Anaemia, a condition characterised by reduced haemoglobin levels, exerts a significant global impact, affecting billions of individuals worldwide. According to data from the World Health Organisation (WHO), India exhi...
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Automatic skin lesion subtyping is a crucial step for diagnosing and treating skin cancer and acts as a first level diagnostic aid for medical experts. Although, in general, deep learning is very effective in image pr...
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Automatic skin lesion subtyping is a crucial step for diagnosing and treating skin cancer and acts as a first level diagnostic aid for medical experts. Although, in general, deep learning is very effective in image processing tasks, there are notable areas of the processing pipeline in the dermoscopic image regime that can benefit from refinement. Our work identifies two such areas for improvement. First, most benchmark dermoscopic datasets for skin cancers and lesions are highly imbalanced due to the relative rarity and commonality in the occurrence of specific lesion types. Deep learning methods tend to exhibit biased performance in favor of the majority classes with such datasets, leading to poor generalization. Second, dermoscopic images can be associated with irrelevant information in the form of skin color, hair, veins, etc.;hence, limiting the information available to a neural network by retaining only relevant portions of an input image has been successful in prompting the network towards learning task-relevant features and thereby improving its performance. Hence, this research work augments the skin lesion characterization pipeline in the following ways. First, it balances the dataset to overcome sample size biases. Two balancing methods, synthetic minority oversampling TEchnique (SMOTE) and Reweighting, are applied, compared, and analyzed. Second, a lesion segmentation stage is introduced before classification, in addition to a preprocessing stage, to retain only the region of interest. A baseline segmentation approach based on Bi-Directional ConvLSTM U-Net is improved using conditional adversarial training for enhanced segmentation performance. Finally, the classification stage is implemented using EfficientNets, where the B2 variant is used to benchmark and choose between the balancing and segmentation techniques, and the architecture is then scaled through to B7 to analyze the performance boost in lesion classification. From these experiments, we find
“Flying Ad Hoc Networks(FANETs)”,which use“Unmanned Aerial Vehicles(UAVs)”,are developing as a critical mechanism for numerous applications,such as military operations and civilian *** dynamic nature of FANETs,wit...
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“Flying Ad Hoc Networks(FANETs)”,which use“Unmanned Aerial Vehicles(UAVs)”,are developing as a critical mechanism for numerous applications,such as military operations and civilian *** dynamic nature of FANETs,with high mobility,quick node migration,and frequent topology changes,presents substantial hurdles for routing protocol *** the preceding few years,researchers have found that machine learning gives productive solutions in routing while preserving the nature of FANET,which is topology change and high *** paper reviews current research on routing protocols and Machine Learning(ML)approaches applied to FANETs,emphasizing developments between 2021 and *** research uses the PRISMA approach to sift through the literature,filtering results from the SCOPUS database to find 82 relevant *** research study uses machine learning-based routing algorithms to beat the issues of high mobility,dynamic topologies,and intermittent connection in *** compared with conventional routing,it gives an energy-efficient and fast decision-making solution in a real-time environment,with greater fault tolerance *** protocols aim to increase routing efficiency,flexibility,and network stability using ML’s predictive and adaptive *** comprehensive review seeks to integrate existing information,offer novel integration approaches,and recommend future research topics for improving routing efficiency and flexibility in ***,the study highlights emerging trends in ML integration,discusses challenges faced during the review,and discusses overcoming these hurdles in future research.
Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks (VANETs) are studied wireless networks that enable communication among vehicles and roadside infrastructure. The role a vital play in improving on-road safety, efficacy, and convenience by en...
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Hearing and Speech impairment can be congenital or *** and speech-impaired students often hesitate to pursue higher education in reputable institutions due to their ***,the development of automated assistive learning ...
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Hearing and Speech impairment can be congenital or *** and speech-impaired students often hesitate to pursue higher education in reputable institutions due to their ***,the development of automated assistive learning tools within the educational field has empowered disabled students to pursue higher education in any field of *** learning devices enable students to access institutional resources and facilities *** proposed assistive learning and communication tool allows hearing and speech-impaired students to interact productively with their teachers and *** tool converts the audio signals into sign language videos for the speech and hearing-impaired to follow and converts the sign language to text format for the teachers to *** educational tool for the speech and hearing-impaired is implemented by customized deep learning models such as Convolution neural networks(CNN),Residual neural Networks(ResNet),and stacked Long short-term memory(LSTM)network *** assistive learning tool is a novel framework that interprets the static and dynamic gesture actions in American Sign Language(ASL).Such communicative tools empower the speech and hearing impaired to communicate effectively in a classroom environment and foster *** deep learning models were developed and experimentally evaluated with the standard performance *** model exhibits an accuracy of 99.7% for all static gesture classification and 99% for specific vocabulary of gesture action *** two-way communicative and educational tool encourages social inclusion and a promising career for disabled students.
Direct volume rendering(DVR)is a technique that emphasizes structures of interest(SOIs)within a volume visually,while simultaneously depicting adjacent regional information,e.g.,the spatial location of a structure con...
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Direct volume rendering(DVR)is a technique that emphasizes structures of interest(SOIs)within a volume visually,while simultaneously depicting adjacent regional information,e.g.,the spatial location of a structure concerning its *** DVR,transfer function(TF)plays a key role by enabling accurate identification of SOIs interactively as well as ensuring appropriate visibility of *** generation typically involves non-intuitive trial-and-error optimization of rendering parameters,which is time-consuming and *** at mitigating this manual process have led to approaches that make use of a knowledge database consisting of pre-designed TFs by domain *** these approaches,a user navigates the knowledge database to find the most suitable pre-designed TF for their input volume to visualize the *** these approaches potentially reduce the workload to generate the TFs,they,however,require manual TF navigation of the knowledge database,as well as the likely fine tuning of the selected TF to suit the *** this work,we propose a TF design approach,CBR-TF,where we introduce a new content-based retrieval(CBR)method to automatically navigate the knowledge *** of pre-designed TFs,our knowledge database contains volumes with SOI *** an input volume,our CBR-TF approach retrieves relevant volumes(with SOI labels)from the knowledge database;the retrieved labels are then used to generate and optimize TFs of the *** approach largely reduces manual TF navigation and fine *** our CBR-TF approach,we introduce a novel volumetric image feature which includes both a local primitive intensity profile along the SOIs and regional spatial semantics available from the co-planar images to the *** the regional spatial semantics,we adopt a convolutional neural network to obtain high-level image feature *** the intensity profile,we extend the dynamic time warping technique to address subtle alignment
Many people all around the world suffer from heart disease, which is regarded as a severe illness. In healthcare, especially cardiology, it is crucial to accurately and quickly diagnose cardiac problems. In this resea...
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Trajectory contains spatial-data generated from traces of moving objects like people, animals, etc. Community generated from trajectories portrays common behaviour. Trajectory clustering based on community-detection i...
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The most well-known type of correspondence between people is Discourse and correspondence assumes a vital part for conveying data. The truth of the matter is that each specific person on the planet won't discuss t...
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In the ever-evolving landscape of optimization algorithms for healthcare datasets, this study introduces an innovative fusion of the gannet optimization algorithm (GOA) with advanced opposition-based learning (OBL) te...
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