voltage Regulation. Sensors (Basel) 2021; 21:4154. [PMID: 34204334 DOI: 10.3390/s21124154] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2021] [Revised: 03/30/2021] [Accepted: 03/31/2021] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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This paper aims to present the analysis and development of a complete electronic smart meter that is able to perform four-quadrant measurements, act as a three-phase shunt active power filter (APF), and control three-phase induction motors by stator flux estimation. A transmission control protocol together with Internet protocol (TCP/IP) communication protocol for the remote access of measurement data is embedded into the application to securely transmit reliable information. An artificial neural network trained with particle swarm optimization is used for stator flux estimation, and a fuzzy logic controller is adopted to regulate the power converter DC bus voltage. The present work gathers knowledge from multidisciplinary fields, and all applied techniques have not been proposed altogether before. All control functions are embedded into a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) device, using VHSIC Hardware Description Language (VHDL), to enhance efficiency taking advantage of parallelism and high speed. An FPGA-in-the-loop cosimulation technique was first applied to prove the control functions’ functionality, and, later, experimental evaluations are conducted to finally prove equipment operation and reliability.
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Ozsahin I, Mustapha MT, Albarwary S, Sanlidag B, Ozsahin DU, Butler TA. An investigation to choose the proper therapy technique in the management of autism spectrum disorder. J Comp Eff Res 2021; 10:423-437. [PMID: 33709772 DOI: 10.2217/cer-2020-0162] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Aim: Autism spectrum disorder is a class of neurological disorders that affect the development of brain functions. This study aims to evaluate, compare and rank the therapy techniques used in the management of autism spectrum disorder using multicriteria decision-making approaches. Materials & methods: Fuzzy PROMETHEE and fuzzy TOPSIS approaches were used. Fuzzy PROMETHEE utilizes a pair-wise comparison of alternatives under the fuzzy environment while fuzzy TOPSIS utilizes geometric distance from the positive ideal solution under the fuzzy environment for the evaluation of the effectiveness of the alternatives.The techniques selected for evaluation are applied behavioral analysis, cognitive behavioral therapy, speech therapy and pharmacological therapy such as Risperidone and Aripiprazole. Criteria used in this study include efficacy, cost and side effects, and their weights are assigned based on specific patient conditions. Results: The results indicate that applied behavioral analysis, cognitive behavioral therapy and speech therapy are the most preferred techniques, followed by Aripiprazole and Risperidone. Conclusion: More criteria could be considered and the weights could be assigned according to the patient profile.
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- Ilker Ozsahin
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & DESAM Institute, Near East University, Nicosia, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus 99138, Turkey.,Department of Radiology, Brain Health Imaging Institute, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & DESAM Institute, Near East University, Nicosia, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus 99138, Turkey
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & DESAM Institute, Near East University, Nicosia, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus 99138, Turkey
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- Faculty of Medicine, Near East University, Nicosia, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus 99138, Turkey
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & DESAM Institute, Near East University, Nicosia, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus 99138, Turkey.,Department of Medical Diagnostic Imaging, College of Health Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah 27272, United Arab Emirates
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- Department of Radiology, Brain Health Imaging Institute, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, USA
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Petritoli E, Bartoletti C, Leccese F. Preliminary Study for AUV: Longitudinal Stabilization Method Based on Takagi-Sugeno Fuzzy Inference System. Sensors (Basel) 2021; 21:s21051866. [PMID: 33800073 PMCID: PMC7962122 DOI: 10.3390/s21051866] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2021] [Revised: 02/10/2021] [Accepted: 02/27/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The paper shows the steps for the preliminary studies of an AUV for shallow water: the first part illustrates the vehicle architecture and the philosophy that permeates the various design choices. In the second part illustrates an innovative method for increasing longitudinal stability based on Takagi-Sugeno (T-S) Fuzzy Inference System: it saves a lot of computational time and, by simplifying the calculation, it is also suitable for remarkably simple computers such as Arduino. in the third part is simulated the behavior of the AUV: thanks to the data taken from the previous hydrodynamic simulation, we can establish the behavior of its longitudinal stability and the computational savings due to the T-S method.
