Nucleosides Nucleotides Nucleic Acids
October 2024
Advancements in DNA nanotechnology have led to new exciting ways to detect cell-free tumor biomarkers, revolutionizing cancer diagnostics. This article comprehensively reviews recent developments in this field, discussing the significance of liquid biopsies and DNA nanomachines in early cancer detection. The accuracy of cancer diagnosis at its early stages is expected to be significantly improved by identifying biomarkers.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe development of innovative methods for concealing critical data in multimedia files has exploded in information security in recent years. Cryptography and steganography cannot be used alone to protect data; rather, they can be combined and used in a single system. Audio steganography is among the most important information security techniques.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFReinforcement of the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) network security has become extremely significant as these networks enable both patients and healthcare providers to communicate with each other by exchanging medical signals, data, and vital reports in a safe way. To ensure the safe transmission of sensitive information, robust and secure access mechanisms are paramount. Vulnerabilities in these networks, particularly at the access points, could expose patients to significant risks.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis paper introduces a method aiming at enhancing the efficacy of speaker identification systems within challenging acoustic environments characterized by noise and reverberation. The methodology encompasses the utilization of diverse feature extraction techniques, including Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCCs) and discrete transforms, such as Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT), Discrete Sine Transform (DST), and Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT). Additionally, an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) serves as the classifier for this method.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDiabetic retinopathy (DR) is a significant cause of vision impairment, emphasizing the critical need for early detection and timely intervention to avert visual deterioration. Diagnosing DR is inherently complex, as it necessitates the meticulous examination of intricate retinal images by experienced specialists. This makes the early diagnosis of DR essential for effective treatment and prevention of eventual blindness.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAutomatic seizure detection and prediction using clinical Electroencephalograms (EEGs) are challenging tasks due to factors such as low Signal-to-Noise Ratios (SNRs), high variance in epileptic seizures among patients, and limited clinical data constraints. To overcome these challenges, this paper presents two approaches for EEG signal classification. One of these approaches depends on Machine Learning (ML) tools.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAcute lower respiratory infection is a leading cause of death in developing countries. Hence, progress has been made for early detection and treatment. There is still a need for improved diagnostic and therapeutic strategies, particularly in resource-limited settings.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRecently, biometrics has become widely used in applications to verify an individual's identity. To address security issues, biometrics presents an intriguing window of opportunity to enhance the usability and security of the Internet of Things (IoT) and other systems. It can be used to secure a variety of newly emerging IoT devices.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe brain tumor is an urgent malignancy caused by unregulated cell division. Tumors are classified using a biopsy, which is normally performed after the final brain surgery. Deep learning technology advancements have assisted the health professionals in medical imaging for the medical diagnosis of several symptoms.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe security issue is essential in the Internet-of-Things (IoT) environment. Biometrics play an important role in securing the emerging IoT devices, especially IoT robots. Biometric identification is an interesting candidate to improve IoT usability and security.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMedical image fusion is a process that aims to merge the important information from images with different modalities of the same organ of the human body to create a more informative fused image. In recent years, deep learning (DL) methods have achieved significant breakthroughs in the field of image fusion because of their great efficiency. The DL methods in image fusion have become an active topic due to their high feature extraction and data representation ability.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Ambient Intell Humaniz Comput
March 2022
This paper explores the issue of COVID-19 detection from X-ray images. X-ray images, in general, suffer from low quality and low resolution. That is why the detection of different diseases from X-ray images requires sophisticated algorithms.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe focus of most research nowadays in the field of communication technology is on increasing bandwidth in wireless connectivity. Adaptive modulation can be used to enhance efficiency of communication systems. Adaptive modulation requires modulation format identification (MFI) at the receiver side to avoid the overhead required to determine the modulation type at the receiver.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: In humanity's ongoing fight against its common enemy of COVID-19, researchers have been relentless in finding efficient technologies to support mitigation, diagnosis, management, contact tracing, and ultimately vaccination.
Objectives: Engineers and computer scientists have deployed the potent properties of deep learning models (DLMs) in COVID-19 detection and diagnosis. However, publicly available datasets are often adulterated during collation, transmission, or storage.
Comput Intell Neurosci
February 2022
Emotion recognition is one of the trending research fields. It is involved in several applications. Its most interesting applications include robotic vision and interactive robotic communication.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Numer Method Biomed Eng
June 2022
Electroencephalography (EEG) is among the main tools used for analyzing and diagnosing epilepsy. The manual analysis of EEG must be conducted by highly trained clinicians or neuro-physiologists; a process that is considered to have a comparatively low inter-rater agreement. Furthermore, the new data interpretation consumes an excessive amount of time and resources.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSmart health surveillance technology has attracted wide attention between patients and professionals or specialists to provide early detection of critical abnormal situations without the need to be in direct contact with the patient. This paper presents a secure smart monitoring portable multivital signal system based on Internet-of-Things (IoT) technology. The implemented system is designed to measure the key health parameters: heart rate (HR), blood oxygen saturation (SpO), and body temperature, simultaneously.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHigh-speed wireless communication is necessary in our personal lives, in both working and living spaces. This paper presents a scheme for wireless optical modulation format recognition (MFR) based on the Hough transform (HT). The HT is used to project constellation diagrams onto another space for efficient feature extraction.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Ambient Intell Humaniz Comput
November 2021
Today, biometrics are the preferred technologies for person identification, authentication, and verification cutting across different applications and industries. Sadly, this ubiquity has invigorated criminal efforts aimed at violating the integrity of these modalities. Our study presents a multi-biometric cancellable scheme (MBCS) that exploits the proven utility of deep learning models to fuse multi-exposure fingerprint, finger vein, and iris biometrics by using an Inspection V3 pre-trained model to generate an aggregate tamper-proof cancellable template.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDeep learning is one of the most promising machine learning techniques that revolutionalized the artificial intelligence field. The known traditional and convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been utilized in medical pattern recognition applications that depend on deep learning concepts. This is attributed to the importance of anomaly detection (AD) in automatic diagnosis systems.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNucleosides Nucleotides Nucleic Acids
January 2022
In this article, we study the statistical characteristics and examine the performance of original representation and mathematical modelling of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) sequences. The proposed mathematical modelling approach is presented to create closed formulas for the original DNA data sequences with different methods. Accuracy of representation is studied based on evaluation metric values.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis article is mainly concerned with COVID-19 diagnosis from X-ray images. The number of cases infected with COVID-19 is increasing daily, and there is a limitation in the number of test kits needed in hospitals. Therefore, there is an imperative need to implement an efficient automatic diagnosis system to alleviate COVID-19 spreading among people.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCorona Virus Disease 19 (COVID-19) firstly spread in China since December 2019. Then, it spread at a high rate around the world. Therefore, rapid diagnosis of COVID-19 has become a very hot research topic.
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