Mohamed Abdel-Basset¹, Hossam Hawash¹, Mohamed Abouhawwash^2,3,*, S. S. Askar⁴, Alshaimaa A. Tantawy¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.78, No.1, pp. 1171-1187, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.044425

Abstract The early implementation of treatment therapies necessitates the swift and precise identification of COVID-19 pneumonia by the analysis of chest CT scans. This study aims to investigate the indispensable need for precise and interpretable diagnostic tools for improving clinical decision-making for COVID-19 diagnosis. This paper proposes a novel deep learning approach, called Conformer Network, for explainable discrimination of viral pneumonia depending on the lung Region of Infections (ROI) within a single modality radiographic CT scan. Firstly, an efficient U-shaped transformer network is integrated for lung image segmentation. Then, a robust transfer learning technique is introduced to design a robust feature… More >

Nasser Alalwan^1,*, Ahmed I. Taloba², Amr Abozeid³, Ahmed Ibrahim Alzahrani¹, Ali H. Al-Bayatti⁴

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.138, No.3, pp. 2497-2517, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2023.029910

Abstract An illness known as pneumonia causes inflammation in the lungs. Since there is so much information available from various X-ray images, diagnosing pneumonia has typically proven challenging. To improve image quality and speed up the diagnosis of pneumonia, numerous approaches have been devised. To date, several methods have been employed to identify pneumonia. The Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) has achieved outstanding success in identifying and diagnosing diseases in the fields of medicine and radiology. However, these methods are complex, inefficient, and imprecise to analyze a big number of datasets. In this paper, a new hybrid method for the automatic classification… More >

Chia-Wei Jan¹, Yu-Jhih Chiu¹, Kuan-Lin Chen², Ting-Chun Yao³, Ping-Huan Kuo^1,4,*

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.47, No.3, pp. 2989-3010, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.042078

Abstract Pneumonia is a common lung disease that is more prone to affect the elderly and those with weaker respiratory systems. However, hospital medical resources are limited, and sometimes the workload of physicians is too high, which can affect their judgment. Therefore, a good medical assistance system is of great significance for improving the quality of medical care. This study proposed an integrated system by combining transfer learning and gradient-weighted class activation mapping (Grad-CAM). Pneumonia is a common lung disease that is generally diagnosed using X-rays. However, in areas with limited medical resources, a shortage of medical personnel may result in… More >

Jianying Shi¹, Shengchao Chen¹, Benguo Yu², Yi Ren^3,*, Guanjun Wang^1,4,*, Chenyang Xue⁵

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.37, No.3, pp. 3235-3258, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.041392

Abstract Respiratory infections in children increase the risk of fatal lung disease, making effective identification and analysis of breath sounds essential. However, most studies have focused on adults ignoring pediatric patients whose lungs are more vulnerable due to an imperfect immune system, and the scarcity of medical data has limited the development of deep learning methods toward reliability and high classification accuracy. In this work, we collected three types of breath sounds from children with normal (120 recordings), bronchitis (120 recordings), and pneumonia (120 recordings) at the posterior chest position using an off-the-shelf 3M electronic stethoscope. Three features were extracted from… More >

M. A. Ramitha^*, N. Mohanasundaram, R. Santhosh

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.46, No.3, pp. 2725-2739, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.030504

Abstract Deep Learning (DL) is known for its golden standard computing paradigm in the learning community. However, it turns out to be an extensively utilized computing approach in the ML field. Therefore, attaining superior outcomes over cognitive tasks based on human performance. The primary benefit of DL is its competency in learning massive data. The DL-based technologies have grown faster and are widely adopted to handle the conventional approaches resourcefully. Specifically, various DL approaches outperform the conventional ML approaches in real-time applications. Indeed, various research works are reviewed to understand the significance of the individual DL models and some computational complexity… More >

Aswathy Ravikumar, Harini Sriraman^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.75, No.1, pp. 891-909, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.035848

