In the area of pattern recognition and machine learning,features play a key role in prediction.The famous applications of features are medical imaging,image classification,and name a few more.With the exponential grow...In the area of pattern recognition and machine learning,features play a key role in prediction.The famous applications of features are medical imaging,image classification,and name a few more.With the exponential growth of information investments in medical data repositories and health service provision,medical institutions are collecting large volumes of data.These data repositories contain details information essential to support medical diagnostic decisions and also improve patient care quality.On the other hand,this growth also made it difficult to comprehend and utilize data for various purposes.The results of imaging data can become biased because of extraneous features present in larger datasets.Feature selection gives a chance to decrease the number of components in such large datasets.Through selection techniques,ousting the unimportant features and selecting a subset of components that produces prevalent characterization precision.The correct decision to find a good attribute produces a precise grouping model,which enhances learning pace and forecast control.This paper presents a review of feature selection techniques and attributes selection measures for medical imaging.This review is meant to describe feature selection techniques in a medical domainwith their pros and cons and to signify its application in imaging data and data mining algorithms.The review reveals the shortcomings of the existing feature and attributes selection techniques to multi-sourced data.Moreover,this review provides the importance of feature selection for correct classification of medical infections.In the end,critical analysis and future directions are provided.展开更多
Agriculture plays an important role in the economy of all countries.However,plant diseases may badly affect the quality of food,production,and ultimately the economy.For plant disease detection and management,agricult...Agriculture plays an important role in the economy of all countries.However,plant diseases may badly affect the quality of food,production,and ultimately the economy.For plant disease detection and management,agriculturalists spend a huge amount of money.However,the manual detection method of plant diseases is complicated and time-consuming.Consequently,automated systems for plant disease detection using machine learning(ML)approaches are proposed.However,most of the existing ML techniques of plants diseases recognition are based on handcrafted features and they rarely deal with huge amount of input data.To address the issue,this article proposes a fully automated method for plant disease detection and recognition using deep neural networks.In the proposed method,AlexNet and VGG19 CNNs are considered as pre-trained architectures.It is capable to obtain the feature extraction of the given data with fine-tuning details.After convolutional neural network feature extraction,it selects the best subset of features through the correlation coefficient and feeds them to the number of classifiers including K-Nearest Neighbor,Support Vector Machine,Probabilistic Neural Network,Fuzzy logic,and Artificial Neural Network.The validation of the proposed method is carried out on a self-collected dataset generated through the augmentation step.The achieved average accuracy of our method is more than 96%and outperforms the recent techniques.展开更多
The COVID-19 outbreak and its medical distancing phenomenon have effectively turned the global healthcare challenge into an opportunity for Telecare Medical Information Systems.Such systems employ the latest mobile an...The COVID-19 outbreak and its medical distancing phenomenon have effectively turned the global healthcare challenge into an opportunity for Telecare Medical Information Systems.Such systems employ the latest mobile and digital technologies and provide several advantages like minimal physical contact between patient and healthcare provider,easy mobility,easy access,consistent patient engagement,and cost-effectiveness.Any leakage or unauthorized access to users’medical data can have serious consequences for any medical information system.The majority of such systems thus rely on biometrics for authenticated access but biometric systems are also prone to a variety of attacks like spoong,replay,Masquerade,and stealing of stored templates.In this article,we propose a new cancelable biometric approach which has tentatively been named as“Expression Hash”for Telecare Medical Information Systems.The idea is to hash the expression templates with a set of pseudo-random keys which would provide a unique code(expression hash).This code can then be serving as a template for verication.Different expressions would result in different sets of expression hash codes,which could be used in different applications and for different roles of each individual.The templates are stored on the server-side and the processing is also performed on the server-side.The proposed technique is a multi-factor authentication system and provides advantages like enhanced privacy and security without the need for multiple biometric devices.In the case of compromise,the existing code can be revoked and can be directly replaced by a new set of expression hash code.The well-known JAFFE(The Japanese Female Facial Expression)dataset has been for empirical testing and the results advocate for the efcacy of the proposed approach.展开更多
文摘In the area of pattern recognition and machine learning,features play a key role in prediction.The famous applications of features are medical imaging,image classification,and name a few more.With the exponential growth of information investments in medical data repositories and health service provision,medical institutions are collecting large volumes of data.These data repositories contain details information essential to support medical diagnostic decisions and also improve patient care quality.On the other hand,this growth also made it difficult to comprehend and utilize data for various purposes.The results of imaging data can become biased because of extraneous features present in larger datasets.Feature selection gives a chance to decrease the number of components in such large datasets.Through selection techniques,ousting the unimportant features and selecting a subset of components that produces prevalent characterization precision.The correct decision to find a good attribute produces a precise grouping model,which enhances learning pace and forecast control.This paper presents a review of feature selection techniques and attributes selection measures for medical imaging.This review is meant to describe feature selection techniques in a medical domainwith their pros and cons and to signify its application in imaging data and data mining algorithms.The review reveals the shortcomings of the existing feature and attributes selection techniques to multi-sourced data.Moreover,this review provides the importance of feature selection for correct classification of medical infections.In the end,critical analysis and future directions are provided.
