An enhanced drought forecasting in coastal arid regions using deep learning approach with evaporation index.

Coastal arid regions are similar to deserts, where it receives significantly less rainfall, less than 10 cm. Perhaps the world's worst natural disaster, coastal area droughts, can only be detected using reliable monitoring systems. Creating a reliable drought forecast model and figuring out how well various models can analyze drought factors in coastal arid regions are two of the biggest obstacles in this field. Different time-series methods and machine-learning models have traditionally been utilized in forecasting strategies. Deep learning is promising when describing the complex interplay between coastal drought and its contributing variables. Considering the possibility of enhancing our understanding of drought features, applying deep learning approaches has yet to be tried widely. The current investigation employs a deep learning strategy. Coastal Drought indices are commonly used to comprehend the situation better; hence the Standard Precipitation Evaporation Index (SPEI) was used since it incorporates temperatures and precipitation into its computation. An integrated coastal drought monitoring model was presented and validated using convolutional long short-term memory with self-attention (SA-CLSTM). The Climatic Research Unit (CRU) dataset, which spans 1901-2018, was mined for the drought index and predictor data. To learn how LSTM forecasting could enhance drought forecasting, we analyzed the findings regarding numerous drought parameters (drought severity, drought category, or geographic variation). The model's ability to predict drought intensity was assessed using the Coefficient of Determination (R2), the Root Mean Square Error (RMSE), and the Mean Absolute Error (MAE). Both the SPEI 1 and SPEI 3 examples had R2 values more than 0.99 for the model. The range of predicted outcomes for each drought group was analyzed using a multi-class Receiver Operating Characteristic based Area under Curves (ROC-AUC) method. The research showed that the AUC for SPEI 1 was 0.99 and for SPEI 3, 0.99. The study's results indicate progress over machine learning models for one month in advance, accounting for various drought conditions. This work's findings may be used to mitigate drought, and additional improvement can be achieved by testing other models.

Sine-Cosine-Adopted African Vultures Optimization with Ensemble Autoencoder-Based Intrusion Detection for Cybersecurity in CPS Environment.

A Cyber-Physical System (CPS) is a network of cyber and physical elements that interact with each other. In recent years, there has been a drastic increase in the utilization of CPSs, which makes their security a challenging problem to address. Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs) have been used for the detection of intrusions in networks. Recent advancements in the fields of Deep Learning (DL) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) have allowed the development of robust IDS models for the CPS environment. On the other hand, metaheuristic algorithms are used as feature selection models to mitigate the curse of dimensionality. In this background, the current study presents a Sine-Cosine-Adopted African Vultures Optimization with Ensemble Autoencoder-based Intrusion Detection (SCAVO-EAEID) technique to provide cybersecurity in CPS environments. The proposed SCAVO-EAEID algorithm focuses mainly on the identification of intrusions in the CPS platform via Feature Selection (FS) and DL modeling. At the primary level, the SCAVO-EAEID technique employs Z-score normalization as a preprocessing step. In addition, the SCAVO-based Feature Selection (SCAVO-FS) method is derived to elect the optimal feature subsets. An ensemble Deep-Learning-based Long Short-Term Memory-Auto Encoder (LSTM-AE) model is employed for the IDS. Finally, the Root Means Square Propagation (RMSProp) optimizer is used for hyperparameter tuning of the LSTM-AE technique. To demonstrate the remarkable performance of the proposed SCAVO-EAEID technique, the authors used benchmark datasets. The experimental outcomes confirmed the significant performance of the proposed SCAVO-EAEID technique over other approaches with a maximum accuracy of 99.20%.

Emerging framework for attack detection in cyber-physical systems using heuristic-based optimization algorithm.

