Stefania Santini, A. Pescapé, A. S. Valente, V. Abate, G. Improta, M. Triassi, P. Ricchi, A. Filosa
{"title":"Using fuzzy logic for improving clinical daily-care of β-thalassemia patients","authors":"Stefania Santini, A. Pescapé, A. S. Valente, V. Abate, G. Improta, M. Triassi, P. Ricchi, A. Filosa","doi":"10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2017.8015545","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2017.8015545","url":null,"abstract":"The domain of medical decision making process is heavily affected by vagueness and uncertainty issues and — for copying with them — different type of Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS)s, simulating human expert clinician reasoning, have been designed in order to suggest decisions on treatment of patients. In this paper, we exploit fuzzy inference machines to improve the knowledge-based CDSS actually used in the day-by-day clinical care of β-thalassemia patients of the Rare Red Blood Cell Disease Unit (RRBCDU) at Cardarelli Hospital (Naples, Italy). All the designed functionalities were iteratively developed on the field, through requirement-adjustment/development/validation cycles executed by an interdisciplinary research team comprising doctors, clinicians and IT engineers. The paper shows exemplary results on the on-line evaluation of Iron Overload during the health status assessment and care management of β-Thalassemia patients.","PeriodicalId":408343,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE)","volume":"23 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":"129983031","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":"A novel complexity reduced Levenberge-Marquardt algorithm: Application to the training of interval type-2 fuzzy systems","authors":"M. A. Khanesar, E. Kayacan","doi":"10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2017.8015737","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2017.8015737","url":null,"abstract":"Levenberge-Marquardt (LM) algorithm is a well-known optimization technique which has the advantages of the steepest descent and the Gauss-Newton methods. Unfortunately, LM algorithm-based parameter update rules, regardless of being used to tune the parameters of artificial neural networks or neuro-fuzzy systems, require the calculation of inversion of high dimensional matrices. Matrix inversions are generally computationally expensive, and it is not desired in a real-time application where the computation speed is critical. In this paper, using matrix inversion lemma, LM algorithm is modified to avoid matrix inversion calculations, and therefore lessen its computational burden. The proposed algorithm is compared with the conventional LM algorithm for the training of interval type-2 fuzzy logic systems in terms of its speed. Extensive simulation results demonstrate that that the proposed novel method can increase the speed of LM algorithm by 50% while remaining the same performance.","PeriodicalId":408343,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE)","volume":"22 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":"134297030","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}
N. Yamamoto, Katsuhiro Honda, S. Ubukata, A. Notsu
{"title":"Noise rejection schemes for FCM-type co-clustering based on uniform noise distribution","authors":"N. Yamamoto, Katsuhiro Honda, S. Ubukata, A. Notsu","doi":"10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2017.8015559","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2017.8015559","url":null,"abstract":"Fuzzy co-clustering is an extension of FCM-type clustering, where the within-cluster-error measure of FCM is replaced by the aggregation degree of two types of fuzzy memberships with the goal being to estimate object-item pairwise clusters from their cooccurrence information. This paper proposes a noise rejection scheme for FCM-type co-clustering models, which is constructed based on the probabilistic co-clustering concept. Noise FCM was achieved by introducing an additional noise cluster into FCM, where the noise cluster was assumed to have a uniform prototype distribution. A similar concept was implemented for probabilistic concept-based co-clustering for robust estimation. The main contribution of this paper is to demonstrate that the uniform distribution concept can also be useful in FCM-type co-clustering models, even though their objective functions are not designed based on probabilistic concepts.","PeriodicalId":408343,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE)","volume":"245 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":"131617062","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. Villar, I. Alemán, L. Castillo, S. Damas, O. Cordón
{"title":"A first approach to a fuzzy classification system for age estimation based on the pubic bone","authors":"P. Villar, I. Alemán, L. Castillo, S. Damas, O. Cordón","doi":"10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2017.8015760","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2017.8015760","url":null,"abstract":"The study of human remains suffers from a lack of information for determining a reliable estimation of the age of an individual. One of the most extended methods for this task was proposed in the twenties of the past century and is based on the analysis of the pubic bone. The method describes some age changes occurring in the pubic bone and establishes ten different age ranges with a description of the morphological aspect of the bone in each one of them. These descriptions are sometimes vague and there is not a systematic way for using the method. In this contribution we propose two different preliminary fuzzy rule-based classification system designs for age estimation from the pubic bone that consider the main morphological characteristics of the bone as independent and linguistic variables. So, we have identified the problem variables and we have defined the corresponding linguistic labels making use of forensic expert knowledge, that is also considered to design a decision support fuzzy system. A brief collection of pubic bones labeled by forensic anthropologists has been used for learning the second fuzzy rule-based classification system by means of a fuzzy decision tree. The experiments developed report a best performance of the latter approach.","PeriodicalId":408343,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE)","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":"130867735","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}
