Pub Date : 2022-12-09DOI: 10.1109/ICAC57685.2022.10025153
I. Dissanayake, Shamikh Hameed, Akalanka Sakalasooriya, Dinushi Jayasinghe, Lakmini Abeywardhana, D. Wijendra
Natural language processing has become essential to modern conversational tools and dialogue engines, including Chatbots. However, applying natural language processing to low-resource languages is challenging due to their lack of digital presence. Sinhala is the native language of approximately nineteen million people in Sri Lanka and is one of many low-resource languages. Moreover, the increase in using code-switching: alternating two or more languages within the same conversation, and code-mixing: the practice of representing words of a language using characters of another language, has become another major issue when processing natural languages. Apart from natural language processing, the explainability of opaque machine learning models utilized in chatbots has become another prominent concern. None of the existing modern chatbot development platforms supports explainability and relies on a performance score such as accuracy or f1-score. This paper proposes a no-code chatbot development platform with a series of built-in novel natural language processing, model evaluation, and explainability tools to tackle the problems of processing Sinhala-English code-switching and code-mixing natural language data and model evaluation in modern chatbot development platforms.
{"title":"Enhancing Conversational AI Model Performance and Explainability for Sinhala-English Bilingual Speakers","authors":"I. Dissanayake, Shamikh Hameed, Akalanka Sakalasooriya, Dinushi Jayasinghe, Lakmini Abeywardhana, D. Wijendra","doi":"10.1109/ICAC57685.2022.10025153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAC57685.2022.10025153","url":null,"abstract":"Natural language processing has become essential to modern conversational tools and dialogue engines, including Chatbots. However, applying natural language processing to low-resource languages is challenging due to their lack of digital presence. Sinhala is the native language of approximately nineteen million people in Sri Lanka and is one of many low-resource languages. Moreover, the increase in using code-switching: alternating two or more languages within the same conversation, and code-mixing: the practice of representing words of a language using characters of another language, has become another major issue when processing natural languages. Apart from natural language processing, the explainability of opaque machine learning models utilized in chatbots has become another prominent concern. None of the existing modern chatbot development platforms supports explainability and relies on a performance score such as accuracy or f1-score. This paper proposes a no-code chatbot development platform with a series of built-in novel natural language processing, model evaluation, and explainability tools to tackle the problems of processing Sinhala-English code-switching and code-mixing natural language data and model evaluation in modern chatbot development platforms.","PeriodicalId":292397,"journal":{"name":"2022 4th International Conference on Advancements in Computing (ICAC)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116528170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-09DOI: 10.1109/ICAC57685.2022.10025250
M. Wickramarathna, K. De Silva, Vihanga Lekamalage, Janith Senanayake, J. Perera, L. Ruggahakotuwa
With the COVID-19 pandemic, the world is confronting various healthcare issues, and healthcare automation is more crucial than ever. The pandemic has revealed the limitations of existing digital healthcare systems to manage public health emergencies. There is no registered population for many healthcare institutions in Sri Lanka, as a result, there is a communication gap. Electronic Health Record systems (EHRs) are becoming popular to share patient details but accessing scattered data across several EHRs while safeguarding patient privacy remains a challenge. Most of these medical records are in printed format and manually entering those into EHR systems is time-consuming and error prone. Not only that pharmaceutical error is a critical healthcare problem, but it is even riskier to visit doctors for pharmaceutical diagnosis during a pandemic. This research introduces a Blockchain-based patient health record system, an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) based Medical Document Scanner, a Drug Identifier based on Image Processing and a Medical Chatbot powered by NLP as four novel approaches to address these issues. Altogether with the results, this research aims at introducing a solution for the limitations in healthcare while providing a distributed healthcare framework for the healthcare community worldwide.
