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Papers by nabiha azizi

International Journal of Intelligent Information Technologies, Sep 22, 2022

Diabetes is characterized by an abnormally enhanced concentration of glucose in the blood serum. ... more Diabetes is characterized by an abnormally enhanced concentration of glucose in the blood serum. It has a damaging impact on several noble body systems. Today, the concept of unbalanced learning has developed considerably in the domain of medical diagnosis, which greatly reduces the generation of erroneous classification results. The paper takes a hybrid approach to imbalanced learning by proposing an enhanced multimodal meta-learning method called IRESAMPLE+St to distinguish between normal and diabetic patients. This approach relies on the Stacking paradigm by utilizing the complementarity that may exist between classifiers. In the same focus of this study, a modified RESAMPLE-based technique referred to as IRESAMPLE+ and the SMOTE method are integrated as a preliminary resampling step to overcome and resolve the problem of unbalanced data. The suggested IRESAMPLE+St provides a computerized diabetes diagnostic system with impressive results, comparing it to the principal related studies, reflecting the design and engineering successes achieved.

2019 6th International Conference on Image and Signal Processing and their Applications (ISPA)

Breast cancer is the most feared disease in the female population. Early detection plays an impor... more Breast cancer is the most feared disease in the female population. Early detection plays an important role to improve prognosis. Mammography is the best examination for the detection of breast cancer. However, in some cases, reading mammograms is difficult for radiologists. For this reason, several researches have been conducted to develop Computer Aided Diagnosis tools (CAD) for this disease which aims to interpret mammography images. This paper investigates a new CAD system based on Transductive scheme and Mutual Information for breast abnormalities diagnosis. In the proposed method, a feature vector contains a combination of two features extraction method: Grey Level Co-occurrence Matrix and local Binary Pattern. In the next step, a novel scheme combining Mutual Information and Correlation-based feature selection was applied for selecting the most relevant features. Finally, the classification was achieved using a Transductive Support Vector Machine classifier. The effectiveness of the proposed CAD is examined on the DDSM dataset using classification accuracy, recall and precision. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed CAD system is clinically significant and can be used to classify the abnormalities of the breast.

International Journal of Knowledge-based and Intelligent Engineering Systems, 2012

Arabic handwriting word recognition is a challenging problem due to Arabic's connected letter for... more Arabic handwriting word recognition is a challenging problem due to Arabic's connected letter forms, consonantal diacritics and rich morphology. One way to improve the recognition rates classification task is to improve the accuracy of individual classifiers; another, is to apply ensemble of classifiers methods. To select the best classifier set from a pool of classifiers, the classifier diversity is considered one of the most important properties in static classifier selection. However, the advantage of dynamic ensemble selection versus static classifier selection is that used classifier set depends critically on the test pattern. In this paper, we propose two approaches for Arabic handwriting recognition (AHR) based on static and dynamic ensembles of classifiers selection. The first one selects statically the best set of classifiers from a pool of classifier already designed based on diversity measures. The second one represents a new algorithm based on Dynamic Ensemble of Classifiers Selection using Local Reliability measure (DECS-LR). It chooses the most confident ensemble of classifiers to label each test sample dynamically. Such a level of confidence is measured by calculating the proposed local reliability measure using confusion matrixes constructed during training level. We show experimentally that both approaches provide encouraging results with the second one leading to a better recognition rate for (AHR) system using IFN ENIT database.

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Abstract—In this paper, we describe a new approach for Arabic handwritten recognition using optim... more Abstract—In this paper, we describe a new approach for Arabic handwritten recognition using optimized multiple classifier system (MCS) using Dynamic classifiers strategy. It rests on proposed DECS-LR algorithm (Dynamic Ensemble of Classifiers Selection by Local ...

17th IEEE Conference in …, 2009

Multiple classifier systems (MCS) become a popular technique for building a pattern recognition m... more Multiple classifier systems (MCS) become a popular technique for building a pattern recognition machine. Diversity measures play an important role in constructing and explaining multiple classifier systems. The paper focuses on the parameters choice for the ...

Journal of Medical Systems, 2012

Color Doppler flow imaging takes a great value in diagnosing and classifying benign and malignant... more Color Doppler flow imaging takes a great value in diagnosing and classifying benign and malignant breast lesions. However, scanning of color Doppler sonography is operator-dependent and ineffective. In this paper, a novel breast classification system based on B-Mode ultrasound and color Doppler flow imaging is proposed. First, different feature extraction methods were used to obtain the texture and geometric features from B-Mode ultrasound images. In color Doppler feature extraction stage, several spectrum features are extracted by applying blood flow velocity analysis to Doppler signals. Moreover, a velocity coherent vector method is proposed based on color coherence vector, which is helpful for designing to the optimize detection of flow indices from different blood flow velocity fields automatically. Finally, a support vector machine classifier with selected feature vectors is used to classify breast tumors into benign and malignant. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed computer-aided diagnosis system is useful for reducing the unnecessary biopsy and death rate.

