Automatic, cost-effective, and reliable cognitive workload estimation (CWE) is one of the important issues in diagnosis and treatment of neurocognitive diseases, cognitive performance improvement and error preventive strategies. To address this issue, this paper has proposed a novel and robust CWE method by detecting the time–frequency (TF) changes of electrodermal activities (EDA). Firstly, the local and global properties of the time-variant characteristics of EDA have been presented using Smooth Pseudo WignerVille distribution with enhanced TF resolution. Then, the transient changes in TF images of EDA signals have been quantified using a set of textural features based on Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix descriptor (GLCM). Several static and dynamic classifiers, such as support vector machine, K- k-nearest neighbor, cascade forward neural network, and recurrent neural network have been explored. A real EDA data experiment recorded during arithmetic task with different workload levels have been used to evaluate the performance of the proposed method. The obtained results have confirmed that it can achieve a high estimation performance of 97.71% using contrast feature for discrimination of three workload levels. Further analysis has also suggested that the model is robust to GLCM parameters and classifiers and can provide a better tradeoff between computational complexity and high performance using minimum number of textural features in comparison with previous studies.
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Automatic, cost-effective, and reliable detection of neurodegenerative diseases (NDs) is one of the important issues in clinical practice. The main idea of the proposed method in this study is to utilize the advantages of gait time series that can provide low-cost and noninvasive measures, homomorphic filtering that can effectively separate muscle activity from body dynamic and recurrent neural network or cascade forward neural network that can learn sequential time-varying data. Experimental results on gait time series of 16 healthy control subjects, 13 patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, 15 patients with Parkinson’s disease and 20 patients with Huntington’s disease have demonstrated high detection performance with an accuracy rate of 100 % using K-fold cross validation for all three types of NDs outperforming other existing methods. The results have also indicated that the use of real cepstral coefficients, oscillation components, or basic statistics feature set has improved the detection performance.
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Overcrowding in emergency department (ED) causes lengthy waiting times, reduces adequate emergency care and increases rate of mortality. Accurate prediction of daily ED visits and allocating resources in advance is one of the solutions to ED overcrowding problem. In this paper, a deep stacked architecture is being proposed and applied to the daily ED visits prediction problem with deep components such as Long Short Term Memory (LSTM), Gated Recurrent Units (GRU) and simple Recurrent Neural Network (RNN). The proposed architecture achieves very high mean accuracy level (94.28–94.59%) in daily ED visits predictions. We have also compared the performance of this architecture with non-stacked deep models and traditional prediction models. The results indicate that deep stacked models outperform (4–7%) the traditional prediction models and other non-stacked deep learning models (1–2%) in our prediction tasks. The application of deep neural network in ED visits prediction is novel as this is one of the first studies to apply a deep stacked architecture in this field. Importantly, our models have achieved better prediction accuracy (in one case comparable) than the state-of-the-art in the literature.
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