Ali Saadon Al-Ogaili^1,*, Ameer Alhasan², Agileswari Ramasamy¹, Marayati Binti Marsadek¹, Tengku Juhana Tengku Hashim¹, Ammar Al-Sharaa³, Mastura Binti Aadam³, Lukman Audah²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.66, No.2, pp. 2141-2164, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.013440

Abstract The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is considered as a global public health challenge. To contain this pandemic, different measures are being taken globally. The Internet of Things (IoT) has been represented as one of the most important schemes that has been considered to fight the spread of COVID-19 in the world, practically Malaysia. In fact, there are many sectors in Malaysia would be transformed into smart services by using IoT technologies, particularly energy, transportation, healthcare sectors. This manuscript presents a comprehensive review of the IoT technologies that are being used currently in Malaysia to accelerate the measures against COVID-19. These IoT… More >

Ruaa A. Al-Falluji^1,*, Zainab Dalaf Katheeth², Bashar Alathari²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.66, No.2, pp. 1301-1313, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.013232

Abstract The latest studies with radiological imaging techniques indicate that X-ray images provide valuable details on the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The usage of sophisticated artificial intelligence technology (AI) and the radiological images can help in diagnosing the disease reliably and addressing the problem of the shortage of trained doctors in remote villages. In this research, the automated diagnosis of Coronavirus disease was performed using a dataset of X-ray images of patients with severe bacterial pneumonia, reported COVID-19 disease, and normal cases. The goal of the study is to analyze the achievements for medical image recognition of state-of-the-art neural networking architectures.… More >

Abdullah Baz^1,*, Hosam Alhakami²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.66, No.2, pp. 1155-1174, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.013215

Abstract The World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020 stating that it is a worldwide danger and requires imminent preventive strategies to minimise the loss of lives. COVID-19 has now affected millions across 211 countries in the world and the numbers continue to rise. The information discharged by the WHO till June 15, 2020 reports 8,063,990 cases of COVID-19. As the world thinks about the lethal malady for which there is yet no immunization or a predefined course of drug, the nations are relentlessly working at the most ideal preventive systems to contain the infection. The Kingdom… More >

Engy El-shafeiy¹, Aboul Ella Hassanien², Karam M. Sallam^3,*, A. A. Abohany⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.66, No.2, pp. 1745-1755, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.013066

Abstract Currently, COVID-19 is spreading all over the world and profoundly impacting people’s lives and economic activities. In this paper, a novel approach called the COVID-19 Quantum Neural Network (CQNN) for predicting the severity of COVID-19 in patients is proposed. It consists of two phases: In the first, the most distinct subset of features in a dataset is identified using a Quick Reduct Feature Selection (QRFS) method to improve its classification performance; and, in the second, machine learning is used to train the quantum neural network to classify the risk. It is found that patients’ serial blood counts (their numbers of… More >

Shahan Yamin Siddiqui^1,2, Sagheer Abbas¹, Muhammad Adnan Khan^3,*, Iftikhar Naseer⁴, Tehreem Masood⁴, Khalid Masood Khan³, Mohammed A. Al Ghamdi⁵, Sultan H. Almotiri⁵

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.66, No.2, pp. 1719-1732, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.012585

Abstract The prompt spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19) subsequently adorns a big threat to the people around the globe. The evolving and the perpetually diagnosis of coronavirus has become a critical challenge for the healthcare sector. Drastically increase of COVID-19 has rendered the necessity to detect the people who are more likely to get infected. Lately, the testing kits for COVID-19 are not available to deal it with required proficiency, along with-it countries have been widely hit by the COVID-19 disruption. To keep in view the need of hour asks for an automatic diagnosis system for early detection of COVID-19. It would… More >

Shwet Ketu^*, Pramod Kumar Mishra

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.66, No.2, pp. 1896-1919, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.012423

Abstract Infections or virus-based diseases are a significant threat to human societies and could affect the whole world within a very short time-span. Corona Virus Disease-2019 (COVID-19), also known as novel coronavirus or SARS-CoV-2 (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-Coronavirus-2), is a respiratory based touch contiguous disease. The catastrophic situation resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic posed a serious threat to societies globally. The whole world is making tremendous efforts to combat this life-threatening disease. For taking remedial action and planning preventive measures on time, there is an urgent need for efficient prediction models to confront the COVID-19 outbreak. A deep learning-based ARIMA-LSTM hybrid… More >

Olumuyiwa J. Peter¹, Amjad S. Shaikh^2,*, Mohammed O. Ibrahim¹, Kottakkaran Sooppy Nisar³, Dumitru Baleanu^4,5,6, Ilyas Khan⁷, Adesoye I. Abioye¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.66, No.2, pp. 1823-1848, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.012314

Abstract We propose a mathematical model of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) to investigate the transmission and control mechanism of the disease in the community of Nigeria. Using stability theory of differential equations, the qualitative behavior of model is studied. The pandemic indicator represented by basic reproductive number R₀ is obtained from the largest eigenvalue of the next-generation matrix. Local as well as global asymptotic stability conditions for the disease-free and pandemic equilibrium are obtained which determines the conditions to stabilize the exponential spread of the disease. Further, we examined this model by using Atangana–Baleanu fractional derivative operator and existence criteria… More >

Ashutosh Kumar Dubey^1,*, Sushil Narang¹, Abhishek Kumar¹, Satya Murthy Sasubilli², Vicente García-Díaz³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.66, No.2, pp. 1921-1936, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.012151

Abstract Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) is a communicable disease that originated during December 2019, when China officially informed the World Health Organization (WHO) regarding the constellation of cases of the disease in the city of Wuhan. Subsequently, the disease started spreading to the rest of the world. Until this point in time, no specific vaccine or medicine is available for the prevention and cure of the disease. Several research works are being carried out in the fields of medicinal and pharmaceutical sciences aided by data analytics and machine learning in the direction of treatment and early detection of this viral disease.… More >

Salman A. Cheema¹, Tanveer Kifayat², Abdu R. Rahman², Umair Khan³, A. Zaib⁴, Ilyas Khan^5,*, Kottakkaran Sooppy Nisar⁶

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.66, No.2, pp. 1977-1985, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.012096

Abstract The flow of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has affected almost every aspect of human life around the globe. Being the emerging ground and early sufferer of the virus, Wuhan city-data remains a case of multifold significance. Further, it is of notable importance to explore the impact of unique and unprecedented public health response of Chinese authorities—the extreme lockdown of the city. In this research, we investigate the statistical nature of the viral transmission concerning social distancing, extreme quarantine, and robust lockdown interventions. We observed highly convincing and statistically significant evidences in favor of quarantine and social distancing approaches. These findings might… More >

Wasfi Shatanawi^1,2,3, Ali Raza^4,5,*, Muhammad Shoaib Arif⁴, Kamaledin Abodayeh¹, Muhammad Rafiq⁶, Mairaj Bibi⁷

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.66, No.2, pp. 1121-1137, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.012070

Abstract Nonlinear stochastic modeling plays a significant role in disciplines such as psychology, finance, physical sciences, engineering, econometrics, and biological sciences. Dynamical consistency, positivity, and boundedness are fundamental properties of stochastic modeling. A stochastic coronavirus model is studied with techniques of transition probabilities and parametric perturbation. Well-known explicit methods such as Euler Maruyama, stochastic Euler, and stochastic Runge–Kutta are investigated for the stochastic model. Regrettably, the above essential properties are not restored by existing methods. Hence, there is a need to construct essential properties preserving the computational method. The non-standard approach of finite difference is examined to maintain the above basic… More >