Medical Image Segmentation (MIS) has important ramifications for the whole of medical diagnostics. Despite the unparalleled success that various Deep Learning (DL) techniques had in image segmentation, there are setbacks with them. Generally, these setbacks arise from two of the most profound indicators of performance in DL, namely network architecture and loss function, both of which are being dealt with in the proposed method to improve the dice score on the task of MIS. To deal with the architecture part of our work, we have used Capsules that have proved to preserving more image details and indicating the spatial relationships found locally and globally, facilitating the detection of global features from the local features extracted, and hence we propose a modified capsules network for the proposed segmentation task. The loss function used in the proposed work draws inspiration from the active contours model that tends to incorporate external forces, regional information and other functions of choices in the working of segmentation extraction and treats this task as a continuous curve evolution and energy minimization problem. In our experimentation, we have used a brain tumor segmentation dataset for the performance comparison using Dice-score and mean-IoU as performance metrics and the results obtained are very optimistic.

Because of the massive utilization of the world wide web and the drastic use of electronic gadgets to access the online world, there is an exponential growth in the information produced by these hardware gadgets. The data produced by different sources, such as smart transportation, healthcare, and e-commerce, are large, complex, and heterogeneous. Therefore, storing and querying this data, coined "Big Data," is challenging. This paper compares relational databases with a few of the popular NoSQL databases. The performance of various databases in executing join queries, filter queries, and aggregate queries on large datasets are compared on a single node and multinode clusters. The experimental results demonstrate the suitability of NoSQL databases for Big Data Analytics and for supporting large userbase interactive web applications.