Tawfeeq Shawly¹, Ahmed Alsheikhy^2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.77, No.1, pp. 425-443, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.040561

Abstract According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Brain Tumors (BrT) have a high rate of mortality across the world. The mortality rate, however, decreases with early diagnosis. Brain images, Computed Tomography (CT) scans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging scans (MRIs), segmentation, analysis, and evaluation make up the critical tools and steps used to diagnose brain cancer in its early stages. For physicians, diagnosis can be challenging and time-consuming, especially for those with little expertise. As technology advances, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been used in various domains as a diagnostic tool and offers promising outcomes. Deep-learning techniques are especially useful and have achieved… More >

P. Kalaiselvi^1,*, S. Anusuya²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.77, No.1, pp. 1209-1226, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.040264

Abstract In recent days, Deep Learning (DL) techniques have become an emerging transformation in the field of machine learning, artificial intelligence, computer vision, and so on. Subsequently, researchers and industries have been highly endorsed in the medical field, predicting and controlling diverse diseases at specific intervals. Liver tumor prediction is a vital chore in analyzing and treating liver diseases. This paper proposes a novel approach for predicting liver tumors using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) and a depth-based variant search algorithm with advanced attention mechanisms (CNN-DS-AM). The proposed work aims to improve accuracy and robustness in diagnosing and treating liver diseases. The… More >

Ejaz Khan¹, Muhammad Zia Ur Rehman², Fawad Ahmed³, Suliman A. Alsuhibany^4,*, Muhammad Zulfiqar Ali⁵, Jawad Ahmad⁶

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.46, No.3, pp. 3799-3814, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.037131

Abstract In 2020, COVID-19 started spreading throughout the world. This deadly infection was identified as a virus that may affect the lungs and, in severe cases, could be the cause of death. The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test is commonly used to detect this virus through the nasal passage or throat. However, the PCR test exposes health workers to this deadly virus. To limit human exposure while detecting COVID-19, image processing techniques using deep learning have been successfully applied. In this paper, a strategy based on deep learning is employed to classify the COVID-19 virus. To extract features, two deep learning… More >

Akram Ali Alhadad^1,2,*, Omar Tarawneh³, Reham R. Mostafa¹, Hazem M. El-Bakry¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.74, No.2, pp. 3333-3350, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.033413

Abstract COVID-19 is the common name of the disease caused by the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) that appeared in Wuhan, China in 2019. Discovering the infected people is the most important factor in the fight against the disease. The gold-standard test to diagnose COVID-19 is polymerase chain reaction (PCR), but it takes 5–6 h and, in the early stages of infection, may produce false-negative results. Examining Computed Tomography (CT) images to diagnose patients infected with COVID-19 has become an urgent necessity. In this study, we propose a residual attention deep support vector data description SVDD (RADSVDD) approach to diagnose COVID-19. It is… More >

Ibtisam Aldawish¹, Hamid A. Jalab^2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.1, pp. 1307-1316, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.029445

Abstract The lungs CT scan is used to visualize the spread of the disease across the lungs to obtain better knowledge of the state of the COVID-19 infection. Accurately diagnosing of COVID-19 disease is a complex challenge that medical system face during the pandemic time. To address this problem, this paper proposes a COVID-19 image enhancement based on Mittag-Leffler-Chebyshev polynomial as pre-processing step for COVID-19 detection and segmentation. The proposed approach comprises the Mittag-Leffler sum convoluted with Chebyshev polynomial. The idea for using the proposed image enhancement model is that it improves images with low gray-level changes by estimating the probability… More >

Yasmeen Al-Saeed^1,2, Wael A. Gab-Allah¹, Hassan Soliman¹, Maysoon F. Abulkhair³, Wafaa M. Shalash⁴, Mohammed Elmogy^1,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.71, No.3, pp. 4871-4894, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.023638

Abstract One of the leading causes of mortality worldwide is liver cancer. The earlier the detection of hepatic tumors, the lower the mortality rate. This paper introduces a computer-aided diagnosis system to extract hepatic tumors from computed tomography scans and classify them into malignant or benign tumors. Segmenting hepatic tumors from computed tomography scans is considered a challenging task due to the fuzziness in the liver pixel range, intensity values overlap between the liver and neighboring organs, high noise from computed tomography scanner, and large variance in tumors shapes. The proposed method consists of three main stages; liver segmentation using Fast… More >

Muhammad Attique Khan¹, Abdul Majid¹, Tallha Akram², Nazar Hussain¹, Yunyoung Nam^3,*, Seifedine Kadry⁴, Shui-Hua Wang⁵, Majed Alhaisoni⁶

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.68, No.1, pp. 1003-1019, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.015541

Abstract Here, we use multi-type feature fusion and selection to predict COVID-19 infections on chest computed tomography (CT) scans. The scheme operates in four steps. Initially, we prepared a database containing COVID-19 pneumonia and normal CT scans. These images were retrieved from the Radiopaedia COVID-19 website. The images were divided into training and test sets in a ratio of 70:30. Then, multiple features were extracted from the training data. We used canonical correlation analysis to fuse the features into single vectors; this enhanced the predictive capacity. We next implemented a genetic algorithm (GA) in which an Extreme Learning Machine (ELM) served… More >

Muhammad Attique Khan¹, Nazar Hussain¹, Abdul Majid¹, Majed Alhaisoni², Syed Ahmad Chan Bukhari³, Seifedine Kadry⁴, Yunyoung Nam^5,*, Yu-Dong Zhang⁶

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.66, No.3, pp. 2923-2938, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.013191

Abstract In medical imaging, computer vision researchers are faced with a variety of features for verifying the authenticity of classifiers for an accurate diagnosis. In response to the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, new testing procedures, medical treatments, and vaccines are being developed rapidly. One potential diagnostic tool is a reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). RT-PCR, typically a time-consuming process, was less sensitive to COVID-19 recognition in the disease’s early stages. Here we introduce an optimized deep learning (DL) scheme to distinguish COVID-19-infected patients from normal patients according to computed tomography (CT) scans. In the proposed method, contrast enhancement is used to… More >

Minliang Liu¹, Liang Liang², Xiaoying Lou³, Glen Iannucci³, Edward Chen³, Bradley Leshnower³, Wei Sun^1,*

Molecular & Cellular Biomechanics, Vol.16, Suppl.2, pp. 53-53, 2019, DOI:10.32604/mcb.2019.07387

Abstract It is well known that mechanical properties of the aortic wall exhibit patient-specific variations. Recent experimental findings also suggest the aortic wall properties are highly region-specific [1-2]. Thus, in vivo heterogeneous (non-uniform) nonlinear mechanical properties of the aortic wall of individual patients needs to be noninvasively identified for accurate prediction of clinical events (e.g. aortic rupture).
In this study, we developed an inverse approach for identification of patient-specific non-uniform material properties of the aortic wall from gated 3D CT scans. This inverse approach leverages the fact that the in vivo transmural mean stress (tension) of the aortic wall is… More >