A Comprehensive Survey for Privacy-Preserving Biometrics: Recent Approaches, Challenges, and Future Directions

The rapid growth of smart technologies and services has intensified the challenges surrounding identity authenti-cation techniques.Biometric credentials are increasingly being used for verification due to their advantages over traditional methods,making it crucial to safeguard the privacy of people’s biometric data in various scenarios.This paper offers an in-depth exploration for privacy-preserving techniques and potential threats to biometric systems.It proposes a noble and thorough taxonomy survey for privacy-preserving techniques,as well as a systematic framework for categorizing the field’s existing literature.We review the state-of-the-art methods and address their advantages and limitations in the context of various biometric modalities,such as face,fingerprint,and eye detection.The survey encompasses various categories of privacy-preserving mechanisms and examines the trade-offs between security,privacy,and recognition performance,as well as the issues and future research directions.It aims to provide researchers,professionals,and decision-makers with a thorough understanding of the existing privacy-preserving solutions in biometric recognition systems and serves as the foundation of the development of more secure and privacy-preserving biometric technologies.

Emotion Measurement Using Biometric Signal

In recent years, research on the estimation of human emotions has been active, and its application is expected in various fields. Biological reactions, such as electroencephalography (EEG) and root mean square successive difference (RMSSD), are indicators that are less influenced by individual arbitrariness. The present study used EEG and RMSSD signals to assess the emotions aroused by emotion-stimulating images in order to investigate whether various emotions are associated with characteristic biometric signal fluctuations. The participants underwent EEG and RMSSD while viewing emotionally stimulating images and answering the questionnaires. The emotions aroused by emotionally stimulating images were assessed by measuring the EEG signals and RMSSD values to determine whether different emotions are associated with characteristic biometric signal variations. Real-time emotion analysis software was used to identify the evoked emotions by describing them in the Circumplex Model of Affect based on the EEG signals and RMSSD values. Emotions other than happiness did not follow the Circumplex Model of Affect in this study. However, ventral attentional activity may have increased the RMSSD value for disgust as the β/θ value increased in right-sided brain waves. Therefore, the right-sided brain wave results are necessary when measuring disgust. Happiness can be assessed easily using the Circumplex Model of Affect for positive scene analysis. Improving the current analysis methods may facilitate the investigation of face-to-face communication in the future using biometric signals.

Feature extraction and learning approaches for cancellable biometrics:A survey

Biometric recognition is a widely used technology for user authentication.In the application of this technology,biometric security and recognition accuracy are two important issues that should be considered.In terms of biometric security,cancellable biometrics is an effective technique for protecting biometric data.Regarding recognition accuracy,feature representation plays a significant role in the performance and reliability of cancellable biometric systems.How to design good feature representations for cancellable biometrics is a challenging topic that has attracted a great deal of attention from the computer vision community,especially from researchers of cancellable biometrics.Feature extraction and learning in cancellable biometrics is to find suitable feature representations with a view to achieving satisfactory recognition performance,while the privacy of biometric data is protected.This survey informs the progress,trend and challenges of feature extraction and learning for cancellable biometrics,thus shedding light on the latest developments and future research of this area.

Human Gait Recognition for Biometrics Application Based on Deep Learning Fusion Assisted Framework

The demand for a non-contact biometric approach for candidate identification has grown over the past ten years.Based on the most important biometric application,human gait analysis is a significant research topic in computer vision.Researchers have paid a lot of attention to gait recognition,specifically the identification of people based on their walking patterns,due to its potential to correctly identify people far away.Gait recognition systems have been used in a variety of applications,including security,medical examinations,identity management,and access control.These systems require a complex combination of technical,operational,and definitional considerations.The employment of gait recognition techniques and technologies has produced a number of beneficial and well-liked applications.Thiswork proposes a novel deep learning-based framework for human gait classification in video sequences.This framework’smain challenge is improving the accuracy of accuracy gait classification under varying conditions,such as carrying a bag and changing clothes.The proposed method’s first step is selecting two pre-trained deep learningmodels and training fromscratch using deep transfer learning.Next,deepmodels have been trained using static hyperparameters;however,the learning rate is calculated using the particle swarmoptimization(PSO)algorithm.Then,the best features are selected from both trained models using the Harris Hawks controlled Sine-Cosine optimization algorithm.This algorithm chooses the best features,combined in a novel correlation-based fusion technique.Finally,the fused best features are categorized using medium,bi-layer,and tri-layered neural networks.On the publicly accessible dataset known as the CASIA-B dataset,the experimental process of the suggested technique was carried out,and an improved accuracy of 94.14% was achieved.The achieved accuracy of the proposed method is improved by the recent state-of-the-art techniques that show the significance of this work.

