Fall behavior is closely related to high mortality in the elderly,so fall detection becomes an important and urgent research area.However,the existing fall detection methods are difficult to be applied in daily life d...Fall behavior is closely related to high mortality in the elderly,so fall detection becomes an important and urgent research area.However,the existing fall detection methods are difficult to be applied in daily life due to a large amount of calculation and poor detection accuracy.To solve the above problems,this paper proposes a dense spatial-temporal graph convolutional network based on lightweight OpenPose.Lightweight OpenPose uses MobileNet as a feature extraction network,and the prediction layer uses bottleneck-asymmetric structure,thus reducing the amount of the network.The bottleneck-asymmetrical structure compresses the number of input channels of feature maps by 1×1 convolution and replaces the 7×7 convolution structure with the asymmetric structure of 1×7 convolution,7×1 convolution,and 7×7 convolution in parallel.The spatial-temporal graph convolutional network divides the multi-layer convolution into dense blocks,and the convolutional layers in each dense block are connected,thus improving the feature transitivity,enhancing the network’s ability to extract features,thus improving the detection accuracy.Two representative datasets,Multiple Cameras Fall dataset(MCF),and Nanyang Technological University Red Green Blue+Depth Action Recognition dataset(NTU RGB+D),are selected for our experiments,among which NTU RGB+D has two evaluation benchmarks.The results show that the proposed model is superior to the current fall detection models.The accuracy of this network on the MCF dataset is 96.3%,and the accuracies on the two evaluation benchmarks of the NTU RGB+D dataset are 85.6%and 93.5%,respectively.展开更多
Early diagnosis and detection are important tasks in controlling the spread of COVID-19.A number of Deep Learning techniques has been established by researchers to detect the presence of COVID-19 using CT scan images ...Early diagnosis and detection are important tasks in controlling the spread of COVID-19.A number of Deep Learning techniques has been established by researchers to detect the presence of COVID-19 using CT scan images and X-rays.However,these methods suffer from biased results and inaccurate detection of the disease.So,the current research article developed Oppositional-based Chimp Optimization Algorithm and Deep Dense Convolutional Neural Network(OCOA-DDCNN)for COVID-19 prediction using CT images in IoT environment.The proposed methodology works on the basis of two stages such as pre-processing and prediction.Initially,CT scan images generated from prospective COVID-19 are collected from open-source system using IoT devices.The collected images are then preprocessed using Gaussian filter.Gaussian filter can be utilized in the removal of unwanted noise from the collected CT scan images.Afterwards,the preprocessed images are sent to prediction phase.In this phase,Deep Dense Convolutional Neural Network(DDCNN)is applied upon the pre-processed images.The proposed classifier is optimally designed with the consideration of Oppositional-basedChimp Optimization Algorithm(OCOA).This algorithm is utilized in the selection of optimal parameters for the proposed classifier.Finally,the proposed technique is used in the prediction of COVID-19 and classify the results as either COVID-19 or non-COVID-19.The projected method was implemented in MATLAB and the performances were evaluated through statistical measurements.The proposed method was contrasted with conventional techniques such as Convolutional Neural Network-Firefly Algorithm(CNN-FA),Emperor Penguin Optimization(CNN-EPO)respectively.The results established the supremacy of the proposed model.展开更多
A prevalent diabetic complication is Diabetic Retinopathy(DR),which can damage the retina’s veins,leading to a severe loss of vision.If treated in the early stage,it can help to prevent vision loss.But since its diag...A prevalent diabetic complication is Diabetic Retinopathy(DR),which can damage the retina’s veins,leading to a severe loss of vision.If treated in the early stage,it can help to prevent vision loss.But since its diagnosis takes time and there is a shortage of ophthalmologists,patients suffer vision loss even before diagnosis.Hence,early detection of DR is the necessity of the time.The primary purpose of the work is to apply the data fusion/feature fusion technique,which combines