Automatic Finding of Brain-Tumour Group Using CNN Segmentation and Moth-Flame-Algorithm,Selected Deep and Handcrafted Features

Augmentation of abnormal cells in the brain causes brain tumor(BT),and early screening and treatmentwill reduce its harshness in patients.BT’s clinical level screening is usually performed with Magnetic Resonance Imaging(MRI)due to its multi-modality nature.The overall aims of the study is to introduce,test and verify an advanced image processing technique with algorithms to automatically extract tumour sections from brain MRI scans,facilitating improved accuracy.The research intends to devise a reliable framework for detecting the BT region in the twodimensional(2D)MRI slice,and identifying its class with improved accuracy.The methodology for the devised framework comprises the phases of:(i)Collection and resizing of images,(ii)Implementation and Segmentation of Convolutional Neural Network(CNN),(iii)Deep feature extraction,(iv)Handcrafted feature extraction,(v)Moth-Flame-Algorithm(MFA)supported feature reduction,and(vi)Performance evaluation.This study utilized clinical-grade brain MRI of BRATS and TCIA datasets for the investigation.This framework segments detected the glioma(low/high grade)and glioblastoma class BT.This work helped to get a segmentation accuracy of over 98%with VGG-UNet and a classification accuracy of over 98%with the VGG16 scheme.This study has confirmed that the implemented framework is very efficient in detecting the BT in MRI slices with/without the skull section.

Generation of OAM Waves and Analysis of Mode Purity for 5G Sub-6 GHz Applications

This article presents the generation of Orbital AngularMomentum(OAM)vortex waves with mode 1 using Uniform Circular Array(UCA)antenna.Two different designs,namely,UCA-1(4-element array antenna)and UCA-2(8-element array antenna),were designed and fabricated using FR-4 substrate to generate OAM mode 1 at 3.5 GHz(5G mid-band).The proposed antenna arrays comprised rectangular microstrip patch elements with inset fed technique.The elements were excited by a carefully designed feeding phase shift network to provide similar output energy at output ports with desired phase shift value.The generated OAM waves were confirmed by measuring the null in the bore sight of their 2D radiation patterns,simulated phase distribution and intensity distribution.The measurement results agree well with the simulation results.Moreover,a detailed mode purity analysis of the generated OAM waves was carried out considering different factors.The investigation found that the greater the number of elements,the higher the purity of the generated OAM wave.Compared with other previous works,the proposed antenna design of this paper is very simple to design and fabricate.In addition,the proposed antennas are compact in design even at lower frequency band with very wide bandwidth to meet the requirements of 5G mid-band applications.

Effect of Direct Statistical Contrast Enhancement Technique on Document Image Binarization

Background:Contrast enhancement plays an important role in the image processing field.Contrast correction has performed an adjustment on the darkness or brightness of the input image and increases the quality of the image.Objective:This paper proposed a novel method based on statistical data from the local mean and local standard deviation.Method:The proposed method modifies the mean and standard deviation of a neighbourhood at each pixel and divides it into three categories:background,foreground,and problematic(contrast&luminosity)region.Experimental results from both visual and objective aspects show that the proposed method can normalize the contrast variation problem effectively compared to Histogram Equalization(HE),Difference of Gaussian(DoG),and Butterworth Homomorphic Filtering(BHF).Seven(7)types of binarization methods were tested on the corrected image and produced a positive and impressive result.Result:Finally,a comparison in terms of Signal Noise Ratio(SNR),Misclassification Error(ME),F-measure,Peak Signal Noise Ratio(PSNR),Misclassification Penalty Metric(MPM),and Accuracy was calculated.Each binarization method shows an incremented result after applying it onto the corrected image compared to the original image.The SNR result of our proposed image is 9.350 higher than the three(3)other methods.The average increment after five(5)types of evaluation are:(Otsu=41.64%,Local Adaptive=7.05%,Niblack=30.28%,Bernsen=25%,Bradley=3.54%,Nick=1.59%,Gradient-Based=14.6%).Conclusion:The results presented in this paper effectively solve the contrast problem and finally produce better quality images.