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Dymova L, Kaczmarek K, Sevastjanov P, Kulawik J. A Fuzzy Multiple Criteria Decision Making Approach with a Complete User Friendly Computer Implementation. Entropy (Basel) 2021; 23:203. [PMID: 33562250 PMCID: PMC7915879 DOI: 10.3390/e23020203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2021] [Revised: 01/30/2021] [Accepted: 02/03/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The paper presents the generalization of the almost forty years of experience in the field of setting and solving the multiple criteria decision-making (MCDM) problems in various branches of a human activity under different types of uncertainties that inevitably accompany such problems. Based only on the pragmatic intentions, the authors avoid the detailed descriptions of the known methods for the decision-making, while instead focusing on the most frequently used mathematical tools and methodologies in the decision-making practice. Therefore, the paper may be classified as a special kind of illustrative review of the mathematical tools that are focused on applications and are the most used in the solutions of MCDM problems. As an illustrative example, a complete user-friendly computer implementation of such tools and methodology is presented with application to the simple "buying a cat" problem, which, however, possesses all the attributes of the hierarchical fuzzy MCDM task.
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- Department of Computer Science, Czestochowa University of Technology, Dabrowskiego 73, 42-201 Czestochowa, Poland; (L.D.); (K.K.); (J.K.)
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Ravuri V, Vasundra S. Moth-Flame Optimization-Bat Optimization: Map-Reduce Framework for Big Data Clustering Using the Moth-Flame Bat Optimization and Sparse Fuzzy C-Means. Big Data 2020; 8:203-217. [PMID: 32429686 DOI: 10.1089/big.2019.0125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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The technical advancements in big data have become popular and most desirable among users for storing, processing, and handling huge data sets. However, clustering using these big data sets has become a major challenge in big data analysis. The conventional clustering algorithms used scalable solutions for managing huge data sets. Thus, this study proposes a technique for big data clustering using the spark architecture. The proposed technique undergoes two steps for clustering the big data, involving feature selection and clustering, performed in the initial cluster nodes of spark architecture. At first, the initial cluster nodes read the big data from various distributed systems, and the optimal features are selected and placed in the feature vector based on the proposed moth-flame optimization-based bat (MFO-Bat) algorithm, which is designed by integrating MFO and Bat algorithms. Then, the selected features are fed to the final cluster nodes of spark, which uses the sparse-fuzzy C-means method for performing optimal clustering. The performance of proposed MFO-Bat outperformed other existing methods with a maximal classification accuracy of 95.806%, Dice coefficient of 99.181%, and Jaccard coefficient of 98.376%, respectively.
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- Department of CSE and NSS Coordinator, JNTUA University, Ananthapuramu, India
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Öztürk N, Tozan H, Vayvay Ö. A New Decision Model Approach for Health Technology Assessment and A Case Study for Dialysis Alternatives in Turkey. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2020; 17:ijerph17103608. [PMID: 32455609 PMCID: PMC7277178 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph17103608] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2020] [Revised: 05/13/2020] [Accepted: 05/20/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Background: This paper presents a generic Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) model for Health Technology Assessment (HTA) decision-making, which can be applied to a wide range of HTA studies, regardless of the healthcare technology type under consideration. Methods: The HTA Core Model® of EUnetHTA was chosen as a basis for the development of the MCDA model because of its common acceptance among European Union countries. Validation of MCDA4HTA was carried out by an application with the HTA study group of the Turkish Ministry of Health. The commitment of the decision-making group is completed via an online application of 10 different questionnaires. The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is used to determine the weights. Scores of the criteria in MCDA4HTA are gathered directly from the HTA report. The performance matrix in this application is run with fuzzy Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS), fuzzy Vise Kriterijumska Optimizacija I Kompromisno Resenje (VIKOR), and goal programming MCDA techniques. Results: Results for fuzzy VIKOR, fuzzy TOPSIS, and goal programming are 0.018, 0.309, and 0.191 for peritoneal dialysis and 0.978, 0.677, and 0.327 for hemodialysis, respectively. Conclusions: Peritoneal dialysis is found to be the best choice under the given circumstances, despite its higher costs to society. As an integrated decision-making model for HTA, MCDA4HTA supports both evidence-based decision policy and the transparent commitment of multi-disciplinary stakeholders.
