Optometrists, ophthalmologists, orthoptists, and other trained medical professionals use fundus photography to monitor the progression of certain eye conditions or diseases. Segmentation of the vessel tree is an essential process of retinal analysis. In this paper, an interactive blood vessel segmentation from retinal fundus image based on Canny edge detection is proposed. Semi-automated segmentation of specific vessels can be done by simply moving the cursor across a particular vessel. The pre-processing stage includes the green color channel extraction, applying Contrast Limited Adaptive Histogram Equalization (CLAHE), and retinal outline removal. After that, the edge detection techniques, which are based on the Canny algorithm, will be applied. The vessels will be selected interactively on the developed graphical user interface (GUI). The program will draw out the vessel edges. After that, those vessel edges will be segmented to bring focus on its details or detect the abnormal vessel. This proposed approach is useful because different edge detection parameter settings can be applied to the same image to highlight particular vessels for analysis or presentation.

A segmentation process is usually required in order to analyze an image. One of the available segmentation approaches is by detecting the edges on the image. Up to now, there are many edge detection algorithms that researchers have proposed. Thus, the purpose of this systematic literature review is to investigate the available quality assessment methods that researchers have utilized to evaluate the performance of the edge detection algorithms. Due to the vast number of available literature in this area, we limit our search to only open-access publications. A systematic search in five publisher websites (i.e., IEEExplore, IET digital library, Wiley, MDPI, and Hindawi) and Scopus database was carried out to gather resources that are related to the edge detection algorithms. Seventy-three publications that are about developing or comparing edge detection algorithms have been chosen. From these publication samples, we have identified 17 quality assessment methods used by researchers. Among the popular quality assessment methods are visual inspection, processing time, confusion-matrix based measures, mean square error (MSE)-based measures, and figure of merit (FOM). This survey also indicates that although most of the researchers only use a small number of test images (i.e., less than 10 test images), there are available datasets with a larger number of images for digital image segmentation that researchers can utilize.

The Internet of Vehicles (IoV) is an interactive network providing intelligent traffic management, intelligent dynamic information service, and intelligent vehicle control to running vehicles. One of the main problems in the IoV is the reluctance of vehicles to share local data resulting in the cloud server not being able to acquire a sufficient amount of data to build accurate machine learning (ML) models. In addition, communication efficiency and ML model accuracy in the IoV are affected by noise data caused by violent shaking and obscuration of in-vehicle cameras. Therefore we propose a new Outlier Detection and Exponential Smoothing federated learning (OES-Fed) framework to overcome these problems. More specifically, we filter the noise data of the local ML model in the IoV from the current perspective and historical perspective. The noise data filtering is implemented by combining data outlier, K-means, Kalman filter and exponential smoothing algorithms. The experimental results of the three datasets show that the OES-Fed framework proposed in this article achieved higher accuracy, lower loss, and better area under the curve (AUC). The OES-Fed framework we propose can better filter noise data, providing an important domain reference for starting field of federated learning in the IoV.

With the rapid increase of data, centralized machine learning can no longer meet the application requirements of the Internet of Vehicles (IoV). On the one hand, both car owners and regulators pay more attention to data privacy and are unwilling to share data, which forms the isolated data island challenge. On the other hand, the incremental data generated in IoV are massive and diverse. All these issues have brought challenges of data increment and data diversity. The current common federated learning or incremental learning frameworks cannot effectively integrate incremental data with existing machine learning (ML) models. Therefore, this paper proposes a Federated Learning Framework Based on Incremental Weighting and Diversity Selection for IoV (Fed-IW&DS). In Fed-IW&DS, a vehicle diversity selection algorithm was proposed, which uses a variety of performance indicators to calculate diversity scores, effectively reducing homogeneous computing. Also, it proposes a vehicle federated incremental algorithm that uses an improved arctangent curve as the decay function, to realize the rapid fusion of incremental data with existing ML models. Moreover, we have carried out several sets of experiments to test the validity of the proposed Fed-IW&DS framework’s performance. The experimental results show that, under the same global communication round and similar computing time, the Fed-IW&DS framework has significantly improved performance in all aspects compared to the frameworks FED-AVG, FED-SGD, FED-prox & the decay functions linear, square curve and arc tangent. Specifically, the Fed-IW&DS framework improves the Acc (accuracy), loss (loss), and Matthews correlation coefficient (MCC) by approximately 32%, 83%, and 66%, respectively. This result shows that Fed-IW&DS is a more reliable solution than the common frameworks of federated learning, and it can effectively deal with the dynamic incremental data in the IoV scenario. Our findings should make a significant contribution to the field of federated learning.

