Dalwinder Singh¹, Deepak Prashar¹, Jimmy Singla¹, Arfat Ahmad Khan², Mohammed Al-Sarem^3,4,*, Neesrin Ali Kurdi³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.3, pp. 6047-6068, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.031255 - 28 July 2022

Abstract The hepatitis B virus is the most deadly virus, which significantly affects the human liver. The termination of the hepatitis B virus is mandatory and can be done by taking precautions as well as a suitable cure in its introductory stage; otherwise, it will become a severe problem and make a human liver suffer from the most dangerous diseases, such as liver cancer. In this paper, two medical diagnostic systems are developed for the diagnosis of this life-threatening virus. The methodologies used to develop these models are fuzzy logic and the neuro-fuzzy technique. The diverse… More >

Alberto Cipriani^1,#, Pietro Bernardo Dall’Aglio^1,#, Laura Mazzotta¹, Domenico Sirico², George Sarris³, Mark Hazekamp⁴, Thierry Carrel⁵, Alessandro Frigiola⁶, Vladimir Sojak⁴, Mauro Lo Rito⁶, Jurgen Horer⁷, Regine Roussin⁷, Julie Cleuziou⁸, Bart Meyns⁹, Jose Fragata¹⁰, Helena Telles¹⁰, Anastasios C. Polimenakos¹¹, Katrien Francois¹², Altin Veshti¹³, Jukka Salminen¹⁴, Alvaro Gonzalez Rocafort¹⁵, Matej Nosal¹⁶, Eleftherios Protopapas³, Roberto Tumbarello¹⁷, Patrizio Sarto¹⁸, Cinzia Pegoraro¹⁸, Raffaella Motta¹⁹, Giovanni Di Salvo², Domenico Corrado¹, Vladimiro L. Vida¹, Massimo A. Padalino^1,2,*

Congenital Heart Disease, Vol.17, No.4, pp. 375-385, 2022, DOI:10.32604/chd.2022.019385 - 04 July 2022

Abstract Background: Anomalous aortic origin of a coronary artery (AAOCA) is a congenital heart disease with a 0.3%−0.5% prevalence. Diagnosis is challenging due to nonspecific clinical presentation. Risk stratification and treatment are currently based on expert consensus and single-center case series. Methods: Demographical and clinical data of AAOCA patients from 17 tertiary-care centers were analyzed. Diagnostic imaging studies (Bidimensional echocardiography, coronary computed tomography angiography [CCTA] were collected. Clinical correlations with anomalous coronary course and origin were evaluated. Results: Data from 239 patients (42% males, mean age 15 y) affected by AAOCA were collected; 154 had AAOCA involving the… More > Graphic Abstract

Doaa Sami Khafaga¹, Amel Ali Alhussan^1,*, El-Sayed M. El-kenawy^2,3, Ali E. Takieldeen³, Tarek M. Hassan⁴, Ehab A. Hegazy⁵, Elsayed Abdel Fattah Eid⁶, Abdelhameed Ibrahim⁷, Abdelaziz A. Abdelhamid^8,9

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.1, pp. 749-765, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.029605 - 18 May 2022

Abstract One of the most common kinds of cancer is breast cancer. The early detection of it may help lower its overall rates of mortality. In this paper, we robustly propose a novel approach for detecting and classifying breast cancer regions in thermal images. The proposed approach starts with data preprocessing the input images and segmenting the significant regions of interest. In addition, to properly train the machine learning models, data augmentation is applied to increase the number of segmented regions using various scaling ratios. On the other hand, to extract the relevant features from the… More >

Maqsood Ahmad^1,2, Noorhaniza Wahid¹, Rahayu A Hamid¹, Saima Sadiq², Arif Mehmood³, Gyu Sang Choi^4,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.3, pp. 5041-5058, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.026077 - 21 April 2022

Abstract Mental health signifies the emotional, social, and psychological well-being of a person. It also affects the way of thinking, feeling, and situation handling of a person. Stable mental health helps in working with full potential in all stages of life from childhood to adulthood therefore it is of significant importance to find out the onset of the mental disease in order to maintain balance in life. Mental health problems are rising globally and constituting a burden on healthcare systems. Early diagnosis can help the professionals in the treatment that may lead to complications if they… More >

Esraa Hassan^1,3,*, Mahmoud Y. Shams¹, Noha A. Hikal², Samir Elmougy³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.3, pp. 5889-5907, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.025629 - 21 April 2022