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- Necla Öztürk
- Department of Engineering Management, Marmara University, 34083 Istanbul, Turkey
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +49-151-257-151-18
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- Affiliation Industrial Engineering Department, Medipol University, 34083 Istanbul, Turkey;
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- Faculty of Business, Marmara University, 34083 Istanbul, Turkey;
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Abbasi H, Gunn AJ, Bennet L, Unsworth CP. Latent Phase Identification of High-Frequency Micro-Scale Gamma Spike Transients in the Hypoxic Ischemic EEG of Preterm Fetal Sheep Using Spectral Analysis and Fuzzy Classifiers. Sensors (Basel) 2020; 20:s20051424. [PMID: 32150987 PMCID: PMC7085637 DOI: 10.3390/s20051424] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2020] [Revised: 02/27/2020] [Accepted: 03/03/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Premature babies are at high risk of serious neurodevelopmental disabilities, which in many cases are related to perinatal hypoxic–ischemic encephalopathy (HIE). Studies of neuroprotection in animal models consistently suggest that treatment must be started as early as possible in the first 6 h after hypoxia–ischemia (HI), the so-called latent phase before secondary deterioration, to improve outcomes. We have shown in preterm sheep that EEG biomarkers of injury, in the form of high-frequency micro-scale spike transients, develop and evolve in this critical latent phase after severe asphyxia. Real-time automatic identification of such events is important for the early and accurate detection of HI injury, so that the right treatment can be implemented at the right time. We have previously reported successful strategies for accurate identification of EEG patterns after HI. In this study, we report an alternative high-performance approach based on the fusion of spectral Fourier analysis and Type-I fuzzy classifiers (FFT-Type-I-FLC). We assessed its performance in over 2520 min of latent phase EEG recordings from seven asphyxiated in utero preterm fetal sheep exposed to a range of different occlusion periods. The FFT-Type-I-FLC classifier demonstrated 98.9 ± 1.0% accuracy for identification of high-frequency spike transients in the gamma frequency band (namely 80–120 Hz) post-HI. The spectral-based approach (FFT-Type-I-FLC classifier) has similar accuracy to our previous reverse biorthogonal wavelets rbio2.8 basis function and type-1 fuzzy classifier (rbio-WT-Type-1-FLC), providing competitive performance (within the margin of error: 0.89%), but it is computationally simpler and would be readily adapted to identify other potentially relevant EEG waveforms.
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- Hamid Abbasi
- Department of Engineering Science, Faculty of Engineering, University of Auckland, Auckland 1142, New Zealand;
- Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland 1023, New Zealand; (A.J.G.); (L.B.)
- Correspondence:
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- Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland 1023, New Zealand; (A.J.G.); (L.B.)
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- Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland 1023, New Zealand; (A.J.G.); (L.B.)
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- Department of Engineering Science, Faculty of Engineering, University of Auckland, Auckland 1142, New Zealand;
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Lee AHI, Kang HY. A Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Model for Evaluating Senior Daycare Center Locations. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2019; 16:E5031. [PMID: 31835613 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph16245031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2019] [Revised: 12/05/2019] [Accepted: 12/05/2019] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Many developed and developing countries are facing an imminent population aging and rapid demographics changing problem. The need of various kinds of eldercare is increasing tremendously. A senior daycare center, very similar to a daycare center for toddlers and preschoolers, can provide the elderly a place to go during daytime and have a more diversified social life. In this research, a senior daycare center location evaluation problem is studied, and a model for facilitating the decision-making of the senior daycare center location is constructed by considering the benefits, opportunities, costs, and risks (BOCR) of the locations. Senior daycare center location evaluation factors are listed first through literature review and interview with experts. These factors are used to construct a network, which is applied to prepare a questionnaire to ask about the influences of a criterion to other criteria. The interrelationships among the criteria are calculated by adopting fuzzy interpretative structural modeling (FISM). Based on the results from the FISM, a fuzzy analytic network process (FANP) questionnaire is given out, and the results are used to determine the priorities of the criteria. In addition, the final ranking of the senior daycare center locations can be obtained. The research results can provide references for prospective senior daycare center providers for making relevant decisions.