Ocular biometric characteristics of Han ethnicity in Tianjin and Uyghur ethnicity in Xinjiang undergoing cataract surgery

AIM:To analyze and compare the differences among ocular biometric parameters in Han and Uyghur populations undergoing cataract surgery.METHODS:In this hospital-based prospective study,410 patients undergoing cataract surgery(226 Han patients in Tianjin and 184 Uyghur patients in Xinjiang)were enrolled.The differences in axial length(AL),anterior chamber depth(ACD),keratometry[steep K(Ks)and flat K(Kf)],and corneal astigmatism(CA)measured using IOL Master 700 were compared between Han and Uyghur patients.RESULTS:The average age of Han patients was higher than that of Uyghur patients(70.22±8.54 vs 63.04±9.56y,P<0.001).After adjusting for age factors,Han patients had longer AL(23.51±1.05 vs 22.86±0.92 mm,P<0.001),deeper ACD(3.06±0.44 vs 2.97±0.37 mm,P=0.001),greater Kf(43.95±1.40 vs 43.42±1.69 D,P=0.001),steeper Ks(45.00±1.47 vs 44.26±1.71 D,P=0.001),and higher CA(1.04±0.68 vs 0.79±0.65,P=0.025)than Uyghur patients.Intra-ethnic male patients had longer AL,deeper ACD,and lower keratometry than female patients;however,CA between the sexes was almost similar.In the correlation analysis,we observed a positive correlation between AL and ACD in patients of both ethnicities(rHan=0.48,rUyghur=0.44,P<0.001),while AL was negatively correlated with Kf(rHan=-0.42,rUyghur=-0.64,P<0.001)and Ks(rHan=-0.38,rUyghur=-0.66,P<0.001).Additionally,Kf was positively correlated with Ks(rHan=0.89,rUyghur=0.93,P<0.001).CONCLUSION:There are differences in ocular biometric parameters between individuals of Han ethnicity in Tianjin and those of Uyghur ethnicity in Xinjiang undergoing cataract surgery.These ethnic variances can enhance our understanding of ocular diseases related to these parameters and provide guidance for surgical procedures.

Comparison of ocular parameters of two biometric measurement devices in highly myopic eyes

AIM: To compare the differences and agreement of ocular biometric parameters in highly myopic eyes obtained by optical biometric measurement instruments, the OA-2000 and IOLMaster 500. METHODS: Totally, 90 patients(90 eyes) were included. They were divided into high myopia group and control group. Ocular parameters, including axial length(AL), mean keratometry(Km), anterior chamber depth(ACD), and white to white(WTW), were obtained from the OA-2000 and IOLMaster 500. RESULTS: For the control group, we applied BlandAltman graphs to assess the 95% limits of agreement(LoA) for most parameters including AL, ACD, Km, and WTW(-0.24 to 0.29 mm,-0.22 to 0.45 mm,-0.39 to 0.31 D, and-0.90 to 0.86 mm, respectively). In high myopia patients, AL, ACD, Km values had wider 95% LoA(-0.34 to 0.32 mm,-0.36 to 0.34 mm,-0.57 to 0.47 D, respectively), except WTW(-0.80 to 0.68 mm). Differences were not statistically significant between these two instruments(P>0.05). CONCLUSION: Most parameters obtained by the OA-2000 and IOLMaster 500 are comparable, including the AL, ACD, and K values. Among them, the agreement of the high myopia patients is poor compared to the patients without high myopia.

