Pneumonia is one of the highest global causes of deaths especially for children under 5 years old. This happened mainly because of the difficulties in identifying the cause of pneumonia. As a result, the treatment given may not be suitable for each pneumonia case. Recent studies have used deep learning approaches to obtain better classification within the cause of pneumonia. In this research, we used siamese convolutional network (SCN) to classify chest x-ray pneumonia image into 3 classes, namely normal conditions, bacterial pneumonia, and viral pneumonia. Siamese convolutional network is a neural network architecture that learns similarity knowledge between pairs of image inputs based on the differences between its features. One of the important benefits of classifying data with SCN is the availability of comparable images that can be used as a reference when determining class. Using SCN, our best model achieved 80.03% accuracy, 79.59% f1 score, and an improved result reasoning by providing the comparable images.
Detecting malaria using a deep convolutional neural networkYusuf Brima
Experiment with Deep Residual Convolutional Neural Network to classify microscopic blood cell images (Uninfected, Parasitized)
Utiling ResNet,Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition (He et al, 2015) architecture.
Uses Keras with a Tensorflow backend.
Despite the availability of radiology devices in some health care centers, thorax diseases are considered as one of the most common health problems, especially in rural areas. By exploiting the power of the Internet of things and specific platforms to analyze a large volume of medical data, the health of a patient could be improved earlier. In this paper, the proposed model is based on pre-trained ResNet-50 for diagnosing thorax diseases. Chest x-ray images are cropped to extract the rib cage part from the chest radiographs. ResNet-50 was re-train on Chest x-ray14 dataset where a chest radiograph images are inserted into the model to determine if the person is healthy or not. In the case of an unhealthy patient, the model can classify the disease into one of the fourteen chest diseases. The results show the ability of ResNet-50 in achieving impressive performance in classifying thorax diseases.
Pine wilt disease spreading prevention system using semantic segmentation IJECEIAES
Pine wilt disease is a disease that affects ecosystems by rapidly killing trees in a short period of time due to the close interaction between three factors such as trees, mediates, and pathogens. There are no 100% mortality infectious forest pests. According to the Korea Forest Service survey, as of April 2019, the damage of pine re-nematode disease was about 490,000 dead trees in 117 cities, counties and wards across the country. It's a fatal condition. In order to prevent this problem, this paper proposes a system that detects dead trees, early infection trees, and the like, using deep learningbased semantic segmentation. In addition, drones were used to photograph the area of the forest, and a separate pixel segmentation label could be used to identify three levels of transmission information: Suspicion, attention, and confirmation. This allows the user to grasp information such as area, location, and alarm to prevent the spread of re-nematode disease.
An improvement of Gram-negative bacteria identification using convolutional n...TELKOMNIKA JOURNAL
This paper proposes an image processing approach to identify Gram-negative bacteria. Gram-negative bacteria are one of the bacteria that cause lung lobe damage-bacterial samples obtained through smears of the patient's sputum. The first step bacterium should pass the pathogen test process. After that, it bred using Mc Conkey's media. The problem faced is that the process of identifying bacterial objects is still done manually under a fluorescence microscope. The contributions offered from this research are focused on observing bacterial morphology for the operation of selecting shape features. The proposed method is a convolutional neural network with fine-tuning. In the stages of the process, a convolutional neural network of the VGG-16 architecture used dropout, data augmentation, and fine-tuning stages. The main goal of the current research was to determine the method selection is to get a high degree of accuracy. This research uses a total sample of 2520 images from 2 different classes. The amount of data used at each stage of training, testing, and validation is 840 images with dimensions of 256x256 pixels, a resolution of 96 points per inch, and a depth of 24 bits. The accuracy of the results obtained at the training stage is 99.20%.
Twin support vector machine using kernel function for colorectal cancer detec...journalBEEI
Nowadays, machine learning technology is needed in the medical field. therefore, this research is useful for solving problems in the medical field by using machine learning. Many cases of colorectal cancer are diagnosed late. When colorectal cancer is detected, the cancer is usually well developed. Machine learning is an approach that is part of artificial intelligence and can detect colorectal cancer early. This study discusses colorectal cancer detection using twin support vector machine (SVM) method and kernel function i.e. linear kernels, polynomial kernels, RBF kernels, and gaussian kernels. By comparing the accuracy and running time, then we will know which method is better in classifying the colorectal cancer dataset that we get from Al-Islam Hospital, Bandung, Indonesia. The results showed that polynomial kernels has better accuracy and running time. It can be seen with a maximum accuracy of twin SVM using polynomial kernels 86% and 0.502 seconds running time.
This paper proposes the development of a software that performs the pre-diagnosis of malignant melanoma, spincellular carcinoma and basal-cell carcinoma. The software is divided into five modules, these being: digital imaging, analysis and processing, storage, feature extraction and classification by means of an Artificial Neural Network (ANN). The results shown the performance of the software for two different combination of activation functions in the network. With the use of spectroscopic techniques for the acquisition of images and the combination of non-linear and linear activation functions in the ANN, the software shows an effectiveness greater than 80%, concluding that it can be an effective tool as an aid in the diagnosis of cancer of skin.
Detecting malaria using a deep convolutional neural networkYusuf Brima
Experiment with Deep Residual Convolutional Neural Network to classify microscopic blood cell images (Uninfected, Parasitized)
Utiling ResNet,Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition (He et al, 2015) architecture.
Uses Keras with a Tensorflow backend.
Despite the availability of radiology devices in some health care centers, thorax diseases are considered as one of the most common health problems, especially in rural areas. By exploiting the power of the Internet of things and specific platforms to analyze a large volume of medical data, the health of a patient could be improved earlier. In this paper, the proposed model is based on pre-trained ResNet-50 for diagnosing thorax diseases. Chest x-ray images are cropped to extract the rib cage part from the chest radiographs. ResNet-50 was re-train on Chest x-ray14 dataset where a chest radiograph images are inserted into the model to determine if the person is healthy or not. In the case of an unhealthy patient, the model can classify the disease into one of the fourteen chest diseases. The results show the ability of ResNet-50 in achieving impressive performance in classifying thorax diseases.
Pine wilt disease spreading prevention system using semantic segmentation IJECEIAES
Pine wilt disease is a disease that affects ecosystems by rapidly killing trees in a short period of time due to the close interaction between three factors such as trees, mediates, and pathogens. There are no 100% mortality infectious forest pests. According to the Korea Forest Service survey, as of April 2019, the damage of pine re-nematode disease was about 490,000 dead trees in 117 cities, counties and wards across the country. It's a fatal condition. In order to prevent this problem, this paper proposes a system that detects dead trees, early infection trees, and the like, using deep learningbased semantic segmentation. In addition, drones were used to photograph the area of the forest, and a separate pixel segmentation label could be used to identify three levels of transmission information: Suspicion, attention, and confirmation. This allows the user to grasp information such as area, location, and alarm to prevent the spread of re-nematode disease.
An improvement of Gram-negative bacteria identification using convolutional n...TELKOMNIKA JOURNAL
This paper proposes an image processing approach to identify Gram-negative bacteria. Gram-negative bacteria are one of the bacteria that cause lung lobe damage-bacterial samples obtained through smears of the patient's sputum. The first step bacterium should pass the pathogen test process. After that, it bred using Mc Conkey's media. The problem faced is that the process of identifying bacterial objects is still done manually under a fluorescence microscope. The contributions offered from this research are focused on observing bacterial morphology for the operation of selecting shape features. The proposed method is a convolutional neural network with fine-tuning. In the stages of the process, a convolutional neural network of the VGG-16 architecture used dropout, data augmentation, and fine-tuning stages. The main goal of the current research was to determine the method selection is to get a high degree of accuracy. This research uses a total sample of 2520 images from 2 different classes. The amount of data used at each stage of training, testing, and validation is 840 images with dimensions of 256x256 pixels, a resolution of 96 points per inch, and a depth of 24 bits. The accuracy of the results obtained at the training stage is 99.20%.
Twin support vector machine using kernel function for colorectal cancer detec...journalBEEI
Nowadays, machine learning technology is needed in the medical field. therefore, this research is useful for solving problems in the medical field by using machine learning. Many cases of colorectal cancer are diagnosed late. When colorectal cancer is detected, the cancer is usually well developed. Machine learning is an approach that is part of artificial intelligence and can detect colorectal cancer early. This study discusses colorectal cancer detection using twin support vector machine (SVM) method and kernel function i.e. linear kernels, polynomial kernels, RBF kernels, and gaussian kernels. By comparing the accuracy and running time, then we will know which method is better in classifying the colorectal cancer dataset that we get from Al-Islam Hospital, Bandung, Indonesia. The results showed that polynomial kernels has better accuracy and running time. It can be seen with a maximum accuracy of twin SVM using polynomial kernels 86% and 0.502 seconds running time.
This paper proposes the development of a software that performs the pre-diagnosis of malignant melanoma, spincellular carcinoma and basal-cell carcinoma. The software is divided into five modules, these being: digital imaging, analysis and processing, storage, feature extraction and classification by means of an Artificial Neural Network (ANN). The results shown the performance of the software for two different combination of activation functions in the network. With the use of spectroscopic techniques for the acquisition of images and the combination of non-linear and linear activation functions in the ANN, the software shows an effectiveness greater than 80%, concluding that it can be an effective tool as an aid in the diagnosis of cancer of skin.
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology.
