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 - 27 September 2021

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… 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 - 27 September 2021

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 More >

Xian Zhao, Pantea Keikhosrokiani^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.70, No.2, pp. 3855-3874, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.019750 - 27 September 2021

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… 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 - 27 September 2021

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 More >

Ghanshyam Raghuwanshi¹, Yogesh Gupta², Deepak Sinwar¹, Dilbag Singh³, Usman Tariq⁴, Muhammad Attique⁵, Kuntha Pin⁶, Yunyoung Nam^7,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.70, No.2, pp. 3939-3954, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.018423 - 27 September 2021

Abstract In the recent decade, the digitalization of various tasks has added great flexibility to human lifestyle and has changed daily routine activities of communities. Image segmentation is a key step in digitalization. Segmentation plays a key role in almost all areas of image processing, and various approaches have been proposed for image segmentation. In this paper, a novel approach is proposed for image segmentation using a nonuniform adaptive strategy. Region-based image segmentation along with a directional binary pattern generated a better segmented image. An adaptive mask of 8 × 8 was circulated over the pixels whose bit… More >

K. Yuvaraj^*, U. S. Ragupathy

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.40, No.3, pp. 823-834, 2022, DOI:10.32604/csse.2022.018837 - 24 September 2021

Abstract This research implements a novel segmentation of mammographic mass. Three methods are proposed, namely, segmentation of mass based on iterative active contour, automatic region growing, and fully automatic mask selection-based active contour techniques. In the first method, iterative threshold is performed for manual cropped preprocessed image, and active contour is applied thereafter. To overcome manual cropping in the second method, an automatic seed selection followed by region growing is performed. Given that the result is only a few images owing to over segmentation, the third method uses a fully automatic active contour. Results of the… More >

R. P. Narmadha^1,*, N. Sengottaiyan², R. J. Kavitha³

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.31, No.2, pp. 1257-1271, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.020679 - 22 September 2021

Abstract In agriculture, plant diseases are mainly accountable for reduction in productivity and leads to huge economic loss. Rice is the essential food crop in Asian countries and it gets easily affected by different kinds of diseases. Because of the advent of computer vision and deep learning (DL) techniques, the rice plant diseases can be detected and reduce the burden of the farmers to save the crops. To achieve this, a new DL based rice plant disease diagnosis is developed using Densely Convolution Neural Network (DenseNet) with multilayer perceptron (MLP), called DenseNet169-MLP. The proposed model aims… More >

Shinjin Kang¹, Jongin Choi^2,*

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.31, No.2, pp. 1089-1105, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.019979 - 22 September 2021

Abstract The game user interface (UI) provides a large volume of information necessary to analyze the game screen. The availability of such information can be functional in vision-based machine learning algorithms. With this, there will be an enhancement in the application power of vision deep learning neural networks. Therefore, this paper proposes a game UI segmentation technique based on unsupervised learning. We developed synthetic labeling created on the game engine, image-to-image translation and segmented UI components in the game. The network learned in this manner can segment the target UI area in the target game regardless More >

N. Jayanthi^1,*, D. Manohari², Mohamed Yacin Sikkandar³, Mohamed Abdelkader Aboamer³, Mohamed Ibrahim Waly³, C. Bharatiraja⁴

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.31, No.2, pp. 1317-1329, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.018974 - 22 September 2021

Abstract Lung cancer is a curable disease if detected early, and its mortality rate decreases with forwarding treatment measures. At first, an easy and accurate way to detect is by using image processing techniques on the cancer-affected images captured from the patients. This paper proposes a novel lung cancer detection method. Firstly, an adaptive median filter algorithm (AMF) is applied to preprocess those images for improving the quality of the affected area. Then, a supervised image edge detection algorithm (SIED) is presented to segment those images. Then, feature extraction is employed to extract the mean, standard More >

Naglaa F. Soliman^1,2, Naglaa S. Ali², Mahmoud I. Aly^2,3, Abeer D. Algarni^1,*, Walid El-Shafai⁴, Fathi E. Abd El-Samie^1,4

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.70, No.1, pp. 1315-1334, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.017001 - 07 September 2021

Abstract Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer, and it is the reason for cancer death toll in women in recent years. Early diagnosis is essential to handle breast cancer patients for treatment at the right time. Screening with mammography is the preferred examination for breast cancer, as it is available worldwide and inexpensive. Computer-Aided Detection (CAD) systems are used to analyze medical images to detect breast cancer, early. The death rate of cancer patients has decreased by detecting tumors early and having appropriate treatment after operations. Processing of mammogram images has four main… More >