NeuroBiometric:An Eye Blink Based Biometric Authentication System Using an Event-Based Neuromorphic Vision Sensor

The rise of the Internet and identity authentication systems has brought convenience to people's lives but has also introduced the potential risk of privacy leaks.Existing biometric authentication systems based on explicit and static features bear the risk of being attacked by mimicked data.This work proposes a highly efficient biometric authentication system based on transient eye blink signals that are precisely captured by a neuromorphic vision sensor with microsecond-level temporal resolution.The neuromorphic vision sensor only transmits the local pixel-level changes induced by the eye blinks when they occur,which leads to advantageous characteristics such as an ultra-low latency response.We first propose a set of effective biometric features describing the motion,speed,energy and frequency signal of eye blinks based on the microsecond temporal resolution of event densities.We then train the ensemble model and non-ensemble model with our Neuro Biometric dataset for biometrics authentication.The experiments show that our system is able to identify and verify the subjects with the ensemble model at an accuracy of 0.948 and with the non-ensemble model at an accuracy of 0.925.The low false positive rates(about 0.002)and the highly dynamic features are not only hard to reproduce but also avoid recording visible characteristics of a user's appearance.The proposed system sheds light on a new path towards safer authentication using neuromorphic vision sensors.

A Novel Fusion System Based on Iris and Ear Biometrics for E-exams

With the rapid spread of the coronavirus epidemic all over the world,educational and other institutions are heading towards digitization.In the era of digitization,identifying educational e-platform users using ear and iris based multi-modal biometric systems constitutes an urgent and interesting research topic to pre-serve enterprise security,particularly with wearing a face mask as a precaution against the new coronavirus epidemic.This study proposes a multimodal system based on ear and iris biometrics at the feature fusion level to identify students in electronic examinations(E-exams)during the COVID-19 pandemic.The proposed system comprises four steps.Thefirst step is image preprocessing,which includes enhancing,segmenting,and extracting the regions of interest.The second step is feature extraction,where the Haralick texture and shape methods are used to extract the features of ear images,whereas Tamura texture and color histogram methods are used to extract the features of iris images.The third step is feature fusion,where the extracted features of the ear and iris images are combined into one sequential fused vector.The fourth step is the matching,which is executed using the City Block Dis-tance(CTB)for student identification.Thefindings of the study indicate that the system’s recognition accuracy is 97%,with a 2%False Acceptance Rate(FAR),a 4%False Rejection Rate(FRR),a 94%Correct Recognition Rate(CRR),and a 96%Genuine Acceptance Rate(GAR).In addition,the proposed recognition sys-tem achieved higher accuracy than other related systems.

Fine-Grained Soft Ear Biometrics for Augmenting Human Recognition

Human recognition technology based on biometrics has become a fundamental requirement in all aspects of life due to increased concerns about security and privacy issues.Therefore,biometric systems have emerged as a technology with the capability to identify or authenticate individuals based on their physiological and behavioral characteristics.Among different viable biometric modalities,the human ear structure can offer unique and valuable discriminative characteristics for human recognition systems.In recent years,most existing traditional ear recognition systems have been designed based on computer vision models and have achieved successful results.Nevertheless,such traditional models can be sensitive to several unconstrained environmental factors.As such,some traits may be difficult to extract automatically but can still be semantically perceived as soft biometrics.This research proposes a new group of semantic features to be used as soft ear biometrics,mainly inspired by conventional descriptive traits used naturally by humans when identifying or describing each other.Hence,the research study is focused on the fusion of the soft ear biometric traits with traditional(hard)ear biometric features to investigate their validity and efficacy in augmenting human identification performance.The proposed framework has two subsystems:first,a computer vision-based subsystem,extracting traditional(hard)ear biometric traits using principal component analysis(PCA)and local binary patterns(LBP),and second,a crowdsourcing-based subsystem,deriving semantic(soft)ear biometric traits.Several feature-level fusion experiments were conducted using the AMI database to evaluate the proposed algorithm’s performance.The obtained results for both identification and verification showed that the proposed soft ear biometric information significantly improved the recognition performance of traditional ear biometrics,reaching up to 12%for LBP and 5%for PCA descriptors;when fusing all three capacities PCA,LBP,and soft traits using k-nearest neighbors(KNN)classifier.

