Inzamam Mashood Nasir¹, Muhammad Attique Khan^1,*, Majed Alhaisoni², Tanzila Saba³, Amjad Rehman³, Tassawar Iqbal⁴

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.124, No.3, pp. 1017-1033, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2020.010943 - 21 August 2020

Abstract Comic character detection is becoming an exciting and growing research area in the domain of machine learning. In this regard, recently, many methods are proposed to provide adequate performance. However, most of these methods utilized the custom datasets, containing a few hundred images and fewer classes, to evaluate the performances of their models without comparing it, with some standard datasets. This article takes advantage of utilizing a standard publicly dataset taken from a competition, and proposes a generic data balancing technique for imbalanced dataset to enhance and enable the in-depth training of the CNN. In More >

Liying Wang¹ , Zhiqiang Xu², Shuihua Wang^3,4,5,*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.124, No.3, pp. 1001-1015, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2020.010753 - 21 August 2020

Abstract Artificial Intelligence (AI) becomes one hotspot in the field of the medical images analysis and provides rather promising solution. Although some research has been explored in smart diagnosis for the common diseases of urinary system, some problems remain unsolved completely A nine-layer Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is proposed in this paper to classify the renal Computed Tomography (CT) images. Four group of comparative experiments prove the structure of this CNN is optimal and can achieve good performance with average accuracy about 92.07 ± 1.67%. Although our renal CT data is not very large, we do More >

Zijian Li¹, Chengying Chi^{1, *}, Yunyun Zhan^{2, *}

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.64, No.1, pp. 637-650, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.010265 - 20 May 2020

Abstract The translation quality of neural machine translation (NMT) systems depends largely on the quality of large-scale bilingual parallel corpora available. Research shows that under the condition of limited resources, the performance of NMT is greatly reduced, and a large amount of high-quality bilingual parallel data is needed to train a competitive translation model. However, not all languages have large-scale and high-quality bilingual corpus resources available. In these cases, improving the quality of the corpora has become the main focus to increase the accuracy of the NMT results. This paper proposes a new method to improve… More >

Dongjie Liu¹, Jin Zhao^{1, *}, Axin Xi², Chao Wang¹, Xinnian Huang¹, Kuncheng Lai¹, Chang Liu¹

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.122, No.2, pp. 593-617, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2020.08641 - 09 February 2020

Abstract With the advent of deep learning, self-driving schemes based on deep learning are becoming more and more popular. Robust perception-action models should learn from data with different scenarios and real behaviors, while current end-to-end model learning is generally limited to training of massive data, innovation of deep network architecture, and learning in-situ model in a simulation environment. Therefore, we introduce a new image style transfer method into data augmentation, and improve the diversity of limited data by changing the texture, contrast ratio and color of the image, and then it is extended to the scenarios… More >

Senad Kalkan¹, William I. Jaffe², Vannita Simma-Chiang³, Eric S. W. Li⁴, Jerry G. Blaivas³

Canadian Journal of Urology, Vol.26, No.3, pp. 9774-9780, 2019

Abstract Introduction: There is a paucity of data about augmentation cystoplasty (AC) in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients with refractory lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS). The aim of this study is to evaluate the long term outcomes and morbidity of these procedures in MS patients.
Materials and methods: This is a retrospective observational study of consecutive patients (1984-2017) with MS and refractory LUTS who underwent AC with or without a continent/incontinent abdominal stoma or urinary diversion. Pre and postoperative evaluations included routine labs, videourodynamic studies (VUDS), cystoscopy, and upper tract imaging. Long term outcomes and complications were assessed by… More >

Lili Pan¹, Jiaohua Qin^1,*, Hao Chen², Xuyu Xiang¹, Cong Li¹, Ran Chen¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.59, No.1, pp. 297-313, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2019.04097

Abstract Image retrieval for food ingredients is important work, tremendously tiring, uninteresting, and expensive. Computer vision systems have extraordinary advancements in image retrieval with CNNs skills. But it is not feasible for small-size food datasets using convolutional neural networks directly. In this study, a novel image retrieval approach is presented for small and medium-scale food datasets, which both augments images utilizing image transformation techniques to enlarge the size of datasets, and promotes the average accuracy of food recognition with state-of-the-art deep learning technologies. First, typical image transformation techniques are used to augment food images. Then transfer More >

Ming He^1,2, Hongbin Wang^1,*, Lianke Zhou¹, Pengming Wang³, Andrew Ju⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.57, No.3, pp. 521-532, 2018, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2018.03710

Abstract An important issue for deep learning models is the acquisition of training of data. Without abundant data from a real production environment for training, deep learning models would not be as widely used as they are today. However, the cost of obtaining abundant real-world environment is high, especially for underwater environments. It is more straightforward to simulate data that is closed to that from real environment. In this paper, a simple and easy symmetric learning data augmentation model (SLDAM) is proposed for underwater target radiate-noise data expansion and generation. The SLDAM, taking the optimal classifier… More >

Shuren Zhou^1,2,*, Wenlong Liang^1,2, Junguo Li^1,2, Jeong-Uk Kim³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.57, No.1, pp. 11-24, 2018, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2018.02617

Abstract Road traffic sign recognition is an important task in intelligent transportation system. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved a breakthrough in computer vision tasks and made great success in traffic sign classification. In this paper, it presents a road traffic sign recognition algorithm based on a convolutional neural network. In natural scenes, traffic signs are disturbed by factors such as illumination, occlusion, missing and deformation, and the accuracy of recognition decreases, this paper proposes a model called Improved VGG (IVGG) inspired by VGG model. The IVGG model includes 9 layers, compared with the original VGG More >

A. B. Mahmud Hasan^1,2, S.M. Guo¹, M.A. Wahab¹

FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.5, No.4, pp. 399-410, 2009, DOI:10.3970/fdmp.2009.005.399

Abstract The effects of gas flow channel design were studied experimentally for increasing fuel cell performance and fuel optimization. Three types of gas flow channels (serpentine, straight and interdigitated) were designed on the basis of water flooding due to electrochemical reactions, electro-osmotic drag, etc. Experimental results indicate that the best cell performance can be obtained by arranging interdigitated gas flow channel at the anode side and serpentine gas flow channel at the cathode side. Detailed analysis on complex two phase water generation and electrochemical phenomena behind those results were analyzed in this work to find out More >

Elizabeth Waine, Hashim Hashim, Paul Abrams

Canadian Journal of Urology, Vol.14, No.2, pp. 3478-3488, 2007

Abstract Overactive bladder is a common urological diagnosis, which is often untreated as patients fail to seek help for this embarrassing problem. This disorder causes significant lifestyle limitations for the patient and is also expensive as it reduces national productivity and therefore affected patients should be treated. It is simple for primary care providers to make a working diagnosis in this disorder and they should be carrying out simple investigations in order to make the diagnosis. Commencement of therapy should start with conservative measures such as lifestyle modifications including pelvic floor exercises and bladder drill followed… More >