Zhuhong Chu¹, Jianxun Zhang^1,*, Chengdong Wang², Changhui Yang³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.80, No.1, pp. 1143-1161, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.052269

Abstract Rail fasteners are a crucial component of the railway transportation safety system. These fasteners, distinguished by their high length-to-width ratio, frequently encounter elevated failure rates, necessitating manual inspection and maintenance. Manual inspection not only consumes time but also poses the risk of potential oversights. With the advancement of deep learning technology in rail fasteners, challenges such as the complex background of rail fasteners and the similarity in their states are addressed. We have proposed an efficient and high-precision rail fastener detection algorithm, named YOLO-O2E (you only look once-O2E). Firstly, we propose the EFOV (Enhanced Field… More >

Bing Li^1,2,*, Liangyu Wang¹, Xia Liu^1,2, Hongbin Fan¹, Bo Wang³, Shoudi Tong¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.80, No.1, pp. 1543-1561, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.052009

Abstract Nuclear magnetic resonance imaging of breasts often presents complex backgrounds. Breast tumors exhibit varying sizes, uneven intensity, and indistinct boundaries. These characteristics can lead to challenges such as low accuracy and incorrect segmentation during tumor segmentation. Thus, we propose a two-stage breast tumor segmentation method leveraging multi-scale features and boundary attention mechanisms. Initially, the breast region of interest is extracted to isolate the breast area from surrounding tissues and organs. Subsequently, we devise a fusion network incorporating multi-scale features and boundary attention mechanisms for breast tumor segmentation. We incorporate multi-scale parallel dilated convolution modules into… More >

Li Li^*, Qing Zhang, Youran Kong

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.80, No.1, pp. 801-818, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.051916

Abstract Due to the diversity and unpredictability of changes in malicious code, studying the traceability of variant families remains challenging. In this paper, we propose a GAN-EfficientNetV2-based method for tracing families of malicious code variants. This method leverages the similarity in layouts and textures between images of malicious code variants from the same source and their original family of malicious code images. The method includes a lightweight classifier and a simulator. The classifier utilizes the enhanced EfficientNetV2 to categorize malicious code images and can be easily deployed on mobile, embedded, and other devices. The simulator utilizes… More >

Zhilin Li^1,2, Yuxin Li¹, Chunyu Yan¹, Peng Yan¹, Xiutong Li¹, Mei Yu¹, Tingchi Wen^4,5, Benliang Xie^1,2,3,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.80, No.1, pp. 679-694, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.051526

Abstract Diseases in tea trees can result in significant losses in both the quality and quantity of tea production. Regular monitoring can help to prevent the occurrence of large-scale diseases in tea plantations. However, existing methods face challenges such as a high number of parameters and low recognition accuracy, which hinders their application in tea plantation monitoring equipment. This paper presents a lightweight I-MobileNetV2 model for identifying diseases in tea leaves, to address these challenges. The proposed method first embeds a Coordinate Attention (CA) module into the original MobileNetV2 network, enabling the model to locate disease More >

Tong Gan¹, Shuo Dong¹, Shiyou Wang¹, Jiaxin Li^2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.80, No.1, pp. 643-660, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.051408

Abstract With the rapid development of urban rail transit, the existing track detection has some problems such as low efficiency and insufficient detection coverage, so an intelligent and automatic track detection method based on UAV is urgently needed to avoid major safety accidents. At the same time, the geographical distribution of IoT devices results in the inefficient use of the significant computing potential held by a large number of devices. As a result, the Dispersed Computing (DCOMP) architecture enables collaborative computing between devices in the Internet of Everything (IoE), promotes low-latency and efficient cross-wide applications, and… More >

Shiming Lin^1,2,3, Ling Ye², Yijie Zhuang¹, Lingyun Lu^2,*, Shaoqiu Zheng^2,*, Chenxi Huang¹, Ng Yin Kwee⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.80, No.1, pp. 299-317, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.051379

Abstract In recent years, with the continuous development of deep learning and knowledge graph reasoning methods, more and more researchers have shown great interest in improving knowledge graph reasoning methods by inferring missing facts through reasoning. By searching paths on the knowledge graph and making fact and link predictions based on these paths, deep learning-based Reinforcement Learning (RL) agents can demonstrate good performance and interpretability. Therefore, deep reinforcement learning-based knowledge reasoning methods have rapidly emerged in recent years and have become a hot research topic. However, even in a small and fixed knowledge graph reasoning action… More >

Ahmad Ababneh¹, Yousef Sanjalawe², Salam Fraihat^3,*, Salam Al-E’mari⁴, Hamzah Alqudah⁵

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.80, No.1, pp. 1347-1379, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.050600

Abstract This study introduces the Orbit Weighting Scheme (OWS), a novel approach aimed at enhancing the precision and efficiency of Vector Space information retrieval (IR) models, which have traditionally relied on weighting schemes like tf-idf and BM25. These conventional methods often struggle with accurately capturing document relevance, leading to inefficiencies in both retrieval performance and index size management. OWS proposes a dynamic weighting mechanism that evaluates the significance of terms based on their orbital position within the vector space, emphasizing term relationships and distribution patterns overlooked by existing models. Our research focuses on evaluating OWS’s impact… More >

Khursheed Aurangzeb^*, Syed Irtaza Haider, Musaed Alhussein

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.80, No.1, pp. 1381-1405, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.048987

Abstract In this work, we aim to introduce some modifications to the Anam-Net deep neural network (DNN) model for segmenting optic cup (OC) and optic disc (OD) in retinal fundus images to estimate the cup-to-disc ratio (CDR). The CDR is a reliable measure for the early diagnosis of Glaucoma. In this study, we developed a lightweight DNN model for OC and OD segmentation in retinal fundus images. Our DNN model is based on modifications to Anam-Net, incorporating an anamorphic depth embedding block. To reduce computational complexity, we employ a fixed filter size for all convolution layers… More >

Zeyi Wang¹, Mingxi Jiao¹, Daliang Wang¹, Minxu Liu¹, Minglei Jiang², He Wang³, Shiqiang Li^3,*

Energy Engineering, Vol.121, No.8, pp. 2275-2291, 2024, DOI:10.32604/ee.2024.028223

Abstract This paper addresses the problem of complex and challenging disturbance localization in the current power system operation environment by proposing a disturbance localization method for power systems based on group sparse representation and entropy weight method. Three different electrical quantities are selected as observations in the compressed sensing algorithm. The entropy weighting method is employed to calculate the weights of different observations based on their relative disturbance levels. Subsequently, by leveraging the topological information of the power system and pre-designing an overcomplete dictionary of disturbances based on the corresponding system parameter variations caused by disturbances,… More >

Adelya Khayrova^*, Sergey Lopatin, Valery Varlamov

Journal of Renewable Materials, Vol.12, No.5, pp. 923-950, 2024, DOI:10.32604/jrm.2024.050033

Abstract Due to the expected rise in the world population, an increase in the requirements for quality and safety of food and feed is expected, which leads to the growing demand for new sources of sustainable and renewable protein. Insect protein is gaining importance as a renewable material for several reasons, reflecting its potential contributions to sustainability, resource efficiency, and environmental conservation. Some insect species are known to be able to efficiently convert organic waste into high-value products such as protein, requiring less land and water compared to traditional livestock. In addition, insect farming produces fewer… More > Graphic Abstract