Hua Chen

Prof. Dr. Hua Chen


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Academic Career Length

5Years (2022-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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11 January 2023 in Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience
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HCHua Chen
Hua Chen
NWNan Wang
Nan Wang
XDXueping Du
Xueping Du
KMKehui Mei
Kehui Mei
YZYuan Zhou
Yuan Zhou
GCGuangxing Cai
Guangxing Cai
Breast cancer is the most common and deadly type of cancer in the world. Based on machine learning algorithms such as XGBoost, random forest, logistic regression, and K‐nearest neighbor, this paper establishes different models to classify and predict breast cancer, so as to provide a reference for the early diagnosis of breast cancer. Recall indicates the probability of detecting malignant cancer cells in medical diagnosis, which is of great significance for the classification of breast cancer, so this article takes recall as the primary evaluation index and considers the precision, accuracy, and F1‐score evaluation indicators to evaluate and compare the prediction effect of each model. In order to eliminate the influence of different dimensional concepts on the effect of the model, the data are standardized. In order to find the optimal subset and improve the accuracy of the model, 15 features were screened out as input to the model through the Pearson correlation test. The K‐nearest neighbor model uses the cross‐validation method to select the optimal k value by using recall as an evaluation index. For the problem of positive and negative sample imbalance, the hierarchical sampling method is used to extract the training set and test set proportionally according to different categories. The experimental results show that under different dataset division (8 : 2 and 7 : 3), the prediction effect of the same model will have different changes. Comparative analysis shows that the XGBoost model established in this paper (which divides the training set and test set by 8 : 2) has better effects, and its recall, precision, accuracy, and F1‐score are 1.00, 0.960, 0.974, and 0.980, respectively.

5 September 2023 in IEEE Access
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HCHua Chen
Hua Chen
KMKehui Mei
Kehui Mei
YZYuan Zhou
Yuan Zhou
NWNan Wang
Nan Wang
GCGuangxing Cai
Guangxing Cai
Breast cancer has replaced lung cancer as the number one cancer among women worldwide. In this paper, we take breast cancer as the research object, and pioneer a hybrid strategy to process the data, and combine the machine learning method to build a more accurate and efficient breast cancer auxiliary diagnosis model. First, the combined sampling method SMOTE-ENN is used to solve the problem of sample imbalance, and the data are standardized to make the data have better separability. Then, the features of the dataset are initially screened using the mutual information method, and further secondary feature selection is performed using the recursive feature elimination method based on the XGBoost algorithm. Thus, the feature dimensionality of the dataset is reduced and the generalization ability of the model is improved. Finally, five different machine learning models are used for classification prediction, the best combination of parameters for each model is found using a grid search method, and the final results of each model are derived using a 10-fold cross-validation method. The experiments are conducted using the Wisconsin Diagnostic Breast Cancer dataset (WDBC), and the results of the study find that after the data are processed by the hybrid strategy, the best prediction results are obtained using the RF model with 99.52% accuracy, which is better than the previous research methods.

27 September 2023 in Applied Sciences
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HCHua Chen
Hua Chen
NWNan Wang
Nan Wang
YZYuan Zhou
Yuan Zhou
KMKehui Mei
Kehui Mei
TMTANG MENGDI
TANG MENGDI
GCGuangxing Cai
Guangxing Cai
In order to improve the classification effect of the logistic regression (LR) model for breast cancer prediction, a new hybrid feature selection method is proposed to process the data, using the Pearson correlation test and the iterative random forest algorithm based on out-of-bag estimation (RF-OOB) to screen the optimal 17 features as inputs to the model. Secondly, the LR is optimized using the batch gradient descent (BGD-LR) algorithm to train the loss function of the model to minimize the loss. In order to protect the privacy of breast cancer patients, a differential privacy protection technology is added to the BGD-LR model, and an LR optimization model based on differential privacy with batch gradient descent (BDP-LR) is constructed. Finally, experiments are carried out on the Wisconsin Diagnostic Breast Cancer (WDBC) dataset. Meanwhile, accuracy, precision, recall, and F1-score are selected as the four main evaluation indicators. Moreover, the hyperparameters of each model are determined by the grid search method and the cross-validation method. The experimental results show that after hybrid feature selection, the optimal results of the four main evaluation indicators of the BGD-LR model are 0.9912, 1, 0.9886, and 0.9943, in which the accuracy, recall, and F1-scores are increased by 2.63%, 3.41%, and 1.76%, respectively. For the BDP-LR model, when the privacy budget ε is taken as 0.8, the classification performance and privacy protection effect of the model reach an effective balance. At the same time, the four main evaluation indicators of the model are 0.9721, 0.9975, 0.9664, and 0.9816, which are improved by 1.58%, 0.26%, 1.81%, and 1.07%, respectively. Comparative analysis shows that the models of BGD-LR and BDP-LR constructed in this paper perform better than other classification models.

