
Artificial Intelligence in Neuroscience: Affective Analysis and Health Applications
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The two volume set LNCS 13258 and 13259 constitutes the proceedings of the International Work-Conference on the Interplay Between Natural and Artificial Computation, IWINAC 2022, held in Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Spain in May - June 2022.
The total of 121 contributions was carefully reviewed and selected from 203 submissions. The papers are organized in two volumes, with the following topical sub-headings:
Part I: Machine Learning in Neuroscience; Neuromotor and Cognitive Disorders; Affective Analysis; Health Applications,
Part II: Affective Computing in Ambient Intelligence; Bioinspired Computing Approaches; Machine Learning in Computer Vision and Robot; Deep Learning; Artificial Intelligence Applications.
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Content
- Intro
- Preface
- Organization
- Contents - Part I
- Contents - Part II
- Machine Learning in Neuroscience
- ConvNet-CA: A Lightweight Attention-Based CNN for Brain Disease Detection
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Data
- 3 Methodology
- 3.1 Convolutional Neural Network
- 3.2 Channel Attention Mechanism
- 3.3 ConvNet-CA
- 3.4 Evaluation Metrics
- 4 Experiments and Results
- 4.1 Experiment Set-Up
- 4.2 Performance on Multi-class Classification
- 4.3 The Effectiveness of Channel Attention Mechanism
- 4.4 Comparison with State-of-the-Art Methods
- 5 Conclusion
- References
- Temporal Phase Synchrony Disruption in Dyslexia: Anomaly Patterns in Auditory Processing
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Methods
- 2.1 Data
- 2.2 Connectivity Metric
- 2.3 Classification Pipeline
- 3 Results
- 4 Discussion
- 5 Conclusions
- References
- CAD System for Parkinson's Disease with Penalization of Non-significant or High-Variability Input Data Sources
- 1 Introduction
- 1.1 Parkinson's Disease
- 1.2 CAD Systems for Parkinson's Diagnosis
- 1.3 Ensemble Learning for Multimodal Data Analysis
- 2 Materials and Methods
- 2.1 Parkinson's Progression Markers Initiative
- 2.2 Image Preprocessing
- 2.3 Feature Selection and Dimensionality Reduction Algorithms
- 2.4 Classification Schema
- 3 Results
- 4 Discussion
- 5 Conclusions
- References
- Automatic Classification System for Diagnosis of Cognitive Impairment Based on the Clock-Drawing Test
- 1 Introduction
- 1.1 Clock Drawing Test
- 1.2 Artificial Intelligence
- 1.3 Automatic CDT Scoring Systems
- 2 Materials and Methods
- 2.1 CDT Database
- 2.2 Image Preprocessing
- 2.3 Classification Model
- 3 Results
- 4 Discussion
- 5 Conclusion
- References
- Unraveling Dyslexia-Related Connectivity Patterns in EEG Signals by Holo-Hilbert Spectral Analysis
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Materials and Methods
- 2.1 Holo-Hilbert Spectral Analysis
- 2.2 Functional Connectivity and Classification
- 3 Results and Interpretation
- 4 Conclusions and Future Work
- References
- Inter-channel Granger Causality for Estimating EEG Phase Connectivity Patterns in Dyslexia
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Material and Methods
- 2.1 Data Acquisition
- 2.2 Preprocessing
- 2.3 Hilbert Transform
- 2.4 Granger Causality Test
- 2.5 Machine Learning Classification
- 3 Results
- 4 Conclusions and Future Work
- References
- Automatic Diagnosis of Schizophrenia in EEG Signals Using Functional Connectivity Features and CNN-LSTM Model
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Material and Methods
- 2.1 Dataset
- 2.2 Feature Extraction
- 2.3 CNN-LSTM Model
- 3 Experiment Result
- 4 Discussion, Conclusion, and Future Works
- References
- Sleep Apnea Diagnosis Using Complexity Features of EEG Signals
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Materials and Methods
- 2.1 Experimental Data
- 2.2 Proposed Method
- 2.3 Feature Extraction
- 2.4 Feature Selection
- 2.5 Classification
- 3 Results and Discussion
- 4 Conclusion
- References
- Representational Similarity Analysis: A Preliminary Step to fMRI-EEG Data Fusion in MVPAlab
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Materials and Methods
- 2.1 Materials
- 2.2 Methods
- 3 Results and Discussion
- 4 Conclusions
- References
- Towards Mixed Mode Biomarkers: Combining Structural and Functional Information by Deep Learning
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Material and Methods
- 2.1 GM Density Map
- 2.2 Feature Extraction Using Deep Learning