Face Attribute Convolutional Neural Network System for Data Security with Improved Crypto Biometrics

Due to the enormous usage of the internet for transmission of data over a network,security and authenticity become major risks.Major challenges encountered in biometric system are the misuse of enrolled biometric templates stored in database server.To describe these issues various algorithms are implemented to deliver better protection to biometric traits such as physical(Face,fingerprint,Ear etc.)and behavioural(Gesture,Voice,tying etc.)by means of matching and verification process.In this work,biometric security system with fuzzy extractor and convolutional neural networks using face attribute is proposed which provides different choices for supporting cryptographic processes to the confidential data.The proposed system not only offers security but also enhances the system execution by discrepancy conservation of binary templates.Here Face Attribute Convolutional Neural Network(FACNN)is used to generate binary codes from nodal points which act as a key to encrypt and decrypt the entire data for further processing.Implementing Artificial Intelligence(AI)into the proposed system,automatically upgrades and replaces the previously stored biometric template after certain time period to reduce the risk of ageing difference while processing.Binary codes generated from face templates are used not only for cryptographic approach is also used for biometric process of enrolment and verification.Three main face data sets are taken into the evaluation to attain system performance by improving the efficiency of matching performance to verify authenticity.This system enhances the system performance by 8%matching and verification and minimizes the False Acceptance Rate(FAR),False Rejection Rate(FRR)and Equal Error Rate(EER)by 6 times and increases the data privacy through the biometric cryptosystem by 98.2%while compared to other work.

Estimating Anthropometric Soft Biometrics:An Empirical Method

Following the success of soft biometrics over traditional biomet-rics,anthropometric soft biometrics are emerging as candidate features for recognition or retrieval using an image/video.Anthropometric soft biometrics uses a quantitative mode of annotation which is a relatively better method for annotation than qualitative annotations adopted by traditional biometrics.However,one of the most challenging tasks is to achieve a higher level of accuracy while estimating anthropometric soft biometrics using an image or video.The level of accuracy is usually affected by several contextual factors such as overlapping body components,an angle from the camera,and ambient conditions.Exploring and developing such a collection of anthropometric soft biometrics that are less sensitive to contextual factors and are relatively easy to estimate using an image or video is a potential research domain and it has a lot of value for improved recognition or retrieval.For this purpose,anthro-pometric soft biometrics,which are originally geometric measurements of the human body,can be computed with ease and higher accuracy using landmarks information from the human body.To this end,several key contributions are made in this paper;i)summarizing a range of human body pose estimation tools used to localize dozens of different multi-modality landmarks from the human body,ii)a critical evaluation of the usefulness of anthropometric soft biometrics in recognition or retrieval tasks using state of the art in the field,iii)an investigation on several benchmark human body anthropometric datasets and their usefulness for the evaluation of any anthropometric soft biometric system,and iv)finally,a novel bag of anthropometric soft biomet-rics containing a list of anthropometrics is presented those are practically possible to measure from an image or video.To the best of our knowledge,anthropometric soft biometrics are potential features for improved seamless recognition or retrieval in both constrained and unconstrained scenarios and they also minimize the approximation level of feature value estimation than traditional biometrics.In our opinion,anthropometric soft biometrics constitutes a practical approach for recognition using closed-circuit television(CCTV)or retrieval from the image dataset,while the bag of anthropometric soft biometrics presented contains a potential collection of biometric features which are less sensitive to contextual factors.

Voice Response Questionnaire System for Speaker Recognition Using Biometric Authentication Interface

The use of voice to perform biometric authentication is an importanttechnological development,because it is a non-invasive identification methodand does not require special hardware,so it is less likely to arouse user disgust.This study tries to apply the voice recognition technology to the speech-driveninteractive voice response questionnaire system aiming to upgrade the traditionalspeech system to an intelligent voice response questionnaire network so that thenew device may offer enterprises more precise data for customer relationshipmanagement(CRM).The intelligence-type voice response gadget is becominga new mobile channel at the current time,with functions of the questionnaireto be built in for the convenience of collecting information on local preferencesthat can be used for localized promotion and publicity.Authors of this study propose a framework using voice recognition and intelligent analysis models to identify target customers through voice messages gathered in the voice response questionnaire system;that is,transforming the traditional speech system to anintelligent voice complex.The speaker recognition system discussed hereemploys volume as the acoustic feature in endpoint detection as the computationload is usually low in this method.To correct two types of errors found in the endpoint detection practice because of ambient noise,this study suggests ways toimprove the situation.First,to reach high accuracy,this study follows a dynamictime warping(DTW)based method to gain speaker identification.Second,it isdevoted to avoiding any errors in endpoint detection by filtering noise from voicesignals before getting recognition and deleting any test utterances that might negatively affect the results of recognition.It is hoped that by so doing the recognitionrate is improved.According to the experimental results,the method proposed inthis research has a high recognition rate,whether it is on personal-level or industrial-level computers,and can reach the practical application standard.Therefore,the voice management system in this research can be regarded as Virtual customerservice staff to use.

