{"title":"Integrating Nearest Neighbors with Neural Network Models for Treatment Effect Estimation.","authors":"Niki Kiriakidou, Christos Diou","doi":"10.1142/S0129065723500363","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/S0129065723500363","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Treatment effect estimation is of high-importance for both researchers and practitioners across many scientific and industrial domains. The abundance of observational data makes them increasingly used by researchers for the estimation of causal effects. However, these data suffer from several weaknesses, leading to inaccurate causal effect estimations, if not handled properly. Therefore, several machine learning techniques have been proposed, most of them focusing on leveraging the predictive power of neural network models to attain more precise estimation of causal effects. In this work, we propose a new methodology, named Nearest Neighboring Information for Causal Inference (NNCI), for integrating valuable nearest neighboring information on neural network-based models for estimating treatment effects. The proposed NNCI methodology is applied to some of the most well established neural network-based models for treatment effect estimation with the use of observational data. Numerical experiments and analysis provide empirical and statistical evidence that the integration of NNCI with state-of-the-art neural network models leads to considerably improved treatment effect estimations on a variety of well-known challenging benchmarks.</p>","PeriodicalId":50305,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Neural Systems","volume":"33 7","pages":"2350036"},"PeriodicalIF":8.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10206801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Giannis Haralabopoulos, Gerasimos Razis, Ioannis Anagnostopoulos
{"title":"A Modified Long Short-Term Memory Cell.","authors":"Giannis Haralabopoulos, Gerasimos Razis, Ioannis Anagnostopoulos","doi":"10.1142/S0129065723500399","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/S0129065723500399","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Machine Learning (ML), among other things, facilitates Text Classification, the task of assigning classes to textual items. Classification performance in ML has been significantly improved due to recent developments, including the rise of Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs), Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), Gated Recurrent Units (GRUs), and Transformer Models. Internal memory states with dynamic temporal behavior can be found in these kinds of cells. This temporal behavior in the LSTM cell is stored in two different states: \"Current\" and \"Hidden\". In this work, we define a modification layer within the LSTM cell which allows us to perform additional state adjustments for either state, or even simultaneously alter both. We perform 17 state alterations. Out of these 17 single-state alteration experiments, 12 involve the Current state whereas five involve the Hidden one. These alterations are evaluated using seven datasets related to sentiment analysis, document classification, hate speech detection, and human-to-robot interaction. Our results showed that the highest performing alteration for Current and Hidden state can achieve an average <i>F</i>1 improvement of 0.5% and 0.3%, respectively. We also compare our modified cell performance to two Transformer models, where our modified LSTM cell is outperformed in classification metrics in 4/6 datasets, but improves upon the simple Transformer model and clearly has a better cost efficiency than both Transformer models.</p>","PeriodicalId":50305,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Neural Systems","volume":"33 7","pages":"2350039"},"PeriodicalIF":8.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10206784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Human Brain Dynamics and Coordination Reflect the Task Difficulty of Optical Image Relational Reasoning.","authors":"Wen-Chi Chou, Hsiao-Ching She, Tzyy-Ping Jung","doi":"10.1142/S0129065723500181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/S0129065723500181","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Despite advances in neuroscience, the mechanisms by which human brain resolve optical image formation through relational reasoning remain unclear, particularly its relationships with task difficulty. Therefore, this study explores the underlying brain dynamics involved in optical image formation tasks at various difficulty levels, including those with a single convex lens and a single mirror. Compared to single convex lens relational reasoning with high task difficulty, the single mirror relational reasoning exhibited significantly higher response accuracy and shorter latency. As compared to single mirror tasks, single convex tasks exhibited greater frontal midline theta augmentation and right parietal alpha suppression during phase I and earlier phase II, and augmentation of frontal midline theta, right parietal-occipital alpha, and left mu alpha suppression during late phase II. Moreover, the frontal midline theta power in late phase II predicts the likelihood of solving single convex tasks the best, while the parietal alpha power in phase I is most predictive. In addition, frontal midline theta power exhibited stronger synchronization with right parietal alpha, right occipital alpha, and mu alpha power when solving single convex tasks than single mirror tasks. In summary, having stronger brain dynamics and coordination is vital for achieving optical image formation with greater difficulty.