Sesikala Bapatla¹, J. Harikiran^2,*

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.46, No.1, pp. 597-617, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.034998

Abstract Diabetes problems can lead to an eye disease called Diabetic Retinopathy (DR), which permanently damages the blood vessels in the retina. If not treated early, DR becomes a significant reason for blindness. To identify the DR and determine the stages, medical tests are very labor-intensive, expensive, and time-consuming. To address the issue, a hybrid deep and machine learning technique-based autonomous diagnostic system is provided in this paper. Our proposal is based on lesion segmentation of the fundus images based on the LuNet network. Then a Refined Attention Pyramid Network (RAPNet) is used for extracting global and local features. To increase… More >

G. Murugesan^1,*, J. Jeyapriya², M. Hemalatha³, S. Rajeshkannan⁴

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.36, No.2, pp. 2099-2109, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.032068

Abstract The diagnostic interpretation of dermoscopic images is a complex task as it is very difficult to identify the skin lesions from the normal. Thus the accurate detection of potential abnormalities is required for patient monitoring and effective treatment. In this work, a Two-Tier Segmentation (TTS) system is designed, which combines the unsupervised and supervised techniques for skin lesion segmentation. It comprises preprocessing by the median filter, TTS by Colour K-Means Clustering (CKMC) for initial segmentation and Faster Region based Convolutional Neural Network (FR-CNN) for refined segmentation. The CKMC approach is evaluated using the different number of clusters (k = 3,… More >

Rui Jiang^1,3,*, Kaisheng Lai², Jianping Xu¹, Xiang Feng¹, Shaoye Wang¹, Xiaojian Wang³, Zhe Liu²

Congenital Heart Disease, Vol.17, No.6, pp. 675-686, 2022, DOI:10.32604/chd.2022.021626

Abstract Background: The etiology of pulmonary arterial hypertension associated with congenital heart disease (PAHCHD) is complicated and the phenotype is heterogeneous. Genetic defects of NOTCH3 were associated with cerebral disease and pulmonary hypertension. However, the relationship between NOTCH3 mutations and the clinical phenotype has not been reported in CHD-PAH. Methods: We eventually enrolled 142 PAH-CHD patients from Fuwai Hospital. Whole exome sequencing (WES) was performed to screen the rare deleterious variants of NOTCH3 gene. Results: This PAH-CHD cohort included 43 (30.3%) men and 99 (69.7%) women with the mean age 29.8 ± 10.9 years old. The pathogenic or likely pathogenic mutations… More >

S. Gopikha^*, M. Balamurugan

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.44, No.3, pp. 2727-2742, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.028609

Abstract Melanoma is the most lethal malignant tumour, and its prevalence is increasing. Early detection and diagnosis of skin cancer can alert patients to manage precautions and dramatically improve the lives of people. Recently, deep learning has grown increasingly popular in the extraction and categorization of skin cancer features for effective prediction. A deep learning model learns and co-adapts representations and features from training data to the point where it fails to perform well on test data. As a result, overfitting and poor performance occur. To deal with this issue, we proposed a novel Consecutive Layerwise weight Constraint MaxNorm model (CLCM-net)… More >

A. Soujanya^1,*, N. Nandhagopal²

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.35, No.1, pp. 675-687, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.025930

Abstract Due to the rising occurrence of skin cancer and inadequate clinical expertise, it is needed to design Artificial Intelligence (AI) based tools to diagnose skin cancer at an earlier stage. Since massive skin lesion datasets have existed in the literature, the AI-based Deep Learning (DL) models find useful to differentiate benign and malignant skin lesions using dermoscopic images. This study develops an Automated Seeded Growing Segmentation with Optimal EfficientNet (ARGS-OEN) technique for skin lesion segmentation and classification. The proposed ASRGS-OEN technique involves the design of an optimal EfficientNet model in which the hyper-parameter tuning process takes place using the Flower… More >

Kingsley A. Ogudo¹, R. Surendran^2,*, Osamah Ibrahim Khalaf³

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.44, No.1, pp. 693-707, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.024154

Abstract Skin lesions have become a critical illness worldwide, and the earlier identification of skin lesions using dermoscopic images can raise the survival rate. Classification of the skin lesion from those dermoscopic images will be a tedious task. The accuracy of the classification of skin lesions is improved by the use of deep learning models. Recently, convolutional neural networks (CNN) have been established in this domain, and their techniques are extremely established for feature extraction, leading to enhanced classification. With this motivation, this study focuses on the design of artificial intelligence (AI) based solutions, particularly deep learning (DL) algorithms, to distinguish… More >

S. Mohan Kumar^*, T. Kumanan

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.44, No.1, pp. 833-844, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.022385

Abstract The main cause of skin cancer is the ultraviolet radiation of the sun. It spreads quickly to other body parts. Thus, early diagnosis is required to decrease the mortality rate due to skin cancer. In this study, an automatic system for Skin Lesion Classification (SLC) using Non-Subsampled Shearlet Transform (NSST) based energy features and Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier is proposed. At first, the NSST is used for the decomposition of input skin lesion images with different directions like 2, 4, 8 and 16. From the NSST’s sub-bands, energy features are extracted and stored in the feature database for training.… More >

Romany F. Mansour^1,*, Sara A. Althubiti², Fayadh Alenezi³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.1, pp. 849-864, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.029265

Abstract Recently, computer vision (CV) based disease diagnosis models have been utilized in various areas of healthcare. At the same time, deep learning (DL) and machine learning (ML) models play a vital role in the healthcare sector for the effectual recognition of diseases using medical imaging tools. This study develops a novel computer vision with optimal machine learning enabled skin lesion detection and classification (CVOML-SLDC) model. The goal of the CVOML-SLDC model is to determine the appropriate class labels for the test dermoscopic images. Primarily, the CVOML-SLDC model derives a gaussian filtering (GF) approach to pre-process the input images and graph… More >

Iqra Abid¹, Sultan Almakdi², Hameedur Rahman³, Ahmed Almulihi⁴, Ali Alqahtani², Khairan Rajab^2,5, Abdulmajeed Alqhatani^2,*, Asadullah Shaikh²

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.33, No.3, pp. 1407-1421, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.023753

Abstract Skin lesion segmentation plays a critical role in the precise and early detection of skin cancer via recent frameworks. The prerequisite for any computer-aided skin cancer diagnosis system is the accurate segmentation of skin malignancy. To achieve this, a specialized skin image analysis technique must be used for the separation of cancerous parts from important healthy skin. This procedure is called Dermatography. Researchers have often used multiple techniques for the analysis of skin images, but, because of their low accuracy, most of these methods have turned out to be at best, inconsistent. Proper clinical treatment involves sensitivity in the surgical… More >

Saleh Albahli^1,2,*, Ghulam Nabi Ahmad Hassan Yar³

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.33, No.2, pp. 837-853, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.024427

Abstract Diabetic retinopathy is an eye deficiency that affects the retina as a result of the patient having Diabetes Mellitus caused by high sugar levels. This condition causes the blood vessels that nourish the retina to swell and become distorted and eventually become blocked. In recent times, images have played a vital role in using convolutional neural networks to automatically detect medical conditions, retinopathy takes this to another level because there is need not for just a system that could determine is a patient has retinopathy, but also a system that could tell the severity of the procession and if it… More >