This paper refers to the method of using the deep neural long-short-term memory (LSTM) network for the problem of electrocardiogram (ECG) signal classification. ECG signals contain a lot of subtle information analyzed by doctors to determine the type of heart dysfunction. Due to the large number of signal features that are difficult to identify, raw ECG data is usually not suitable for use in machine learning. The article presents how to transform individual ECG time series into spectral images for which two characteristics are determined, which are instantaneous frequency and spectral entropy. Feature extraction consists of converting the ECG signal into a series of spectral images using short-term Fourier transformation. Then the images were converted using Fourier transform again to two signals, which includes instantaneous frequency and spectral entropy. The data set transformed in this way was used to train the LSTM network. During the experiments, the LSTM networks were trained for both raw and spectrally transformed data. Then, the LSTM networks trained in this way were compared with each other. The obtained results prove that the transformation of input signals into images can be an effective method of improving the quality of classifiers based on deep learning.
The purpose of the theoretical considerations and research conducted was to indicate the instruments with which the quality of a dataset can be verified for the segmentation of observations occurring in the dataset. The paper proposes a novel way to deal with mixed datasets containing categorical and continuous attributes in a customer segmentation task. The categorical variables were embedded using an innovative unsupervised model based on an autoencoder. The customers were then divided into groups using different clustering algorithms, based on similarity matrices. In addition to the classic k-means method and the more modern DBSCAN, three graph algorithms were used: the Louvain algorithm, the greedy algorithm and the label propagation algorithm. The research was conducted on two datasets: one containing on retail customers and the other containing wholesale customers. The Calinski–Harabasz index, Davies–Bouldins index, NMI index, Fowlkes–Mallows index and silhouette score were used to assess the quality of the clustering. It was noted that the modularity parameter for graph methods was a good indicator of whether a given set could be meaningfully divided into groups.
The paper presents the results of research on the hybrid industrial tomograph electrical impedance tomography (EIT) and ultrasonic tomography (UST) (EIT-UST), operating on the basis of electrical and ultrasonic data. The emphasis of the research was placed on the algorithmic domain. However, it should be emphasized that all hardware components of the hybrid tomograph, including electronics, sensors and transducers, have been designed and mostly made in the Netrix S.A. laboratory. The test object was a tank filled with water with several dozen percent concentration. As part of the study, the original multiple neural networks system was trained, the characteristic feature of which is the generation of each of the individual pixels of the tomographic image, using an independent artificial neural network (ANN), with the input vector for all ANNs being the same. Despite the same measurement vector, each of the ANNs generates its own independent output value for a given tomogram pixel, because, during training, the networks get their respective weights and biases. During the tests, the results of three tomographic methods were compared: EIT, UST and EIT-UST hybrid. The results confirm that the use of heterogeneous tomographic systems (hybrids) increases the reliability of reconstruction in various measuring cases, which is used to solve quality problems in managing production processes.
An attempt to explain the phenomenon of the effect of electrode rotation on the ozone generation process is presented. A discharge photography method was applied and computer analysis method was used to find discharge differences between electrode rotational and non-rotational cases. The research presented shows that with electrode rotation the discharge was more uniform and the ozone generation efficiency increased about 15% compared to an ozonizer with a non-rotating electrode. In addition, during the research, the most suitable electrode rotational speed for the ozone generation process was estimated.
This paper presents a concept of the air quality monitoring system design and describes a selection of data quality analysis methods. A high level of industrialisation affects the risk of natural disasters related to environmental pollution such ase.g.air pollution by gases and clouds of dust (carbon monoxide, sulphur oxides, nitrogen oxides). That is why researches related to the monitoring this type of phenomena are extremely important. Low-cost air quality sensors are more commonly used to monitor air parameters in urban areas. These types of sensors are used to obtain an image of the spatiotemporal variability in the concentration of air pollutants. Aside from their low price , which is important from a point of view of the economic accessibility of society, low-cost sensors are prone to produce erroneous results compared to professional air quality monitors. The described study focuses on the analysis of outliers as particularly interesting for further analysis, as well as modelling with machine learning methods for air quality assessment in the city of Lublin.
This paper presents a novel, autonomous learning system working in real-time for face recognition. Multiple convolutional neural networks for face recognition tasks are available; however, these networks need training data and a relatively long training process as the training speed depends on hardware characteristics. Pretrained convolutional neural networks could be useful for encoding face images (after classifier layers are removed). This system uses a pretrained ResNet50 model to encode face images from a camera and the Multinomial Naïve Bayes for autonomous training in the real-time classification of persons. Faces of several persons visible in a camera are tracked using special cognitive tracking agents who deal with machine learning models. After a face in a new position of the frame appears (in a place where there was no face in the previous frames), the system checks if it is novel or not using a novelty detection algorithm based on an SVM classifier; if it is unknown, the system automatically starts training. As a result of the conducted experiments, one can conclude that good conditions provide assurance that the system can learn the faces of a new person who appears in the frame correctly. Based on our research, we can conclude that the critical element of this system working is the novelty detection algorithm. If false novelty detection works, the system can assign two or more different identities or classify a new person into one of the existing groups.