International journal of electrical and computer engineering systems

Human emotion recognition depends on facial expressions, and essentially on the extraction of rel... more Human emotion recognition depends on facial expressions, and essentially on the extraction of relevant features. Accurate feature extraction is generally difficult due to the influence of external interference factors and the mislabelling of some datasets, such as the Fer2013 dataset. Deep learning approaches permit an automatic and intelligent feature extraction based on the input database. But, in the case of poor database distribution or insufficient diversity of database samples, extracted features will be negatively affected. Furthermore, one of the main challenges for efficient facial feature extraction and accurate facial expression recognition is the facial expression datasets, which are usually considerably small compared to other image datasets. To solve these problems, this paper proposes a new approach based on a dual-branch convolutional neural network for facial expression recognition, which is formed by three modules: The two first ones ensure features engineering sta...

Context-Aware Recommender System (CARS) suggests more relevant services by adapting them to the u... more Context-Aware Recommender System (CARS) suggests more relevant services by adapting them to the user’s specific context situation. Nevertheless, the use of many contextual factors can increase data sparsity while few context parameters fail to introduce the contextual effects in recommendations. Moreover, several CARSs are based on similarity algorithms, such as cosine and Pearson correlation coefficients. These methods are not very effective in the sparse datasets. This paper presents a context-aware model to integrate contextual factors into prediction process when there are insufficient co-rated items. The proposed algorithm uses Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) to learn the latent interests of users from the textual descriptions of items. Then, it integrates both the explicit contextual factors and their degree of importance in the prediction process by introducing a weighting function. Indeed, the PSO algorithm is employed to learn and optimize weights of these features. The r...

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2018 International Conference on Signal, Image, Vision and their Applications (SIVA)

The number of people who suffer from tension problem is growing around the world, which is capabl... more The number of people who suffer from tension problem is growing around the world, which is capable of causing other very serious illness like glaucoma. This last is a chronic and irreversible disease which can lead to vision loss and blindness, that's why doctors recommend continuous follow-up all the time. The development of computer aided diagnosis systems (CAD) in the medical field has been viewed with great interest by doctors to have a second diagnosis. In our previous study concerning classical methods, a Twin Support Vector Machine (TWSVM) classifier was proposed to glaucoma images classification by using handcrafted features. To overcome the main limits of classical approach, we explore a deep learning algorithm based on convolutional neural network (CNN) for the automatic generation of features depending on any used dataset. To highlight the impact of the CNN classifier in medical diagnosis, several empirical studies was performed based on convolution layers numbers and activation function. Obtained results will be compared and discussed with previous work based on TWSVM, by applying the RimOne dataset.

2017 First International Conference on Embedded & Distributed Systems (EDiS), 2017

Glaucoma is a group of eye diseases that cause an irreparable decrease in the view field which is... more Glaucoma is a group of eye diseases that cause an irreparable decrease in the view field which is the second most common and leading causes of blindness among retinal diseases. Computer aided diagnosis (CAD) system is an emerging field in medical informatics which has high importance for providing prognosis of diseases. Research efforts have reported with increasing confirmation that the twin support vector machines (TWSVM) have greater accurate diagnosis ability. The goal of TWSVM is to construct two non-parallel planes for each class such that each hyper-plane is closer to one of two classes and as far as possible from the other one. In this paper, we propose a new CAD system for glaucoma diagnosis using TWSVM and three heterogeneous families of feature extraction. In this work, we have used 169 images to classify into normal and glaucoma classes. The performance of the method is evaluated using classification accuracy, sensitivity, specificity and receiver operating characteristi...

Advances on Smart and Soft Computing

During the last few years, the classification of imbalanced datasets is one of the crucial issues... more During the last few years, the classification of imbalanced datasets is one of the crucial issues in medical diagnosis since it is related to the distribution of normal and abnormal cases which can potentially affect the performance of the diagnosis system. For solving this problem, various techniques have been designed in order to achieve acceptable quality. Ensemble systems are one of those techniques, and they have proven their ability to be more accurate than single classifier models. Classifier selection is related to the choice of an optimal subset within a pool of classifiers. Selection of classifier can be broadly split into two classes: static and dynamic. This paper proposes a novel set selection scheme for the classification of imbalanced medical datasets. The suggested approach is based on the combination of an improved dynamic ensemble selection called META-DES framework combined with a hybrid sampling method called SMOTE–ENN. The experimental results prove the superiority of the proposed ensemble learning system using three UCI datasets.

