Pengfei Gong^1,2, Qun Wang^2,*, Junjun Zhu³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.68, No.1, pp. 1389-1408, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.016483

Abstract Fatal traffic accidents in urban areas can adversely affect the urban road traffic system and pose many challenges for urban traffic management. Therefore, it is necessary to first classify emergency responses to such accidents and then handle them quickly and correctly. The aim of this paper is to develop an evaluation index system and to use appropriate methods to investigate emergency-response classifications to fatal traffic accidents in Chinese urban areas. This study used a multilevel hierarchical structural model to determine emergency-response classification. In the model, accident attributes, urban road network vulnerability, and institutional resilience were used as classification criteria. Each… More >

Muhammad Attique Khan¹, Tallha Akram², Muhammad Sharif¹, Seifedine Kadry³, Yunyoung Nam^4,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.68, No.1, pp. 1041-1064, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.016307

Abstract In this work, we propose a new, fully automated system for multiclass skin lesion localization and classification using deep learning. The main challenge is to address the problem of imbalanced data classes, found in HAM10000, ISBI2018, and ISBI2019 datasets. Initially, we consider a pre-trained deep neural network model, DarkeNet19, and fine-tune the parameters of third convolutional layer to generate the image gradients. All the visualized images are fused using a High-Frequency approach along with Multilayered Feed-Forward Neural Network (HFaFFNN). The resultant image is further enhanced by employing a log-opening based activation function to generate a localized binary image. Later, two… More >

G. Madhu^1,*, A. Govardhan², B. Sunil Srinivas³, Kshira Sagar Sahoo⁴, N. Z. Jhanjhi⁵, K. S. Vardhan¹, B. Rohit⁶

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.68, No.1, pp. 903-919, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.016114

Abstract Malaria is a severe epidemic disease caused by Plasmodium falciparum. The parasite causes critical illness if persisted for longer durations and delay in precise treatment can lead to further complications. The automatic diagnostic model provides aid for medical practitioners to avail a fast and efficient diagnosis. Most of the existing work either utilizes a fully connected convolution neural network with successive pooling layers which causes loss of information in pixels. Further, convolutions can capture spatial invariances but, cannot capture rotational invariances. Hence to overcome these limitations, this research, develops an Imperative Dynamic routing mechanism with fully trained capsule networks for… More >

Aqib Ali^1,2, Wali Khan Mashwani³, Samreen Naeem², Muhammad Irfan Uddin⁴, Wiyada Kumam⁵, Poom Kumam^6,7,*, Hussam Alrabaiah^8,9, Farrukh Jamal¹⁰, Christophe Chesneau¹¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.68, No.1, pp. 391-407, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.016037

Abstract The purpose of this research is the segmentation of lungs computed tomography (CT) scan for the diagnosis of COVID-19 by using machine learning methods. Our dataset contains data from patients who are prone to the epidemic. It contains three types of lungs CT images (Normal, Pneumonia, and COVID-19) collected from two different sources; the first one is the Radiology Department of Nishtar Hospital Multan and Civil Hospital Bahawalpur, Pakistan, and the second one is a publicly free available medical imaging database known as Radiopaedia. For the preprocessing, a novel fuzzy c-mean automated region-growing segmentation approach is deployed to take an… More >

Nany Katamesh, Osama Abu-Elnasr^*, Samir Elmougy

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.68, No.1, pp. 589-606, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.015761

Abstract Due to the availability of a huge number of electronic text documents from a variety of sources representing unstructured and semi-structured information, the document classification task becomes an interesting area for controlling data behavior. This paper presents a document classification multimodal for categorizing textual semi-structured and unstructured documents. The multimodal implements several individual deep learning models such as Deep Neural Networks (DNN), Recurrent Convolutional Neural Networks (RCNN) and Bidirectional-LSTM (Bi-LSTM). The Stacked Ensemble based meta-model technique is used to combine the results of the individual classifiers to produce better results, compared to those reached by any of the above mentioned… 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 >

R. Thamizhamuthu^*, D. Manjula

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.68, No.1, pp. 1147-1160, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.015503

Abstract The deadliest type of skin cancer is malignant melanoma. The diagnosis requires at the earliest to reduce the mortality rate. In this study, an efficient Skin Melanoma Classification (SMC) system is presented using dermoscopic images as a non-invasive procedure. The SMC system consists of four modules; segmentation, feature extraction, feature reduction and finally classification. In the first module, k-means clustering is applied to cluster the colour information of dermoscopic images. The second module extracts meaningful and useful descriptors based on the statistics of local property, parameters of Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroscedasticity (GARCH) model of wavelet and spatial patterns by Dominant… More >

Gibrael Abosamra^*, Hadi Oqaibi

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.68, No.1, pp. 1-28, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.015318

Abstract Even though much advancements have been achieved with regards to the recognition of handwritten characters, researchers still face difficulties with the handwritten character recognition problem, especially with the advent of new datasets like the Extended Modified National Institute of Standards and Technology dataset (EMNIST). The EMNIST dataset represents a challenge for both machine-learning and deep-learning techniques due to inter-class similarity and intra-class variability. Inter-class similarity exists because of the similarity between the shapes of certain characters in the dataset. The presence of intra-class variability is mainly due to different shapes written by different writers for the same character. In this… More >

Ayesha Bin T. Tahir¹, Muhamamd Attique Khan¹, Majed Alhaisoni², Junaid Ali Khan¹, Yunyoung Nam^3,*, Shui-Hua Wang⁴, Kashif Javed⁵

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.68, No.1, pp. 1099-1116, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.015154

Abstract Background: A brain tumor reflects abnormal cell growth. Challenges: Surgery, radiation therapy, and chemotherapy are used to treat brain tumors, but these procedures are painful and costly. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a non-invasive modality for diagnosing tumors, but scans must be interpretated by an expert radiologist. Methodology: We used deep learning and improved particle swarm optimization (IPSO) to automate brain tumor classification. MRI scan contrast is enhanced by ant colony optimization (ACO); the scans are then used to further train a pretrained deep learning model, via transfer learning (TL), and to extract features from two dense layers. We fused… More >

Emad Felemban¹, Sultan Daud Khan², Atif Naseer³, Faizan Ur Rehman^4,*, Saleh Basalamah¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.68, No.1, pp. 705-725, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.015085

Abstract In high-density gatherings, crowd disasters frequently occur despite all the safety measures. Timely detection of congestion in human crowds using automated analysis of video footage can prevent crowd disasters. Recent work on the prevention of crowd disasters has been based on manual analysis of video footage. Some methods also measure crowd congestion by estimating crowd density. However, crowd density alone cannot provide reliable information about congestion. This paper proposes a deep learning framework for automated crowd congestion detection that leverages pedestrian trajectories. The proposed framework divided the input video into several temporal segments. We then extracted dense trajectories from each… More >