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Babak Mohammadi

Doctoral student

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A new hybrid model based on relevance vector machine with flower pollination algorithm for phycocyanin pigment concentration estimation

Author

  • Quoc Bao Pham
  • Saad Sh Sammen
  • Sani Isa Abba
  • Babak Mohammadi
  • Shamsuddin Shahid
  • Rabiu Aliyu Abdulkadir

Summary, in English

Precise monitoring of cyanobacteria concentration in water resources is a daunting task. The development of reliable tools to monitor this contamination is an important research topic in water resources management. Indirect methods such as chlorophyll-a determination, cell counting, and toxin measurement of the cyanobacteria are tedious, cumbersome, and often lead to inaccurate results. The quantity of phycocyanin (PC) pigment is considered more appropriate for cyanobacteria monitoring. Traditional approaches for PC estimation are time-consuming, expensive, and require high expertise. Recently, some studies have proposed the application of artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to predict the amount of PC concentration. Nonetheless, most of these researches are limited to standalone modeling schemas such as artificial neural network (ANN), multilayer perceptron (MLP), and support vector machine (SVM). The independent schema provides imprecise results when faced with highly nonlinear systems and data uncertainties resulting from environmental disturbances. To alleviate the limitations of the existing models, this study proposes the first application of a hybrid AI model that integrates the potentials of relevance vector machine (RVM) and flower pollination algorithm (RVM-FPA) to predict the PC concentration in water resources. The performance of the hybrid model is compared with the standalone RVM model. The prediction performance of the proposed models was evaluated at two stations (stations 508 and 478) using different statistical and graphical performance evaluation methods. The results showed that the hybrid models exhibited higher performance at both stations compared to the standalone RVM model. The proposed hybrid RVM-FPA can therefore serve as a reliable predictive tool for PC concentration in water resources.

Department/s

  • Dept of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science

Publishing year

2021

Language

English

Pages

32564-32579

Publication/Series

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volume

28

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Springer

Topic

  • Environmental Sciences
  • Other Environmental Engineering

Keywords

  • Flower pollination algorithm
  • Hybrid models
  • Phycocyanin pigment concentration
  • Prediction models
  • Relevance vector machine

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0944-1344