Customer product reviews play an important role in the customer's decision to purchase a product ... more Customer product reviews play an important role in the customer's decision to purchase a product or use a service. Customer preferences and opinions are affected by other customers' reviews online, on blogs or over social networking platforms. We propose a multilingual recommender system based on sentiment analysis to help Algerian users decide on products, restaurants, movies and other services using online product reviews. The main goal of this work is to combine both recommendation system and sentiment analysis in order to generate the most accurate recommendations for users. Because both domains suffer from the lack of labeled data, to overcome that, this paper detects the opinions polarity score using the semisupervised SVM. The experimental results suggested very high precision and a recall of 100%. The results analysis evaluation provides interesting findings on the impact of integrating sentiment analysis into a recommendation technique based on collaborative filtering.

Nowadays, with the appearance of web 2.0, more users express their opinions, judgments, and thoug... more Nowadays, with the appearance of web 2.0, more users express their opinions, judgments, and thoughts towards certain objects, services, organizations, and their attributes via social networking, forum entries, websites, and blogs and so on. In this way, the volume of raw content generated by these users will increase rapidly with enormous size, where people often find difficulties in identifying and summarizing fine-grained sentiments buried in the opinion-rich resources. The traditional opinion mining techniques, which focused on the overall sentiment of the review, fails to uncover the sentiments expressed on the aspects of the reviewed entity. For that, researchers in Aspect-based opinion mining community try to solve and handle this problem. Our proposed study aims to present, survey and compare in the first place the important recent Aspect-based opinion mining approaches relevant to important languages such English, Arabic and Chinese and commonly datasets used in literature s...

2019 International Conference on Computer and Information Sciences (ICCIS), 2019

Breast cancer is the fifth most common cause of cancer death among women worldwide, even on Alger... more Breast cancer is the fifth most common cause of cancer death among women worldwide, even on Algeria that known about 12,000 new cases every year. Texture description has been a great interest in pattern recognition methods for looking deeper into features images, In this paper, we investigate the capability of the Local Binary Pattern texture and deep learning method for automated breast tumor images classification to be an efficient element for Computer aided diagnosis (CAD) system, where the extraction of meaningful information from the input image do not require features extractors. We have proposed a Convolution Neural Network (CNN) architecture based on LBP images as input after we compared their classification results by a standard CNN based on origin images as input. A 190-segmented image from (DDSM) database will be used for testing the proposed approach. Experimental results of the classification (benign or malignant tumor) gave better results than the standard CNN approach...

2019 16th International Multi-Conference on Systems, Signals & Devices (SSD), 2019

Text mining is one of the main and typical tasks of machine learning (ML). Authorship identificat... more Text mining is one of the main and typical tasks of machine learning (ML). Authorship identification (AI) is a standard research subject in text mining and natural language processing (NLP) that has undergone a remarkable evolution these last years. We need to identify/determine the actual author of anonymous texts given on the basis of a set of writing samples. Standard text classification often focuses on many handcrafted features such as dictionaries, knowledge bases, and different stylometric characteristics, which often leads to remarkable dimensionality. Unlike traditional approaches, this paper suggests an authorship identification approach based on automatic feature engineering using word2vec word embeddings, taking into account each author's writing style. This system includes two learning phases, the first stage aims to generate the semantic representation of each author by using word2vec to learn and extract the most relevant characteristics of the raw document. The s...

Breast cancer is reported as the second most deadly cancer in the world and the main of mortality... more Breast cancer is reported as the second most deadly cancer in the world and the main of mortality among the women, on which public awareness has been increasing during the last few decades. This is why several works are made to develop help tools for disease diagnosis. Computer-Assisted Diagnosis (CAD) is based on 3 main steps: segmentation, feature extraction and classification in order to generate a final decision. Classification phase is the key step in this process; for that, many research have been accentuated in this domain and many techniques were be proposed. Kernel combination is a current active topic in the field of machine learning. It takes benefit of classifier algorithms. it allows to choose the kernel functions according to the features vectors. The combination of Kernel-based classifiers was proposed as a research way allowing reliability recognition by using the complementarily which can exist between classifiers. This study investigated a computer-aided diagnosis ...

Computational Intelligence and Its Applications

This paper investigates feature selection method using two hybrid approaches based on artificial ... more This paper investigates feature selection method using two hybrid approaches based on artificial Bee colony ABC with Particle Swarm PSO algorithm (ABC-PSO) and ABC with genetic algorithm (ABC-GA). To achieve balance between exploration and exploitation a novel improvement is integrated in ABC algorithm. In this work, particle swarm PSO contribute in ABC during employed bees, and GA mutation operators are applied in Onlooker phase and Scout phase. It has been found that the proposed method hybrid ABC-GA method is competitive than exiting methods (GA, PSO, ABC) for finding minimal number of features and classifying WDBC, colon, hepatitis, DLBCL, lung cancer dataset. Experimental results are carried out on UCI data repository and show the effectiveness of mutation operators in term of accuracy and particle swarm for less size of features.