F. Ait-Kaci, S. Vanderosieren, C. Lervat

Psycho-Oncologie, Vol.16, No.3, pp. 289-293, 2022, DOI:10.3166/pson-2022-0205

Abstract Même bouleversée par le cancer, la sexualité peut rester une source de satisfaction pour les jeunes patients. Or, dans l’esprit général, sexualité et cancer figurent comme deux tabous, deux figures antinomiques qui ne peuvent coexister ensemble. Pour dépasser ce paradoxe, la websérie Sans tabou se propose comme un outil de médiation spécifique à la tranche d’âge 17–25 ans abordant avec acuité et humour le thème de la vie amoureuse et sexuelle lors d’un cancer. Ses objectifs sont d’encourager les professionnels de santé à approcher ce sujet de manière ludique et didactique, de combattre les idées reçues sur le cancer, les… More >

Jing Yu¹, Jie Ren², Guangming Shen³, Weixiang Sun², Hui Wang^4,*

FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.19, No.9, pp. 2385-2398, 2023, DOI:10.32604/fdmp.2023.027877

Abstract In this paper, the influence of NaCl freeze-thaw (F-T) cycles and dry-wet (D-W) alternations on the flexural, compressive and bonding strengths of alkali-activated fly ash (FA) and a blast furnace slag powder (BFS) is investigated. The considered NaCl concentration is 3%. The effect of polypropylene fibers on the mechanical strengths is also examined. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), thermogravimetry (TG) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) are selected to discern the mechanisms underpinning the NaCl-induced erosion. The obtained results indicate that the best results in terms of material resistance are obtained with admixtures containing 60% BFS and 40% FA in terms of mass… More >

E. Jenifer Sweetlin^*, S. Saudia

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.37, No.1, pp. 343-367, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.036742

Abstract This paper proposes a hybrid feature selection sequence complemented with filter and wrapper concepts to improve the accuracy of Machine Learning (ML) based supervised classifiers for classifying the survivability of breast cancer patients into classes, living and deceased using METABRIC and Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) datasets. The ML-based classifiers used in the analysis are: Multiple Logistic Regression, K-Nearest Neighbors, Decision Tree, Random Forest, Support Vector Machine and Multilayer Perceptron. The workflow of the proposed ML algorithm sequence comprises the following stages: data cleaning, data balancing, feature selection via a filter and wrapper sequence, cross validation-based training, testing and… More >

V. Swetha^*, G. Vadivu

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.37, No.1, pp. 707-726, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.035483

Abstract Every year, the number of women affected by breast tumors is increasing worldwide. Hence, detecting and segmenting the cancer regions in mammogram images is important to prevent death in women patients due to breast cancer. The conventional methods obtained low sensitivity and specificity with cancer region segmentation accuracy. The high-resolution standard mammogram images were supported by conventional methods as one of the main drawbacks. The conventional methods mostly segmented the cancer regions in mammogram images concerning their exterior pixel boundaries. These drawbacks are resolved by the proposed cancer region detection methods stated in this paper. The mammogram images are classified… More >

Ashvini Kulkarni^1,2, P. Augusta Sophy Beulet^1,*

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.37, No.1, pp. 127-146, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.035144

Abstract It is widely acknowledged that navigation is a significant source of between sites. The Global Positioning System (GPS) has numerous navigational advancements, and hence it is used widely. GPS navigation can be compromised at any level between position, location, and estimation, to the detriment of the user. Consequently, a navigation system requires the precise location and underpinning tracking of an object without signal loss. The objective of a hybrid environment prediction system is to foresee the location of the user and their territory by employing a variety of sensors for position estimation and monitoring navigation. This article presents a state… More >

Jinping Sun^*, Dan Li, Honglin Cheng

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.37, No.1, pp. 655-675, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.038016

Abstract Aiming at the problem that a single correlation filter model is sensitive to complex scenes such as background interference and occlusion, a tracking algorithm based on multi-time-space perception and instancespecific proposals is proposed to optimize the mathematical model of the correlation filter (CF). Firstly, according to the consistency of the changes between the object frames and the filter frames, the mask matrix is introduced into the objective function of the filter, so as to extract the spatio-temporal information of the object with background awareness. Secondly, the object function of multi-feature fusion is constructed for the object location, which is optimized… More >

Aoqi Xu¹, Khalid A. Alattas², Nasreen Kausar³, Ardashir Mohammadzadeh⁴, Ebru Ozbilge^5,*, Tonguc Cagin⁵

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.37, No.1, pp. 17-32, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.036623

Abstract In many problems, to analyze the process/metabolism behavior, a model of the system is identified. The main gap is the weakness of current methods vs. noisy environments. The primary objective of this study is to present a more robust method against uncertainties. This paper proposes a new deep learning scheme for modeling and identification applications. The suggested approach is based on non-singleton type-3 fuzzy logic systems (NT3-FLSs) that can support measurement errors and high-level uncertainties. Besides the rule optimization, the antecedent parameters and the level of secondary memberships are also adjusted by the suggested square root cubature Kalman filter (SCKF).… More >

Meng Xu¹, Chen Shen², Jun Zhang², Zhipeng Wang³, Zhiwei Ruan², Stefan Poslad¹, Pengfei Xu^2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.75, No.3, pp. 4785-4803, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.034053

Abstract As the fundamental problem in the computer vision area, image matching has wide applications in pose estimation, 3D reconstruction, image retrieval, etc. Suffering from the influence of external factors, the process of image matching using classical local detectors, e.g., scale-invariant feature transform (SIFT), and the outlier filtering approaches, e.g., Random sample consensus (RANSAC), show high computation speed and pool robustness under changing illumination and viewpoints conditions, while image matching approaches with deep learning strategy (such as HardNet, OANet) display reliable achievements in large-scale datasets with challenging scenes. However, the past learning-based approaches are limited to the distinction and quality of… More >

Yanzhao Zhou, Binghao Liu, Yiran Liu, Jianbin Jiao^*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.137, No.1, pp. 647-668, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2023.026745

Abstract Deep Convolution Neural Networks (DCNNs) can capture discriminative features from large datasets. However, how to incrementally learn new samples without forgetting old ones and recognize novel classes that arise in the dynamically changing world, e.g., classifying newly discovered fish species, remains an open problem. We address an even more challenging and realistic setting of this problem where new class samples are insufficient, i.e., Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning (FSCIL). Current FSCIL methods augment the training data to alleviate the overfitting of novel classes. By contrast, we propose Filter Bank Networks (FBNs) that augment the learnable filters to capture fine-detailed features for adapting… More >

Xinyi Zhang, Zimeng Yu, Pingfang Yang^*

Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.92, No.6, pp. 1665-1679, 2023, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2023.029482

Abstract Sacred lotus (Nelumbo nucifera) is a typical aquatic plant, belonging to basal eudicot plant, which is ideal for genome and genetic evolutionary study. Understanding lotus gene diversity is important for the study of molecular genetics and breeding. In this research, public RNA-seq data and the annotated reference genome were used to identify the genes in lotus. A total of 26,819 consensus and 1,081 novel genes were identified. Meanwhile, a comprehensive analysis of gene alternative splicing events was conducted, and a total of 19,983 “internal” alternative splicing (AS) events and 14,070 “complete” AS events were detected in 5,878 and 5,881 multi-exon… More >