Utilization of Super Pixel Based Microarray Image Segmentationijtsrd
In the division of PC vision pictures, Super pixels are go probably as key part from 10 years prior. There are various counts and methodology to separate the Super pixels anyway whole all of them the best super pixel looking at strategy is Simple Linear Iterative Clustering SLIC have come to pivot continuously recently. The concentrating of small scale group quality verbalization from MRI imaging is more useful to perceive tumors or some other dangerous development contaminations, so the fundamental DNA cDNA microarray is a grounded device for analyzing the same. The division of microarray pictures is the essential development in a microarray assessment. In this paper, we proposed a figuring to dividing the cDNA small show picture using Simple Linear Iterative Clustering SLIC based Self Organizing Maps SOM method. In any case, the proposed figuring is taken up a moving task to look at the bad quality of pictures in addition. There are two phases to separate the image, introductory, a pre setting up the applied picture to diminish fuss levels and second, to piece the image using SLIC based SOM approach. Mr. Davu Manikanta | Mr. Parasurama N | K Keerthi "Utilization of Super Pixel Based Microarray Image Segmentation" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-5 | Issue-5 , August 2021, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd46274.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/engineering/electronics-and-communication-engineering/46274/utilization-of-super-pixel-based-microarray-image-segmentation/mr-davu-manikanta
An Analysis of The Methods Employed for Breast Cancer Diagnosis IJORCS
Breast cancer research over the last decade has been tremendous. The ground breaking innovations and novel methods help in the early detection, in setting the stages of the therapy and in assessing the response of the patient to the treatment. The prediction of the recurrent cancer is also crucial for the survival of the patient. This paper studies various techniques used for the diagnosis of breast cancer. Different methods are explored for their merits and de-merits for the diagnosis of breast lesion. Some of the methods are yet unproven but the studies look very encouraging. It was found that the recent use of the combination of Artificial Neural Networks in most of the instances gives accurate results for the diagnosis of breast cancer and their use can also be extended to other diseases.
Towards A More Secure Web Based Tele Radiology System: A Steganographic ApproachCSCJournals
While it is possible to make a patient's medical images available to a practicing radiologist online e.g. through open network systems inter connectivity and email attachments, these methods don't guarantee the security, confidentiality and tamper free reliability required in a medical information system infrastructure. The possibility of securely and covertly transmitting such medical images remotely for clinical interpretation and diagnosis through a secure steganographic technique was the focus of this study.
We propose a method that uses an Enhanced Least Significant Bit (ELSB) steganographic insertion method to embed a patient's Medical Image (MI) in the spatial domain of a cover digital image and his/her health records in the frequency domain of the same cover image as a watermark to ensure tamper detection and nonrepudiation. The ELSB method uses the Marsenne Twister (MT) Pseudo Random Number Generator (PRNG) to randomly embed and conceal the patient's data in the cover image. This technique significantly increases the imperceptibility of the hidden information to steganalysis thereby enhancing the security of the embedded patient's data.
In measuring the effectiveness of the proposed method, the study adopted the Design Science Research (DSR) methodology, a paradigm for problem solving in computing and Information Systems (IS) that involves design and implementation of artefacts and methods considered novel and the analytical testing of the performance of such artefacts in pursuit of understanding and enhancing an existing method, artefact or practice.
The fidelity measures of the stego images from the proposed method were compared with those from the traditional Least Significant Bit (LSB) method in order to establish the imperceptibility of the embedded information. The results demonstrated improvements of between 1 to 2.6 decibels (dB) in the Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR), and up to 0.4 MSE ratios for the proposed method.
FRACTAL PARAMETERS OF TUMOUR MICROSCOPIC IMAGES AS PROGNOSTIC INDICATORS OF C...csandit
Research in the field of breast cancer outcome prognosis has been focused on molecular biomarkers, while neglecting the discovery of novel tumour histology structural clues. We thus
aimed to improve breast cancer prognosis by fractal analysis of tumour histomorphology. This study included 92 breast cancer patients without systemic treatment. Fractal parametersfractal dimension and lacunarity of the breast tumour microscopic histology possess prognostic value comparable to the major clinicopathological prognostic parameters. Fractal analysis was performed for the first time on routinely produced archived pan-tissue stained primary breast tumour sections, indicating its potential for clinical use as a simple and cost-effective prognostic indicator of distant metastasis risk to complement the molecular approaches for
cancer risk prognosis.
International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) is an open access online peer reviewed international journal that publishes research and review articles in the fields of Computer Science, Neural Networks, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Plastic Engineering, Food Technology, Textile Engineering, Nano Technology & science, Power Electronics, Electronics & Communication Engineering, Computational mathematics, Image processing, Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering, VLSI Testing & Low Power VLSI Design etc.
International Journal of Computational Engineering Research (IJCER) is dedicated to protecting personal information and will make every reasonable effort to handle collected information appropriately. All information collected, as well as related requests, will be handled as carefully and efficiently as possible in accordance with IJCER standards for integrity and objectivity.
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology
SEGMENTATION OF MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS LESION IN BRAIN MR IMAGES USING FUZZY C-MEANSijaia
Magnetic resonance images (MRI) play an important role in supporting and substituting clinical
information in the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS) disease by presenting lesion in brain MR images. In
this paper, an algorithm for MS lesion segmentation from Brain MR Images has been presented. We revisit
the modification of properties of fuzzy -c means algorithms and the canny edge detection. By changing and
reformed fuzzy c-means clustering algorithms, and applying canny contraction principle, a relationship
between MS lesions and edge detection is established. For the special case of FCM, we derive a sufficient
condition and clustering parameters, allowing identification of them as (local) minima of the objective
function.
Using Artificial Neural Networks to Detect Multiple Cancers from a Blood TestStevenQu1
Research paper drafted during my 2 year internship with Oak Ridge National Laboratory illustrating the potential of artificial intelligence in cancer research.
An Integrated Algorithm supporting Confidentiality and Integrity for secured ...CSCJournals
In healthcare industry, the patient\'s medical data plays a vital role because diagnosis of any ailments is done by using those data. The high volume of medical data leads to scalability and maintenance issues when using health-care provider\'s on-site picture archiving and communication system (PACS) and network oriented storage system. Therefore a standard is needed for maintaining the medical data and for better diagnosis. Since the medical data reflects in a similar way to individuals’ personal information, secrecy should be maintained. Maintaining secrecy can be done by encrypting the data, but as medical data involves images and videos, traditional text based encryption/decryption schemes are not adequate for providing confidentiality. In this paper, we propose an algorithm for securing the DICOM format medical archives by providing better confidentiality and maintaining their integrity. Our contribution in this algorithm is of twofold: (1) Development of Improved Chaotic based Arnold Cat Map for encryption/decryption of DICOM files and (2) Applying a new hash algorithm based on chaotic theory for those encrypted files for maintaining integrity. By applying this algorithm, the secrecy of medical data is maintained. The proposed algorithm is tested with various DICOM format image archives by studying the following parameters i) PSNR - for quality of images and ii) Key - for security.
Comparing the performance of linear regression versus deep learning on detect...journalBEEI
Melanoma is a type of deadly skin cancer. The survival rate of the patients can fall as low as 15.7% if the cancer cell has reached its final stage. Delayed treatment of melanoma can be attributed to its likeness to that of common nevus (moles). Two machine learning models were developed, each with a different approach and algorithm, to detect the presence of melanoma. Image classification is using the regression algorithm, and object detection is using deep learning. The two models are then compared, and the best model is determined according to the achieved metrics. The testing was conducted using 120 testing data and is made up of 60 positive data and 60 negative data. The testing result shows that object detection achieved 70% accuracy than image classification’s 68%. More importantly, linear regression’s 43% false-negative rate is noticeably high compared to convolutional neural network’s (CNN) 25%. A false-negative rate of 43% means almost half of sick patients tested using image classification will be diagnosed as healthy. This is dangerous as it can lead to delayed treatment and, ultimately, death. Thus it can be concluded that CNN is the best method in detecting the presence of melanoma.
Realistic image synthesis of COVID-19 chest X-rays using depthwise boundary ...IJECEIAES
Researchers in various related fields research preventing and controlling the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) virus. The spread of the COVID-19 is increasing exponentially and infecting humans massively. Preliminary detection can be observed by looking at abnormal conditions in the airways, thus allowing the entry of the virus into the patient's respiratory tract, which can be represented using computer tomography (CT) scan and chest X-ray (CXR) imaging. Particular deep learning approaches have been developed to classify COVID-19 CT or CXR images such as convolutional neural network (CNN), and deep convolutional neural network (DCNN). However, COVID-19 CXR dataset was measly opened and accessed. Particular deep learning method performance can be improved by augmenting the dataset amount. Therefore, the COVID-19 CXR dataset was possibly augmented by generating the synthetic image. This study discusses a fast and real-like image synthesis approach, namely depthwise boundary equilibrium generative adversarial network (DepthwiseBEGAN). DepthwiseBEGAN was reduced memory load 70.11% in training processes compared to the conventional BEGAN. DepthwiseBEGAN synthetic images were inspected by measuring the Fréchet inception distance (FID) score with the real-to-real score equal to 4.3866 and real-to-fake score equal to 4.4674. Moreover, generated DepthwiseBEGAN synthetic images improve 22.59% accuracy of conventional CNN models.
