Jong-Yih Kuo^*, Hui-Chi Lin, Chien-Hung Liu

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.27, No.1, pp. 53-68, 2021, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2021.014437 - 07 January 2021

Abstract Predicting salary trends of students after employment is vital for helping students to develop their career plans. Particularly, salary is not only considered employment information for students to pursue jobs, but also serves as an important indicator for measuring employability and competitiveness of graduates. This paper considers salary prediction as an ordinal regression problem and uses deep learning techniques to build a salary prediction model for determining the relative ordering between different salary grades. Specifically, to solve this problem, the model uses students’ personal information, grades, and family data as input features and employs a More >

C. Sivamani¹, M. Rajeswari², E. Golden Julie³, Y. Harold Robinson⁴, Vimal Shanmuganathan⁵, Seifedine Kadry⁶, Yunyoung Nam^7,*

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.27, No.1, pp. 1-13, 2021, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2021.013705 - 07 January 2021

Abstract Road accident is a potential risk to the lives of both drivers and passers-by. Many road accidents occur due to the improper condition of the vehicle tyres after long term usage. Thus, tyres need to be inspected and analyzed while manufacturing to avoid serious road problems. However, tyre wear is a multifaceted happening. It normally needs the non-linearly on many limitations, like tyre formation and plan, vehicle category, conditions of the road. Yet, tyre wear has numerous profitable and environmental inferences particularly due to maintenance costs and traffic safety implications. Thus, the risk to calculate… More >

Fan Zhang^1,2, Fenlin Liu^1,2,*, Rui Xu^3,4, Xiangyang Luo^1,2, Shichang Ding⁵, Hechan Tian^1,2

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.66, No.3, pp. 3345-3361, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.014526 - 28 December 2020

Abstract Existing IP geolocation algorithms based on delay similarity often rely on the principle that geographically adjacent IPs have similar delays. However, this principle is often invalid in real Internet environment, which leads to unreliable geolocation results. To improve the accuracy and reliability of locating IP in real Internet, a street-level IP geolocation algorithm based on landmarks clustering is proposed. Firstly, we use the probes to measure the known landmarks to obtain their delay vectors, and cluster landmarks using them. Secondly, the landmarks are clustered again by their latitude and longitude, and the intersection of these… More >

Saleh Albahli¹, Hafiz Tayyab Rauf^2,*, Muhammad Arif³, Md Tabrez Nafis⁴, Abdulelah Algosaibi⁵

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.66, No.3, pp. 3139-3149, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.014134 - 28 December 2020

Abstract With the increasing demand for doctors in chest related diseases, there is a 15% performance gap every five years. If this gap is not filled with effective chest disease detection automation, the healthcare industry may face unfavorable consequences. There are only several studies that targeted X-ray images of cardiothoracic diseases. Most of the studies only targeted a single disease, which is inadequate. Although some related studies have provided an identification framework for all classes, the results are not encouraging due to a lack of data and imbalanced data issues. This research provides a significant contribution More >

Abderrahmane Saidi^*, Abdelmouneim Moulay Lakhdar, Mohammed Beladgham

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.66, No.3, pp. 2875-2889, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.013744 - 28 December 2020

Abstract Handwriting recognition is one of the most significant problems in pattern recognition, many studies have been proposed to improve this recognition of handwritten text for different languages. Yet, Fewer studies have been done for the Arabic language and the processing of its texts remains a particularly distinctive problem due to the variability of writing styles and the nature of Arabic scripts compared to other scripts. The present paper suggests a feature extraction technique for offline Arabic handwriting recognition. A handwriting recognition system for Arabic words using a few important structural features and based on a… More >

Nawaf N. Hamadneh¹, Waqar A. Khan², Waqar Ashraf³, Samer H. Atawneh⁴, Ilyas Khan^5,*, Bandar N. Hamadneh⁶

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.66, No.3, pp. 2787-2796, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.013228 - 28 December 2020

Abstract In this study, we have proposed an artificial neural network (ANN) model to estimate and forecast the number of confirmed and recovered cases of COVID-19 in the upcoming days until September 17, 2020. The proposed model is based on the existing data (training data) published in the Saudi Arabia Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) situation—Demographics. The Prey-Predator algorithm is employed for the training. Multilayer perceptron neural network (MLPNN) is used in this study. To improve the performance of MLPNN, we determined the parameters of MLPNN using the prey-predator algorithm (PPA). The proposed model is called the MLPNN–PPA. More >

Fahad Ahmad^1,*, Saleh N. Almuayqil², Mamoona Humayun², Shahid Naseem³, Wasim Ahmad Khan⁴, Kashaf Junaid⁵

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.66, No.3, pp. 2265-2282, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.013067 - 28 December 2020

Abstract COVID-19 is a pandemic that has affected nearly every country in the world. At present, sustainable development in the area of public health is considered vital to securing a promising and prosperous future for humans. However, widespread diseases, such as COVID-19, create numerous challenges to this goal, and some of those challenges are not yet defined. In this study, a Shallow Single-Layer Perceptron Neural Network (SSLPNN) and Gaussian Process Regression (GPR) model were used for the classification and prediction of confirmed COVID-19 cases in five geographically distributed regions of Asia with diverse settings and environmental… More >

Mazin Abed Mohammed¹, Karrar Hameed Abdulkareem², Begonya Garcia-Zapirain³, Salama A. Mostafa⁴, Mashael S. Maashi⁵, Alaa S. Al-Waisy¹, Mohammed Ahmed Subhi⁶, Ammar Awad Mutlag⁷, Dac-Nhuong Le^8,9,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.66, No.3, pp. 3289-3310, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.012874 - 28 December 2020

Abstract The quick spread of the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) infection around the world considered a real danger for global health. The biological structure and symptoms of COVID-19 are similar to other viral chest maladies, which makes it challenging and a big issue to improve approaches for efficient identification of COVID-19 disease. In this study, an automatic prediction of COVID-19 identification is proposed to automatically discriminate between healthy and COVID-19 infected subjects in X-ray images using two successful moderns are traditional machine learning methods (e.g., artificial neural network (ANN), support vector machine (SVM), linear kernel and radial… 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 - 28 December 2020

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.… More >

Fahd A. Alhaidari¹, Saleh A. Al-Dossary², Ilyas A. Salih^1,*, Abdlrhman M. Salem¹, Ahmed S. Bokir¹, Mahmoud O. Fares¹, Mohammed I. Ahmed¹, Mohammed S. Ahmed¹

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.36, No.1, pp. 57-67, 2021, DOI:10.32604/csse.2021.013843 - 23 December 2020

Abstract Geologists interpret seismic data to understand subsurface properties and subsequently to locate underground hydrocarbon resources. Channels are among the most important geological features interpreters analyze to locate petroleum reservoirs. However, manual channel picking is both time consuming and tedious. Moreover, similar to any other process dependent on human intervention, manual channel picking is error prone and inconsistent. To address these issues, automatic channel detection is both necessary and important for efficient and accurate seismic interpretation. Modern systems make use of real-time image processing techniques for different tasks. Automatic channel detection is a combination of different… More >