The main objective of this research is to investigate a new fractional mathematical model involving a nonsingular derivative operator to discuss the clinical implications of diabetes and tuberculosis coexistence. The new model involves two distinct populations, diabetics and nondiabetics, while each of them consists of seven tuberculosis states: susceptible, fast and slow latent, actively tuberculosis infection, recovered, fast latent after reinfection, and drug-resistant. The fractional operator is also considered a recently introduced one with Mittag–Leffler nonsingular kernel. The basic properties of the new model including non-negative and bounded solution, invariant region, and equilibrium points are discussed thoroughly. To solve and simulate the proposed model, a new and efficient numerical method is established based on the product-integration rule. Numerical simulations are presented, and some discussions are given from the mathematical and biological viewpoints. Next, an optimal control problem is defined for the new model by introducing four control variables reducing the number of infected individuals. For the control problem, the necessary and sufficient conditions are derived and numerical simulations are given to verify the theoretical analysis.

Computers and electronics play an enormous role in today’s society, impacting everything from communication and medicine to science. The development of computer-related technologies has led to the emergence of many new important interdisciplinary fields, including the field of image processing. Image processing tries to find new ways to access and extract information from digital images or videos. Due to this great importance, many researchers have tried to utilize new and powerful tools introduced in pure and applied mathematics to develop new concepts in imaging science. One of these valuable research areas is the contents of fractional differential calculus. In recent years, extensive applications to the new fractional operators have been employed in real-world problems. This article attempts to address a practical aspect of this era of research in the edge detecting of an image. For this purpose, two general structures are first proposed for making new fractional masks. Then the components in these two structures are evaluated using the fractional integral Atangana–Baleanu operator. The performance and effectiveness of these proposed designs are illustrated by several numerical simulations. A comparison of the results with the results of several well-known masks in the literature indicates that the results presented in this article are much more accurate and efficient. This is the main achievement of this article. These fractional masks are all novel and have been introduced for the first time in this contribution. Moreover, in terms of computational cost, the proposed fractional masks require almost the same amount of computations as the existing conventional ones. By observing the numerical simulations presented in the paper, it is easily understood that with proper adjustment for the fractional-order parameter, the accuracy of the obtained results can be significantly improved. Each of the new suggested structures in this article can be regarded as a valid and effective alternative for the well-known existing kernels in identifying the edges of an image.