Robust Adaptive Control for a Class of Systems with Deadzone Nonlinearity

This paper presents a robust adaptive control scheme for a class of continuous-time linear systems with unknown non-smooth asymmetrical deadzone nonlinearity at the input of the plant. The methodology is applied to handle input deadzone as well as unmeasurable disturbances simultaneously in strictly matched systems. The proposed controller robustly cancels any residual distortion caused by the inaccurate deadzone cancellation scheme. The scheme is shown to successfully cancel the deadzone’s deleterious effect as well as eliminate other unmeasurable disturbances within the span of the input. The new controller ensures the global stability of all states and adaptations, and achieves asymptotic tracking. The asymptotic stability of the closed-loop system is proven by Lyapunov arguments, and simulation results confirm the efficacy of the control methodology.

Adaptive Control for a Class of Systems with Output Deadzone Nonlinearity

This paper presents a continuous-time adaptive control scheme for systems with uncertain non-symmetrical deadzone nonlinearity located at the output of a plant. An adaptive inverse function is developed and used in conjunction with a robust adaptive controller to reduce the effect of deadzone nonlinearity. The deadzone inverse function is also implemented in continuous time, and an adaptive update law is designed to estimate the deadzone parameters. The adaptive output deadzone inverse controller is smoothly differentiable and is combined with a robust adaptive nonlinear controller to ensure robustness and boundedness of all the states of the system as well as the output signal. The mismatch between the ideal deadzone inverse function and our proposed implantation is treated as a disturbance that can be upper bounded by a polynomial in the system states. The overall stability of the closed-loop system is proven by using Lyapunov method, and simulations confirm the efficacy of the control methodology.

Zero-Index Metamaterial Superstrates UWB Antenna for Microwave Imaging Detection

Metamaterials(MTM)can enhance the properties of microwaves and also exceed some limitations of devices used in technical practice.Note that the antenna is the element for realizing a microwave imaging(MWI)system since it is where signal transmission and absorption occur.Ultra-Wideband(UWB)antenna superstrates with MTM elements to ensure the signal transmitted from the antenna reaches the tumor and is absorbed by the same antenna.The lack of conventional head imaging techniques,for instance,Magnetic Resonance Imaging(MRI)and Computerized Tomography(CT)-scan,has been demonstrated in the paper focusing on the point of failure of these techniques for prompt diagnosis and portable systems.Furthermore,the importance ofMWIhas been addressed elaborately to portray its effectiveness and aptness for a primary tumor diagnosis.Other than that,MTM element designs have been discussed thoroughly based on their performances towards the contributions to the better image resolution of MWI with detailed reasonings.This paper proposes the novel design of a Zeroindex Split RingResonator(SRR)MTMelement superstrate with a UWB antenna implemented in MWI systems for detecting tumor.The novel design of the MTM enables the realization of a high gain of a superstrate UWB antenna with the highest gain of 5.70 dB.Besides that,the MTM imitates the conduct of the zeroreflection phase on the resonance frequency,which does not exist.An antenna with an MTM unit is of a 7×4 and 10×5 Zero-index SRR MTM element that acts as a superstrate plane to the antenna.Apart from that,Rogers(RT5880)substrate material is employed to fabricate the designed MTM unit cell,with the following characteristics:0.51mm thickness,the loss tangent of 0.02,as well as the relative permittivity of 2.2,with Computer Simulation Technology(CST)performing the simulation and design.Both MTM unit cells of 7×4 and 10×5 attained 0°with respect to the reflection phase at the 2.70 GHz frequency band.The first design,MTM Antenna Design 1,consists of a 7×4 MTM unit cell that observed a rise of 5.70 dB with a return loss(S11)−20.007 dB at 2.70 GHz frequency.The second design,MTM Antenna Design 2,consists of 10×5 MTM unit cells that recorded a gain of 5.66 dB,having the return loss(S11)−19.734 dB at 2.70 GHz frequency.Comparing these two MTM elements superstrates with the antenna,one can notice that the 7×4 MTM element shape has a low number of the unit cell with high gain and is a better choice than the 10×5 MTM element in realizing MTM element superstrates antenna for MWI.

