Batyrkhan Omarov^1,2,3, Azhar Tursynova^1,*, Octavian Postolache⁴, Khaled Gamry⁵, Aidar Batyrbekov⁵, Sapargali Aldeshov^6,7, Zhanar Azhibekova⁹, Marat Nurtas^5,8, Akbayan Aliyeva⁶, Kadrzhan Shiyapov^10,11

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.71, No.3, pp. 4701-4717, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.020998

Abstract The task of segmentation of brain regions affected by ischemic stroke is help to tackle important challenges of modern stroke imaging analysis. Unfortunately, at the moment, the models for solving this problem using machine learning methods are far from ideal. In this paper, we consider a modified 3D UNet architecture to improve the quality of stroke segmentation based on 3D computed tomography images. We use the ISLES 2018 (Ischemic Stroke Lesion Segmentation Challenge 2018) open dataset to train and test the proposed model. Interpretation of the obtained results, as well as the ideas for further experiments are included in the… More >

Tanzila Saba¹, Rabia Javed^2,3, Mohd Shafry Mohd Rahim², Amjad Rehman^1,*, Saeed Ali Bahaj⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.71, No.3, pp. 6219-6237, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.020865

Abstract The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) and cloud-based healthcare applications, services are beneficial for better decision-making in recent years. Melanoma is a deadly cancer with a higher mortality rate than other skin cancer types such as basal cell, squamous cell, and Merkel cell. However, detection and treatment at an early stage can result in a higher chance of survival. The classical methods of detection are expensive and labor-intensive. Also, they rely on a trained practitioner's level, and the availability of the needed equipment is essential for the early detection of Melanoma. The current improvement in computer-aided systems is providing very… More >

Amina Bibi¹, Muhamamd Attique Khan¹, Muhammad Younus Javed¹, Usman Tariq², Byeong-Gwon Kang³, Yunyoung Nam^3,*, Reham R. Mostafa⁴, Rasha H. Sakr⁵

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.71, No.2, pp. 2477-2495, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.018917

Abstract Background: In medical image analysis, the diagnosis of skin lesions remains a challenging task. Skin lesion is a common type of skin cancer that exists worldwide. Dermoscopy is one of the latest technologies used for the diagnosis of skin cancer. Challenges: Many computerized methods have been introduced in the literature to classify skin cancers. However, challenges remain such as imbalanced datasets, low contrast lesions, and the extraction of irrelevant or redundant features. Proposed Work: In this study, a new technique is proposed based on the conventional and deep learning framework. The proposed framework consists of two major tasks: lesion segmentation… More >

R. Shijitha^1,*, P. Karthigaikumar², A. Stanly Paul²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.70, No.3, pp. 5233-5249, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.020227

Abstract Brain Hemorrhagic stroke is a serious malady that is caused by the drop in blood flow through the brain and causes the brain to malfunction. Precise segmentation of brain hemorrhage is crucial, so an enhanced segmentation is carried out in this research work. The brain image of various patients has taken using an MRI scanner by the utilization of T1, T2, and FLAIR sequence. This work aims to segment the Brain Hemorrhagic stroke using deep learning-based Multi-resolution UNet (multires UNet) through morphological operations. It is hard to precisely segment the brain lesions to extract the existing region of stroke. This… More >

Juan Pablo Villa-Pulgarin¹, Anderson Alberto Ruales-Torres^1,2, Daniel Arias-Garzón¹, Mario Alejandro Bravo-Ortiz¹, Harold Brayan Arteaga-Arteaga¹, Alejandro Mora-Rubio¹, Jesus Alejandro Alzate-Grisales¹, Esteban Mercado-Ruiz¹, M. Hassaballah³, Simon Orozco-Arias^4,5, Oscar Cardona-Morales¹, Reinel Tabares-Soto^1,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.70, No.2, pp. 2131-2148, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.019529

Abstract Skin cancer is one of the most severe diseases, and medical imaging is among the main tools for cancer diagnosis. The images provide information on the evolutionary stage, size, and location of tumor lesions. This paper focuses on the classification of skin lesion images considering a framework of four experiments to analyze the classification performance of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) in distinguishing different skin lesions. The CNNs are based on transfer learning, taking advantage of ImageNet weights. Accordingly, in each experiment, different workflow stages are tested, including data augmentation and fine-tuning optimization. Three CNN models based on DenseNet-201, Inception-ResNet-V2, and… More >