more than one relevant feature to predict diabetic retinopathy at an early stage with greater accuracy.Mechanized procedures for diabetic retinopathy analysis are fundamental in taking care of these issues.While profound learning for parallel characterization has accomplished high approval exactness’s,multi-stage order results are less noteworthy,especially during beginning phase sickness.Densely Connected Convolutional Networks are suggested to detect of Diabetic Retinopathy on retinal images.The presented model is trained on a Diabetic Retinopathy Dataset having 3,662 images given by APTOS.Experimental results suggest that the training accuracy of 93.51%0.98 precision,0.98 recall and 0.98 F1-score has been achieved through the best one out of the three models in the proposed work.The same model is tested on 550 images of the Kaggle 2015 dataset where the proposed model was able to detect No DR images with 96%accuracy,Mild DR images with 90%accuracy,Moderate DR images with 89%accuracy,Severe DR images with 87%accuracy and Proliferative DR images with 93%accuracy.展开更多
COVID-19 has created a panic all around the globe.It is a contagious dis-ease caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2(SARS-CoV-2),originated from Wuhan in December 2019 and spread quickly all over th...COVID-19 has created a panic all around the globe.It is a contagious dis-ease caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2(SARS-CoV-2),originated from Wuhan in December 2019 and spread quickly all over the world.The healthcare sector of the world is facing great challenges tackling COVID cases.One of the problems many have witnessed is the misdiagnosis of COVID-19 cases with that of healthy and pneumonia cases.In this article,we propose a deep Convo-lutional Neural Network(CNN)based approach to detect COVID+(i.e.,patients with COVID-19),pneumonia and normal cases,from the chest X-ray images.COVID-19 detection from chest X-ray is suitable considering all aspects in compar-ison to Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction(RT-PCR)and Computed Tomography(CT)scan.Several deep CNN models including VGG16,InceptionV3,DenseNet121,DenseNet201 and InceptionResNetV2 have been adopted in this pro-posed work.They have been trained individually to make particular predictions.Empirical results demonstrate that DenseNet201 provides overall better performance with accuracy,recall,F1-score and precision of 94.75%,96%,95%and 95%respec-tively.After careful comparison with results available in the literature,we have found to develop models with a higher reliability.All the studies were carried out using a publicly available chest X-ray(CXR)image data-set.展开更多
基金supported,in part,by the National Nature Science Foundation of China under Grant Numbers 62272236,62376128in part,by the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province under Grant Numbers BK20201136,BK20191401.
文摘Fall behavior is closely related to high mortality in the elderly,so fall detection becomes an important and urgent research area.However,the existing fall detection methods are difficult to be applied in daily life due to a large amount of calculation and poor detection accuracy.To solve the above problems,this paper proposes a dense spatial-temporal graph convolutional network based on lightweight OpenPose.Lightweight OpenPose uses MobileNet as a feature extraction network,and the prediction layer uses bottleneck-asymmetric structure,thus reducing the amount of the network.The bottleneck-asymmetrical structure compresses the number of input channels of feature maps by 1×1 convolution and replaces the 7×7 convolution structure with the asymmetric structure of 1×7 convolution,7×1 convolution,and 7×7 convolution in parallel.The spatial-temporal graph convolutional network divides the multi-layer convolution into dense blocks,and the convolutional layers in each dense block are connected,thus improving the feature transitivity,enhancing the network’s ability to extract features,thus improving the detection accuracy.Two representative datasets,Multiple Cameras Fall dataset(MCF),and Nanyang Technological University Red Green Blue+Depth Action Recognition dataset(NTU RGB+D),are selected for our experiments,among which NTU RGB+D has two evaluation benchmarks.The results show that the proposed model is superior to the current fall detection models.The accuracy of this network on the MCF dataset is 96.3%,and the accuracies on the two evaluation benchmarks of the NTU RGB+D dataset are 85.6%and 93.5%,respectively.
