Ye Tian¹, Liguo Zhang^1,2, Linshan Shen^1,*, Guisheng Yin¹, Lei Chen³

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.28, No.1, pp. 195-211, 2021, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2021.016314

Abstract Skin cancer is one of the most common types of cancer in the world, melanoma is considered to be the deadliest type among other skin cancers. Quite recently, automated skin lesion classification in dermoscopy images has become a hot and challenging research topic due to its essential way to improve diagnostic performance, thus reducing melanoma deaths. Convolution Neural Networks (CNNs) are at the heart of this promising performance among a variety of supervised classification techniques. However, these successes rely heavily on large amounts of class-balanced clearly labeled samples, which are expensive to obtain for skin lesion classification in the real… More >

Zhaoqing Xie^1,*, Qing Liu², Yulian Cao³

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.28, No.1, pp. 153-166, 2021, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2021.016246

Abstract Accurate prediction of water level in inland waterway has been an important issue for helping flood control and vessel navigation in a proactive manner. In this research, a deep learning approach called long short-term memory network combined with discrete wavelet transform (WA-LSTM) is proposed for daily water level prediction. The wavelet transform is applied to decompose time series into details and approximation components for a better understanding of temporal properties, and a novel LSTM network is used to learn generic water level features through layer-by-layer feature granulation with a greedy layer wise unsupervised learning algorithm. Six representative reaches in Yangtze… More >

Peizhou Yan¹, Jiancheng Zou^2,*, Zhengzheng Li¹, Xin Yang³

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.28, No.1, pp. 213-225, 2021, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2021.016201

Abstract Within the application of driving assistance systems, the detection of driver’s facial features in the cab for a spectrum of luminosities is mission critical. One method that addresses this concern is infrared and visible image fusion. Its purpose is to generate an aggregate image which can granularly and systematically illustrate scene details in a range of lighting conditions. Our study introduces a novel approach to this method with marked improvements. We utilize non-subsampled shearlet transform (NSST) to obtain the low and high frequency sub-bands of infrared and visible imagery. For the low frequency sub-band fusion, we incorporate the local average… More >

Habib Ur Rahman^1,*, Nazir Ahmed Sangi², Moiz Uddin Ahmed¹

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.28, No.1, pp. 261-275, 2021, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2021.016107

Abstract The World Health Organization has warned about the spread of communicable and non-communicable diseases especially in the developing countries. The COVID–19 has also emerged as one of the most challengeable pandemics of the whole world. In current medical emergency, the virtual health education is much vital for handling alerts and outbreaks of diseases for a community of users. The Information and Communication Technology provide an opportunity to deal with the challenges related to handling alerts and outbreaks of diseases. The technology infrastructure in the developing countries is surging rise and can be used to develop Technology Enabled Learning Solutions for… More >

Tzer-Long Chen¹, Chien-Yun Chang², Yung-Cheng Yao³, Kuo-Chang Chung^4,*

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.28, No.1, pp. 73-82, 2021, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2021.015980

Abstract Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning have achieved great success in the fields of computer vision and natural language processing, and then extended to various fields, such as biology, chemistry, and civil engineering, including big data in the field of logistics. Therefore, many logistics companies move towards the integration of intelligent transportation systems. Only virtual and physical development can support the sustainable development of the logistics industry. This study aims to: 1.) collect timely information from the block chain, 2.) use deep learning to build a customer database so that sales staff in physical stores can grasp customer preferences,… More >

Jiahui Pan^1,6,*, Jianhao Zhang¹, Fei Wang^1,6, Wuhan Liu², Haiyun Huang^3,6, Weishun Tang³, Huijian Liao⁴, Man Li⁵, Jianhui Wu¹, Xueli Li², Dongming Quan², Yuanqing Li^3,6

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.28, No.1, pp. 53-71, 2021, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2021.015970

Abstract In this paper, an automatic sleep scoring system based on electroencephalogram (EEG) and electrooculogram (EOG) signals was proposed for sleep stage classification and depression detection. Our automatic sleep stage classification method contained preprocessing based on independent component analysis, feature extraction including spectral features, spectral edge frequency features, absolute spectral power, statistical features, Hjorth features, maximum-minimum distance and energy features, and a modified ReliefF feature selection. Finally, a support vector machine was employed to classify four states (awake, light sleep [LS], slow-wave sleep [SWS] and rapid eye movement [REM]). The overall accuracy of the Sleep-EDF database reached 90.10 ± 2.68% with… More >

Adnan A. Hnaif^1,*, Emran Kanan², Tarek Kanan¹

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.28, No.1, pp. 107-119, 2021, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2021.015939

Abstract In recent years, the use of social media has rapidly increased and developed significant influence on its users. In the study of the behavior, reactions, approval, and interactions of social media users, detecting the polarity (positive, negative, neutral) of news posts is of considerable importance. This proposed research aims to collect data from Arabic social media pages, with the posts comprising the main unit in the dataset, and to build a corpus of manually-processed data for training and testing. Applying Natural Language Processing to the data is crucial for the computer to understand and easily manipulate the data. Therefore, Stop-Word… More >

Fatimah O. Albalawi, Mashael S. Maashi^*

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.28, No.1, pp. 39-52, 2021, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2021.015657

Abstract In the software field, a large number of projects fail, and billions of dollars are spent on these failed projects. Many software projects are also produced with poor quality or they do not exactly meet customers’ expectations. Moreover, these projects may exceed project budget and/or time. The complexity of managing software development projects and the poor selection of software development life cycle (SDLC) models are among the top reasons for such failure. Various SDLC models are available, but no model is considered the best or worst. In this work, we propose a new methodology that solves the SDLC optimization problem… More >

Neelam Gohar^1,*, Sidra Niaz¹, Mamoona Naveed Asghar², Salma Noor¹

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.28, No.1, pp. 241-259, 2021, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2021.015461

Abstract Game theory is a popular area of artificial intelligence in which the voter acknowledges his own desires and favors the person he wants to be his representative. In multi-agent systems, social choice functions help aggregate agents’ different preferences over alternatives into a single choice. Since all voting rules are susceptible to manipulation, the analysis of elections is complicated by the possibility of voter manipulation attempts. One approach to understanding elections is to treat them as an iterative process and see if we can reach an equilibrium point. Meir et al. proposed an iterative process to reach a stable outcome, i.e.,… More >

Mohammed Farsi^*

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.28, No.1, pp. 83-92, 2021, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2021.015460

Abstract Microarray cancer data poses many challenges for machine-learning (ML) classification including noisy data, small sample size, high dimensionality, and imbalanced class labels. In this paper, we propose a framework to address these problems by properly utilizing feature-selection techniques. The most important features of the cancer datasets were extracted with Logistic Regression (LR), Chi-2, Random Forest (RF), and LightGBM. These extracted features served as input columns in an applied classification task. This framework’s main advantages are reducing time complexity and the number of irrelevant features for the dataset. For evaluation, the proposed method was compared to models using Support Vector Machine… More >