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Kang H, Cho HC, Choi SH, Heo I, Kim HY, Kim KS. Estimation of Heating Temperature for Fire-Damaged Concrete Structures Using Adaptive Neuro- Fuzzy Inference System. Materials (Basel) 2019; 12:ma12233964. [PMID: 31795395 PMCID: PMC6926545 DOI: 10.3390/ma12233964] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2019] [Revised: 11/16/2019] [Accepted: 11/26/2019] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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The structural performance of concrete structures subjected to fire is greatly influenced by the heating temperature. Therefore, an accurate estimation of the heating temperature is of vital importance for deriving a reasonable diagnosis and assessment of fire-damaged concrete structures. In current practice, various heating temperature estimation methods are used, however, each of these estimation methods has limitations in accuracy and faces disadvantages that depend on evaluators’ empirical judgments in the process of deriving diagnostic results from measured data. Therefore, in this study, a concrete heating test and a non-destructive test were carried out to estimate the heating temperatures of fire-damaged concrete, and a heating temperature estimation method using an adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) algorithm was proposed based on the results. A total of 73 datasets were randomly extracted from a total of 87 concrete heating test results and we used them in the data training process of the ANFIS algorithm; the remaining 14 datasets were used for verification. The proposed ANFIS algorithm model provided an accurate estimation of heating temperature.
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- Hyun Kang
- Korea Institute of Civil Engineering & Building Technology (KICT) 182-64 Mado-ro, Mado-myeon, Hwaseong 18544, Gyeonggi Province, Korea; (H.K.); (H.-Y.K.)
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- Department of Architectural Engineering, University of Seoul 163 Seoulsiripdae-ro, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul 02504, Korea; (H.-C.C.); (S.-H.C.); (I.H.)
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- Department of Architectural Engineering, University of Seoul 163 Seoulsiripdae-ro, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul 02504, Korea; (H.-C.C.); (S.-H.C.); (I.H.)
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- Department of Architectural Engineering, University of Seoul 163 Seoulsiripdae-ro, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul 02504, Korea; (H.-C.C.); (S.-H.C.); (I.H.)
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- Korea Institute of Civil Engineering & Building Technology (KICT) 182-64 Mado-ro, Mado-myeon, Hwaseong 18544, Gyeonggi Province, Korea; (H.K.); (H.-Y.K.)
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- Department of Architectural Engineering, University of Seoul 163 Seoulsiripdae-ro, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul 02504, Korea; (H.-C.C.); (S.-H.C.); (I.H.)
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: 82-2-6490-2762; Fax: 82-2-6490-5509
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Pushpan S, Velusamy B. Fuzzy-Based Dynamic Time Slot Allocation forWireless Body Area Networks. Sensors (Basel) 2019; 19:E2112. [PMID: 31067763 DOI: 10.3390/s19092112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2019] [Revised: 05/04/2019] [Accepted: 05/05/2019] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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With the advancement in networking, information and communication technologies, wireless body area networks (WBANs) are becoming more popular in the field of medical and non-medical applications. Real-time patient monitoring applications generate periodic data in a short time period. In the case of life-critical applications, the data may be bursty. Hence the system needs a reliable energy efficient communication technique which has a limited delay. In such cases the fixed time slot assignment in medium access control standards results in low system performance. This paper deals with a dynamic time slot allocation scheme in a fog-assisted network for a real-time remote patient monitoring system. Fog computing is an extended version of the cloud computing paradigm, which is suitable for reliable, delay-sensitive life-critical applications. In addition, to enhance the performance of the network, an energy-efficient minimum cost parent selection algorithm has been proposed for routing data packets. The dynamic time slot allocation uses fuzzy logic with input variables as energy ratio, buffer ratio, and packet arrival rate. Dynamic slot allocation eliminates the time slot wastage, excess delay in the network and attributes a high level of reliability to the network with maximum channel utilization. The efficacy of the proposed scheme is proved in terms of packet delivery ratio, average end to end delay, and average energy consumption when compared with the conventional IEEE 802.15.4 standard and the tele-medicine protocol.
