Skin diseases affect millions worldwide.Early detection is key to preventing disfigurement,lifelong disability,or death.Dermoscopic images acquired in primary-care settings show high intra-class visual similarity and ...Skin diseases affect millions worldwide.Early detection is key to preventing disfigurement,lifelong disability,or death.Dermoscopic images acquired in primary-care settings show high intra-class visual similarity and severe class imbalance,and occasional imaging artifacts can create ambiguity for state-of-the-art convolutional neural networks(CNNs).We frame skin lesion recognition as graph-based reasoning and,to ensure fair evaluation and avoid data leakage,adopt a strict lesion-level partitioning strategy.Each image is first over-segmented using SLIC(Simple Linear Iterative Clustering)to produce perceptually homogeneous superpixels.These superpixels form the nodes of a region-adjacency graph whose edges encode spatial continuity.Node attributes are 1280-dimensional embeddings extracted with a lightweight yet expressive EfficientNet-B0 backbone,providing strong representational power at modest computational cost.The resulting graphs are processed by a five-layer Graph Attention Network(GAT)that learns to weight inter-node relationships dynamically and aggregates multi-hop context before classifying lesions into seven classes with a log-softmax output.Extensive experiments on the DermaMNIST benchmark show the proposed pipeline achieves 88.35%accuracy and 98.04%AUC,outperforming contemporary CNNs,AutoML approaches,and alternative graph neural networks.An ablation study indicates EfficientNet-B0 produces superior node descriptors compared with ResNet-18 and DenseNet,and that roughly five GAT layers strike a good balance between being too shallow and over-deep while avoiding oversmoothing.The method requires no data augmentation or external metadata,making it a drop-in upgrade for clinical computer-aided diagnosis systems.展开更多
The potential applications of multimodal physiological signals in healthcare,pain monitoring,and clinical decision support systems have garnered significant attention in biomedical research.Subjective self-reporting i...The potential applications of multimodal physiological signals in healthcare,pain monitoring,and clinical decision support systems have garnered significant attention in biomedical research.Subjective self-reporting is the foundation of conventional pain assessment methods,which may be unreliable.Deep learning is a promising alternative to resolve this limitation through automated pain classification.This paper proposes an ensemble deep-learning framework for pain assessment.The framework makes use of features collected from electromyography(EMG),skin conductance level(SCL),and electrocardiography(ECG)signals.We integrate Convolutional Neural Networks(CNN),Long Short-Term Memory Networks(LSTM),Bidirectional Gated Recurrent Units(BiGRU),and Deep Neural Networks(DNN)models.We then aggregate their predictions using a weighted averaging ensemble technique to increase the classification’s robustness.To improve computing efficiency and remove redundant features,we use Particle Swarm Optimization(PSO)for feature selection.This enables us to reduce the features’dimensionality without sacrificing the classification’s accuracy.With improved accuracy,precision,recall,and F1-score across all pain levels,the experimental results show that the suggested ensemble model performs better than individual deep learning classifiers.In our experiments,the suggested model achieved over 98%accuracy,suggesting promising automated pain assessment performance.However,due to differences in validation protocols,comparisons with previous studies are still limited.Combining deep learning and feature selection techniques significantly improves model generalization,reducing overfitting and enhancing classification performance.The evaluation was conducted using the BioVid Heat Pain Dataset,confirming the model’s effectiveness in distinguishing between different pain intensity levels.展开更多
Wireless Sensor Networks(WSNs)are one of the best technologies of the 21st century and have seen tremendous growth over the past decade.Much work has been put into its development in various aspects such as architectu...Wireless Sensor Networks(WSNs)are one of the best technologies of the 21st century and have seen tremendous growth over the past decade.Much work has been put into its development in various aspects such as architectural attention,routing protocols,location exploration,time exploration,etc.This research aims to optimize routing protocols and address the challenges arising from conflicting objectives in WSN environments,such as balancing energy consumption,ensuring routing reliability,distributing network load,and selecting the shortest path.Many optimization techniques have shown success in achieving one or two objectives but struggle to achieve the right balance between multiple conflicting objectives.To address this gap,this paper proposes an innovative approach that integrates Particle Swarm Optimization(PSO)with a fuzzy multi-objective framework.The proposed method uses fuzzy logic to effectively control multiple competing objectives to represent its major development beyond existing methods that only deal with one or two objectives.The search efficiency is improved by particle swarm optimization(PSO)which overcomes the large computational requirements that serve as a major drawback of existing methods.The PSO algorithm is adapted for WSNs to optimize routing paths based on fuzzy multi-objective fitness.The fuzzy logic framework uses predefined membership functions and rule-based reasoning to adjust routing decisions.These adjustments influence PSO’s velocity updates,ensuring continuous adaptation under varying network conditions.The proposed