- 2.3 Mixed Mode Images: Image Fusion Procedure
- 3 Results
- 4 Conclusions and Future Work
- References
- Modelling the Progression of the Symptoms of Parkinsons Disease Using a Nonlinear Decomposition of 123I FP-CIT SPECT Images
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Methodology
- 2.1 Dataset Description and Image Preprocessing
- 2.2 Manifold Learning
- 2.3 Classification and Regression Experiments
- 3 Results and Discussion
- 4 Conclusions
- References
- Capacity Estimation from Environmental Audio Signals Using Deep Learning
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Materials and Methods
- 2.1 The DISCO Dataset
- 2.2 Data Processing
- 3 Neural Network Architectures
- 3.1 Architectures for Image Data
- 3.2 Architectures for Audio Signals
- 4 Results
- 5 Discussion
- 6 Conclusions
- References
- Covid-19 Detection by Wavelet Entropy and Self-adaptive PSO
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Dataset
- 3 Methodology
- 3.1 Wavelet Entropy
- 3.2 Feedforward Neural Network
- 3.3 Self-adaptive Particle Swarm Optimisation
- 3.4 K-fold Cross-validation
- 4 Experiment Results and Discussions
- 4.1 WE Results
- 4.2 Statistical Results
- 4.3 Comparison to State-of-the-Art Approaches
- 5 Conclusions
- References
- RDNet: ResNet-18 with Dropout for Blood Cell Classification
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Materials
- 3 Methodology
- 3.1 Proposed RDNet
- 3.2 The Backbone of the Proposed RDNet
- 3.3 Dropout
- 4 Results
- 4.1 Experiment Settings
- 4.2 The Performance of the Proposed Model
- 4.3 Comparison of the Proposed Model with TRNet
- 5 Conclusion
- References
- Automatic Diagnosis of Myocarditis in Cardiac Magnetic Images Using CycleGAN and Deep PreTrained Models
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Material and Methods
- 2.1 Dataset
- 2.2 Data Augmentation Using Cycle GAN
- 2.3 Deep Pertained Models
- 3 Experiment Results
- 4 Discussion and Conclusion
- References
- Quantifying Inter-hemispheric Differences in Parkinson's Disease Using Siamese Networks
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Material and Methods
- 2.1 Dataset
- 2.2 Preprocessing
- 2.3 Siamese Neural Network
- 3 Results
- 4 Conclusions and Future Work
- References
- Analyzing Statistical Inference Maps Using MRI Images for Parkinson's Disease
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Materials and Methods
- 2.1 Parkinson's Progression Markers Initiative
- 2.2 Image Preprocessing
- 2.3 Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM)
- 2.4 Statistical Agnostic Mapping (SAM)
- 3 Results
- 4 Discussion
- 5 Conclusions
- References
- Evaluating Intensity Concentrations During the Spatial Normalization of Functional Images for Parkinson's Disease
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Materials and Methods
- 2.1 HUVN Dataset
- 2.2 Image Preprocessing: Spatial Registration
- 2.3 Overview
- 3 Results
- 4 Discussion
- 5 Conclusions
- References
- Neuromotor and Cognitive Disorders
- Monitoring Motor Symptoms in Parkinson's Disease Under Long Term Acoustic Stimulation
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Fundamentals
- 3 Materials and Methods
- 4 Results
- 4.1 Tremor Indicators
- 4.2 Bradykinesia Indicator
- 5 Conclusions
- References
- Evaluation of TMS Effects on the Phonation of Parkinson's Disease Patients
- 1 Introduction
- 1.1 Background
- 1.2 Working Hypotheses
- 2 Materials and Methods
- 2.1 Experimental Protocol
- 2.2 Feature Estimation
- 2.3 Feature Assessment
- 3 Results
- 4 Discussion
- 5 Conclusions
- References
- Effects of Neuroacoustic Stimulation on Two Study Cases of Parkinson's Disease Dysarthria
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Materials and Methods
- 3 Results
- 4 Discussion
- 5 Conclusions
- References
- Characterizing Masseter Surface Electromyography on EEG-Related Frequency Bands in Parkinson's Disease Neuromotor Dysarthria
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Experimental Framework
- 2.1 Methods
- 2.2 Materials
- 3 Results
- 4 Discussion
- 5 Conclusions
- References
- Acquisition of Relevant Hand-Wrist Features Using Leap Motion Controller: A Case of Study
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Methods and Materials
- 2.1 Leap Motion Controller
- 2.2 Objectives
- 2.3 Methodology
- 2.4 Framework and Hardware
- 2.5 Corpus
- 3 Results
- 4 Conclusions
- References
- A Pilot and Feasibility Study of Virtual Reality as Gamified Monitoring Tool for Neurorehabilitation
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Objectives
