{"title":"Multiobjective problem modeling of the capacitated vehicle routing problem with urgency in a pandemic period.","authors":"Mehmet Altinoz, O Tolga Altinoz","doi":"10.1007/s00521-022-07921-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-022-07921-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This research is based on the capacitated vehicle routing problem with urgency where each vertex corresponds to a medical facility with a urgency level and the traveling vehicle could be contaminated. This contamination is defined as the infectiousness rate, which is defined for each vertex and each vehicle. At each visited vertex, this rate for the vehicle will be increased. Therefore time-total distance it is desired to react to vertex as fast as possible- and infectiousness rate are main issues in the problem. This problem is solved with multiobjective optimization algorithms in this research. As a multiobjective problem, two objectives are defined for this model: the time and the infectiousness, and will be solved using multiobjective optimization algorithms which are nondominated sorting genetic algorithm (NSGAII), grid-based evolutionary algorithm GrEA, hypervolume estimation algorithm HypE, strength Pareto evolutionary algorithm shift-based density estimation SPEA2-SDE, and reference points-based evolutionary algorithm.</p>","PeriodicalId":49766,"journal":{"name":"Neural Computing & Applications","volume":"35 5","pages":"3865-3882"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9568933/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10632381","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"EOS-3D-DCNN: Ebola optimization search-based 3D-dense convolutional neural network for corn leaf disease prediction.","authors":"C Ashwini, V Sellam","doi":"10.1007/s00521-023-08289-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-023-08289-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Corn disease prediction is an essential part of agricultural productivity. This paper presents a novel 3D-dense convolutional neural network (3D-DCNN) optimized using the Ebola optimization search (EOS) algorithm to predict corn disease targeting the increased prediction accuracy than the conventional AI methods. Since the dataset samples are generally insufficient, the paper uses some preliminary pre-processing approaches to increase the sample set and improve the samples for corn disease. The Ebola optimization search (EOS) technique is used to reduce the classification errors of the 3D-CNN approach. As an outcome, the corn disease is predicted and classified accurately and more effectually. The accuracy of the proposed 3D-DCNN-EOS model is improved, and some necessary baseline tests are performed to project the efficacy of the anticipated model. The simulation is performed in the MATLAB 2020a environment, and the outcomes specify the significance of the proposed model over other approaches. The feature representation of the input data is learned effectually to trigger the model's performance. When the proposed method is compared to other existing techniques, it outperforms them in terms of precision, the area under receiver operating characteristics (AUC), f1 score, Kappa statistic error (KSE), accuracy, root mean square error value (RMSE), and recall.</p>","PeriodicalId":49766,"journal":{"name":"Neural Computing & Applications","volume":"35 15","pages":"11125-11139"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10043543/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9439692","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Learning from pseudo-lesion: a self-supervised framework for COVID-19 diagnosis.","authors":"Zhongliang Li, Xuechen Li, Zhihao Jin, Linlin Shen","doi":"10.1007/s00521-023-08259-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-023-08259-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has rapidly spread all over the world since its first report in December 2019, and thoracic computed tomography (CT) has become one of the main tools for its diagnosis. In recent years, deep learning-based approaches have shown impressive performance in myriad image recognition tasks. However, they usually require a large number of annotated data for training. Inspired by ground glass opacity, a common finding in COIVD-19 patient's CT scans, we proposed in this paper a novel self-supervised pretraining method based on pseudo-lesion generation and restoration for COVID-19 diagnosis. We used Perlin noise, a gradient noise based mathematical model, to generate lesion-like patterns, which were then randomly pasted to the lung regions of normal CT images to generate pseudo-COVID-19 images. The pairs of normal and pseudo-COVID-19 images were then used to train an encoder-decoder architecture-based U-Net for image restoration, which does not require any labeled data. The pretrained encoder was then fine-tuned using labeled data for COVID-19 diagnosis task. Two public COVID-19 diagnosis datasets made up of CT images were employed for evaluation. Comprehensive experimental results demonstrated that the proposed self-supervised learning approach could extract better feature representation for COVID-19 diagnosis, and the accuracy of the proposed method outperformed the supervised model pretrained on large-scale images by 6.57% and 3.03% on SARS-CoV-2 dataset and Jinan COVID-19 dataset, respectively.