An AI-Based Low-Risk Lung Health Image Visualization Framework Using LR-ULDCT.

In this article, we propose an AI-based low-risk visualization framework for lung health monitoring using low-resolution ultra-low-dose CT (LR-ULDCT). We present a novel deep cascade processing workflow to achieve diagnostic visualization on LR-ULDCT (<0.3 mSv) at par high-resolution CT (HRCT) of 100 mSV radiation technology. To this end, we build a low-risk and affordable deep cascade network comprising three sequential deep processes: restoration, super-resolution (SR), and segmentation. Given degraded LR-ULDCT, the first novel network unsupervisedly learns restoration function from augmenting patch-based dictionaries and residuals. The restored version is then super-resolved (SR) for target (sensor) resolution. Here, we combine perceptual and adversarial losses in novel GAN to establish the closeness between probability distributions of generated SR-ULDCT and restored LR-ULDCT. Thus SR-ULDCT is presented to the segmentation network that first separates the chest portion from SR-ULDCT followed by lobe-wise colorization. Finally, we extract five lobes to account for the presence of ground glass opacity (GGO) in the lung. Hence, our AI-based system provides low-risk visualization of input degraded LR-ULDCT to various stages, i.e., restored LR-ULDCT, restored SR-ULDCT, and segmented SR-ULDCT, and achieves diagnostic power of HRCT. We perform case studies by experimenting on real datasets of COVID-19, pneumonia, and pulmonary edema/congestion while comparing our results with state-of-the-art. Ablation experiments are conducted for better visualizing different operating pipelines. Finally, we present a verification report by fourteen (14) experienced radiologists and pulmonologists.

An Ensemble Deep Learning Model for Automatic Modulation Classification in 5G and Beyond IoT Networks.

With rapid advancement in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), automatic modulation classification (AMC) using deep learning (DL) techniques has become very popular. This is even more relevant for Internet of things (IoT)-assisted wireless systems. This paper presents a lightweight, ensemble model with convolution, long short term memory (LSTM), and gated recurrent unit (GRU) layers. The proposed model is termed as deep recurrent convoluted network with additional gated layer (DRCaG). It has been tested on a dataset derived from the RadioML2016(b) and comprises of 8 different modulation types named as BPSK, QPSK, 8-PSK, 16-QAM, 4-PAM, CPFSK, GFSK, and WBFM. The performance of the proposed model has been presented through extensive simulation in terms of training loss, accuracy, and confusion matrix with variable signal to noise ratio (SNR) ranging from -20 dB to +20 dB and it demonstrates the superiority of DRCaG vis-a-vis existing ones.