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Arogya -An Intelligent Ayurvedic Herb Management Platform
(IEEE, 2020-11-04) Pathiranage, N; Nilfa, N; Nithmali, M; Kumari, N; Weerasinghe, L; Weerathunga, I
Ayurvedic means a science of life and well-being with its unique approaches to social and spiritual life. Especially in Sri Lanka we have our own set of rare Ayurvedic herbs which have been utilized by generations as medicinal treatments for a variety of diseases. Absence of specialists in this area makes proper identification as well as classification of valuable herbal plants a tedious task, which is essential for better treatment. Hence, a fully automated system for herb detection and classification, information visualization regarding them is highly desirable. There are existing applications which can identify plants with low prediction accuracies, as well as to give information regarding them. However, these applications are based on foreign plant data sets that do not include valuable herbs and shrubs with medicinal qualities. Hence this research proposes an application unique to medicinal plants, which can perform all these functionalities in both online and offline approach. Here, a new Ayurvedic plant dataset prepared from scratch, and preliminary results for classification of 5 types of herbs, compared with several deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) models based on transfer learning are presented. Experimental results indicate Marker-based Watershed algorithm as the best object detection algorithm in a complex background, VGG-16 as the best deep CNN classification model which reached a promising testing accuracy of 99.53%, and Seq2Seq LSTM model as the best deep learning model with optimum accuracy in abstractive information summarization.
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Arogya-An Intelligent Ayurvedic Herb Management Platform
(IEEE, 2020-10-15) Pathiranage, N; Nilfa, N; Nithmali, M; Kumari, N; Weerasinghe, L; Weerathunga, I
Ayurvedic means a science of life and well-being with its unique approaches to social and spiritual life. Especially in Sri Lanka we have our own set of rare Ayurvedic herbs which have been utilized by generations as medicinal treatments for a variety of diseases. Absence of specialists in this area makes proper identification as well as classification of valuable herbal plants a tedious task, which is essential for better treatment. Hence, a fully automated system for herb detection and classification, information visualization regarding them is highly desirable. There are existing applications which can identify plants with low prediction accuracies, as well as to give information regarding them. However, these applications are based on foreign plant data sets that do not include valuable herbs and shrubs with medicinal qualities. Hence this research proposes an application unique to medicinal plants, which can perform all these functionalities in both online and offline approach. Here, a new Ayurvedic plant dataset prepared from scratch, and preliminary results for classification of 5 types of herbs, compared with several deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) models based on transfer learning are presented. Experimental results indicate Marker-based Watershed algorithm as the best object detection algorithm in a complex background, VGG-16 as the best deep CNN classification model which reached a promising testing accuracy of 99.53%, and Seq2Seq LSTM model as the best deep learning model with optimum accuracy in abstractive information summarization.
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Yuwathi: Early Detection of Breast Cancer and Classification of Mammography Images Using Machine Learning
(IEEE, 2022-07-18) Diddugoda, D; Fernando, D. B; Munasinghe, S. M; Weerasinghe, L; Weerathunga, I
According to the World Health Organization's (WHO) data and records, breast cancer is one of the most common diseases among women. As a result of the mutations of the genes within a cell, the cell starts growing uncontrollably and rapidly. Such a condition is known as cancer. Cancer tumors can be categorized into two major categories, benign and malignant. However, there is no existing solution in practice to automate early breast cancer identification and risk prediction using medical images (Mammograms). This paper discusses automating breast cancer detection, breast density identification, risk prediction, and solution suggestion using machine learning, image processing, and computer vision techniques. All the mentioned features can be accessed using the application "YUWATHI", and a user can take advantage of this application by using a smartphone also a web application. The objectives of the present study are mammographic mass detection without user intervention, identifying pectoral muscles and removing them, training a machine learning model to identify the future risk of breast cancers by obtaining clinical reports from the OCR application and suggesting solutions for the above problems using a computer-aided diagnosis (CADx) system that helps doctors to make decisions swiftly. The algorithms used for breast cancer detection, breast density classification, and future breast cancer risk prediction are Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), CNN and Logistic Regression with the accuracies 97.32%, 71.97% 74.76%, respectively.