{"title":"Delineation of line patterns in images using B-COSFIRE filters","authors":"N. Strisciuglio, N. Petkov","doi":"10.1109/IWOBI.2017.7985538","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWOBI.2017.7985538","url":null,"abstract":"Delineation of line patterns in images is a basic step required in various applications such as blood vessel detection in medical images, segmentation of rivers or roads in aerial images, detection of cracks in walls or pavements, etc. In this paper we present trainable B-COSFIRE filters, which are a model of some neurons in area V1 of the primary visual cortex, and apply it to the delineation of line patterns in different kinds of images. B-COSFIRE filters are trainable as their selectivity is determined in an automatic configuration process given a prototype pattern of interest. They are configurable to detect any preferred line structure (e.g. segments, corners, cross-overs, etc.), so usable for automatic data representation learning. We carried out experiments on two data sets, namely a line-network data set from INRIA and a data set of retinal fundus images named IOSTAR. The results that we achieved confirm the robustness of the proposed approach and its effectiveness in the delineation of line structures in different kinds of images","PeriodicalId":126751,"journal":{"name":"2017 International Conference and Workshop on Bioinspired Intelligence (IWOBI)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127242879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Harár, J. B. Alonso, J. Mekyska, Z. Galaz, Radim Burget, Z. Smékal
{"title":"Voice Pathology Detection Using Deep Learning: a Preliminary Study","authors":"P. Harár, J. B. Alonso, J. Mekyska, Z. Galaz, Radim Burget, Z. Smékal","doi":"10.1109/IWOBI.2017.7985525","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWOBI.2017.7985525","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes a preliminary investigation of Voice Pathology Detection using Deep Neural Networks (DNN). We used voice recordings of sustained vowel /a/ produced at normal pitch from German corpus Saarbruecken Voice Database (SVD). This corpus contains voice recordings and electroglottograph signals of more than 2 000 speakers. The idea behind this experiment is the use of convolutional layers in combination with recurrent Long-Short-Term-Memory (LSTM) layers on raw audio signal. Each recording was split into 64 ms Hamming windowed segments with 30 ms overlap. Our trained model achieved 71.36% accuracy with 65.04% sensitivity and 77.67% specificity on 206 validation files and 68.08% accuracy with 66.75% sensitivity and 77.89% specificity on 874 testing files. This is a promising result in favor of this approach because it is comparable to similar previously published experiment that used different methodology. Further investigation is needed to achieve the state-of-the-art results.","PeriodicalId":126751,"journal":{"name":"2017 International Conference and Workshop on Bioinspired Intelligence (IWOBI)","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116224278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Approach of Kinematic Control for a Nonholonomic Wheeled Robot using Artificial Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms","authors":"Camilo Cáceres, J. M. Rosário, Dario Amaya","doi":"10.1109/IWOBI.2017.7985533","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWOBI.2017.7985533","url":null,"abstract":"The quest for an improvement in the quality of life of human beings directs the idea of integrating different areas of knowledge to solve problems that it is impossible to solve using traditional methods. The presented idea applies to the development of autonomous robotic systems; such as cars, wheelchairs, boats, and airplanes. In those cases, given a high level of autonomy can bring countless benefits to the quality of life of human beings. In this work, a reactive navigation hybrid controller for a nonholonomic mobile robot is presented. The controller was designed using the algorithm \"Neuroevolution of Augmented Topologies\" (NEAT) and trained using a developed simulator, which integrates different areas of knowledge such as control, system modeling and discrete-time simulation. The used methodology allowed to reach a level of autonomy for the vehicle, obtaining a stable controller with good performance in the analyzed scenario.","PeriodicalId":126751,"journal":{"name":"2017 International Conference and Workshop on Bioinspired Intelligence (IWOBI)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125155208","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pulkit Pandey, Anupama Bhan, M. Dutta, C. Travieso-González
{"title":"Automatic Image Processing Based Dental Image Analysis Using Automatic Gaussian Fitting Energy and Level Sets","authors":"Pulkit Pandey, Anupama Bhan, M. Dutta, C. Travieso-González","doi":"10.1109/IWOBI.2017.7985529","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWOBI.2017.7985529","url":null,"abstract":"Identification of the Root canal length is a major concern in the dentistry worldwide, which currently seeks the manual calculation in order to detect the measurement of the teeth. Intensity inhomogeneity often is a major problem in dental x-rays which causes considerable difficulties in segmentation. For better computer-aided diagnosis in dentistry, having a precise tooth segmentation is a critical task, as the cysts and inflammatory lesions generally occur around tooth root areas and these areas in radiographs are generally subject to noise, poor