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Abbasi H, Bennet L, Gunn AJ, Unsworth CP. Latent Phase Detection of Hypoxic-Ischemic Spike Transients in the EEG of Preterm Fetal Sheep Using Reverse Biorthogonal Wavelets & Fuzzy Classifier. Int J Neural Syst 2019; 29:1950013. [PMID: 31184228 DOI: 10.1142/s0129065719500138] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Hypoxic-ischemic (HI) studies in preterms lack reliable prognostic biomarkers for diagnostic tests of HI encephalopathy (HIE). Our group's observations from in utero fetal sheep models suggest that potential biomarkers of HIE in the form of developing HI micro-scale epileptiform transients emerge along suppressed EEG/ECoG background during a latent phase of 6-7h post-insult. However, having to observe for the whole of the latent phase disqualifies any chance of clinical intervention. A precise automatic identification of these transients can help for a well-timed diagnosis of the HIE and to stop the spread of the injury before it becomes irreversible. This paper reports fusion of Reverse-Biorthogonal Wavelets with Type-1 Fuzzy classifiers, for the accurate real-time automatic identification and quantification of high-frequency HI spike transients in the latent phase, tested over seven in utero preterm sheep. Considerable high performance of 99.78 ± 0.10% was obtained from the Rbio-Wavelet Type-1 Fuzzy classifier for automatic identification of HI spikes tested over 42h of high-resolution recordings (sampling-freq:1024Hz). Data from post-insult automatic time-localization of high-frequency HI spikes reveals a promising trend in the average rate of the HI spikes, even in the animals with shorter occlusion periods, which highlights considerable higher number of transients within the first 2h post-insult.
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- Hamid Abbasi
- Department of Engineering Science, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Department of Engineering Science, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Rohrer JE. A Practice Innovations Decision Model. Health Serv Res Manag Epidemiol 2017; 4:2333392817745773. [PMID: 29276728 PMCID: PMC5734430 DOI: 10.1177/2333392817745773] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2017] [Accepted: 11/08/2017] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Objective: The purpose of this commentary is to propose a flexible practice innovations decision model (PIDM) for use in health services planning and management. Method: This is an example of fuzzy decision analysis. The elements of the model are explained by applying it to the decision of whether to open a primary care clinic in retail space. The model contains 10 criteria, each of which scored as 1 (met) or 0 (not met). The scores are summed to guide the decision. Result: In this example, success was defined a priori as meeting 8 or more criteria. Sensitivity analysis and simulation can be used in practice to test the model. Conclusion: The PIDM appears to be applicable to a variety of decisions, and the fuzzy scoring combined with simulation and sensitivity analysis generates plausible results. The model should be modified as necessary for each situation in which it is applied.
