Saad Akbar^1,2, Humera Azam¹, Sulaiman Sulmi Almutairi^3,*, Omar Alqahtani⁴, Habib Shah⁴, Aliya Aleryani⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.80, No.1, pp. 1075-1104, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.050913 - 18 July 2024

Abstract The prompt spread of COVID-19 has emphasized the necessity for effective and precise diagnostic tools. In this article, a hybrid approach in terms of datasets as well as the methodology by utilizing a previously unexplored dataset obtained from a private hospital for detecting COVID-19, pneumonia, and normal conditions in chest X-ray images (CXIs) is proposed coupled with Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI). Our study leverages less preprocessing with pre-trained cutting-edge models like InceptionV3, VGG16, and VGG19 that excel in the task of feature extraction. The methodology is further enhanced by the inclusion of the t-SNE (t-Distributed… More >

Awais Khan¹, Chomyong Kim², Jung-Yeon Kim², Ahsan Aziz¹, Yunyoung Nam^3,*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.140, No.2, pp. 1729-1755, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2024.049618 - 20 May 2024

Abstract Sleep posture surveillance is crucial for patient comfort, yet current systems face difficulties in providing comprehensive studies due to the obstruction caused by blankets. Precise posture assessment remains challenging because of the complex nature of the human body and variations in sleep patterns. Consequently, this study introduces an innovative method utilizing RGB and thermal cameras for comprehensive posture classification, thereby enhancing the analysis of body position and comfort. This method begins by capturing a dataset of sleep postures in the form of videos using RGB and thermal cameras, which depict six commonly adopted postures: supine,… More > Graphic Abstract

Imad Saud Al Naimi^1,2,*, Syed Alwee Aljunid Syed Junid¹, Muhammad lmran Ahmad^1,*, K. Suresh Manic^2,3

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.79, No.2, pp. 2585-2608, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.046461 - 15 May 2024

Abstract Augmentation of abnormal cells in the brain causes brain tumor (BT), and early screening and treatment will reduce its harshness in patients. BT’s clinical level screening is usually performed with Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) due to its multi-modality nature. The overall aims of the study is to introduce, test and verify an advanced image processing technique with algorithms to automatically extract tumour sections from brain MRI scans, facilitating improved accuracy. The research intends to devise a reliable framework for detecting the BT region in the two-dimensional (2D) MRI slice, and identifying its class with improved… More >

Heba M. El-Hoseny^1,*, Heba F. Elsepae², Wael A. Mohamed², Ayman S. Selmy²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.77, No.2, pp. 1855-1872, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.042107 - 29 November 2023

Abstract Diabetic retinopathy is a critical eye condition that, if not treated, can lead to vision loss. Traditional methods of diagnosing and treating the disease are time-consuming and expensive. However, machine learning and deep transfer learning (DTL) techniques have shown promise in medical applications, including detecting, classifying, and segmenting diabetic retinopathy. These advanced techniques offer higher accuracy and performance. Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CAD) is crucial in speeding up classification and providing accurate disease diagnoses. Overall, these technological advancements hold great potential for improving the management of diabetic retinopathy. The study’s objective was to differentiate between different classes… More >

Deepika Saravagi¹, Shweta Agrawal^2,*, Manisha Saravagi³, Sanjiv K. Jain⁴, Bhisham Sharma⁵, Abolfazl Mehbodniya^6,*, Subrata Chowdhury⁷, Julian L. Webber⁶

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.37, No.2, pp. 2133-2151, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.039836 - 21 June 2023

Abstract Spondylolisthesis is a chronic disease, and a timely diagnosis of it may help in avoiding surgery. Disease identification in x-ray radiographs is very challenging. Strengthening the feature extraction tool in VGG16 has improved the classification rate. But the fully connected layers of VGG16 are not efficient at capturing the positional structure of an object in images. Capsule network (CapsNet) works with capsules (neuron clusters) rather than a single neuron to grasp the properties of the provided image to match the pattern. In this study, an integrated model that is a combination of VGG16 and CapsNet… More >