Abstract Pneumonia is an acute lung infection that has caused many fatalities globally. Radiologists often employ chest X-rays to identify pneumonia since they are presently the most effective imaging method for this purpose. Computer-aided diagnosis of pneumonia using deep learning techniques is widely used due to its effectiveness and performance. In the proposed method, the Synthetic Minority Oversampling Technique (SMOTE) approach is used to eliminate the class imbalance in the X-ray dataset. To compensate for the paucity of accessible data, pre-trained transfer learning is used, and an ensemble Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) model is developed. The ensemble model consists of all… More >

Mehwish Shaikh¹, Isma Farah Siddiqui¹, Qasim Arain¹, Jahwan Koo^2,*, Mukhtiar Ali Unar³, Nawab Muhammad Faseeh Qureshi^4,*

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.46, No.1, pp. 287-302, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.035311

Abstract Pneumonia is a dangerous respiratory disease due to which breathing becomes incredibly difficult and painful; thus, catching it early is crucial. Medical physicians’ time is limited in outdoor situations due to many patients; therefore, automated systems can be a rescue. The input images from the X-ray equipment are also highly unpredictable due to variances in radiologists’ experience. Therefore, radiologists require an automated system that can swiftly and accurately detect pneumonic lungs from chest x-rays. In medical classifications, deep convolution neural networks are commonly used. This research aims to use deep pre-trained transfer learning models to accurately categorize CXR images into… More >

Arfat Ahmad Khan¹, Malik Muhammad Ali Shahid², Rab Nawaz Bashir², Salman Iqbal², Arshad Shehzad Ahmad Shahid³, Javeria Maqbool⁴, Chitapong Wechtaisong^5,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.74, No.2, pp. 3743-3761, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.033924

Abstract COVID-19 disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus has created social and economic disruption across the world. The ability of the COVID-19 virus to quickly mutate and transfer has created serious concerns across the world. It is essential to detect COVID-19 infection caused by different variants to take preventive measures accordingly. The existing method of detection of infections caused by COVID-19 and its variants is costly and time-consuming. The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in developing countries are very drastic due to the unavailability of medical facilities and infrastructure to handle the pandemic. Pneumonia is the major symptom of COVID-19 infection.… More >

Sukhendra Singh¹, Sur Singh Rawat², Manoj Gupta³, B. K. Tripathi⁴, Faisal Alanzi⁵, Arnab Majumdar⁶, Pattaraporn Khuwuthyakorn⁷, Orawit Thinnukool^7,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.74, No.1, pp. 1673-1691, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.032364

Abstract In computer vision, object recognition and image categorization have proven to be difficult challenges. They have, nevertheless, generated responses to a wide range of difficult issues from a variety of fields. Convolution Neural Networks (CNNs) have recently been identified as the most widely proposed deep learning (DL) algorithms in the literature. CNNs have unquestionably delivered cutting-edge achievements, particularly in the areas of image classification, speech recognition, and video processing. However, it has been noticed that the CNN-training assignment demands a large amount of data, which is in low supply, especially in the medical industry, and as a result, the training… More >

Shui-Hua Wang¹, Muhammad Attique Khan², Ziquan Zhu¹, Yu-Dong Zhang^1,*

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.45, No.1, pp. 21-34, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.031330

Abstract Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is considered a sort of pneumonia developed outside hospitals and clinics. To diagnose community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) more efficiently, we proposed a novel neural network model. We introduce the 2-dimensional wavelet entropy (2d-WE) layer and an adaptive chaotic particle swarm optimization (ACP) algorithm to train the feed-forward neural network. The ACP uses adaptive inertia weight factor (AIWF) and Rossler attractor (RA) to improve the performance of standard particle swarm optimization. The final combined model is named WE-layer ACP-based network (WACPN), which attains a sensitivity of 91.87 ± 1.37%, a specificity of 90.70 ± 1.19%, a precision of 91.01 ± 1.12%, an accuracy of 91.29 ± 1.09%,… More >