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A New Class of Efficient Adaptive Filters for Online Nonlinear Modeling (2022)
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Comminiello, D., Nezamdoust, A., Scardapane, S., Scarpiniti, M., Hussain, A., & Uncini, A. (2023). A New Class of Efficient Adaptive Filters for Online Nonlinear Modeling. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems, 53(3), 1384-1396. https

Nonlinear models are known to provide excellent performance in real-world applications that often operate in nonideal conditions. However, such applications often require online processing to be performed with limited computational resources. To addr... Read More about A New Class of Efficient Adaptive Filters for Online Nonlinear Modeling.

A Few-Shot Learning Method for SAR Images Based on Weighted Distance and Feature Fusion (2022)
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Gao, F., Xu, J., Lang, R., Wang, J., Hussain, A., & Zhou, H. (2022). A Few-Shot Learning Method for SAR Images Based on Weighted Distance and Feature Fusion. Remote Sensing, 14(18), Article 4583. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14184583

Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) has been widely applied in the field of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image recognition. Nevertheless, CNN-based recognition methods usually encounter the problem of poor feature representation ability due to insuf... Read More about A Few-Shot Learning Method for SAR Images Based on Weighted Distance and Feature Fusion.

Classification of Skin Cancer Lesions Using Explainable Deep Learning (2022)
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Zia Ur Rehman, M., Ahmed, F., Alsuhibany, S. A., Jamal, S. S., Zulfiqar Ali, M., & Ahmad, J. (2022). Classification of Skin Cancer Lesions Using Explainable Deep Learning. Sensors, 22(18), Article 6915. https://doi.org/10.3390/s22186915

Skin cancer is among the most prevalent and life-threatening forms of cancer that occur worldwide. Traditional methods of skin cancer detection need an in-depth physical examination by a medical professional, which is time-consuming in some cases. Re... Read More about Classification of Skin Cancer Lesions Using Explainable Deep Learning.

Federated Learning for Short-term Residential Load Forecasting (2022)
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Briggs, C., Fan, Z., & Andras, P. (2022). Federated Learning for Short-term Residential Load Forecasting. IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy, 9, 573-583. https://doi.org/10.1109/oajpe.2022.3206220

Load forecasting is an essential task performed within the energy industry to help balance supply with demand and maintain a stable load on the electricity grid. As supply transitions towards less reliable renewable energy generation, smart meters wi... Read More about Federated Learning for Short-term Residential Load Forecasting.

Multimodal audio-visual information fusion using canonical-correlated Graph Neural Network for energy-efficient speech enhancement (2022)
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Passos, L. A., Papa, J. P., Del Ser, J., Hussain, A., & Adeel, A. (2023). Multimodal audio-visual information fusion using canonical-correlated Graph Neural Network for energy-efficient speech enhancement. Information Fusion, 90, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.

This paper proposes a novel multimodal self-supervised architecture for energy-efficient audio-visual (AV) speech enhancement that integrates Graph Neural Networks with canonical correlation analysis (CCA-GNN). The proposed approach lays its foundati... Read More about Multimodal audio-visual information fusion using canonical-correlated Graph Neural Network for energy-efficient speech enhancement.

Pushing the limits of remote RF sensing by reading lips under the face mask (2022)
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Hameed, H., Usman, M., Tahir, A., Hussain, A., Abbas, H., Cui, T. J., …Abbasi, Q. H. (2022). Pushing the limits of remote RF sensing by reading lips under the face mask. Nature Communications, 13(1), Article 5168. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-3223

The problem of Lip-reading has become an important research challenge in recent years. The goal is to recognise speech from lip movements. Most of the Lip-reading technologies developed so far are camera-based, which require video recording of the ta... Read More about Pushing the limits of remote RF sensing by reading lips under the face mask.

Ontology-Based Linked Data to Support Decision Making within Universities (2022)
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Ashour, G., Al-Dubai, A., Romdhani, I., & Alghazzawi, D. (2022). Ontology-Based Linked Data to Support Decision Making within Universities. Mathematics, 10(17), Article 3148. https://doi.org/10.3390/math10173148

In recent years, educational institutions worked hard to automate their work using more trending technologies that prove the success in supporting decision-making processes. Most the decisions in educational institutions rely on rating the academic r... Read More about Ontology-Based Linked Data to Support Decision Making within Universities.