Classification of COVID-19 from CT chest images using convolutional wavelet ...IJECEIAES
Analyzing X-rays and computed tomography-scan (CT scan) images using a convolutional neural network (CNN) method is a very interesting subject, especially after coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. In this paper, a study is made on 423 patients’ CT scan images from Al-Kadhimiya (Madenat Al Emammain Al Kadhmain) hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, to diagnose if they have COVID or not using CNN. The total data being tested has 15000 CT-scan images chosen in a specific way to give a correct diagnosis. The activation function used in this research is the wavelet function, which differs from CNN activation functions. The convolutional wavelet neural network (CWNN) model proposed in this paper is compared with regular convolutional neural network that uses other activation functions (exponential linear unit (ELU), rectified linear unit (ReLU), Swish, Leaky ReLU, Sigmoid), and the result is that utilizing CWNN gave better results for all performance metrics (accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, precision, and F1-score). The results obtained show that the prediction accuracies of CWNN were 99.97%, 99.9%, 99.97%, and 99.04% when using wavelet filters (rational function with quadratic poles (RASP1), (RASP2), and polynomials windowed (POLYWOG1), superposed logistic function (SLOG1)) as activation function, respectively. Using this algorithm can reduce the time required for the radiologist to detect whether a patient has COVID or not with very high accuracy.
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology.
Utilization of Super Pixel Based Microarray Image Segmentationijtsrd
In the division of PC vision pictures, Super pixels are go probably as key part from 10 years prior. There are various counts and methodology to separate the Super pixels anyway whole all of them the best super pixel looking at strategy is Simple Linear Iterative Clustering SLIC have come to pivot continuously recently. The concentrating of small scale group quality verbalization from MRI imaging is more useful to perceive tumors or some other dangerous development contaminations, so the fundamental DNA cDNA microarray is a grounded device for analyzing the same. The division of microarray pictures is the essential development in a microarray assessment. In this paper, we proposed a figuring to dividing the cDNA small show picture using Simple Linear Iterative Clustering SLIC based Self Organizing Maps SOM method. In any case, the proposed figuring is taken up a moving task to look at the bad quality of pictures in addition. There are two phases to separate the image, introductory, a pre setting up the applied picture to diminish fuss levels and second, to piece the image using SLIC based SOM approach. Mr. Davu Manikanta | Mr. Parasurama N | K Keerthi "Utilization of Super Pixel Based Microarray Image Segmentation" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-5 | Issue-5 , August 2021, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd46274.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/engineering/electronics-and-communication-engineering/46274/utilization-of-super-pixel-based-microarray-image-segmentation/mr-davu-manikanta
An Analysis of The Methods Employed for Breast Cancer Diagnosis IJORCS
Breast cancer research over the last decade has been tremendous. The ground breaking innovations and novel methods help in the early detection, in setting the stages of the therapy and in assessing the response of the patient to the treatment. The prediction of the recurrent cancer is also crucial for the survival of the patient. This paper studies various techniques used for the diagnosis of breast cancer. Different methods are explored for their merits and de-merits for the diagnosis of breast lesion. Some of the methods are yet unproven but the studies look very encouraging. It was found that the recent use of the combination of Artificial Neural Networks in most of the instances gives accurate results for the diagnosis of breast cancer and their use can also be extended to other diseases.
Towards A More Secure Web Based Tele Radiology System: A Steganographic ApproachCSCJournals
While it is possible to make a patient's medical images available to a practicing radiologist online e.g. through open network systems inter connectivity and email attachments, these methods don't guarantee the security, confidentiality and tamper free reliability required in a medical information system infrastructure. The possibility of securely and covertly transmitting such medical images remotely for clinical interpretation and diagnosis through a secure steganographic technique was the focus of this study.
We propose a method that uses an Enhanced Least Significant Bit (ELSB) steganographic insertion method to embed a patient's Medical Image (MI) in the spatial domain of a cover digital image and his/her health records in the frequency domain of the same cover image as a watermark to ensure tamper detection and nonrepudiation. The ELSB method uses the Marsenne Twister (MT) Pseudo Random Number Generator (PRNG) to randomly embed and conceal the patient's data in the cover image. This technique significantly increases the imperceptibility of the hidden information to steganalysis thereby enhancing the security of the embedded patient's data.
In measuring the effectiveness of the proposed method, the study adopted the Design Science Research (DSR) methodology, a paradigm for problem solving in computing and Information Systems (IS) that involves design and implementation of artefacts and methods considered novel and the analytical testing of the performance of such artefacts in pursuit of understanding and enhancing an existing method, artefact or practice.
The fidelity measures of the stego images from the proposed method were compared with those from the traditional Least Significant Bit (LSB) method in order to establish the imperceptibility of the embedded information. The results demonstrated improvements of between 1 to 2.6 decibels (dB) in the Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR), and up to 0.4 MSE ratios for the proposed method.
FRACTAL PARAMETERS OF TUMOUR MICROSCOPIC IMAGES AS PROGNOSTIC INDICATORS OF C...csandit
Research in the field of breast cancer outcome prognosis has been focused on molecular biomarkers, while neglecting the discovery of novel tumour histology structural clues. We thus
aimed to improve breast cancer prognosis by fractal analysis of tumour histomorphology. This study included 92 breast cancer patients without systemic treatment. Fractal parametersfractal dimension and lacunarity of the breast tumour microscopic histology possess prognostic value comparable to the major clinicopathological prognostic parameters. Fractal analysis was performed for the first time on routinely produced archived pan-tissue stained primary breast tumour sections, indicating its potential for clinical use as a simple and cost-effective prognostic indicator of distant metastasis risk to complement the molecular approaches for
cancer risk prognosis.
International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) is an open access online peer reviewed international journal that publishes research and review articles in the fields of Computer Science, Neural Networks, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Plastic Engineering, Food Technology, Textile Engineering, Nano Technology & science, Power Electronics, Electronics & Communication Engineering, Computational mathematics, Image processing, Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering, VLSI Testing & Low Power VLSI Design etc.
International Journal of Computational Engineering Research (IJCER) is dedicated to protecting personal information and will make every reasonable effort to handle collected information appropriately. All information collected, as well as related requests, will be handled as carefully and efficiently as possible in accordance with IJCER standards for integrity and objectivity.
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology
SEGMENTATION OF MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS LESION IN BRAIN MR IMAGES USING FUZZY C-MEANSijaia
Magnetic resonance images (MRI) play an important role in supporting and substituting clinical
information in the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS) disease by presenting lesion in brain MR images. In
this paper, an algorithm for MS lesion segmentation from Brain MR Images has been presented. We revisit
the modification of properties of fuzzy -c means algorithms and the canny edge detection. By changing and
reformed fuzzy c-means clustering algorithms, and applying canny contraction principle, a relationship
between MS lesions and edge detection is established. For the special case of FCM, we derive a sufficient
condition and clustering parameters, allowing identification of them as (local) minima of the objective
function.
Using Artificial Neural Networks to Detect Multiple Cancers from a Blood TestStevenQu1
Research paper drafted during my 2 year internship with Oak Ridge National Laboratory illustrating the potential of artificial intelligence in cancer research.
An Integrated Algorithm supporting Confidentiality and Integrity for secured ...CSCJournals
In healthcare industry, the patient\'s medical data plays a vital role because diagnosis of any ailments is done by using those data. The high volume of medical data leads to scalability and maintenance issues when using health-care provider\'s on-site picture archiving and communication system (PACS) and network oriented storage system. Therefore a standard is needed for maintaining the medical data and for better diagnosis. Since the medical data reflects in a similar way to individuals’ personal information, secrecy should be maintained. Maintaining secrecy can be done by encrypting the data, but as medical data involves images and videos, traditional text based encryption/decryption schemes are not adequate for providing confidentiality. In this paper, we propose an algorithm for securing the DICOM format medical archives by providing better confidentiality and maintaining their integrity. Our contribution in this algorithm is of twofold: (1) Development of Improved Chaotic based Arnold Cat Map for encryption/decryption of DICOM files and (2) Applying a new hash algorithm based on chaotic theory for those encrypted files for maintaining integrity. By applying this algorithm, the secrecy of medical data is maintained. The proposed algorithm is tested with various DICOM format image archives by studying the following parameters i) PSNR - for quality of images and ii) Key - for security.
Comparing the performance of linear regression versus deep learning on detect...journalBEEI
Melanoma is a type of deadly skin cancer. The survival rate of the patients can fall as low as 15.7% if the cancer cell has reached its final stage. Delayed treatment of melanoma can be attributed to its likeness to that of common nevus (moles). Two machine learning models were developed, each with a different approach and algorithm, to detect the presence of melanoma. Image classification is using the regression algorithm, and object detection is using deep learning. The two models are then compared, and the best model is determined according to the achieved metrics. The testing was conducted using 120 testing data and is made up of 60 positive data and 60 negative data. The testing result shows that object detection achieved 70% accuracy than image classification’s 68%. More importantly, linear regression’s 43% false-negative rate is noticeably high compared to convolutional neural network’s (CNN) 25%. A false-negative rate of 43% means almost half of sick patients tested using image classification will be diagnosed as healthy. This is dangerous as it can lead to delayed treatment and, ultimately, death. Thus it can be concluded that CNN is the best method in detecting the presence of melanoma.
