Shui-Hua Wang¹, Muhammad Attique Khan², Yu-Dong Zhang^3,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.70, No.2, pp. 3081-3097, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.019447 - 27 September 2021

Abstract Aim Alcoholism is a disease that a patient becomes dependent or addicted to alcohol. This paper aims to design a novel artificial intelligence model that can recognize alcoholism more accurately. Methods We propose the VGG-Inspired stochastic pooling neural network (VISPNN) model based on three components: (i) a VGG-inspired mainstay network, (ii) the stochastic pooling technique, which aims to outperform traditional max pooling and average pooling, and (iii) an improved 20-way data augmentation (Gaussian noise, salt-and-pepper noise, speckle noise, Poisson noise, horizontal shear, vertical shear, rotation, Gamma correction, random translation, and scaling on both raw image and… More >

Xianqing Chen^1,2, Yan Yan^3,*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.127, No.1, pp. 325-343, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2021.014489 - 30 March 2021

Abstract Alcoholism is an unhealthy lifestyle associated with alcohol dependence. Not only does drinking for a long time leads to poor mental health and loss of self-control, but alcohol seeps into the bloodstream and shortens the lifespan of the body’s internal organs. Alcoholics often think of alcohol as an everyday drink and see it as a way to reduce stress in their lives because they cannot see the damage in their bodies and they believe it does not affect their physical health. As their drinking increases, they become dependent on alcohol and it affects their daily More >

Emad-ul-Haq Qazi, Muhammad Hussain^*, Hatim A. AboAlsamh

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.67, No.3, pp. 3329-3348, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.013589 - 01 March 2021

Abstract The detection of alcoholism is of great importance due to its effects on individuals and society. Automatic alcoholism detection system (AADS) based on electroencephalogram (EEG) signals is effective, but the design of a robust AADS is a challenging problem. AADS’ current designs are based on conventional, hand-engineered methods and restricted performance. Driven by the excellent deep learning (DL) success in many recognition tasks, we implement an AAD system based on EEG signals using DL. A DL model requires huge number of learnable parameters and also needs a large dataset of EEG signals for training which… More >

Francisco Santolaria, Carmen Rodríguez-López, Beatriz Martín-Hernández, María-Remedios Alemán-Valls, Emilio González-Reimers, María-del-Mar Alonso-Socas, Rosa Ros, Juan-José Viña

European Cytokine Network, Vol.22, No.1, pp. 1-4, 2011, DOI:10.1684/ecn.2011.0272

Abstract It is well known that alcoholics are prone to severe infections and that the immune system is impaired by chronic ethanol abuse. The aim of this study is to compare serum inflammatory mediators in response to sepsis in chronic alcoholic with sepsis, non-alcoholics with sepsis and non-infected alcoholics. Method. We included 25 alcoholics with sepsis, 34 non-alcoholics with sepsis, 34 non-infected alcoholics admitted for programmed withdrawal, and 27 healthy control subjects. After initial evaluation, blood samples were taken for determination of serum cytokine levels. Results. We found similar responses for the inflammatory mediators analyzed among More >