Divisive hierarchical clustering is a powerful tool for extracting knowledge from data with a pluralistic and appropriate information granularity. Recent developments of hierarchical clustering algorithms apply Growing Neural Gas (GNG) to data divisive mechanisms. However, GNG-based algorithms tend to generate nodes excessively and sensitive to the input order of data points. Furthermore, the plasticity-stability dilemma is another unavoidable problem. In this paper, we propose a divisive hierarchical clustering algorithm based on Adaptive Resonance Theory-based clustering. Simulation experiments show that the proposed algorithm can generate an appropriate tree structure depending on data while improving the performance of hierarchical clustering.
Metabolic Syndrome (MetS) constitutes of metabolic abnormalities that lead to non-communicable diseases, such as type II diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and cancer. Early and accurate diagnosis of this abnormality is required to prevent its further progression to these diseases. This paper aims to diagnose the risk of MetS using a new non-clinical approach called "genetically optimized Bayesian adaptive resonance theory mapping" (GOBAM). We evolve the Bayesian adaptive resonance theory mapping (BAM) by using genetic algorithm to optimize the parameters of BAM and its training input sequence. We use the GOBAM algorithm to classify individuals as either being at risk of MetS or not at risk of MetS with a related posterior probability, which ranges between 0 and 1. A data set of 11 237 Malaysians from the CLUSTer study stratified by age and gender into four subcategories was used to evaluate the proposed GOBAM algorithm. The comparative evaluation of our results suggested that the GOBAM performs significantly better than other classical adaptive resonance theory mapping models on the area under the receiver operating characteristic curves (AUC) and others criteria. Our algorithm gives an AUC of 86.42 %, 87.04 %, 91.08 %, and 89.24 % for the young female, middle aged female, young male, and middle-aged male subcategories, respectively. The proposed model can be used to support medical practitioners in accurate and early diagnosis of MetS.
The proposed Fast Incremental Slow Feature Analysis (F-IncSFA) which is considered as unsupervised learning and it can be used for extracting the features. The featurescan represent the fundamental components of the modifications in different aspect and especially in posing and temporally firms and consistent even in high-dimensional input like signal, video, etc. Here, we addressed a development in SFA algorithm as compare with latest one [17] by combining Candid Covariance-Free Incremental Principle components Analysis (CCIPCA) and Minor Components Analysis (MCA).The proposed F-IncSFA can adapts along with non-stationary environments and unlike the latest SFA, which has two times using CCIPCA, has one time using CCIPCA in its algorithm which makes the method simpler yet efficient. We examine the proposed approach by using some video sequences of humanoid robot and also it is compared with CCIPCA in several experiments and the result indicates that it indeed has superior outcome and impart informative slow features that is representing significant abstract from possessions of non-stationary environment and poses. We successfully apply the F-IncSFA on the high-dimensional video and extract abstract object data. We extend our F-IncSFA to networks in hierarchical model, and apply it for extraction of features in the information obtained from high-dimensional video and the results were promising.