Geemitha Ratnayake^*, Yaqoub Jafar, Bruno Leslie, Luis Henrique Braga^*

Canadian Journal of Urology, Vol.32, No.3, pp. 209-212, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cju.2025.064122 - 27 June 2025

Abstract Background: Bladder augmentation is frequently required to manage poorly compliant, low-capacity bladders resulting from posterior urethral valves (PUV). While traditional enterocystoplasty techniques are limited by complications associated with bowel tissue use, ureterocystoplasty presents a favorable alternative in patients with concurrent megaureter. Methods: We describe a novel teapot ureterocystoplasty technique that enhances ureteral vascular preservation by maintaining a 3 cm distal ureteral segment in its detubularized configuration. Postoperative outcomes demonstrated significant improvement, with cystographic bladder capacity increasing from 50 to 180 mL. Renal function stabilized following a transient creatinine elevation to 250 μmol/L. Result and Conclusion: At More >

Yu-Xiang Zhao^*, Yi Lee

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.84, No.1, pp. 791-810, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.065048 - 09 June 2025

Abstract Bird species classification is not only a challenging topic in artificial intelligence but also a domain closely related to environmental protection and ecological research. Additionally, performing edge computing on low-level devices using small neural networks can be an important research direction. In this paper, we use the EfficientNetV2B0 model for bird species classification, applying transfer learning on a dataset of 525 bird species. We also employ the BiRefNet model to remove backgrounds from images in the training set. The generated background-removed images are mixed with the original training set as a form of data augmentation.… More >

Rongwei Yu¹, Jie Yin^1,*, Jingyi Xiang¹, Qiyun Shao², Lina Wang¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.84, No.1, pp. 365-391, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.064438 - 09 June 2025

Abstract With the emergence of new attack techniques, traffic classifiers usually fail to maintain the expected performance in real-world network environments. In order to have sufficient generalizability to deal with unknown malicious samples, they require a large number of new samples for retraining. Considering the cost of data collection and labeling, data augmentation is an ideal solution. We propose an optimized noise-based traffic data augmentation system, ONTDAS. The system uses a gradient-based searching algorithm and an improved Bayesian optimizer to obtain optimized noise. The noise is injected into the original samples for data augmentation. Then, an More >

Tehreem Fatima¹, Kewen Xia^1,*, Wenbiao Yang², Qurat Ul Ain¹, Poornima Lankani Perera¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.84, No.1, pp. 811-826, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.063686 - 09 June 2025

Abstract The rising prevalence of diabetes in modern society underscores the urgent need for precise and efficient diagnostic tools to support early intervention and treatment. However, the inherent limitations of existing datasets, including significant class imbalances and inadequate sample diversity, pose challenges to the accurate prediction and classification of diabetes. Addressing these issues, this study proposes an innovative diabetes prediction framework that integrates a hybrid Convolutional Neural Network-Bidirectional Gated Recurrent Unit (CNN-BiGRU) model for classification with Adaptive Synthetic Sampling (ADASYN) for data augmentation. ADASYN was employed to generate synthetic yet representative data samples, effectively mitigating class… More >

Tengyue Li^1,*, Shuangli Song¹, Jiaming Zhou², Simon Fong^2,3, Geyue Li⁴, Qun Song³, Sabah Mohammed⁵, Weiwei Lin⁶, Juntao Gao⁷

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.84, No.1, pp. 1711-1730, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.062489 - 09 June 2025

Abstract Hematoxylin and Eosin (H&E) images, popularly used in the field of digital pathology, often pose challenges due to their limited color richness, hindering the differentiation of subtle cell features crucial for accurate classification. Enhancing the visibility of these elusive cell features helps train robust deep-learning models. However, the selection and application of image processing techniques for such enhancement have not been systematically explored in the research community. To address this challenge, we introduce Salient Features Guided Augmentation (SFGA), an approach that strategically integrates machine learning and image processing. SFGA utilizes machine learning algorithms to identify… More >

Honglin Wang¹, Yaohua Xu^2,*, Cheng Zhu³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.83, No.3, pp. 4999-5018, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.061848 - 19 May 2025

Abstract Medical image classification is crucial in disease diagnosis, treatment planning, and clinical decision-making. We introduced a novel medical image classification approach that integrates Bayesian Random Semantic Data Augmentation (BSDA) with a Vision Mamba-based model for medical image classification (MedMamba), enhanced by residual connection blocks, we named the model BSDA-Mamba. BSDA augments medical image data semantically, enhancing the model’s generalization ability and classification performance. MedMamba, a deep learning-based state space model, excels in capturing long-range dependencies in medical images. By incorporating residual connections, BSDA-Mamba further improves feature extraction capabilities. Through comprehensive experiments on eight medical image More >

Yuanqing Li¹, Mengyao Dai¹, Sanfeng Zhang^1,2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.83, No.1, pp. 309-333, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.060455 - 26 March 2025

Abstract Social media has significantly accelerated the rapid dissemination of information, but it also boosts propagation of fake news, posing serious challenges to public awareness and social stability. In real-world contexts, the volume of trustable information far exceeds that of rumors, resulting in a class imbalance that leads models to prioritize the majority class during training. This focus diminishes the model’s ability to recognize minority class samples. Furthermore, models may experience overfitting when encountering these minority samples, further compromising their generalization capabilities. Unlike node-level classification tasks, fake news detection in social networks operates on graph-level samples,… More >

Jian Feng^*, Yifan Guo, Cailing Du

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.82, No.3, pp. 5135-5151, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.059610 - 06 March 2025

Abstract Graph similarity learning aims to calculate the similarity between pairs of graphs. Existing unsupervised graph similarity learning methods based on contrastive learning encounter challenges related to random graph augmentation strategies, which can harm the semantic and structural information of graphs and overlook the rich structural information present in subgraphs. To address these issues, we propose a graph similarity learning model based on learnable augmentation and multi-level contrastive learning. First, to tackle the problem of random augmentation disrupting the semantics and structure of the graph, we design a learnable augmentation method to selectively choose nodes and… More >

Yi Zuo, Zhenping Chen^*, Jing Feng, Yunhao Fan

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.82, No.3, pp. 4649-4667, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.059472 - 06 March 2025

Abstract Image classification is crucial for various applications, including digital construction, smart manufacturing, and medical imaging. Focusing on the inadequate model generalization and data privacy concerns in few-shot image classification, in this paper, we propose a federated learning approach that incorporates privacy-preserving techniques. First, we utilize contrastive learning to train on local few-shot image data and apply various data augmentation methods to expand the sample size, thereby enhancing the model’s generalization capabilities in few-shot contexts. Second, we introduce local differential privacy techniques and weight pruning methods to safeguard model parameters, perturbing the transmitted parameters to ensure More >

Sumaia Mohamed Elhassan¹, Saad Mohamed Darwish^1,*, Saleh Mesbah Elkaffas²

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.142, No.1, pp. 835-867, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2024.058770 - 17 December 2024

Abstract Lung cancer continues to be a leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide, emphasizing the critical need for improved diagnostic techniques. Early detection of lung tumors significantly increases the chances of successful treatment and survival. However, current diagnostic methods often fail to detect tumors at an early stage or to accurately pinpoint their location within the lung tissue. Single-model deep learning technologies for lung cancer detection, while beneficial, cannot capture the full range of features present in medical imaging data, leading to incomplete or inaccurate detection. Furthermore, it may not be robust enough to handle the… More >