</p>","PeriodicalId":50305,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Neural Systems","volume":"33 5","pages":"2350018"},"PeriodicalIF":8.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9495574","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Method based on Evolutionary Algorithms and Channel Attention Mechanism to Enhance Cycle Generative Adversarial Network Performance for Image Translation.","authors":"Yu Xue, Yixia Zhang, Ferrante Neri","doi":"10.1142/S0129065723500260","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/S0129065723500260","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) can learn the relationship between two image domains and achieve unpaired image-to-image translation. One of the breakthroughs was Cycle-consistent Generative Adversarial Networks (CycleGAN), which is a popular method to transfer the content representations from the source domain to the target domain. Existing studies have gradually improved the performance of CycleGAN models by modifying the network structure or loss function of CycleGAN. However, these methods tend to suffer from training instability and the generators lack the ability to acquire the most discriminating features between the source and target domains, thus making the generated images of low fidelity and few texture details. To overcome these issues, this paper proposes a new method that combines Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) and Attention Mechanisms to train GANs. Specifically, from an initial CycleGAN, binary vectors indicating the activation of the weights of the generators are progressively improved upon by means of an EA. At the end of this process, the best-performing configurations of generators can be retained for image generation. In addition, to address the issues of low fidelity and lack of texture details on generated images, we make use of the channel attention mechanism. The latter component allows the candidate generators to learn important features of real images and thus generate images with higher quality. The experiments demonstrate qualitatively and quantitatively that the proposed method, namely, Attention evolutionary GAN (AevoGAN) alleviates the training instability problems of CycleGAN training. In the test results, the proposed method can generate higher quality images and obtain better results than the CycleGAN training methods present in the literature, in terms of Inception Score (IS), Fréchet Inception Distance (FID) and Kernel Inception Distance (KID).</p>","PeriodicalId":50305,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Neural Systems","volume":"33 5","pages":"2350026"},"PeriodicalIF":8.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9496123","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yujie Zhang, Qian Yang, Zhicai Liu, Hong Peng, Jun Wang
{"title":"A Prediction Model Based on Gated Nonlinear Spiking Neural Systems.","authors":"Yujie Zhang, Qian Yang, Zhicai Liu, Hong Peng, Jun Wang","doi":"10.1142/S0129065723500296","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/S0129065723500296","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Nonlinear spiking neural P (NSNP) systems are one of neural-like membrane computing models, abstracted by nonlinear spiking mechanisms of biological neurons. NSNP systems have a nonlinear structure and can show rich nonlinear dynamics. In this paper, we introduce a variant of NSNP systems, called gated nonlinear spiking neural P systems or GNSNP systems. Based on GNSNP systems, a recurrent-like model is investigated, called GNSNP model. Moreover, exchange rate forecasting tasks are used as the application background to verify its ability. For the purpose, we develop a prediction model based on GNSNP model, called ERF-GNSNP model. In ERF-GNSNP model, the GNSNP model is followed by a \"dense\" layer, which is used to capture the correlation between different sub-series in multivariate time series. To evaluate the prediction performance, nine groups of exchange rate data sets are utilized to compare the proposed ERF-GNSNP model with 25 baseline prediction models. The comparison results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed ERF-GNSNP model for exchange rate forecasting tasks.</p>","PeriodicalId":50305,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Neural Systems","volume":"33 6","pages":"2350029"},"PeriodicalIF":8.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9547473","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Victor Borghi Gimenez, Suelen Lorenzato Dos Reis, Fábio M Simões de Souza