</p>","PeriodicalId":49766,"journal":{"name":"Neural Computing & Applications","volume":"35 15","pages":"10717-10731"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10038387/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9439693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interpretable tourism volume forecasting with multivariate time series under the impact of COVID-19.","authors":"Binrong Wu, Lin Wang, Rui Tao, Yu-Rong Zeng","doi":"10.1007/s00521-022-07967-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00521-022-07967-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study proposes a novel interpretable framework to forecast the daily tourism volume of Jiuzhaigou Valley, Huangshan Mountain, and Siguniang Mountain in China under the impact of COVID-19 by using multivariate time-series data, particularly historical tourism volume data, COVID-19 data, the Baidu index, and weather data. For the first time, epidemic-related search engine data is introduced for tourism demand forecasting. A new method named the composition leading search index-variational mode decomposition is proposed to process search engine data. Meanwhile, to overcome the problem of insufficient interpretability of existing tourism demand forecasting, a new model of DE-TFT interpretable tourism demand forecasting is proposed in this study, in which the hyperparameters of temporal fusion transformers (TFT) are optimized intelligently and efficiently based on the differential evolution algorithm. TFT is an attention-based deep learning model that combines high-performance forecasting with interpretable analysis of temporal dynamics, displaying excellent performance in forecasting research. The TFT model produces an interpretable tourism demand forecast output, including the importance ranking of different input variables and attention analysis at different time steps. Besides, the validity of the proposed forecasting framework is verified based on three cases. Interpretable experimental results show that the epidemic-related search engine data can well reflect the concerns of tourists about tourism during the COVID-19 epidemic.</p>","PeriodicalId":49766,"journal":{"name":"Neural Computing & Applications","volume":"35 7","pages":"5437-5463"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9638251/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10700857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Res-CovNet: an internet of medical health things driven COVID-19 framework using transfer learning.","authors":"Mangena Venu Madhavan, Aditya Khamparia, Deepak Gupta, Sagar Pande, Prayag Tiwari, M Shamim Hossain","doi":"10.1007/s00521-021-06171-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00521-021-06171-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Major countries are globally facing difficult situations due to this pandemic disease, COVID-19. There are high chances of getting false positives and false negatives identifying the COVID-19 symptoms through existing medical practices such as PCR (polymerase chain reaction) and RT-PCR (reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction). It might lead to a community spread of the disease. The alternative of these tests can be CT (Computer Tomography) imaging or X-rays of the lungs to identify the patient with COVID-19 symptoms more accurately. Furthermore, by using feasible and usable technology to automate the identification of COVID-19, the facilities can be improved. This notion became the basic framework, Res-CovNet, of the implemented methodology, a hybrid methodology to bring different platforms into a single platform. This basic framework is incorporated into IoMT based framework, a web-based service to identify and classify various forms of pneumonia or COVID-19 utilizing chest X-ray images. For the front end, the.NET framework along with C# language was utilized, MongoDB was utilized for the storage aspect, Res-CovNet was utilized for the processing aspect. Deep learning combined with the notion forms a comprehensive implementation of the framework, Res-CovNet, to classify the COVID-19 affected patients from pneumonia-affected patients as both lung imaging looks similar to the naked eye. The implemented framework, Res-CovNet, developed with the technique, transfer learning in which ResNet-50 used as a pre-trained model and then extended with classification layers. The work implemented using the data of X-ray images collected from the various trustable sources that include cases such as normal, bacterial pneumonia, viral pneumonia, and COVID-19, with the overall size of the data is about 5856. The accuracy of the model implemented is about 98.4% in identifying COVID-19 against the normal cases. The accuracy of the model is about 96.2% in the case of identifying COVID-19 against all other cases, as mentioned.</p>","PeriodicalId":49766,"journal":{"name":"Neural Computing & Applications","volume":"35 19","pages":"13907-13920"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s00521-021-06171-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9526793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Iyad Abu Doush, Mohammed A Awadallah, Mohammed Azmi Al-Betar, Osama Ahmad Alomari, Sharif Naser Makhadmeh, Ammar Kamal Abasi, Zaid Abdi Alkareem Alyasseri
