Tools to define the active ingredients and flavors of Traditional Chinese Medicines (TCMs) are limited by long analysis times, complex sample preparation and a lack of multiplexed analysis. The aim of the present study was to optimize and validate an electronic tongue (E-tongue) methodology to analyze the bitterness of TCMs. To test the protocol, 35 different TCM concoctions were measured using...

Frequency estimation is transformed to a pattern recognition problem, and a least squares support vector machine (LS-SVM) estimator is derived. The estimator can work efficiently without the need of statistics knowledge of the observations, and the estimation performance is insensitive to the carrier phase. Simulation results are presented showing that proposed estimators offer better performan...

For a small sample problem with a large number of features, feature selection by cross-validation frequently goes into random tie breaking because of the discrete recognition rate. This leads to inferior feature selection results. To solve this problem, we propose using a least squares support vector regressor (LS SVR), instead of an LS support vector machine (LS SVM). We consider the labels (1...

in this paper, we present a new brain tissue segmentation method based on a hybrid hierarchical approach that combines a brain atlas as a priori information and a least-square support vector machine (ls-svm). the method consists of three steps. in the first two steps, the skull is removed and cerebrospinal fluid (csf) is extracted. these two steps are performed using the fast toolbox (fmrib's a...

The impact of reliable estimation of stream flows at highly urbanized areas and the associated receiving waters is very important for water resources analysis and design. We used the least squares support vector machine (LS-SVM) based algorithm to forecast the future streamflow discharge. A Gaussian Radial Basis Function (RBF) kernel framework was built on the data set to optimize the tuning pa...

The contents of hemicellulose, cellulose and lignin are important for moso bamboo processing in biomass energy industry. The feasibility of using near infrared (NIR) spectroscopy for rapid determination of hemicellulose, cellulose and lignin was investigated in this study. Initially, the linear relationship between bamboo components and their NIR spectroscopy was established. Subsequently, succ...

In order to maintain a relatively high accuracy of navigation performance during global positioning system (GPS) outages, a novel robust least squares support vector machine (LS-SVM)-aided fusion methodology is explored to provide the pseudo-GPS position information for the inertial navigation system (INS). The relationship between the yaw, specific force, velocity, and the position increment i...

This paper discusses the task of learning a classifier from observed data containing missing values amongst the inputs which are missing completely at random. A non-parametric perspective is adopted by defining a modified risk taking into account the uncertainty of the predicted outputs when missing values are involved. It is shown that this approach generalizes the approach of mean imputation ...

Support vector machines (SVMs), have proven to be effective for solving learning problems, and have been successfully applied to a large number of tasks. Lately a new technique, the Least Squares SVM (LS-SVM) has been introduced. This least squares version simplifies the required computation, but sparseness –a really attractive feature of the standard SVM– is lost. To reach a sparse model, furt...

In hybrid simulation, the structure is divided into numerical and physical substructures to achieve more accurate responses in comparison to a full computational analysis. As a consequence of the lack of test facilities and actuators, and the budget limitation, only a few substructures can be modeled experimentally, whereas the others have to be modeled numerically. In this paper, a new hybrid ...