Realistic image synthesis of COVID-19 chest X-rays using depthwise boundary ...IJECEIAES
Researchers in various related fields research preventing and controlling the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) virus. The spread of the COVID-19 is increasing exponentially and infecting humans massively. Preliminary detection can be observed by looking at abnormal conditions in the airways, thus allowing the entry of the virus into the patient's respiratory tract, which can be represented using computer tomography (CT) scan and chest X-ray (CXR) imaging. Particular deep learning approaches have been developed to classify COVID-19 CT or CXR images such as convolutional neural network (CNN), and deep convolutional neural network (DCNN). However, COVID-19 CXR dataset was measly opened and accessed. Particular deep learning method performance can be improved by augmenting the dataset amount. Therefore, the COVID-19 CXR dataset was possibly augmented by generating the synthetic image. This study discusses a fast and real-like image synthesis approach, namely depthwise boundary equilibrium generative adversarial network (DepthwiseBEGAN). DepthwiseBEGAN was reduced memory load 70.11% in training processes compared to the conventional BEGAN. DepthwiseBEGAN synthetic images were inspected by measuring the Fréchet inception distance (FID) score with the real-to-real score equal to 4.3866 and real-to-fake score equal to 4.4674. Moreover, generated DepthwiseBEGAN synthetic images improve 22.59% accuracy of conventional CNN models.
Classification of COVID-19 from CT chest images using convolutional wavelet ...IJECEIAES
Analyzing X-rays and computed tomography-scan (CT scan) images using a convolutional neural network (CNN) method is a very interesting subject, especially after coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. In this paper, a study is made on 423 patients’ CT scan images from Al-Kadhimiya (Madenat Al Emammain Al Kadhmain) hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, to diagnose if they have COVID or not using CNN. The total data being tested has 15000 CT-scan images chosen in a specific way to give a correct diagnosis. The activation function used in this research is the wavelet function, which differs from CNN activation functions. The convolutional wavelet neural network (CWNN) model proposed in this paper is compared with regular convolutional neural network that uses other activation functions (exponential linear unit (ELU), rectified linear unit (ReLU), Swish, Leaky ReLU, Sigmoid), and the result is that utilizing CWNN gave better results for all performance metrics (accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, precision, and F1-score). The results obtained show that the prediction accuracies of CWNN were 99.97%, 99.9%, 99.97%, and 99.04% when using wavelet filters (rational function with quadratic poles (RASP1), (RASP2), and polynomials windowed (POLYWOG1), superposed logistic function (SLOG1)) as activation function, respectively. Using this algorithm can reduce the time required for the radiologist to detect whether a patient has COVID or not with very high accuracy.
Recognition of Corona virus disease (COVID-19) using deep learning network IJECEIAES
Corona virus disease (COVID-19) has an incredible influence in the last few months. It causes thousands of deaths in round the world. This make a rapid research movement to deal with this new virus. As a computer science, many technical researches have been done to tackle with it by using image processing algorithms. In this work, we introduce a method based on deep learning networks to classify COVID-19 based on x-ray images. Our results are encouraging to rely on to classify the infected people from the normal. We conduct our experiments on recent dataset, Kaggle dataset of COVID-19 X-ray images and using ResNet50 deep learning network with 5 and 10 folds cross validation. The experiments results show that 5 folds gives effective results than 10 folds with accuracy rate 97.28%.
A comparative analysis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease using machin...IJECEIAES
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a general clinical issue in numerous countries considered the fifth reason for inability and the third reason for mortality on a global scale within 2021. From recent reviews, a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) is used in the primary analysis of the deadly COPD, which uses the computed tomography (CT) images procured from the deep learning tools. Detection and analysis of COPD using several image processing techniques, deep learning models, and machine learning models are notable contributions to this review. This research aims to cover the detailed findings on pulmonary diseases or lung diseases, their causes, and symptoms, which will help treat infections with high performance and a swift response. The articles selected have more than 80% accuracy and are tabulated and analyzed for sensitivity, specificity, and area under the curve (AUC) using different methodologies. This research focuses on the various tools and techniques used in COPD analysis and eventually provides an overview of COPD with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) symptoms.
One reliable way of detecting coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is using a chest x-ray image due to its complications in the lung parenchyma. This paper proposes a solution for COVID-19 detection in chest x-ray images based on a convolutional neural network (CNN). This CNN-based solution is developed using a modified InceptionV3 as a backbone architecture. Selfattention layers are inserted to modify the backbone such that the number of trainable parameters is reduced and meaningful areas of COVID-19 in chest x-ray images are focused on a training process. The proposed CNN architecture is then learned to construct a model to classify COVID-19 cases from non-COVID-19 cases. It achieves sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy values of 93%, 96%, and 96%, respectively. The model is also further validated on the so-called other normal and abnormal, which are nonCOVID-19 cases. Cases of other normal contain chest x-ray images of elderly patients with minimal fibrosis and spondylosis of the spine, whereas other abnormal cases contain chest x-ray images of tuberculosis, pneumonia, and pulmonary edema. The proposed solution could correctly classify them as non-COVID-19 with 92% accuracy. This is a practical scenario where nonCOVID-19 cases could cover more than just a normal condition.
Identification the number of Mycobacterium tuberculosis based on sputum image...journalBEEI
Infectious disease caused by infection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is called tuberculosis (TB). A common method in detecting TB is by identifying number of mycobacterium TB in sputum manually. Unfortunately, manually calculation by pathologists take a relatively long time. Previous researches on TB bacteria were still limited to detect the absence or presence of mycobacterium TB in images of sputum. This research aims are identifying number of mycobacterium TB and determining accuracy of classification TB severity by approaching nonparametric Poisson regression model and applying an estimator namely local linear. Steps include processing of image, reducing of dimension by applying partial least square and discrete wavelet transformation, and then identifying the number of mycobacterium TB by using the proposed model approach. In this research, we get deviance values of 28.410 for nonparametric and 93.029 for parametric approaches and the average of classification accuracy values for 4 iterations of 92.75% for nonparametric and 85.5% for parametric approaches. Thus, for identifying many of mycobacterium TB met in images of sputum and classifying of TB severity, the proposed identifying method gives higher accuracy and shorter time in identifying number of mycobacterium TB than parametric linear regression method.
A deep learning approach for COVID-19 and pneumonia detection from chest X-r...IJECEIAES
There has been a surge in biomedical imaging technologies with the recent advancement of deep learning. It is being used for diagnosis from X-ray, computed tomography (CT) scan, electrocardiogram (ECG), and electroencephalography (EEG) images. However, most of them are solely for particular disease detection. In this research, a computer-aided deep learning model named COVID-CXDNetV2 has been presented to detect two separate diseases, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and pneumonia, from the X-ray images in real-time. The proposed model is made based on you only look once (YOLOv2) with residual neural network (ResNet) and trained by a vast X-ray images dataset containing 3788 samples of three classes named COVID-19 pneumonia and normal. The model has obtained the maximum overall classification accuracy of 97.9% with a loss of 0.052 for multiclass classification (COVID-19, pneumonia, and normal) and 99.8% accuracy, 99.52% sensitivity, 100% specificity with a loss of 0.001 for binary classification (COVID-19 and normal), which beats some current state-of-the-art results. Authors believe that this method will be applicable in the medical domain for the diagnosis and will significantly contribute to real life.
Deep learning method for lung cancer identification and classificationIAESIJAI
Lung cancer (LC) is calming many lives and is becoming a serious cause of concern. The detection of LC at an early stage assists the chances of recovery. Accuracy of detection of LC at an early stage can be improved with the help of a convolutional neural network (CNN) based deep learning approach. In this paper, we present two methodologies for Lung cancer detection (LCD) applied on Lung image database consortium (LIDC) and image database resource initiative (IDRI) data sets. Classification of these LC images is carried out using support vector machine (SVM), and deep CNN. The CNN is trained with i) multiple batches and ii) single batch for LC image classification as non cancer and cancer image. All these methods are being implemented in MATLAB. The accuracy of classification obtained by SVM is 65%, whereas deep CNN produced detection accuracy of 80% and 100% respectively for multiple and single batch training. The novelty of our experimentation is near 100% classification accuracy obtained by our deep CNN model when tested on 25 Lung computed tomography (CT) test images each of size 512×512 pixels in less than 20 iterations as compared to the research work carried out by other researchers using cropped LC nodule images.
Employing deep learning for lung sounds classificationIJECEIAES
Respiratory diseases indicate severe medical problems. They cause death for more than three million people annually according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Recently, with coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) spreading the situation has become extremely serious. Thus, early detection of infected people is very vital in limiting the spread of respiratory diseases and COVID-19. In this paper, we have examined two different models using convolution neural networks. Firstly, we proposed and build a convolution neural network (CNN) model from scratch for classification the lung breath sounds. Secondly, we employed transfer learning using the pre-trained network AlexNet applying on the similar dataset. Our proposed model achieved an accuracy of 0.91 whereas the transfer learning model performing much better with an accuracy of 0.94.
Classification of mammograms based on features extraction techniques using su...CSITiaesprime
Now mammography can be defined as the most reliable method for early breast cancer detection. The main goal of this study is to design a classifier model to help radiologists to provide a second view to diagnose mammograms. In the proposed system medium filter and binary image with a global threshold have been applied for removing the noise and small artifacts in the preprocessing stage. Secondly, in the segmentation phase, a hybrid bounding box and region growing (HBBRG) algorithm are utilizing to remove pectoral muscles, and then a geometric method has been applied to cut the largest possible square that can be obtained from a mammogram which represents the region of interest (ROI). In the features extraction phase three method was used to prepare texture features to be a suitable introduction to the classification process are first Order (statistical features), local binary patterns (LBP), and gray-level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM), Finally, support vector machine (SVM) has been applied in two-level to classify mammogram images in the first level to normal or abnormal, and then the classification of abnormal once in the second level to the benign or malignant image. The system was tested on the MAIS the mammogram image analysis society (MIAS) database, in addition to the image from the Teaching Oncology Hospital, Medical City in Baghdad, where the results showed achieving an accuracy of 95.454% for the first level and 97.260% for the second level, also, the results of applying the proposed system to the MIAS database alone were achieving an accuracy of 93.105% for the first level and 94.59 for the second level.