High-Bandwidth,Low-Power CMOS Transistor Based CAB for Field Programmable Analog Array

This article presents an integrated current mode configurable analog block(CAB)system for field-programmable analog array(FPAA).The proposed architecture is based on the complementary metal-oxide semiconductor(CMOS)transistor level design where MOSFET transistors operating in the saturation region are adopted.The proposed CAB architecture is designed to implement six of thewidely used current mode operations in analog processing systems:addition,subtraction,integration,multiplication,division,and pass operation.The functionality of the proposed CAB is demonstrated through these six operations,where each operation is chosen based on the user’s selection in the CAB interface system.The architecture of the CAB system proposes an optimized way of designing and integrating only three functional cells with the interface circuitry to achieve the six operations.Furthermore,optimized programming and digital tuning circuitry are implemented in the architecture to control and interface with the functional cells.Moreover,these designed programming and tuning circuitries play an essential role in optimizing the performance of the proposed design.Simulation of the proposed CMOS Transistor Based CAB system is carried out using Tanner EDA Tools in 0.35μm standard CMOS technology.The design uses a±1.5 V power supply and results in maximum 3 dB bandwidth of 34.9 MHz and an approximate size of 0.0537 mm2.This demonstrates the advantages of the design over the current state-of-the-art designs presented for comparison in this article.Consequently,the proposed design has a clear aspect of simplicity,low power consumption,and high bandwidth operation,which makes it a suitable candidate for mobile telecommunications applications.

Directional Wideband Wearable Antenna with Circular Parasitic Element for Microwave Imaging Applications

This work proposes a wideband and unidirectional antenna consisting of dual layer of coplanar waveguide based on the circular parasitic element technique.The design procedure is implemented in three stages:Design A,which operates at 3.94 GHz with a bandwidth of 3.83 GHz and a fractional bandwidth(FBW)of 97.2%;Design B,which operates at 3.98 GHz with a bandwidth of 0.66 GHz(FBW of 56.53%);and Design C as the final antenna.The final Design C is designed to resonate at several frequencies between 2.89 and 7.0 GHz for microwave imaging applications with a bandwidth of 4.11 GHz(79.8%)centered at 5.15 GHz.This antenna is fabricated fully using two textile materials:felt as the substrate and ShieldIt as the conductor.It features a unidirectional radiation with a gain of 5.5 dBi,and reduced lowback radiation from 2.06 to−7.81 dB.The front-to-back ratio(FBR)for Design A,Design B and Design C are 4.82,2.94 and 11.36 dB,respectively.This antenna is wideband with unidirectional radiation,lightweight,and flexible.

Reconfigurable Pattern Patch Antenna for Mid-Band 5G:A Review

New requirements in communication technologies make it imperative to rehash conventional features such as reconfigurable antennas to adapt with the future adaptability advancements.This paper presents a comprehensive review of reconfigurable antennas,specifically in terms of radiation patterns for adaptation in the upcoming Fifth Generation(5G)New Radio frequency bands.They represent the key of antenna technology for materializing a high rate transmission,increased spectral and energy efficiency,reduced interference,and improved the beam steering and beam shaping,thereby land a great promise for planar antennas to boost the mid-band 5G.This review begins with an overview of the underlying principals in reconfiguring radiation patterns,followed by the presentations of the implemented innovative antenna topologies to suit particular advanced features.The various adaptation techniques of radiation pattern reconfigurable planar antennas and the understanding of its antenna design approaches has been investigated for its radiation pattern enhancement.A variety of design configurations have also been critically studied for their compatibilities to be operated in the midband communication systems.The review provides new insights on pattern reconfigurable antenna where such antennas are categorized as beam steering antenna and beamshaping antennas where the operation modes and purposes are clearly investigated.The review also revealed that for mid-band 5G communication,the commonly used electronic switching such as PIN diodes have sufficient isolation loss to provide the required beam performance.

Wearable UWB Antenna-Based Bending and Wet Performances for Breast Cancer Detection

This paper proposed integrating the communication system on the garment,which can be utilized to detect breast cancer at an early stage by using an ultra-wideband(UWB)wearable antenna.Breast cancer is an abnormal cell that is located in the breast tissue.Early detection of breast cancer plays an important role,and it helps in the long term for all women.The proposed UWB wearable antenna successfully operates at 3.1-10.6 GHz under an acceptable reflection coefficient of−10 dB.The fabricated wearable antenna was made from Shieldit Super and felt both conductive and nonconductive wearable materials.Few measurement studies of bending angles have been carried out that covered 2°,4°,6°,8°,and 10°.In addition,the performance of UWB antennas in wet environments is studied in four stages:in water,instantly wet,nearly dry,and entirely dry.There is good agreement between the measured and simulated outcomes.Based on the experimental results,the proposed antenna could be helpful for a home breast cancer detection system.