In recent days, cyber-physical systems (CPS) have become a new wave generation of human life, exploiting various smart and intelligent uses of automotive systems. In these systems, information is shared through networks, and data is collected from multiple sensor devices. This network has sophisticated control, wireless communication, and high-speed computation. These features are commonly available in CPS, allowing multi-users to access and share information through the network via remote access. Therefore, protecting resources and sensitive information in the network is essential. Many research works have been developed for detecting insecure networks and attacks in the network. This article introduces a framework, namely Deep Bagging Convolutional Neural Network with Heuristic Multiswarm Ant Colony Optimization (DCNN-HMACO), designed to enhance the secure transmission of information, improve efficiency, and provide convenience in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). The proposed framework aims to detect attacks in CPS effectively. Compared to existing methods, the DCNN-HMACO framework significantly improves attack detection rates and enhances overall system protection. While the accuracy rates of CNN and FCM are reported as 72.12% and 79.56% respectively, our proposed framework achieves a remarkable accuracy rate of 92.14%.

Machine learning-based Decision Tree J48 with grey wolf optimizer for environmental pollution control.

ABSTRACTDue to industrialization, activities of human and urbanization, environment is getting polluted. Air pollution has become a main issue in the metropolitan areas of the world. To protect people from diseases, monitoring air quality plays an important thing. This air pollutant may lead to many health issues like respiratory and cardiac problems. The major air pollutants are NO, C6H6, CO, etc. Many research works have been done in predicting air pollution-based health issues, predicting air pollution levels, monitoring and controlling the polluted levels. But they are not efficient, cost of maintenance is high and insufficient tool for monitoring it. To overcome these issues, this paper implements hybrid algorithm of Decision Tree J48 and Grey Wolf Optimizer (DT-GWO). This DT-GWO is a better model to addresses the predicting of Air Quality Index (AQI), which minimizes the error rate, accurately and effectively predicting the air quality. The AQI values are categorised as good, moderate, unhealthy, very unhealthy and hazardous. The dataset used in this work is collected from Kaggle website which contains air pollutants details with air quality index values. Accuracy obtained for decision Tree J48 is 93.72%, grey wolf optimizer is 96.83% and our proposed work DT-GWO is 99.78%.

The intelligent modelling and optimization of an economic and ecosystem-friendly model for grid connected prosumer community.

The establishment of grid-connected prosumer communities to bridge the demand-supply gap in developing nations, especially in rural areas will assist to minimize the use of carbon enriched fossil fuels and the resulting economic pressure. In the promoted study, an economic and ecosystem-friendly hybrid energy model is proposed for grid-connected prosumer community of 147 houses in district Kotli, AJK. The grid search algorithm-based HOMER software is used to simulate and analyze the load demand and biomass sources-based onsite collected data through a survey for an optimal proposed design. The research objectives are to minimize the net present cost (USD) of design, the per unit cost of energy (USD/kWh), and the carbon emissions (kgs/year). A sensitivity analysis based on photovoltaic module lifetime is also performed. The simulations show that the per unit cost of energy is reduced from 0.1 USD/kWh to 0.001 USD/kWh for the annual energy demand (kWh/year) of the community. The number of carbon emissions is also minimized from 122056 kgs/year to 1628 kgs/year through the proposed optimal energy model.

Clinical Decision Support Systems to Predict Drug-Drug Interaction Using Multilabel Long Short-Term Memory with an Autoencoder.

Big Data analytics is a technique for researching huge and varied datasets and it is designed to uncover hidden patterns, trends, and correlations, and therefore, it can be applied for making superior decisions in healthcare. Drug-drug interactions (DDIs) are a main concern in drug discovery. The main role of precise forecasting of DDIs is to increase safety potential, particularly, in drug research when multiple drugs are co-prescribed. Prevailing conventional method machine learning (ML) approaches mainly depend on handcraft features and lack generalization. Today, deep learning (DL) techniques that automatically study drug features from drug-related networks or molecular graphs have enhanced the capability of computing approaches for forecasting unknown DDIs. Therefore, in this study, we develop a sparrow search optimization with deep learning-based DDI prediction (SSODL-DDIP) technique for healthcare decision making in big data environments. The presented SSODL-DDIP technique identifies the relationship and properties of the drugs from various sources to make predictions. In addition, a multilabel long short-term memory with an autoencoder (MLSTM-AE) model is employed for the DDI prediction process. Moreover, a lexicon-based approach is involved in determining the severity of interactions among the DDIs. To improve the prediction outcomes of the MLSTM-AE model, the SSO algorithm is adopted in this work. To assure better performance of the SSODL-DDIP technique, a wide range of simulations are performed. The experimental results show the promising performance of the SSODL-DDIP technique over recent state-of-the-art algorithms.

