Effective dermatological diagnosis and treatments significantly depend on the accurate categorisation of the skin lesions. It is difficult to classify skin lesions using automated diagnostic techniques due to class-im...
Effective dermatological diagnosis and treatments significantly depend on the accurate categorisation of the skin lesions. It is difficult to classify skin lesions using automated diagnostic techniques due to class-imbalance datasets and the absence of labelled data. The applications of various deep learning methods have demonstrated superior performance in medical diagnosis in the recent past. Unfortunately, training these models requires a substantial quantity of labelled instances. A novel approach, combining Deep Learning convolutional neural networks (CNNs) as well as conditional generative adversarial networks (CGANs), for classifying skin lesion images, has been presented in this study. CGAN is an enhanced version of the GAN, in which the generator takes input images with specific class labels. Applying conditions for minority classes can help to equalise the dataset by increasing the sample size for those minority classes. In this research, CGANs were used to produce synthetic images of minority classes for a skin lesion dataset named PAD UFES-20. The images generated from CGANS were added then to the original dataset to train a lightweight deep-learning CNN network named MobileNetv2. The analysis of the results shows an improvement of 6% average accuracy and 5% recall value, when the synthetic data augmentation was added to the original dataset. This synthetic data augmentation approach can also widely be used in various medical classification applications to reduce the imbalance problems, resulting in enhanced diagnosis.
This paper presents a comprehensive investigation of traffic radar coverage efficiency under different placement strategies in collaboration with Zhejiang Communications Investment Group Company Limited (CICO). The ov...
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One of the key challenges with respect to the environment is the rise of concentration of pollutants in air, which needs to be addressed. For the prediction of pollutants, researchers have used a variety of cutting-ed...
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For an undirected graph G, graph burning is defined as follows: at step t = 0 all vertices in G are unburned. At each step t ≥ 1, one new unburned vertex is selected to burn until we exhaust all the vertices. If a ve...
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To improve the utilization of public transportation systems (PTSs) during off-peak hours, we present an algorithmic framework that designs PTSs with hybrid transportation units (HTUs), which can transport passengers o...
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The purpose of this paper is to investigate unimodal determination and decision layer fusion methods in multimodal face recognition and to evaluate the effectiveness of decision layer fusion. Experiments are conducted...
The purpose of this paper is to investigate unimodal determination and decision layer fusion methods in multimodal face recognition and to evaluate the effectiveness of decision layer fusion. Experiments are conducted on the "VidTIMIT" and "MOBIO" datasets using convolutional neural networks and MFCC feature extraction techniques. The performance of three feature fusion methods, front-end fusion, intermediate fusion and decision layer fusion, is compared. The experimental results show that the recognition accuracies are 94.9%, 94.7% and 94%, 94.1% for the face and voice models only, respectively. However, the accuracy decreases slightly in the case of front-end fusion. The best accuracy was achieved when the decision layer fusion method was used, reaching 95.7% and 95.6%, respectively. This indicates that training face and voice print data separately and fusing classifier output scores can effectively improve face recognition accuracy. This study explores feature fusion methods in the field of multimodal face recognition and experimentally demonstrates the advantages of decision layer fusion in improving accuracy, pointing to a new direction for future research.
In this tutorial, instructors will be able to learn how to work with various tools on setting up a Continuous Integration Pipeline (CI pipeline), to automatically verify their programming assignments are valid. This t...
In this tutorial, instructors will be able to learn how to work with various tools on setting up a Continuous Integration Pipeline (CI pipeline), to automatically verify their programming assignments are valid. This tutorial assumes some programming experience.
The promotion of quantum network applications demands the scalable connection of quantum *** is preferable to set up multiple logical networks coexisting on a single physical network infrastructure to accommodate a la...
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The promotion of quantum network applications demands the scalable connection of quantum *** is preferable to set up multiple logical networks coexisting on a single physical network infrastructure to accommodate a larger number of *** we present a quantum virtual network architecture that offers this level of scalability,without being constrained to a fixed physical-layer network relying solely on passive multiplexing *** architecture can be understood as arising from the superposition of a fully connected entanglement distribution network and port-based virtual local area network,which group multiusers by access *** terms of hardware,we leverage a semiconductor chip with a high figure-of-merit modal overlap to directly generate high-quality polarization entanglement,and a streamlined polarization analysis module,which requires only one single-photon detector for each end *** experimentally perform the BBM92 QKD protocol on the five-user quantum virtual network and demonstrate voice and image encryption on a campus area *** results may provide insights into the realization of large-scale quantum networks with integrated and cost-efficient photonic architecture.
As the most sensitive and direct indicator of global climate change,the freezing and thawing of the Antarctic ice sheet is of great significance for research on surface mass and energy *** this study,four representati...
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As the most sensitive and direct indicator of global climate change,the freezing and thawing of the Antarctic ice sheet is of great significance for research on surface mass and energy *** this study,four representative regions in Antarctica were selected and correlation analysis,Granger causality testing,and cluster analysis were applied to comprehensively analyze the correlation and response of spatiotemporal variation in freeze-thaw and *** conclusions are as follows.(1)In the Antarctic Peninsula,a phenomenon was demonstrated that the summer shifts *** December and colder March temperatures were observed in the Amery Ice Shelf and Queen Maud Land.(2)The Antarctic Peninsula featured the most severe degree of melting among the four regions,with the largest melt area in the past 30 years appearing during the 2015/2016 ***,the number of melt days in most areas of the Antarctic Peninsula was observed to have decreased.(3)There is a strong correlation between the freeze-thaw state of the Antarctic ice sheet and temperature,as well as spatial differences among regions,but the data were clustered at different time scales.
Traffic may be reduced and transportation efficiency improved by properly controlling traffic flow in urban areas. This research provides a new method for managing lanes in real-time by using IoT connectivity. To opti...
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