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As machine learning becomes increasingly pervasive, its resource demands and financial implications escalate, necessitating energy and cost optimisations to meet stakeholder demands. Quality metrics for predictive machine learning models are abundant, but efficiency metrics remain rare. We propose a framework for efficiency metrics, that enables the comparison of distinct efficiency types. A quality-focused efficiency metric is introduced that considers resource consumption, computational effort, and runtime in addition to prediction quality. The metric has been successfully tested for usability, plausibility, and compensation for dataset size and host performance. This framework enables informed decisions to be made about the use and design of machine learning in an environmentally responsible and cost-effective manner.
Data processed in context is more meaningful, easier to understand and has higher information content, hence it derives its semantic meaning from the surrounding context. Even in the field of acoustic signal processing. In this work, a Deep Learning based approach using Ensemble Neural Networks to integrate context into a learning system is presented. For this purpose, different use cases are considered and the method is demonstrated using acoustic signal processing of machine sound data for valves, pumps and slide rails. Mel-spectrograms are used to train convolutional neural networks in order to analyse acoustic data using image processing techniques.
Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) seeks to enhance transparency and trust in AI systems. Evaluating the quality of XAI explanation methods remains challenging due to limitations in existing metrics. To address these issues, we propose a novel metric called Explanation Significance Assessment (ESA) and its extension, the Weighted Explanation Significance Assessment (WESA). These metrics offer a comprehensive evaluation of XAI explanations, considering spatial precision, focus overlap, and relevance accuracy. In this paper, we demonstrate the applicability of ESA and WESA on medical data. These metrics quantify the understandability and reliability of XAI explanations, assisting practitioners in interpreting AI-based decisions and promoting informed choices in critical domains like healthcare. Moreover, ESA and WESA can play a crucial role in AI certification, ensuring both accuracy and explainability. By evaluating the performance of XAI methods and underlying AI models, these metrics contribute to trustworthy AI systems. Incorporating ESA and WESA in AI certification efforts advances the field of XAI and bridges the gap between accuracy and interpretability. In summary, ESA and WESA provide comprehensive metrics to evaluate XAI explanations, benefiting research, critical domains, and AI certification, thereby enabling trustworthy and interpretable AI systems.
Quality assurance (QA) plays a crucial role in manufacturing to ensure that products meet their specifications. However, manual QA processes are costly and time-consuming, thereby making artificial intelligence (AI) an attractive solution for automation and expert support. In particular, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have gained a lot of interest in visual inspection. Next to AI methods, the explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) systems, which achieve transparency and interpretability by providing insights into the decision-making process of the AI, are interesting methods for achieveing quality inspections in manufacturing processes. In this study, we conducted a systematic literature review (SLR) to explore AI and XAI approaches for visual QA (VQA) in manufacturing. Our objective was to assess the current state of the art and identify research gaps in this context. Our findings revealed that AI-based systems predominantly focused on visual quality control (VQC) for defect detection. Research addressing VQA practices, like process optimization, predictive maintenance, or root cause analysis, are more rare. Least often cited are papers that utilize XAI methods. In conclusion, this survey emphasizes the importance and potential of AI and XAI in VQA across various industries. By integrating XAI, organizations can enhance model transparency, interpretability, and trust in AI systems. Overall, leveraging AI and XAI improves VQA practices and decision-making in industries.