- 3 Methods and Materials
- 3.1 Participants
- 3.2 Frameworks and Hardware
- 3.3 Description of Two Scenarios
- 3.4 Indices Collected
- 3.5 Questionnaire
- 4 Results
- 5 Conclusion
- References
- Pairing of Visual and Auditory Stimuli: A Study in Musicians on the Multisensory Processing of the Dimensions of Articulation and Coherence
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Methods
- 2.1 Subjects
- 2.2 Stimuli Used
- 2.3 fMRI Scanning
- 2.4 Paradigm Design
- 2.5 fMRI Data Analysis
- 3 Results
- 3.1 Differences Between Coherent Articulations
- 3.2 Differences Between Coherent and Incoherent Articulations
- 4 Conclusions and Future Development
- References
- Design of Educational Scenarios with BigFoot Walking Robot: A Cyber-physical System Perspective to Pedagogical Rehabilitation
- 1 Cyber-physical Systems for Pedagogical Rehabilitation
- 1.1 Background Studies of the Appropriateness of Using Toy-like Robots in the Pedagogical Rehabilitation of Children with Autism
- 2 Functionalities of the BigFoot Robot
- 3 Educational Scenarios with BigFoot
- 4 Evaluation of the Fitness of the BigFoot Scenarios for Pedagogical Rehabilitation
- 5 Conclusions
- References
- Feasibility Study of a ML-Based ASD Monitoring System
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Materials and Methods
- 2.1 Monitoring System
- 2.2 Setup of the Clinical Environment
- 2.3 Protocol for Data Acquisition
- 2.4 Signal Processing and Dataset Generation
- 3 Results
- 3.1 Use of ML Algorithms for Information Extraction
- 4 Conclusions
- References
- ApEn: A Stress-Aware Pen for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Related Work
- 3 Method and Design Process
- 4 Final Design
- 5 Experiments
- 6 Results
- 7 Discussion
- 8 Conclusion
- References
- Anxiety Monitoring in Autistic Disabled People During Voice Recording Sessions
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Fundamentals
- 3 Experimental Framework
- 3.1 Materials
- 3.2 Methods
- 4 Results
- 5 Discussion
- 6 Conclusions
- References
- What Can Technology Do for Autistic Spectrum Disorder People?
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Description of Autism Spectrum Disorders
- 3 Overview of Supportive Applications for ASD
- 4 Needs for New Applications
- 5 Conclusions
- References
- Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): Emotional Intervention Protocol
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Objectives
- 3 Materials
- 4 Participants
- 5 Measures
- 5.1 IQ
- 5.2 Attitude Towards the Robotic Therapy
- 5.3 Engagement Level
- 5.4 Evolution of the Disorder
- 6 Procedure
- 7 Discussion
- 8 Conclusion
- References
- Creating Vignettes for a Robot-Supported Education Solution for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The ROSA Toolbox
- 3 Other Studies Using Robots with Children with ASD
- 4 Involving Children, Parents, and Teachers in the Creation Process
- 5 Finding Vignettes
- 6 Challenges and Next Steps
- References
- Identification of Parkinson's Disease from Speech Using CNNs and Formant Measures
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Materials and Methods
- 2.1 Formant Features
- 2.2 CNN Architecture
- 3 Experimental Framework
- 4 Results and Discussion
- 5 Conclusions
- References
- Characterization of Hypokinetic Dysarthria by a CNN Based on Auditory Receptive Fields
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Methods
- 3 Experimental Framework
- 4 Results
- 5 Discussion
- 6 Conclusions
- References
- Evaluation of the Presence of Subharmonics in the Phonation of Children with Smith Magenis Syndrome
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Materials and Methods
- 2.1 Participants
- 2.2 Recording Procedure
- 3 Acoustic Processing
- 3.1 Preprocessing of Data
- 3.2 Subharmonic Detection
- 4 Results
- 5 Discussion
- 6 Conclusion
- References
- Speech Analysis in Preclinical Identification of Alzheimer's Disease
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Speech Traits of Alzheimer's Disease (AD)
- 3 Automatic Speech Analysis of AD
- References
- The Effect of Breathing Maneuvers on the Interaction Between Pulse Fluctuation and Heart Rate Variability
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Materials and Methods
- 3 Results
- 4 Discussion and Conclusions
- References
- Horizon Cyber-Vision: A Cybernetic Approach for a Cortical Visual Prosthesis
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Materials and Methods
- 2.1 Hardware
