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

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

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 >

Rongyu Chen¹, Lili Pan^{1, *}, Cong Li¹, Yan Zhou¹, Aibin Chen¹, Eric Beckman²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.65, No.2, pp. 1691-1706, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.011706

Abstract With the development of Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs), the extracted features for image recognition tasks have shifted from low-level features to the high-level semantic features of DCNNs. Previous studies have shown that the deeper the network is, the more abstract the features are. However, the recognition ability of deep features would be limited by insufficient training samples. To address this problem, this paper derives an improved Deep Fusion Convolutional Neural Network (DF-Net) which can make full use of the differences and complementarities during network learning and enhance feature expression under the condition of limited… More >

Huiping Jiang^{1, *}, Zequn Wang¹, Rui Jiao¹, Shan Jiang²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.65, No.2, pp. 1453-1465, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.011793

Abstract Emotion recognition systems are helpful in human–machine interactions and Intelligence Medical applications. Electroencephalogram (EEG) is closely related to the central nervous system activity of the brain. Compared with other signals, EEG is more closely associated with the emotional activity. It is essential to study emotion recognition based on EEG information. In the research of emotion recognition based on EEG, it is a common problem that the results of individual emotion classification vary greatly under the same scheme of emotion recognition, which affects the engineering application of emotion recognition. In order to improve the overall emotion… More >

Shuai Yuan¹, Tingting He^{2, 3, *}, Huan Huang⁴, Rui Hou⁵, Meng Wang⁶

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.65, No.1, pp. 817-833, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.010471

Abstract Writing is an important part of language learning and is considered the best approach to demonstrate the comprehensive language skills of students. Manually grading student essays is a time-consuming task; however, it is necessary. An automated essay scoring system can not only greatly improve the efficiency of essay scoring, but also provide more objective score. Therefore, many researchers have been exploring automated essay scoring techniques and tools. However, the technique of scoring Chinese essays is still limited, and its accuracy needs to be enhanced further. To improve the accuracy of the scoring model for a… More >

Yuwen Chen^{1, 2, 3, *}, Xiaolin Qin^{1, 3}, Lige Zhang^{1, 3}, Bin Yi⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.65, No.1, pp. 495-510, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.011278

Abstract The occurrence of perioperative heart failure will affect the quality of medical services and threaten the safety of patients. Existing methods depend on the judgment of doctors, the results are affected by many factors such as doctors’ knowledge and experience. The accuracy is difficult to guarantee and has a serious lag. In this paper, a mixture prediction model is proposed for perioperative adverse events of heart failure, which combined with the advantages of the Deep Pyramid Convolutional Neural Networks (DPCNN) and Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBOOST). The DPCNN was used to automatically extract features from patient’s More >

Ye Wang¹, Bixin Liu², Hongjia Wu¹, Shan Zhao¹, Zhiping Cai^{1, *}, Donghui Li^{3, *}, Cheang Chak Fong⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.65, No.1, pp. 355-367, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.09835

Abstract With the continuous development of e-commerce, consumers show increasing interest in posting comments on consumption experience and quality of commodities. Meanwhile, people make purchasing decisions relying on other comments much more than ever before. So the reliability of commodity comments has a significant impact on ensuring consumers’ equity and building a fair internet-trade-environment. However, some unscrupulous online-sellers write fake praiseful reviews for themselves and malicious comments for their business counterparts to maximize their profits. Those improper ways of self-profiting have severely ruined the entire online shopping industry. Aiming to detect and prevent these deceptive comments More >

Sanghyo Lee¹, Yonghan Ahn², Ha Young Kim^{3, *}

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.65, No.1, pp. 1-17, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.011104

Abstract In this study, we examined the efficacy of a deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) in recognizing concrete surface images and predicting the compressive strength of concrete. A digital single-lens reflex (DSLR) camera and microscope were simultaneously used to obtain concrete surface images used as the input data for the DCNN. Thereafter, training, validation, and testing of the DCNNs were performed based on the DSLR camera and microscope image data. Results of the analysis indicated that the DCNN employing DSLR image data achieved a relatively higher accuracy. The accuracy of the DSLR-derived image data was attributed… More >

Congcong Wang^{1, 2, 3}, Pengyu Liu^{1, 2, 3, *}, Kebin Jia^{1, 2, 3}, Xiaowei Jia⁴, Yaoyao Li^{1, 2, 3}

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.64, No.3, pp. 2043-2055, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.010505

Abstract Weather phenomenon recognition plays an important role in the field of meteorology. Nowadays, weather radars and weathers sensor have been widely used for weather recognition. However, given the high cost in deploying and maintaining the devices, it is difficult to apply them to intensive weather phenomenon recognition. Moreover, advanced machine learning models such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have shown a lot of promise in meteorology, but these models also require intensive computation and large memory, which make it difficult to use them in reality. In practice, lightweight models are often used to solve such More >

Duo Ma^{1, 2, 3}, Hongyuan Fang^{1, 2, 3, *}, Binghan Xue^{1, 2, 3}, Fuming Wang^{1, 2, 3}, Mohammed A. Msekh⁴, Chiu Ling Chan⁵

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.123, No.3, pp. 1267-1291, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2020.09122

Abstract The crack is a common pavement failure problem. A lack of periodic maintenance will result in extending the cracks and damage the pavement, which will affect the normal use of the road. Therefore, it is significant to establish an efficient intelligent identification model for pavement cracks. The neural network is a method of simulating animal nervous systems using gradient descent to predict results by learning a weight matrix. It has been widely used in geotechnical engineering, computer vision, medicine, and other fields. However, there are three major problems in the application of neural networks to… More >