Simy Mary Kurian¹, Sujitha Juliet Devaraj^1,*, Vinodh P. Vijayan²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.69, No.2, pp. 2093-2109, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.018090 - 21 July 2021

Abstract Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an essential tool for detecting brain tumours. However, identification of brain tumours in the early stages is a very complex task since MRI images are susceptible to noise and other environmental obstructions. In order to overcome these problems, a Gamma MAP denoised Strömberg wavelet segmentation based on a maximum entropy classifier (GMDSWS-MEC) model is developed for efficient tumour detection with high accuracy and low time consumption. The GMDSWS-MEC model performs three steps, namely pre-processing, segmentation, and classification. Within the GMDSWS-MEC model, the Gamma MAP filter performs the pre-processing task and… More >

Marriam Nawaz¹, Zahid Mehmood^2,*, Tahira Nazir¹, Momina Masood¹, Usman Tariq³, Asmaa Mahdi Munshi⁴, Awais Mehmood¹, Muhammad Rashid⁵

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.69, No.2, pp. 1927-1944, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.018052 - 21 July 2021

Abstract Copy-move forgery is the most common type of digital image manipulation, in which the content from the same image is used to forge it. Such manipulations are performed to hide the desired information. Therefore, forgery detection methods are required to identify forged areas. We have introduced a novel method for features computation by employing a circular block-based method through local tetra pattern (LTrP) features to detect the single and multiple copy-move attacks from the images. The proposed method is applied over the circular blocks to efficiently and effectively deal with the post-processing operations. It also… More >

Amr Hefny¹, Aboul Ella Hassanien², Sameh H. Basha^1,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.69, No.2, pp. 2367-2386, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.018017 - 21 July 2021

Abstract Identity verification using authenticity evaluation of handwritten signatures is an important issue. There have been several approaches for the verification of signatures using dynamics of the signing process. Most of these approaches extract only global characteristics. With the aim of capturing both dynamic global and local features, this paper introduces a novel model for verifying handwritten dynamic signatures using neutrosophic rule-based verification system (NRVS) and Genetic NRVS (GNRVS) models. The neutrosophic Logic is structured to reflect multiple types of knowledge and relations among all features using three values: truth, indeterminacy, and falsity. These three values More >

Anil Kumar Gulivindala¹, M. V. A. Raju Bahubalendruni¹, R. Chandrasekar^1,2, Ejaz Ahmed², Mustufa Haider Abidi^3,*, Abdulrahman Al-Ahmari⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.69, No.2, pp. 2531-2548, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.018014 - 21 July 2021

Abstract The evolution of Industry 4.0 made it essential to adopt the Internet of Things (IoT) and Cloud Computing (CC) technologies to perform activities in the new age of manufacturing. These technologies enable collecting, storing, and retrieving essential information from the manufacturing stage. Data collected at sites are shared with others where execution automatedly occurs. The obtained information must be validated at manufacturing to avoid undesirable data losses during the de-manufacturing process. However, information sharing from the assembly level at the manufacturing stage to disassembly at the product end-of-life state is a major concern. The current… More >

Mahmoud Ragab^1,2, Ali Algarni³, Adel A. Bahaddad⁴, Romany F. Mansour^5,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.69, No.2, pp. 2277-2294, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.018000 - 21 July 2021

Abstract Physical health plays an important role in overall well-being of the human beings. It is the most observed dimension of health among others such as social, intellectual, emotional, spiritual and environmental dimensions. Due to exponential increase in the development of wireless communication techniques, Internet of Things (IoT) has effectively penetrated different aspects of human lives. Healthcare is one of the dynamic domains with ever-growing demands which can be met by IoT applications. IoT can be leveraged through several health service offerings such as remote health and monitoring services, aided living, personalized treatment, and so on.… More >

Hussein Abdel-Mawgoud¹, Salah Kamel¹, Hegazy Rezk^2,3, Tahir Khurshaid⁴, Sang-Bong Rhee^4,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.69, No.2, pp. 1463-1481, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.017995 - 21 July 2021

Abstract Recently, implementation of Battery Energy Storage (BES) with photovoltaic (PV) array in distribution networks is becoming very popular in overall the world. Integrating PV alone in distribution networks generates variable output power during 24-hours as it depends on variable natural source. PV can be able to generate constant output power during 24-hours by installing BES with it. Therefore, this paper presents a new application of a recent metaheuristic algorithm, called Slime Mould Algorithm (SMA), to determine the best size, and location of photovoltaic alone or with battery energy storage in the radial distribution system (RDS).… More >

Ajmal Khan¹, Mubashir Mukhtar¹, Farman Ullah¹, Muhammad Bilal², Kyung-Sup Kwak^3,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.69, No.2, pp. 1725-1746, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.017952 - 21 July 2021

Abstract In post disaster scenarios such as war zones floods and earthquakes, the cellular communication infrastructure can be lost or severely damaged. In such emergency situations, remaining in contact with other rescue response teams in order to provide inputs for both headquarters and disaster survivors becomes very necessary. Therefore, in this research work, a design, implementation and evaluation of energy aware rapidly deployable system named EA-RDSP is proposed. The proposed research work assists the early rescue workers and victims to transmit their location information towards the remotely located servers. In EA-RDSP, two algorithms are proposed i.e.,… More >

Farhan Amin¹, Jin-Ghoo Choi², Gyu Sang Choi^2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.69, No.2, pp. 1687-1707, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.017870 - 21 July 2021

Abstract Community detection in social networks is a hard problem because of the size, and the need of a deep understanding of network structure and functions. While several methods with significant effort in this direction have been devised, an outstanding open problem is the unknown number of communities, it is generally believed that the role of influential nodes that are surrounded by neighbors is very important. In addition, the similarity among nodes inside the same cluster is greater than among nodes from other clusters. Lately, the global and local methods of community detection have been getting… More >

Jinxing Niu^1,*, Yayun Fu¹, Qingsheng Hu¹, Shaojie Yang¹, Tao Zhang¹, Sunil Kumar Jha²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.69, No.2, pp. 1839-1849, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.017797 - 21 July 2021

Abstract The binocular stereo vision system is often used to reconstruct 3D point clouds of an object. However, it is challenging to find effective matching points in two object images with similar color or less texture. This will lead to mismatching by using the stereo matching algorithm to calculate the disparity map. In this context, the object can’t be reconstructed precisely. As a countermeasure, this study proposes to combine the Gray code fringe projection with the binocular camera as well as to generate denser point clouds by projecting an active light source to increase the texture… More >

Mohamed Eb-Saad¹, Yunyoung Nam^2,*, Hazem M. El-bakry¹, Samir Abdelrazek¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.69, No.2, pp. 1483-1501, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.017783 - 21 July 2021

Abstract Web service (WS) presents a good solution to the interoperability of different types of systems that aims to reduce the overhead of high processing in a resource-limited environment. With the increasing demand for mobile WS (MWS), the WS discovery process has become a significant challenging point in the WS lifecycle that aims to identify the relevant MWSs that best match the service requests. This discovery process is a resource-consuming task that cannot be performed efficiently in a mobile computing environment due to the limitations of mobile devices. Meanwhile, a cloud computing can provide rich computing… More >