Sitara Afzal¹, Muazzam Maqsood^1,*, Irfan Mehmood², Muhammad Tabish Niaz³, Sanghyun Seo⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.66, No.3, pp. 2301-2315, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.013966

Abstract Cerebral Microbleeds (CMBs) are microhemorrhages caused by certain abnormalities of brain vessels. CMBs can be found in people with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), Alzheimer’s disease, and in old individuals having a brain injury. Current research reveals that CMBs can be highly dangerous for individuals having dementia and stroke. The CMBs seriously impact individuals’ life which makes it crucial to recognize the CMBs in its initial phase to stop deterioration and to assist individuals to have a normal life. The existing work report good results but often ignores false-positive’s perspective for this research area. In this paper, an efficient approach is… 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 >

Dildar Hussain¹, Rizwan Ali Naqvi², Woong-Kee Loh³, Jooyoung Lee^1,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.66, No.3, pp. 2587-2598, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.013031

Abstract Many existing techniques to acquire dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) images are unable to accurately distinguish between bone and soft tissue. For the most part, this failure stems from bone shape variability, noise and low contrast in DXA images, inconsistent X-ray beam penetration producing shadowing effects, and person-to-person variations. This work explores the feasibility of using state-of-the-art deep learning semantic segmentation models, fully convolutional networks (FCNs), SegNet, and U-Net to distinguish femur bone from soft tissue. We investigated the performance of deep learning algorithms with reference to some of our previously applied conventional image segmentation techniques (i.e., a decision-tree-based method using… More >

Phong Thanh Nguyen¹, Vy Dang Bich Huynh², Khoa Dang Vo¹, Phuong Thanh Phan¹, Mohamed Elhoseny³, Dac-Nhuong Le^4,5,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.66, No.3, pp. 2555-2571, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.012941

Abstract Data fusion is a multidisciplinary research area that involves different domains. It is used to attain minimum detection error probability and maximum reliability with the help of data retrieved from multiple healthcare sources. The generation of huge quantity of data from medical devices resulted in the formation of big data during which data fusion techniques become essential. Securing medical data is a crucial issue of exponentially-pacing computing world and can be achieved by Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS). In this regard, since singular-modality is not adequate to attain high detection rate, there is a need exists to merge diverse techniques using… More >

Phong Thanh Nguyen¹, Vy Dang Bich Huynh², Khoa Dang Vo¹, Phuong Thanh Phan¹, Eunmok Yang^3,*, Gyanendra Prasad Joshi⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.66, No.3, pp. 2815-2830, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.012315

Abstract Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) is a significant blinding disease that poses serious threat to human vision rapidly. Classification and severity grading of DR are difficult processes to accomplish. Traditionally, it depends on ophthalmoscopically-visible symptoms of growing severity, which is then ranked in a stepwise scale from no retinopathy to various levels of DR severity. This paper presents an ensemble of Orthogonal Learning Particle Swarm Optimization (OPSO) algorithm-based Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) Model EOPSO-CNN in order to perform DR detection and grading. The proposed EOPSO-CNN model involves three main processes such as preprocessing, feature extraction, and classification. The proposed model initially involves… More >

Feng Yuan, Xiao Shao^*

Journal on Big Data, Vol.2, No.4, pp. 167-176, 2020, DOI:10.32604/jbd.2020.015357

Abstract Traditional image quality assessment methods use the hand-crafted features to predict the image quality score, which cannot perform well in many scenes. Since deep learning promotes the development of many computer vision tasks, many IQA methods start to utilize the deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) for IQA task. In this paper, a CNN-based multi-scale blind image quality predictor is proposed to extract more effectivity multi-scale distortion features through the pyramidal convolution, which consists of two tasks: A distortion recognition task and a quality regression task. For the first task, image distortion type is obtained by the fully connected layer. For… More >

Ujala Yasmeen¹, Jamal Hussain Shah¹, Muhammad Attique Khan², Ghulam Jillani Ansari¹, Saeed ur Rehman¹, Muhammad Sharif¹, Seifedine Kadry³, Yunyoung Nam^4,*

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.26, No.6, pp. 1251-1266, 2020, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2020.012775

Abstract Detection of textual data from scene text images is a very thought-provoking issue in the field of computer graphics and visualization. This challenge is even more complicated when edge intelligent devices are involved in the process. The low-quality image having challenges such as blur, low resolution, and contrast make it more difficult for text detection and classification. Therefore, such exigent aspect is considered in the study. The technology proposed is comprised of three main contributions. (a) After synthetic blurring, the blurred image is preprocessed, and then the deblurring process is applied to recover the image. (b) Subsequently, the standard maximal… More >

Chunhua Zhou^*, Jianjing Shen, Yuncheng Wang, Xiaofeng Guo

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.26, No.6, pp. 1429-1440, 2020, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2020.011757

Abstract With the rapid development of information technology, battlefield situation data presents the characteristics of “4V” such as Volume, Variety, Value and Velocity. While enhancing situational awareness, it also brings many challenges to battlefield situation information recommendation (BSIR), such as big data volume, high timeliness, implicit feedback and no negative feedback. Focusing on the challenges faced by BSIR, we propose a two-stage BSIR model based on deep neural network (DNN). The model utilizes DNN to extract the nonlinear relationship between the data features effectively, mine the potential content features, and then improves the accuracy of recommendation. These two stages are the… More >

Junchuan Yang^*

Journal of New Media, Vol.2, No.4, pp. 137-148, 2020, DOI:10.32604/jnm.2020.014278

Abstract Person Re-identification (re-ID) is a hot research topic in the field of computer vision now, which can be regarded as a sub-problem of image retrieval. The goal of person re-ID is to give a monitoring pedestrian image and retrieve other images of the pedestrian across the device. At present, person re-ID is mainly divided into two categories. One is the traditional methods, which relies heavily on manual features. The other is to use deep learning technology to solve. Because traditional methods mainly rely on manual feature, they cannot adapt well to a complex environment with a large amount of data.… More >

Tao Zhang^1,*, Jinxing Niu¹, Shuo Liu¹, Taotao Pan¹, Brij B. Gupta^2,3

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.36, No.1, pp. 271-280, 2021, DOI:10.32604/csse.2021.014181

Abstract Three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction using structured light projection has the characteristics of non-contact, high precision, easy operation, and strong real-time performance. However, for actual measurement, projection modulated images are disturbed by electronic noise or other interference, which reduces the precision of the measurement system. To solve this problem, a 3D measurement algorithm of structured light based on deep learning is proposed. The end-to-end multi-convolution neural network model is designed to separately extract the coarse- and fine-layer features of a 3D image. The point-cloud model is obtained by nonlinear regression. The weighting coefficient loss function is introduced to the multi-convolution neural network,… More >