Biometric Finger Vein Recognition Using Evolutionary Algorithm with Deep Learning

In recent years,the demand for biometric-based human recog-nition methods has drastically increased to meet the privacy and security requirements.Palm prints,palm veins,finger veins,fingerprints,hand veins and other anatomic and behavioral features are utilized in the development of different biometric recognition techniques.Amongst the available biometric recognition techniques,Finger Vein Recognition(FVR)is a general technique that analyzes the patterns of finger veins to authenticate the individuals.Deep Learning(DL)-based techniques have gained immense attention in the recent years,since it accomplishes excellent outcomes in various challenging domains such as computer vision,speech detection and Natural Language Processing(NLP).This technique is a natural fit to overcome the ever-increasing biomet-ric detection problems and cell phone authentication issues in airport security techniques.The current study presents an Automated Biometric Finger Vein Recognition using Evolutionary Algorithm with Deep Learning(ABFVR-EADL)model.The presented ABFVR-EADL model aims to accomplish bio-metric recognition using the patterns of the finger veins.Initially,the presented ABFVR-EADL model employs the histogram equalization technique to pre-process the input images.For feature extraction,the Salp Swarm Algorithm(SSA)with Densely-connected Networks(DenseNet-201)model is exploited,showing the proposed method’s novelty.Finally,the Deep-Stacked Denoising Autoencoder(DSAE)is utilized for biometric recognition.The proposed ABFVR-EADL method was experimentally validated using the benchmark databases,and the outcomes confirmed the productive performance of the proposed ABFVR-EADL model over other DL models.

Biometric Verification System UsingHyperparameter Tuned Deep Learning Model

Deep learning(DL)models have been useful in many computer vision,speech recognition,and natural language processing tasks in recent years.These models seem a natural fit to handle the rising number of biometric recognition problems,from cellphone authentication to airport security systems.DL approaches have recently been utilized to improve the efficiency of various biometric recognition systems.Iris recognition was considered the more reliable and accurate biometric detection method accessible.Iris recognition has been an active research region in the last few decades due to its extensive applications,from security in airports to homeland security border control.This article presents a new Political Optimizer with Deep Transfer Learning Enabled Biometric Iris Recognition(PODTL-BIR)model.The presented PODTL-BIR technique recognizes the iris for biometric security.In the presented PODTL-BIR model,an initial stage of pre-processing is carried out.In addition,the MobileNetv2 feature extractor is utilized to produce a collection of feature vectors.The PODTL-BIR technique utilizes a bidirectional gated recurrent unit(BiGRU)model to recognise iris for biometric verification.Finally,the political optimizer(PO)algorithm is used as a hyperparameter tuning strategy to improve the PODTL-BIR technique’s recognition efficiency.Awide-ranging experimental investigation was executed to validate the enhanced performance of the PODTL-BIR system.The experimental outcome stated the promising performance of the PODTL-BIR system over other existing algorithms.

Efficient Hardware Design of a Secure Cancellable Biometric Cryptosystem

Biometric security is a growing trend,as it supports the authentication of persons using confidential biometric data.Most of the transmitted data in multi-media systems are susceptible to attacks,which affect the security of these sys-tems.Biometric systems provide sufficient protection and privacy for users.The recently-introduced cancellable biometric recognition systems have not been investigated in the presence of different types of attacks.In addition,they have not been studied on different and large biometric datasets.Another point that deserves consideration is the hardware implementation of cancellable biometric recognition systems.This paper presents a suggested hybrid cancellable biometric recognition system based on a 3D chaotic cryptosystem.The rationale behind the utilization of the 3D chaotic cryptosystem is to guarantee strong encryption of biometric templates,and hence enhance the security and privacy of users.The suggested cryptosystem adds significant permutation and diffusion to the encrypted biometric templates.We introduce some sort of attack analysis in this paper to prove the robustness of the proposed cryptosystem against attacks.In addition,a Field Programmable Gate Array(FPGA)implementation of the pro-posed system is introduced.The obtained results with the proposed cryptosystem are compared with those of the traditional encryption schemes,such as Double Random Phase Encoding(DRPE)to reveal superiority,and hence high recogni-tion performance of the proposed cancellable biometric recognition system.The obtained results prove that the proposed cryptosystem enhances the security and leads to better efficiency of the cancellable biometric recognition system in the presence of different types of attacks.