MARIE: VALIDATION OF THE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODEL FOR COVID-19 DETECTIONijma
Lung X-ray images, if processed using statistical and computational methods, can distinguish pneumonia from COVID-19. The present work shows that it is possible to extract lung X-ray characteristics to improve the methods of examining and diagnosing patients with suspected COVID-19, distinguishing them from malaria, tuberculosis, and Streptococcus pneumonia. More precisely, an intelligent computational model was developed to process lung X-ray images and classify whether the image is of a patient with COVID-19. In partnership with the municipality of Itapeva, Minas Gerais, we carried out patient analysis and, at the same time, we evolved the algorithms to meet the needs of health professionals and also expand support in tracking COVID-19 in the municipality. In this project we will describe cases and even signs and symptoms that were similar to the clinical performed by the doctor. The average recognition accuracy of COVID-19 was 0.97,4 ± 0.043.
Pneumonia prediction on chest x-ray images using deep learning approachIAESIJAI
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious disease with first symptoms similar to the flu. In many cases, this disease causes pneumonia. Since pulmonary infections can be observed through radiography images, this paper investigates deep learning methods for automatically analyzing query chest x-ray images. In deep learning, computers can automatically identify useful features for the model, directly from the raw data, bypassing the difficult step of manual information refinement. The main part of the deep learning method is the focus on automatically learning data representations. Visual geometry group 16 (VGG16) and DenseNet121 are methods in deep learning. The data used is a chest x-ray of pneumonia. Data is divided into training, testing, and validation. The best method for this research case is VGG16 with 93% accuracy training and 90% accuracy testing. In this study, DenseNet121 obtained accuracy below VGG16, with 92% accuracy in training and 88% for accuracy testing. Parameters have a significant influence on the accuracy of each model, and with the parameters that have been used, the VGG16 is a method that has high accuracy and can be used to predict chest x-ray images aimed at checking pneumonia in patients.
Amazon products reviews classification based on machine learning, deep learni...TELKOMNIKA JOURNAL
In recent times, the trend of online shopping through e-commerce stores and websites has grown to a huge extent. Whenever a product is purchased on an e-commerce platform, people leave their reviews about the product. These reviews are very helpful for the store owners and the product’s manufacturers for the betterment of their work process as well as product quality. An automated system is proposed in this work that operates on two datasets D1 and D2 obtained from Amazon. After certain preprocessing steps, N-gram and word embedding-based features are extracted using term frequency-inverse document frequency (TF-IDF), bag of words (BoW) and global vectors (GloVe), and Word2vec, respectively. Four machine learning (ML) models support vector machines (SVM), logistic regression (RF), logistic regression (LR), multinomial Naïve Bayes (MNB), two deep learning (DL) models convolutional neural network (CNN), long-short term memory (LSTM), and standalone bidirectional encoder representations (BERT) are used to classify reviews as either positive or negative. The results obtained by the standard ML, DL models and BERT are evaluated using certain performance evaluation measures. BERT turns out to be the best-performing model in the case of D1 with an accuracy of 90% on features derived by word embedding models while the CNN provides the best accuracy of 97% upon word embedding features in the case of D2. The proposed model shows better overall performance on D2 as compared to D1.
Design, simulation, and analysis of microstrip patch antenna for wireless app...TELKOMNIKA JOURNAL
In this study, a microstrip patch antenna that works at 3.6 GHz was built and tested to see how well it works. In this work, Rogers RT/Duroid 5880 has been used as the substrate material, with a dielectric permittivity of 2.2 and a thickness of 0.3451 mm; it serves as the base for the examined antenna. The computer simulation technology (CST) studio suite is utilized to show the recommended antenna design. The goal of this study was to get a more extensive transmission capacity, a lower voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR), and a lower return loss, but the main goal was to get a higher gain, directivity, and efficiency. After simulation, the return loss, gain, directivity, bandwidth, and efficiency of the supplied antenna are found to be -17.626 dB, 9.671 dBi, 9.924 dBi, 0.2 GHz, and 97.45%, respectively. Besides, the recreation uncovered that the transfer speed side-lobe level at phi was much better than those of the earlier works, at -28.8 dB, respectively. Thus, it makes a solid contender for remote innovation and more robust communication.
Design and simulation an optimal enhanced PI controller for congestion avoida...TELKOMNIKA JOURNAL
In this paper, snake optimization algorithm (SOA) is used to find the optimal gains of an enhanced controller for controlling congestion problem in computer networks. M-file and Simulink platform is adopted to evaluate the response of the active queue management (AQM) system, a comparison with two classical controllers is done, all tuned gains of controllers are obtained using SOA method and the fitness function chose to monitor the system performance is the integral time absolute error (ITAE). Transient analysis and robust analysis is used to show the proposed controller performance, two robustness tests are applied to the AQM system, one is done by varying the size of queue value in different period and the other test is done by changing the number of transmission control protocol (TCP) sessions with a value of ± 20% from its original value. The simulation results reflect a stable and robust behavior and best performance is appeared clearly to achieve the desired queue size without any noise or any transmission problems.
Improving the detection of intrusion in vehicular ad-hoc networks with modifi...TELKOMNIKA JOURNAL
Vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs) are wireless-equipped vehicles that form networks along the road. The security of this network has been a major challenge. The identity-based cryptosystem (IBC) previously used to secure the networks suffers from membership authentication security features. This paper focuses on improving the detection of intruders in VANETs with a modified identity-based cryptosystem (MIBC). The MIBC is developed using a non-singular elliptic curve with Lagrange interpolation. The public key of vehicles and roadside units on the network are derived from number plates and location identification numbers, respectively. Pseudo-identities are used to mask the real identity of users to preserve their privacy. The membership authentication mechanism ensures that only valid and authenticated members of the network are allowed to join the network. The performance of the MIBC is evaluated using intrusion detection ratio (IDR) and computation time (CT) and then validated with the existing IBC. The result obtained shows that the MIBC recorded an IDR of 99.3% against 94.3% obtained for the existing identity-based cryptosystem (EIBC) for 140 unregistered vehicles attempting to intrude on the network. The MIBC shows lower CT values of 1.17 ms against 1.70 ms for EIBC. The MIBC can be used to improve the security of VANETs.
Conceptual model of internet banking adoption with perceived risk and trust f...TELKOMNIKA JOURNAL
Understanding the primary factors of internet banking (IB) acceptance is critical for both banks and users; nevertheless, our knowledge of the role of users’ perceived risk and trust in IB adoption is limited. As a result, we develop a conceptual model by incorporating perceived risk and trust into the technology acceptance model (TAM) theory toward the IB. The proper research emphasized that the most essential component in explaining IB adoption behavior is behavioral intention to use IB adoption. TAM is helpful for figuring out how elements that affect IB adoption are connected to one another. According to previous literature on IB and the use of such technology in Iraq, one has to choose a theoretical foundation that may justify the acceptance of IB from the customer’s perspective. The conceptual model was therefore constructed using the TAM as a foundation. Furthermore, perceived risk and trust were added to the TAM dimensions as external factors. The key objective of this work was to extend the TAM to construct a conceptual model for IB adoption and to get sufficient theoretical support from the existing literature for the essential elements and their relationships in order to unearth new insights about factors responsible for IB adoption.
Efficient combined fuzzy logic and LMS algorithm for smart antennaTELKOMNIKA JOURNAL
The smart antennas are broadly used in wireless communication. The least mean square (LMS) algorithm is a procedure that is concerned in controlling the smart antenna pattern to accommodate specified requirements such as steering the beam toward the desired signal, in addition to placing the deep nulls in the direction of unwanted signals. The conventional LMS (C-LMS) has some drawbacks like slow convergence speed besides high steady state fluctuation error. To overcome these shortcomings, the present paper adopts an adaptive fuzzy control step size least mean square (FC-LMS) algorithm to adjust its step size. Computer simulation outcomes illustrate that the given model has fast convergence rate as well as low mean square error steady state.
Design and implementation of a LoRa-based system for warning of forest fireTELKOMNIKA JOURNAL
This paper presents the design and implementation of a forest fire monitoring and warning system based on long range (LoRa) technology, a novel ultra-low power consumption and long-range wireless communication technology for remote sensing applications. The proposed system includes a wireless sensor network that records environmental parameters such as temperature, humidity, wind speed, and carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration in the air, as well as taking infrared photos.The data collected at each sensor node will be transmitted to the gateway via LoRa wireless transmission. Data will be collected, processed, and uploaded to a cloud database at the gateway. An Android smartphone application that allows anyone to easily view the recorded data has been developed. When a fire is detected, the system will sound a siren and send a warning message to the responsible personnel, instructing them to take appropriate action. Experiments in Tram Chim Park, Vietnam, have been conducted to verify and evaluate the operation of the system.
Wavelet-based sensing technique in cognitive radio networkTELKOMNIKA JOURNAL
Cognitive radio is a smart radio that can change its transmitter parameter based on interaction with the environment in which it operates. The demand for frequency spectrum is growing due to a big data issue as many Internet of Things (IoT) devices are in the network. Based on previous research, most frequency spectrum was used, but some spectrums were not used, called spectrum hole. Energy detection is one of the spectrum sensing methods that has been frequently used since it is easy to use and does not require license users to have any prior signal understanding. But this technique is incapable of detecting at low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) levels. Therefore, the wavelet-based sensing is proposed to overcome this issue and detect spectrum holes. The main objective of this work is to evaluate the performance of wavelet-based sensing and compare it with the energy detection technique. The findings show that the percentage of detection in wavelet-based sensing is 83% higher than energy detection performance. This result indicates that the wavelet-based sensing has higher precision in detection and the interference towards primary user can be decreased.
