Accurate skin disease detection is one of the most challenging tasks due to high-class imbalance and limited labeled datasets. Recently Deep Convolutional Neural Network (DCNN) with ensemble learning has achieved sign...
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Accurate skin disease detection is one of the most challenging tasks due to high-class imbalance and limited labeled datasets. Recently Deep Convolutional Neural Network (DCNN) with ensemble learning has achieved significant popularity in skin cancer classification. However, implementing DCNN models with ensemble learning is not feasible for deployment on portable diagnostic devices due to the limitation in computing resources and computing time. This paper proposes a Channel Attention and Adaptive Class Balanced Focal Loss function based lightweight Deep CNN model (CACBL-Net) for handling the issues of data imbalance and limited computing resources of portable diagnostic devices, such as mobile phones or tablets. Channel attention explores interdependencies between channels by recalibrating channel-wise feature responses. To deal with the issue of high-class imbalance, the proposed method used an adaptive class balance focal loss function which can quickly concentrate the model on complex cases while automatically downweighting the contribution of easy examples during training. The proposed CACBL-Net is validated on three popular skin cancer datasets which are HAM-10000, PAD-UFES-20, and MED-NODE. Dermoscopic, non-dermoscopic and smartphone images are taken from all three datasets for experimental work. The quantitative findings indicate that the proposed CACBL-Net model achieved a sensitivity of 90.60%, 91.88%, and 91.31% for the HAM-10000, PAD-UFES-20, and MED-NODE datasets, respectively. Additionally, the average prediction time per patient was recorded at 0.006, 0.010, and 0.011 s. These results demonstrate superior performance compared to other state-of-the-art deep learning models. The experimental finding suggested that the proposed method can achieve a significant performance at a low cost of computational resources and inference time, which makes it potentially feasible for deployment in portable diagnostic devices for automated diagnosis of skin lesions.
Early attack detection is essential to ensure the security of complex networks,especially those in critical *** is particularly crucial in networks with multi-stage attacks,where multiple nodes are connected to extern...
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Early attack detection is essential to ensure the security of complex networks,especially those in critical *** is particularly crucial in networks with multi-stage attacks,where multiple nodes are connected to external sources,through which attacks could enter and quickly spread to other network *** attack graphs(BAGs)are powerful models for security risk assessment and mitigation in complex networks,which provide the probabilistic model of attackers’behavior and attack progression in the *** attack detection techniques developed for BAGs rely on the assumption that network compromises will be detected through routine monitoring,which is unrealistic given the ever-growing complexity of *** paper derives the optimal minimum mean square error(MMSE)attack detection and monitoring policy for the most general form of *** exploiting the structure of BAGs and their partial and imperfect monitoring capacity,the proposed detection policy achieves the MMSE optimality possible only for linear-Gaussian state space models using Kalman *** adaptive resource monitoring policy is also introduced for monitoring nodes if the expected predictive error exceeds a user-defined *** and efficient matrix-form computations of the proposed policies are provided,and their high performance is demonstrated in terms of the accuracy of attack detection and the most efficient use of available resources using synthetic Bayesian attack graphs with different topologies.
The behavior of users on online life service platforms like Meituan and Yelp often occurs within specific finegrained spatiotemporal contexts(i.e., when and where). Recommender systems, designed to serve millions of u...
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The behavior of users on online life service platforms like Meituan and Yelp often occurs within specific finegrained spatiotemporal contexts(i.e., when and where). Recommender systems, designed to serve millions of users, typically operate in a fully server-based manner, requiring on-device users to upload their behavioral data, including fine-grained spatiotemporal contexts, to the server, which has sparked public concern regarding privacy. Consequently, user devices only upload coarse-grained spatiotemporal contexts for user privacy protection. However, previous research mostly focuses on modeling fine-grained spatiotemporal contexts using knowledge graph convolutional models, which are not applicable to coarse-grained spatiotemporal contexts in privacy-constrained recommender systems. In this paper, we investigate privacy-preserving recommendation by leveraging coarse-grained spatiotemporal contexts. We propose the coarse-grained spatiotemporal knowledge graph for privacy-preserving recommendation(CSKG), which explicitly models spatiotemporal co-occurrences using common-sense knowledge from coarse-grained contexts. Specifically, we begin by constructing a spatiotemporal knowledge graph tailored to coarse-grained spatiotemporal contexts. Then we employ a learnable metagraph network that integrates common-sense information to filter and extract co-occurrences. CSKG evaluates the impact of coarsegrained spatiotemporal contexts on user behavior through the use of a knowledge graph convolutional network. Finally, we introduce joint learning to effectively learn representations. By conducting experiments on two real large-scale datasets,we achieve an average improvement of about 11.0% on two ranking metrics. The results clearly demonstrate that CSKG outperforms state-of-the-art baselines.
