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Accurate and reproducible delineation of breast les
ions can be challenging, as the lesions may have
complicated topological structures and heterogeneou
s intensity distributions. Diagnosis using magnetic
resonance imaging (MRI) with an appropriate automat
ic segmentation algorithm can be a better imaging
technique for the early detection of malignant brea
st tumours. The main objective of this system is to
develop a method for automatic segmentation and the
early detection of breast cancer based on the
application of the watershed transform to MRI image
s. The algorithm was separated into three major
sections: pre-processing, watershed and post-proces
sing. After computing different segments, the final
image was cleared of all noise and superimposed on
the original MRI image to generate the final modifi
ed image. The algorithm successfully resulted in the a
utomatic segmentation of the MRI images, and this c
an be a beneficial tool for the early detection of bre
ast cancer. This study showed that the automatic re
sults correctly agree with manual detection.
EEG based Brain Computer Interface (BCI) establishes a new channel between human brain and the
surrounding environment in order to disseminate instructions to the outside world. It is based on the
recording of temporary EEG changes during different types of motor imagery such as imagination of
different hand movements. The spatial pattern of activated cortical areas during motor imagery is similar
to that of real time executed movement. Time domain features and frequency domain features are extracted
with emphasis on recognizing discriminative features representing EEG trials recorded during imagination
of different hand movements. Then, classification into different hand movements is carried out.
Variation analysis of Swine influenza virus (SIV) H1N1 sequences in experimen...Álvaro L. Valiñas
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Swine influenza is a highly contagious and widely distributed disease that generates important economic losses in the pig industry. Nowadays, one of the most extended strategy used to control Swine influenza viruses (SIVs) is the trivalent vaccine application, which formulation contains the most frequently circulating SIV subtypes H1N1, H1N2 and H3N2. These vaccines do not provide sterilizing immunity against the virus, potentially favoring viral evolutionary dynamics. To better understand the main mechanisms that shape viral evolution, in this work, the SIV intra-host diversity was analyzed in samples collected from both, vaccinated and non-vaccinated animals challenged with H1N1 influenza A virus. In the present study 276 single nucleotide variants were found within 28 whole SIV genomes obtained by next generation sequencing. Differences in nucleotide variants between groups were established and the impact of each substitution found was hypothesized according to previous literature. Substitutions were allocated along all influenza genetic segments, while the most relevant non-synonymous substitutions were allocated in the NS1 protein on samples collected only from vaccinated animals. These substitutions could affect both, mRNA viral translation and pathogenesis. Moreover, new viral variants were found in both vaccinated and non-vaccinated pigs, showing relevant substitutions in the HA, NA and NP proteins that may be contributing to evasion of host immune system, virulence and host adaptation. Overall, results of the present study suggest that SIV is continuously evolving despite vaccine application, therefore new substitutions may increase viral fitness under field conditions.
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Accurate and reproducible delineation of breast les
ions can be challenging, as the lesions may have
complicated topological structures and heterogeneou
s intensity distributions. Diagnosis using magnetic
resonance imaging (MRI) with an appropriate automat
ic segmentation algorithm can be a better imaging
technique for the early detection of malignant brea
st tumours. The main objective of this system is to
develop a method for automatic segmentation and the
early detection of breast cancer based on the
application of the watershed transform to MRI image
s. The algorithm was separated into three major
sections: pre-processing, watershed and post-proces
sing. After computing different segments, the final
image was cleared of all noise and superimposed on
the original MRI image to generate the final modifi
ed image. The algorithm successfully resulted in the a
utomatic segmentation of the MRI images, and this c
an be a beneficial tool for the early detection of bre
ast cancer. This study showed that the automatic re
sults correctly agree with manual detection.