A novel compact dual-band bandstop filter with enhanced rejection bandsTELKOMNIKA JOURNAL
In this paper, we present the design of a new wide dual-band bandstop filter (DBBSF) using nonuniform transmission lines. The method used to design this filter is to replace conventional uniform transmission lines with nonuniform lines governed by a truncated Fourier series. Based on how impedances are profiled in the proposed DBBSF structure, the fractional bandwidths of the two 10 dB-down rejection bands are widened to 39.72% and 52.63%, respectively, and the physical size has been reduced compared to that of the filter with the uniform transmission lines. The results of the electromagnetic (EM) simulation support the obtained analytical response and show an improved frequency behavior.
Deep learning approach to DDoS attack with imbalanced data at the application...TELKOMNIKA JOURNAL
A distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack is where one or more computers attack or target a server computer, by flooding internet traffic to the server. As a result, the server cannot be accessed by legitimate users. A result of this attack causes enormous losses for a company because it can reduce the level of user trust, and reduce the company’s reputation to lose customers due to downtime. One of the services at the application layer that can be accessed by users is a web-based lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP) service that can provide safe and easy services to access directory applications. We used a deep learning approach to detect DDoS attacks on the CICDDoS 2019 dataset on a complex computer network at the application layer to get fast and accurate results for dealing with unbalanced data. Based on the results obtained, it is observed that DDoS attack detection using a deep learning approach on imbalanced data performs better when implemented using synthetic minority oversampling technique (SMOTE) method for binary classes. On the other hand, the proposed deep learning approach performs better for detecting DDoS attacks in multiclass when implemented using the adaptive synthetic (ADASYN) method.
The appearance of uncertainties and disturbances often effects the characteristics of either linear or nonlinear systems. Plus, the stabilization process may be deteriorated thus incurring a catastrophic effect to the system performance. As such, this manuscript addresses the concept of matching condition for the systems that are suffering from miss-match uncertainties and exogeneous disturbances. The perturbation towards the system at hand is assumed to be known and unbounded. To reach this outcome, uncertainties and their classifications are reviewed thoroughly. The structural matching condition is proposed and tabulated in the proposition 1. Two types of mathematical expressions are presented to distinguish the system with matched uncertainty and the system with miss-matched uncertainty. Lastly, two-dimensional numerical expressions are provided to practice the proposed proposition. The outcome shows that matching condition has the ability to change the system to a design-friendly model for asymptotic stabilization.
Implementation of FinFET technology based low power 4×4 Wallace tree multipli...TELKOMNIKA JOURNAL
Many systems, including digital signal processors, finite impulse response (FIR) filters, application-specific integrated circuits, and microprocessors, use multipliers. The demand for low power multipliers is gradually rising day by day in the current technological trend. In this study, we describe a 4×4 Wallace multiplier based on a carry select adder (CSA) that uses less power and has a better power delay product than existing multipliers. HSPICE tool at 16 nm technology is used to simulate the results. In comparison to the traditional CSA-based multiplier, which has a power consumption of 1.7 µW and power delay product (PDP) of 57.3 fJ, the results demonstrate that the Wallace multiplier design employing CSA with first zero finding logic (FZF) logic has the lowest power consumption of 1.4 µW and PDP of 27.5 fJ.
Evaluation of the weighted-overlap add model with massive MIMO in a 5G systemTELKOMNIKA JOURNAL
The flaw in 5G orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) becomes apparent in high-speed situations. Because the doppler effect causes frequency shifts, the orthogonality of OFDM subcarriers is broken, lowering both their bit error rate (BER) and throughput output. As part of this research, we use a novel design that combines massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO) and weighted overlap and add (WOLA) to improve the performance of 5G systems. To determine which design is superior, throughput and BER are calculated for both the proposed design and OFDM. The results of the improved system show a massive improvement in performance ver the conventional system and significant improvements with massive MIMO, including the best throughput and BER. When compared to conventional systems, the improved system has a throughput that is around 22% higher and the best performance in terms of BER, but it still has around 25% less error than OFDM.
Reflector antenna design in different frequencies using frequency selective s...TELKOMNIKA JOURNAL
In this study, it is aimed to obtain two different asymmetric radiation patterns obtained from antennas in the shape of the cross-section of a parabolic reflector (fan blade type antennas) and antennas with cosecant-square radiation characteristics at two different frequencies from a single antenna. For this purpose, firstly, a fan blade type antenna design will be made, and then the reflective surface of this antenna will be completed to the shape of the reflective surface of the antenna with the cosecant-square radiation characteristic with the frequency selective surface designed to provide the characteristics suitable for the purpose. The frequency selective surface designed and it provides the perfect transmission as possible at 4 GHz operating frequency, while it will act as a band-quenching filter for electromagnetic waves at 5 GHz operating frequency and will be a reflective surface. Thanks to this frequency selective surface to be used as a reflective surface in the antenna, a fan blade type radiation characteristic at 4 GHz operating frequency will be obtained, while a cosecant-square radiation characteristic at 5 GHz operating frequency will be obtained.
Reagentless iron detection in water based on unclad fiber optical sensorTELKOMNIKA JOURNAL
A simple and low-cost fiber based optical sensor for iron detection is demonstrated in this paper. The sensor head consist of an unclad optical fiber with the unclad length of 1 cm and it has a straight structure. Results obtained shows a linear relationship between the output light intensity and iron concentration, illustrating the functionality of this iron optical sensor. Based on the experimental results, the sensitivity and linearity are achieved at 0.0328/ppm and 0.9824 respectively at the wavelength of 690 nm. With the same wavelength, other performance parameters are also studied. Resolution and limit of detection (LOD) are found to be 0.3049 ppm and 0.0755 ppm correspondingly. This iron sensor is advantageous in that it does not require any reagent for detection, enabling it to be simpler and cost-effective in the implementation of the iron sensing.
Impact of CuS counter electrode calcination temperature on quantum dot sensit...TELKOMNIKA JOURNAL
In place of the commercial Pt electrode used in quantum sensitized solar cells, the low-cost CuS cathode is created using electrophoresis. High resolution scanning electron microscopy and X-ray diffraction were used to analyze the structure and morphology of structural cubic samples with diameters ranging from 40 nm to 200 nm. The conversion efficiency of solar cells is significantly impacted by the calcination temperatures of cathodes at 100 °C, 120 °C, 150 °C, and 180 °C under vacuum. The fluorine doped tin oxide (FTO)/CuS cathode electrode reached a maximum efficiency of 3.89% when it was calcined at 120 °C. Compared to other temperature combinations, CuS nanoparticles crystallize at 120 °C, which lowers resistance while increasing electron lifetime.
In place of the commercial Pt electrode used in quantum sensitized solar cells, the low-cost CuS cathode is created using electrophoresis. High resolution scanning electron microscopy and X-ray diffraction were used to analyze the structure and morphology of structural cubic samples with diameters ranging from 40 nm to 200 nm. The conversion efficiency of solar cells is significantly impacted by the calcination temperatures of cathodes at 100 °C, 120 °C, 150 °C, and 180 °C under vacuum. The fluorine doped tin oxide (FTO)/CuS cathode electrode reached a maximum efficiency of 3.89% when it was calcined at 120 °C. Compared to other temperature combinations, CuS nanoparticles crystallize at 120 °C, which lowers resistance while increasing electron lifetime.
A progressive learning for structural tolerance online sequential extreme lea...TELKOMNIKA JOURNAL
This article discusses the progressive learning for structural tolerance online sequential extreme learning machine (PSTOS-ELM). PSTOS-ELM can save robust accuracy while updating the new data and the new class data on the online training situation. The robustness accuracy arises from using the householder block exact QR decomposition recursive least squares (HBQRD-RLS) of the PSTOS-ELM. This method is suitable for applications that have data streaming and often have new class data. Our experiment compares the PSTOS-ELM accuracy and accuracy robustness while data is updating with the batch-extreme learning machine (ELM) and structural tolerance online sequential extreme learning machine (STOS-ELM) that both must retrain the data in a new class data case. The experimental results show that PSTOS-ELM has accuracy and robustness comparable to ELM and STOS-ELM while also can update new class data immediately.
Electroencephalography-based brain-computer interface using neural networksTELKOMNIKA JOURNAL
This study aimed to develop a brain-computer interface that can control an electric wheelchair using electroencephalography (EEG) signals. First, we used the Mind Wave Mobile 2 device to capture raw EEG signals from the surface of the scalp. The signals were transformed into the frequency domain using fast Fourier transform (FFT) and filtered to monitor changes in attention and relaxation. Next, we performed time and frequency domain analyses to identify features for five eye gestures: opened, closed, blink per second, double blink, and lookup. The base state was the opened-eyes gesture, and we compared the features of the remaining four action gestures to the base state to identify potential gestures. We then built a multilayer neural network to classify these features into five signals that control the wheelchair’s movement. Finally, we designed an experimental wheelchair system to test the effectiveness of the proposed approach. The results demonstrate that the EEG classification was highly accurate and computationally efficient. Moreover, the average performance of the brain-controlled wheelchair system was over 75% across different individuals, which suggests the feasibility of this approach.
