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

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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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Machine Learning Approach for Pre-Eclampsia Risk Factors Association

2018 , Martínez Velasco, Antonieta Teodora , Martinez-Villaseñor, Lourdes , Miralles-Pechuán, Luis

The preeclampsia/eclampsia syndrome is a multisystem disorder that usually includes cardiovascular changes, hematologic abnormalities, hepatic and renal impairment, and neurologic or cerebral manifestations. Preeclampsia (PE) is a clinical syndrome that afflicts 3–5% of pregnancies and it is a leading cause of maternal mortality, especially in developing countries. To understand in greater depth the preeclampsia/eclampsia syndrome, we applied some well-known Machine Learning (ML) techniques. ML has been successfully applied to medical research to improve the diagnosis and the prevention of complex diseases and syndromes. In our contribution, we have created a supervised model to predict if a patient suffers the disease. This model has been optimized by selecting the best features and by optimizing the threshold when predicting a class. We used these techniques to point out the most related features of the patients to the disease. Finally, we used interpretability techniques to extract and visualize through a decision tree the most relevant associations of the disease with the patients' features. © 2018 Association for Computing Machinery.

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Human Activity Recognition on Mobile Devices Using Artificial Hydrocarbon Networks

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

Human activity recognition (HAR) aims to classify and identify activities based on data-driven from different devices, such as sensors or cameras. Particularly, mobile devices have been used for this recognition task. However, versatility of users, location of smartphones, battery, processing and storage limitations, among other issues have been identified. In that sense, this paper presents a human activity recognition system based on artificial hydrocarbon networks. This technique have been proved to be very effective on HAR systems using wearable sensors, so the present work proposes to use this learning method with the information provided by the in-sensors of mobile devices. Preliminary results proved that artificial hydrocarbon networks might be used as an alternative for human activity recognition on mobile devices. In addition, a real dataset created for this work has been published. © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018.

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Feature Selection Methods Evaluation for CTR Estimation

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

The most widespread payment model in online advertising is Cost-per-click (CPC). In this model the advertisers pay each time that a user generates a click. In order to enhance the income of CPC Advertising Networks, it is necessary to give priority to the most profitable adverts. The most important factor in the profitability of an advert is Click-through-rate (CTR), which is the probability that a user generates a click in a given advert. In this paper we find which feature selection method between PCA, RFE, Gain ratio and NSGA-II is better suited, or if otherwise, the machine learning classification methods work best without any feature selection method. ©2016 IEE

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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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A 2020 perspective on “A novel methodology for optimizing display advertising campaigns using genetic algorithms”

2020 , Miralles-Pechuán, Luis , Ponce, Hiram , Martinez-Villaseñor, Lourdes

Online advertising has become the most important area of publicity. From a post-2020 perspective, we identify three trends in online advertising comprising: the rapid evolution of online advertising mainly over mobile networks, how to cope with big companies leading digital marketing, and the exploration of new methods to handle the dynamics of the e-commerce ecosystem. We proposed a new methodology for online advertising in small ad networks using supervised machine learning and metaheuristic methods. Our research will be beneficial for addressing the above-mentioned trends in online advertising focusing on small ad networks. It contributes to the establishment of an information system technology and practice within the scope of the development of marketing business strategies in e-commerce. Currently, we are exploring how to improve the flexibility of our approach to make it easier to adapt to new ad campaigns, analyzing and comparing different computational methods, and how to increase the performance of presenting custom ads to users when dealing with small data sets. Online advertising in small ad networks will be very useful in the following years. Hence, there are still many challenges to be dealt with in order to implement it in the business strategies of the new digital marketing. © 2020 Elsevier B.V.

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Addressing Class Imbalance in Healthcare Data: Machine Learning Solutions for Age-Related Macular Degeneration and Preeclampsia

2024 , Martínez Velasco, Antonieta Teodora , Martinez-Villaseñor, Lourdes , Miralles-Pechuán, Luis

The use of machine learning in healthcare has transformed the way diseases are diagnosed and treatments are optimized. However, medical databases often lack balanced data due to challenges in data collection caused by privacy regulations. Certain health conditions are underrepresented, which hampers machine learning performance. To address this problem, a hybrid approach has been proposed that combines the Synthetic Minority Oversampling Technique (SMOTE) with undersampling and uses two specific techniques tailored for imbalanced datasets. Comparative evaluations were conducted using various thresholds to reduce one class and employing Balanced Accuracy to mitigate bias toward the majority class, with popular machine learning methods. The results showed that Balanced Bagging and Balanced Random Forest consistently outperformed other methods, performing the best with an average ranking of 1.42 and 3.58 out of 32 configurations in the two datasets, respectively. Tree-based approaches such as Random Forest and Gradient Boosting demonstrated similar effectiveness, emphasizing the power of aggregating predictions from multiple trees to reduce bias. Notably, undersampling and SMOTE proved advantageous for non-tree-based models like KNN, SVM, and Logistic Regression showcasing their usefulness across different algorithms. This study provides a robust solution for handling imbalanced datasets in healthcare, which could potentially optimize healthcare interventions and improve patient outcomes and care©IEEE Latin America Transactions, The authors

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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 Survey on Freezing of Gait Detection and Prediction in Parkinson’s Disease

2020 , Martinez-Villaseñor, Lourdes , Ponce, Hiram , Miralles-Pechuán, Luis

Most of Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients present a set of motor and non-motor symptoms and behaviors that vary during the day and from day-to-day. In particular, freezing of gait (FOG) impairs their quality of life and increases the risk of falling. Smart technology like mobile communication and wearable sensors can be used for detection and prediction of FOG, increasing the understanding of the complex PD. There are surveys reviewing works on Parkinson and/or technologies used to manage this disease. In this review, we summarize and analyze works addressing FOG detection and prediction based on wearable sensors, vision and other devices. We aim to identify trends, challenges and opportunities in the development of FOG detection and prediction systems. © 2020, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

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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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