WENBIN LUO¹, YULING ZOU², HONGXI WU³, ZHONGYI YANG¹, ZHIPENG YOU^2,*

BIOCELL, Vol.48, No.8, pp. 1275-1284, 2024, DOI:10.32604/biocell.2024.051045 - 02 August 2024

Abstract Background: Diabetes retinopathy (DR) is a complication of diabetes that affects patients’ vision. Previous studies have found blueberry anthocyanins extract (BAE) can inhibit the progression of DR, but its mechanism is not completely clear. Methods: To study the role of BAE in diabetes retinopathy, we treated human retinal endothelial cells (HRCECs) with 30 mM high glucose to simulate the microenvironment of diabetes retinopathy and used BAE to intervene the in vitro high glucose-induced retinopathy model. HRCEC cell viability and apoptosis rates were examined by Cell Counting Kit 8 (CCK-8) assay and flow cytometry assay. The binding… More >

Mohammed Aly^1,*, Abdullah Shawan Alotaibi²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.77, No.1, pp. 557-582, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.042493 - 31 October 2023

Abstract Tumor segmentation is a valuable tool for gaining insights into tumors and improving treatment outcomes. Manual segmentation is crucial but time-consuming. Deep learning methods have emerged as key players in automating brain tumor segmentation. In this paper, we propose an efficient modified U-Net architecture, called EMU-Net, which is applied to the BraTS 2020 dataset. Our approach is organized into two distinct phases: classification and segmentation. In this study, our proposed approach encompasses the utilization of the gray-level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM) as the feature extraction algorithm, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) as the classification algorithm, and the… More >

Mona Jamjoom¹, Ahmed Elhadad², Hussein Abulkasim^3,*, Safia Abbas⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.76, No.1, pp. 367-382, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.037310 - 08 June 2023

Abstract Several pests feed on leaves, stems, bases, and the entire plant, causing plant illnesses. As a result, it is vital to identify and eliminate the disease before causing any damage to plants. Manually detecting plant disease and treating it is pretty challenging in this period. Image processing is employed to detect plant disease since it requires much effort and an extended processing period. The main goal of this study is to discover the disease that affects the plants by creating an image processing system that can recognize and classify four different forms of plant diseases, More >

Abdalla Alameen^*

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.36, No.1, pp. 369-383, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.031039 - 29 September 2022

Abstract A significant advantage of medical image processing is that it allows non-invasive exploration of internal anatomy in great detail. It is possible to create and study 3D models of anatomical structures to improve treatment outcomes, develop more effective medical devices, or arrive at a more accurate diagnosis. This paper aims to present a fused evolutionary algorithm that takes advantage of both whale optimization and bacterial foraging optimization to optimize feature extraction. The classification process was conducted with the aid of a convolutional neural network (CNN) with dual graphs. Evaluation of the performance of the fused… More >

M. Sivakumar^1,*, N. M. Saravana Kumar², N. Karthikeyan¹

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.43, No.2, pp. 683-700, 2022, DOI:10.32604/csse.2022.021459 - 20 April 2022

Abstract The use of massive image databases has increased drastically over the few years due to evolution of multimedia technology. Image retrieval has become one of the vital tools in image processing applications. Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) has been widely used in varied applications. But, the results produced by the usage of a single image feature are not satisfactory. So, multiple image features are used very often for attaining better results. But, fast and effective searching for relevant images from a database becomes a challenging task. In the previous existing system, the CBIR has used the… More >

M. Usharani^1,*, B. Sakthivel², K. Jayaram³, R. Renugadevi⁴

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.33, No.3, pp. 1665-1675, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.023284 - 24 March 2022

Abstract In any kind of digital system, the processor and memories are used to play a vital role in today’s trend. The processors and memories are done many critical tasks in the system. Whereas the processor used to do several functions and memories used to store and retrieve the data. But these processors and memories are more vulnerable to various hardware attacks. By using several new devices may lead to many security issues which the attackers can leverage to introduce a new hardware attack. Various hardware security (HS) studies have been presented to prevent hardware from… More >

Khadija Manzoor¹, Fiaz Majeed², Ansar Siddique², Talha Meraj³, Hafiz Tayyab Rauf^4,*, Mohammed A. El-Meligy⁵, Mohamed Sharaf⁶, Abd Elatty E. Abd Elgawad⁶

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.70, No.1, pp. 1617-1630, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.018621 - 07 September 2021

Abstract Skin diseases effectively influence all parts of life. Early and accurate detection of skin cancer is necessary to avoid significant loss. The manual detection of skin diseases by dermatologists leads to misclassification due to the same intensity and color levels. Therefore, an automated system to identify these skin diseases is required. Few studies on skin disease classification using different techniques have been found. However, previous techniques failed to identify multi-class skin disease images due to their similar appearance. In the proposed study, a computer-aided framework for automatic skin disease detection is presented. In the proposed… More >

Praveena Rajasekaran^*, Preetha Jaganathan, Anjali Annadurai

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.36, No.3, pp. 477-484, 2021, DOI:10.32604/csse.2021.014247 - 18 January 2021

Abstract The stabilizing mechanisms of cervical spine spondylosis are involved in the degenerating segmentation vertebra, which often causes pain. Health of the individual is affected, both physically and mentally. Due to depression, nervousness, and psychological damages occur thereby losing their human activity functions. The nucleus pulposus of spinal disc herniation is prolapsed through a deficiency of annulus fibrosus. A jelly-like core part of the disc contains proteins that cause the tissues to become swollen when it touches the nucleus pulposus. The proposed Gradient Linear Classification (GLC) algorithm is used for the efficient automatic classification of disc More >

Xianyi Chen^1,2,*, Haidong Zhong^1,2, Zhifeng Bao³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.59, No.1, pp. 239-255, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2019.03572

Abstract Recently, a reversible image transformation (RIT) technology that transforms a secret image to a freely-selected target image is proposed. It not only can generate a stego-image that looks similar to the target image, but also can recover the secret image without any loss. It also has been proved to be very useful in image content protection and reversible data hiding in encrypted images. However, the standard deviation (SD) is selected as the only feature during the matching of the secret and target image blocks in RIT methods, the matching result is not so good and… More >