Multilabel recognition of morphological images and detection of cancerous areas are difficult to locate in the scenario of the image redundancy and less resolution. Cancerous tissues are incredibly tiny in various scenarios. Therefore, for automatic classification, the characteristics of cancer patches in the X-ray image are of critical importance. Due to the slight variation between the textures, using just one feature or using a few features contributes to inaccurate classification outcomes. The present study focuses on five different algorithms for extracting features that can extract further different features. The algorithms are GLCM, LBGLCM, LBP, GLRLM, and SFTA from 8 image groups, and then, the extracted feature spaces are combined. The dataset used for classification is most probably imbalanced. Additionally, another focal point is to eradicate the unbalanced data problem by creating more samples using the ADASYN algorithm so that the error rate is minimized and the accuracy is increased. By using the ReliefF algorithm, it skips less contributing features that relieve the burden on the process. Finally, the feedforward neural network is used for the classification of data. The proposed method showed 99.5% micro, 99.5% macro, 0.5% misclassification, 99.5% recall rats, specificity 99.4%, precision 99.5%, and accuracy 99.5%, showing its robustness in these results. To assess the feasibility of the new system, the INbreast database was used.
23 March 2022 in Structural Control and Health Monitoring
Object detection (OD) in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) images faces many challenges, with diverse-scale objects and small objects being particularly prominent issues. To alleviate these challenges, we propose a novel multiscale feature learning and feature fusion network under the guidance of deformable convolution. First, a deformable convolution-guided feature learning (DCGFL) block is designed in the backbone to extract more effective multiscale features. The DCGFL block leverages the adaptability of deformable convolution to the shapes and scales of objects, akin to spatial attention. Moreover, it also employs channel attention to identify important feature maps. Hence, the proposed backbone possesses the functionality of spatial attention and channel attention. Second, in the neck, we devise a simple generalized feature pyramid network (SimpleGFPN) with several deformable convolution-guided feature fusion (DCGFF) blocks to fuse multiscale features. The proposed neck has cross-layer and cross-scale pathways, facilitating effective information exchange and fusion between shallow spatial and deep semantic features. Third, the SIoU loss is used to better model the bounding box regression loss. Finally, experimental results on the VisDrone2021 and UAVDT datasets show that the proposed method outperforms the compared OD methods. In terms of mean average precision, we obtain 37.8% on VisDrone2021 and 18.5% on UAVDT.
9 November 2023 in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
The extraction of buildings in aerial remote sensing applications is an important and challenging task. Most existing methods extract buildings based on local area attention, ignoring the loss of accuracy due to the global structure of the building. However, global structural features of buildings with strong coupling relationships in complex scenes are difficult to extract, such as the edges and bodies of buildings, leading to discontinuous results. Therefore, multiscale decoupled body and edge supervision network (MDBES-Net), which can consider both edge optimization and inner consistency, is proposed to solve these problems. MDBES-net consists of the body-mask-edge consistency constraint base network (BMECC), decoupling the body and edge aware module (DBEA), and the channel decoupled attention module (CDA). First, body-mask-edge consistency constraint supervision is established by body and edge labels to jointly improve the segmentation effect in the BMECC base network. Second, in the mutiscale DBEA module, building features are warped by a learnable flow field to make body parts more consistent and edges more detailed. Finally, the CDA module performs adaptive calibration of the recoupled feature map channel response to minimize external background noise interference. Experiments on the open Massachusetts building dataset, WHU Building Dataset show that the proposed MDBES-Net can accurately extract buildings in complex scenarios, enabling complete building segmentation with refined boundaries and improved internal consistency.
28 December 2020 in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
As a fundamental preprocessing technique, remote sensing image motion deblurring is important for visual understanding tasks. Most conventional approaches formulate the image motion deblurring task as a kernel estimation. Because the kernel estimation is a highly ill-posed problem, many priors have been applied to model the images and kernels. Even though these methods have obtained relatively better performances, they are usually time-consuming and not robust for different conditions. To address this problem, we propose a multi-task learning mechanism for remote sensing image motion deblurring in this paper, which contains an image restoration subtask and an image texture complexity recognition one. First, we consider the image motion deblurring problem as a domain transformation problem, from the blurred domain to a clear one. Specifically, the blurred domain represents the data space consisted of blurring images, and the defination of clear domain is similar. Second, we design a novel weighted attention map loss to enhance the reconstruction capability of the restoration subbranch for difficult local regions. Third, based on the restoration subbranch, a recognition subbranch is incorporated into the framework to guide the deblurring process, which provides the auxiliary texture complexity information to help the optimization of restoration subbranch. Additionally, in order to optimize the proposed network, we construct three large-scale datasets, and each sample in the dataset contains a clear image, a blurred image and its texture label obtained by corresponding texture complexity. Finally, the experimental results on three constructed datasets demonstrate the robustness and the effectiveness of the proposed method.
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) primarily spreads through imbalanced social distancing practices. Automatic analysis is possible through deep learning-based methods to understand and control COVID-19. Healthcare analysis and prediction are best made in the situation of a pandemic such as COVID-19. This analysis can be used to classify the COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 groups and social distancing measures with good estimation by preventing immense dissemination. Postpreventive measures require parallel reinforcement to analyse current, upcoming, and uncertain situations of COVID-19 prevalence, which are effectively handled by implementing multicriteria decision-making methods. Herein, we estimate and measure the social distance by deep learning technique usage (You Only Look Once, Version 3 is a real-time object detection algorithm) in the proposed model for the analytic network process. The multicriteria decision making increases the evaluation of the risk factors. The modification of the pandemic model increases the application of social distancing and preventive measures. This model will alert us when the number of people exceeds in some area from the experimented barrier. RISTECB simulation is used in the preventive measures of the social distance among the sample population to see the initiators, infectors, suspicious, expirer, survivor, and transmitters. Postpreventive criteria used those results to set the barriers that are the critical points for prevention in uncertain situations. Therefore, this paper aimed to develop a framework, including social distancing and distance estimation, by using deep learning-based techniques through multicriteria decision-making methods such as the analytical network process. For simulation for statistical information of inclusive information of preventive measures and postpreventive measures, an automatic resonant transfer learning-based practice is used. General proportional analyses illustrate that the projected model helps in postpandemic COVID-19 preventive measures by amalgamating multiple techniques.