- 2.2 Simulated Prosthetic Vision
- 2.3 Visual Cortical Prosthesis
- 2.4 Graphical Interface Software
- 2.5 Technical Description of Image Processing Strategies
- 2.6 Environments
- 2.7 Test Battery
- 3 Results
- 4 Discussion
- 5 Conclusions
- References
- The Assessment of Activities of Daily Living Skills Using Visual Prosthesis
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Conclusion
- References
- Affective Analysis
- Artificial Intelligence Applied to Spatial Cognition Assessment
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Paper-and-Pencil and Digital Assessment Tools
- 3 The Baking Tray Task and E-BTT
- 4 Material and Method
- 4.1 Artificial Neural Networks
- 4.2 The Dataset
- 4.3 Results
- 5 Conclusions and Future Directions
- References
- Automatic Diagnosis of Mild Cognitive Impairment Using Siamese Neural Networks
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Datasets
- 3 The Architectures
- 3.1 Phase 1: Pretraining with SQD Dataset
- 3.2 Phase 2: Tuning with ROCF Dataset
- 4 Results
- 4.1 Results of Phase 1
- 4.2 Results of Phase 2
- 5 Conclusions
- References
- A Comparison of Feature-based Classifiers and Transfer Learning Approaches for Cognitive Impairment Recognition in Language
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Proposed Approach
- 2.1 Conventional Approaches
- 2.2 Transfer Learning Approaches
- 3 Experiments
- 3.1 Data Set
- 3.2 Data Processing
- 3.3 Evaluation Techniques
- 4 Results
- 5 Conclusion
- References
- Detection of Alzheimer's Disease Using a Four-Channel EEG Montage
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Materials and Methods
- 2.1 Participants
- 2.2 EEG Acquisition
- 2.3 Preprocessing
- 2.4 Classification
- 2.5 Selection of Most Relevant Channels
- 3 Results and Discussion
- 4 Conclusion
- References
- Evaluating Imputation Methods for Missing Data in a MCI Dataset
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Methodology
- 2.1 Database Description
- 2.2 Missing Values Analysis
- 2.3 Imputation Strategy
- 3 Results
- 4 Conclusions
- References
- Automatic Scoring of Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure Test Using Recursive Cortical Networks
- 1 Introduction
- 1.1 Neuropsychological Tests
- 1.2 Automation of Tests
- 2 Methods
- 3 Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure Test
- 4 Component Classification Using RCN
- 5 Major Conclusion
- References
- Influence of the Level of Immersion in Emotion Recognition Using Virtual Humans
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Materials and Methods
- 2.1 Participants
- 2.2 Experimental Setup
- 2.3 Stimuli
- 2.4 Procedure
- 2.5 Data Analysis
- 3 Results
- 4 Discussion
- 5 Conclusions
- References
- Influence of Neutral Stimuli on Brain Activity Baseline in Emotional Experiments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Materials and Methods
- 2.1 Database
- 2.2 Preprocessing of EEG Signals
- 2.3 Experimental Procedure
- 2.4 Feature Extraction
- 2.5 Statistical Analysis
- 3 Results
- 4 Discussion
- 5 Conclusions
- References
- Classification of Psychophysiological Patterns During Emotional Processing Using SVM
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Materials and Methods
- 2.1 Experimental Data
- 2.2 EEG Data Preprocessing
- 2.3 Reconstruction of EEG Sources
- 2.4 Functional Connectivity Network Construction
- 2.5 Feature Extraction
- 2.6 Classification and Evaluation
- 3 Results
- 4 Conclusions
- References
- Measuring Motion Sickness Through Racing Simulator Based on Virtual Reality
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Methods and Materials
- 2.1 Objectives
- 2.2 About VR Driving Simulator
- 2.3 Technical Description of the Simulator
- 2.4 VRSQ Test
- 2.5 Testing Sessions
- 2.6 Corpus
- 3 Results
- 4 Conclusions
- References
- Health Applications
- Analysis of the Asymmetry in RNFL Thickness Using Spectralis OCT Measurements in Healthy and Glaucoma Patients
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Materials and Methods
- 2.1 Image Acquisition
- 2.2 RNFL Segmentation and Thickness Calculation
- 2.3 Calculation of Thickness Asymmetry
- 3 Results
- 4 Conclusions
- References
- Performance Evaluation of a Real-Time Phase Estimation Algorithm Applied to Intracortical Signals from Human Visual Cortex
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Methods
- 2.1 Experiment, Data Acquisition and Preprocessing
- 2.2 Real Time Phase Estimation Algorithm
- 2.3 Performance Indexes
- 3 Results
- 4 Discussion
- 5 Conclusions and Future Development