Adaptive segmentation algorithm based on level set model in medical imagingTELKOMNIKA JOURNAL
For image segmentation, level set models are frequently employed. It offer best solution to overcome the main limitations of deformable parametric models. However, the challenge when applying those models in medical images stills deal with removing blurs in image edges which directly affects the edge indicator function, leads to not adaptively segmenting images and causes a wrong analysis of pathologies wich prevents to conclude a correct diagnosis. To overcome such issues, an effective process is suggested by simultaneously modelling and solving systems’ two-dimensional partial differential equations (PDE). The first PDE equation allows restoration using Euler’s equation similar to an anisotropic smoothing based on a regularized Perona and Malik filter that eliminates noise while preserving edge information in accordance with detected contours in the second equation that segments the image based on the first equation solutions. This approach allows developing a new algorithm which overcome the studied model drawbacks. Results of the proposed method give clear segments that can be applied to any application. Experiments on many medical images in particular blurry images with high information losses, demonstrate that the developed approach produces superior segmentation results in terms of quantity and quality compared to other models already presented in previeous works.
Automatic channel selection using shuffled frog leaping algorithm for EEG bas...TELKOMNIKA JOURNAL
Drug addiction is a complex neurobiological disorder that necessitates comprehensive treatment of both the body and mind. It is categorized as a brain disorder due to its impact on the brain. Various methods such as electroencephalography (EEG), functional magnetic resonance imaging (FMRI), and magnetoencephalography (MEG) can capture brain activities and structures. EEG signals provide valuable insights into neurological disorders, including drug addiction. Accurate classification of drug addiction from EEG signals relies on appropriate features and channel selection. Choosing the right EEG channels is essential to reduce computational costs and mitigate the risk of overfitting associated with using all available channels. To address the challenge of optimal channel selection in addiction detection from EEG signals, this work employs the shuffled frog leaping algorithm (SFLA). SFLA facilitates the selection of appropriate channels, leading to improved accuracy. Wavelet features extracted from the selected input channel signals are then analyzed using various machine learning classifiers to detect addiction. Experimental results indicate that after selecting features from the appropriate channels, classification accuracy significantly increased across all classifiers. Particularly, the multi-layer perceptron (MLP) classifier combined with SFLA demonstrated a remarkable accuracy improvement of 15.78% while reducing time complexity.
Sachpazis:Terzaghi Bearing Capacity Estimation in simple terms with Calculati...Dr.Costas Sachpazis
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Classification of pneumonia from X-ray images using siamese convolutional network
1. TELKOMNIKA Telecommunication, Computing, Electronics and Control
Vol. 18, No. 3, June 2020, pp. 1302~1309
ISSN: 1693-6930, accredited First Grade by Kemenristekdikti, Decree No: 21/E/KPT/2018
DOI: 10.12928/TELKOMNIKA.v18i3.14751 1302
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Classification of pneumonia from X-ray images
using siamese convolutional network
Kennard Alcander Prayogo, Alethea Suryadibrata, Julio Christian Young
Department of Informatics, Universitas Multimedia Nusantara, Indonesia
Article Info ABSTRACT
Article history:
Received Aug 15, 2019
Revised Jan 20, 2020
Accepted Feb 23, 2020
Pneumonia is one of the highest global causes of deaths especially for children
under 5 years old. This happened mainly because of the difficulties in identifying
the cause of pneumonia. As a result, the treatment given may not be suitable for
each pneumonia case. Recent studies have used deep learning approaches to obtain
better classification within the cause of pneumonia. In this research, we used
siamese convolutional network (SCN) to classify chest x-ray pneumonia image into
3 classes, namely normal conditions, bacterial pneumonia, and viral pneumonia.
Siamese convolutional network is a neural network architecture that learns
similarity knowledge between pairs of image inputs based on the differences
between its features. One of the important benefits of classifying data with SCN is
the availability of comparable images that can be used as a reference when
determining class. Using SCN, our best model achieved 80.03% accuracy, 79.59%
f1 score, and an improved result reasoning by providing the comparable images.
Keywords:
Chest X-Ray
Image classification
Pneumonia
Siamese Convolutional
Network
This is an open access article under the CC BY-SA license.
Corresponding Author:
Alethea Suryadibrata,
Department of Informatics,
Universitas Multimedia Nusantara,
Scientia Boulevard St., Gading Serpong, Tangerang, Banten 15811, Indonesia
Email: alethea@umn.ac.id
1. INTRODUCTION
Pneumonia is one of the leading causes of mortality in children under 5 years old besides preterm birth
complications [1]. In 2015, pneumonia is responsible for around 15% of all deaths or almost 920,136 number of
children in this age group [2]. Pneumonia is an inflammation of lung tissue as a result of infectious agents [3].
The most common type of pneumonia is bacterial pneumonia and viral pneumonia [4]. Bacterial pneumonia
is caused by bacteria such as Streptococcus pneumoniae Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib), and
Mycoplasma pneumoniae [5]. Viral pneumonia is often caused by respiratory virus including influenza,
parainfluenza virus, and adenovirus [6].
The main problem of pneumonia treatment is the difficulty to make a clinical decision as a result of
the inability to identify the infectious organism [7]. To overcome this problem, pneumonia disease is usually
treated using antibiotics. However, the use of antibiotics to treat viral pneumonia is ineffective [4] and misuse
of antibiotics can increase the risk of antibiotic resistance [7]. Thus, it is important to identify the type of
microorganism on the diagnosis of pneumonia to receive suitable treatments. Medical imaging techniques has
been used to support diagnosis result such as ultrasonography, radiography, and tomography. Image
processing and machine learning algorithms also played important role to assist doctor in making faster and
more accurate diagnosis [8]. Some researchers have combined these approaches on medical imaging
result i.e. [9] used possibilistic c-means for ultrasound images, [10] used wavelet decomposition for chest
radiograph, and [11] used deep neural network for MRI images segmentation.
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As there are no test that can fully identify specific cause of pneumonia, a test to distinguish between
bacterial and viral pneumonia would be a major advance [12]. The most common test is using host
biomarkers (i.e. procalcitonin (PCT), C reactive protein (CRP), white blood cell indicators), but these tests
resulting in complex outcome and is lack of an accurate reference comparator test [12]. Accordingly, chest
x-ray (CXR), a medical imaging technique, is used to provide more comprehensive clinical signs. In clinical
decision, CXR supports bacterial or viral etiology and even for complications [7]. As a result, in this work,
deep learning method will be used to classifying the result of CXR into normal condition, bacterial
pneumonia, and viral pneumonia.
Deep learning method that mainly used for image problem is convolutional neural network (CNN).
Several researchers have used CNN to classify medical imaging results such as [13] for classifying stroke, [14] for
classifying type of muscle, and [15] for classifying abdominal ultrasound images. The used of CNN for
classifying CXR has also been performed in [16] and [17] for classifying two classes, normal condition and
pneumonia. The result shows high accuracy in both works. However, the predicted result still lacks on
reasoning part that supports the results.
Another variation of CNN is siamese convolutional network (SCN). SCN using two identical CNN
with the same architecture and the same weight [18]. This network receives a pair of images as input and
returns a similarity score between them. SCN has been used by [19] on tracking problems and is able to
perform well in those problems. Another work is done by [20] for one shot character recognition. They form
a pair from a single data image to suit the SCN input. For the one-shot learning problem, they used different
class collections of alphabets for testing and classified each of the alphabets using SCN. Whereas our work
will use similar type of approach but with the same class of data. Using this approach, we could also use
the compared images to support classification results, considering the fact that similar methods still deficient
in the reasoning part.
2. RESEARCH METHOD
2.1. Data description
The used dataset is Labeled Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) and Chest X-Ray Images for
Classification [16]. This dataset contains 5863 chest x-ray (CXR) images from patients one to five years of
age at Guangzhou Women and Children’s Medical Center [16]. It also divides the data into 3 classes, normal
condition, bacterial pneumonia, and viral pneumonia. Diagnoses of all CXR images have also been reviewed
by two radiologists [16].
2.2. Proposed model
2.2.1. Siamese convolutional network architecture
Figure 1 described siamese convolutional network (SCN) architecture that will be used in this
work. This network received a pair of 224x224 chest x-ray images as input. Then, input will be fed into
convolutional network to extract features from each image. Connection function was used for combining
each output of convolutional network. We used cosine distance as a connection function to evaluate
similarity between each input. Cosine distance has been used for pattern recognition problems as this
function is invariant to the magnitudes of samples [20]. This function formula is [21].
Figure 1. Overall siamese convolutional network architecture
𝑐𝑜𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 =
𝐴.𝐵
‖𝐴‖‖𝐵‖
=
∑ 𝑎 𝑖 𝑏 𝑖
𝑛
𝑖=1
√∑ 𝑎 𝑖
2√∑ 𝑏𝑖
2𝑛
𝑖=1
𝑛
𝑖=1
(1)
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where A and B are the output of convolutional network as a vector with corresponding to
𝐴 = 𝑎1, 𝑎2, … , 𝑎 𝑛 and 𝐵 = 𝑏1, 𝑏2, … , 𝑏 𝑛 n will be the number of vector attributes. The output of this connected
function will be forwarded into fully connected layer with 2 hidden layers. Dropout layer was added between each
hidden layer as a regularization. In the last layer, we used sigmoid activation to produce similarity result that is
bound to [0, 1].
Most of the SCN model used parameter sharing on its two convolutional networks weight and bias.
According to [22], removing this constraint can deal with more specific matching task than general task.