multi-objective PSO-fuzzy model is evaluated using NS-3 simulation.The results show that the proposed model is capable of improving the network lifetime by 15.2%–22.4%,increasing the stabilization time by 18.7%–25.5%,and increasing the residual energy by 8.9%–16.2% compared to the state-of-the-art techniques.The proposed model also achieves a 15%–24% reduction in load variance,demonstrating balanced routing and extended network lifetime.Furthermore,analysis using p-values obtained from multiple performance measures(p-values<0.05)showed that the proposed approach outperforms with a high level of confidence.The proposed multi-objective PSO-fuzzy model provides a robust and scalable solution to improve the performance of WSNs.It allows stable performance in networks with 100 to 300 nodes,under varying node densities,and across different base station placements.Computational complexity analysis has shown that the method fits well into large-scale WSNs and that the addition of fuzzy logic controls the power usage to make the system practical for real-world use.展开更多
Smart parking systems are a crucial component of the “smart city” concept, especially in the age of the Internet of Things (IoT). They aim to take the stress out of finding a vacant parking spot in city centers, due...Smart parking systems are a crucial component of the “smart city” concept, especially in the age of the Internet of Things (IoT). They aim to take the stress out of finding a vacant parking spot in city centers, due to the increasing number of cars, especially during peak hours. To realize the concept of smart parking, IoT-enabling technologies must be utilized, as the traditional way of developing smart parking solutions entails a lack of scalability, compatibility with IoT-constrained devices, security, and privacy awareness. In this paper, we propose a secure and privacy-preserving framework for smart parking systems. The framework relies on the publish/subscribe communication model for exchanging a huge volume of data with a large number of clients. On one hand, it provides functional services, including parking vacancy detection, real-time information for drivers about parking availability, driver guidance, and parking reservation. On the other hand, it provides security approaches on both the network and application layers. In addition, it supports mutual authentication mechanisms between entities to ensure device/ data authenticity, and provide security protection for users. That makes our proposed framework resilient to various types of security attacks, such as replay, phishing, and man-in-the-middle attacks. Finally, we analyze the performance of our framework, which is suitable for IoT devices, in terms of computation and network overhead.展开更多
Facebook,Twitter,Instagram,and other social media have emerged as excellent platforms for interacting with friends and expressing thoughts,posts,comments,images,and videos that express moods,sentiments,and feelings.Wi...Facebook,Twitter,Instagram,and other social media have emerged as excellent platforms for interacting with friends and expressing thoughts,posts,comments,images,and videos that express moods,sentiments,and feelings.With this,it has become possible to examine user thoughts and feelings in social network data to better understand their perspectives and attitudes.However,the analysis of depression based on social media has gained widespread acceptance worldwide,other verticals still have yet to be discovered.The depression analysis uses Twitter data from a publicly available web source in this work.To assess the accuracy of depression detection,long-short-term memory(LSTM)and convolution neural network(CNN)techniques were used.This method is both efficient and scalable.The simulation results have shown an accuracy of 86.23%,which is reasonable compared to existing methods.展开更多
基金funded by the Deanship of Graduate Studies and Scientific Research at Jouf University under grant No.(DGSSR-2025-02-01296).
文摘Skin diseases affect millions worldwide.Early detection is key to preventing disfigurement,lifelong disability,or death.Dermoscopic images acquired in primary-care settings show high intra-class visual similarity and severe class imbalance,and occasional imaging artifacts can create ambiguity for state-of-the-art convolutional neural networks(CNNs).We frame skin lesion recognition as graph-based reasoning and,to ensure fair evaluation and avoid data leakage,adopt a strict lesion-level partitioning strategy.Each image is first over-segmented using SLIC(Simple Linear Iterative Clustering)to produce perceptually homogeneous superpixels.These superpixels form the nodes of a region-adjacency graph whose edges encode spatial continuity.Node attributes are 1280-dimensional embeddings extracted with a lightweight yet expressive EfficientNet-B0 backbone,providing strong representational power at modest computational cost.The resulting graphs are processed by a five-layer Graph Attention Network(GAT)that learns to weight inter-node relationships dynamically and aggregates multi-hop context before classifying lesions into seven classes with a log-softmax output.Extensive experiments on the DermaMNIST benchmark show the proposed pipeline achieves 88.35%accuracy and 98.04%AUC,outperforming contemporary CNNs,AutoML approaches,and alternative graph neural networks.An ablation study indicates EfficientNet-B0 produces superior node descriptors compared with ResNet-18 and DenseNet,and that roughly five GAT layers strike a good balance between being too shallow and over-deep while avoiding oversmoothing.The method requires no data augmentation or external metadata,making it a drop-in upgrade for clinical computer-aided diagnosis systems.
基金funded by the Deanship of Graduate Studies and Scientific Research at Jouf University under grant No.(DGSSR-2023-02-02341).