A. Azadeh, P. Pourreza, Morteza Saberi, O. Hussain, Elizabeth Chang
{"title":"An integrated fuzzy cognitive map-Bayesian network model for improving HSEE in energy sector","authors":"A. Azadeh, P. Pourreza, Morteza Saberi, O. Hussain, Elizabeth Chang","doi":"10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2017.8015594","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2017.8015594","url":null,"abstract":"Health, Safety, Environment and Ergonomie (HSEE) are important factors in any organization. An organization always have to assess its compliance in these factors to the required benchmarks and take proactive actions to improve them if required. In this paper, we propose a Fuzzy Cognitive Map-Bayesian network (BN) model in order to assist organizations in doing this process. Fuzzy Cognitive Map (FCM) method is used for constructing graphical model of BN to ascertain the relationships between the inputs and the impact which they will have on the quantified HSEE. Noisy-OR method and EM are used to ascertain the conditional probability between the inputs and quantifying the HSEE value. Using this, we find out the most influential input factor on HSEE quantification which can then be managed for improving an organization's compliance to HSEE. Leveraging the power of Bayesian network in modeling HSEE and augmenting it with FCM is the main contribution of this research work which opens this line of research.","PeriodicalId":408343,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE)","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":"131221531","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":"Learning to rank answers to closed-domain questions by using fuzzy logic","authors":"Marco Pota, M. Esposito, G. Pietro","doi":"10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2017.8015745","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2017.8015745","url":null,"abstract":"Question answering (QA) is a challenging task and has received considerable attention in the last years. Answer selection among candidate answers is one of the main phases for QA and the best answer to be returned is determined in this phase. A common approach consists in considering the selection of the final answer(s) as a ranking problem. So far, different methods have been proposed, mainly oriented to produce a single best ranking model operating in the same way on all the question types. Differently, this paper proposes a fuzzy approach for ranking and selecting the correct answer among a list of candidates in a state-of-the-art QA system operating with factoid and description questions on Italian corpora pertaining a closed domain. Starting from the consideration that this ranking problem can be reduced to a classification one, the proposed approach is based on the Likelihood-Fuzzy Analysis (LFA), applied in this case for mining fuzzy rule-based models able to discern correct (True) from incorrect answers (False). Such fuzzy models are mined as specifically tailored to each question type, and, thus, can be individually applied to produce a more robust and accurate final ranking. An experimental session over a collection of questions pertaining the Cultural Heritage domain, using a manually annotated gold-standard dataset, shows that considering specific fuzzy ranking models for each question type improves the accuracy of the best answer returned back to the user.","PeriodicalId":408343,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE)","volume":"10 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":"133078911","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}
Alya Al Farsi, F. Doctor, D. Petrovic, S. Chandran, Charalampos Karyotis
{"title":"Interval valued data enhanced fuzzy cognitive maps: Torwards an appraoch for Autism deduction in Toddlers","authors":"Alya Al Farsi, F. Doctor, D. Petrovic, S. Chandran, Charalampos Karyotis","doi":"10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2017.8015702","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2017.8015702","url":null,"abstract":"Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (FCMs) are a soft computing technique characterized by robust properties that make them an effective technique for medical decision support systems. Making decisions within a medical domain is difficult due to the existence of high levels of uncertainty. The sources of this uncertainty can be due to the variation of physicians' opinions and experiences. The structure of existing FCMs is based on type-1 fuzzy sets in order to represent the causal relations among concepts of the modeled system. Therefore, the ability of the FCM to handle high levels of uncertainties and deliver accurate results can be hindered. In this paper, we propose using the Interval Agreement Approach to model the weights of links in FCMs to capture high level uncertainties in the presence of imprecise data acquired from different medical experts to enhance its decision modelling and reasoning capability. The proposed model is used in identifying if a child is diagnosed with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) where the Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers is used as a standard tool to derive the inputs for the FCMs. Initial results demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms conventional FCMs in classifying ASD based on a dataset of diagnosed cases.","PeriodicalId":408343,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE)","volume":"2 