{"title":"Convolutional Neural Network Classification of Topographic Electroencephalographic Maps on Alcoholism.","authors":"Victor Borghi Gimenez, Suelen Lorenzato Dos Reis, Fábio M Simões de Souza","doi":"10.1142/S0129065723500259","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/S0129065723500259","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Alcohol use is a leading risk factor for substantial health loss, disability, and death. Thus, there is a general interest in developing computational tools to classify electroencephalographic (EEG) signals in alcoholism, but there are a limited number of studies on convolutional neural network (CNN) classification of alcoholism using topographic EEG signals. We produced an original dataset recorded from Brazilian subjects performing a language recognition task. Then, we transformed the Event-Related Potentials (ERPs) into topographic maps by using the ERP's statistical parameters across time, and used a CNN network to classify the topographic dataset. We tested the effect of the size of the dataset in the accuracy of the CNNs and proposed a data augmentation approach to increase the size of the topographic dataset to improve the accuracies. Our results encourage the use of CNNs to classify abnormal topographic EEG patterns associated with alcohol abuse.</p>","PeriodicalId":50305,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Neural Systems","volume":"33 5","pages":"2350025"},"PeriodicalIF":8.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9811628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hybrid Attention Network for Epileptic EEG Classification.","authors":"Yanna Zhao, Jiatong He, Fenglin Zhu, Tiantian Xiao, Yongfeng Zhang, Ziwei Wang, Fangzhou Xu, Yi Niu","doi":"10.1142/S0129065723500314","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/S0129065723500314","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Automatic seizure detection from electroencephalography (EEG) based on deep learning has been significantly improved. However, existing works have not adequately excavate the spatial-temporal information between EEG channels. Besides, most works mainly focus on patient-specific scenarios while cross-patient seizure detection is more challenging and meaningful. Regarding the above problems, we propose a hybrid attention network (HAN) for automatic seizure detection. Specifically, the graph attention network (GAT) extracts spatial features at the front end, and Transformer gets time features as the back end. HAN leverages the attention mechanism and fully extracts the spatial-temporal correlation of EEG signals. The focal loss function is introduced to HAN to deal with the imbalance of the dataset accompanied by seizure detection based on EEG. Both patient-specific and patient-independent experiments are carried out on the public CHB-MIT database. Experimental results demonstrate the efficacy of HAN in both experimental settings.</p>","PeriodicalId":50305,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Neural Systems","volume":"33 6","pages":"2350031"},"PeriodicalIF":8.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9898468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Antonio Ramírez-de-Arellano, David Orellana-Martín, Mario J Pérez-Jiménez
{"title":"Using Virus Machines to Compute Pairing Functions.","authors":"Antonio Ramírez-de-Arellano, David Orellana-Martín, Mario J Pérez-Jiménez","doi":"10.1142/S0129065723500235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/S0129065723500235","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Virus machines are computational devices inspired by the movement of viruses between hosts and their capacity to replicate using the resources of the hosts. This behavior is controlled by an external graph of instructions that opens different channels of the system to make viruses capable of moving. This model of computation has been demonstrated to be as powerful as turing machines by different methods: by generating Diophantine sets, by computing partial recursive functions and by simulating register machines. It is interesting to investigate the practical use cases of this model in terms of possibilities and efficiency. In this work, we give the basic modules to create an arithmetic calculator. As a practical application, two pairing functions are calculated by means of two different virus machines. Pairing functions are important resources in the field of cryptography. The functions calculated are the Cantor pairing function and the Gödel pairing function.</p>","PeriodicalId":50305,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Neural Systems","volume":"33 5","pages":"2350023"},"PeriodicalIF":8.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9494303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yujie Yang, Lin Hu, Chen Zu, Qizheng Zhou, Xi Wu, Jiliu Zhou, Yan Wang
