This study describes an applied and enhanced real-time vehicle-counting system that is an integral part of intelligent transportation systems. The primary objective of this study was to develop an accurate and reliable real-time system for vehicle counting to mitigate traffic congestion in a designated area. The proposed system can identify and track objects inside the region of interest and count detected vehicles. To enhance the accuracy of the system, we used the You Only Look Once version 5 (YOLOv5) model for vehicle identification owing to its high performance and short computing time. Vehicle tracking and the number of vehicles acquired used the DeepSort algorithm with the Kalman filter and Mahalanobis distance as the main components of the algorithm and the proposed simulated loop technique, respectively. Empirical results were obtained using video images taken from a closed-circuit television (CCTV) camera on Tashkent roads and show that the counting system can produce 98.1% accuracy in 0.2408 s.

Zero-day intrusion detection is still a difficult task because of the difference between high laboratory precision and real-time deployability under strict operational constraints. This paper proposes a lightweight two-stage cascade architecture that is specifically designed for CPU-only environments and strict zero-day evaluation. The proposed architecture only uses statistical and flow-level metadata attributes, which are independent of payload analysis, to ensure compatibility with encrypted traffic. The first stage of the proposed architecture is precision oriented to detect potentially malicious traffic with a low decision threshold, and the second stage is precision oriented to enhance classification and remove false positives. To avoid optimistic bias, a strict attack-type separation protocol is employed, where testing attack types are strictly prohibited from training. The proposed method is tested on three benchmark datasets: CSIC 2012 (HTTP level), UNSW-NB15 (intra-domain), and CSE-CIC-IDS2018 (cross-domain). The experimental results show the excellent intra-domain zero-day detection capability (up to 94.81% accuracy with 0.50% FPR), controllable performance degradation in the cross-domain setting (80.53% accuracy with near-zero FPR), and extremely low FP rates on all datasets. The system provides microsecond-level inference latency (0.002–0.006 ms), a throughput of up to 470,000 requests per second, and memory usage below 6.2 MB without GPU support. These results confirm the significance of architectural optimization and thorough evaluation in building efficient zero-day detection systems.

Background: Accurate and early detection of hematological disorders from microscopic peripheral blood smear images remains a technically challenging task due to inherent imaging limitations, including noise contamination, low contrast, staining variability, and significant cellular overlap. Conventional deep learning-based object detection frameworks often exhibit limited robustness under such conditions and demonstrate reduced sensitivity to small-scale morphological structures, particularly platelets and abnormal cell variants. Methods: To address these challenges, this study proposes a hybrid detection framework that integrates a fuzzy logic-driven image preprocessing module with the YOLOv11 object detection architecture. The proposed preprocessing pipeline employs adaptive fuzzy membership functions to normalize pixel intensity distributions, suppress high-frequency noise, and enhance edge-defined cellular boundaries. This transformation produces a structurally optimized feature representation, improving downstream feature extraction and localization performance. The proposed framework was evaluated on a curated dataset of 3000 annotated microscopic blood smear images spanning five hematological classes. Results: Experimental results show that the fuzzy logic module improves mAP@0.5 by +3.4% and mAP@0.5:0.95 by +3.6%, confirming its effectiveness in enhancing both classification and localization accuracy. Conclusions: These findings demonstrate the robustness and practical applicability of the proposed hybrid approach under challenging imaging conditions.

Background: Accurate segmentation of brain tumors from multi-modal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is essential for diagnosis, treatment planning, and therapy monitoring. However, this task remains challenging due to tumor heterogeneity, irregular boundaries, and the complex anatomical structure of surrounding tissues. In particular, precise delineation of tumor sub-regions—including whole tumor, tumor core, and enhancing tumor—continues to be a major limitation of existing automated methods. Methods: In this study, we propose a novel hybrid CNN–Transformer framework that integrates local feature extraction with global contextual modeling for improved brain tumor segmentation. The architecture consists of three main components: a dual-pathway encoder for capturing fine-grained and contextual features, a multi-scale feature fusion module based on spatial pyramid pooling with dense connections, and a boundary-aware attention decoder designed to enhance segmentation accuracy around tumor edges. The model utilizes four MRI modalities (T1, T1ce, T2, and FLAIR) to capture complementary tumor characteristics. In addition, a hybrid loss function combining Dice, focal Tversky, and boundary losses is employed to address class imbalance and improve boundary precision. Results: Experimental results on the BraTS 2023 dataset demonstrate superior performance, achieving Dice scores of 92.3%, 88.7%, and 84.5% for whole tumor, tumor core, and enhancing tumor, respectively, while maintaining high computational efficiency. Conclusion: The proposed framework achieves accurate and robust brain tumor segmentation by effectively integrating local and global features, demonstrating its potential for automated multi-modal MRI analysis in clinical practice.

This article presents a simple and understandable approach to the automatic assessment of the severity of late blight on tomato leaves. We collect our own dataset of 5245 RGB images of healthy and diseased tomato leaves and determine five ordinal classes: healthy (0%) and four infection levels (0.1–10%, 11–25%, 26–50%, and ≥51% of the affected area). Each image is segmented using the global definition of the Otsu threshold, followed by morphological purification, after which seven textural and geometric characteristics are extracted from the contours of the lesion: contrast, number of contours, average and standard deviation of the contour area, average and standard deviation of the contour perimeter, and average area-to-perimeter ratio. All characteristics are normalized and used as input data for the XGBoost classifier. The dataset is randomly split into 80% training and 20% test images, resulting in an independent test set of 1049 images. In this test set, the proposed model provides an overall accuracy of 0.93 and an F1 macro score of 0.93 points, while for each F1 class, it varies from 0.90 to 0.97. The confusion matrix shows a stable difference between neighboring severity levels, while the analysis of the importance of the features confirms the relevance of contour descriptors for characterizing the size and shape of the lesion. This method only runs on a central processor, requires a small amount of memory, and outputs interpretable output data, making it suitable for use in greenhouses and farms with limited computing resources. We also discuss the limitations associated with the boundaries between neighboring classes and the potential shift in the subject area, and we outline directions for expanding the approach to multi-sheet scenes and explicit ordinal loss functions.