27 July 2023 in Applied Sciences
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HCHua Chen
Hua Chen
YZYuan Zhou
Yuan Zhou
KMKehui Mei
Kehui Mei
NWNan Wang
Nan Wang
TMTANG MENGDI
TANG MENGDI
GCGuangxing Cai
Guangxing Cai
This study aims to improve the quality of the clustering results of the density peak clustering (DPC) algorithm and address the privacy protection problem in the clustering analysis process. To achieve this, a DPC algorithm based on Chebyshev inequality and differential privacy (DP-CDPC) is proposed. Firstly, the distance matrix is calculated using cosine distance instead of Euclidean distance when dealing with high-dimensional datasets, and the truncation distance is automatically calculated using the dichotomy method. Secondly, to solve the difficulty in selecting suitable clustering centers in the DPC algorithm, statistical constraints are constructed from the perspective of the decision graph using Chebyshev inequality, and the selection of clustering centers is achieved by adjusting the constraint parameters. Finally, to address the privacy leakage problem in the cluster analysis, the Laplace mechanism is applied to introduce noise to the local density in the process of cluster analysis, enabling the privacy protection of the algorithm. The experimental results demonstrate that the DP-CDPC algorithm can effectively select the clustering centers, improve the quality of clustering results, and provide good privacy protection performance.

29 December 2022 in IEEE Access
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HCHua Chen
Hua Chen
YZYuan Zhou
Yuan Zhou
KMKehui Mei
Kehui Mei
NWNan Wang
Nan Wang
GCGuangxing Cai
Guangxing Cai
A new density peak clustering (DPC) algorithm with adaptive clustering center based on differential privacy was proposed to solve the problems of poor adaptability of high-dimensional data, inability to automatically determine clustering centers, and privacy problems in clustering analysis. First, to solve the problem of poor adaptability of high-dimensional data, cosine distance was used to measure the similarity between high-dimensional datasets. Then, aiming at the subjective problem of clustering center selection, from the perspective of ranking graph, the weight ( i - 1)/ i was introduced creatively, the slope trend of ranking graph was redefined to realize the adaptive clustering center. Finally, aiming at the privacy problem, the Laplacian noise of appropriate privacy budget was added to the core statistic (local density) of the algorithm to achieve the balance between privacy protection and algorithm effectiveness. Experimental results on both the synthetic and UCI datasets show that this algorithm can not only realize the automatic selection of clustering center, but also solve the privacy problem in clustering analysis, and improve the clustering evaluation index greatly, which proves the effectiveness of the algorithm.

31 May 2023 in IEEE Access
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HCHua Chen
Hua Chen
KMKehui Mei
Kehui Mei
YZYuan Zhou
Yuan Zhou
NWNan Wang
Nan Wang
TMTANG MENGDI
TANG MENGDI
GCGuangxing Cai
Guangxing Cai
The privacy protection problem in data mining has received increasingly attention and is a hot topic of current research. To address the problems of large accuracy loss and instability of clustering results of clustering algorithms under differential privacy protection requirements, a density peak clustering algorithm for differential privacy protection (DP-chDPC) is proposed. Firstly, the original DPC algorithm is improved, by using the dichotomy method to automatically determine the truncation distance to avoid the subjectivity of manual selection, and by setting the threshold of local density and center offset distance to automatically obtain the clustering center, which overcomes the uncertainty of the original DPC algorithm to select the clustering center based on the decision graph. Then, noise is added to the local density by using the Laplace mechanism to realize the differential privacy protection of the algorithm during the clustering analysis. Finally, the Chebyshev distance is used to replace the Euclidean distance to calculate the distance matrix, which reduces the interference on the clustering results after the algorithm adds noise, and reduces the loss of clustering accuracy, so that the stability of the algorithm is improved. The experimental results show that the DP-chDPC algorithm can effectively reduce the loss of clustering accuracy after the algorithm adds noise, and the clustering results are more stable.