As our problem used the same class for testing, we also did not use parameter sharing in the network.
Furthermore, to enhancing matching task for every class, we used separate model for each class. Using this approach,
each model learned to gain best features for comparison between corresponding class with other classes.
2.2.2. Convolutional network architecture
In convolutional network, we used 14 layers that contain 9 convolutional layers and 5 max-pooling
layers as described in Figure 2. The number of channels from each layer are 32, 64, 64, 64, 64, 128, 128, 128,
128, 128, 256, 256, 256, and 512. Each convolutional layer used a 3x3 filter with two strides and zero
paddings. On each convolutional layer, ReLu activations will be used to remove negative value.
The max-pooling filter size is 2x2 with two strides and zero paddings. This way, the image will be down
sampled and focusing on important features. To reduce overfitting, regularization techniques such as
dropout [23] and batch normalization will be used [24]. The output of this network has a size of 1x1x512 and
will be flattened into vector 1x512 before forwarded to fully connected network.
Figure 2. Selected convolutional network for SCN architecture
2.3. Splitting dataset
In this work, we divided the dataset into training (70%), validation (10%), and testing (20%) sets.
this training and validation data will be used for pair creation. As a result, we used different amounts of data
for training and validating the network.
2.4. Pair creation
As SCN input comprises a pair of images, a preprocessing method to form a pair from the dataset
must be performed. Figure 3 shows set of pairs that will be fed into the network. For same class pair or
genuine pair, we paired data from the same class. While on the different class pair or impostor pair, the first
input always comes from the same class that corresponds to the model. The second input consists of data
from different classes than the first input. In our work, we used an equal number of genuine pairs and
impostor pairs to avoid class imbalance. The amount of created genuine pairs can be calculated using
combinatorics. For n number of data from the same class, there are (
𝑛
2
) amount of pair data available to use.
Hence, the split data training and validation will be processed into a form of data pair. Using these pair data,
we randomly picked 10000 pair of training data and 2000 pair of validation data for training phase.
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Figure 3. Set of pairs for each class model
2.5. Training
We trained our SCN using mini batch with batch size 16. To generate each batch, the paired data
were put into generator. In addition, generator also performed additional preprocessing to the images.
First, images were resized into 224x224. Then, flip horizontal augmentation was performed randomly to
the images. We also normalized the images based on the mean and standard deviation from 1000 samples
training data. Figure 4 shows preprocessing flow in the generator. To train the network, Adam optimizer was
used to optimize the network. The chosen hyperparameters are shown in Table 1.
Figure 4. Preprocessing in the generator
Table 1. SCN Hyperparameter Settings
Hyperparameter Value
Learning Rate 0.001
Dropout Rate 0.5
Learning Decay 0
β1 0.9
β2 0.999
As the output of this network is a binary classification, which similarity result was measured, we used
binary cross entropy (BCE) for the loss function. BCE is usually used by SCN with sigmoid activations on the last
layer [25]. As shown in (2) shows the loss function formula which guide our SCN learning process [26],
𝑐 =
1
𝑚
∑ [𝑡 𝑘 𝐼𝑛 𝑦 𝑘 + (1 − 𝑡 𝑘)𝐼𝑛(1 − 𝑦 𝑘)]𝑚
𝑘=1 (2)
where C is the BCE loss function value from data k to m, tk and yk is an actual target and prediction result of
data k.
Network from each class was trained for 20 epochs, as the loss has been increasing around the last 5
epochs. The best weights configuration was saved associates to the lowest validation loss. Such weight will
be loaded to the network before using it for testing data.
2.6. Testing
Initially, we changed the testing data into a pair. Generator was used to create a pair between testing
data with randomly picked data training for each representative class. Figure 5 describes the input class from
each pair. The first input always consists of the data corresponding to the class model. For the second input,
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we put the testing data, which can be the data from any class. Using these rules, there was no alteration
between the paired data input used for training and testing. Thus, the model was able to find similarity
features for each class. We defined rank as the number of repeated testing on the same category. This term
was also used in [21] to evaluate the network. Then, classification result was based on maximum similarity
from C number of classes as shown in 3 [20].
𝐶 𝑥
= 𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑚𝑎𝑥 𝑐 𝑝(𝑐)
(3)
where C* defines classification result from all class, c as list of all class, and 𝑝(𝑐)
as mean prediction result
based on number of ranks.
Figure 5. Overall testing flow
3. RESULTS AND ANALYSIS
3.1. Comparing architecture
First, we wanted to compare our architecture with the other ones that have been used for pneumonia
classification. The compared network is InceptionV3 nets which are used by [16] and network from [17].
As both architectures are CNN, we drop the fully connected layer on those networks and use them as
a convolutional network for our SCN. To know a glimpse of each network performance, we used 2000
training data pair and 400 validation data pair. Table 2 shows the accuracy for each architecture.
Table 2. Comparison of Different Architecture
Architecture Accuracy
This Paper 77.05%
(Saraiva et al.) [17] 73.46%
InceptionV3 [27] 72.18%
The proposed model in this paper achieves higher accuracy than the other network when used for
SCN. If we compare the number of layers on those networks, Saraiva model consist of 9 layers and
InceptionV3 has 48 number of layers, whereas our architecture is formed by 14 layers. Therefore, our
architecture has deeper layer than Saraiva model, but not as deep as InceptionV3 nets.
3.2. Evaluation
Table 3 details the training results that consist of lowest loss validation, validation accuracy, and
epoch position for each class. Based on the loss validation, each model performs quite well to learn similarity
between each class. Thus, these models are used to predict testing data. When predicting data, one benefits of
using SCN for classification is the availability of other images for comparison. The amount of compared
images is equal to the number of ranks. By doing so, high similarity images can be used for case references.
Particularly in medical imaging data, the role of these images is essential to support the classification result.
Figure 6 shows the illustration of comparison images with its corresponding similarity value.
Table 3. Training result for each class
Class Lowest Loss Validation Validation Accuracy Epoch Position
Normal 0.10897 96.05% 8
Bacterial 0.39441 83.20% 13
Virus 0.43917 83.10% 5
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Test Data #2 (Label: Bacteria, Predicted: Bacteria)
Compare with: Bacteria
Figure 6. Illustration of comparison visualization for siamese convolutional network
As the prediction result and actual target are also bacteria class, which is a correct classification,
each comparison mostly shows high similarity scores. Table 4 describes the result of testing data prediction
using different number of ranks. The higher number of ranks, in accordance with higher number of compared
data, resulting in higher accuracy. The best accuracy that we achieve is 80.03% using rank-20. Thus, we
evaluate this model using confusion matrix, precision, recall, and f1 score. Table 5 shows the confusion
matrix for this classification result.
Table 4. Testing result
based on number of rank
Rank Accuracy
1 74.91%
5 77.05%
10 78.33%
20 80.03%
Table 5. Confusion matrix using rank-20 classification
Confusion Matrix Predicted
Normal Bacteria Virus Total
Actual Normal 297 8 12 317
Bacteria 15 440 101 556
Virus 15 83 201 299
Total 327 531 314 1172
Using this confusion matrix, we calculate other evaluation metrics such as precision, recall, and f1
score. The complete evaluation metrics are described in Table 6. To make sure that our model is not biased to
specific class, we compared the overall accuracy with the average f1 score, as this value takes recall and
precision into account. If we compared these values, there is no significant difference. However, if we
compared f1 score between normal class and virus class, the difference is quite big. When we look at
the confusion matrix, most of the wrong classifications on virus class, are classified as bacteria. Intuitively,
there are some cases on virus class that are also similar with the bacteria cases. This makes the model
prediction was mixed between those two classes. Nevertheless, as there is no significant difference between
average f1 score with overall accuracy, our model is not biased to specific class and performs quite well to
classify data in general.
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Table 6. Complete list of evaluation metrics
Metrics Normal Bacteria Virus Average
Recall 93.69% 79.13% 67.22% 80.03%
Precision 90.82% 82.86% 64.01% 79.23%
F1 Score 92.24% 80.96% 65.58% 79.59%
Overall Accuracy 80.03%
3.3. Filter visualization
Figure 7 shows filter visualization from the first convolutional layer. In the first input, the extracted
features in this layer centering on the right and left side of the lungs. For the bacterial class, the result detailed
more on the right side of the lung. On the opposite, the filter result on second input mostly extracts the same
features on first convolutional for each class.
Figure 7. Filter visualization from the first convolutional layer
4. CONCLUSION
In this work, we propose x-ray imaging classification using siamese convolutional network (SCN)
which is often used for similarity learning. Our model also drops the constraint of parameter sharing and
enhancing features on each class using model separation. The SCN architecture we are used consists of
2 convolutional networks with 14 layers (9 convolutional layers and 5 max pooling layers) respectively,
cosine distance as connection function, and fully connected layer with 2 hidden layers. When used for SCN,
our architecture achieves better results than other architecture such as inception v3 and model from [17].
This architecture was able to achieve 80.03% accuracy and 79.59% f1 score. We also show the comparison
image which used to support the decision from classification result. Therefore, our model has a better result
reasoning and details comparing to the similar methods like CNN.
For future works, as the amount of pair result is combinatorics, there is plenty of training data that
can be added to improve the model performance. More experiments on hyperparameter settings also help to
improve the model. Finally, we plan to improve the result visualization using class activation map (CAM)
that is suitable for SCN. It would maximize the purpose of comparison images and give a better
understanding of the result.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This research was supported by the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in Universitas Multimedia
Nusantara.
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