{"title":"Oxygen: A Distributed Health Care Framework for Patient Health Record Management and Pharmaceutical Diagnosis","authors":"M. Wickramarathna, K. De Silva, Vihanga Lekamalage, Janith Senanayake, J. Perera, L. Ruggahakotuwa","doi":"10.1109/ICAC57685.2022.10025250","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAC57685.2022.10025250","url":null,"abstract":"With the COVID-19 pandemic, the world is confronting various healthcare issues, and healthcare automation is more crucial than ever. The pandemic has revealed the limitations of existing digital healthcare systems to manage public health emergencies. There is no registered population for many healthcare institutions in Sri Lanka, as a result, there is a communication gap. Electronic Health Record systems (EHRs) are becoming popular to share patient details but accessing scattered data across several EHRs while safeguarding patient privacy remains a challenge. Most of these medical records are in printed format and manually entering those into EHR systems is time-consuming and error prone. Not only that pharmaceutical error is a critical healthcare problem, but it is even riskier to visit doctors for pharmaceutical diagnosis during a pandemic. This research introduces a Blockchain-based patient health record system, an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) based Medical Document Scanner, a Drug Identifier based on Image Processing and a Medical Chatbot powered by NLP as four novel approaches to address these issues. Altogether with the results, this research aims at introducing a solution for the limitations in healthcare while providing a distributed healthcare framework for the healthcare community worldwide.","PeriodicalId":292397,"journal":{"name":"2022 4th International Conference on Advancements in Computing (ICAC)","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124475642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-09DOI: 10.1109/ICAC57685.2022.10025041
S. Samaranayake, Shevon Krishmal, P. Cooray, Thyaga Senatilaka, S. Rajapaksha, Wellalage Sasini Nuwanthika
Strawberries are a very popular fruit and are widely consumed all over the world. Due to its nutritional value, its consumption has increased tremendously in recent times. Strawberry, which has such high health and economic value, is grown in only one area in Sri Lanka. This is since the climate in those areas is favorable for strawberries. Using the Internet of Things, image processing, and machine learning, this research proposed a design for a closed environment with automatic monitoring and controlling of environmental factors and nutrition required for strawberry cultivation with the capability of remote live monitoring and analysis of each plant. Also, the proposed system captures the images of each strawberry plant using a camera navigation system and analyses those images using a machine learning algorithm to identify the growing stage. This decision making process was verified using strawberry pictures acquired from a strawberry farm. In addition, current capturing images can use in the next growth cycle to increase accuracy. The proposed system can be easily expanded by increasing the height of the tower and refrigeration power. Through this, strawberry cultivation can be expanded to all parts of Sri Lanka by overcoming climatic and geographical limitations.
{"title":"Autonomous Hydroponic Environment with Live Remote Consulting System for Strawberry Farming","authors":"S. Samaranayake, Shevon Krishmal, P. Cooray, Thyaga Senatilaka, S. Rajapaksha, Wellalage Sasini Nuwanthika","doi":"10.1109/ICAC57685.2022.10025041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAC57685.2022.10025041","url":null,"abstract":"Strawberries are a very popular fruit and are widely consumed all over the world. Due to its nutritional value, its consumption has increased tremendously in recent times. Strawberry, which has such high health and economic value, is grown in only one area in Sri Lanka. This is since the climate in those areas is favorable for strawberries. Using the Internet of Things, image processing, and machine learning, this research proposed a design for a closed environment with automatic monitoring and controlling of environmental factors and nutrition required for strawberry cultivation with the capability of remote live monitoring and analysis of each plant. Also, the proposed system captures the images of each strawberry plant using a camera navigation system and analyses those images using a machine learning algorithm to identify the growing stage. This decision making process was verified using strawberry pictures acquired from a strawberry farm. In addition, current capturing images can use in the next growth cycle to increase accuracy. The proposed system can be easily expanded by increasing the height of the tower and refrigeration power. Through this, strawberry cultivation can be expanded to all parts of Sri Lanka by overcoming climatic and geographical limitations.","PeriodicalId":292397,"journal":{"name":"2022 4th International Conference on Advancements in Computing (ICAC)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124894605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-09DOI: 10.1109/ICAC57685.2022.10025259
Manul de Silva, Samoei K. Daniel, Manith Kumarapeli, Sashika Mahadura, L. Rupasinghe, C. Liyanapathirana
The adaptation of microservice architecture has increased massively during the last few years with the emergence of the cloud. Containers have become a common choice for microservices architecture instead of VMs (Virtual Machines) due to their portability and optimized resource usage characteristics. Along with the containers, container-orchestration platforms are also becoming an integral part of microservice-based systems, considering the flexibility and scalability offered by the container-orchestration media. With the virtualized implementation and the dynamic attribute of modern microservice architecture, it has been a cumbersome task to implement a proper observability mechanism to detect abnormal behaviour using conventional monitoring tools, which are most suitable for static infrastructures. We present a system that will collect required data with the understanding of the dynamic attribute of the system and identify anomalies with efficient data analysis methods.
