This thesis presents the application of computational intelligence techniques to signal processing of static, time-series and imagery bio-signal data. In the process two very important diseases were diagnosed. These diseases are breast cancer and cardiac arrhythmia. Out of the di erent detection techniques for breast cancer the ones that were used in this research are the Fine Needle Aspiration (FNA) and the mammography. Thene needle aspiration (FNA) procedure consists of excising a small sample of suspected lesion from the breast using ane needle. The sample is studied under a microscope for the cell sizes and shapes. From the collective characteristics of these features the pathologist decides whether the cell is malignant(cancerous) or benign(noncancerous). Data for the FNA technique was obtained from the Diagnostic Wisconsin Breast Cancer (DWBC) database, an example of static data. The database contains many malignant and benign sample feature value and their results. To assist physicians in diagnosis, a computational intelligence detection approach was devised. In this method experiments were performed using the computational intelligence network of Cartesian Genetic Programming evolved Arti cial Neural Network (CGPANN). Feature values of the samples were normalized and a part of them used to train a CGPANN. The trained network was then tested with rest of the samples. Experiments conducted with the FNA dataset resulted in more than 99% accuracy. The second diagnostic method, the mammography, is also used widely for breast cancer screening. It consists of taking a high resolution x-ray image of the breast that is suspected of cancer. The two main abnormalities in a breast can be masses and microcalci cations. In order to assist radiologists in diagnosis a method was developed, that can classify a mass or microcalci cation appearing in a mammogram to be either benign or malignant. The data for this work was obtained from the Digital Database for Screening Mammography (DDSM), an example for imagery data. The method consists of calculating the Haralick''s statistical parameters of the suspected lesion. A CGPANN network was trained with large number of these parameters, extracted from mammograms found in the database. The trained network classi ed both masses and microcalci cations with accuracy=90.58%, sensitivity=85.32% and speci city=95.84%. In the case of cardiac arrhythmia the ECG signals were obtained from MIT-BIH database, an example of time-series data. For automatic detection of Cardiac Arrhythmia an algorithm was developed. This algorithm applies digital signal processing and logical operations to the time domain Electro-Cardiogram (ECG) signal and hence detects the ducial points of an ECG complex. From theducial points, the lengths and slopes of a number of segments; and amplitudes of peaks are determined. These parameter values are applied to CGPANN to classify the beats. To make the system capable of classifying unknown ECG it was trained with the parameters extracted from ECG signals available at MIT-BIH database. All these parameters bear important information about the di erent arrhythmia. Three di erent experimental setups were designed, each setup improving the performance of the previous one. In the third setup, with the inclusion of digital logic unit, seven arrhythmia types were detected, with four types having accuracy value of 94% and above. In all experiments, the CGPANN wasrst trained with parameters extracted from a part of sample ECG, together with their arrhythmia types; and then tested with another part of the data. This algorithm can be implemented in real time on beat to beat basis. A future enhancement to this system is to implement the algorithm in programmable hardware and subsequently used in systems like Implantable Cardioverter De brilators (ICD) that need correct detection of life threatening beats to apply an electrical impulse to the heart at the right moment.
