Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disease that impacts the neural, physiological, and behavioral systems of the brain, in which mild variations in the initial phases of the disease make precise diagnosis difficult. The general symptoms of this disease are slow movements known as ‘bradykinesia’. The symptoms of this disease appear in middle age and the severity increases as one gets older. One of the earliest signs of PD is a speech disorder. This research proposed the effectiveness of using supervised classification algorithms, such as support vector machine (SVM), naïve Bayes, k-nearest neighbor (K-NN), and artificial neural network (ANN) with the subjective disease where the proposed diagnosis method consists of feature selection based on the filter method, the wrapper method, and classification processes. Since just a few clinical test features would be required for the diagnosis, a method such as this might reduce the time and expense associated with PD screening. The suggested strategy was compared to PD diagnostic techniques previously put forward and well-known classifiers. The experimental outcomes show that the accuracy of SVM is 87.17%, naïve Bayes is 74.11%, ANN is 96.7%, and KNN is 87.17%, and it is concluded that the ANN is the most accurate one with the highest accuracy. The obtained results were compared with those of previous studies, and it has been observed that the proposed work offers comparable and better results.
Resting-state functional connectivity has been widely used for the past few years to forecast Alzheimer’s disease (AD). However, the conventional correlation calculation does not consider different frequency band features that may hold the brain atrophies’ original functional connectivity relationships. Previous works focuses on low-order neurodynamics and precisely manipulates the mono-band frequency span of resting-state functional magnetic imaging (rs-fMRI). They specifically use the mono-band frequency span of rs-fMRI, leaving out the high-order neurodynamics. By creating a high-order neuro-dynamic functional network employing several levels of rs-fMRI time-series data, such as slow4, slow5, and full-band ranges of (0.027 to 0.08 Hz), (0.01 to 0.027 Hz), and (0.01 to 0.08 Hz), we suggest an automated AD diagnosis system to address these challenges. It combines multiple customized deep learning models to provide unbiased evaluation, and a tenfold cross-validation is observed We have determined that to differentiate AD disorders from NC, the entire band ranges and slow4 and slow5, referred to as higher and lower frequency band approaches, are applied. The first method uses the SVM and KNN to deal with AD diseases. The second method uses the customized Alexnet and Inception blocks with rs-fMRI datasets from the ADNI organizations. We also tested the other machine learning and deep learning approaches by modifying various parameters and attained good accuracy levels. Our proposed model achieves good performance using three bands without any external feature selection. The results show that our system performance of accuracy (96.61%)/AUC (0.9663) is achieved in differentiating the AD subjects from normal controls. Furthermore, the good accuracies in classifying multiple stages of AD show the potentiality of our method for the clinical value of AD prediction.
Recent innovations in digital image capturing techniques facilitate the capture of stationary and moving objects. The images can be easily captured via high-end digital cameras, mobile phones and other handheld devices. Most of the time, captured images vary compared to actual objects. The captured images may be contaminated by dark, grey shades and undesirable black spots. There are various reasons for contamination, such as atmospheric conditions, limitations of capturing device and human errors. There are various mechanisms to process the image, which can clean up contaminated image to match with the original one. The image processing applications primarily require detection of accurate noise type which is used as input for image restoration. There are filtering techniques, fractional differential gradient and machine learning techniques to detect and identify the type of noise. These methods primarily rely on image content and spatial domain information of a given image. With the advancements in the technologies, deep learning (DL) is a technology that can be trained to mimic human intelligence to recognize various image patterns, audio files and text for accuracy. A deep learning framework empowers correct processing of multiple images for object identification and quick decision abilities without human interventions. Here Convolution Neural Network (CNN) model has been implemented to detect and identify types of noise in the given image. Over the multiple internal iterations to optimize the results, the identified noise is classified with 99.25% accuracy using the Proposed System Architecture (PSA) compared with AlexNet, Yolo V5, Yolo V3, RCNN and CNN. The proposed model in this study proved to be suitable for the classification of mural images on the basis of every performance parameter. The precision, accuracy, f1-score and recall of the PSA are 98.50%, 99.25%, 98.50% and 98.50%, respectively. This study contributes to the development of mural art recovery.