{"title":"Anomaly Detection in Microservice Systems Using Autoencoders","authors":"Manul de Silva, Samoei K. Daniel, Manith Kumarapeli, Sashika Mahadura, L. Rupasinghe, C. Liyanapathirana","doi":"10.1109/ICAC57685.2022.10025259","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAC57685.2022.10025259","url":null,"abstract":"The adaptation of microservice architecture has increased massively during the last few years with the emergence of the cloud. Containers have become a common choice for microservices architecture instead of VMs (Virtual Machines) due to their portability and optimized resource usage characteristics. Along with the containers, container-orchestration platforms are also becoming an integral part of microservice-based systems, considering the flexibility and scalability offered by the container-orchestration media. With the virtualized implementation and the dynamic attribute of modern microservice architecture, it has been a cumbersome task to implement a proper observability mechanism to detect abnormal behaviour using conventional monitoring tools, which are most suitable for static infrastructures. We present a system that will collect required data with the understanding of the dynamic attribute of the system and identify anomalies with efficient data analysis methods.","PeriodicalId":292397,"journal":{"name":"2022 4th International Conference on Advancements in Computing (ICAC)","volume":"58 9","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120923562","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-09DOI: 10.1109/ICAC57685.2022.10025257
M.H.N Akalanka, W.P.S.H Weerasinghe, H. Perera, T.N. Kumari, D. Wijendra, J. Krishara
With the evolution of software development, the complexity of a system must be handled to increase its stability in real-world usage. Software complexity is involving with the degree of the user’s difficulty in comprehending its logic. Numerous software complexity metrics have been introduced to quantitatively measure software complexity based on different quantifiable aspects. However, the success of the current software complexity metrics is limited due to the lack of aspects and the incapability of addressing user understandability. Therefore, an automated tool for introducing software complexity with respect to the possible quantitative and qualitative aspects has been proposed.
{"title":"Software Complexity Automation Tool for Industrial Practices with Qualitative and Quantitative Aspects","authors":"M.H.N Akalanka, W.P.S.H Weerasinghe, H. Perera, T.N. Kumari, D. Wijendra, J. Krishara","doi":"10.1109/ICAC57685.2022.10025257","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAC57685.2022.10025257","url":null,"abstract":"With the evolution of software development, the complexity of a system must be handled to increase its stability in real-world usage. Software complexity is involving with the degree of the user’s difficulty in comprehending its logic. Numerous software complexity metrics have been introduced to quantitatively measure software complexity based on different quantifiable aspects. However, the success of the current software complexity metrics is limited due to the lack of aspects and the incapability of addressing user understandability. Therefore, an automated tool for introducing software complexity with respect to the possible quantitative and qualitative aspects has been proposed.","PeriodicalId":292397,"journal":{"name":"2022 4th International Conference on Advancements in Computing (ICAC)","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115517563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-09DOI: 10.1109/ICAC57685.2022.10025280
P.M.L. Liyanage, G. M. Herath, T. D. Thilakanayake, M. Liyanage
The emerging energy crises allow consumers to be concerned with the energy consumption of their appliances. Consumption data of individual appliances as opposed to the entire house are therefore in high demand. Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) is a way of producing individual appliance consumption data without using meters at individual appliances. Most studies have used signal features in steady state for device identification. However, many studies have not explored transient state signal characteristics for NILM. The voltage-current (V-I) trajectories during the transient state provide a unique way of representing the energy consumption of appliances. Although appliance-vise V-I characteristics have been considered in past studies, none has used aggregate V-I characteristics for appliance classification. Hence, using the V-I features of the aggregate data in an innovative manner for appliance classification has been explored in this work. The publicly available Plug-Level Appliance Identification Dataset (PLAID) was used to conduct this work. A Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) has been designed for device identification with 3 convolutional layers, a flatten layer and 4 fully connected layers. The results confirmed the possibility of using aggregate V-I trajectories for appliance classification with accuracies of up to 92% while retaining the full non-intrusive flavor of the study.