基金the MSIT(Ministry of Science and ICT),Korea,under the ITRC(Information Technology Research Center)support program(IITP-2020-2016-0-00312)supervised by the IITP(Institute for Information&Communications Technology Planning&Evaluation)in part by the MSIP(Ministry of Science,ICT&Future Planning),Korea,under the National Program for Excellence in SW)(2015-0-00938)supervised by the IITP(Institute for Information&communications Technology Planning&Evaluation).
文摘Agriculture plays an important role in the economy of all countries.However,plant diseases may badly affect the quality of food,production,and ultimately the economy.For plant disease detection and management,agriculturalists spend a huge amount of money.However,the manual detection method of plant diseases is complicated and time-consuming.Consequently,automated systems for plant disease detection using machine learning(ML)approaches are proposed.However,most of the existing ML techniques of plants diseases recognition are based on handcrafted features and they rarely deal with huge amount of input data.To address the issue,this article proposes a fully automated method for plant disease detection and recognition using deep neural networks.In the proposed method,AlexNet and VGG19 CNNs are considered as pre-trained architectures.It is capable to obtain the feature extraction of the given data with fine-tuning details.After convolutional neural network feature extraction,it selects the best subset of features through the correlation coefficient and feeds them to the number of classifiers including K-Nearest Neighbor,Support Vector Machine,Probabilistic Neural Network,Fuzzy logic,and Artificial Neural Network.The validation of the proposed method is carried out on a self-collected dataset generated through the augmentation step.The achieved average accuracy of our method is more than 96%and outperforms the recent techniques.
文摘The COVID-19 outbreak and its medical distancing phenomenon have effectively turned the global healthcare challenge into an opportunity for Telecare Medical Information Systems.Such systems employ the latest mobile and digital technologies and provide several advantages like minimal physical contact between patient and healthcare provider,easy mobility,easy access,consistent patient engagement,and cost-effectiveness.Any leakage or unauthorized access to users’medical data can have serious consequences for any medical information system.The majority of such systems thus rely on biometrics for authenticated access but biometric systems are also prone to a variety of attacks like spoong,replay,Masquerade,and stealing of stored templates.In this article,we propose a new cancelable biometric approach which has tentatively been named as“Expression Hash”for Telecare Medical Information Systems.The idea is to hash the expression templates with a set of pseudo-random keys which would provide a unique code(expression hash).This code can then be serving as a template for verication.Different expressions would result in different sets of expression hash codes,which could be used in different applications and for different roles of each individual.The templates are stored on the server-side and the processing is also performed on the server-side.The proposed technique is a multi-factor authentication system and provides advantages like enhanced privacy and security without the need for multiple biometric devices.In the case of compromise,the existing code can be revoked and can be directly replaced by a new set of expression hash code.The well-known JAFFE(The Japanese Female Facial Expression)dataset has been for empirical testing and the results advocate for the efcacy of the proposed approach.