Xiaozhong Chen^*

Molecular & Cellular Biomechanics, Vol.17, No.3, pp. 139-153, 2020, DOI:10.32604/mcb.2020.08933

Abstract Existing model registration of individual bones does not have a high certainly of success due to the lack of anatomic semantic. In light of the surface anatomy and functional structure of bones, we hypothesized individual femur models would be aligned through feature points both in geometrical level and in anatomic level, and proposed a hierarchical approach for the rigid registration (HRR) of point cloud models of femur with high resolution. Firstly, a coarse registration between two simplified point cloud models was implemented based on the extraction of geometric feature points (GFPs); and then, according to the anatomic feature points (AFPs)… More >

Xinliang Tang¹, Xing Sun¹, Zhenzhou Wang¹, Pingping Yu¹, Ning Cao^{2, *}, Yunfeng Xu³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.64, No.2, pp. 1185-1198, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.010283

Abstract The appearance of pedestrians can vary greatly from image to image, and different pedestrians may look similar in a given image. Such similarities and variabilities in the appearance and clothing of individuals make the task of pedestrian re-identification very challenging. Here, a pedestrian re-identification method based on the fusion of local features and gait energy image (GEI) features is proposed. In this method, the human body is divided into four regions according to joint points. The color and texture of each region of the human body are extracted as local features, and GEI features of the pedestrian gait are also… More >

Muhammad Hasnain¹, Seung Ryul Jeong^{2, *}, Muhammad Fermi Pasha³, Imran Ghani⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.64, No.2, pp. 729-752, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.010394

Abstract Performance anomaly detection is the process of identifying occurrences that do not conform to expected behavior or correlate with other incidents or events in time series data. Anomaly detection has been applied to areas such as fraud detection, intrusion detection systems, and network systems. In this paper, we propose an anomaly detection framework that uses dynamic features of quality of service that are collected in a simulated setup. Three variants of recurrent neural networks-SimpleRNN, long short term memory, and gated recurrent unit are evaluated. The results reveal that the proposed method effectively detects anomalies in web services with high accuracy.… More >

Yang Yang^1,*, Jing Dong¹, Chao Fang², Ping Xie³, Na An³

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.123, No.3, pp. 1015-1031, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2020.09404

Abstract The development of cloud computing and virtualization technology has brought great challenges to the reliability of data center services. Data centers typically contain a large number of compute and storage nodes which may fail and affect the quality of service. Failure prediction is an important means of ensuring service availability. Predicting node failure in cloud-based data centers is challenging because the failure symptoms reflected have complex characteristics, and the distribution imbalance between the failure sample and the normal sample is widespread, resulting in inaccurate failure prediction. Targeting these challenges, this paper proposes a novel failure prediction method FP-STE (Failure Prediction… More >

Yuyang Sun¹, Peizhou Yan^{2, *}, Zhengzheng Li², Jiancheng Zou³, Don Hong⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.63, No.3, pp. 1563-1574, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.09763

Abstract Real-time detection of driver fatigue status is of great significance for road traffic safety. In this paper, a proposed novel driver fatigue detection method is able to detect the driver’s fatigue status around the clock. The driver’s face images were captured by a camera with a colored lens and an infrared lens mounted above the dashboard. The landmarks of the driver’s face were labeled and the eye-area wassegmented. By calculating the aspect ratios of the eyes, the duration of eye closure, frequency of blinks and PERCLOS of both colored and infrared, fatigue can be detected. Based on the change of… More >

Ravi Samikannu^{1, *}, Rohini Ravi², Sivaram Murugan³, Bakary Diarra⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.63, No.3, pp. 1133-1142, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.08578

Abstract The identification of brain tumors is multifarious work for the separation of the similar intensity pixels from their surrounding neighbours. The detection of tumors is performed with the help of automatic computing technique as presented in the proposed work. The non-active cells in brain region are known to be benign and they will never cause the death of the patient. These non-active cells follow a uniform pattern in brain and have lower density than the surrounding pixels. The Magnetic Resonance (MR) image contrast is improved by the cost map construction technique. The deep learning algorithm for differentiating the normal brain… More >

Emily M. Engelhardt¹, Andrew T. Trout^2,3, Rachel M. Sheridan⁴, Gruschen R. Veldtman⁵, Jonathan R. Dillman^2,3

Congenital Heart Disease, Vol.14, No.3, pp. 380-388, 2019, DOI:10.1111/chd.12730

Abstract Purpose: Patients who have undergone Fontan palliation of single ventricle physiol‐ ogy congenital heart disease are prone to developing focal liver lesions. In our experi‐ ence, the variety of lesions occurring in this population is greater than that described in the literature. The purpose of this study was to describe the breadth of biopsy‐ proven liver lesions in patients post–Fontan palliation of single ventricle physiology cared for at our institution.
Methods: We retrospectively identified patients who had previously undergone the Fontan operation and had a focal liver lesion biopsied between January 2000 and June 2018. Medical records were reviewed for… More >

Shiru Zhang¹, Zhiyao Liang^{1, *}, Jian Lin²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.63, No.2, pp. 943-957, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.08800

Abstract Calculating the semantic similarity of two sentences is an extremely challenging problem. We propose a solution based on convolutional neural networks (CNN) using semantic and syntactic features of sentences. The similarity score between two sentences is computed as follows. First, given a sentence, two matrices are constructed accordingly, which are called the syntax model input matrix and the semantic model input matrix; one records some syntax features, and the other records some semantic features. By experimenting with different arrangements of representing the syntactic and semantic features of the sentences in the matrices, we adopt the most effective way of constructing… More >

Weibo Yang^{1, *}, Jing Li², Wei Peng², Aidong Deng³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.63, No.1, pp. 283-299, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.07511

Abstract Based on the theory of modal acoustic emission (AE), when the convolutional neural network (CNN) is used to identify rotor rub-impact faults, the training data has a small sample size, and the AE sound segment belongs to a single channel signal with less pixel-level information and strong local correlation. Due to the convolutional pooling operations of CNN, coarse-grained and edge information are lost, and the top-level information dimension in CNN network is low, which can easily lead to overfitting. To solve the above problems, we first propose the use of sound spectrograms and their differential features to construct multi-channel image… More >

Binjie Gu^{1, *}, Weili Xiong¹, Zhonghu Bai²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.63, No.1, pp. 243-262, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.06898

Abstract Human action recognition under complex environment is a challenging work. Recently, sparse representation has achieved excellent results of dealing with human action recognition problem under different conditions. The main idea of sparse representation classification is to construct a general classification scheme where the training samples of each class can be considered as the dictionary to express the query class, and the minimal reconstruction error indicates its corresponding class. However, how to learn a discriminative dictionary is still a difficult work. In this work, we make two contributions. First, we build a new and robust human action recognition framework by combining… More >