Manas Ranjan Prusty¹, Rishi Dinesh², Hariket Sukesh Kumar Sheth², Alapati Lakshmi Viswanath², Sandeep Kumar Satapathy^2,3,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.77, No.3, pp. 3077-3094, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.042718

Abstract This paper presents a novel computerized technique for the segmentation of nuclei in hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) stained histopathology images. The purpose of this study is to overcome the challenges faced in automated nuclei segmentation due to the diversity of nuclei structures that arise from differences in tissue types and staining protocols, as well as the segmentation of variable-sized and overlapping nuclei. To this extent, the approach proposed in this study uses an ensemble of the UNet architecture with various Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) architectures as encoder backbones, along with stain normalization and test time augmentation, to improve segmentation accuracy.… More >

S. Kannan^1,*, S. Anusuya²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.77, No.3, pp. 3835-3851, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.042465

Abstract Gliomas, the most prevalent primary brain tumors, require accurate segmentation for diagnosis and risk assessment. In this paper, we develop a novel deep learning-based method, the Dynamic Hierarchical Attention for Improved Segmentation and Survival Prognosis (DHA-ISSP) model. The DHA-ISSP model combines a three-band 3D convolutional neural network (CNN) U-Net architecture with dynamic hierarchical attention mechanisms, enabling precise tumor segmentation and survival prediction. The DHA-ISSP model captures fine-grained details and contextual information by leveraging attention mechanisms at multiple levels, enhancing segmentation accuracy. By achieving remarkable results, our approach surpasses 369 competing teams in the 2020 Multimodal Brain Tumor Segmentation Challenge. With… More >

Fuliang Xu, Yong Luo, Chuanlong Sun, Hong Zhao^*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.138, No.3, pp. 2691-2708, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2023.030940

Abstract In actual traffic scenarios, precise recognition of traffic participants, such as vehicles and pedestrians, is crucial for intelligent transportation. This study proposes an improved algorithm built on Mask-RCNN to enhance the ability of autonomous driving systems to recognize traffic participants. The algorithm incorporates long and short-term memory networks and the fused attention module (GSAM, GCT, and Spatial Attention Module) to enhance the algorithm’s capability to process both global and local information. Additionally, to increase the network’s initial operation stability, the original network activation function was replaced with Gaussian error linear unit. Experiments were conducted using the publicly available Cityscapes dataset.… More >

Jiansheng Peng^1,2,*, Qing Yang¹, Yaru Hou¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.77, No.2, pp. 1929-1948, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.043524

Abstract In recent years, with the continuous deepening of smart city construction, there have been significant changes and improvements in the field of intelligent transportation. The semantic segmentation of road scenes has important practical significance in the fields of automatic driving, transportation planning, and intelligent transportation systems. However, the current mainstream lightweight semantic segmentation models in road scene segmentation face problems such as poor segmentation performance of small targets and insufficient refinement of segmentation edges. Therefore, this article proposes a lightweight semantic segmentation model based on the LiteSeg model improvement to address these issues. The model uses the lightweight backbone network… More >

Lisang Liu¹, Chengyang Ke^1,*, He Lin²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.77, No.2, pp. 2443-2461, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.042582

Abstract Aiming at the problems of inaccurate edge segmentation, the hole phenomenon of segmenting large-scale targets, and the slow segmentation speed of printed circuit boards (PCB) in the image segmentation process, a PCB image segmentation model Mobile-Deep based on DeepLabv3+ semantic segmentation framework is proposed. Firstly, the DeepLabv3+ feature extraction network is replaced by the lightweight model MobileNetv2, which effectively reduces the number of model parameters; secondly, for the problem of positive and negative sample imbalance, a new loss function is composed of Focal Loss combined with Dice Loss to solve the category imbalance and improve the model discriminative ability; in… More >

Abdul Qadir Khan¹, Guangmin Sun^1,*, Yu Li¹, Anas Bilal², Malik Abdul Manan¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.77, No.2, pp. 2481-2504, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.043239

Abstract In the emerging field of image segmentation, Fully Convolutional Networks (FCNs) have recently become prominent. However, their effectiveness is intimately linked with the correct selection and fine-tuning of hyperparameters, which can often be a cumbersome manual task. The main aim of this study is to propose a more efficient, less labour-intensive approach to hyperparameter optimization in FCNs for segmenting fundus images. To this end, our research introduces a hyperparameter-optimized Fully Convolutional Encoder-Decoder Network (FCEDN). The optimization is handled by a novel Genetic Grey Wolf Optimization (G-GWO) algorithm. This algorithm employs the Genetic Algorithm (GA) to generate a diverse set of… More >

Shazia Shamas¹, Surya Narayan Panda^1,*, Ishu Sharma^1,*, Kalpna Guleria¹, Aman Singh^2,3,4, Ahmad Ali AlZubi⁵, Mallak Ahmad AlZubi⁶

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.138, No.2, pp. 1051-1075, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2023.030712

Abstract The distinction and precise identification of tumor nodules are crucial for timely lung cancer diagnosis and planning intervention. This research work addresses the major issues pertaining to the field of medical image processing while focusing on lung cancer Computed Tomography (CT) images. In this context, the paper proposes an improved lung cancer segmentation technique based on the strengths of nature-inspired approaches. The better resolution of CT is exploited to distinguish healthy subjects from those who have lung cancer. In this process, the visual challenges of the K-means are addressed with the integration of four nature-inspired swarm intelligent techniques. The techniques… More >

Jialun Lin¹, Qiong Chen^1,2,3,*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.138, No.2, pp. 1549-1561, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2023.029631

Abstract Watermarks can provide reliable and secure copyright protection for optical coherence tomography (OCT) fundus images. The effective image segmentation is helpful for promoting OCT image watermarking. However, OCT images have a large amount of low-quality data, which seriously affects the performance of segmentation methods. Therefore, this paper proposes an effective segmentation method for OCT fundus image watermarking using a rough convolutional neural network (RCNN). First, the rough-set-based feature discretization module is designed to preprocess the input data. Second, a dual attention mechanism for feature channels and spatial regions in the CNN is added to enable the model to adaptively select… More >

Fufang Li, Manlin Luo^*, Ming Hu, Guobin Wang, Yan Chen

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.47, No.3, pp. 2835-2850, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.039765

Abstract Liver cancer has the second highest incidence rate among all types of malignant tumors, and currently, its diagnosis heavily depends on doctors’ manual labeling of CT scan images, a process that is time-consuming and susceptible to subjective errors. To address the aforementioned issues, we propose an automatic segmentation model for liver and tumors called Res2Swin Unet, which is based on the Unet architecture. The model combines Attention-Res2 and Swin Transformer modules for liver and tumor segmentation, respectively. Attention-Res2 merges multiple feature map parts with an Attention gate via skip connections, while Swin Transformer captures long-range dependencies and models the input… More >

Mohammed Aly^1,*, Abdullah Shawan Alotaibi²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.77, No.1, pp. 557-582, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.042493

Abstract Tumor segmentation is a valuable tool for gaining insights into tumors and improving treatment outcomes. Manual segmentation is crucial but time-consuming. Deep learning methods have emerged as key players in automating brain tumor segmentation. In this paper, we propose an efficient modified U-Net architecture, called EMU-Net, which is applied to the BraTS 2020 dataset. Our approach is organized into two distinct phases: classification and segmentation. In this study, our proposed approach encompasses the utilization of the gray-level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM) as the feature extraction algorithm, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) as the classification algorithm, and the chi-square method for feature selection.… More >