Up until now, it has been shown that big parts of the so called Industry 4.0 are impacted by Machine Learning (ML) in some way or another. In many shopfloor situations, there are different sensors involved and all data is eventually structured, accumulated and prepared for application in various ML-based scenarios, e.g., predictive maintenance of a machine, quality monitoring of manufactured workpieces or handling domain-specific aspect of the respective fabricator or product. As the physical environment of Cyber Physical System (CPS) can change rapidly, the overall Data Acquisition (DAQ) process and ML training is impacted, too. This work focuses on datasets which consist of small amounts of tabular information and how to utilize them in image-based Neural Networks (NN) with respect to meta learning and multimodal transformations. Therefore, the conceptual utilization of an DAQ system in industrial environments is discussed regarding a variety of techniques for preprocessing and generating visual material from multimodal data. The outcome of such operations is a new dataset which is then applied in model training. Therefore, the presented approach is three-fold. In first analysing the concept of predicting the similarity of structured and numerical data in different datasets, indicators of the feasibility when applying the methodology in related but more sophisticated learning scenarios can be gained. Although ongoing time-series data is differing from simple multi-class data in terms of a chronologically dimension, basic classification concepts are applied to it and evaluated. In order to extend the similarity prediction with a temporal component, the discussed methods are extended by multimodal transformations and an subsequent utilization in Siamese Neural Networks (SNN). By discussing the concept of applying visual representations of structured time-series data in a meta-learning context, known trends and historic information can be utilized for generating real-world test-samples and predicting their validity on inference.
Operations within a Cyber Physical System (CPS) environment are naturally diverse and the resulting data sets include complex relations between sensors of the shopfloor devices setup, their configuration respectively. As Machine Learn- ing (ML) can increase the success of industrial plants in a variety of cases, like smart controlling, intrusion detection or predictive maintenance, clarifying responsibilities and operations for the whole lifecycle supports evaluating the potentially feasible scenarios. In this work, the need for highly configurable and flexible modules is demonstrated by depicting the complex possibilities of extending simple Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) pipelines with additional data sources, e.g., sensors. In addition to the particular modules core functionality, arbitrary evaluation logic or data structure specific anomaly detection can be integrated into the pipeline. With the creation of audit-trails for all operational modules, automated reports can be generated for increasing the accountability of the different physical devices and the data related processing. The concept is evaluated in the context of the project Collaborative Smart Contracting Platform for digital value-added Networks (KOSMoS), where a sensor is part of an ML pipeline and audit trails are realized using Blockchain (BC) technology.
Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP) is the highest cause of childhood blindness globally with babies born preterm having a higher probability of contracting the disease. The disease diagnosis remains an economic burden to many countries, lack of enough ophthalmologists for the disease diagnosis coupled with non-existent national screening guidelines still remains a challenge. To diagnose the disease, a fundus photography is conducted, printout images are analyzed to determine the presence or absence of the disease. With the increase in the development of smartphones having advanced image capturing and processing features, the utilization of smartphones to capture retina image for disease diagnosis is becoming a common trend. For regions where ophthalmologists are few and/or for low resource regions with few or no retina capturing equipment, the use of smartphones to capture retina images for retina diseases is an effective method. This, however, is challenged: different smartphones produce images of different resolutions; some images are darker others lighter and with different resolution. A smartphone retina image capturing has a smaller field of view ranging between 450–900 which is a major limitation. A lens to support a bigger view can be combined with this approach to provide a wide view of 1300. This enlargement however distorts the image quality and may result in losing some image features. To overcome these challenges, this work develops an improved U-Net model to preprocess images captured using smartphones for ROP disease diagnosis. Our focus is to determine the presence or absence of the disease from smartphone captured images. Because the images are captured under a smaller field of view (FOV), we develop an improved U-Net model by adding patches to enhance image circumference and extract all features from the image and use the extracted features to train a U-Net model for the disease diagnosis. The model results outperformed similar recent developments.
Evolutionary strategy is increasingly used for optimization in various machine learning problems. It can scale very well, even to high dimensional problems, and its ability to globally self optimize in flexible ways provides new and exciting opportunities when combined with more recent machine learning methods. This paper describes a novel approach for the optimization of models with a data driven evolutionary strategy. The optimization can directly be applied as a preprocessing step and is therefore independent of the machine learning algorithm used. The experimental analysis of six different use cases show that, on average, better results are attained than without evolutionary strategy. Furthermore it is shown, that the best individual models are also achieved with the help of evolutionary strategy. The six different use cases were of different complexity which reinforces the idea that the approach is universal and not depending on specific use cases.
Data scientists, researchers and engineers want to understand, whether machine learning models for object detection work accurate and precise. Networks like Yolo use bounding boxes as a result to localize the object in the image.