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- James E Rohrer
- Program in Public Health, Department of Health Sciences, Walden University, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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Omidvar M, Mazloumi A, Mohammad Fam I, Nirumand F. Development of a framework for resilience measurement: Suggestion of fuzzy Resilience Grade (RG) and fuzzy Resilience Early Warning Grade (REWG). Work 2017; 56:463-474. [PMID: 28269808 DOI: 10.3233/wor-172512] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Resilience engineering (RE) can be an alternative technique to the traditional risk assessment and management techniques, to predict and manage safety conditions of modern socio-technical organizations. While traditional risk management approaches are retrospective and highlight error calculation and computation of malfunction possibilities, resilience engineering seeks ways to improve capacity at all levels of organizations in order to build strong yet flexible processes. OBJECTIVES Considering the resilience potential measurement as a concern in complex working systems, the aim of this study was to quantify the resilience by the help of fuzzy sets and Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) techniques. In this paper, we adopted the fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP) method to measure resilience in a gas refinery plant. METHODS A resilience assessment framework containing six indicators, each with its own sub-indicators, was constructed. Then, the fuzzy weights of the indicators and the sub-indicators were derived from pair-wise comparisons conducted by experts. The fuzzy evaluating vectors of the indicators and the sub-indicators computed according to the initial assessment data. Finally, the Comprehensive Resilience Index (CoRI), Resilience Grade (RG), and Resilience Early Warning Grade (REWG) were established. RESULTS To demonstrate the applicability of the proposed method, an illustrative example in a gas refinery complex (an instance of socio-technical systems) was provided. CoRI of the refinery ranked as "III". In addition, for the six main indicators, RG and REWG ranked as "III" and "NEWZ", respectively, except for C3, in which RG ranked as "II", and REWG ranked as "OEWZ". CONCLUSIONS The results revealed the engineering practicability and usefulness of the proposed method in resilience evaluation of socio-technical systems.
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- Mohsen Omidvar
- Department of Occupational Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Occupational Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Occupational Health, School of Public Health and Center for Health Research, Hamedan University of Medical Sciences, Hamedan, Iran
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- Department of Pollution Control, School of Environmental Engineering, Ghalat Ghaem Branch, Applied Sciences and Technology University, Tehran, Iran
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Jiang W, Xie C, Zhuang M, Shou Y, Tang Y. Sensor Data Fusion with Z-Numbers and Its Application in Fault Diagnosis. Sensors (Basel) 2016; 16:s16091509. [PMID: 27649193 PMCID: PMC5038782 DOI: 10.3390/s16091509] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2016] [Revised: 09/09/2016] [Accepted: 09/12/2016] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Sensor data fusion technology is widely employed in fault diagnosis. The information in a sensor data fusion system is characterized by not only fuzziness, but also partial reliability. Uncertain information of sensors, including randomness, fuzziness, etc., has been extensively studied recently. However, the reliability of a sensor is often overlooked or cannot be analyzed adequately. A Z-number, Z = (A, B), can represent the fuzziness and the reliability of information simultaneously, where the first component A represents a fuzzy restriction on the values of uncertain variables and the second component B is a measure of the reliability of A. In order to model and process the uncertainties in a sensor data fusion system reasonably, in this paper, a novel method combining the Z-number and Dempster–Shafer (D-S) evidence theory is proposed, where the Z-number is used to model the fuzziness and reliability of the sensor data and the D-S evidence theory is used to fuse the uncertain information of Z-numbers. The main advantages of the proposed method are that it provides a more robust measure of reliability to the sensor data, and the complementary information of multi-sensors reduces the uncertainty of the fault recognition, thus enhancing the reliability of fault detection.
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- Wen Jiang
- School of Electronics and Information, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, Shanxi, China.
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- School of Electronics and Information, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, Shanxi, China.
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- School of Electronics and Information, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, Shanxi, China.
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- School of Electronics and Information, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, Shanxi, China.
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- School of Electronics and Information, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, Shanxi, China.
