Mst Farzana Khatun, Md. Sohel Rana, Tahasin Ahmed Fahim, S. T. Zuhori
{"title":"Mathematical Models for Extracellular Fluid Measurement to Detect Hydration Level Based on Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis","authors":"Mst Farzana Khatun, Md. Sohel Rana, Tahasin Ahmed Fahim, S. T. Zuhori","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2019.8861841","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2019.8861841","url":null,"abstract":"This paper shows mathematical models for extracellular fluid (ECF) measurements for both male and female human being based on bioelectrical impedance analysis along with prediction of hydration level. In this research total 2817 (1397 male and 1420 female) data have been used. Age, height, bioelectrical impedance at 5 kHz frequency, body mass index (BMI) are used for the development of mathematical models and the hydration level has been detected by the ratio of ECF to body weight considering standard limit. The proposed models have been analyzed statistically and the results show that the correlation (Pearson) coefficients are $0.999 (mathrm{p}lt 0.001)$ for both male and female individuals which denote excellent matching with actual data. Besides intervals of LOA is only -0.29 L to 0.45 L and -0.64 L to -0.06 L for male and female data respectively and most of the errors follows limit of agreement. The root mean square errors are 0.20 L for male and 0.38 L for female people. The average accuracy of proper detection of hydration level has bound 96.11%. Comparing the results of this research with existing models it is seen that the proposed models can be more suitable for ECF measurement and hydration level detection.","PeriodicalId":352860,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Canadian Conference of Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130965032","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":"Joint Iterative Training-based Hybrid Precoding and Combining for Millimeter Wave Systems","authors":"Ali Mohebbi, Weiping Zhu, M. Ahmad","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2019.8861976","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2019.8861976","url":null,"abstract":"Hybrid precoding and combining is a key solution to reduce the hardware cost and power consumption of millimeter wave MIMO systems. However, estimating the entire channel matrix required for designing such a solution is very challenging. In this paper, we propose a joint iterative training based algorithm to design the digital precoder and combiner in the hybrid structure. We show that the proposed method can eliminate channel estimation and SVD computation needed for obtaining the precoders and combiners. Simulation results show that the proposed approach performs comparable to existing SVD-based methods in terms of spectral efficiency but with much less computational complexity.","PeriodicalId":352860,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Canadian Conference of Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE)","volume":"272 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122935791","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":"Accurate Energy Forecast in Buildings: A Data Driven Machine Learning Approach","authors":"A. Tchagang, Araz Ashouri","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2019.8861583","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2019.8861583","url":null,"abstract":"Buildings are major energy consumer worldwide, accounting for 20%-40% of the total energy production. Efficient energy management in buildings is important for effective energy saving. In this study, we propose and develop a five-step machine learning and artificial intelligence approach for high-precision energy forecasts in buildings. First, a feature database of potential energy predictors is constructed. Then, for a given building, its historical data is compared against the feature database to extract the features that best fit the observed consumption patterns. Afterwards, historical data is grouped by daily consumption pattern similarities and a machine is trained on each cluster to make local or cluster specific predictions. Finally, these local predictions are combined to generate the global precise energy forecast of the building. Tested on a set of buildings geographically distributed in Canada and in the USA, our method shows improved performance compared to traditional approaches.","PeriodicalId":352860,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Canadian Conference of Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127551740","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":"Generating Heat and Power from Biomass - An Overview","authors":"Gama Ali, M. El-Hawary","doi":"10.1109/CCECE43985.2019.9052399","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE43985.2019.9052399","url":null,"abstract":"Countries and big power companies are using renewable energy sources to promote development, expand electricity access, and meet their policy targets for reliable, secure, sustainable and affordable energy. It is very difficult to specify which renewable energy technology is the most appropriate without having access to reliable information on the relative benefits of these energy sources. This paper provides an overview of using biomass as a renewable energy source to generate heat and power. Different technologies are introduced.","PeriodicalId":352860,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Canadian Conference of Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123016427","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":"Skin Lesion Segmentation Based on Improved U-net","authors":"Lina Liu, Lichao Mou, Xiaoxiang Zhu, M. Mandal","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2019.8861848","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2019.8861848","url":null,"abstract":"Melanoma is one of the most common and dangerous skin cancers, accounting for 75% of deaths associated with skin cancer. Detection of melanoma in early stages can significantly improve the survival rate. Automatic segmentation of melanoma is an important and essential step for accurate detection of melanoma. Many existing works based on traditional segmentation methods and deep learning methods have been proposed for high-resolution dermoscopy images. However, due to the intrinsic visual complexity and ambiguity among different skin conditions, automatic melanoma segmentation is still a challenging task for existing methods. Among these methods, the deep learning methods have obtained more attention recently due to its high performance by training an end-to-end framework, which needs no human interaction. U-net is a very popular deep learning model for medical image segmentation. In this paper, we propose an efficient skin lesion segmentation based on improved U-net model. Experiments conducted on the 2017 ISIC Challenge dataset towards melanoma detection shows that the proposed method can obtain state-of-the-art performance on skin lesion segmentation task.","PeriodicalId":352860,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Canadian Conference of Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127361205","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}