A Multirobot Cooperative Area Coverage Search Algorithm Based on Bioinspired Neural Network in Unknown Environments (2022)
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Chen, B., Zhang, W., Zhang, F., Liu, Y., & Yu, H. (2023). A Multirobot Cooperative Area Coverage Search Algorithm Based on Bioinspired Neural Network in Unknown Environments. IEEE Systems Journal, 17(2), 1995-2006. https://doi.org/10.1109/jsyst.2022.31987

This article proposes a novel approach based on a bioinspired neural network (BIN) for multirobot area coverage search in unknown environments. We obtain the dynamic environment information in the search process of the multirobot by combining the BIN... Read More about A Multirobot Cooperative Area Coverage Search Algorithm Based on Bioinspired Neural Network in Unknown Environments.

Application of Deep Learning in Generating Structured Radiology Reports: A Transformer-Based Technique (2022)
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Moezzi, S. A. R., Ghaedi, A., Rahmanian, M., Mousavi, S. Z., & Sami, A. (2023). Application of Deep Learning in Generating Structured Radiology Reports: A Transformer-Based Technique. Journal of Digital Imaging, 36(1), 80-90. https://doi.org/10.1007/s1027

Since radiology reports needed for clinical practice and research are written and stored in free-text narrations, extraction of relative information for further analysis is difficult. In these circumstances, natural language processing (NLP) techniqu... Read More about Application of Deep Learning in Generating Structured Radiology Reports: A Transformer-Based Technique.

Semi-supervised Representative Learning for Measuring Epidermal Thickness in Human Subjects in Optical Coherence Tomography by Leveraging Datasets from Rodent Models (2022)
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Ji, Y., Yang, S., Zhou, K., Lu, J., Wang, R., Rocliffe, H. R., …Huang, Z. (2022). Semi-supervised Representative Learning for Measuring Epidermal Thickness in Human Subjects in Optical Coherence Tomography by Leveraging Datasets from Rodent Models. Jour

Aim: Morphological changes in the epidermis layer are critical for the diagnosis and assessment of various skin diseases. Due to its non-invasiveness, optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a good candidate for observing microstructural changes of ski... Read More about Semi-supervised Representative Learning for Measuring Epidermal Thickness in Human Subjects in Optical Coherence Tomography by Leveraging Datasets from Rodent Models.

A Novel Chaos-Based Privacy-Preserving Deep Learning Model for Cancer Diagnosis (2022)
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Rehman, M. U., Shafique, A., Ghadi, Y. Y., Boulila, W., Jan, S. U., Gadekallu, T. R., …Ahmad, J. (2022). A Novel Chaos-Based Privacy-Preserving Deep Learning Model for Cancer Diagnosis. IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, 9(6), 4322-43

Early cancer identification is regarded as a challenging problem in cancer prevention for the healthcare community. In addition, ensuring privacy-preserving healthcare data becomes more difficult with the growing demand for sharing these data. This s... Read More about A Novel Chaos-Based Privacy-Preserving Deep Learning Model for Cancer Diagnosis.

A Mixed Approach for Aggressive Political Discourse Analysis on Twitter (2022)
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Torregrosa, J., D’Antonio-Maceiras, S., Villar-Rodríguez, G., Hussain, A., Cambria, E., & Camacho, D. (2023). A Mixed Approach for Aggressive Political Discourse Analysis on Twitter. Cognitive Computation, 15, 440-465. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-02

Political tensions have grown throughout Europe since the beginning of the new century. The consecutive crises led to the rise of different social movements in several countries, in which the political status quo changed. These changes included an in... Read More about A Mixed Approach for Aggressive Political Discourse Analysis on Twitter.

Predicting Breast Cancer Leveraging Supervised Machine Learning Techniques (2022)
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Aamir, S., Rahim, A., Aamir, Z., Abbasi, S. F., Khan, M. S., Alhaisoni, M., …Ahmad, J. (2022). Predicting Breast Cancer Leveraging Supervised Machine Learning Techniques. Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine, 2022, Article 5869529. https:/

Breast cancer is one of the leading causes of increasing deaths in women worldwide. The complex nature (microcalcification and masses) of breast cancer cells makes it quite difficult for radiologists to diagnose it properly. Subsequently, various com... Read More about Predicting Breast Cancer Leveraging Supervised Machine Learning Techniques.

