Martinez-Villaseñor, Lourdes
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Martinez-Villaseñor, Lourdes
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Martínez Villaseñor, María de Lourdes
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lmartine
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55521085100
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N-7607-2018

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Explainable artificial hydrocarbon networks classifier applied to preeclampsia

2024 , Ponce, Hiram , Martinez-Villaseñor, Lourdes , Martínez Velasco, Antonieta Teodora

Explainability is crucial in domains where system decisions have significant implications for human trust in black-box models. Lack of understanding regarding how these decisions are made hinders the adoption of so-called clinical decision support systems. While neural networks and deep learning methods exhibit impressive performance, they remain less explainable than white-box approaches. Artificial Hydrocarbon Networks (AHN) is an effective black-box model that can be used to support critical clinical decisions if accompanied by explainability mechanisms to instill confidence among clinicians. In this paper, we present a use case involving global and local explanations for AHN models, provided with an automatic procedure so-called eXplainable Artificial Hydrocarbon Networks (XAHN). We apply XAHN to preeclampsia prognosis, enabling interpretability within an accurate black-box model. Our approach involves training a suitable AHN model using the cross-validation with ten repetitions, followed by a comparative analysis against four well-known machine learning techniques. Notably, the AHN model outperformed the others, achieving an F1-score of 74.91%. Additionally, we assess the efficacy of our XAHN explainer through a survey applied to clinicians, evaluating the goodness and satisfaction of the provided explanations. To the best of our knowledge, this work represents one of the earliest attempts to address the explainability challenge in preeclampsia prediction.© 2024 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc.

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Artificial hydrocarbon networks for freezing of gait detection in Parkinson’s disease

2020 , Martinez-Villaseñor, Lourdes , Ponce, Hiram , Nuñez Martínez, José Pablo

Freezing of gait (FoG) is one of the most impairing phenomenon experienced by Parkinson's disease (PD) patients. This phenomenon is associated with falls and is an important factor that limits autonomy and impairs quality of life of PD patients. Pharmacological treatment is difficult and do not always help to deal with this problem. Robust FoG detection systems can help monitoring and identifying when a patient needs aid providing external cueing to deal with FoG episodes. In this paper, we describe a comparative analysis of traditional machine learning techniques against Artificial Hydrocarbon Networks (AHN) for FoG detection. We compared four supervised machine learning classifiers and AHN for FoG event detection using a publicly available dataset, obtaining 88% of F-score metric with AHN. We prove that AHN are suitable for FoG detection. © 2020 IEEE.

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An Explainable Tool to Support Age-related Macular Degeneration Diagnosis

2022 , Martinez-Villaseñor, Lourdes , Miralles-Pechuán, Luis , Ponce, Hiram , Martínez Velasco, Antonieta Teodora

Artificial intelligence and deep learning, in particu-lar, have gained large attention in the ophthalmology community due to the possibility of processing large amounts of data and dig-itized ocular images. Intelligent systems are developed to support the diagnosis and treatment of a number of ophthalmic diseases such as age-related macular degeneration (AMD), glaucoma and retinopathy of prematurity. Hence, explainability is necessary to gain trust and therefore the adoption of these critical decision support systems. Visual explanations have been proposed for AMD diagnosis only when optical coherence tomography (OCT) images are used, but interpretability using other inputs (i.e. data point-based features) for AMD diagnosis is rather limited. In this paper, we propose a practical tool to support AMD diagnosis based on Artificial Hydrocarbon Networks (AHN) with different kinds of input data such as demographic characteristics, features known as risk factors for AMD, and genetic variants obtained from DNA genotyping. The proposed explainer, namely eXplainable Artificial Hydrocarbon Networks (XAHN) is able to get global and local interpretations of the AHN model. An explainability assessment of the XAHN explainer was applied to clinicians for getting feedback from the tool. We consider the XAHN explainer tool will be beneficial to support expert clinicians in AMD diagnosis, especially where input data are not visual. © 2022 IEEE.