Justin Szoke-Sieswerda, Matt Cross, Leo Van Kampen, K. McIsaac
{"title":"Learning from Mistakes: Weakly Supervised Learning of Rocks","authors":"Justin Szoke-Sieswerda, Matt Cross, Leo Van Kampen, K. McIsaac","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2019.8861784","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2019.8861784","url":null,"abstract":"A standard method for teaching an object detector a new class is to fine-tune it with a fully-supervised image set. The issue with fully-supervised image sets are that they are tedious to create and rely on human annotators. In this work we demonstrate that a new class can be learned by leveraging the ‘mistakes’ of a pre-trained object detector under a weakly supervised learning (WSL) paradigm and removing the need for a fully-supervised image set. Our method iteratively cycles over four stages: observation, filtering, generation, and fine-tuning. The observation stage uses an object detector to gather inferences on an image set containing many instances of the new class. These observed inferences are passed to the filtering stage that keeps only the most frequently observed class inferences. These filtered inferences are used as object-level annotations and are passed to the generation stage. In the generation stage a training set is created by superimposing the image content of the annotations onto a set of background images. The generated training set is then used in the fine-tuning stage to create an updated object detector. We trained an object detector to recognize the novel object class, rock using this method. We compared the average precision obtained by an object detector trained using our method to an object detector trained using the fully-supervised method. We were able to achieve $sim 78$% of the average precision obtained by the fully-supervised version.","PeriodicalId":352860,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Canadian Conference of Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE)","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124008039","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":"Is It Enough to just Rely on Near-End, Middle, and Far-End Points to get Feasible Relay Coordination?","authors":"Ali R. Al-Roomi, M. El-Hawary","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2019.8861772","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2019.8861772","url":null,"abstract":"Power system protection is a very crucial branch of electric power engineering. This branch is divided into many sub-branches, such as: protection design, relaying and algorithms, fault location, and recently optimal relay coordination (ORC). Since the end of the eighties of the last century, ORC becomes one of the hot topics covered in the literature. Many analytical and numerical techniques have been presented as effective tools to solve this highly constrained, nonlinear, non-convex mixed-integer optimization problem. However, these optimizers are built based on a hypothesis that feasible optimal solutions can be guaranteed if the discrimination margin between the operating times of each primary and backup (P/B) relay pair is satisfied at some three-phase fault points specified on each line. This paper tries to study different design criteria, used during solving ORC problems, to answer the main question raised in the title.","PeriodicalId":352860,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Canadian Conference of Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128577997","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}
Shania Stewart, Ha H. Nguyen, Robert Barton, Jérôme Henry
{"title":"Investigation of Performance-Complexity Tradeoff in Filtering LoRa Signals","authors":"Shania Stewart, Ha H. Nguyen, Robert Barton, Jérôme Henry","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2019.8861909","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2019.8861909","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the performance-complexity tradeoff when implementing pulse shaping and matched filters in LoRa communication systems. Since LoRa gateways are expected to serve a large number of end-devices in various Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications, a high degree of spectral efficiency is an important and desirable feature. Filtering with squareroot raised cosine filters can reduce the occupied bandwidth and adjacent channel interference of transmitted signals, while minimizing the amount of inter-symbol interference (ISI) inherently introduced by practical finite-length filters. The LoRa communication system with filtering was simulated and evaluated in terms of the modulation error ratio, occupied bandwidth, and bit-error rate for signals with various LoRa and filter parameters. The obtained spectra of the filtered signals are compared to those of the unfiltered signals generated by a real LoRa device. The results showed that the occupied bandwidth and the amount of ISI experienced by LoRa signals can be reduced with no degradation in the bit-error rate. Provided that the additional filter is designed and implemented efficiently, filtering is an excellent method to enhance the performance of LoRa devices.","PeriodicalId":352860,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Canadian Conference of Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114276238","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":"CCECE 2019 Papers by Title","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/ccece.2019.8861737","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ccece.2019.8861737","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":352860,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Canadian Conference of Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114648538","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":"Event-Triggered State Estimation of High Dimensional Nonlinear Systems With Highly Nonlinear State Space Model Using Cubature Kalman Filter","authors":"Marzieh Kooshkbaghi, H. Marquez","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2019.8861943","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2019.8861943","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we design a state estimator which is proper for high dimensional nonlinear system with highly nonlinear state space model with noisy measurements over a wireless network using Cubature Kalman Filter (CKF). We show that by using the event-triggered cubature Kalman filter, the number of transmission through the communication channels between the measuring sensors and the remote state estimator will be reduced while the estimation quality can be guaranteed. An example shows the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.","PeriodicalId":352860,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Canadian Conference of Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125555544","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}