{"title":"Novel Image Based Method Using V-I Curves with Aggregate Energy Data for Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring Applications","authors":"P.M.L. Liyanage, G. M. Herath, T. D. Thilakanayake, M. Liyanage","doi":"10.1109/ICAC57685.2022.10025280","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAC57685.2022.10025280","url":null,"abstract":"The emerging energy crises allow consumers to be concerned with the energy consumption of their appliances. Consumption data of individual appliances as opposed to the entire house are therefore in high demand. Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) is a way of producing individual appliance consumption data without using meters at individual appliances. Most studies have used signal features in steady state for device identification. However, many studies have not explored transient state signal characteristics for NILM. The voltage-current (V-I) trajectories during the transient state provide a unique way of representing the energy consumption of appliances. Although appliance-vise V-I characteristics have been considered in past studies, none has used aggregate V-I characteristics for appliance classification. Hence, using the V-I features of the aggregate data in an innovative manner for appliance classification has been explored in this work. The publicly available Plug-Level Appliance Identification Dataset (PLAID) was used to conduct this work. A Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) has been designed for device identification with 3 convolutional layers, a flatten layer and 4 fully connected layers. The results confirmed the possibility of using aggregate V-I trajectories for appliance classification with accuracies of up to 92% while retaining the full non-intrusive flavor of the study.","PeriodicalId":292397,"journal":{"name":"2022 4th International Conference on Advancements in Computing (ICAC)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126731160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-09DOI: 10.1109/ICAC57685.2022.10025034
H. Jayasinghe, Nipuni Pallepitiya, Anuththara Chandrasiri, Chathunika Heenkenda, S. Vidhanaarachchi, Archchana Kugathasan, Kushan Rathnayaka, J. Wijekoon
Dental health-related disorders have proliferated worldwide due to the excessive intake of fast food and sugary foods, which was followed by bad oral hygiene practices. The cost of dental examinations may change based on how critical the condition is, regardless of whether they are not regular. For a person, diagnosing an oral health problem, particularly locating the disease’s underlying cause, can be challenging. To properly diagnose and treat such conditions, advanced dental diagnostic techniques may be necessary. By offering convenience and enhancing their oral health knowledge, the system seeks to serve as a prediction tool that regular people can utilize to detect potential tooth illnesses at an early stage. It is encompassed as a mobile application where a Mask R-CNN model is used in the core that accepts a dental radiograph as the input. The trained model will be able to identify diseases related to the bone and teeth. Based on the performance evaluations, the accuracy of the results that are obtained in tooth type, restoration quality, dental caries, and periodontal disease identification falls in the range of 75%-80%.
