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ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2023

PM2.5 Concentration Prediction Model: A CNN-RF Ensemble Framework.

Mei-Hsin Chen, Yao-Chung Chen, Tien-Yin Chou, Fang-Shii Ning

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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Mei-Hsin ChenGIS Research Center, Feng Chia University, Taichung 40724, Taiwan.
Yao-Chung ChenGIS Research Center, Feng Chia University, Taichung 40724, Taiwan.
Tien-Yin ChouGIS Research Center, Feng Chia University, Taichung 40724, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0001-8676-7832
Fang-Shii NingDepartment of Land Economics, National Cheng Chi University, Taipei 11605, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0003-2155-3061

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Abstract

Although many machine learning methods have been widely used to predict PM2.5 concentrations, these single or hybrid methods still have some shortcomings. This study integrated the advantages of convolutional neural network (CNN) feature extraction and the regression ability of random forest (RF) to propose a novel CNN-RF ensemble framework for PM2.5 concentration modeling. The observational data from 13 monitoring stations in Kaohsiung in 2021 were selected for model training and testing. First, CNN was implemented to extract key meteorological and pollution data. Subsequently, the RF algorithm was employed to train the model with five input factors, namely the extracted features from the CNN and spatiotemporal factors, including the day of the year, the hour of the day, latitude, and longitude. Independent observations from two stations were used to evaluate the models. The findings demonstrated that the proposed CNN-RF model had better modeling capability compared with the independent CNN and RF models: the average improvements in root mean square error (RMSE) and mean absolute error (MAE) ranged from 8.10% to 11.11%, respectively. In addition, the proposed CNN-RF hybrid model has fewer excess residuals at thresholds of 10 μg/m

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Air PollutionNeural Networks, ComputerMachine LearningParticulate MatterRandom ForestParticulate Matterconvolutional neural networkPM2.5random forest

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PMID36901088
PMCPMC10002213

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