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Despite the rapid improvement in dental health over the last few decades, a significant portion of our population continue seek dental care every year. Estimates show that 13% of adults seek dental care for dental infection or fatigue within four years. The Social and individual burden of this disease can be reduced by its early detection. However, the symptoms of teeth infection in the early stages are not clear, hence, it would be relatively difficult to predict teeth infections based solely on human skills and experience. Big Data (BD) technologies have a great potential in transforming dental care, as they have revolutionized other industries. In addition to reducing cost, they could save millions of lives and improve patient outcomes. This paper proposes a novel integrated prediction model that extracts hidden knowledge from radiographic datasets containing a large volume of dental X-ray images and utilizes this knowledge to predict dental infections. Initially, preprocessing techniques using morphological skeleton and mean approach is applied to eliminate noise and enhance the images. Next, Multi Scale Segmented Region (MSR) approach, Watershed Approach (WA), Sobel edge Detection (SD), Histogram based Segmentation (HS), Trainable Segmentation (TS), Dual Clustering (DC), and Fuzzy C-Means clustering (FCM) are examined for image segmentation and feature extraction. Among these methods, MSR was selected for feature extraction since it outperformed other methods in terms of accuracy, specificity, precision, recall and F1-score. Then, a set of neural network classifiers are trained to identify patterns in the extracted optimized features and predict dental infections. For this purpose, we have examined Bacterial Optimized Recurrent Neural Networks (BORNN), Deep Learning Neural Networks (DANN), Genetic Optimized Neural Networks (GONN) and Adaptive Neural Networks Algorithm (ADNN). BORNN have shown maximum accuracy and Roc value (98.1% and 0.92 respectively), and minimum error values (MSE = 0.189, MAE = 0.143). The output of the proposed integrated prediction model is fed into a dental robot who proceeds with the treatment process with high accuracy and minimum delay. The proposed prediction model was implemented using a big data analytics tool called Apache SAMOA and experimental results showed its correctness and effectiveness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nowadays, big data plays a substantial part in information knowledge analysis, manipulation, and forecasting. Analyzing and extracting knowledge from such big datasets are a very challenging task due to the imbalance of data distribution, which could lead to a biased classification results and wrong decisions. The standard classifiers are not capable of handling such datasets. Hence, a new technique for dealing with such datasets is required. This paper proposes a novel classification framework for big data that consists of three developed phases. The first phase is the feature selection phase, which uses the Whale optimization algorithm (WOA) for finding the best set of features. The second phase is the preprocessing phase, which uses the SMOTE algorithm and the LSH-SMOTE algorithm for solving the class imbalance problem. Lastly, the third phase is WOA + BRNN algorithm, which is using the Whale optimization algorithm for training a deep learning approach called bidirectional recurrent neural network for the first time. Our proposed algorithm WOA-BRNN has been tested against nine highly imbalanced datasets one of them is big dataset in terms of area under curve (AUC) against four of the most common use machine learning algorithms (Naïve Bayes, AdaBoostM1, decision table, random tree), in addition to GWO-MLP (training multilayer perceptron using Gray Wolf Optimizer), then we test our algorithm over four well-known datasets against GWO-MLP and particle swarm optimization (PSO-MLP), genetic algorithm (GA-MLP), ant colony optimization (ACO-MLP), evolution strategy (ES-MLP), and population-based incremental learning (PBIL-MLP) in terms of classification accuracy. Experimental results proved that our proposed algorithm WOA + BRNN has achieved promising accuracy and high local optima avoidance, and outperformed four of the most common use machine learning algorithms, and GWO-MLP in terms of AUC. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]