{"title":"Archive-based coronavirus herd immunity algorithm for optimizing weights in neural networks.","authors":"Iyad Abu Doush, Mohammed A Awadallah, Mohammed Azmi Al-Betar, Osama Ahmad Alomari, Sharif Naser Makhadmeh, Ammar Kamal Abasi, Zaid Abdi Alkareem Alyasseri","doi":"10.1007/s00521-023-08577-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00521-023-08577-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The success of the supervised learning process for feedforward neural networks, especially multilayer perceptron neural network (MLP), depends on the suitable configuration of its controlling parameters (i.e., weights and biases). Normally, the gradient descent method is used to find the optimal values of weights and biases. The gradient descent method suffers from the local optimal trap and slow convergence. Therefore, stochastic approximation methods such as metaheuristics are invited. Coronavirus herd immunity optimizer (CHIO) is a recent metaheuristic human-based algorithm stemmed from the herd immunity mechanism as a way to treat the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. In this paper, an external archive strategy is proposed and applied to direct the population closer to more promising search regions. The external archive is implemented during the algorithm evolution, and it saves the best solutions to be used later. This enhanced version of CHIO is called ACHIO. The algorithm is utilized in the training process of MLP to find its optimal controlling parameters thus empowering their classification accuracy. The proposed approach is evaluated using 15 classification datasets with classes ranging between 2 to 10. The performance of ACHIO is compared against six well-known swarm intelligence algorithms and the original CHIO in terms of classification accuracy. Interestingly, ACHIO is able to produce accurate results that excel other comparative methods in ten out of the fifteen classification datasets and very competitive results for others.</p>","PeriodicalId":49766,"journal":{"name":"Neural Computing & Applications","volume":"35 21","pages":"15923-15941"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10115390/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9570244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Enhancing COVID-19 tracking apps with human activity recognition using a deep convolutional neural network and HAR-images.","authors":"Gianni D'Angelo, Francesco Palmieri","doi":"10.1007/s00521-021-05913-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00521-021-05913-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>With the emergence of COVID-19, mobile health applications have increasingly become crucial in contact tracing, information dissemination, and pandemic control in general. Apps warn users if they have been close to an infected person for sufficient time, and therefore potentially at risk. The distance measurement accuracy heavily affects the probability estimation of being infected. Most of these applications make use of the electromagnetic field produced by Bluetooth Low Energy technology to estimate the distance. Nevertheless, radio interference derived from numerous factors, such as crowding, obstacles, and user activity can lead to wrong distance estimation, and, in turn, to wrong decisions. Besides, most of the social distance-keeping criteria recognized worldwide plan to keep a different distance based on the activity of the person and on the surrounding environment. In this study, in order to enhance the performance of the COVID-19 tracking apps, a human activity classifier based on Convolutional Deep Neural Network is provided. In particular, the raw data coming from the accelerometer sensor of a smartphone are arranged to form an image including several channels (HAR-Image), which is used as fingerprints of the in-progress activity that can be used as an additional input by tracking applications. Experimental results, obtained by analyzing real data, have shown that the HAR-Images are effective features for human activity recognition. Indeed, the results on the k-fold cross-validation and obtained by using a real dataset achieved an accuracy very close to 100%.</p>","PeriodicalId":49766,"journal":{"name":"Neural Computing & Applications","volume":"35 19","pages":"13861-13877"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8009079/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9879440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Essam H Houssein, Mosa E Hosney, Waleed M Mohamed, Abdelmgeid A Ali, Eman M G Younis
{"title":"Fuzzy-based hunger games search algorithm for global optimization and feature selection using medical data.","authors":"Essam H Houssein, Mosa E Hosney, Waleed M Mohamed, Abdelmgeid A Ali, Eman M G Younis","doi":"10.1007/s00521-022-07916-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-022-07916-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Feature selection (FS) is one of the basic data preprocessing steps in data mining and machine learning. It is used to reduce feature size and increase model generalization. In addition to minimizing feature dimensionality, it also enhances classification accuracy and reduces model complexity, which are essential in several applications. Traditional methods for feature selection often fail in the optimal global solution due to the large search