Abstract Infectious diseases are an imminent danger that faces human beings around the world. Malaria is considered a highly contagious disease. The diagnosis of various diseases, including malaria, was performed manually, but it required a lot of time and had some human errors. Therefore, there is a need to investigate an efficient and fast automatic diagnosis system. Deploying deep learning algorithms can provide a solution in which they can learn complex image patterns and have a rapid improvement in medical image analysis. This study proposed a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) model to detect malaria automatically. A More >

Lida Liao¹, Bo Xiao^1,2,*, Kan Huang^1,*, Bin Huang^1,3, Kang Zhang¹

Energy Engineering, Vol.119, No.3, pp. 1219-1238, 2022, DOI:10.32604/ee.2022.017471 - 31 March 2022

Abstract With the increasingly stringent requirements for carbon emissions, countries have increased the scale of clean energy use in recent years. As an important new clean energy source, the ratio of wind power in energy utilization has been increasing. The horizontal axis wind turbine is the main form of wind power generation, which is subject to random wind loads during operation and is prone to various failures after a long period of operation, resulting in reduced power generation efficiency or even shutdown. In order to ensure stable external power transmission, it is necessary to perform fault… More >

Elsa Maitre, Xavier Troussard^*

Oncologie, Vol.24, No.1, pp. 3-24, 2022, DOI:10.32604/oncologie.2022.021490 - 31 March 2022

Abstract La leucémie à tricholeucocytes (LT) représente 2% de l’ensemble des leucémies. Le diagnostic repose sur la présence dans le sang et/ou la moelle de tricholeucocytes: cellules lymphoïdes B au cytoplasme chevelu exprimant le CD103, CD123, CD11c et CD25. La mutation BRAF^V600E, marqueur moléculaire de la maladie, est présente dans plus de 80% des cas. La LT doit être distinguée des autres syndromes lymphoprolifératifs chroniques B, notamment des autres proliférations à cellules chevelues, forme variante de la leucémie à tricholeucocytes (LT-V) et lymphome splé- nique diffus de la pulpe rouge (LSDPR). Des progrès thérapeutiques ont été récemment… More >

ULVI BAYRAKTUTAN^*

BIOCELL, Vol.46, No.7, pp. 1593-1598, 2022, DOI:10.32604/biocell.2022.018679 - 17 March 2022

Abstract Ischaemic stroke is a debilitating disease with immense personal, societal and economic impact. Thrombolysis with recombinant tissue plasminogen activator remains the only approved pharmacotherapy for this disease. As each year less than 1% of eligible patients receive this therapy worldwide, efficacious new therapeutics are desperately needed. Emerging evidence suggest endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs), capable of repairing damaged vasculature, as one such therapeutics. However, questions regarding their optimal dose, delivery route and in vivo survivability remain largely unanswered. Outgrowth endothelial cells, generated in large numbers by ex vivo expansion of EPCs, enable effective assessment of these More >

Milan Tair¹, Nebojsa Bacanin¹, Miodrag Zivkovic¹, K. Venkatachalam^2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.1, pp. 959-982, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.024989 - 24 February 2022

Abstract There is a growing interest in the study development of artificial intelligence and machine learning, especially regarding the support vector machine pattern classification method. This study proposes an enhanced implementation of the well-known whale optimisation algorithm, which combines chaotic and opposition-based learning strategies, which is adopted for hyper-parameter optimisation and feature selection machine learning challenges. The whale optimisation algorithm is a relatively recent addition to the group of swarm intelligence algorithms commonly used for optimisation. The Proposed improved whale optimisation algorithm was first tested for standard unconstrained CEC2017 benchmark suite and it was later adapted More >

Muhammad Ibrahim Khalil¹, Samabia Tehsin¹, Mamoona Humayun², N.Z Jhanjhi^3,4,*, Mohammed A. AlZain⁵

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.70, No.2, pp. 3251-3265, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.020561 - 27 September 2021

Abstract Medical Imaging Segmentation is an essential technique for modern medical applications. It is the foundation of many aspects of clinical diagnosis, oncology, and computer-integrated surgical intervention. Although significant successes have been achieved in the segmentation of medical images, DL (deep learning) approaches. Manual delineation of OARs (organs at risk) is vastly dominant but it is prone to errors given the complex irregularities in shape, low texture diversity between tissues and adjacent blood area, patient-wide location of organisms, and weak soft tissue contrast across adjacent organs in CT images. Till now several models have been implemented… More >