Commonly, aquatic experts use traditional methods such as casting nets or underwater human monitoring for detecting existence and quantities of different species of fish. However, the recent breakthrough in digital cameras and storage abilities, with consequent cost reduction, can be utilized for automatically observing different underwater species. This article introduces an automatic classification approach for the Nile Tilapia fish using support vector machines (SVMs) algorithm in conjunction with feature extraction techniques based on Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) and Speeded Up Robust Features (SURF) algorithms. The core of this approach is to apply the feature extraction algorithms in order to describe local features extracted from a set of fish images. Then, the proposed approach classifies the fish images using a number of support vector machines classifiers to differentiate between fish species. Experimental results obtained show that the support vector machines algorithm outperformed other machine learning techniques, such as artificial neural networks (ANN) and k-nearest neighbor (k-NN) algorithms, in terms of the overall classification accuracy.

Zebrafish animal is considered as one of the most suitable animals to test toxicity of compounds due many features such as transparency and a large number of embryos produced in each mating. The main problem of the zebrafish-based toxicity test is the manual inspection of thousands of animals images in different phases and this is not feasible enough for the analysis, i.e. it is slow and may be inaccurate process. To help addressing this problem, in this paper, an automated classification of alive (healthy) and coagulant (died because of toxic compounds) zebrafish embryos are proposed. The embryos’ images are used to extract some features using the Segmentation-based Fractal Texture Analysis (SFTA) technique. The Rotation Forest classifier is then used to match between testing and training features (i.e. to classify alive and coagulant embryos). The experiments have proved that choosing threshold value of SFTA technique and the size of the rotation forest classifier have a great impact on the classification accuracy. With accuracy around 99.98%, the experimental results have showed that the proposed model is a very promising step toward a fully automated toxicity test during drug discovery

The wide adoption of the Wireless Senor Networks (WSNs) applications around the world has increased the amount of the sensor data which contribute to the complexity of Big Data. This has emerged the need to the use of in-network data processing techniques which are very crucial for the success of the big data framework. This article gives overview and discussion about the state-of-the-art of the data mining and data fusion techniques designed for the WSNs. It discusses how these techniques can prepare the sensor data inside the network (in-network) before any further processing as big data. This is very important for both of the WSNs and the big data framework. For the WSNs, the in-network pre-processing techniques could lead to saving in their limited resources. For the big data side, receiving a clean, non-redundant and relevant data would reduce the excessive data volume, thus an overload reduction will be obtained at the big data processing platforms and the discovery of values from these data will be accelerated