contrast, and very uneven illumination. This paper presents an effective segmentation method using a combinational approach of Local Gaussian Distribution fitting energy along with level sets. Here the local intensities of images are defined by Gaussian distributions which are combined with the level set function for accurate segmentations of teeth contour. The experimental results indicate that segmentation achieves the less number of iterations making it computationally fast and work in real time situation.","PeriodicalId":126751,"journal":{"name":"2017 International Conference and Workshop on Bioinspired Intelligence (IWOBI)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130133407","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alejandro Blanco-M, Jordi Solé-Casals, P. Martí-Puig, Juan Jose Cardenas Isaac Justicia, J. Cusidó
{"title":"Impact of target variable distribution type over the regression analysis in wind turbine data","authors":"Alejandro Blanco-M, Jordi Solé-Casals, P. Martí-Puig, Juan Jose Cardenas Isaac Justicia, J. Cusidó","doi":"10.1109/IWOBI.2017.7985534","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWOBI.2017.7985534","url":null,"abstract":"The Wind sector has roughly 2200M euros of profit losses due to wind turbine failures and these failures do not contribute to the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions of many states. The 25-35% of the generation costs are operation and maintenance services. To lower this ratio, the wind turbine industry is backing on the Machine Learning techniques over SCADA data. Signal trending analysis supported on linear regression models presents the problem of how to carefully choose the right target variable, which reproduces as close as possible the behavior of a failure from a component. This document evaluates the impact of that choice by comparing as target different variables with discrete-non normal distribution, commonly selected by feature selection methods, versus variables that are continuous over time with a near normal distribution. Experimental results on real data show the use of continuous target variables selected by human expert on the field give better results than the use of targets obtained through feature selection algorithm.","PeriodicalId":126751,"journal":{"name":"2017 International Conference and Workshop on Bioinspired Intelligence (IWOBI)","volume":"92 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122111719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Kozlovszky, Roland Dóczi, Eszter Josvai, G. Kronreif
{"title":"Automatic event handling during robot assisted eye surgery","authors":"M. Kozlovszky, Roland Dóczi, Eszter Josvai, G. Kronreif","doi":"10.1109/IWOBI.2017.7985530","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWOBI.2017.7985530","url":null,"abstract":"Medical eye surgery robots are supporting the surgery process in many ways, they primarily can help the surgeon during surgery procedure, they can provide valuable status information about the environment, about the patient and about the forthcoming steps of the surgical process, and by definition they need to protect the patient too. During eye surgery we can differentiate phases of the process and we can identify generic workflows and states for each type of treatments. Transitions between the states or between the workflow steps are triggered by events. Such events can be initiated by any of the surgery the medical expert, by the environment or patient status parameters, or by any components of the system. We have developed an Event handling framework for robot surgery devices. We have evaluated our solution using two different eye surgery robot device. In this paper we are providing information about the framework, its implementations, and detail some evaluation results.","PeriodicalId":126751,"journal":{"name":"2017 International Conference and Workshop on Bioinspired Intelligence (IWOBI)","volume":"240 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116572457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K. L. D. Ipiña, Unai Martinez-de-Lizardui, P. Calvo, B. Beitia, J. Garcia-Melero, M. Ecay, A. Estanga, M. Faúndez-Zanuy
{"title":"Analysis of Disfluencies for automatic detection of Mild Cognitive Impartment: a deep learning approach","authors":"K. L. D. Ipiña, Unai Martinez-de-Lizardui, P. Calvo, B. Beitia, J. Garcia-Melero, M. Ecay, A. Estanga, M. Faúndez-Zanuy","doi":"10.1109/IWOBI.2017.7985526","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWOBI.2017.7985526","url":null,"abstract":"The so-called Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) or cognitive loss appears in a previous stage before Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), but it does not seem sufficiently severe to interfere in independent abilities of daily life, so it usually does not receive an appropriate diagnosis. Its detection is a challenging issue to be addressed by medical specialists. This work presents a novel proposal based on automatic analysis of speech and disfluencies aimed at supporting MCI diagnosis. The approach includes deep learning by means of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) and non-linear multifeature modelling. Moreover, to select the most relevant features non-parametric Mann-Whitney U-testt and Support Vector Machine Attribute (SVM) evaluation are used.","PeriodicalId":126751,"journal":{"name":"2017 International Conference and Workshop on Bioinspired Intelligence (IWOBI)","volume":"100 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130183525","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fábio Mendonça, Sheikh Shanawaz Mostafa, F. M. Dias, J. L. Navarro-Mesa, G. Juliá-Serdá, A. Ravelo-García
