Md. Rashedul Islam

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2 Papers

3.1CVJul 26, 2017
Reduction of Overfitting in Diabetes Prediction Using Deep Learning Neural Network

Akm Ashiquzzaman, Abdul Kawsar Tushar, Md. Rashedul Islam et al.

Augmented accuracy in prediction of diabetes will open up new frontiers in health prognostics. Data overfitting is a performance-degrading issue in diabetes prognosis. In this study, a prediction system for the disease of diabetes is pre-sented where the issue of overfitting is minimized by using the dropout method. Deep learning neural network is used where both fully connected layers are fol-lowed by dropout layers. The output performance of the proposed neural network is shown to have outperformed other state-of-art methods and it is recorded as by far the best performance for the Pima Indians Diabetes Data Set.

3.1CVJul 26, 2017
A Novel Transfer Learning Approach upon Hindi, Arabic, and Bangla Numerals using Convolutional Neural Networks

Abdul Kawsar Tushar, Akm Ashiquzzaman, Afia Afrin et al.

Increased accuracy in predictive models for handwritten character recognition will open up new frontiers for optical character recognition. Major drawbacks of predictive machine learning models are headed by the elongated training time taken by some models, and the requirement that training and test data be in the same feature space and consist of the same distribution. In this study, these obstacles are minimized by presenting a model for transferring knowledge from one task to another. This model is presented for the recognition of handwritten numerals in Indic languages. The model utilizes convolutional neural networks with backpropagation for error reduction and dropout for data overfitting. The output performance of the proposed neural network is shown to have closely matched other state-of-the-art methods using only a fraction of time used by the state-of-the-arts.