Decagonal C-Shaped CSRR Textile-Based Metamaterial for Microwave Applications

This paper introduces a decagonal C-shaped complementary splitring resonator(CSRR)textile-based metamaterial(MTM).The overall size of the proposed sub-wavelength MTM unit cell is 0.28λ0×0.255λ0 at 3 GHz.Its stopband behaviour was first studied prior analysing the negative index properties of the proposed MTM.It is worth noting that in this work a unique way the experiments were completed.For both simulations and measurements,the proposed MTM exhibited negative-permittivity and negative-refractive index characteristics with an average bandwidth of more than 3 GHz(considering 1.7 to 8.2 GHz as the measurements were carried out within this range).In simulations,the MTM exhibited negative-permittivity properties within the range of 1.7 to 7.52 GHz and 7.96 to 8.2 GHz;and negative-refractive index from 1.7 to 2.23 GHz and 2.33 to 5.09 GHz and 5.63 to 7.45 GHz.When measured from 1.7 to 8.2 GHz,negative-permittivity and negative-refractive index characteristics are exhibited throughout an average bandwidth of more than 3 GHz.Similarly,the transmission coefficient attained in simulations and measurements indicated about 3 GHz of bandwidth,from 1.7 to 3.88 GHz and from 6.68 to 7.4 GHz.The satisfactory agreement between simulations and experiments indicates the potential of the proposed MTM for microwave applications.

Left-Handed Characteristics Tunable C-Shaped Varactor Loaded Textile Metamaterial for Microwave Applications

This paper presents a textile-based C-shaped split-ring resonators(SRR)metamaterial(MTM)unit cells with an electrical tunability function.The proposed MTM was composed of two symmetrical C-shaped SRR combined with a central diagonal metal bar,whereas the RF varactor diode is placed on the backside of the splitted ground plane.Stopband behavior of single and array MTM unit cells were analyzed while the achieved negative index physical characteristics were widely studies.Though four different MTM arrays(i.e.,1×1,1×2,2×1,and 2×2)were analyzed in simulation,a 2×2-unit cell array was chosen to fabricate,and it was further undergone experimental validation.This proposed tunable MTM exhibits double negative(DNG)/left-handed properties with an average bandwidth of more than 2.8 GHz.Furthermore,attainable negative permittivity and negative permeability are within 2.66 to 9.59 GHz and within 2.77 to 15 GHz,respectively,at the frequency of interest(between 1 and 15 GHz).Moreover,the proposed tunable MTM also showed tunable transmission coefficient characteristics.The proposed electrically tunable textile MTM might function in a dynamic mode,making it suitable for a variety of microwave-wearable applications.A satisfactory agreement between simulations and experiments were achieved,demonstrating that the proposed MTM can operate over a wide bandwidth.

A Hybrid Modified Sine Cosine Algorithm Using Inverse Filtering and Clipping Methods for Low Autocorrelation Binary Sequences

The essential purpose of radar is to detect a target of interest and provide information concerning the target’s location,motion,size,and other parameters.The knowledge about the pulse trains’properties shows that a class of signals is mainly well suited to digital processing of increasing practical importance.A low autocorrelation binary sequence(LABS)is a complex combinatorial problem.The main problems of LABS are low Merit Factor(MF)and shorter length sequences.Besides,the maximum possible MF equals 12.3248 as infinity length is unable to be achieved.Therefore,this study implemented two techniques to propose a new metaheuristic algorithm based on Hybrid Modified Sine Cosine Algorithm with Cuckoo Search Algorithm(HMSCACSA)using Inverse Filtering(IF)and clipping method to achieve better results.The proposed algorithms,LABS-IF and HMSCACSA-IF,achieved better results with two large MFs equal to 12.12 and 12.6678 for lengths 231 and 237,respectively,where the optimal solutions belong to the skew-symmetric sequences.The MF outperformed up to 24.335%and 2.708%against the state-of-the-art LABS heuristic algorithm,xLastovka,and Golay,respectively.These results indicated that the proposed algorithm’s simulation had quality solutions in terms of fast convergence curve with better optimal means,and standard deviation.

