To overcome the computational burden of processing three-dimensional(3 D)medical scans and the lack of spatial information in two-dimensional(2 D)medical scans,a novel segmentation method was proposed that integrates ...To overcome the computational burden of processing three-dimensional(3 D)medical scans and the lack of spatial information in two-dimensional(2 D)medical scans,a novel segmentation method was proposed that integrates the segmentation results of three densely connected 2 D convolutional neural networks(2 D-CNNs).In order to combine the lowlevel features and high-level features,we added densely connected blocks in the network structure design so that the low-level features will not be missed as the network layer increases during the learning process.Further,in order to resolve the problems of the blurred boundary of the glioma edema area,we superimposed and fused the T2-weighted fluid-attenuated inversion recovery(FLAIR)modal image and the T2-weighted(T2)modal image to enhance the edema section.For the loss function of network training,we improved the cross-entropy loss function to effectively avoid network over-fitting.On the Multimodal Brain Tumor Image Segmentation Challenge(BraTS)datasets,our method achieves dice similarity coefficient values of 0.84,0.82,and 0.83 on the BraTS2018 training;0.82,0.85,and 0.83 on the BraTS2018 validation;and 0.81,0.78,and 0.83 on the BraTS2013 testing in terms of whole tumors,tumor cores,and enhancing cores,respectively.Experimental results showed that the proposed method achieved promising accuracy and fast processing,demonstrating good potential for clinical medicine.展开更多
Fall behavior is closely related to high mortality in the elderly,so fall detection becomes an important and urgent research area.However,the existing fall detection methods are difficult to be applied in daily life d...Fall behavior is closely related to high mortality in the elderly,so fall detection becomes an important and urgent research area.However,the existing fall detection methods are difficult to be applied in daily life due to a large amount of calculation and poor detection accuracy.To solve the above problems,this paper proposes a dense spatial-temporal graph convolutional network based on lightweight OpenPose.Lightweight OpenPose uses MobileNet as a feature extraction network,and the prediction layer uses bottleneck-asymmetric structure,thus reducing the amount of the network.The bottleneck-asymmetrical structure compresses the number of input channels of feature maps by 1×1 convolution and replaces the 7×7 convolution structure with the asymmetric structure of 1×7 convolution,7×1 convolution,and 7×7 convolution in parallel.The spatial-temporal graph convolutional network divides the multi-layer convolution into dense blocks,and the convolutional layers in each dense block are connected,thus improving the feature transitivity,enhancing the network’s ability to extract features,thus improving the detection accuracy.Two representative datasets,Multiple Cameras Fall dataset(MCF),and Nanyang Technological University Red Green Blue+Depth Action Recognition dataset(NTU RGB+D),are selected for our experiments,among which NTU RGB+D has two evaluation benchmarks.The results show that the proposed model is superior to the current fall detection models.The accuracy of this network on the MCF dataset is 96.3%,and the accuracies on the two evaluation benchmarks of the NTU RGB+D dataset are 85.6%and 93.5%,respectively.展开更多
Early diagnosis and detection are important tasks in controlling the spread of COVID-19.A number of Deep Learning techniques has been established by researchers to detect the presence of COVID-19 using CT scan images ...Early diagnosis and detection are important tasks in controlling the spread of COVID-19.A number of Deep Learning techniques has been established by researchers to detect the presence of COVID-19 using CT scan images and X-rays.However,these methods suffer from biased results and inaccurate detection of the disease.So,the current research article developed Oppositional-based Chimp Optimization Algorithm and Deep Dense Convolutional Neural Network(OCOA-DDCNN)for COVID-19 prediction using CT images in IoT environment.The proposed methodology works on the basis of two stages such as pre-processing and prediction.Initially,CT scan images generated from prospective COVID-19 are collected from open-source system using IoT devices.The collected images are then preprocessed using Gaussian filter.Gaussian filter can be utilized in the removal of unwanted noise from the collected CT scan images.Afterwards,the preprocessed images are sent to prediction phase.In this phase,Deep Dense Convolutional Neural Network(DDCNN)is applied upon the pre-processed images.The proposed classifier is optimally designed with the consideration of Oppositional-basedChimp Optimization Algorithm(OCOA).This algorithm is utilized in the selection of optimal parameters for the proposed classifier.Finally,the proposed technique is used in the prediction of COVID-19 and classify the results as either COVID-19 or non-COVID-19.The projected method was implemented in MATLAB and the performances were evaluated through statistical measurements.The proposed method was contrasted with conventional techniques such as Convolutional Neural Network-Firefly Algorithm(CNN-FA),Emperor Penguin Optimization(CNN-EPO)respectively.The results established the supremacy of the proposed model.展开更多
