Combining fuzzy analytic hierarchy process with concentration–area fractal for mineral prospectivity mapping: A case study involving Qinling orogenic belt in central China

Bai, Hongyang; Cao, Yuan; Zhang, Heng; Zhang, Chenxi; Hou, Sizhou; Wang, Wenfeng

doi:10.1016/j.apgeochem.2021.104894

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“…Among the wide fractal applications in geoscience, great efforts have been made to probe the correlation between mineral deposits and ore-related evidential features via various fractal exponents [31][32][33][34]. The concentration-area (C-A) fractal model, proposed by Cheng et al [35] and originally applied to identify mineralization-related geochemical anomalies [36,37], has been widely employed in MPM to separate geophysical anomalies [38][39][40], detect hydrothermal minerals from remote sensing data [25,41], discretize continuous values and classify mineral potential [31,[42][43][44][45], and to outrank exploration layers [46]. On the other hand, multifractal analysis, taking into account fuzzy spatial distribution patterns as well as the irregular geometric shapes of geological features under multiple scaling rules [38], stands as an effective tool for portraying the overall complexity of mineralization systems [27,[47][48][49].…”

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Fractal-Based Multi-Criteria Feature Selection to Enhance Predictive Capability of AI-Driven Mineral Prospectivity Mapping

Sun,

Feng,

et al. 2024

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AI-driven mineral prospectivity mapping (MPM) is a valid and increasingly accepted tool for delineating the targets of mineral exploration, but it suffers from noisy and unrepresentative input features. In this study, a set of fractal and multifractal methods, including box-counting calculation, concentration–area fractal modeling, and multifractal analyses, were employed to excavate the underlying nonlinear mineralization-related information from geological features. Based on these methods, multiple feature selection criteria, namely prediction–area plot, K-means clustering, information gain, chi-square, and the Pearson correlation coefficient, were jointly applied to rank the relative importance of ore-related features and their fractal representations, so as to choose the optimal input feature dataset readily used for training predictive AI models. The results indicate that fault density, the multifractal spectrum width (∆α) of the Yanshanian intrusions, information dimension (D1) of magnetic anomalies, correlation dimension (D2) of iron-oxide alteration, and the D2 of argillic alteration serve as the most effective predictor features representative of the corresponding ore-controlling elements. The comparative results of the model assessment suggest that all the AI models trained by the fractal datasets outperform their counterparts trained by raw datasets, demonstrating a significant improvement in the predictive capability of fractal-trained AI models in terms of both classification accuracy and predictive efficiency. A Shapley additive explanation was employed to trace the contributions of these features and to explain the modeling results, which imply that fractal representations provide more discriminative and definitive feature values that enhance the cognitive capability of AI models trained by these data, thereby improving their predictive performance, especially for those indirect predictor features that show subtle correlations with mineralization in the raw dataset. In addition, fractal-trained models can benefit practical mineral exploration by outputting low-risk exploration targets that achieve higher capturing efficiency and by providing new mineralization clues extracted from remote sensing data. This study demonstrates that the fractal representations of geological features filtered by multi-criteria feature selection can provide a feasible and promising means of improving the predictive capability of AI-driven MPM.

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Fractal-Based Multi-Criteria Feature Selection to Enhance Predictive Capability of AI-Driven Mineral Prospectivity Mapping

Sun,

Feng,

et al. 2024

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“…In AHP analysis, the elements for making the decision are decomposed into targets, criteria and plans, and the decision is further made by qualitative and quantitative analysis. This method has been turned out to be suitable for the decision-making on the target system which has the hierarchical cross evaluation index and the target value is also difficult to quantitatively describe [1,2] . TOPSIS (Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution) is also known as the ideal solution.…”

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Application of AHP-TOPSIS method in the preferred optimization of mining method

Lian,

Li,

Liu1

2023

International Conference on Algorithms, High Performance Computing, and Artificial Intelligence (AHPCAI 2023)

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“…Knowledge-driven approaches that are mostly applied in the predictive modeling of a particular natural resource such as gold, copper, iron, hydrocarbons, groundwater etc. Comprise the analytical hierarchy process [ 34 , 76 , 84 ], analytical network process [ 68 ], ELECTRE [ 2 , 3 ], fuzzy analytical hierarchy process [ 14 , 20 , 45 , 51 ], best-worst method [ 42 ], PROMETHEE [ 4 ] and TOPSIS [ 59 ]. It is worthy to note that, knowledge-driven data integration methods are best suited in areas with little or no known occurrence of the sought-after mineral [ 45 ].…”

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Prediction of gold mineralization zones using spatial techniques and geophysical data: A case study of the Josephine prospecting licence, NW Ghana

Forson,

Amponsah

2023

Heliyon

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Combining fuzzy analytic hierarchy process with concentration–area fractal for mineral prospectivity mapping: A case study involving Qinling orogenic belt in central China

Cited by 18 publications

References 43 publications

Fractal-Based Multi-Criteria Feature Selection to Enhance Predictive Capability of AI-Driven Mineral Prospectivity Mapping

Fractal-Based Multi-Criteria Feature Selection to Enhance Predictive Capability of AI-Driven Mineral Prospectivity Mapping

Application of AHP-TOPSIS method in the preferred optimization of mining method

Prediction of gold mineralization zones using spatial techniques and geophysical data: A case study of the Josephine prospecting licence, NW Ghana

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