Fog Computing(FC)provides processing and storage resources at the edge of the Internet of Things(IoT).By doing so,FC can help reduce latency and improve reliability of IoT *** energy consumption of servers and computi...
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Fog Computing(FC)provides processing and storage resources at the edge of the Internet of Things(IoT).By doing so,FC can help reduce latency and improve reliability of IoT *** energy consumption of servers and computing resources is one of the factors that directly affect conservation costs in fog *** consumption can be reduced by efficacious scheduling methods so that tasks are offloaded on the best possible *** deal with this problem,a binary model based on the combination of the Krill Herd Algorithm(KHA)and the Artificial Hummingbird Algorithm(AHA)is introduced as Binary KHA-AHA(BAHA-KHA).KHA is used to improve ***,the BAHA-KHA local optimal problem for task scheduling in FC environments is solved using the dynamic voltage and frequency scaling(DVFS)*** Heterogeneous Earliest Finish Time(HEFT)method is used to discover the order of task flow *** goal of the BAHA-KHA model is to minimize the number of resources,the communication between dependent tasks,and reduce energy *** this paper,the FC environment is considered to address the workflow scheduling issue to reduce energy consumption and minimize makespan on fog *** results were tested on five different workflows(Montage,CyberShake,LIGO,SIPHT,and Epigenomics).The evaluations show that the BAHA-KHA model has the best performance in comparison with the AHA,KHA,PSO and GA *** BAHA-KHA model has reduced the makespan rate by about 18%and the energy consumption by about 24%in comparison with *** is a preview of subscription content,log in via an institution to check access.
From a medical perspective,the 12 leads of the heart in an electrocardiogram(ECG)signal have functional dependencies with each ***,all these leads report different aspects of an *** differences lie in the level of hig...
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From a medical perspective,the 12 leads of the heart in an electrocardiogram(ECG)signal have functional dependencies with each ***,all these leads report different aspects of an *** differences lie in the level of highlighting and displaying information about that *** example,although all leads show traces of atrial excitation,this function is more evident in lead II than in any other *** this article,a new model was proposed using ECG functional and structural dependencies between heart *** the prescreening stage,the ECG signals are segmented from the QRS point so that further analyzes can be performed on these segments in a more detailed *** mutual information indices were used to assess the relationship between *** order to calculate mutual information,the correlation between the 12 ECG leads has been *** output of this step is a matrix containing all mutual ***,to calculate the structural information of ECG signals,a capsule neural network was implemented to aid physicians in the automatic classification of cardiac *** architecture of this capsule neural network has been modified to perform the classification *** the experimental results section,the proposed model was used to classify arrhythmias in ECG signals from the Chapman *** evaluations showed that this model has a precision of 97.02%,recall of 96.13%,F1-score of 96.57%and accuracy of 97.38%,indicating acceptable performance compared to other state-of-the-art *** proposed method shows an average accuracy of 2%superiority over similar works.
Converters rely on passive filtering as a crucial element due to the high-frequency operational characteristics of power *** filtering methods involve a dual inductor-capacitor(LC)cell or an inductor-capacitor-inducto...
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Converters rely on passive filtering as a crucial element due to the high-frequency operational characteristics of power *** filtering methods involve a dual inductor-capacitor(LC)cell or an inductor-capacitor-inductor(LCL)***,capacitors are susceptible to wear-out mechanisms and failure ***,the necessity for monitoring and regular replacement adds to an elevated cost of ownership for such *** utilization of an active output power filter can be used to diminish the dimensions of the LC filter and the electrolytic dc-link capacitor,even though the inclusion of capacitors remains an indispensable part of the *** paper introduces capacitorless solid-state power filter(SSPF)for single-phase dc-ac *** proposed configuration is capable of generating a sinusoidal ac voltage without relying on *** proposed filter,composed of a planar transformer and an H-bridge converter operating at high frequency,injects voltage harmonics to attain a sinusoidal output *** design parameters of the planar transformer are incorporated,and the impact of magnetizing and leakage inductances on the operation of the SSPF is *** analysis,supported by simulation and experimental results,are provided for a design example for a single-phase *** total harmonic distortion observed in the output voltage is well below the IEEE 519 *** system operation is experimentally tested under both steady-state and dynamic conditions.A comparison with existing technology is presented,demonstrating that the proposed topology reduces the passive components used for filtering.