Fusion of Hash-Based Hard and Soft Biometrics for Enhancing Face Image Database Search and Retrieval

The utilization of digital picture search and retrieval has grown substantially in numerous fields for different purposes during the last decade,owing to the continuing advances in image processing and computer vision approaches.In multiple real-life applications,for example,social media,content-based face picture retrieval is a well-invested technique for large-scale databases,where there is a significant necessity for reliable retrieval capabilities enabling quick search in a vast number of pictures.Humans widely employ faces for recognizing and identifying people.Thus,face recognition through formal or personal pictures is increasingly used in various real-life applications,such as helping crime investigators retrieve matching images from face image databases to identify victims and criminals.However,such face image retrieval becomes more challenging in large-scale databases,where traditional vision-based face analysis requires ample additional storage space than the raw face images already occupied to store extracted lengthy feature vectors and takes much longer to process and match thousands of face images.This work mainly contributes to enhancing face image retrieval performance in large-scale databases using hash codes inferred by locality-sensitive hashing(LSH)for facial hard and soft biometrics as(Hard BioHash)and(Soft BioHash),respectively,to be used as a search input for retrieving the top-k matching faces.Moreover,we propose the multi-biometric score-level fusion of both face hard and soft BioHashes(Hard-Soft BioHash Fusion)for further augmented face image retrieval.The experimental outcomes applied on the Labeled Faces in the Wild(LFW)dataset and the related attributes dataset(LFW-attributes),demonstrate that the retrieval performance of the suggested fusion approach(Hard-Soft BioHash Fusion)significantly improved the retrieval performance compared to solely using Hard BioHash or Soft BioHash in isolation,where the suggested method provides an augmented accuracy of 87%when executed on 1000 specimens and 77%on 5743 samples.These results remarkably outperform the results of the Hard BioHash method by(50%on the 1000 samples and 30%on the 5743 samples),and the Soft BioHash method by(78%on the 1000 samples and 63%on the 5743 samples).

Proposed Biometric Security System Based on Deep Learning and Chaos Algorithms

Nowadays,there is tremendous growth in biometric authentication and cybersecurity applications.Thus,the efficient way of storing and securing personal biometric patterns is mandatory in most governmental and private sectors.Therefore,designing and implementing robust security algorithms for users’biometrics is still a hot research area to be investigated.This work presents a powerful biometric security system(BSS)to protect different biometric modalities such as faces,iris,and fingerprints.The proposed BSSmodel is based on hybridizing auto-encoder(AE)network and a chaos-based ciphering algorithm to cipher the details of the stored biometric patterns and ensures their secrecy.The employed AE network is unsupervised deep learning(DL)structure used in the proposed BSS model to extract main biometric features.These obtained features are utilized to generate two random chaos matrices.The first random chaos matrix is used to permute the pixels of biometric images.In contrast,the second random matrix is used to further cipher and confuse the resulting permuted biometric pixels using a two-dimensional(2D)chaotic logisticmap(CLM)algorithm.To assess the efficiency of the proposed BSS,(1)different standardized color and grayscale images of the examined fingerprint,faces,and iris biometrics were used(2)comprehensive security and recognition evaluation metrics were measured.The assessment results have proven the authentication and robustness superiority of the proposed BSSmodel compared to other existing BSSmodels.For example,the proposed BSS succeeds in getting a high area under the receiver operating characteristic(AROC)value that reached 99.97%and low rates of 0.00137,0.00148,and 3516 CMC,2023,vol.74,no.20.00157 for equal error rate(EER),false reject rate(FRR),and a false accept rate(FAR),respectively.