Mohammed A. Al Ghamdi^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.76, No.1, pp. 881-894, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.037826 - 08 June 2023

Abstract Considerable resources, technology, and efforts are being utilized worldwide to eradicate the coronavirus. Although certain measures taken to prevent the further spread of the disease have been successful, efforts to completely wipe out the coronavirus have been insufficient. Coronavirus patients have symptoms similar to those of chest Tuberculosis (TB) or pneumonia patients. Chest tuberculosis and coronavirus are similar because both diseases affect the lungs, cause coughing and produce an irregular respiratory system. Both diseases can be confirmed through X-ray imaging. It is a difficult task to diagnose COVID-19, as coronavirus testing kits are neither excessively… More >

S. Deva Kumar, S. Venkatramaphanikumar^*, K. Venkata Krishna Kishore

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.37, No.1, pp. 1013-1032, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.038165 - 29 April 2023

Abstract Type 2 diabetes patients often suffer from microvascular complications of diabetes. These complications, in turn, often lead to vision impairment. Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) detection in its early stage can rescue people from long-term complications that could lead to permanent blindness. In this study, we propose a complex deep convolutional neural network architecture with an inception module for automated diagnosis of DR. The proposed novel Hybrid Inception U-Net (HIUNET) comprises various inception modules connected in the U-Net fashion using activation maximization and filter map to produce the image mask. First, inception blocks were used to enlarge… More >

Mohamed Ezz, Waad Alanazi, Ayman Mohamed Mostafa^*, Eslam Hamouda, Murtada K. Elbashir, Meshrif Alruily

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.46, No.2, pp. 2299-2317, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.036567 - 09 February 2023

Abstract Palmprint identification has been conducted over the last two decades in many biometric systems. High-dimensional data with many uncorrelated and duplicated features remains difficult due to several computational complexity issues. This paper presents an interactive authentication approach based on deep learning and feature selection that supports Palmprint authentication. The proposed model has two stages of learning; the first stage is to transfer pre-trained VGG-16 of ImageNet to specific features based on the extraction model. The second stage involves the VGG-16 Palmprint feature extraction in the Siamese network to learn Palmprint similarity. The proposed model achieves More >

Ibrar Amin¹, Saima Hassan¹, Samir Brahim Belhaouari^2,*, Muhammad Hamza Azam³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.74, No.3, pp. 6335-6349, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.033860 - 28 December 2022

Abstract Malaria is a lethal disease responsible for thousands of deaths worldwide every year. Manual methods of malaria diagnosis are time-consuming that require a great deal of human expertise and efforts. Computer-based automated diagnosis of diseases is progressively becoming popular. Although deep learning models show high performance in the medical field, it demands a large volume of data for training which is hard to acquire for medical problems. Similarly, labeling of medical images can be done with the help of medical experts only. Several recent studies have utilized deep learning models to develop efficient malaria diagnostic More >

Abdullah A. Asiri¹, Muhammad Aamir², Ahmad Shaf^2,*, Tariq Ali², Muhammad Zeeshan³, Muhammad Irfan⁴, Khalaf A. Alshamrani¹, Hassan A. Alshamrani¹, Fawaz F. Alqahtani¹, Ali H. D. Alshehri¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.3, pp. 5735-5753, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.031747 - 28 July 2022

Abstract The precise brain tumor diagnosis is critical and shows a vital role in the medical support for treating tumor patients. Manual brain tumor segmentation for cancer analysis from many Magnetic Resonance Images (MRIs) created in medical practice is a problematic and timewasting task for experts. As a result, there is a critical necessity for more accurate computer-aided methods for early tumor detection. To remove this gap, we enhanced the computational power of a computer-aided system by proposing a fine-tuned Block-Wise Visual Geometry Group19 (BW-VGG19) architecture. In this method, a pre-trained VGG19 is fine-tuned with CNN More >