EEG based Brain Computer Interface (BCI) establishes a new channel between human brain and the
surrounding environment in order to disseminate instructions to the outside world. It is based on the
recording of temporary EEG changes during different types of motor imagery such as imagination of
different hand movements. The spatial pattern of activated cortical areas during motor imagery is similar
to that of real time executed movement. Time domain features and frequency domain features are extracted
with emphasis on recognizing discriminative features representing EEG trials recorded during imagination
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FINDING DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WEST AND EAST
YELLOW FEVER BY APRIORI AND DECISION TREE
Jiwoo Jeon1
, Youngshin Joo, and Taeseon Yoon
1
Department of National Science, Hankuk Academy of Foreign Studies, Yong-In,
Republic of Korea
ABSTRACT
Yellow Fever is a fatal disease that causes yellowness and high fever. It is known to be highly contagious
and it is mostly prevalent in Africa, where it is know n to be originated from. However, the derivations of
this disease have reached other continents across the sea and they seem to be in different order. We mostly
focused on the derivations within Africa and discovered that the geographical derivations of this disease
also have different frequencies. We proved this phenomenon by analysing the sequences through apriori
and decision tree.
KEYWORDS
Yellow fever virus, Apriori, Decision Tree, Transmission Cycle, Derivations
1. INTRODUCTION
Coquillettidia fuscopennata, more widely known as “yellow fever virus”(YFV) first broke out on
the island of Barbados. Although vaccination is available now, it was considered to be lethal
among the Europeans, opposed to the natives who were readily immune to the disease. The
disease is currently most prevalent in tropical-like areas, with South America and Africa being the
most vulnerable to its occurrence. Similarly, Ebola virus is a deadly disease threatening the
nation. It first broke out in South Sudan, and ever since, several phylogeographic forms of Ebola
virus have appeared, the genomic sequences differing slightly. Its vaccine has not yet been
qualified, and studies are being continuously carried out. The most significant similarity between
Ebola virus and the Yellow fever virus is that both diseases cause hemorrhagic fever. Regarding
this feature, in this study, we investigated the genomic sequences of the proteins capable of such
mechanism in both diseases.
2. RESULT METHOD
2.1. Yellow fever virus
Yellow fever is divided into 7 genotypes in including 2 West African genotype, 2 East Africa
genotype, Angolan genotype and 2 South American genotype.[1,2,3-5]. Specifically West Africa
genotype I (Nigeria, Cameroon, and Gabon), West Africa genotype II (Senegal, Guinea, Ivory
Coast, and Ghana), East and Central African genotype (Sudan, Ethiopia, Central African
Republic, and Democratic Republic of Congo), East African genotype (Kenya), and Angola
genotype (Angola).
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In our research, we will find the difference and expand relationship among West African(West
Africa genotype I (Ivory Coast), West Africa genotype II (Senegal Asibi, FVV, Gambia01)), east
African(Uganda48a), east/central African(Ethiopia61b) and Angolan (Angola71) genotypes.
Interestingly in West Africa, outbreaks happened more often, while East Africa outbreak is
uncommon. The cause for this can be found in the genetic variability of the virus. the West
African genotype I whic shows a higher heterogeneity than the West African genotype II or the
East/Central African genotype. (4) Also, the cause can be found in host adaptation, host behavior,
climatic and ecological factors.(6)
Strain Origin Date
collected
Source Genotype Reference (GenBank
accession no.)
Asibi Ghana 1927 Human West
Africa II
Hahn et al. (1987)
(AY640589)
14FA Angola 1971 Human Angola Mutebi et al. (2001)
(AY968064)
FVV Senegal 1927 Human West
Africa II
Wang et al. (1995)
(U21056)
Gambia01 Gambia 2001 Human West
Africa II
Colebunders et al.
(2002) (AY572535)
85-82H Ivory
Coast
1982 Human West
Africa I
Pisano et al. (1997)
(U54798)
A7094A2 Uganda 1948 Unknown East Africa Mutebi et al. (2001)
(AY968065)
Couma Ethiopia 1961 Human East/central
Africa
Serie et al. (1968)
(DQ235229)
Table 1. Yellow fever viruses [5]
In the present study, we used the complete yellow fever virus genome from NCBI
genback. The table above shows the viruses we used. We used one West Africa I, East
Africa, East/central Africa, Angola virus and 3 West Africa II viruses.
The strain which has West Africa I genotype is 85-82H which is from Ivory coast in 1982.
East Africa’s strain is named A7094A2 which is from Uganda in 1948, East/central Africa’s
strain is called Couma which is from Ethiopia in 1961, and Angola is called 14FA which is from
Angola in 1971. The virus which has the genotype of West Africa II is Asibi, FVV, and Gambia
01 which is each from Ghana, Senegal and Gambia and collected in 1927, 1927 and 2001.