Novel Multimodal Biometric Feature Extraction for Precise Human Identification

In recent years,biometric sensors are applicable for identifying impor-tant individual information and accessing the control using various identifiers by including the characteristics like afingerprint,palm print,iris recognition,and so on.However,the precise identification of human features is still physically chal-lenging in humans during their lifetime resulting in a variance in their appearance or features.In response to these challenges,a novel Multimodal Biometric Feature Extraction(MBFE)model is proposed to extract the features from the noisy sen-sor data using a modified Ranking-based Deep Convolution Neural Network(RDCNN).The proposed MBFE model enables the feature extraction from differ-ent biometric images that includes iris,palm print,and lip,where the images are preprocessed initially for further processing.The extracted features are validated after optimal extraction by the RDCNN by splitting the datasets to train the fea-ture extraction model and then testing the model with different sets of input images.The simulation is performed in matlab to test the efficacy of the modal over multi-modal datasets and the simulation result shows that the proposed meth-od achieves increased accuracy,precision,recall,and F1 score than the existing deep learning feature extraction methods.The performance improvement of the MBFE Algorithm technique in terms of accuracy,precision,recall,and F1 score is attained by 0.126%,0.152%,0.184%,and 0.38%with existing Back Propaga-tion Neural Network(BPNN),Human Identification Using Wavelet Transform(HIUWT),Segmentation Methodology for Non-cooperative Recognition(SMNR),Daugman Iris Localization Algorithm(DILA)feature extraction techni-ques respectively.

Different concentrations of hyaluronic acid eye drops for dry eye syndrome: a systematic review and Meta-analysis

AIM:To compare high or low concentration of hyaluronic acid eye drops(HY)for dry eye syndromes(DES).METHODS:Randomized controlled trials(RCTs)comparing various concentrations of HY were searched in PubMed,Embase,Web of Science,Cochrane,SinoMed,CNKI,Wanfang Database,CQVIP,and Chinese journals databases between inception and July 2023.Pooled standardized mean differences(SMD)or weighted mean difference(WMD)with 95%confidence intervals(CI)from RCTs evaluating Schirmer’s I test(SIT),corneal fluorescein staining score(CFS),tear breakup time(TBUT),DES score(DESS),and Ocular Surface Disease Index(OSDI)were calculated.Sensitivity analysis,Egger’s test and Meta-regression analysis were performed for all indicators.RESULTS:We conducted a Meta-analysis of 10 RCTs that met the inclusion criteria,involving 1796 cases.High-concentrations group significantly improved the outcome of CFS according to random effects modelling(SMD,-3.37;95%CI,-5.25 to-1.48;P=0.0005).The rest of the results were not statistically significant,including indicators such as SIT,TBUT,DESS and OSDI.CONCLUSION:For dry eyes with positive corneal staining,a high concentration of HY is recommended,whereas in other cases,a high concentration of HY does not offer a more pronounced advantage over a low concentration of HY in the treatment of dry eyes.

Effectiveness of intravitreal ranibizumab for diabetic macular edema in vitrectomized versus non-vitrectomized eyes:a Meta-analysis

AIM:To evaluate the effectiveness and safety of intravitreal ranibizumab(IVR)for diabetic macular edema(DME)in vitrectomized versus non-vitrectomized eyes.METHODS:The PubMed,EMBASE,Web of Science,Cochrane,EBSCO were comprehensively searched for studies comparing vitrectomized and non-vitrectomized eyes with DME.Clinical outcomes of best-corrected visual acuity(BCVA),central macular thickness(CMT),the mean number of intravitreal injection and adverse events were extracted and analyzed.RESULTS:Six studies involving 641 eyes were included.Final visual gain significantly improved and CMT significantly reduced in vitrectomized eyes at 6mo and 12mo visits(P<0.05).Although the mean reduction in CMT among non-vitrectomized eyes was significantly greater than in vitrectomized eyes at the 6mo[mean difference(MD)=53.57,95%confidence interval(CI):28.03 to 78.72,P<0.0001]and 12mo(MD=49.65,95%CI:19.58 to 79.72,P=0.01),no significant difference was detected in improvement in BCVA at either 6mo(MD=0.05,95%CI:-0.02 to 0.13,P=0.14)or 12mo(MD=0.03,95%CI:-0.04 to 0.09,P=0.43).Injection number of ranibizumab in non-vitrectomized eyes was significantly less than that in vitrectomized eyes during 6-month period(MD=0.60,95%CI:0.16 to 1.04,P=0.008),while there was no statistically significant difference between the two groups during 12mo of follow-up.CONCLUSION:Evidence from current study suggests that IVR was useful for both vitrectomized group and nonvitrectomized group with DME.Although less reduction in macular thickness is found in vitrectomized group,visual improvement between two groups is similar.