Cancer is a deadly disease that arises due to the growth of uncontrollable body cells. Every year, a large number of people succumb to cancer and it’s been labeled as the most serious public health snag. Cancer can develop in any part of the human anatomy, which may consist of trillions of cellules. One of the most frequent type of cancer is skin cancer which develops in the upper layer of the skin. Previously, machine learning techniques have been used for skin cancer detection using protein sequences and different kinds of imaging modalities. The drawback of the machine learning approaches is that they require human-engineered features, which is a very laborious and time-taking activity. Deep learning addressed this issue to some extent by providing the facility of automatic feature extraction. In this study, convolution-based deep neural networks have been used for skin cancer detection using ISIC public dataset. Cancer detection is a sensitive issue, which is prone to errors if not timely and accurately detected. The performance of the individual machine learning models to detect cancer is limited. The combined decision of individual learners is expected to be more accurate than the individual learners. The ensemble learning technique exploits the diversity of learners to yield a better decision. Thus, the prediction accuracy can be enhanced by combing the decision of individual learners for sensitive issues such as cancer detection. In this paper, an ensemble of deep learners has been developed using learners of VGG, CapsNet, and ResNet for skin cancer detection. The results show that the combined decision of deep learners is superior to the finding of individual learners in terms of sensitivity, accuracy, specificity, F-score, and precision. The experimental results of this study provide a compelling reason to be applied for other disease detection.

Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is an ocular manifestation of diabetes and the leading cause of visual impairment and blindness across the globe. Early detection and treatment of DR can salvage from visual impairment. The manual screening of DR is a very laborious and time-intensive effort and heavily dependent on professional ophthalmologists. In addition, the subtle distinction among various retinal biomarkers and different grades of DR makes this recognition very challenging. To address the aforementioned problem, deep neural networks have brought many revolutions in the last few years. In this study, we proposed a novel two-stage framework for automatic DR classification. In the first stage, we employed two distinct U-Net models for optic disc (OD) and blood vessel (BV) segmentation during the preprocessing. In the second stage, the enhanced retinal images after OD and BV extraction are used as an input of transfer learning-based model VGGNet, which performs DR detection by identifying retinal biomarkers such as microaneurysms (MA), haemorrhages (HM), and exudates (EX). The proposed model achieved state-of-the-art performance with an average accuracy of 96.60%, 93.95%, 92.25% evaluated on EyePACS-1, Messidor-2, and DIARETDB0, respectively. Extensive experiments and comparison with baseline methods demonstrate that the effectiveness of the proposed approach.

Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (SAR) remote sensing provides an outstanding tool in oil spill detection and classification, for its advantages in distinguishing mineral oil and biogenic lookalikes. Various features can be extracted from polarimetric SAR data. The large number and correlated nature of polarimetric SAR features make the selection and optimization of these features impact on the performance of oil spill classification algorithms. In this paper, deep learning algorithms such as the stacked autoencoder (SAE) and deep belief network (DBN) are applied to optimize the polarimetric feature sets and reduce the feature dimension through layer-wise unsupervised pre-training. An experiment was conducted on RADARSAT-2 quad-polarimetric SAR image acquired during the Norwegian oil-on-water exercise of 2011, in which verified mineral, emulsions, and biogenic slicks were analyzed. The results show that oil spill classification achieved by deep networks outperformed both support vector machine (SVM) and traditional artificial neural networks (ANN) with similar parameter settings, especially when the number of training data samples is limited.

Land use and land cover (LULC) classification through remote sensing imagery serves as a cornerstone for environmental monitoring, resource management, and evidence-based urban planning. While Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and optical sensors individually capture distinct aspects of Earth’s surface, their complementary nature SAR excelling in structural and all-weather observation and optical sensors providing rich spectral information—offers untapped potential for improving classification robustness. However, the intrinsic differences in their imaging mechanisms (e.g., SAR’s coherent scattering versus optical’s reflectance properties) pose significant challenges in achieving effective multimodal fusion for LULC analysis. To address this gap, we propose a multimodal deep-learning framework that systematically integrates SAR and optical imagery. Our approach employs a dual-branch neural network, with two fusion paradigms being rigorously compared: the Early Fusion strategy and the Late Fusion strategy. Experiments on the SEN12MS dataset—a benchmark containing globally diverse land cover categories—demonstrate the framework’s efficacy. Our Early Fusion strategy achieved 88% accuracy (F1 score: 87%), outperforming the Late Fusion approach (84% accuracy, F1 score: 82%). The results indicate that optical data provide detailed spectral signatures useful for identifying vegetation, water bodies, and urban areas, whereas SAR data contribute valuable texture and structural details. Early Fusion’s superiority stems from synergistic low-level feature extraction, capturing cross-modal correlations lost in late-stage fusion. Compared to state-of-the-art baselines, our proposed methods show a significant improvement in classification accuracy, demonstrating that multimodal fusion mitigates single-sensor limitations (e.g., optical cloud obstruction and SAR speckle noise). This study advances remote sensing technology by providing a precise and effective method for LULC classification.

Nowadays, customer churn has been reflected as one of the main concerns in the processes of the telecom sector, as it affects the revenue directly. Telecom companies are looking to design novel methods to identify the potential customer to churn. Hence, it requires suitable systems to overcome the growing churn challenge. Recently, integrating different clustering and classification models to develop hybrid learners (ensembles) has gained wide acceptance. Ensembles are getting better approval in the domain of big data since they have supposedly achieved excellent predictions as compared to single classifiers. Therefore, in this study, we propose a customer churn prediction (CCP) based on ensemble system fully incorporating clustering and classification learning techniques. The proposed churn prediction model uses an ensemble of clustering and classification algorithms to improve CCP model performance. Initially, few clustering algorithms such as k-means, k-medoids, and Random are employed to test churn prediction datasets. Next, to enhance the results hybridization technique is applied using different ensemble algorithms to evaluate the performance of the proposed system. Above mentioned clustering algorithms integrated with different classifiers including Gradient Boosted Tree (GBT), Decision Tree (DT), Random Forest (RF), Deep Learning (DL), and Naive Bayes (NB) are evaluated on two standard telecom datasets which were acquired from Orange and Cell2Cell. The experimental result reveals that compared to the bagging ensemble technique, the stacking-based hybrid model (k-medoids-GBT-DT-DL) achieve the top accuracies of 96%, and 93.6% on the Orange and Cell2Cell dataset, respectively. The proposed method outperforms conventional state-of-the-art churn prediction algorithms.