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However, a large number of prediction models use very complicated artificial feature extraction and selection methods to build the original input features of the deep learning model and health indicator. These approaches do not fully exploit the capabilities of deep learning models as they continue to heavily rely on prior knowledge, The accuracy of their predictions largely hinges on the quality of the input features, and the generalization of manually crafted features remains uncertain. To address these challenges, in this paper, an end-to-end prediction model for the remaining useful life of rolling bearings is proposed, which is divided into three modules. First, a short-term Fourier transform module is incorporated into the model to automatically obtain the time\u2013frequency information of the signal. Then, the convolutional next (ConvNext) module, which is a simple and efficient pure convolutional neural network, is utilized to extract features from the spectrogram. Finally, we capture the short-term dependence and long-term dependence by two parallel channels Transformer and self-attention convolutional long short-term memory (SA-ConvLSTM), and the self-attention mechanism is employed for the adaptive prediction of the bearing\u2019s remaining useful life. Through integration with artificial intelligence, this method proposes a high-performance solution for predicting the remaining useful life of bearings. It has minimal reliance on manual labor, stronger fitting capabilities, and can be widely used for predicting the remaining useful life of bearings.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/make6040138","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,12,17]],"date-time":"2024-12-17T06:26:12Z","timestamp":1734416772000},"page":"2892-2912","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["An End-to-End Adaptive Method for Remaining Useful Life Prediction of Rolling Bearings Using Time\u2013Frequency Image Features"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"6","author":[{"given":"Liang","family":"Chen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mechatronic Engineering, College of Mechanical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China"},{"name":"Shenyang Aircraft Design & Research Institute, The Aviation Industry Corporation of China, Ltd., Shenyang 110035, China"}]},{"given":"Hao","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mechatronic Engineering, College of Mechanical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China"}]},{"given":"Linshu","family":"Meng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mechatronic Engineering, College of Mechanical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China"},{"name":"Shenyang Aircraft Design & Research Institute, The Aviation Industry Corporation of China, Ltd., Shenyang 110035, China"}]},{"given":"Zhenzhen","family":"Xu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mechatronic Engineering, College of Mechanical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China"}]},{"given":"Lin","family":"Xue","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mechatronic Engineering, College of Mechanical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China"}]},{"given":"Mingfa","family":"Ren","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mechatronic Engineering, College of Mechanical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,12,16]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"757","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jmsy.2021.03.012","article-title":"A novel deep convolutional neural network-bootstrap integrated method for RUL prediction of rolling bearing","volume":"61","author":"Huang","year":"2021","journal-title":"J. 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