Pondayu, Chelsea Zaomi
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Convolutional neural network DenseNet in classifying dyslexic handwriting images Pondayu, Chelsea Zaomi; Widodo, Widodo; Nugraheni, Murien
Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Vol 41, No 1: January 2026
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.11591/ijeecs.v41.i1.pp220-232

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Dyslexia is a specific learning disability (SLD) associated with word-level reading difficulties and often manifests in childhood handwriting through irregular spacing and inconsistent letter sizing, due to shared phonological and orthographic processing. Early identification is critical; however, traditional diagnostic procedures are time-consuming and unsuitable for large-scale screening. This study aimed to develop a handwriting analysis at the paragraph-level using a DenseNet121 convolutional neural network (CNN) model as a low-cost dyslexia screening tool for resource-constrained educational settings. One hundred English handwriting images were preprocessed and standardized into two hundred samples, with 70% of the dataset evaluated using 4-fold cross-validation and the remaining 30% used for testing. The model achieved 90% test accuracy and 92.86% training accuracy, significantly outperforming a random forest baseline that reached 83.57% train accuracy and 63.33% test accuracy, with statistical significance confirmed by McNemar’s test. The main contribution of this study is the demonstration that a lightweight, single-architecture DenseNet121 using paragraph-level analysis can achieve competitive performance compared to prior studies that relied on more complex hybrid models and character-level analysis, while requiring substantially lower computational resources and simplified pipeline. These findings indicate that DenseNet121 provides a robust and low-cost solution for preliminary dyslexia screening in resource-limited educational environments.
Variance-k-means++: A deterministic centroid initialization method based on variance for enhanced clustering stability Widodo, Widodo; Ramadhan, Jiel Vayyad; Duskarnaen, Muhammad Ficky; Fauziastuti, Via Tuhamah; Pondayu, Chelsea Zaomi; Septianda, Mada Rekadarma
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 16, No 3: June 2026
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v16i3.pp1434-1448

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K-means++ is developed to improve the performance of k-means when choosing a starting centroid. However, both algorithms in clustering still select an initial centroid randomly. Randomly selecting initial centroids has the potential to produce unstable clusters. This paper proposes a deterministic centroid initialization method called variance-k-means++, which utilizes statistical properties—mean and variance—to generate pseudo-centroids and derive initial centroids. The method aims to improve clustering stability and reduce the number of iterations. For the initial study, we used low-dimensional data to conduct the experiment series. Then, we employed two baseline methods for benchmarking, k-means and k-means++. The results show that variance-k-means++ outperformed the baseline method on average. Evaluating in Davies-Bouldin Index (DBI) and convergence analysis, we obtained DBI values at 0.756 and 0,771 for vertical and horizontal variance k-means++ with Iris dataset. At the same time, baseline methods have 0.802 and 0.830 for k-means++ and k-means, respectively. In convergence analysis, the results are 5.158 for vertical and 5.474 for horizontal, while baseline methods are 9.000 and 8.842. The primary contribution of this study lies in its achievement of minimizing the number of iterations while enhancing cluster stability.