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A Novel Wearable Sensor-Based Human Activity Recognition Approach Using Artificial Hydrocarbon Networks

2016 , Ponce, Hiram , Martinez-Villaseñor, Lourdes , Miralles-Pechuán, Luis

Human activity recognition has gained more interest in several research communities given that understanding user activities and behavior helps to deliver proactive and personalized services. There are many examples of health systems improved by human activity recognition. Nevertheless, the human activity recognition classification process is not an easy task. Different types of noise in wearable sensors data frequently hamper the human activity recognition classification process. In order to develop a successful activity recognition system, it is necessary to use stable and robust machine learning techniques capable of dealing with noisy data. In this paper, we presented the artificial hydrocarbon networks (AHN) technique to the human activity recognition community. Our artificial hydrocarbon networks novel approach is suitable for physical activity recognition, noise tolerance of corrupted data sensors and robust in terms of different issues on data sensors. We proved that the AHN classifier is very competitive for physical activity recognition and is very robust in comparison with other well-known machine learning methods.

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A Flexible Approach for Human Activity Recognition Using Artificial Hydrocarbon Networks

2016 , Ponce, Hiram , Miralles-Pechuán, Luis , Martinez-Villaseñor, Lourdes

Physical activity recognition based on sensors is a growing area of interest given the great advances in wearable sensors. Applications in various domains are taking advantage of the ease of obtaining data to monitor personal activities and behavior in order to deliver proactive and personalized services. Although many activity recognition systems have been developed for more than two decades, there are still open issues to be tackled with new techniques. We address in this paper one of the main challenges of human activity recognition: Flexibility. Our goal in this work is to present artificial hydrocarbon networks as a novel flexible approach in a human activity recognition system. In order to evaluate the performance of artificial hydrocarbon networks based classifier, experimentation was designed for user-independent, and also for user-dependent case scenarios. Our results demonstrate that artificial hydrocarbon networks classifier is flexible enough to be used when building a human activity recognition system with either user-dependent or user-independent approaches.

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A Reinforcement Learning Method for Continuous Domains Using Artificial Hydrocarbon Networks

2018 , Ponce, Hiram , González Mora, José Guillermo , Martinez-Villaseñor, Lourdes

Reinforcement learning in continuous states and actions has been limitedly studied in ocassions given difficulties in the determination of the transition function, lack of performance in continuous-to-discrete relaxation problems, among others. For instance, real-world problems, e.g. Fobotics, require these methods for learning complex tasks. Thus, in this paper, we propose a method for reinforcement learning with continuous states and actions using a model-based approach learned with artificial hydrocarbon networks (AHN). The proposed method considers modeling the dynamics of the continuous task with the supervised AHN method. Initial random rollouts and posterior data collection from policy evaluation improve the training of the AHN-based dynamics model. Preliminary results over the well-known mountain car task showed that artificial hydrocarbon networks can contribute to model-based approaches in continuous RL problems in both estimation efficiency (0.0012 in root mean squared-error) and sub-optimal policy convergence (reached in 357 steps), in just 5 trials over a parameter space θin R86. Data from experimental results are available at: http://sites.google.com/up.edu.mx/reinforcement-learning/ ©2018 IEEE.

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Comparative Analysis of Artificial Hydrocarbon Networks and Data-Driven Approaches for Human Activity Recognition

2015 , Ponce, Hiram , Martinez-Villaseñor, Lourdes , Miralles-Pechuán, Luis

In recent years computing and sensing technologies advances contribute to develop effective human activity recognition systems. In context-aware and ambient assistive living applications, classification of body postures and movements, aids in the development of health systems that improve the quality of life of the disabled and the elderly. In this paper we describe a comparative analysis of data-driven activity recognition techniques against a novel supervised learning technique called artificial hydrocarbon networks (AHN). We prove that artificial hydrocarbon networks are suitable for efficient body postures and movements classification, providing a comparison between its performance and other well-known supervised learning methods.

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