Amani Abdulrahman Albraikan¹, Nadhem NEMRI², Mimouna Abdullah Alkhonaini³, Anwer Mustafa Hilal^4,*, Ishfaq Yaseen⁴, Abdelwahed Motwakel⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.74, No.2, pp. 2443-2459, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.026379

Abstract Melanoma remains a serious illness which is a common form of skin cancer. Since the earlier detection of melanoma reduces the mortality rate, it is essential to design reliable and automated disease diagnosis model using dermoscopic images. The recent advances in deep learning (DL) models find useful to examine the medical image and make proper decisions. In this study, an automated deep learning based melanoma detection and classification (ADL-MDC) model is presented. The goal of the ADL-MDC technique is to examine the dermoscopic images to determine the existence of melanoma. The ADL-MDC technique performs contrast enhancement and data augmentation at… More >

Hong’an Li¹, Min Zhang^1,*, Dufeng Chen², Jing Zhang¹, Meng Yang³, Zhanli Li¹

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.135, No.1, pp. 779-794, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2022.022369

Abstract Computer-aided diagnosis based on image color rendering promotes medical image analysis and doctor-patient communication by highlighting important information of medical diagnosis. To overcome the limitations of the color rendering method based on deep learning, such as poor model stability, poor rendering quality, fuzzy boundaries and crossed color boundaries, we propose a novel hinge-cross-entropy generative adversarial network (HCEGAN). The self-attention mechanism was added and improved to focus on the important information of the image. And the hinge-cross-entropy loss function was used to stabilize the training process of GAN models. In this study, we implement the HCEGAN model for image color rendering… More > Graphic Abstract

Walid El-Shafai^1,2, Hayam A. Abd El-Hameed³, Noha A. El-Hag⁴, Ashraf A. M. Khalaf³, Naglaa F. Soliman⁵, Hussah Nasser AlEisa^6,*, Fathi E. Abd El-Samie¹

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.36, No.1, pp. 719-732, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.031079

Abstract Nowadays, the security of images or information is very important. This paper introduces a proposed hybrid watermarking and encryption technique for increasing medical image security. First, the secret medical image is encrypted using Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm. Then, the secret report of the patient is embedded into the encrypted secret medical image with the Least Significant Bit (LSB) watermarking algorithm. After that, the encrypted secret medical image with the secret report is concealed in a cover medical image, using Kekre’s Median Codebook Generation (KMCG) algorithm. Afterwards, the stego-image obtained is split into 16 parts. Finally, it is sent to… More >

R. Poonguzhali¹, Sultan Ahmad², P. Thiruvannamalai Sivasankar³, S. Anantha Babu³, Pranav Joshi⁴, Gyanendra Prasad Joshi⁵, Sung Won Kim^6,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.74, No.1, pp. 2179-2194, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.032816

Abstract Automated segmentation and classification of biomedical images act as a vital part of the diagnosis of brain tumors (BT). A primary tumor brain analysis suggests a quicker response from treatment that utilizes for improving patient survival rate. The location and classification of BTs from huge medicinal images database, obtained from routine medical tasks with manual processes are a higher cost together in effort and time. An automatic recognition, place, and classifier process was desired and useful. This study introduces an Automated Deep Residual U-Net Segmentation with Classification model (ADRU-SCM) for Brain Tumor Diagnosis. The presented ADRU-SCM model majorly focuses on… More >

Yu Fan^1,6, Jingbing Li^1,2,*, Uzair Aslam Bhatti^1,2, Chunyan Shao¹, Cheng Gong¹, Jieren Cheng^3,5, Yenwei Chen⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.74, No.1, pp. 1279-1302, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.031445

Abstract Medical images are a critical component of the diagnostic process for clinicians. Although the quality of medical photographs is essential to the accuracy of a physician’s diagnosis, they must be encrypted due to the characteristics of digital storage and information leakage associated with medical images. Traditional watermark embedding algorithm embeds the watermark information into the medical image, which reduces the quality of the medical image and affects the physicians’ judgment of patient diagnosis. In addition, watermarks in this method have weak robustness under high-intensity geometric attacks when the medical image is attacked and the watermarks are destroyed. This paper proposes… More >

Wenbin Wu¹, Guanjun Liu^1,*, Kaiyi Liang², Hui Zhou²

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.134, No.2, pp. 1323-1335, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2022.020428

Abstract Deep neural networks are now widely used in the medical image segmentation field for their performance superiority and no need of manual feature extraction. U-Net has been the baseline model since the very beginning due to a symmetrical U-structure for better feature extraction and fusing and suitable for small datasets. To enhance the segmentation performance of U-Net, cascaded U-Net proposes to put two U-Nets successively to segment targets from coarse to fine. However, the plain cascaded U-Net faces the problem of too less between connections so the contextual information learned by the former U-Net cannot be fully used by the… More >

Passent El-kafrawy^1,2, Maie Aboghazalah^2,*, Abdelmoty M. Ahmed³, Hanaa Torkey⁴, Ayman El-Sayed⁴

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.134, No.2, pp. 909-926, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2022.021713

Abstract Healthcare systems nowadays depend on IoT sensors for sending data over the internet as a common practice. Encryption of medical images is very important to secure patient information. Encrypting these images consumes a lot of time on edge computing; therefore, the use of an auto-encoder for compression before encoding will solve such a problem. In this paper, we use an auto-encoder to compress a medical image before encryption, and an encryption output (vector) is sent out over the network. On the other hand, a decoder was used to reproduce the original image back after the vector was received and decrypted.… More >

Saima Kanwal¹, Feng Tao^1,*, Ahmad Almogren², Ateeq Ur Rehman³, Rizwan Taj¹, Ayman Radwan⁴

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.134, No.1, pp. 201-219, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2022.020255

Abstract The authenticity and integrity of healthcare is the primary objective. Numerous reversible watermarking schemes have been developed to improve the primary objective but increasing the quantity of embedding data leads to covering image distortion and visual quality resulting in data security detection. A trade-off between robustness, imperceptibility, and embedded capacity is difficult to achieve with current algorithms due to limitations in their ability. Keeping this purpose insight, an improved reversibility watermarking methodology is proposed to maximize data embedding capacity and imperceptibility while maintaining data security as a primary concern. A key is generated by a random path with minimum bit… More >

P. P. Fathimathul Rajeena^1,*, R. Sivakumar²

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.35, No.3, pp. 2837-2855, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.030144

Abstract An accurate and early diagnosis of brain tumors based on medical imaging modalities is of great interest because brain tumors are a harmful threat to a person’s health worldwide. Several medical imaging techniques have been used to analyze brain tumors, including computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). CT provides information about dense tissues, whereas MRI gives information about soft tissues. However, the fusion of CT and MRI images has little effect on enhancing the accuracy of the diagnosis of brain tumors. Therefore, machine learning methods have been adopted to diagnose brain tumors in recent years. This paper intends… More >

Kandasamy Kittusamy^*, Latha Shanmuga Vadivu Sampath Kumar

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.44, No.3, pp. 1989-2005, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.026501

Abstract Medical Image Fusion is the synthesizing technology for fusing multimodal medical information using mathematical procedures to generate better visual on the image content and high-quality image output. Medical image fusion represents an indispensible role in fixing major solutions for the complicated medical predicaments, while the recent research results have an enhanced affinity towards the preservation of medical image details, leaving color distortion and halo artifacts to remain unaddressed. This paper proposes a novel method of fusing Computer Tomography (CT) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) using a hybrid model of Non Sub-sampled Contourlet Transform (NSCT) and Joint Sparse Representation (JSR). This… More >