Graphene synthesis,fabrication,characterization based on bottom-up and top-down approaches:An overview

This study presents an overview on graphene synthesis,fabrication and different characterization techniques utilized in the production.Since its discovery in 2004 by Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov several research articles have been published globally to this effect,owing to graphene’s extraordinary,and exclusive characteristics which include optical transparency,excellent thermal,and mechanical properties.The properties and applications of this two-dimensional carbon crystal composed of single-layered material have created new avenues for the development of high-performance future electronics and technologies in energy storage and conversion for the sustainable energy.However,despite its potential and current status globally the difficulty in the production of monolayer graphene sheet still persists.Therefore,this review highlighted two approaches in the synthesis of graphene,which are the top-down and bottom-up approaches and examined the advantages and failings of the methods involved.In addition,the prospects and failings of these methods are investigated,as they are essential in optimizing the production method of graphene vital for expanding the yield,and producing high-quality graphene.

Mathematical Optimization Modelling for Fast-Switched and Delay Minimized Scheduling for Intra-Cell Communication in an AWGR-Based PON Data Center

As the internet traffic along with the processing power in data centers are exponentially growing, the need for the design of energy efficient with highly elastic networking infrastructure to support the different applications and cloud services that can be hosted in data centers have become a hot research area. A key departure from the norm is that conventional routers and switches in conventional data centers are replaced with high performance Passive Optical Networks (PONs) to take over the role of routing and traffic forwarding through efficient resource provisioning algorithms. In this paper, the different aspects of PONs in the design of energy efficient, high capacity, and highly elastic networking infrastructures to support the applications and services hosted by modern data centers are considered. In this work, a mathematical optimization model for energy-efficient and delay-minimized scheduling in AWGR based PON data center for PON cell fabric configuration will be presented. The performance of the proposed architecture in terms of efficient scheduling against average delay and power consumption for different traffic loads and patterns will be evaluated. Different scenarios of traffic;random and unbalanced with hotspots are examined to evaluate the average delay and power consumption with and without sleep mode. Results have shown that with sleep mode enabled, power savings for two evaluated objective functions have shown similar results when examining different traffic patterns. The power savings range between 8% and 55% during low and high load activities, respectively. However, minimization of delay model has shown improvement in reducing total average delay reaching up to 42% if compared with the model with objective of minimization of power consumption.

Contrast Correction Using Hybrid Statistical Enhancement on Weld Defect Images

Luminosity and contrast variation problems are among the most challenging tasks in the image processing field,significantly improving image quality.Enhancement is implemented by adjusting the dark or bright intensity to improve the quality of the images and increase the segmentation performance.Recently,numerous methods had been proposed to normalise the luminosity and contrast variation.A new approach based on a direct technique using statistical data known as Hybrid Statistical Enhancement(HSE)is presented in this study.TheHSE method uses themean and standard deviation of a local and global neighbourhood and classified the pixel into three groups;the foreground,border,and problematic region(contrast&luminosity).The datasets,namely weld defect images,were utilised to demonstrate the effectiveness of the HSE method.The results from the visual and objective aspects showed that the HSE method could normalise the luminosity and enhance the contrast variation problem effectively.The proposed method was compared to the two(2)populor enhancement methods which is Homomorphic Filter(HF)and Difference of Gaussian(DoG).To prove the HSE effectiveness,a few image quality assessments were presented,and the results were discussed.The HSE method achieved a better result compared to the other methods,which are Signal Noise Ratio(8.920),Standard Deviation(18.588)and Absolute Mean Brightness Error(9.356).In conclusion,implementing the HSE method has produced an effective and efficient result for background correction and quality images improvement.

A Framework for an Energy-Efficient Bandwidth Allocation Approach through Dynamic ONTs Grouping in Flexible GPON Access Networks

The growing demands for high speed connectivity to keep pace with bandwidth intensive applications and services have spawned the idea of developing PONs with capabilities beyond those of copper and wireless-based technologies in access network. In this article, an approach for the design of an energy efficient bandwidth allocation mechanism for the shared upstream communication link in the Fiber to the Home (FTTH) access network is presented and evaluated using Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) model. In the MILP model, two objective functions for minimization of power consumption and minimization of blocking were evaluated. The results have shown that with the objective of power minimization approach, Optical Network Terminals (ONTs) are efficiently grouped to the minimum number of active networking Optical Line Terminal (OLT) switches, traffic is groomed, ports are efficiently utilized, and hence total power consumption is minimized. Results have shown that with energy efficient bandwidth allocation approach consideration, energy savings can reach up to 80% for different examined traffic loads following uniform distribution.