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":"115437004","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":"Deictic gesture enhanced fuzzy spatial relation grounding in natural language","authors":"P. Srimal, M. Muthugala, A. Jayasekara","doi":"10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2017.8015637","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2017.8015637","url":null,"abstract":"In the recent past, domestic service robots have come under close scrutiny among researchers. When collaborating with humans, robots should be able to clearly understand the instructions conveyed by the human users. Voice interfaces are frequently used as a mean of interaction interface between users and robots, as it requires minimum amount of work overhead from the users. However, the information conveyed through the voice instructions are often ambiguous and cumbersome due to the inclusion of imprecise information. The voice instructions are often accompanied with gestures especially when referring objects, locations, directions etc. in the environment. However, the information conveyed solely through these gestures is also imprecise. Therefore, it is more effective to consider a multimodal interface rather than a unimodal interface in order to understand the user instructions. Moreover, the information conveyed through the gestures can be used to improve the understanding of the user instructions related to object placements. This paper proposes a method to enhance the interpretation of user instructions related to the object placements by interpreting the information conveyed through voice and gestures. Furthermore, the proposed system is capable of adapting the understanding, according to the spatial arrangement of the workspace of the robot. Fuzzy logic system is proposed in order to evaluate the information conveyed through these two modalities while considering the arrangement of the workspace. Experiments have been carried out in order to evaluate the performance of the proposed system. The experimental results validate the performance gain of the proposed multimodal system over the unimodal systems.","PeriodicalId":408343,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE)","volume":"57 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":"124319416","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":"Interval fuzzy rule-based modeling approach for financial time series forecasting","authors":"Leandro Maciel, R. Ballini","doi":"10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2017.8015654","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2017.8015654","url":null,"abstract":"Financial interval time series (ITS) describe the evolution of the maximum and minimum prices of an asset throughout time, which can be related to the concept of volatility. Hence, their accurate forecasts play a key role in risk management, derivatives pricing and asset allocation, as well as supplements the information extracted by the time series of the closing price values. This paper proposes an interval fuzzy rule-based model (iFRB) for ITS forecasting. iFRB consists in a fuzzy rule-based approach with affine consequents, which provides a nonlinear method that processes interval-valued data. It is suggested as empirical application the prediction of the main index of the Brazilian stock market, the IBOVESPA. One-step-ahead interval forecasts are compared against traditional univariate and multivariate time series benchmarks and with an interval multilayer perceptron neural network in terms of accuracy metrics and statistical tests. The results indicate that iFRB provides accurate forecasts and appears as a potential tool for financial ITS forecasting.","PeriodicalId":408343,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE)","volume":"365 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":"124590333","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}
Yuri Yamada, Gou Kayama, Tsuyoshi Nakamura, Kazuya Endo, M. Kanoh, Koji Yamada
{"title":"Black-and-white drawing support for adobe illustrator using onomatopoeia","authors":"Yuri Yamada, Gou Kayama, Tsuyoshi Nakamura, Kazuya Endo, M. Kanoh, Koji Yamada","doi":"10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2017.8015608","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2017.8015608","url":null,"abstract":"Adobe Illustrator provides many tools for a user to create art works. The tools also provide many parameters or options that the user can tune up or select. This study focuses on black-and-white drawings (“Sumi-e” or “Suiboku-ga” in Japanese) on Adobe Illustrator. In order to create black-and-white drawings, the user usually has to select a proper brush from preset brushes Adobe Illustrator provides. But the selection is difficult for the user, especially beginners. This paper proposes a supporting plug-in tool for the user to decide and apply the proper brush. The plug-in can accept an onomatopoeic utterance input which expresses the user's own imagination or impression of the brush. Onomatopoeia is well known as a useful figurative expression for Japanese people to describe their own imagination or impression for something. This paper reports the configuration of the plug-in and illustrated some examples of black-and-white drawings created by using the plug-in. The architecture of the plug-in consists of CNN(convolution neural network), database of brush samples, brush image interpolation, fuzzy-based image expansion and contraction, and so on. CNN allows input of arbitrary onomatopoeias. The brush image interpolation generates a new brush from brush samples in the database. The fuzzy-based image expansion and contraction transforms the new brush into a natural-looked brush form with less jaggy.","PeriodicalId":408343,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE)","volume":"27 12","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120861245","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}