Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third leading cause of cancer death globally. Early detection and removal of precancerous polyps can significantly reduce the chance of CRC patient death. Currently, the polyp detection rate mainly depends on the skill and expertise of gastroenterologists. Over time, unidentified polyps can develop into cancer. Machine learning has recently emerged as a powerful method in assisting clinical diagnosis. Several classification models have been proposed to identify polyps, but their performance has not been comparable to an expert endoscopist yet. Here, we propose a multiple classifier consultation strategy to create an effective and powerful classifier for polyp identification. This strategy benefits from recent findings that different classification models can better learn and extract various information within the image. Therefore, our Ensemble classifier can derive a more consequential decision than each individual classifier. The extracted combined information inherits the ResNet’s advantage of residual connection, while it also extracts objects when covered by occlusions through depth-wise separable convolution layer of the Xception model. Here, we applied our strategy to still frames extracted from a colonoscopy video. It outperformed other state-of-the-art techniques with a performance measure greater than 95% in each of the algorithm parameters. Our method will help researchers and gastroenterologists develop clinically applicable, computational-guided tools for colonoscopy screening. It may be extended to other clinical diagnoses that rely on image.

Parkinson’s disease primarily affects people in their later years, and there is no cure for this disease; however, the proper medication of patients can lead to a healthy life. Appropriate care and treatment of Parkinson’s disease can be improved if the disease is detected in its early phase. Thus, there is an urgent need to develop novel methods for early illness detection. With this aim for the early detection of Parkinson’s disease, in this study, we utilized hand-drawn images by Parkinson’s disease patients to effectively reduce the clinical experimental costs for poor people. Initially, discrete wavelet coefficients were extracted for each pattern of images; thereafter, on top of that, histograms of oriented gradient features were also extracted to refine the level of features. Thereafter, the fusion approach-based features were fed to various machine learning algorithms. The proposed work was validated on two different datasets, each of which consisted of various patterns, including spiral, wave, cube, and triangle images. The main contribution of this work is the fusion of two feature extraction techniques, which are histograms of oriented gradient features and discrete wavelet transform coefficients. The extracted features were then provided as input into different machine learning algorithms. In our experiment(s) on two datasets, the results achieved an accuracy of 79.7% and 97.8%, respectively, for all four discrete wavelet transform coefficients. This work demonstrates the utilities of fusion-based features for all four discrete wavelet transformation coefficients to detect Parkinson’s disease, using image processing and machine learning techniques.

In this work, a seismocardiogram (SCG) based breathing-state measuring method is proposed for m-health applications. The aim of the proposed framework is to assess the human respiratory system by identifying degree-of-breathings, such as breathlessness, normal breathing, and long and labored breathing. For this, it is needed to measure cardiac-induced chest-wall vibrations, reflected in the SCG signal. Orthogonal subspace projection is employed to extract the SCG cycles with the help of a concurrent ECG signal. Subsequently, fifteen statistically significant morphological-features are extracted from each of the SCG cycles. These features can efficiently characterize physiological changes due to varying respiratory-rates. Stacked autoencoder (SAE) based architecture is employed for the identification of different respiratory-effort levels. The performance of the proposed method is evaluated and compared with other standard classifiers for 1147 analyzed SCG-beats. The proposed method gives an overall average accuracy of 91.45% in recognizing three different breathing states. The quantitative analysis of the performance results clearly shows the effectiveness of the proposed framework. It may be employed in various healthcare applications, such as pre-screening medical sensors and IoT based remote health-monitoring systems.