Tayyaba Farhat^1,2, Sheeraz Akram^3,*, Hatoon S. AlSagri³, Zulfiqar Ali⁴, Awais Ahmad³, Arfan Jaffar^1,2

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.78, No.1, pp. 105-126, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.045022

Abstract Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by significant challenges in social interaction, communication, and repetitive behaviors. Timely and precise ASD detection is crucial, particularly in regions with limited diagnostic resources like Pakistan. This study aims to conduct an extensive comparative analysis of various machine learning classifiers for ASD detection using facial images to identify an accurate and cost-effective solution tailored to the local context. The research involves experimentation with VGG16 and MobileNet models, exploring different batch sizes, optimizers, and learning rate schedulers. In addition, the “Orange” machine learning tool is employed to evaluate classifier performance and automated… More >

Asma A. Alhashmi¹, Abdulbasit A. Darem^1,*, Sultan M. Alanazi¹, Abdullah M. Alashjaee², Bader Aldughayfiq³, Fuad A. Ghaleb^4,5, Shouki A. Ebad¹, Majed A. Alanazi¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.76, No.3, pp. 3483-3498, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.041038

Abstract In an era marked by escalating cybersecurity threats, our study addresses the challenge of malware variant detection, a significant concern for a multitude of sectors including petroleum and mining organizations. This paper presents an innovative Application Programmable Interface (API)-based hybrid model designed to enhance the detection performance of malware variants. This model integrates eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) and an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) classifier, offering a potent response to the sophisticated evasion and obfuscation techniques frequently deployed by malware authors. The model’s design capitalizes on the benefits of both static and dynamic analysis to extract API-based features, providing a holistic… More >

Yang Liu^1,3, Jiabo Wang^1,2,*, Qinbo Liu¹, Mehdi Gheisari¹, Wanyin Xu¹, Zoe L. Jiang¹, Jiajia Zhang^1,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.76, No.3, pp. 3013-3027, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.039452

Abstract Centralized training of deep learning models poses privacy risks that hinder their deployment. Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a solution to address these risks, allowing multiple clients to train deep learning models collaboratively without sharing raw data. However, FL is vulnerable to the impact of heterogeneous distributed data, which weakens convergence stability and suboptimal performance of the trained model on local data. This is due to the discarding of the old local model at each round of training, which results in the loss of personalized information in the model critical for maintaining model accuracy and ensuring robustness. In this… More >

YANYA CHEN^1,#, HONGYUAN WU^2,#, RUISI ZHOU^5,#, HELING DONG⁴, XUEFANG ZHANG², XUEWEI WU¹, WENSHAN CHEN¹, YANTING YOU^5,*, YIFEN WU^3,*

BIOCELL, Vol.47, No.6, pp. 1353-1364, 2023, DOI:10.32604/biocell.2023.027346

Abstract Background: The relationship between microRNA (miRNA) expression patterns and tumor mutation burden (TMB) in uterine corpus endometrial carcinoma (UCEC) was investigated in this study. Methods: The UCEC dataset from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) database was used to identify the miRNAs that differ in expression between high TMB and low TMB sample sets. The total sample sets were divided into a training set and a test set. TMB levels were predicted using miRNA-based signature classifiers developed by Lasso Cox regression. Test sets were used to validate the classifier. This study investigated the relationship between a miRNA-based signature classifier and three… More >

E. Jenifer Sweetlin^*, S. Saudia

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.37, No.1, pp. 343-367, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.036742

Abstract This paper proposes a hybrid feature selection sequence complemented with filter and wrapper concepts to improve the accuracy of Machine Learning (ML) based supervised classifiers for classifying the survivability of breast cancer patients into classes, living and deceased using METABRIC and Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) datasets. The ML-based classifiers used in the analysis are: Multiple Logistic Regression, K-Nearest Neighbors, Decision Tree, Random Forest, Support Vector Machine and Multilayer Perceptron. The workflow of the proposed ML algorithm sequence comprises the following stages: data cleaning, data balancing, feature selection via a filter and wrapper sequence, cross validation-based training, testing and… More >

Shahid Mohammad Ganie¹, Pijush Kanti Dutta Pramanik², Majid Bashir Malik³, Anand Nayyar⁴, Kyung Sup Kwak^5,*

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.46, No.3, pp. 3993-4006, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.035244

Abstract Cardiovascular disease is among the top five fatal diseases that affect lives worldwide. Therefore, its early prediction and detection are crucial, allowing one to take proper and necessary measures at earlier stages. Machine learning (ML) techniques are used to assist healthcare providers in better diagnosing heart disease. This study employed three boosting algorithms, namely, gradient boost, XGBoost, and AdaBoost, to predict heart disease. The dataset contained heart disease-related clinical features and was sourced from the publicly available UCI ML repository. Exploratory data analysis is performed to find the characteristics of data samples about descriptive and inferential statistics. Specifically, it was… More >

Murat Dener^*, Sercan Gulburun

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.75, No.1, pp. 1235-1251, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.036357

Abstract One of the most common types of threats to the digital world is malicious software. It is of great importance to detect and prevent existing and new malware before it damages information assets. Machine learning approaches are used effectively for this purpose. In this study, we present a model in which supervised and unsupervised learning algorithms are used together. Clustering is used to enhance the prediction performance of the supervised classifiers. The aim of the proposed model is to make predictions in the shortest possible time with high accuracy and f1 score. In the first stage of the model, the… More >

K. B. Ajeyprasaath, P. Vetrivelan^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.75, No.1, pp. 1919-1939, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.036013

Abstract Recently, the combination of video services and 5G networks have been gaining attention in the wireless communication realm. With the brisk advancement in 5G network usage and the massive popularity of three-dimensional video streaming, the quality of experience (QoE) of video in 5G systems has been receiving overwhelming significance from both customers and service provider ends. Therefore, effectively categorizing QoE-aware video streaming is imperative for achieving greater client satisfaction. This work makes the following contribution: First, a simulation platform based on NS-3 is introduced to analyze and improve the performance of video services. The simulation is formulated to offer real-time… More >

Smita Khade¹, Shilpa Gite^1,2,*, Sudeep D. Thepade³, Biswajeet Pradhan^4,5,*, Abdullah Alamri⁶

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.136, No.1, pp. 323-345, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2023.023674

Abstract Contactless verification is possible with iris biometric identification, which helps prevent infections like COVID-19 from spreading. Biometric systems have grown unsteady and dangerous as a result of spoofing assaults employing contact lenses, replayed the video, and print attacks. The work demonstrates an iris liveness detection approach by utilizing fragmental coefficients of Haar transformed Iris images as signatures to prevent spoofing attacks for the very first time in the identification of iris liveness. Seven assorted feature creation ways are studied in the presented solutions, and these created features are explored for the training of eight distinct machine learning classifiers and ensembles.… More > Graphic Abstract

P. M. Arunkumar¹, Mehedi Masud², Sultan Aljahdali², Mohamed Abouhawwash^3,4,*

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.45, No.2, pp. 2265-2280, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.032571

Abstract Nowadays, the cloud environment faces numerous issues like synchronizing information before the switch over the data migration. The requirement for a centralized internet of things (IoT)-based system has been restricted to some extent. Due to low scalability on security considerations, the cloud seems uninteresting. Since healthcare networks demand computer operations on large amounts of data, the sensitivity of device latency evolved among health networks is a challenging issue. In comparison to cloud domains, the new paradigms of fog computing give fresh alternatives by bringing resources closer to users by providing low latency and energy-efficient data processing solutions. Previous fog computing… More >