Abeer D. Algarni^1,*, Walid El-Shafai², Ghada M. El Banby³, Fathi E. Abd El-Samie^1,2, Naglaa F. Soliman^1,4

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.70, No.3, pp. 4393-4410, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.020265

Abstract COVID-19 remains to proliferate precipitously in the world. It has significantly influenced public health, the world economy, and the persons’ lives. Hence, there is a need to speed up the diagnosis and precautions to deal with COVID-19 patients. With this explosion of this pandemic, there is a need for automated diagnosis tools to help specialists based on medical images. This paper presents a hybrid Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)-based classification and segmentation approach for COVID-19 detection from Computed Tomography (CT) images. The proposed approach is employed to classify and segment the COVID-19, pneumonia, and normal CT images. The classification stage is… More >

R. Shijitha^1,*, P. Karthigaikumar², A. Stanly Paul²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.70, No.3, pp. 5233-5249, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.020227

Abstract Brain Hemorrhagic stroke is a serious malady that is caused by the drop in blood flow through the brain and causes the brain to malfunction. Precise segmentation of brain hemorrhage is crucial, so an enhanced segmentation is carried out in this research work. The brain image of various patients has taken using an MRI scanner by the utilization of T1, T2, and FLAIR sequence. This work aims to segment the Brain Hemorrhagic stroke using deep learning-based Multi-resolution UNet (multires UNet) through morphological operations. It is hard to precisely segment the brain lesions to extract the existing region of stroke. This… More >

Muhammad Tariq Mahmood^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.70, No.3, pp. 4867-4882, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.019544

Abstract Detection and classification of the blurred and the non-blurred regions in images is a challenging task due to the limited available information about blur type, scenarios and level of blurriness. In this paper, we propose an effective method for blur detection and segmentation based on transfer learning concept. The proposed method consists of two separate steps. In the first step, genetic programming (GP) model is developed that quantify the amount of blur for each pixel in the image. The GP model method uses the multi-resolution features of the image and it provides an improved blur map. In the second phase,… More >

Yanfen Guo^1,2, Zhe Cui¹, Xiaojie Li^2,*, Jing Peng^1,2, Jinrong Hu², Zhipeng Yang³, Tao Wu², Imran Mumtaz⁴

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.31, No.3, pp. 1771-1782, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.019785

Abstract Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is one of the most common malignant tumors of the head and neck, and its incidence is the highest all around the world. Intensive radiotherapy using computer-aided diagnosis is the best technique for the treatment of NPC. The key step of radiotherapy is the delineation of the target areas and organs at risk, that is, tumor images segmentation. We proposed the segmentation method of NPC image based on multi-scale cascaded fully convolutional network. It used cascaded network and multi-scale feature for a coarse-to-fine segmentation to improve the segmentation effect. In coarse segmentation, image blocks and data augmentation… More >

Linfang Yu, Zhen Qin^*, Yi Ding, Zhiguang Qin

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.129, No.2, pp. 805-828, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2021.017332

Abstract As an important part of the new generation of information technology, the Internet of Things (IoT) has been widely concerned and regarded as an enabling technology of the next generation of health care system. The fundus photography equipment is connected to the cloud platform through the IoT, so as to realize the real-time uploading of fundus images and the rapid issuance of diagnostic suggestions by artificial intelligence. At the same time, important security and privacy issues have emerged. The data uploaded to the cloud platform involves more personal attributes, health status and medical application data of patients. Once leaked, abused… 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

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 on multi organs segmentation but… More >

José Escorcia-Gutierrez^1,4,*, Jordina Torrents-Barrena⁴, Margarita Gamarra², Natasha Madera¹, Pedro Romero-Aroca³, Aida Valls⁴, Domenec Puig⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.70, No.2, pp. 2971-2989, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.020074

Abstract Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a complication of diabetes mellitus that appears in the retina. Clinitians use retina images to detect DR pathological signs related to the occlusion of tiny blood vessels. Such occlusion brings a degenerative cycle between the breaking off and the new generation of thinner and weaker blood vessels. This research aims to develop a suitable retinal vasculature segmentation method for improving retinal screening procedures by means of computer-aided diagnosis systems. The blood vessel segmentation methodology relies on an effective feature selection based on Sequential Forward Selection, using the error rate of a decision tree classifier in the… More >

Venkatesan Rajinikanth¹, Shabnam Mohamed Aslam², Seifedine Kadry³, Orawit Thinnukool^4,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.70, No.2, pp. 4087-4105, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.019786

Abstract The incident rate of the Gastrointestinal-Disease (GD) in humans is gradually rising due to a variety of reasons and the Endoscopic/Colonoscopic-Image (EI/CI) supported evaluation of the GD is an approved practice. Extraction and evaluation of the suspicious section of the EI/CI is essential to diagnose the disease and its severity. The proposed research aims to implement a joint thresholding and segmentation framework to extract the Gastric-Polyp (GP) with better accuracy. The proposed GP detection system consist; (i) Enhancement of GP region using Aquila-Optimization-Algorithm supported tri-level thresholding with entropy (Fuzzy/Shannon/Kapur) and between-class-variance (Otsu) technique, (ii) Automated (Watershed/Markov-Random-Field) and semi-automated (Chan-Vese/Level-Set/Active-Contour) segmentation… More >

Xian Zhao, Pantea Keikhosrokiani^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.70, No.2, pp. 3855-3874, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.019750

Abstract The COVID-19 has brought us unprecedented difficulties and thousands of companies have closed down. The general public has responded to call of the government to stay at home. Offline retail stores have been severely affected. Therefore, in order to transform a traditional offline sales model to the B2C model and to improve the shopping experience, this study aims to utilize historical sales data for exploring, building sales prediction and recommendation models. A novel data science life-cycle and process model with Recency, Frequency, and Monetary (RFM) analysis method with the combination of various analytics algorithms are utilized in this study for… More >

Javaria Tahir¹, Syed Rameez Naqvi^2,*, Khursheed Aurangzeb³, Musaed Alhussein³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.70, No.2, pp. 3235-3250, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.018949

Abstract Melanoma, due to its higher mortality rate, is considered as one of the most pernicious types of skin cancers, mostly affecting the white populations. It has been reported a number of times and is now widely accepted, that early detection of melanoma increases the chances of the subject’s survival. Computer-aided diagnostic systems help the experts in diagnosing the skin lesion at earlier stages using machine learning techniques. In this work, we propose a framework that accurately segments, and later classifies, the lesion using improved image segmentation and fusion methods. The proposed technique takes an image and passes it through two… More >