Javaria Tahir¹, Syed Rameez Naqvi^2,*, Khursheed Aurangzeb³, Musaed Alhussein³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.70, No.2, pp. 3235-3250, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.018949

Abstract Melanoma, due to its higher mortality rate, is considered as one of the most pernicious types of skin cancers, mostly affecting the white populations. It has been reported a number of times and is now widely accepted, that early detection of melanoma increases the chances of the subject’s survival. Computer-aided diagnostic systems help the experts in diagnosing the skin lesion at earlier stages using machine learning techniques. In this work, we propose a framework that accurately segments, and later classifies, the lesion using improved image segmentation and fusion methods. The proposed technique takes an image and passes it through two… More >

Thejovathi Murari¹, L. Prathiba², Kranthi Kumar Singamaneni^3,*, D. Venu⁴, Vinay Kumar Nassa⁵, Rachna Kohar⁶, Satyajit Sidheshwar Uparkar⁷

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.31, No.2, pp. 1241-1256, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.020203

Abstract In recent times, big data analytics using Machine Learning (ML) possesses several merits for assimilation and validation of massive quantity of complicated healthcare data. ML models are found to be scalable and flexible over conventional statistical tools, which makes them suitable for risk stratification, diagnosis, classification and survival prediction. In spite of these benefits, the utilization of ML in healthcare sector faces challenges which necessitate massive training data, data preprocessing, model training and parameter optimization based on the clinical problem. To resolve these issues, this paper presents new Big Data Analytics with Optimal Elman Neural network (BDA-OENN) for clinical decision… More >

Khadija Manzoor¹, Fiaz Majeed², Ansar Siddique², Talha Meraj³, Hafiz Tayyab Rauf^4,*, Mohammed A. El-Meligy⁵, Mohamed Sharaf⁶, Abd Elatty E. Abd Elgawad⁶

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.70, No.1, pp. 1617-1630, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.018621

Abstract Skin diseases effectively influence all parts of life. Early and accurate detection of skin cancer is necessary to avoid significant loss. The manual detection of skin diseases by dermatologists leads to misclassification due to the same intensity and color levels. Therefore, an automated system to identify these skin diseases is required. Few studies on skin disease classification using different techniques have been found. However, previous techniques failed to identify multi-class skin disease images due to their similar appearance. In the proposed study, a computer-aided framework for automatic skin disease detection is presented. In the proposed research, we collected and normalized… More >

C. S. S. Anupama¹, L. Natrayan², E. Laxmi Lydia³, Abdul Rahaman Wahab Sait⁴, José Escorcia-Gutierrez⁵, Margarita Gamarra^6,*, Romany F. Mansour⁷

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.70, No.1, pp. 1297-1313, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.018396

Abstract Nowadays, quality improvement and increased accessibility to patient data, at a reasonable cost, are highly challenging tasks in healthcare sector. Internet of Things (IoT) and Cloud Computing (CC) architectures are utilized in the development of smart healthcare systems. These entities can support real-time applications by exploiting massive volumes of data, produced by wearable sensor devices. The advent of evolutionary computation algorithms and Deep Learning (DL) models has gained significant attention in healthcare diagnosis, especially in decision making process. Skin cancer is the deadliest disease which affects people across the globe. Automatic skin lesion classification model has a highly important application… More >

G. Reshma^1,*, Chiai Al-Atroshi², Vinay Kumar Nassa³, B.T. Geetha⁴, Gurram Sunitha⁵, Mohammad Gouse Galety⁶, S. Neelakandan⁷

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.31, No.1, pp. 621-634, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.019117

Abstract In recent years, intelligent automation in the healthcare sector becomes more familiar due to the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) techniques. Intelligent healthcare systems assist in making better decisions, which further enable the patient to provide improved medical services. At the same time, skin lesion is a deadly disease that affects people of all age groups. Skin lesion segmentation and classification play a vital part in the earlier and precise skin cancer diagnosis by intelligent systems. However, the automated diagnosis of skin lesions in dermoscopic images is challenging because of the problems such as artifacts (hair, gel bubble, ruler marker),… More >