Automated identification of hookahs (waterpipes) on Instagram: an application in feature extraction using Convolutional Neural Network and Support Vector Machine classification

10/21/2018
by   Youshan Zhang, et al.
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Background: Instagram, with millions of posts per day, can be used to inform public health surveillance targets and policies. However, current research relying on image-based data often relies on hand coding of images which is time consuming and costly, ultimately limiting the scope of the study. Current best practices in automated image classification (e.g., support vector machine (SVM), Backpropagation (BP) neural network, and artificial neural network) are limited in their capacity to accurately distinguish between objects within images. Objective: This study demonstrates how convolutional neural network (CNN) can be used to extract unique features within an image and how SVM can then be used to classify the image. Methods: Images of waterpipes or hookah (an emerging tobacco product possessing similar harms to that of cigarettes) were collected from Instagram and used in analyses (n=840). CNN was used to extract unique features from images identified to contain waterpipes. A SVM classifier was built to distinguish between images with and without waterpipes. Methods for image classification were then compared to show how a CNN + SVM classifier could improve accuracy. Results: As the number of the validated training images increased, the total number of extracted features increased. Additionally, as the number of features learned by the SVM classifier increased, the average level of accuracy increased. Overall, 99.5 correctly identified as either hookah or non-hookah images. This level of accuracy was an improvement over earlier methods that used SVM, CNN or Bag of Features (BOF) alone. Conclusions: CNN extracts more features of the images allowing a SVM classifier to be better informed, resulting in higher accuracy compared with methods that extract fewer features. Future research can use this method to grow the scope of image-based studies.

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