1. Title, Journal and Authors
- Title: Support Vector Machines and Multilayer Perceptron Networks Used to Evaluate the Cyanotoxins Presence from Experimental Cyanobacteria Concentrations in the Trasona Reservoir (Northern Spain)
- Journal : Water Resour Manage
- Authors : J. A. Vilán Vilán1, J. R. Alonso Fernández2, P. J. García Nieto3, F. Sánchez Lasheras4, F. J. de Cos Juez5, C. Díaz Muñiz2
- Affiliation :
1: Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Vigo, 36200 Vigo, Spain
2: Cantabrian Basin Authority, Spanish Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment, 33071 Oviedo, Spain
3: Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Oviedo, 33007 Oviedo, Spain
4: Department of Construction and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Oviedo, 33204 Gijón, Spain
5: Mining Exploitation and Prospecting Department, University of Oviedo, 33004 Oviedo, Spain
2. Summary
- This paper suggested a methodology to predict concentration of cyanotoxins using support vector machines (SVM) and multilayer perceptron networks (MLP).
- The data used for the SVM and MLP consisted of 8 biological variables and 15 physical-chemical input variables.
- Cross validation was used for finding a suitable set of hyper parameters of SVM and MLP.
- The SVM with the radial basis kernel function (RBF-Kernel) is showed the best performance for predicting the concentration of cyanotoxins in the Trasona reservoir.
- Two dominant species of the cyanobacteria had synergistic behavior on the increase of cyanotoxins concentration.
3. Application to research
- The cross validation is the standard technique to find a suitable set of hyper parameters of machine learning.
- The significance of each biological and physical-chemical variables on the concentration of cyanotoxins is presented through the results of this paper.
- The sensitivity analysis is essential to optimize the input variables of machine learning and to provide a scientific basis for selecting variables.
4. Contact
Heewon Jeong (Ph.D. program)
Environmental Systems Engineering Lab.
School of Environmental Science & Engineering
Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology
1 Oryong-dong Buk-gu Gwangju, 500-712, Korea
Email : gua01114@gist.ac.kr