文摘Early diagnosis and detection are important tasks in controlling the spread of COVID-19.A number of Deep Learning techniques has been established by researchers to detect the presence of COVID-19 using CT scan images and X-rays.However,these methods suffer from biased results and inaccurate detection of the disease.So,the current research article developed Oppositional-based Chimp Optimization Algorithm and Deep Dense Convolutional Neural Network(OCOA-DDCNN)for COVID-19 prediction using CT images in IoT environment.The proposed methodology works on the basis of two stages such as pre-processing and prediction.Initially,CT scan images generated from prospective COVID-19 are collected from open-source system using IoT devices.The collected images are then preprocessed using Gaussian filter.Gaussian filter can be utilized in the removal of unwanted noise from the collected CT scan images.Afterwards,the preprocessed images are sent to prediction phase.In this phase,Deep Dense Convolutional Neural Network(DDCNN)is applied upon the pre-processed images.The proposed classifier is optimally designed with the consideration of Oppositional-basedChimp Optimization Algorithm(OCOA).This algorithm is utilized in the selection of optimal parameters for the proposed classifier.Finally,the proposed technique is used in the prediction of COVID-19 and classify the results as either COVID-19 or non-COVID-19.The projected method was implemented in MATLAB and the performances were evaluated through statistical measurements.The proposed method was contrasted with conventional techniques such as Convolutional Neural Network-Firefly Algorithm(CNN-FA),Emperor Penguin Optimization(CNN-EPO)respectively.The results established the supremacy of the proposed model.
文摘A prevalent diabetic complication is Diabetic Retinopathy(DR),which can damage the retina’s veins,leading to a severe loss of vision.If treated in the early stage,it can help to prevent vision loss.But since its diagnosis takes time and there is a shortage of ophthalmologists,patients suffer vision loss even before diagnosis.Hence,early detection of DR is the necessity of the time.The primary purpose of the work is to apply the data fusion/feature fusion technique,which combines more than one relevant feature to predict diabetic retinopathy at an early stage with greater accuracy.Mechanized procedures for diabetic retinopathy analysis are fundamental in taking care of these issues.While profound learning for parallel characterization has accomplished high approval exactness’s,multi-stage order results are less noteworthy,especially during beginning phase sickness.Densely Connected Convolutional Networks are suggested to detect of Diabetic Retinopathy on retinal images.The presented model is trained on a Diabetic Retinopathy Dataset having 3,662 images given by APTOS.Experimental results suggest that the training accuracy of 93.51%0.98 precision,0.98 recall and 0.98 F1-score has been achieved through the best one out of the three models in the proposed work.The same model is tested on 550 images of the Kaggle 2015 dataset where the proposed model was able to detect No DR images with 96%accuracy,Mild DR images with 90%accuracy,Moderate DR images with 89%accuracy,Severe DR images with 87%accuracy and Proliferative DR images with 93%accuracy.
文摘COVID-19 has created a panic all around the globe.It is a contagious dis-ease caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2(SARS-CoV-2),originated from Wuhan in December 2019 and spread quickly all over the world.The healthcare sector of the world is facing great challenges tackling COVID cases.One of the problems many have witnessed is the misdiagnosis of COVID-19 cases with that of healthy and pneumonia cases.In this article,we propose a deep Convo-lutional Neural Network(CNN)based approach to detect COVID+(i.e.,patients with COVID-19),pneumonia and normal cases,from the chest X-ray images.COVID-19 detection from chest X-ray is suitable considering all aspects in compar-ison to Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction(RT-PCR)and Computed Tomography(CT)scan.Several deep CNN models including VGG16,InceptionV3,DenseNet121,DenseNet201 and InceptionResNetV2 have been adopted in this pro-posed work.They have been trained individually to make particular predictions.Empirical results demonstrate that DenseNet201 provides overall better performance with accuracy,recall,F1-score and precision of 94.75%,96%,95%and 95%respec-tively.After careful comparison with results available in the literature,we have found to develop models with a higher reliability.All the studies were carried out using a publicly available chest X-ray(CXR)image data-set.