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.81830052)the Shanghai Natural Science Foundation of China(No.20ZR1438300)the Shanghai Science and Technology Support Project(No.18441900500),China。
文摘To overcome the computational burden of processing three-dimensional(3 D)medical scans and the lack of spatial information in two-dimensional(2 D)medical scans,a novel segmentation method was proposed that integrates the segmentation results of three densely connected 2 D convolutional neural networks(2 D-CNNs).In order to combine the lowlevel features and high-level features,we added densely connected blocks in the network structure design so that the low-level features will not be missed as the network layer increases during the learning process.Further,in order to resolve the problems of the blurred boundary of the glioma edema area,we superimposed and fused the T2-weighted fluid-attenuated inversion recovery(FLAIR)modal image and the T2-weighted(T2)modal image to enhance the edema section.For the loss function of network training,we improved the cross-entropy loss function to effectively avoid network over-fitting.On the Multimodal Brain Tumor Image Segmentation Challenge(BraTS)datasets,our method achieves dice similarity coefficient values of 0.84,0.82,and 0.83 on the BraTS2018 training;0.82,0.85,and 0.83 on the BraTS2018 validation;and 0.81,0.78,and 0.83 on the BraTS2013 testing in terms of whole tumors,tumor cores,and enhancing cores,respectively.Experimental results showed that the proposed method achieved promising accuracy and fast processing,demonstrating good potential for clinical medicine.
基金supported,in part,by the National Nature Science Foundation of China under Grant Numbers 62272236,62376128in part,by the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province under Grant Numbers BK20201136,BK20191401.
文摘Fall behavior is closely related to high mortality in the elderly,so fall detection becomes an important and urgent research area.However,the existing fall detection methods are difficult to be applied in daily life due to a large amount of calculation and poor detection accuracy.To solve the above problems,this paper proposes a dense spatial-temporal graph convolutional network based on lightweight OpenPose.Lightweight OpenPose uses MobileNet as a feature extraction network,and the prediction layer uses bottleneck-asymmetric structure,thus reducing the amount of the network.The bottleneck-asymmetrical structure compresses the number of input channels of feature maps by 1×1 convolution and replaces the 7×7 convolution structure with the asymmetric structure of 1×7 convolution,7×1 convolution,and 7×7 convolution in parallel.The spatial-temporal graph convolutional network divides the multi-layer convolution into dense blocks,and the convolutional layers in each dense block are connected,thus improving the feature transitivity,enhancing the network’s ability to extract features,thus improving the detection accuracy.Two representative datasets,Multiple Cameras Fall dataset(MCF),and Nanyang Technological University Red Green Blue+Depth Action Recognition dataset(NTU RGB+D),are selected for our experiments,among which NTU RGB+D has two evaluation benchmarks.The results show that the proposed model is superior to the current fall detection models.The accuracy of this network on the MCF dataset is 96.3%,and the accuracies on the two evaluation benchmarks of the NTU RGB+D dataset are 85.6%and 93.5%,respectively.
文摘Early diagnosis and detection are important tasks in controlling the spread of COVID-19.A number of Deep Learning techniques has been established by researchers to detect the presence of COVID-19 using CT scan images and X-rays.However,these methods suffer from biased results and inaccurate detection of the disease.So,the current research article developed Oppositional-based Chimp Optimization Algorithm and Deep Dense Convolutional Neural Network(OCOA-DDCNN)for COVID-19 prediction using CT images in IoT environment.The proposed methodology works on the basis of two stages such as pre-processing and prediction.Initially,CT scan images generated from prospective COVID-19 are collected from open-source system using IoT devices.The collected images are then preprocessed using Gaussian filter.Gaussian filter can be utilized in the removal of unwanted noise from the collected CT scan images.Afterwards,the preprocessed images are sent to prediction phase.In this phase,Deep Dense Convolutional Neural Network(DDCNN)is applied upon the pre-processed images.The proposed classifier is optimally designed with the consideration of Oppositional-basedChimp Optimization Algorithm(OCOA).This algorithm is utilized in the selection of optimal parameters for the proposed classifier.Finally,the proposed technique is used in the prediction of COVID-19 and classify the results as either COVID-19 or non-COVID-19.The projected method was implemented in MATLAB and the performances were evaluated through statistical measurements.The proposed method was contrasted with conventional techniques such as Convolutional Neural Network-Firefly Algorithm(CNN-FA),Emperor Penguin Optimization(CNN-EPO)respectively.The results established the supremacy of the proposed model.