{"title":"Facial Expression Recognition with Contrastive Learning and Uncertainty-Guided Relabeling.","authors":"Yujie Yang, Lin Hu, Chen Zu, Qizheng Zhou, Xi Wu, Jiliu Zhou, Yan Wang","doi":"10.1142/S0129065723500326","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/S0129065723500326","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Facial expression recognition (FER) plays a vital role in the field of human-computer interaction. To achieve automatic FER, various approaches based on deep learning (DL) have been presented. However, most of them lack for the extraction of discriminative expression semantic information and suffer from the problem of annotation ambiguity. In this paper, we propose an elaborately designed end-to-end recognition network with contrastive learning and uncertainty-guided relabeling, to recognize facial expressions efficiently and accurately, as well as to alleviate the impact of annotation ambiguity. Specifically, a supervised contrastive loss (SCL) is introduced to promote inter-class separability and intra-class compactness, thus helping the network extract fine-grained discriminative expression features. As for the annotation ambiguity problem, we present an uncertainty estimation-based relabeling module (UERM) to estimate the uncertainty of each sample and relabel the unreliable ones. In addition, to deal with the padding erosion problem, we embed an amending representation module (ARM) into the recognition network. Experimental results on three public benchmarks demonstrate that our proposed method facilitates the recognition performance remarkably with 90.91% on RAF-DB, 88.59% on FERPlus and 61.00% on AffectNet, outperforming current state-of-the-art (SOTA) FER methods. Code will be available at http//github.com/xiaohu-run/fer_supCon.</p>","PeriodicalId":50305,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Neural Systems","volume":"33 6","pages":"2350032"},"PeriodicalIF":8.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9537226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fangzhou Xu, Chongfeng Wang, Xin Yu, Jinzhao Zhao, Ming Liu, Jiaqi Zhao, Licai Gao, Xiuquan Jiang, Zhaoxin Zhu, Yongjian Wu, Dezheng Wang, Shanxin Feng, Sen Yin, Yang Zhang, Jiancai Leng
{"title":"One-Dimensional Local Binary Pattern and Common Spatial Pattern Feature Fusion Brain Network for Central Neuropathic Pain.","authors":"Fangzhou Xu, Chongfeng Wang, Xin Yu, Jinzhao Zhao, Ming Liu, Jiaqi Zhao, Licai Gao, Xiuquan Jiang, Zhaoxin Zhu, Yongjian Wu, Dezheng Wang, Shanxin Feng, Sen Yin, Yang Zhang, Jiancai Leng","doi":"10.1142/S0129065723500302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/S0129065723500302","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Central neuropathic pain (CNP) after spinal cord injury (SCI) is related to the plasticity of cerebral cortex. The plasticity of cortex recorded by electroencephalogram (EEG) signal can be used as a biomarker of CNP. To analyze changes in the brain network mechanism under the combined effect of injury and pain or under the effect of pain, this paper mainly studies the changes of brain network functional connectivity in patients with neuropathic pain and without neuropathic pain after SCI. This paper has recorded the EEG with the CNP group after SCI, without the CNP group after SCI, and a healthy control group. Phase-locking value has been used to construct brain network topological connectivity maps. By comparing the brain networks of the two groups of SCI with the healthy group, it has been found that in the [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] frequency bands, the injury increases the functional connectivity between the frontal lobe and occipital lobes, temporal, and parietal of the patients. Furthermore, the comparison of brain networks between the group with CNP and the group without CNP after SCI has found that pain has a greater effect on the increased connectivity within the patients' frontal lobes. Motor imagery (MI) data of CNP patients have been used to extract one-dimensional local binary pattern (1D-LBP) and common spatial pattern (CSP) features, the left and right hand movements of the patients' MI have been classified. The proposed LBP-CSP feature method has achieved the highest accuracy of 98.6% and the average accuracy of 91.5%. The results of this study have great clinical significance for the neural rehabilitation and brain-computer interface of CNP patients.</p>","PeriodicalId":50305,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Neural Systems","volume":"33 6","pages":"2350030"},"PeriodicalIF":8.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9544176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}