کائنات میں موسموں کی موجودگی سے طرز تکلم کے درجاتی دائروں کی دنیا ہو یا جذباتی سولات سے یقین کے منظروں میں شرطوں کی بحث ،یہ کبھی بھی لذتِ تاثیر سے خالی نہیں ہوتی ۔اس میں آرادھنا ،سادھنا کے معنوی تجربات بھی شامل ہو کر ،فکر کے داخلی رجحان کے ساتھ پھولوں کے رنگوں کی گرہ کھولتے ہیں ۔یہ جواز احساس کی خارجی خصوصیات کو جب آرادھنا کے سبز پتوں میں لپیٹ کر الہامیہ نفسیات کے زاویوں میں سمو کر ،ماضی کے تخلیقی اور موجودہ دور کے تحقیقی دروازے کھولتے ہیں تو سوچوں کے رویوں پر اثر انداز نہیں ہوتے کیونکہ لذتِ تاثیر اور تحقیق’’اپنے عہد کی زندگی کا سامنا کرنے اور اسے تمام امکانات و خطرات کے ساتھ برتنے کا ہنر سکھاتی ہے ۔جسے جدت کے نام سے بھی پہچانا جاتا ہے ۔ہر عہد میں جدیدت ہم عصر زندگی کو سمجھنے اور برتنے کے مسلسل عمل سے عبارت ہوتی ہے ۔اس لحاظ سے جدیدیت ایک مستقل عمل ہے ۔جو ہمیشہ جاری رہتا ہے ۔‘‘(جدیدت اور ادب ،وحید اختر)
ادبی کائنات میں جو تحیر اور طلسم سے سلسلہ شروع ہوتا ہے وہ آرادھنا ،سادھنا کے ساتھ مناجاتوں تک چلا آتا ہے ۔پھر کیفیاتی اسرار شروع ہوتے ہیں ۔جن کی وجہ سے عکس فسوں اسرار آگہی کی کرنوں میں ڈوبے سبز پتوں کا صحیفہ کھلنے لگتا ہے ۔جس کی وجہ سے فکری سوچ کی وادیوں میں نفسیاتی مقامِ مقدسہ نظر آنے لگتے ہیں ۔کبھی خود سپردگی کی ہئیت تو کہیں اسیر خواب و من الشباب کی جلی، خفی جذبات کی بارشوں میں بھیگی صورتیں نظر آنے لگتی ہیں ۔
اس سارے منظر نامے میں بکھری اساطیری رمزوں اور جدید اشاروں کو علمی دائروں میں پرکھنے کے ساتھ...
Contemporary secular Switzerland has been polarised by more than two decades of anti-Muslim sentiments, conveyed through misrepresentative narratives by some politicians and media, ‘otherising’ Islam and Muslim-related issues. This polarised environment may have triggered ambivalent impacts on the personal development of Swiss-born Muslims Consequently, I suggest that they live in an ambivalent position, where their status as Muslim is not fully acknowledged and their belonging to Switzerland still questioned. Indeed, this article will explore the following research question: How do some young Swiss-born Muslim adults construct their subjectivities and experiences linked to Islam in their daily lives in contemporary Switzerland? The research methodology of this focused ethnography draws on various semi-structured interviews and informal conversations with several young Swiss Muslim men and women. The paper focuses on (a) Switzerland’s socio-cultural and political context and (b) the various ways this study’s research partners construct their ambivalent subjectivities through the analysis of their individual trajectories and narratives. It concludes that young Swiss Muslim adults formulate and produce alternative narratives, in order to make sense of their lives and accommodate various layers of identification in contemporary Switzerland. Eventually some recommendations for further research are formulated.
Differential diagnosis of autism and intellectual disability (formerly known as mental retardation) is getting more problematic because of the awareness of both autism and MR in recent clinical work. The overlap of symptoms/features of both disorders is one of the major causes of this problem. Using the phenomenological approach, the range of 92 symptoms/features were elicited from parents of 20 children (10 each of autism and ID). They were validated by ten experts (psychiatrists and clinical psychologists) to the degree to which each symptom is diagnostically related to Autism or ID. Sixty-six symptoms were identified as clearly belonging to one category or the other. Using as a base ratings, the scale was administered to 260 children (110 children with ASD and 150 children with ID) through an interview with the mother or the teacher of the child. The factor analysis of 66 symptoms resulted in two distinct factors. In addition, each of those 66 symptoms was tested on Mann Whitney U Test for its significance in differentiating the two disorders. Those symptoms were retained which had high factor loading (0.30 or greater) as well as were found statistically significant in differentiating the two conditions (p< 0.01). This produced two scales i.e. ASD Scale and ID Scale. The sensitivity, specificity, predictive values, and concurrent validity were found to be respectable. The results were discussed in terms of cultural implications, improvement in differential diagnosis, and a functional profile of the children that will be useful in developing training programs.