{"title":"Effectiveness of Using Radiology Images and Mask R-CNN for Stomatology","authors":"H. Jayasinghe, Nipuni Pallepitiya, Anuththara Chandrasiri, Chathunika Heenkenda, S. Vidhanaarachchi, Archchana Kugathasan, Kushan Rathnayaka, J. Wijekoon","doi":"10.1109/ICAC57685.2022.10025034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAC57685.2022.10025034","url":null,"abstract":"Dental health-related disorders have proliferated worldwide due to the excessive intake of fast food and sugary foods, which was followed by bad oral hygiene practices. The cost of dental examinations may change based on how critical the condition is, regardless of whether they are not regular. For a person, diagnosing an oral health problem, particularly locating the disease’s underlying cause, can be challenging. To properly diagnose and treat such conditions, advanced dental diagnostic techniques may be necessary. By offering convenience and enhancing their oral health knowledge, the system seeks to serve as a prediction tool that regular people can utilize to detect potential tooth illnesses at an early stage. It is encompassed as a mobile application where a Mask R-CNN model is used in the core that accepts a dental radiograph as the input. The trained model will be able to identify diseases related to the bone and teeth. Based on the performance evaluations, the accuracy of the results that are obtained in tooth type, restoration quality, dental caries, and periodontal disease identification falls in the range of 75%-80%.","PeriodicalId":292397,"journal":{"name":"2022 4th International Conference on Advancements in Computing (ICAC)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127187612","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-09DOI: 10.1109/ICAC57685.2022.10025301
W.M. Samoda Ravishani, G.A. Sithmi Ganepola, E.D.M. Silva, G.H.G. Chamodi Jayanika, U. U. Samantha Rajapaksha, N.H.P. Ravi Supunya Swarnakantha
Maintaining appropriate health by avoiding illnesses brought on by stress, heart disease, stroke, insomnia, and hormonal imbalance is made possible by managing the quality of sleep necessary for brain and memory-related tasks. In order to reduce these phenomena, we concentrated on recognizing them and developing strategies to do so. As a result, we decided to use smart pillows and bands that are Internet of Things (IoT)-based. To connect the touch sensor and relay module for improving sleep quality with the help of an automatic alarm system and light treatment system, an ESP-32 (microcontroller) was built into the pillow. The band will also have a second ESP 32 that can be connected to an oximeter, gyro, and accelerometer to improve the sleepwalk alert and health monitoring systems’ accuracy. The mobile application will also be created so that the patient and the doctor may review the patient’s sleeping patterns, and the CNN-based deep learning architecture was used to develop the emotion recognition function that uses music to improve sleep quality. For a better sleep experience, we will refer to the smart band and pillow as ”MAGICAL PILLOW” and ”MAGICAL BAND” as the ultimate products.
{"title":"IoT Based Smart Pillow for Improved Sleep Experience","authors":"W.M. Samoda Ravishani, G.A. Sithmi Ganepola, E.D.M. Silva, G.H.G. Chamodi Jayanika, U. U. Samantha Rajapaksha, N.H.P. Ravi Supunya Swarnakantha","doi":"10.1109/ICAC57685.2022.10025301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAC57685.2022.10025301","url":null,"abstract":"Maintaining appropriate health by avoiding illnesses brought on by stress, heart disease, stroke, insomnia, and hormonal imbalance is made possible by managing the quality of sleep necessary for brain and memory-related tasks. In order to reduce these phenomena, we concentrated on recognizing them and developing strategies to do so. As a result, we decided to use smart pillows and bands that are Internet of Things (IoT)-based. To connect the touch sensor and relay module for improving sleep quality with the help of an automatic alarm system and light treatment system, an ESP-32 (microcontroller) was built into the pillow. The band will also have a second ESP 32 that can be connected to an oximeter, gyro, and accelerometer to improve the sleepwalk alert and health monitoring systems’ accuracy. The mobile application will also be created so that the patient and the doctor may review the patient’s sleeping patterns, and the CNN-based deep learning architecture was used to develop the emotion recognition function that uses music to improve sleep quality. For a better sleep experience, we will refer to the smart band and pillow as ”MAGICAL PILLOW” and ”MAGICAL BAND” as the ultimate products.","PeriodicalId":292397,"journal":{"name":"2022 4th International Conference on Advancements in Computing (ICAC)","volume":"2011 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127357720","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-09DOI: 10.1109/ICAC57685.2022.10025224
Dulshani Dasanayake, Nirmani Athuraliya, Hashini De Silva, K.A.U Fernando, P. Haddela, Adeepa Gunarathne
Important details about the visual anomaly can be found in the retinal fundus imaging. The segmentation of the blood vessels is crucial and necessary for diagnosing different ocular fundus. The primary and most common causes of blindness are diabetic retinopathy and its effects on the retinal vascular structures. The study suggested a genetic algorithm combined with the K-means clustering technique for unsupervised retinal segmentation. An essential pre-processing step for vessel identification applications is vessel enhancement. The CLAHE filtering method is employed in this work as a preprocessing step for vessel improvement. The improved vessels were grouped together using a genetic approach, and K-means clustering was applied for superior clustering outcomes. DRIVE and IOSTAR databases that are accessible to the public are used to evaluate the suggested strategy. According to the experimental findings, the proposed algorithm successfully separates clusters that are more dense and well-separated than those of other previous findings. Both the Calinski-Harabasz I ndex S core and the Silhouette Index Score are used to validate the proposed algorithm.
