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Human health is threatened by several diseases for this reason automated medical diagnosis systems has been developed several years ago. These systems need databases, the creation of these databases is tedious, arduous and stops being done so the created database is incomplete or unbalanced. Sometimes the databases are private to protect the private information of the patients, among other problems. For this reason, the researchers have started to use synthetic data. The synthetic data have been applied by different hospitals in the USA. The creation of synthetic data has different problems like the synthetic data are generated using rules defined by the user, the proposed approaches only can create one kind of data, the proposals require input from domain experts, among others. To address these kinds of problems, we propose a novel approach, which consists of the Bidirectional Recurrent Neural Network and the statistical stage to generate synthetic biomedical signals. The approach is able to create 5 kinds of biomedical signals (ECG, EEG, BCG, PPG, and Respiratory Impedance). Our approach is able to create synthetic data for patients or for specific events. The performance of our approach is compared with other generative models (GAN’s) through evaluation metrics. The created synthetic data are used to construct models; these models are able to successfully differentiate between different signals with high accuracies.

Heart disease is the principal cause of death across the globe and the ECG signals are used to diagnose it. The correct classification of this disease allows us the opportunity to apply a more focused treatment. ECG signals are fed into Automated Diagnosis Systems, and these systems use techniques like processing digital signals, machine learning, and deep learning. This paper shows the results when the sampling frequency of the ECG signals is resampled and proposes a new preprocessing stage. The new stage applies Wavelet based on Atomic Functions to eliminate the noise and baseline wander. The Wavelet based on Atomic Functions have demonstrated successful performances in computer science. The ECG signals are segmented into 1, 2, 5, and 10 s; these segmented signals are fed into the classifier stage. Our proposal was tested in four accessible public databases separately, and finally by gathering the databases. We were able to successfully differentiate between 11 types of ECG signals with an accuracy of 98.9%.

One of the most significant current discussions in Computer Science is the skin recognition. Many papers have studied the skin detection using different techniques, artificial vision, machine learning, deep learning among others. Despite its long success, the skin recognition has several problems in use. However, there has been little discussion about generate a skin tonalities classification. The aim of this paper is to propose a system to skin tonalities through geographic distribution based on clustering algorithms, pattern recognition and fuzzy logic. This distribution gives us the opportunity to classify the skin tonalities. We can study each skin tonality for any applications as medical diagnosis, security. In the first stage, we use the RGB color model to training the system. Then, we tested the system with different color models. We use color model with the best result to propose geographic distribution based skin tonalities. The results show that is possible to generate a skin tonalities classification. The proposed system is using to skin recognition, showing interesting results under controlled and no controlled conditions.

COVID-2019 is a global threat, for this reason around the world, researches have been focused on topics such as to detect it, prevent it, cure it, and predict it. Different analyses propose models to predict the evolution of this epidemic. These analyses propose models for specific geographical areas, specific countries, or create a global model. The models give us the possibility to predict the virus behavior, it could be used to make future response plans. This work presents an analysis of COVID-19 spread that shows a different angle for the whole world, through 6 geographic regions (continents). We propose to create a relationship between the countries, which are in the same geographical area to predict the advance of the virus. The countries in the same geographic region have variables with similar values (quantifiable and non-quantifiable), which affect the spread of the virus. We propose an algorithm to performed and evaluated the ARIMA model for 145 countries, which are distributed into 6 regions. Then, we construct a model for these regions using the ARIMA parameters, the population per 1M people, the number of cases, and polynomial functions. The proposal is able to predict the COVID-19 cases with a RMSE average of 144.81. The main outcome of this paper is showing a relation between COVID-19 behavior and population in a region, these results show us the opportunity to create more models to predict the COVID-19 behavior using variables as humidity, climate, culture, among others.

This paper proposes a facial expression recognition algorithm that automatically detects the facial image contained in a color picture and segments it in two regions of interest (ROI)—the forehead/eyes and the mouth—which are then divided into non-overlapping N × M blocks. Next, the average of the first element of the cross correlation between 54 Gabor functions and each one of the N × M blocks is estimated to generate a matrix of dimension L × NM , where L is the number of training images. This matrix is then inserted into a principal component analysis (PCA) module for dimensionality reduction. Finally, the resulting matrix is used to generate the feature vectors, which are inserted into the proposed low complexity classifier based on clustering and fuzzy logic techniques. This classifier provides recognition rates close to those provided by other high performance classifiers, but with far less computational complexity. The experimental results show that proposed system achieves a recognition rate of about 97% when the feature vector from only one ROI is used, and that the recognition rate increases to approximately 99% when the feature vectors of both ROIs are used. This result means that the proposed method can achieve an overall recognition rate of approximately 97% even when one of the two ROIs is totally occluded.

This paper proposes a facial expression recognition algorithm, which automatically detects and segments the face regions of interest (ROI) such as the forehead, eyes and mouth, etc. Proposed scheme initially detects the image face and segments it in two regions: forehead/eyes and mouth. Next each of these regions is segmented into N × M blocks which are characterized using 54 Gabor functions that are correlated with each one of the N × M blocks. Next the principal component analysis (PCA) is used for dimensionality reduction. Finally, the resulting feature vectors are inserted in a proposed classifier based on clustering techniques which provides recognition results closed to those provided by the support vector machine (SVM) with much less computational complexity. The experimental results show that proposed system provides a recognition rate of about 98 % when only one ROI is used. This recognition rate increases to about 99 % when the feature vectors of all ROIs are concatenated. This fact allows achieving recognition rates higher than 97 %, even when one of the two ROI are totally occluded.

This paper proposes a new classifier scheme based on classical clustering algorithms, such as the Batchelor & Wilkins y K-means algorithms which are trained in a similar form that the artificial neural network (ANN) or support vector machines (SVM). Proposed scheme has the advantage that if a new class is added, it is not necessary to train he classifier completely, but only add a new class. Experimental results show that the proposed scheme provides classification rates quite similar to those provided by the SVM with much less computational complexity.