Requirement elicitation represents one of the most vital phases in information system (IS) and software development projects. Selecting suitable elicitation techniques is critical for eliciting the correct specification in various projects. Recent studies have revealed that improper novice practices in this phase have increased the failure rate in both IS and software development projects. Previous research has primarily relied on creating procedural systems based on contextual studies of elicitation properties. In contrast, this paper introduces a deep learning model for selecting suitable requirement elicitation. An experiment was conducted wherein a collected dataset of 1684 technique selection attributes were investigate with respect to 14 elicitation techniques. The study adopted seven criteria to evaluate predictive model performance using confusion matrix accuracy, precision, recall, F1 Score, and area under the ROC curve (AUC) and loss curve. The model scored prediction accuracy of 82%, precision score of 0.83, recall score of 0.83, F1 score of 0.82, cross-validation score of 0.82 (± 0.10), One-vs-One ROC AUC score of 0.74, and One-vs-Rest ROC AUC score of 0.75 for each label. Our results indicate the model’s high prediction ability. The model provides a robust decision-making process for delivering correct elicitation techniques and lowering the risk of project failure. The implications of this study can be used to promote the automatization of the elicitation technique selection process, thereby enhancing current required elicitation industry practices.
19 February 2021 in Security and Communication Networks
Network topology is one of the major factors in defining the behavior of a network. In the present scenario, the demand for network security has increased due to an increase in the possibility of attacks by malicious users. In this paper, a blockchain-based system is suggested for securely discovering and storing networks. Techniques such as cloud-based storage systems are not efficient and are lacking in trust, privacy, security, and data control. The blockchain-based technique suggested in this paper is capable of resolving these challenges. Experiments were performed using Mininet, Cisco Packet Tracer, and Ethereum blockchain with the network inference algorithm. This algorithm is capable of inferring the network topology even when only partial information regarding the network is available. The results obtained clearly show that the network is resistant to malicious users and various external attacks, making the network robust.
Deepfake images are combined media constructed from deep learning (DL) methods, usually Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), to manipulate visual content, often giving rise to convincing and fabricating descriptions of scenes or people. The Bayesian machine learning (ML) model has made crucial strides over the past two decades, illustrating promise in diverse applications. In deepfake images, detection utilizes computer vision (CV) and ML to spot manipulated content by analyzing unique artefacts and patterns. Recent techniques utilize DL to train neural networks to discriminate between real and fake images, improving the fight against digital manipulation and preserving media integrity. These systems can efficiently detect subtle inconsistencies or anomalies specific to deepfake creations by learning from large datasets of both real and deepfake images. This enables the mitigation of fraudulent content and reliable detection in digital media. We introduce a new Coronavirus Herd Immunity Optimizer with a Deep Learning-based Deepfake Image Detection and Classification (CHIODL-DIDC) technique. The CHIODL-DIDC technique aimed to detect and classify the existence of fake images. To accomplish this, the CHIODL-DIDC technique initially used a median filtering (MF) based image filtering approach. Besides, the CHIODL-DIDC technique utilized the MobileNetv2 model for extracting feature vectors. Moreover, the hyperparameter tuning of the MobileNetv2 model was accomplished using the CHIO method. For deepfake image detection, the CHIODL-DIDC technique implements the deep belief network (DBN) model. Finally, the Bayesian optimization algorithm (BOA) was utilized to select the effectual hyperparameter of the DBN model. The CHIODL-DIDC method's empirical analysis was examined using a benchmark fake image dataset. The performance validation of the CHIODL-DIDC technique illustrated a superior accuracy value of 98.16% over other models under $ Acc{u}_{y} $ , $ Pre{c}_{n} $ , $ Rec{a}_{l} $ , $ {F}_{Score} $ , and MCC metrics.