Habib Dhahri^1,2,*, Besma Rabhi³, Slaheddine Chelbi⁴, Omar Almutiry¹, Awais Mahmood¹, Adel M. Alimi³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.69, No.3, pp. 3259-3274, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.018449

Abstract The exponential increase in new coronavirus disease 2019 ({COVID-19}) cases and deaths has made COVID-19 the leading cause of death in many countries. Thus, in this study, we propose an efficient technique for the automatic detection of COVID-19 and pneumonia based on X-ray images. A stacked denoising convolutional autoencoder (SDCA) model was proposed to classify X-ray images into three classes: normal, pneumonia, and {COVID-19}. The SDCA model was used to obtain a good representation of the input data and extract the relevant features from noisy images. The proposed model’s architecture mainly composed of eight autoencoders, which were fed to two… More >

S. Lalitha¹, Deepa Gupta^2,*, Mohammed Zakariah³, Yousef Ajami Alotaibi³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.69, No.3, pp. 3217-3238, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.018406

Abstract Automatic recognition of human emotions in a continuous dialog model remains challenging where a speaker’s utterance includes several sentences that may not always carry a single emotion. Limited work with standalone speech emotion recognition (SER) systems proposed for continuous speech only has been reported. In the recent decade, various effective SER systems have been proposed for discrete speech, i.e., short speech phrases. It would be more helpful if these systems could also recognize emotions from continuous speech. However, if these systems are applied directly to test emotions from continuous speech, emotion recognition performance would not be similar to that achieved… More >

Din Prathumwan¹, Inthira Chaiya², Kamonchat Trachoo^2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.69, No.3, pp. 3645-3657, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.018241

Abstract Lumbar spine stenosis (LSS) is a narrowing of the spinal canal that results in pressure on the spinal nerves. This orthopedic disorder can cause severe pain and dysfunction. LSS is a common disabling problem amongst elderly people. In this paper, we developed a finite element model (FEM) to study the forces and the von Mises stress acting on the spine when people bend down. An artificial lumbar spine (L3) was generated from CT data by using the FEM, which is a powerful tool to study biomechanics. The proposed model is able to predict the effect of forces which apply to… More >

Sujeet More¹, Jimmy Singla¹, Oh-Young Song^2,*, Usman Tariq³, Sharaf Malebary⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.69, No.3, pp. 3127-3143, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.018230

Abstract Medical Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a noninvasive, nonradioactive, and meticulous diagnostic modality capability in the field of medical imaging. However, the efficiency of MR image reconstruction is affected by its bulky image sets and slow process implementation. Therefore, to obtain a high-quality reconstructed image we presented a sparse aware noise removal technique that uses convolution neural network (SANR_CNN) for eliminating noise and improving the MR image reconstruction quality. The proposed noise removal or denoising technique adopts a fast CNN architecture that aids in training larger datasets with improved quality, and SARN algorithm is used for building a dictionary learning technique… More >

Abdullah Ali Salamai¹, El-Sayed M. El-kenawy², Ibrahim Abdelhameed^3,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.69, No.3, pp. 3749-3766, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.018179

Abstract Supply chain 4.0 refers to the fourth industrial revolution’s supply chain management systems, which integrate the supply chain’s manufacturing operations, information technology, and telecommunication processes. Although supply chain 4.0 aims to improve supply chains’ production systems and profitability, it is subject to different operational and disruptive risks. Operational risks are a big challenge in the cycle of supply chain 4.0 for controlling the demand and supply operations to produce and deliver products across IT systems. This paper proposes a voting classifier to identify the operational risks in the supply chain 4.0 based on a Sine Cosine Dynamic Group (SCDG) algorithm.… More >

B. Gomathi¹, S. T. Suganthi^2,*, Karthikeyan Krishnasamy³, J. Bhuvana⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.69, No.3, pp. 3693-3710, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.018159

Abstract Enterprises have extensively taken on cloud computing environment since it provides on-demand virtualized cloud application resources. The scheduling of the cloud tasks is a well-recognized NP-hard problem. The Task scheduling problem is convoluted while convincing different objectives, which are dispute in nature. In this paper, Multi-Objective Improved Monarch Butterfly Optimization (MOIMBO) algorithm is applied to solve multi-objective task scheduling problems in the cloud in preparation for Pareto optimal solutions. Three different dispute objectives, such as makespan, reliability, and resource utilization, are deliberated for task scheduling problems.The Epsilon-fuzzy dominance sort method is utilized in the multi-objective domain to elect the foremost… More >

Yu-Dong Zhang¹, Muhammad Attique Khan², Ziquan Zhu³, Shui-Hua Wang^4,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.69, No.3, pp. 3145-3162, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.018040

Abstract (Aim) COVID-19 is an ongoing infectious disease. It has caused more than 107.45 m confirmed cases and 2.35 m deaths till 11/Feb/2021. Traditional computer vision methods have achieved promising results on the automatic smart diagnosis. (Method) This study aims to propose a novel deep learning method that can obtain better performance. We use the pseudo-Zernike moment (PZM), derived from Zernike moment, as the extracted features. Two settings are introducing: (i) image plane over unit circle; and (ii) image plane inside the unit circle. Afterward, we use a deep-stacked sparse autoencoder (DSSAE) as the classifier. Besides, multiple-way data augmentation is chosen… More >

Saurabh Pal¹, Pijush Kanti Dutta Pramanik¹, Musleh Alsulami², Anand Nayyar^3,*, Mohammad Zarour⁴, Prasenjit Choudhury¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.69, No.3, pp. 3981-4001, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.017966

Abstract With the popularity of e-learning, personalization and ubiquity have become important aspects of online learning. To make learning more personalized and ubiquitous, we propose a learner model for a query-based personalized learning recommendation system. Several contextual attributes characterize a learner, but considering all of them is costly for a ubiquitous learning system. In this paper, a set of optimal intrinsic and extrinsic contexts of a learner are identified for learner modeling. A total of 208 students are surveyed. DEMATEL (Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory) technique is used to establish the validity and importance of the identified contexts and find… More >

Mohamed Abdel-Basset¹, Reda Mohamed¹, Ripon K. Chakrabortty², Michael J. Ryan², Yunyoung Nam^3,*, Mohamed Abouhawwash^4,5

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.69, No.3, pp. 2883-2901, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.017854

Abstract This paper proposes a new pre-processing technique to separate the most effective features from those that might deteriorate the performance of the machine learning classifiers in terms of computational costs and classification accuracy because of their irrelevance, redundancy, or less information; this pre-processing process is often known as feature selection. This technique is based on adopting a new optimization algorithm known as generalized normal distribution optimization (GNDO) supported by the conversion of the normal distribution to a binary one using the arctangent transfer function to convert the continuous values into binary values. Further, a novel restarting strategy (RS) is proposed… More >

V. Murugesh¹, B. Saravana Balaji^2,*, Habib Sano Aliy³, J. Bhuvana⁴, P. Saranya⁵, Andino Maseleno⁶, K. Shankar⁷, A. Sasikala⁸

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.69, No.3, pp. 3685-3692, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.017836

Abstract Bilinear singular systems can be used in the investigation of different types of engineering systems. In the past decade, considerable attention has been paid to analyzing and synthesizing singular bilinear systems. Their importance lies in their real world application such as economic, ecological, and socioeconomic processes. They are also applied in several biological processes, such as population dynamics of biological species, water balance, temperature regulation in the human body, carbon dioxide control in lungs, blood pressure, immune system, cardiac regulation, etc. Bilinear singular systems naturally represent different physical processes such as the fundamental law of mass action, the DC motor,… More >