space. Many hybrid techniques have been proposed depending on merging several search strategies which have been used individually as a solution to the FS problem. This study proposes a modified hunger games search algorithm (mHGS), for solving optimization and FS problems. The main advantages of the proposed mHGS are to resolve the following drawbacks that have been raised in the original HGS; (1) avoiding the local search, (2) solving the problem of premature convergence, and (3) balancing between the exploitation and exploration phases. The mHGS has been evaluated by using the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2020 (CEC'20) for optimization test and ten medical and chemical datasets. The data have dimensions up to 20000 features or more. The results of the proposed algorithm have been compared to a variety of well-known optimization methods, including improved multi-operator differential evolution algorithm (IMODE), gravitational search algorithm, grey wolf optimization, Harris Hawks optimization, whale optimization algorithm, slime mould algorithm and hunger search games search. The experimental results suggest that the proposed mHGS can generate effective search results without increasing the computational cost and improving the convergence speed. It has also improved the SVM classification performance.</p>","PeriodicalId":49766,"journal":{"name":"Neural Computing & Applications","volume":"35 7","pages":"5251-5275"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9628476/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10274818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Khalid M Hosny, Asmaa M Khalid, Hanaa M Hamza, Seyedali Mirjalili
{"title":"Multilevel thresholding satellite image segmentation using chaotic coronavirus optimization algorithm with hybrid fitness function.","authors":"Khalid M Hosny, Asmaa M Khalid, Hanaa M Hamza, Seyedali Mirjalili","doi":"10.1007/s00521-022-07718-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-022-07718-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Image segmentation is a critical step in digital image processing applications. One of the most preferred methods for image segmentation is multilevel thresholding, in which a set of threshold values is determined to divide an image into different classes. However, the computational complexity increases when the required thresholds are high. Therefore, this paper introduces a modified Coronavirus Optimization algorithm for image segmentation. In the proposed algorithm, the chaotic map concept is added to the initialization step of the naive algorithm to increase the diversity of solutions. A hybrid of the two commonly used methods, Otsu's and Kapur's entropy, is applied to form a new fitness function to determine the optimum threshold values. The proposed algorithm is evaluated using two different datasets, including six benchmarks and six satellite images. Various evaluation metrics are used to measure the quality of the segmented images using the proposed algorithm, such as mean square error, peak signal-to-noise ratio, Structural Similarity Index, Feature Similarity Index, and Normalized Correlation Coefficient. Additionally, the best fitness values are calculated to demonstrate the proposed method's ability to find the optimum solution. The obtained results are compared to eleven powerful and recent metaheuristics and prove the superiority of the proposed algorithm in the image segmentation problem.</p>","PeriodicalId":49766,"journal":{"name":"Neural Computing & Applications","volume":"35 1","pages":"855-886"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9510310/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10497954","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Volodymyr Novykov, Christopher Bilson, Adrian Gepp, Geoff Harris, Bruce James Vanstone
{"title":"Empirical validation of ELM trained neural networks for financial modelling.","authors":"Volodymyr Novykov, Christopher Bilson, Adrian Gepp, Geoff Harris, Bruce James Vanstone","doi":"10.1007/s00521-022-07792-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-022-07792-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The purpose of this work is to compare predictive performance of neural networks trained using the relatively novel technique of training single hidden layer feedforward neural networks (SFNN), called Extreme Learning Machine (ELM), with commonly used backpropagation-trained recurrent neural networks (RNN) as applied to the task of financial market prediction. Evaluated on a set of large capitalisation stocks on the Australian market, specifically the components of the ASX20, ELM-trained SFNNs showed superior performance over RNNs for individual stock price prediction. While this conclusion of efficacy holds generally, long short-term memory (LSTM) RNNs were found to outperform for a small subset of stocks. Subsequent analysis identified several areas of performance deviations which we highlight as potentially fruitful areas for further research and performance improvement.</p>","PeriodicalId":49766,"journal":{"name":"Neural Computing & Applications","volume":"35 2","pages":"1581-1605"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9525949/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10503147","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}