Transforming Points of Single Contact Data into Linked Data (2022)
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Fragkou, P., & Maglaras, L. (2022). Transforming Points of Single Contact Data into Linked Data. Computers, 11(8), Article 122. https://doi.org/10.3390/computers11080122

Open data portals contain valuable information for citizens and business. However, searching for information can prove to be tiresome even in portals tackling domains similar information. A typical case is the information residing in the European Com... Read More about Transforming Points of Single Contact Data into Linked Data.

Co-optimization method to improve lateral resolution in photoacoustic computed tomography (2022)
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Zhang, Y., Yang, S., Xia, Z., Hou, R., Xu, B., Hou, L., …Xiong, J. (2022). Co-optimization method to improve lateral resolution in photoacoustic computed tomography. Biomedical Optics Express, 13(9), 4621-4636. https://doi.org/10.1364/BOE.469744

In biomedical imaging, photoacoustic computed tomography (PACT) has recently gained increased interest as this imaging technique has good optical contrast and depth of acoustic penetration. However, a spinning blur will be introduced during the image... Read More about Co-optimization method to improve lateral resolution in photoacoustic computed tomography.

Thermography for Disease Detection in Livestock: A Scoping Review (2022)
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McManus, R., Boden, L., Weir, W., Viora, L., Barker, R., Kim, Y., …Yang, S. (2022). Thermography for Disease Detection in Livestock: A Scoping Review. Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 9, Article 965622. https://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2022.965622

Infra-red thermography (IRT) offers potential opportunities as a tool for disease detection in livestock. Despite considerable research in this area, there are no common standards or protocols for managing IRT parameters in animal disease detection r... Read More about Thermography for Disease Detection in Livestock: A Scoping Review.

Footsteps in the fog: Certificateless fog-based access control (2022)
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Frimpong, E., Michalas, A., & Ullah, A. (2022). Footsteps in the fog: Certificateless fog-based access control. Computers and Security, 121, Article 102866. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cose.2022.102866

The proliferating adoption of the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm has fuelled the need for more efficient and resilient access control solutions that aim to prevent unauthorized resource access. The majority of existing works in this field follow e... Read More about Footsteps in the fog: Certificateless fog-based access control.

Machine Learning-Based Prediction of Node Localization Accuracy in IIoT-Based MI-UWSNs and Design of a TD Coil for Omnidirectional Communication (2022)
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Gang, Q., Muhammad, A., Khan, Z. U., Khan, M. S., Ahmed, F., & Ahmad, J. (2022). Machine Learning-Based Prediction of Node Localization Accuracy in IIoT-Based MI-UWSNs and Design of a TD Coil for Omnidirectional Communication. Sustainability, 14(15), Arti

This study aims to realize Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), i.e., SDG 9: Industry Innovation and Infrastructure and SDG 14: Life below Water, through the improvement of localization estimation accuracy in magneto-inductive underwater wireless se... Read More about Machine Learning-Based Prediction of Node Localization Accuracy in IIoT-Based MI-UWSNs and Design of a TD Coil for Omnidirectional Communication.

DRaNN_PSO: A deep random neural network with particle swarm optimization for intrusion detection in the industrial internet of things (2022)
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Ahmad, J., Shah, S. A., Latif, S., Ahmed, F., Zou, Z., & Pitropakis, N. (2022). DRaNN_PSO: A deep random neural network with particle swarm optimization for intrusion detection in the industrial internet of things. Journal of King Saud University (Compute

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is a rapidly emerging technology that increases the efficiency and productivity of industrial environments by integrating smart sensors and devices with the internet. The advancements in communication technolo... Read More about DRaNN_PSO: A deep random neural network with particle swarm optimization for intrusion detection in the industrial internet of things.

Next Generation Cognition-Aware Hearing Aid Devices With Microwave Sensors: Opportunities and Challenges (2022)
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Anwar, U., Arslan, T., Hussain, A., & Lomax, P. (2022). Next Generation Cognition-Aware Hearing Aid Devices With Microwave Sensors: Opportunities and Challenges. IEEE Access, 10, 82214-82235. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2022.3195875

The strong association between hearing loss and cognitive decline has developed into a major health challenge that calls for early detection, diagnosis and prevention. Hearing loss usually results in severe health implications that include loss of mo... Read More about Next Generation Cognition-Aware Hearing Aid Devices With Microwave Sensors: Opportunities and Challenges.