This advanced paper presents a new approach to improving image steganography using the Ant Colony Optimization(ACO)*** steganography,a technique of embedding hidden information in digital photographs,should ideally ac...
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This advanced paper presents a new approach to improving image steganography using the Ant Colony Optimization(ACO)*** steganography,a technique of embedding hidden information in digital photographs,should ideally achieve the dual purposes of maximum data hiding and maintenance of the integrity of the cover media so that it is least *** contemporary methods of steganography are at best a compromise between these *** this paper,we present our approach,entitled Ant Colony Optimization(ACO)-Least Significant Bit(LSB),which attempts to optimize the capacity in steganographic *** approach makes use of a grayscale cover image to hide the confidential data with an additional bit pair per byte,both for integrity verification and the file checksumof the secret *** approach encodes confidential information into four pairs of bits and embeds it within uncompressed grayscale *** ACO algorithm uses adaptive exploration to select some pixels,maximizing the capacity of data embedding whileminimizing the degradation of visual *** evaporation is introduced through iterations to avoid stagnation in solution *** levels of pheromone are modified to reinforce successful pixel *** results obtained through the ACO-LSB method reveal that it clearly improves image steganography capabilities by providing an increase of up to 30%in the embedding capacity compared with traditional approaches;the average Peak Signal to Noise Ratio(PSNR)is 40.5 dB with a Structural Index Similarity(SSIM)of *** approach also demonstrates very high resistance to detection,cutting down the rate by 20%.Implemented in MATLAB R2023a,the model was tested against one thousand publicly available grayscale images,thus providing robust evidence of its effectiveness.
Distance and size estimation of objects of interests is an inevitable task for many navigation and obstacle avoidance algorithms mainly used in autonomus and robotic systems. Stereo vision systems, inspired by human v...
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Maintaining a steady power supply requires accurate forecasting of solar irradiance,since clean energy resources do not provide steady *** existing forecasting studies have examined the limited effects of weather cond...
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Maintaining a steady power supply requires accurate forecasting of solar irradiance,since clean energy resources do not provide steady *** existing forecasting studies have examined the limited effects of weather conditions on solar radiation such as temperature and precipitation utilizing convolutional neural network(CNN),but no comprehensive study has been conducted on concentrations of air pollutants along with weather *** paper proposes a hybrid approach based on deep learning,expanding the feature set by adding new air pollution concentrations,and ranking these features to select and reduce their size to improve *** order to improve the accuracy of feature selection,a maximum-dependency and minimum-redundancy(mRMR)criterion is applied to the constructed feature space to identify and rank the *** combination of air pollution data with weather conditions data has enabled the prediction of solar irradiance with a higher *** evaluation of the proposed approach is conducted in Istanbul over 12 months for 43791 discrete times,with the main purpose of analyzing air data,including particular matter(PM10 and PM25),carbon monoxide(CO),nitric oxide(NOX),nitrogen dioxide(NO_(2)),ozone(O₃),sulfur dioxide(SO_(2))using a CNN,a long short-term memory network(LSTM),and MRMR feature *** with the benchmark models with root mean square error(RMSE)results of 76.2,60.3,41.3,32.4,there is a significant improvement with the RMSE result of *** hybrid model presented here offers high prediction accuracy,a wider feature set,and a novel approach based on air concentrations combined with weather conditions for solar irradiance prediction.
In recent years,the growth of female employees in the commercial market and industries has *** a result,some people think travelling to distant and isolated locations during odd hours generates new threats to women’s...
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In recent years,the growth of female employees in the commercial market and industries has *** a result,some people think travelling to distant and isolated locations during odd hours generates new threats to women’s *** exponential increase in assaults and attacks on women,on the other hand,is posing a threat to women’s growth,development,and *** the time of the attack,it appears the women were immobilized and needed immediate *** self-defense isn’t sufficient against abuse;a new technological solution is desired and can be used as quickly as hitting a switch or *** proposed Women Safety Gadget(WSG)aims to design a wearable safety device model based on Internet-of-Things(IoT)and Cloud *** is designed in three layers,namely layer-1,having an android app;layer-2,with messaging and location tracking system;and layer-3,which updates information in the cloud *** can detect an unsafe condition by the pressure sensor of the finger on the artificial nail,consequently diffuses a pepper spray,and automatically notifies the saved closest contacts and police station through messaging and location *** has a response time of 1000 ms once the nail is pressed;the average time for pulse rate measure is 0.475 s,and diffusing the pepper spray is 0.2–0.5 *** average activation time is 2.079 s.
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