Bhawna Goyal¹, Ayush Dogra², Dawa Chyophel Lepcha¹, Rajesh Singh³, Hemant Sharma⁴, Ahmed Alkhayyat⁵, Manob Jyoti Saikia^6,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.78, No.3, pp. 4317-4342, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.047256

Abstract Multimodal medical image fusion has attained immense popularity in recent years due to its robust technology for clinical diagnosis. It fuses multiple images into a single image to improve the quality of images by retaining significant information and aiding diagnostic practitioners in diagnosing and treating many diseases. However, recent image fusion techniques have encountered several challenges, including fusion artifacts, algorithm complexity, and high computing costs. To solve these problems, this study presents a novel medical image fusion strategy by combining the benefits of pixel significance with edge-preserving processing to achieve the best fusion performance. First, the method employs a cross-bilateral… More >

Ahmad Almadhor¹, Chitapong Wechtaisong^2,*, Usman Tariq³, Natalia Kryvinska^4,*, Abdullah Al Hejaili⁵, Uzma Ghulam Mohammad⁶, Mohana Alanazi⁷

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.48, No.1, pp. 199-216, 2024, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.039546

Abstract Thermal comfort is an essential component of smart cities that helps to upgrade, analyze, and realize intelligent buildings. It strongly affects human psychological and physiological levels. Residents of buildings suffer stress because of poor thermal comfort. Buildings frequently use Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems for temperature control. Better thermal states directly impact people’s productivity and health. This study revealed a human thermal comfort model that makes better predictions of thermal sensation by identifying essential features and employing a tuned Extra Tree classifier, MultiLayer Perceptron (MLP) and Naive Bayes (NB) models. The study employs the ASHRAE RP-884 standard dataset… More >

Rizwan Iqbal^1,*, Rashid Hussain², Sheeraz Arif³, Nadia Mustaqim Ansari⁴, Tayyab Ahmed Shaikh²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.77, No.2, pp. 1575-1598, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.042432

Abstract Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is a new network technology that uses programming to complement the data plane with a control plane. To enable safe connection, however, numerous security challenges must be addressed. Flooding attacks have been one of the most prominent risks on the internet for decades, and they are now becoming challenging difficulties in SDN networks. To solve these challenges, we proposed a unique firewall application built on multiple levels of packet filtering to provide a flooding attack prevention system and a layer-based packet detection system. This study offers a systematic strategy for wrapping up the examination of SDN operations.… More >

Ramiz Gorkem Birdal^*, Ahmet Sertbas

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.76, No.3, pp. 2727-2744, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.032069

Abstract Biometric gait recognition is a lesser-known but emerging and effective biometric recognition method which enables subjects’ walking patterns to be recognized. Existing research in this area has primarily focused on feature analysis through the extraction of individual features, which captures most of the information but fails to capture subtle variations in gait dynamics. Therefore, a novel feature taxonomy and an approach for deriving a relationship between a function of one set of gait features with another set are introduced. The gait features extracted from body halves divided by anatomical planes on vertical, horizontal, and diagonal axes are grouped to form… More >

Abdus Saboor^1,4, Arif Hussain², Bless Lord Y. Agbley³, Amin ul Haq^3,*, Jian Ping Li³, Rajesh Kumar^1,*

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.37, No.2, pp. 1325-1344, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.038849

Abstract Stock market forecasting has drawn interest from both economists and computer scientists as a classic yet difficult topic. With the objective of constructing an effective prediction model, both linear and machine learning tools have been investigated for the past couple of decades. In recent years, recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have been observed to perform well on tasks involving sequence-based data in many research domains. With this motivation, we investigated the performance of long-short term memory (LSTM) and gated recurrent units (GRU) and their combination with the attention mechanism; LSTM + Attention, GRU + Attention, and LSTM + GRU + Attention.… More >

Mesfer Al Duhayyim^1,*, Sidra Abbas^2,*, Abdullah Al Hejaili³, Natalia Kryvinska⁴, Ahmad Almadhor⁵, Uzma Ghulam Mohammad⁶

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.47, No.1, pp. 413-429, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.037127

Abstract Stroke is a life-threatening disease usually due to blockage of blood or insufficient blood flow to the brain. It has a tremendous impact on every aspect of life since it is the leading global factor of disability and morbidity. Strokes can range from minor to severe (extensive). Thus, early stroke assessment and treatment can enhance survival rates. Manual prediction is extremely time and resource intensive. Automated prediction methods such as Modern Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), particularly those in Machine Learning (ML) area, are crucial for the early diagnosis and prognosis of stroke. Therefore, this research proposed an ensemble voting… More >

Meilin Wu^1,2, Lianggui Tang^1,2,*, Qingda Zhang^1,2, Ke Yan^1,2

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.37, No.1, pp. 179-198, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.036684

Abstract As COVID-19 poses a major threat to people’s health and economy, there is an urgent need for forecasting methodologies that can anticipate its trajectory efficiently. In non-stationary time series forecasting jobs, there is frequently a hysteresis in the anticipated values relative to the real values. The multilayer deep-time convolutional network and a feature fusion network are combined in this paper’s proposal of an enhanced Multilayer Deep Time Convolutional Neural Network (MDTCNet) for COVID-19 prediction to address this problem. In particular, it is possible to record the deep features and temporal dependencies in uncertain time series, and the features may then… More >

Xudong Wang^1,2, Xueshuai Qin¹, Huiyan Zhang^2,*, Luis Ismael Minchala³

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.37, No.1, pp. 385-400, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.036633

Abstract Unmanned vehicles are currently facing many difficulties and challenges in improving safety performance when running in complex urban road traffic environments, such as low intelligence and poor comfort performance in the driving process. The real-time performance of vehicles and the comfort requirements of passengers in path planning and tracking control of unmanned vehicles have attracted more and more attentions. In this paper, in order to improve the real-time performance of the autonomous vehicle planning module and the comfort requirements of passengers that a local granular-based path planning method and tracking control based on multi-segment Bezier curve splicing and model predictive… More >

Aisha Fayomi¹, Christophe Chesneau^2,*, Farrukh Jamal³, Ali Algarni¹

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.136, No.3, pp. 2371-2403, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2023.027000

Abstract In this article, we highlight a new three-parameter heavy-tailed lifetime distribution that aims to extend the modeling possibilities of the Lomax distribution. It is called the extended Lomax distribution. The considered distribution naturally appears as the distribution of a transformation of a random variable following the logweighted power distribution recently introduced for percentage or proportion data analysis purposes. As a result, its cumulative distribution has the same functional basis as that of the Lomax distribution, but with a novel special logarithmic term depending on several parameters. The modulation of this logarithmic term reveals new types of asymetrical shapes, implying a… More >

Muhammad Umair^1,*, Zafar Saeed¹, Faisal Saeed², Hiba Ishtiaq¹, Muhammad Zubair¹, Hala Abdel Hameed^3,4

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.74, No.3, pp. 5431-5446, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.033884

Abstract As big data, its technologies, and application continue to advance, the Smart Grid (SG) has become one of the most successful pervasive and fixed computing platforms that efficiently uses a data-driven approach and employs efficient information and communication technology (ICT) and cloud computing. As a result of the complicated architecture of cloud computing, the distinctive working of advanced metering infrastructures (AMI), and the use of sensitive data, it has become challenging to make the SG secure. Faults of the SG are categorized into two main categories, Technical Losses (TLs) and Non-Technical Losses (NTLs). Hardware failure, communication issues, ohmic losses, and… More >