2.1. Apriori Algorithm
In our research, we used apriori algorithm to find the relation between West, East and Angolan
genotype of yellow fever virus. Apriori algorithm finds out the association rule between the data
based on the frequency.
This algorithm counts the frequency of the item to determine the large itemsets. [7] Candidate
generation works, which extends frequent subsets one at a time then each candidate is tested
against the extension until no further data is found. [8] The form of the algorithm is similar as
figure 1.
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Figure 1. Apriori algorithm
We divided the amino acid sequences of virus into 9, 13, 17 windows and analyzed the frequent
sequence pattern respectively.
2.2 Decision Tree
A decision tree classifies data items (Fig. 1a) by posing a series of questions about the features
associated with the items. Each question is contained in a node, and every internal node points to
one child node for each possible answer to its question. The questions thereby form a hierarchy,
encoded as a tree. In the simplest form (Fig. 1b), we ask yes-or-no questions, and each internal
node has a ‘yes’ child and a ‘no’ child. An item is sorted into a class by following the path from
the topmost node, the root, to a node without children, a leaf, according to the answers that apply
to the item under consideration. An item is assigned to the class that has been associated with the
leaf it reaches. In some variations, each leaf contains a probability distribution over the classes
that estimates the conditional probability that an item reaching the leaf belongs to a given class.
Figure 2 a simple decision tree model
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3. RESULTS
2.1. Apriori Algorithm
Figure 3 Apriori algorithm window 9
Figure 4 Apriori algorithm window 13
Figure 5 Apriori algorithm window 17
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The graph above shows the frequency of the amino acids of yellow fever virus. From the left the
genotype of Gambia, Asibi, Senegal is West Africa II, Ivory coast is West Africa I, Angola’s
genotype is Angola and Uganda and Ethiopia’s genotype is East Africa. To Compare those two
viruses.
In all 9, 13, 17 window we could find out that West Africa I, II had no big difference. However,
West Africa and East Africa had big difference. West Africa showed glycine the most and rarely
showed arginine and serin. Whereas, East Africa showed serin and leucine the most and rarely
showed proline and glycine. Also angola virus showed leucine, glycine the most and rarely
showed alanine and valine.
Therefore as the reference had shown that in west Africa outbreaks happen more often cause of
the genetic variability and higher heterogeneity of the virus, we are predicting that amino acids
above could help the outbreak of the virus.
2.2. Decision Tree
Window Rule Frequency
Window 9 pos4 = E pos7 = E pos3 = T pos7 = A pos8 = V
pos7 = F pos9 = K pos7 = A pos8 = M pos1 = D
pos6 = S pos1= Y pos5 = T pos7 = M pos9 = E
pos4 = E pos7 = E pos3=M pos7 = E pos7 = F
pos9 = K pos3 = V pos4 = I pos7= M pos9 = E
pos4 = E pos7 = E pos7 = M pos9 = E pos4 = E
pos7 = E pos4 = E pos7 = E pos6 = V pos7 = A
pos4 = E pos7 = E pos7 = K pos7 = M pos9 = E
0.800
pos6 = M pos7 = L pos6 = M pos7 = L pos1=
A pos7 = G pos1= A pos7=G pos1 = A pos7 =
G pos1 = M pos8 = V
0.833
pos4 = A pos7 = E 0.857
Window 13 pos6 = M pos7 = L pos6 = M pos7 = L pos1=
A pos7 = G pos1= A pos7=G pos1 = A pos7 =
G pos1 = M pos8 = V pos8 = A pos11= E pos7
= L pos12 = K pos8 = G pos11 = Y pos7 = L
pos12 = K
0.833
pos4 = A pos7 = E pos8 = L pos11 = M pos1 =
G pos6 = E
0.857
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pos11 = V pos12 = I pos3 = K pos12 = R
pos1 = E pos12 = T pos11 = V pos12 = I
pos3 = M pos11 = L pos3 = T pos7 = L
pos12 = K pos3 = K pos12 = R pos12 = V
pos1 = V pos11 = S pos3 = E pos13 = E pos7
= L pos12 = K pos3 = A pos11 = A pos3 = M
pos11 = L pos3 = T pos12 = V pos4 = D pos11