{"title":"A minimallyinvasive portable system for sleep apnea detection","authors":"Fábio Mendonça, Sheikh Shanawaz Mostafa, F. M. Dias, J. L. Navarro-Mesa, G. Juliá-Serdá, A. Ravelo-García","doi":"10.1109/IWOBI.2017.7985540","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWOBI.2017.7985540","url":null,"abstract":"Health care is changing the focus from primary and specialty care to prevention and wellness. Therefore, home health care is seen as one of the most relevant wellness services due to high accessibility and low cost of diagnosis. The growth relevance given to the sleep related disorders, due to the high importance of sleep in our lives, is specifically significant in this context encouraging the development of methods capable of non-invasively monitor and detection. One of the most relevant sleep disorders is obstructive sleep apnea, being the focus of the work presented in this paper to develop a minimally invasive portable system to detect this disorder using only oximetry. The system developed in this work is capable of collecting the oxygen saturation and pulse rate signals and send them wirelessly to the processing station where an application records and analyses the data. A graphical user interface guides the patients to start the monitoring session and a report is produced at the end of the analysis. The information is graphically presented to the patients and a resume file is generated to be analysed by the sleep technician. A database with 35 patients recordings was analysed, using a cross validation technique in order to evaluate the performance using a logistic regression model as a classifier. The algorithm achieved an accuracy of 86.6% (sensitivity = 66.9%, specificity = 94.5%, AUC = 90.7).","PeriodicalId":126751,"journal":{"name":"2017 International Conference and Workshop on Bioinspired Intelligence (IWOBI)","volume":"516 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123086952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Á. García-Pedrero, C. Gonzalo-Martín, M. Lillo-Saavedra, D. Rodríguez-Esparragón
{"title":"A superpixel-based approach based on consensus for delineating agricultural plots","authors":"Á. García-Pedrero, C. Gonzalo-Martín, M. Lillo-Saavedra, D. Rodríguez-Esparragón","doi":"10.1109/IWOBI.2017.7985537","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWOBI.2017.7985537","url":null,"abstract":"The delineation of agricultural lands is an important task for obtaining primary information in order to establish agricultural policies. Most of the automatic and semiautomatic methods for delineating agricultural plots in remote sensing area are based on image segmentation. However, they usually are sensitive to intra-plot variability and depend on a correct parameter selection, resulting in a bad performance due to the variability of the agricultural landscapes. In this paper, a novel methodology for delineating agricultural plots is proposed. The methodology is based on the consensus of diverse superpixel segmentations at different scales. The join of different segmentations is intended to reduce the aforementioned problems. Proposed methodology has been applied to two regions of a Worldview-2 image of a fragmented agricultural landscape. A visual and numerical evaluation of the results indicates that the use of the consensus of segmentations is promising for delineating agricultural plots.","PeriodicalId":126751,"journal":{"name":"2017 International Conference and Workshop on Bioinspired Intelligence (IWOBI)","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115855350","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ravitej Singh Rekhi, Ashish Issac, M. Dutta, C. Travieso-González
{"title":"Automated classification of exudates from digital fundus images","authors":"Ravitej Singh Rekhi, Ashish Issac, M. Dutta, C. Travieso-González","doi":"10.1109/IWOBI.2017.7985527","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWOBI.2017.7985527","url":null,"abstract":"Diabetic Retinopathy and Diabetic Macular Edema are diseases that affect vision and eventually may lead to blindness. Early detection is a must to prevent the progression of the disease imploring the need for effective computer-aided diagnostic techniques. In the following research paper, a robust method has been proposed to segment hard exudates from digital, color fundus images using anisotropic diffusion and adaptive thresholding followed by a support vector machine for classification. The geometrical, shape and orientation features have been used to correctly classify the segmented objects as exudates or false pixels. The proposed technique has a high specificity and eliminates false positives correctly when applied across a wide range of images. The exudates segmented have a high degree of accuracy and no false positives are generated in case of non-diseased images. The proposed method has been tested on a total 189 images of the DIARETDB1 and MESSIDOR database and achieves an accuracy of 92.13% and 90% respectively. The proposed method can be used in the development for some computer aided technology for ocular diseases detection from fundus images.","PeriodicalId":126751,"journal":{"name":"2017 International Conference and Workshop on Bioinspired Intelligence (IWOBI)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131179205","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}