Debapriya Hazra, Wafa Shafqat, Yung-Cheol Byun^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.70, No.2, pp. 3151-3167, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.020143 - 27 September 2021

Abstract Renewable and nonrenewable energy sources are widely incorporated for solar and wind energy that produces electricity without increasing carbon dioxide emissions. Energy industries worldwide are trying hard to predict future energy consumption that could eliminate over or under contracting energy resources and unnecessary financing. Machine learning techniques for predicting energy are the trending solution to overcome the challenges faced by energy companies. The basic need for machine learning algorithms to be trained for accurate prediction requires a considerable amount of data. Another critical factor is balancing the data for enhanced prediction. Data Augmentation is a… More >

Wided Ben Daoud¹, Sami Mahfoudhi^2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.70, No.2, pp. 2727-2742, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.020141 - 27 September 2021

Abstract The Internet of Thing IoT paradigm has emerged in numerous domains and it has achieved an exponential progress. Nevertheless, alongside this advancement, IoT networks are facing an ever-increasing rate of security risks because of the continuous and rapid changes in network environments. In order to overcome these security challenges, the fog system has delivered a powerful environment that provides additional resources for a more improved data security. However, because of the emerging of various breaches, several attacks are ceaselessly emerging in IoT and Fog environment. Consequently, the new emerging applications in IoT-Fog environment still require… More >

Shui-Hua Wang¹, Muhammad Attique Khan², Vishnuvarthanan Govindaraj³, Steven L. Fernandes⁴, Ziquan Zhu⁵, Yu-Dong Zhang^6,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.70, No.2, pp. 2797-2813, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.020140 - 27 September 2021

Abstract (Aim) To make a more accurate and precise COVID-19 diagnosis system, this study proposed a novel deep rank-based average pooling network (DRAPNet) model, i.e., deep rank-based average pooling network, for COVID-19 recognition. (Methods) 521 subjects yield 1164 slice images via the slice level selection method. All the 1164 slice images comprise four categories: COVID-19 positive; community-acquired pneumonia; second pulmonary tuberculosis; and healthy control. Our method firstly introduced an improved multiple-way data augmentation. Secondly, an n-conv rank-based average pooling module (NRAPM) was proposed in which rank-based pooling—particularly, rank-based average pooling (RAP)—was employed to avoid overfitting. Third, a… More >

Abdul Kadir Hamid¹, Lamia Osman Widaa², Fahd N. Al-Wesabi^3,*, Imran Khan⁴, Anwer Mustafa Hilal⁵, Manar Ahmed Hamza⁵, Abu Sarwar Zaman⁵, Mohammed Rizwanullah⁵

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.70, No.2, pp. 3751-3762, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.020136 - 27 September 2021

Abstract The emergence of multimedia services has meant a substantial increase in the number of devices in mobile networks and driving the demand for higher data transmission rates. The result is that, cellular networks must technically evolve to support such higher rates, to be equipped with greater capacity, and to increase the spectral and energy efficiency. Compared with 4G technology, the 5G networks are being designed to transmit up to 100 times more data volume with devices whose battery life is 10 times longer. Therefore, this new generation of networks has adopted a heterogeneous and ultra-dense… More >

Muhammad Naveed^1,*, Dumitru Baleanu^2,3, Ali Raza⁴, Muhammad Rafiq⁵, Atif Hassan Soori¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.70, No.2, pp. 3415-3431, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.020112 - 27 September 2021

Abstract Through the study, the nonlinear delayed modelling has vital significance in the different field of allied sciences like computational biology, computational chemistry, computational physics, computational economics and many more. Polio is a contagious viral illness that in its most severe form causes nerve injury leading to paralysis, difficulty breathing and sometimes death. In recent years, developing regions like Asia, Africa and sub-continents facing a dreadful situation of poliovirus. That is the reason we focus on the treatment of the polio epidemic model with different delay strategies in this article. Polio delayed epidemic model is categorized More >

Omar M. El-Habbak¹, Abdelrahman M. Abdelalim¹, Nour H. Mohamed¹, Habiba M. Abd-Elaty¹, Mostafa A. Hammouda¹, Yasmeen Y. Mohamed¹, Mohanad A. Taifor¹, Ali W. Mohamed^2,3,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.70, No.2, pp. 2953-2969, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.020109 - 27 September 2021

Abstract Parkinson’s disease (PD), one of whose symptoms is dysphonia, is a prevalent neurodegenerative disease. The use of outdated diagnosis techniques, which yield inaccurate and unreliable results, continues to represent an obstacle in early-stage detection and diagnosis for clinical professionals in the medical field. To solve this issue, the study proposes using machine learning and deep learning models to analyze processed speech signals of patients’ voice recordings. Datasets of these processed speech signals were obtained and experimented on by random forest and logistic regression classifiers. Results were highly successful, with 90% accuracy produced by the random More >

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 >

V. Praveena¹, A. Vijayaraj², P. Chinnasamy³, Ihsan Ali^4,*, Roobaea Alroobaea⁵, Saleh Yahya Alyahyan⁶, Muhammad Ahsan Raza⁷

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.70, No.2, pp. 2639-2653, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.020066 - 27 September 2021

Abstract In recent years, progressive developments have been observed in recent technologies and the production cost has been continuously decreasing. In such scenario, Internet of Things (IoT) network which is comprised of a set of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), has received more attention from civilian to military applications. But network security poses a serious challenge to UAV networks whereas the intrusion detection system (IDS) is found to be an effective process to secure the UAV networks. Classical IDSs are not adequate to handle the latest computer networks that possess maximum bandwidth and data traffic. In order… More >

Palli Padmini¹, C. Paramasivam¹, G. Jyothish Lal², Sadeen Alharbi^3,*, Kaustav Bhowmick⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.70, No.2, pp. 4027-4051, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.020065 - 27 September 2021

Abstract The present work presents a statistical method to translate human voices across age groups, based on commonalities in voices of blood relations. The age-translated voices have been naturalized extracting the blood relation features e.g., pitch, duration, energy, using Mel Frequency Cepstrum Coefficients (MFCC), for social compatibility of the voice-impaired. The system has been demonstrated using standard English and an Indian language. The voice samples for resynthesis were derived from 12 families, with member ages ranging from 8–80 years. The voice-age translation, performed using the Pitch synchronous overlap and add (PSOLA) approach, by modulation of extracted voice… More >

D. Stalin David^1,*, S. Arun Mozhi Selvi², S. Sivaprakash³, P. Vishnu Raja⁴, Dilip Kumar Sharma⁵, Pankaj Dadheech⁶, Sudhakar Sengan⁷

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.70, No.2, pp. 2563-2579, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.020059 - 27 September 2021

Abstract Irretrievable loss of vision is the predominant result of Glaucoma in the retina. Recently, multiple approaches have paid attention to the automatic detection of glaucoma on fundus images. Due to the interlace of blood vessels and the herculean task involved in glaucoma detection, the exactly affected site of the optic disc of whether small or big size cup, is deemed challenging. Spatially Based Ellipse Fitting Curve Model (SBEFCM) classification is suggested based on the Ensemble for a reliable diagnosis of Glaucoma in the Optic Cup (OC) and Optic Disc (OD) boundary correspondingly. This research deploys… More >