文摘The potential applications of multimodal physiological signals in healthcare,pain monitoring,and clinical decision support systems have garnered significant attention in biomedical research.Subjective self-reporting is the foundation of conventional pain assessment methods,which may be unreliable.Deep learning is a promising alternative to resolve this limitation through automated pain classification.This paper proposes an ensemble deep-learning framework for pain assessment.The framework makes use of features collected from electromyography(EMG),skin conductance level(SCL),and electrocardiography(ECG)signals.We integrate Convolutional Neural Networks(CNN),Long Short-Term Memory Networks(LSTM),Bidirectional Gated Recurrent Units(BiGRU),and Deep Neural Networks(DNN)models.We then aggregate their predictions using a weighted averaging ensemble technique to increase the classification’s robustness.To improve computing efficiency and remove redundant features,we use Particle Swarm Optimization(PSO)for feature selection.This enables us to reduce the features’dimensionality without sacrificing the classification’s accuracy.With improved accuracy,precision,recall,and F1-score across all pain levels,the experimental results show that the suggested ensemble model performs better than individual deep learning classifiers.In our experiments,the suggested model achieved over 98%accuracy,suggesting promising automated pain assessment performance.However,due to differences in validation protocols,comparisons with previous studies are still limited.Combining deep learning and feature selection techniques significantly improves model generalization,reducing overfitting and enhancing classification performance.The evaluation was conducted using the BioVid Heat Pain Dataset,confirming the model’s effectiveness in distinguishing between different pain intensity levels.
基金funded by Deanship of Graduate studies and Scientific Research at Jouf University under grant No.(DGSSR-2023-2-02038).
文摘Wireless Sensor Networks(WSNs)are one of the best technologies of the 21st century and have seen tremendous growth over the past decade.Much work has been put into its development in various aspects such as architectural attention,routing protocols,location exploration,time exploration,etc.This research aims to optimize routing protocols and address the challenges arising from conflicting objectives in WSN environments,such as balancing energy consumption,ensuring routing reliability,distributing network load,and selecting the shortest path.Many optimization techniques have shown success in achieving one or two objectives but struggle to achieve the right balance between multiple conflicting objectives.To address this gap,this paper proposes an innovative approach that integrates Particle Swarm Optimization(PSO)with a fuzzy multi-objective framework.The proposed method uses fuzzy logic to effectively control multiple competing objectives to represent its major development beyond existing methods that only deal with one or two objectives.The search efficiency is improved by particle swarm optimization(PSO)which overcomes the large computational requirements that serve as a major drawback of existing methods.The PSO algorithm is adapted for WSNs to optimize routing paths based on fuzzy multi-objective fitness.The fuzzy logic framework uses predefined membership functions and rule-based reasoning to adjust routing decisions.These adjustments influence PSO’s velocity updates,ensuring continuous adaptation under varying network conditions.The proposed multi-objective PSO-fuzzy model is evaluated using NS-3 simulation.The results show that the proposed model is capable of improving the network lifetime by 15.2%–22.4%,increasing the stabilization time by 18.7%–25.5%,and increasing the residual energy by 8.9%–16.2% compared to the state-of-the-art techniques.The proposed model also achieves a 15%–24% reduction in load variance,demonstrating balanced routing and extended network lifetime.Furthermore,analysis using p-values obtained from multiple performance measures(p-values<0.05)showed that the proposed approach outperforms with a high level of confidence.The proposed multi-objective PSO-fuzzy model provides a robust and scalable solution to improve the performance of WSNs.It allows stable performance in networks with 100 to 300 nodes,under varying node densities,and across different base station placements.Computational complexity analysis has shown that the method fits well into large-scale WSNs and that the addition of fuzzy logic controls the power usage to make the system practical for real-world use.
文摘Smart parking systems are a crucial component of the “smart city” concept, especially in the age of the Internet of Things (IoT). They aim to take the stress out of finding a vacant parking spot in city centers, due to the increasing number of cars, especially during peak hours. To realize the concept of smart parking, IoT-enabling technologies must be utilized, as the traditional way of developing smart parking solutions entails a lack of scalability, compatibility with IoT-constrained devices, security, and privacy awareness. In this paper, we propose a secure and privacy-preserving framework for smart parking systems. The framework relies on the publish/subscribe communication model for exchanging a huge volume of data with a large number of clients. On one hand, it provides functional services, including parking vacancy detection, real-time information for drivers about parking availability, driver guidance, and parking reservation. On the other hand, it provides security approaches on both the network and application layers. In addition, it supports mutual authentication mechanisms between entities to ensure device/ data authenticity, and provide security protection for users. That makes our proposed framework resilient to various types of security attacks, such as replay, phishing, and man-in-the-middle attacks. Finally, we analyze the performance of our framework, which is suitable for IoT devices, in terms of computation and network overhead.
基金This project was funded by Deanship of Scientific Research,University of Bisha,Bisha,Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
文摘Facebook,Twitter,Instagram,and other social media have emerged as excellent platforms for interacting with friends and expressing thoughts,posts,comments,images,and videos that express moods,sentiments,and feelings.With this,it has become possible to examine user thoughts and feelings in social network data to better understand their perspectives and attitudes.However,the analysis of depression based on social media has gained widespread acceptance worldwide,other verticals still have yet to be discovered.The depression analysis uses Twitter data from a publicly available web source in this work.To assess the accuracy of depression detection,long-short-term memory(LSTM)and convolution neural network(CNN)techniques were used.This method is both efficient and scalable.The simulation results have shown an accuracy of 86.23%,which is reasonable compared to existing methods.
