Selected Papers from ICNC-FSKD 2023 Conference

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Dear Colleagues,

The 2023 19th International Conference on Natural Computation, Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (ICNC-FSKD 2023) was successfully held from 29 to 31 July 2023 in Harbin, China. This is  an established conference on machine learning and its application in a variety of areas. This Special Issue comprises extended versions of a number of the best submissions to the conference. All papers will be re-reviewed.http://icnc2023.hrbust.edu.cn/  We warmly welcome the submission of papers addressing topics including, but not limited to, the following:

  • Neural Computation: deep learning; recurrent neural networks support vector machines and statistical neural network models; unsupervised and semi-supervised learning neural networks.
  • Evolutionary Computation: genetic and evolutionary algorithms; particle swarm optimization and ant colony optimization; multi-objective optimization; artificial life and artificial immune systems; intelligent agents; quantum computing; molecular, DNA, membrane, and cultural computing.
  • Fuzzy Theory and Algorithms: fuzzy theory and models; rough set; granular computation; uncertainty management.
  • Natural Computation Applications: data analysis; image, speech and signal processing; vision and multimedia; control and robotics, decision and support.
  • Knowledge Discovery Foundations: association rules; classification; clustering; privacy preserving data mining; statistical methods for data mining; parallel/distributed data mining; knowledge management; machine learning and artificial intelligence.
  • Knowledge Discovery in Specific Domains: big data, multimedia, text, web and the internet, graphic model discovery, software warehouse and software mining, bioinformatics, financial engineering.
  • Information Technology for Knowledge Discovery: data engineering; signal processing and multimedia; communications and networking; software engineering; automation, robotics, and control; distributed systems and computer hardware.

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Keywords

  • neural computation
  • evolutionary computation
  • fuzzy theory and algorithms
  • natural computation applications
  • knowledge discovery foundations
  • knowledge discovery in specific domains
  • information technology for knowledge discovery

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Neonatal Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy Grading from Multi-Channel EEG Time-Series Data Using a Fully Convolutional Neural Network
by Shuwen Yu, William P. Marnane, Geraldine B. Boylan and Gordon Lightbody
Technologies 2023, 11(6), 151; https://doi.org/10.3390/technologies11060151 - 25 Oct 2023
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Abstract
A deep learning classifier is proposed for grading hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) in neonates. Rather than using handcrafted features, this architecture can be fed with raw EEG. Fully convolutional layers were adopted both in the feature extraction and classification blocks, which makes this architecture [...] Read more.
A deep learning classifier is proposed for grading hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) in neonates. Rather than using handcrafted features, this architecture can be fed with raw EEG. Fully convolutional layers were adopted both in the feature extraction and classification blocks, which makes this architecture simpler, and deeper, but with fewer parameters. Here, two large (335 h and 338 h, respectively) multi-center neonatal continuous EEG datasets were used for training and testing. The model was trained based on weak labels and channel independence. A majority vote method was used for the post-processing of the classifier results (across time and channels) to increase the robustness of the prediction. A dimension reduction tool, UMAP, was used to visualize the model classification effect. The proposed system achieved an accuracy of 86.09% (95% confidence interval: 82.41–89.78%), an MCC of 0.7691, and an AUC of 86.23% on the large unseen test set. Two convolutional neural network architectures which utilized time-frequency distribution features were selected as the baseline as they had been developed or tested on the same datasets. A relative improvement of 23.65% in test accuracy was obtained as compared with the best baseline. In addition, if only one channel was available, the test accuracy was only reduced by 2.63–5.91% compared with making decisions based on the eight channels. Full article
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