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Salinas JL, Kiss A, Viglione A, Viertl R, Blöschl G. A fuzzy Bayesian approach to flood frequency estimation with imprecise historical information. Water Resour Res 2016; 52:6730-6750. [PMID: 27840456 PMCID: PMC5091636 DOI: 10.1002/2016wr019177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2016] [Accepted: 08/03/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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This paper presents a novel framework that links imprecision (through a fuzzy approach) and stochastic uncertainty (through a Bayesian approach) in estimating flood probabilities from historical flood information and systematic flood discharge data. The method exploits the linguistic characteristics of historical source material to construct membership functions, which may be wider or narrower, depending on the vagueness of the statements. The membership functions are either included in the prior distribution or the likelihood function to obtain a fuzzy version of the flood frequency curve. The viability of the approach is demonstrated by three case studies that differ in terms of their hydromorphological conditions (from an Alpine river with bedrock profile to a flat lowland river with extensive flood plains) and historical source material (including narratives, town and county meeting protocols, flood marks and damage accounts). The case studies are presented in order of increasing fuzziness (the Rhine at Basel, Switzerland; the Werra at Meiningen, Germany; and the Tisza at Szeged, Hungary). Incorporating imprecise historical information is found to reduce the range between the 5% and 95% Bayesian credibility bounds of the 100 year floods by 45% and 61% for the Rhine and Werra case studies, respectively. The strengths and limitations of the framework are discussed relative to alternative (non-fuzzy) methods. The fuzzy Bayesian inference framework provides a flexible methodology that fits the imprecise nature of linguistic information on historical floods as available in historical written documentation.
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- José Luis Salinas
- Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources ManagementVienna University of TechnologyViennaAustria
- Centre for Water Resource Systems, Vienna University of TechnologyViennaAustria
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- Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources ManagementVienna University of TechnologyViennaAustria
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- Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources ManagementVienna University of TechnologyViennaAustria
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- Institute of Statistics and Mathematical Methods in Economics, Vienna University of TechnologyViennaAustria
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- Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources ManagementVienna University of TechnologyViennaAustria
- Centre for Water Resource Systems, Vienna University of TechnologyViennaAustria
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Wen Y, Gao R, Zhao H. Energy Efficient Moving Target Tracking in Wireless Sensor Networks. Sensors (Basel) 2016; 16:E29. [PMID: 26729129 DOI: 10.3390/s16010029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2015] [Revised: 12/10/2015] [Accepted: 12/21/2015] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Moving target tracking in wireless sensor networks is of paramount importance. This paper considers the problem of state estimation for L-sensor linear dynamic systems. Firstly, the paper establishes the fuzzy model for measurement condition estimation. Then, Generalized Kalman Filter design is performed to incorporate the novel neighborhood function and the target motion information, improving with an increasing number of active sensors. The proposed measurement selection approach has some advantages in time cost. As such, if the desired accuracy has been achieved, the parameter initialization for optimization can be readily resolved, which maximizes the expected lifespan while preserving tracking accuracy. Through theoretical justifications and empirical studies, we demonstrate that the proposed scheme achieves substantially superior performances over conventional methods in terms of moving target tracking under the resource-constrained wireless sensor networks.
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Zhu H, Shu H, Zhou J, Toumoulin C, Luo L. Image reconstruction for positron emission tomography using fuzzy nonlinear anisotropic diffusion penalty. Med Biol Eng Comput 2006; 44:983-97. [PMID: 17061117 PMCID: PMC2235198 DOI: 10.1007/s11517-006-0115-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2006] [Accepted: 09/26/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Iterative algorithms such as maximum likelihood-expectation maximization (ML-EM) become the standard for the reconstruction in emission computed tomography. However, such algorithms are sensitive to noise artifacts so that the reconstruction begins to degrade when the number of iterations reaches a certain value. In this paper, we have investigated a new iterative algorithm for penalized-likelihood image reconstruction that uses the fuzzy nonlinear anisotropic diffusion (AD) as a penalty function. The proposed algorithm does not suffer from the same problem as that of ML-EM algorithm, and it converges to a low noisy solution even if the iteration number is high. The fuzzy reasoning instead of a nonnegative monotonically decreasing function was used to calculate the diffusion coefficients which control the whole diffusion. Thus, the diffusion strength is controlled by fuzzy rules expressed in a linguistic form. The proposed method makes use of the advantages of fuzzy set theory in dealing with uncertain problems and nonlinear AD techniques in removing the noise as well as preserving the edges. Quantitative analysis shows that the proposed reconstruction algorithm is suitable to produce better reconstructed images when compared with ML-EM, ordered subsets EM (OS-EM), Gaussian-MAP, MRP, TV-EM reconstructed images.
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- Hongqing Zhu
- Laboratory of Image Science and Technology, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China.
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