Dementia is a growing global health concern that significantly impacts the quality of life for millions of individuals and imposes substantial burdens on healthcare systems. Early detection and accurate diagnosis are crucial for effective dementia management. Electroencephalography (EEG) has emerged as a non-invasive tool for identifying dementia-related abnormalities and...
The electroencephalogram (EEG) provides essential data for analyzing brain activities. However, artifacts such as electrooculography (EOG) and electromyography (EMG) often interleave with the EEG signals, significantly affecting the quality of EEG signal analysis. The heterogeneous distribution of these artifacts in the time-frequency domain makes it challenging to remove...
The increasing reliance on digital signatures for secure authentication and verification necessitates advanced watermarking techniques to protect signature integrity. Transform-domain methods, including the discrete cosine transform (DCT) and the discrete wavelet transform (DWT), are proposed for their potential to balance robustness, imperceptibility, and recognition accuracy in...
Semi-supervised learning with a graph-based approach has gained prominence in machine learning, particularly in scenarios where labeling data involves substantial costs. Graph convolution networks (GCNs) have found widespread application in semi-supervised learning, predominantly on graph-structured data such as citation and social networks. However, a noticeable gap exists in...
Cancer is the second leading cause of death worldwide, and within this type of disease, lung cancer is the second most diagnosed, but the leading cause of death. Early detection is crucial to increase patient survival rates. One of the primary methods for detecting this disease is through medical imaging, which, due to its features, is well-suited for analysis by deep learning...
In this paper, a hyperparameter optimization approach is proposed for the phase prediction of multi-principal element alloys (MPEAs) through the introduction of two novel hyperparameters: outlier detection and feature subset selection. To gain a deeper understanding of the connection between alloy phases and their elemental properties, an artificial neural network is employed...
Cognitive networks with the integration of smart and physical devices are rapidly utilized for the development of smart cities. They are explored by many real-time applications such as smart homes, healthcare, safety systems, and other unpredictable environments to gather data and process network requests. However, due to the external conditions and inherent uncertainty of...
As an extended form of intuitionistic fuzzy set, the theory of interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy set (IVIFS) can describe fuzziness more flexibly. This study aims to develop a group decision-making model based on the distance measure, Yager power aggregation operators and the possibility measure in the context of IVIFSs. For this purpose, new distance measure is proposed to...
Defect detection on the computed tomography (CT) images plays an important role in the development of metallic additive manufacturing (AM). Although some deep learning techniques have been adopted in the CT image-based defect detection problem, it is still a challenging task to accurately detect small-size defects in the presence of undesirable noises. In this paper, a novel...
In recent times, deep convolutional neural networks became an irreplaceable tool for pattern recognition in many different machine learning applications, especially in image classification. On the other hand, these models are often used in critical systems which are the reason for new and recent research regarding their robustness and reliability. One of the most important issues...
Children who do not sufficiently develop graphomotor skills essential for handwriting often develop graphomotor disabilities (GD), impacting the self-esteem and academic performance of the individual. Current examination methods of GD consist of scales and questionaries, which lack objectivity, rely on the perceptual abilities of the examiner, and may lead to inadequately...
Methods based on the physical Retinex model are effective in enhancing low-light images, adeptly handling the challenges posed by low signal-to-noise ratios and high noise in images captured under weak lighting conditions. However, traditional models based on manually designed Retinex priors do not adapt well to complex and varying degradation environments. DEANet (Jiang et al...
Artificial intelligence (AI) systems are increasingly used in healthcare applications, although some challenges have not been completely overcome to make them fully trustworthy and compliant with modern regulations and societal needs. First of all, sensitive health data, essential to train AI systems, are typically stored and managed in several separate medical centers and cannot...
In this paper, we target the problem of generating facial expressions from a piece of audio. This is challenging since both audio and video have inherent characteristics that are distinct from the other. Some words may have identical lip movements, and speech impediments may prevent lip-reading in some individuals. Previous approaches to generating such a talking head suffered...
Intelligent voice assistants, such as Apple Siri and Amazon Alexa, are widely used nowadays. These task-oriented dialogue systems require a semantic parsing module in order to process user utterances and understand the action to be performed. This semantic parsing component was initially implemented by rule-based or statistical slot-filling approaches for processing simple...
This paper addresses the notable gap in evaluating eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) methods for text classification. While existing frameworks focus on assessing XAI in areas such as recommender systems and visual analytics, a comprehensive evaluation is missing. Our study surveys and categorises recent post hoc XAI methods according to their scope of explanation and...
As cognitive-inspired computation approaches, deep neural networks or deep learning (DL) models have played important roles in allowing machines to reach human-like performances in various complex cognitive tasks such as cognitive computation and sentiment analysis. This paper offers a thorough examination of the rapidly developing topic of DL-assisted aspect-based sentiment...
The primary objective of an effective recommender system is to provide accurate, varied, and personalized recommendations that align with the user’s cognitive intents. Given their ability to represent structural and semantic information effectively, knowledge graphs (KGs) are increasingly being utilized to capture auxiliary information for recommendation systems. This trend is...
The remarkable success of Artificial Intelligence in advancing automated decision-making is evident both in academia and industry. Within the plethora of applications, ranking systems hold significant importance in various domains. This paper advocates for the application of a specific form of Explainable AI—namely, contrastive explanations—as particularly well-suited for...
Smart healthcare systems promise significant benefits for fast and accurate medical decisions. However, working with personal health data presents new privacy issues and constraints that must be solved from a cybersecurity perspective. Edge intelligence-enabled federated learning is a new scheme that utilises decentralised computing that allows data analytics to be carried out at...
The automatic analysis of histology images is an open research field where machine learning techniques and neural networks, especially deep architectures, are considered successful tools due to their abilities in image classification. This paper proposes a granular computing methodology for histopathological image classification. It is based on embedding tiles of histopathology...
Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPSs) are becoming more and more networked and essential to modern infrastructure. This has led to an increase in the complexity of their dynamics and the challenges of protecting them from advanced cyber threats have escalated. Conventional intrusion detection systems (IDS) often struggle to interpret high-dimensional, sequential data...