= S pos8 = Y pos13 = V pos8 = P pos12 = P p
os3 = M pos11 = L pos3 = T pos12 = V pos1 =
V pos11 = S pos3 = E pos13 = E pos1 = A po
s12 = T pos1 = E pos12 = T
0.800
Window17 pos2 = A pos8 = V pos2 = Y pos10 = L
pos2 = Y pos10 = L
0.833
pos2 = K pos2 = L pos2 = R pos11 = M
pos2 = T pos4 = A pos2 = T pos17 = V
pos14 = M pos2 = R pos11 = M pos17 = V
pos1 = V pos2 = R pos2 = N pos1 = L
pos8 = T pos4 = M pos2 = R pos2 = L
pos14 = A pos4 = E pos4 = A pos11 = M
pos2 = E pos4 = E pos7 = M pos14 = A
pos2 = L pos4 = A pos4 = E pos14 = A
pos2 = R pos8 = T pos1 = V pos2 = N
0.800
Figure 6 Decision tree of angola virus
Window Rule Frequency
Window 17 pos3 = S pos4 = T pos2 = K pos13 = R
pos2 = K pos13 = R pos3 = S pos4 = T
pos2 = K pos2 = K pos13 = R pos13 = R
pos3 = S pos4 = T pos2 = K pos13 = R
0.833
pos8 = Rpos11 = Rpos3 = Ipos3 = S
pos7 = Mpos4 = T
0.800
Figure 7 Decision Tree of uganda virus
Window Rule Frequency
Window 13 pos7 = Q pos12 = S 0.800
Figure 8 Decision Tree of Ethiopia Virus
Window Rule Frequency
Window 13 pos6 = L pos12 = G pos13 = S 0.800
Figure 9 Decision Tree of Ivory Coast virus
Upon analyzing the statistics of this decision tree we used on Yellow fever, we assumed that there
must be some reasons behind the cluster of information around class 3. So we continued to
analyze the rules one by one and decided there must be some atypical properties to this disease
that can explain such phenomenon.
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4. CONCLUSIONS
Our study reveals a dominant distinction between West Africa yellow fever and East/Central
Africa regarding the analyses of the genome. As shown in the apparent disparity between the
frequency of different amino acids, we inferred that this might entail to different properties
between West and East/Central yellow fever. According to various studies, all 7 genotypes of
Yellow Fever (5 of them in Africa) display the same symptoms; facial tone turning yellow and
acute liver phase. However there also seem to be roughly 3 characteristics that distinguish the
geographic genotypes of yellow fever.
1. Studies to date show that Yellow Fever first evolved from East/ Central Africa and branched
out to West Africa and was later transported to South America. From analyses of the genome,
West Africa virus strain displayed high similarity with the South American strain, but
comparatively lower similarity with the East and central African strain despite the fact that they
derived from the same continent.
2. Three different transmission cycles exist in Africa ; jungle(sylvatic), intermediate(savannah)
and urban. As the name follows, jungle cycle occurs in tropical rain forests, intermediate cycle in
savannah, and urban cycle via travellers introducing the disease to unprecedented areas. The
vectors differ,too, as it can be shown in the following diagram.
Figure 10. Transmission Cycles
3. West African strains have a 3’NCR of 511 nucleotides while strains from Central/East Africa
had shorter 3’NCRs (443-469 nucleotides) due to the absence of YF specific repeat sequences
(RYFs). Having such qualitative difference within a single disease seems to advocate the idea that
the results shown in our study are meaningful.
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Authors
Ji woo Jeon
Was born in Korea, in 1997. She is a junior, eleventh grade student in the national science
program at Hankuk Academy of Foreign studies since 2014.
Youngshin Joo
Was born in Korea, in 1997. She is a junior, eleventh grade student in the national science
program at Hankuk Academy of Foreign studies since 2014.
Taeseon Yoon
was born in Seoul, Korea, in 1972. He was Ph.D. Candidate degree in Computer education
from the Korea University, Seoul, Korea, in 2003. From 1998 to 2003, he was with EJB
analyst and SCJP. From 2003 to 2004, he joined the Department of Computer Education. Since
December 2004, he has been with the Hankuk Academy of Foreign Studies, where he was a
Computer Science and Statistics Teacher.