The principal aim of this paper is to address the problem of a lack of an effective metric for evaluating the results of bounding box regression in object detection networks when boxes do not overlap or lie completely within each other.
The standard known metrics, like IoU, lack of differentiating results, which do not overlap but differ in the distance between predicted bounding box and label.
To solve this challenge, we propose a new metric called UIoU (Unified Intersection over Union) that combines the best properties of existing metrics (IoU, GIoU and DIoU) and extends them with a similarity factor. By assigning weight to each component of the metric, it allows for a clear differentiation between the three possible cases of box positions (not overlapping, overlapping, boxes inside each other).
The result of this paper is a new metric that outperforms the existing metrics such as IoU, GIoU and DIoU by providing a more understandable measure of the performance of object detection models. This provides researchers and users in the field of explainable AI with a metric that allows the evaluation and comparison of prediction and label bounding boxes in an understandable way.
The common corpus optimization method “stop words removal” is based on the assumption that text tokens with high occurrence frequency can be removed without affecting classification performance. Linguistic information regarding sentence structure is ignored as well as preferences of the classification technology. We propose the Weighted Unimportant Part-of-Speech Model (WUP-Model) for token removal in the pre-processing of text corpora. The weighted relevance of a token is determined using classification relevance and classification performance impact. The WUP-Model uses linguistic information (part of speech) as grouping criteria. Analogous to stop word removal, we provide a set of irrelevant part of speech (WUP-Instance) for word removal. In a proof-of-concept we created WUP-Instances for several classification algorithms. The evaluation showed significant advantages compared to classic stop word removal. The tree-based classifier increased runtime by 65% and 25% in performance. The performance of the other classifiers decreased between 0.2% and 2.4%, their runtime improved between −4.4% and −24.7%. These results prove beneficial effects of the proposed WUP-Model.
As industrial networks continue to expand and connect more devices and users, they face growing security challenges such as unauthorized access and data breaches. This paper delves into the crucial role of security and trust in industrial networks and how trust management systems (TMS) can mitigate malicious access to these networks.
The TMS presented in this paper leverages distributed ledger technology (blockchain) to evaluate the trustworthiness of blockchain nodes, including devices and users, and make access decisions accordingly. While this approach is applicable to blockchain, it can also be extended to other areas. This approach can help prevent malicious actors from penetrating industrial networks and causing harm. The paper also presents the results of a simulation to demonstrate the behavior of the TMS and provide insights into its effectiveness.
Health informatics plays a crucial role in modern healthcare provision. Training and continuous education are essential to bolster the healthcare workforce on health informatics. In this work, we present the training events within EU-funded DigNest project. The aim of the training events, the subjects offered, and the overall evaluation of the results are described in this paper.
The YOLO series of object detection algorithms, including YOLOv4 and YOLOv5, have shown superior performance in various medical diagnostic tasks, surpassing human ability in some cases. However, their black-box nature has limited their adoption in medical applications that require trust and explainability of model decisions. To address this issue, visual explanations for AI models, known as visual XAI, have been proposed in the form of heatmaps that highlight regions in the input that contributed most to a particular decision. Gradient-based approaches, such as Grad-CAM, and non-gradient-based approaches, such as Eigen-CAM, are applicable to YOLO models and do not require new layer implementation. This paper evaluates the performance of Grad-CAM and Eigen-CAM on the VinDrCXR Chest X-ray Abnormalities Detection dataset and discusses the limitations of these methods for explaining model decisions to data scientists.
In this paper, we present a study on the utilization of smart medical wearables and the user manuals of such devices. A total of 342 individuals provided input for 18 questions that address user behavior in the investigated context and the connections between various assessments and preferences. The presented work clusters individuals based on their professional relation to user manuals and analyzes the obtained results separately for these groups.
This poster presents a Montenegrin Digital Academic Innovation Hub aimed to support education, innovations, and academia-business cooperation in medical informatics (as one of four priority areas) at national level in Montenegro. The Hub topology and its organisation in the form of two main nodes, with services established within key pillars: Digital Education; Digital Business Support; Innovations and cooperation with industry; and Employment support.