Artificial Intelligence is increasingly being employed in education, specifically through machine learning techniques, to improve the quality of education and refine teaching and learning methods. Despite its positive impacts on education quality and social life, machine learning technology poses ethical and practical concerns, especially in predicting student performance. To address these concerns, this study conducts a systematic literature review on machine learning technology for predicting student performance, analysing 51 relevant articles from Scopus and Science Direct databases between 2019 and 2023 using the PRISMA method. The findings reveal that the primary motivation for employing machine learning in educational institutions is to improve predictive accuracy, identify early interventions, and optimise decision-making processes. Supervised machine learning approaches such as Decision Trees, Linear Models, and Neural Networks are commonly used. However, machine learning techniques encounter challenges such as overfitting, scalability, and generalizability, which may impact education practices' fairness, accountability, and transparency. The study provides valuable insights into the benefits of machine learning, ethical considerations, and practical recommendations to guide stakeholders, including educators, researchers, policymakers, and administrators, in navigating the convergence of artificial intelligence and education. These insights emphasise the critical need for equitable model implementation, data collection, and decision-making to mitigate bias in real-world educational settings.

Machine learning has been the topic of interest in research related to early detection of breast cancer based on mammogram images. In this study, we compare the performance results from three (3) types of machine learning techniques: 1) Naïve Bayes (NB), 2) Neural Network (NN) and 3) Support Vector Machine (SVM) with 2000 digital mammogram images to choose the best technique that could model the relationship between the features extracted and the state of the breast (‘Normal’ or ‘Cancer’). Grey Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM) which represents the two dimensions of the level variation gray in the image is used in the feature extraction process. Six (6) attributes consist of contrast, variance, standard deviation, kurtosis, mean and smoothness were computed as feature extracted and used as the inputs for the classification process. The data has been randomized and the experiment has been repeated for ten (10) times to check for the consistencies of the performance of all techniques. 70% of the data were used as the training data and another 30% used as testing data. The result after ten (10) experiments show that, Support Vector Machine (SVM) gives the most consistent results in correctly classifying the state of the breast as ‘Normal’ or ‘Cancer’, with the accuracy of 99.4%, in training and 98.76% in testing. The SVM classification model has outperformed NN and NB model in the study, and it shows that SVM is a good choice for determining the state of the breast at the early stage. ABSTRAK: Pembelajaran mesin telah menjadi topik yang diminati dalam penyelidikan yang berkaitan dengan pengesanan awal kanser payudara berdasarkan imej mamogram. Dalam kajian ini, kami membandingkan hasil prestasi dari tiga (3) jenis teknik pembelajaran mesin: 1) Naïve Bayes (NB), 2) Neural Network (NN) dan 3) Support Vector Machine (SVM) dengan 2000 imej digital mammogram hingga teknik terbaik yang dapat memodelkan hubungan antara ciri yang diekstraksi dan keadaan payudara ('Normal' atau 'Cancer') dapat diperoleh. Grey Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM) yang mewakili dua dimensi variasi tahap kelabu pada gambar digunakan dalam proses pengekstrakan ciri. Enam (6) atribut terdiri dari kontras, varians, sisihan piawai, kurtosis, min dan kehalusan dihitung sebagai fitur yang diekstrak dan digunakan sebagai input untuk proses klasifikasi. Eksperimen telah diulang selama sepuluh (10) kali untuk memeriksa kesesuaian prestasi semua teknik. 70% data digunakan sebagai data latihan dan 30% lagi digunakan sebagai data ujian. Hasil setelah sepuluh (10) eksperimen menunjukkan bahawa, Support Vector Machine (SVM) memberikan hasil yang paling konsisten dalam mengklasifikasikan keadaan payudara dengan betul sebagai 'Normal' atau 'Kanser', dengan akurasi 99.4%, dalam latihan dan 98.76% dalam ujian. Model klasifikasi SVM telah mengungguli model NN dan NB dalam kajian ini, dan ia menunjukkan bahawa SVM adalah pilihan yang baik untuk menentukan keadaan payudara pada peringkat awal.