{"title":"Genetic Algorithm Based Hybrid Clustering Technique for the Retinal Blood Vessels Segmentation","authors":"Dulshani Dasanayake, Nirmani Athuraliya, Hashini De Silva, K.A.U Fernando, P. Haddela, Adeepa Gunarathne","doi":"10.1109/ICAC57685.2022.10025224","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAC57685.2022.10025224","url":null,"abstract":"Important details about the visual anomaly can be found in the retinal fundus imaging. The segmentation of the blood vessels is crucial and necessary for diagnosing different ocular fundus. The primary and most common causes of blindness are diabetic retinopathy and its effects on the retinal vascular structures. The study suggested a genetic algorithm combined with the K-means clustering technique for unsupervised retinal segmentation. An essential pre-processing step for vessel identification applications is vessel enhancement. The CLAHE filtering method is employed in this work as a preprocessing step for vessel improvement. The improved vessels were grouped together using a genetic approach, and K-means clustering was applied for superior clustering outcomes. DRIVE and IOSTAR databases that are accessible to the public are used to evaluate the suggested strategy. According to the experimental findings, the proposed algorithm successfully separates clusters that are more dense and well-separated than those of other previous findings. Both the Calinski-Harabasz I ndex S core and the Silhouette Index Score are used to validate the proposed algorithm.","PeriodicalId":292397,"journal":{"name":"2022 4th International Conference on Advancements in Computing (ICAC)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122713421","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Waste disposal is one of the most important industries in the world. If not maintained properly it would lead to the destruction of the environment. Improper waste disposal is becoming a critical issue in Sri Lanka and the lack of waste segregation, inadequate waste collection methods, the lack of support for waste management from the public are among the root causes of the problem. As a solution we propose an IoT-based solid waste management system that allows garbage bin monitoring, routing of garbage collector trucks, a prediction model and a point rewarding system. As the end result of this research the following prototypes was built; a prototype model of a smart bin with the capabilities of opening and closing by itself and detecting the waste level of the bin, a prototype mobile application for garbage collectors which delivers analysed data on truck position and ensures timeliness, a prototype mobile application for the public which receives the weight and type of solid waste discarded as an input and calculate reward points to encourage the public in proper waste disposal, a prototype web application which delivers statistical data for detailed reports and a prediction model which predicts the amount of waste to be collected in the coming month using machine learning. This is a low-cost IoT-based solution that uses existing resources to handle the massive amounts of garbage collected each day.
{"title":"A Smart Waste Disposal System: To Encourage Proper Waste Disposal","authors":"Danuri Alwis, Pawani Munasinghe, Shehara Rajapaksha, Bhanuka Ranawaka, J. Krishara, W.N.I. Tissera","doi":"10.1109/ICAC57685.2022.10025307","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAC57685.2022.10025307","url":null,"abstract":"Waste disposal is one of the most important industries in the world. If not maintained properly it would lead to the destruction of the environment. Improper waste disposal is becoming a critical issue in Sri Lanka and the lack of waste segregation, inadequate waste collection methods, the lack of support for waste management from the public are among the root causes of the problem. As a solution we propose an IoT-based solid waste management system that allows garbage bin monitoring, routing of garbage collector trucks, a prediction model and a point rewarding system. As the end result of this research the following prototypes was built; a prototype model of a smart bin with the capabilities of opening and closing by itself and detecting the waste level of the bin, a prototype mobile application for garbage collectors which delivers analysed data on truck position and ensures timeliness, a prototype mobile application for the public which receives the weight and type of solid waste discarded as an input and calculate reward points to encourage the public in proper waste disposal, a prototype web application which delivers statistical data for detailed reports and a prediction model which predicts the amount of waste to be collected in the coming month using machine learning. This is a low-cost IoT-based solution that uses existing resources to handle the massive amounts of garbage collected each day.","PeriodicalId":292397,"journal":{"name":"2022 4th International Conference on Advancements in Computing (ICAC)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124253960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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