BMI Prediction from Handwritten English Characters Using a Convolutional Neural Network
<|reference_start|>BMI Prediction from Handwritten English Characters Using a Convolutional Neural Network: A person's Body Mass Index, or BMI, is the most widely used parameter for assessing their health. BMI is a crucial predictor of potential diseases that may arise at higher body fat levels because it is correlated with body fat. Conversely, a community's or an individual's nutritional status can be determined using the BMI. Although deep learning models are used in several studies to estimate BMI from face photos and other data, no previous research established a clear connection between deep learning techniques for handwriting analysis and BMI prediction. This article addresses this research gap with a deep learning approach to estimating BMI from handwritten characters by developing a convolutional neural network (CNN). A dataset containing samples from 48 people in lowercase English scripts is successfully captured for the BMI prediction task. The proposed CNN-based approach reports a commendable accuracy of 99.92%. Performance comparison with other popular CNN architectures reveals that AlexNet and InceptionV3 achieve the second and third-best performance, with the accuracy of 99.69% and 99.53%, respectively.<|reference_end|>
@article{diba2024bmi,
    title={BMI Prediction from Handwritten English Characters Using a Convolutional
  Neural Network},
    author={N. T. Diba, N. Akter, S. A. H. Chowdhury, J. E. Giti},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.02584},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2409.02584},
    primaryClass={cs.CV cs.LG}
}