Sang-Hyun Lee^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.2, pp. 4245-4260, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.026012

Abstract X-ray inspection equipment is divided into small baggage inspection equipment and large cargo inspection equipment. In the case of inspection using X-ray scanning equipment, it is possible to identify the contents of goods, unauthorized transport, or hidden goods in real-time by-passing cargo through X-rays without opening it. In this paper, we propose a system for detecting dangerous objects in X-ray images using the Cascade Region-based Convolutional Neural Network (Cascade R-CNN) model, and the data used for learning consists of dangerous goods, storage media, firearms, and knives. In addition, to minimize the overfitting problem caused by the lack of data to… More >

Yassir Edrees Almalki¹, Maryam Zaffar^2,*, Muhammad Irfan³, Mohammad Ali Abbas², Maida Khalid², K.S. Quraishi⁴, Tariq Ali⁵, Fahad Alshehri⁶, Sharifa Khalid Alduraibi⁶, Abdullah A. Asiri⁷, Mohammad Abd Alkhalik Basha⁸, Alaa Alduraibi⁶, M.K. Saeed⁷, Saifur Rahman³

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.35, No.1, pp. 163-180, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.025580

Abstract The numbers of cases and deaths due to the COVID-19 virus have increased daily all around the world. Chest X-ray is considered very useful and less time-consuming for monitoring COVID disease. No doubt, X-ray is considered as a quick screening method, but due to variations in features of images which are of X-rays category with Corona confirmed cases, the domain expert is needed. To address this issue, we proposed to utilize deep learning approaches. In this study, the dataset of COVID-19, lung opacity, viral pneumonia, and lastly healthy patients’ images of category X-rays are utilized to evaluate the performance of… More >

Joe Louis Paul Ignatius^1,*, Sasirekha Selvakumar¹, Kavin Gabriel Joe Louis Paul², Aadhithya B. Kailash¹, S. Keertivaas¹, S. A. J. Akarvin Raja Prajan¹

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.44, No.1, pp. 81-97, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.025195

Abstract Tuberculosis (TB) is a severe infection that mostly affects the lungs and kills millions of people’s lives every year. Tuberculosis can be diagnosed using chest X-rays (CXR) and data-driven deep learning (DL) approaches. Because of its better automated feature extraction capability, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) trained on natural images are particularly effective in image categorization. A combination of 3001 normal and 3001 TB CXR images was gathered for this study from different accessible public datasets. Ten different deep CNNs (Resnet50, Resnet101, Resnet152, InceptionV3, VGG16, VGG19, DenseNet121, DenseNet169, DenseNet201, MobileNet) are trained and tested for identifying TB and normal cases. This… More >

Jahangir Jabbar¹, Muzammil Hussain², Hassaan Malik^2,*, Abdullah Gani³, Ali Haider Khan², Muhammad Shiraz⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.1, pp. 1827-1844, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.024965

Abstract Wrist cracks are the most common sort of cracks with an excessive occurrence rate. For the routine detection of wrist cracks, conventional radiography (X-ray medical imaging) is used but periodically issues are presented by crack depiction. Wrist cracks often appear in the human arbitrary bone due to accidental injuries such as slipping. Indeed, many hospitals lack experienced clinicians to diagnose wrist cracks. Therefore, an automated system is required to reduce the burden on clinicians and identify cracks. In this study, we have designed a novel residual network-based convolutional neural network (CNN) for the crack detection of the wrist. For the… More >

Yurananatul Mangalmurti, Naruemon Wattanapongsakorn^*

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.34, No.2, pp. 733-752, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.025073

Abstract This paper presents effective techniques for automatic detection/classification of COVID-19 and other lung diseases using machine learning, including deep learning with convolutional neural networks (CNN) and classical machine learning techniques. We had access to a large number of chest X-ray images to use as input data. The data contains various categories including COVID-19, Pneumonia, Pneumothorax, Atelectasis, and Normal (without disease). In addition, chest X-ray images with many findings (abnormalities and diseases) from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) was also considered. Our deep learning approach used a CNN architecture with VGG16 and VGG19 models which were pre-trained with ImageNet. We… More >

Shabana Habib¹, Saleh Alyahya², Aizaz Ahmed³, Muhammad Islam^2,*, Sheroz Khan², Ishrat Khan⁴, Muhammad Kamil⁵

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.43, No.2, pp. 671-682, 2022, DOI:10.32604/csse.2022.021812

Abstract In early December 2019, the city of Wuhan, China, reported an outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), caused by a novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). On January 30, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak a global pandemic crisis. In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, the most important step has been the effective diagnosis and monitoring of infected patients. Identifying COVID-19 using Machine Learning (ML) technologies can help the health care unit through assistive diagnostic suggestions, which can reduce the health unit's burden to a certain extent. This paper investigates the possibilities of ML techniques in… More >

Imran Arshad Choudhry^*, Adnan N. Qureshi

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.1, pp. 1445-1463, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.025208

Abstract The well-established mortality rates due to lung cancers, scarcity of radiology experts and inter-observer variability underpin the dire need for robust and accurate computer aided diagnostics to provide a second opinion. To this end, we propose a feature grafting approach to classify lung cancer images from publicly available National Institute of Health (NIH) chest X-Ray dataset comprised of 30,805 unique patients. The performance of transfer learning with pre-trained VGG and Inception models is evaluated in comparison against manually extracted radiomics features added to convolutional neural network using custom layer. For classification with both approaches, Support Vectors Machines (SVM) are used.… More >

Aymen Saad¹, Israa S. Kamil², Ahmed Alsayat³, Ahmed Elaraby^4,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.1, pp. 561-576, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.023878

Abstract COVID-19 has been considered one of the recent epidemics that occurred at the last of 2019 and the beginning of 2020 that world widespread. This spread of COVID-19 requires a fast technique for diagnosis to make the appropriate decision for the treatment. X-ray images are one of the most classifiable images that are used widely in diagnosing patients’ data depending on radiographs due to their structures and tissues that could be classified. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) is the most accurate classification technique used to diagnose COVID-19 because of the ability to use a different number of convolutional layers and its… More >

Saad Awadh Alanazi^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.1, pp. 37-55, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.020118

Abstract Melanoma, also called malignant melanoma, is a form of skin cancer triggered by an abnormal proliferation of the pigment-producing cells, which give the skin its color. Melanoma is one of the skin diseases, which is exceptionally and globally dangerous, Skin lesions are considered to be a serious disease. Dermoscopy-based early recognition and detection procedure is fundamental for melanoma treatment. Early detection of melanoma using dermoscopy images improves survival rates significantly. At the same time, well-experienced dermatologists dominate the precision of diagnosis. However, precise melanoma recognition is incredibly hard due to several factors: low contrast between lesions and surrounding skin, visual… More >

Pengzhu Li, Martina Bačová, Robert Dalla-Pozza, Nikolaus Alexander Haas, Felix Sebastian Oberhoffer^*

Congenital Heart Disease, Vol.17, No.2, pp. 129-141, 2022, DOI:10.32604/CHD.2022.018300

Abstract Turner syndrome (TS) is a rare disorder affecting 25–50 in 100000 female newborns. Bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) is assumed to be the most common congenital heart defect (CHD) in TS. In literature, reported BAV prevalence in TS ranges between 14% and 34%. The specific BAV prevalence in TS is still unknown. The aim of this study was to give a more precise estimation of BAV prevalence in TS by conducting a meta-analysis of TS-studies, which detected BAV by either cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or cardiac computed tomography (CT). We searched PubMed, Cochrane Library, and Web of Science databases to… More >