- References
- Electrical Stimulation Induced Current Distribution in Peripheral Nerves Varies Significantly with the Extent of Nerve Damage: A Computational Study Utilizing Convolutional Neural Network and Realistic Nerve Models
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Methods
- 2.1 CNN Segmentation of Peripheral Nerve Cross-sectional Images
- 2.2 Nerve Image Selection
- 2.3 Model Building and Admittance Method
- 3 Results
- 3.1 Current Distribution Inside Two Nerve Models
- 3.2 Current Density in Different Nerve Components
- 4 Discussion
- References
- Statistical and Symbolic Neuroaesthetics Rules Extraction from EEG Signals
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Data Origin, Description, and Preparation
- 3 Statistical Analysis Phase
- 4 Knowledge Extraction
- 5 Conclusions
- References
- Brain Shape Correspondence Analysis Using Variational Mixtures for Gaussian Process Latent Variable Models
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Materials and Methods
- 2.1 Normalized Geodesic Error for Evaluation Measure
- 2.2 Scale-invariant Heat Kernel Signature (SI-HKS)
- 2.3 Mixtures for Gaussian Process Latent Variable Models
- 2.4 Variational Inference
- 2.5 The Evidence Lower Bound (ELBO)
- 3 Results
- 3.1 Tosca Non-rigid World Dataset
- 3.2 SHREC'16 Dataset
- 3.3 Brain Structure Dataset
- 4 Conclusions
- References
- Explainable Artificial Intelligence to Detect Breast Cancer: A Qualitative Case-Based Visual Interpretability Approach
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Materials and Methods
- 3 Results
- 3.1 INbreast
- 3.2 MNIST
- 4 Discussion
- 5 Conclusions
- References
- Evaluation of a Gaussian Mixture Model for Generating Synthetic ECG Signals During an Angioplasty Procedure
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Materials and Methods
- 2.1 Database
- 2.2 Pre-processing
- 2.3 Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria
- 2.4 ST Classification Criteria
- 2.5 Gaussian Mixture Model
- 2.6 Model Training
- 2.7 Validation
- 3 Results
- 4 Discussion
- 5 Conclusions
- References
- Automatic Left Bundle Branch Block Diagnose Using a 2-D Convolutional Network
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Materials and Methods
- 3 Results
- 4 Discussion and Conclusions
- References
- QRS-T Angle as a Biomarker for LBBB Strict Diagnose
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Materials and Methods
- 3 Statistical Analysis
- 4 Results
- 4.1 QRS-T Angles
- 4.2 Classification Results
- 5 Discussion and Conclusions
- References
- Variable Embedding Based on L-statistic for Electrocardiographic Signal Analysis
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Materials and Methods
- 2.1 Electrocardiography Databases
- 2.2 Phase Space Reconstruction
- 2.3 L-statistic
- 2.4 Proposed Variable Embedding Approach
- 2.5 Experimental Framework
- 3 Results and Discussion
- 4 Conclusions
- References
- Uniform and Non-uniform Embedding Quality Using Electrocardiographic Signals
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Materials and Methods
- 2.1 Databases
- 2.2 Preprocessing Data
- 2.3 Uniform Embedding
- 2.4 Non-uniform Embedding: Hankel Singular Value Decomposition (HSVD)
- 2.5 Reconstruction Quality
- 3 Results and Discussions
- 4 Conclusion
- References
- Decoding Lower-Limbs Kinematics from EEG Signals While Walking with an Exoskeleton
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Materials and Methods
- 2.1 Subjects
- 2.2 Procedure
- 2.3 Data Preprocessing
- 2.4 Decoding Method
- 3 Results and Discussion
- 4 Conclusions
- References
- EEG Signals in Mental Fatigue Detection: A Comparing Study of Machine Learning Technics VS Deep Learning
- 1 Introduction
- References
- Application of RESNET and Combined RESNET+LSTM Network for Retina Inspired Emotional Face Recognition System
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Related Works
- 3 Methods
- 3.1 Imaging Pre-processing
- 3.2 Deep Feature Extraction and Classification Using Residual Neural Network (RESNET)
- 3.3 Deep Feature Extraction and Classification Using Combined Residual Neural Network+Long Short-Term Memory (RESNET+LSTM)
- 4 Results
- 4.1 Deep Feature Extraction and Classification Using Residual Neural Network (RESNET)
- 4.2 4.2 Deep Feature Extraction and Classification Using Combined Residual Neural Network+Long Short-Term Memory (RESNET+LSTM)
- 5 Discussion
- 6 Conclusions
- References
- Author Index
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