Henry Gas Solubility Optimization Algorithm based Feature Extraction in Dermoscopic Images Analysis of Skin Cancer.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques have changed the general perceptions about medical diagnostics, especially after the introduction and development of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) and advanced Deep Learning (DL) and Machine Learning (ML) approaches. In general, dermatologists visually inspect the images and assess the morphological variables such as borders, colors, and shapes to diagnose the disease. In this background, AI techniques make use of algorithms and computer systems to mimic the cognitive functions of the human brain and assist clinicians and researchers. In recent years, AI has been applied extensively in the domain of dermatology, especially for the detection and classification of skin cancer and other general skin diseases. In this research article, the authors propose an Optimal Multi-Attention Fusion Convolutional Neural Network-based Skin Cancer Diagnosis (MAFCNN-SCD) technique for the detection of skin cancer in dermoscopic images. The primary aim of the proposed MAFCNN-SCD technique is to classify skin cancer on dermoscopic images. In the presented MAFCNN-SCD technique, the data pre-processing is performed at the initial stage. Next, the MAFNet method is applied as a feature extractor with Henry Gas Solubility Optimization (HGSO) algorithm as a hyperparameter optimizer. Finally, the Deep Belief Network (DBN) method is exploited for the detection and classification of skin cancer. A sequence of simulations was conducted to establish the superior performance of the proposed MAFCNN-SCD approach. The comprehensive comparative analysis outcomes confirmed the supreme performance of the proposed MAFCNN-SCD technique over other methodologies.

Artificial-Intelligence-Based Decision Making for Oral Potentially Malignant Disorder Diagnosis in Internet of Medical Things Environment.

Oral cancer is considered one of the most common cancer types in several counties. Earlier-stage identification is essential for better prognosis, treatment, and survival. To enhance precision medicine, Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) and deep learning (DL) models can be developed for automated oral cancer classification to improve detection rate and decrease cancer-specific mortality. This article focuses on the design of an optimal Inception-Deep Convolution Neural Network for Oral Potentially Malignant Disorder Detection (OIDCNN-OPMDD) technique in the IoMT environment. The presented OIDCNN-OPMDD technique mainly concentrates on identifying and classifying oral cancer by using an IoMT device-based data collection process. In this study, the feature extraction and classification process are performed using the IDCNN model, which integrates the Inception module with DCNN. To enhance the classification performance of the IDCNN model, the moth flame optimization (MFO) technique can be employed. The experimental results of the OIDCNN-OPMDD technique are investigated, and the results are inspected under specific measures. The experimental outcome pointed out the enhanced performance of the OIDCNN-OPMDD model over other DL models.

Atom Search Optimization with Deep Learning Enabled Arabic Sign Language Recognition for Speaking and Hearing Disability Persons.

Sign language has played a crucial role in the lives of impaired people having hearing and speaking disabilities. They can send messages via hand gesture movement. Arabic Sign Language (ASL) recognition is a very difficult task because of its high complexity and the increasing intraclass similarity. Sign language may be utilized for the communication of sentences, letters, or words using diverse signs of the hands. Such communication helps to bridge the communication gap between people with hearing impairment and other people and also makes it easy for people with hearing impairment to express their opinions. Recently, a large number of studies have been ongoing in developing a system that is capable of classifying signs of dissimilar sign languages into the given class. Therefore, this study designs an atom search optimization with a deep convolutional autoencoder-enabled sign language recognition (ASODCAE-SLR) model for speaking and hearing disabled persons. The presented ASODCAE-SLR technique mainly aims to assist the communication of speaking and hearing disabled persons via the SLR process. To accomplish this, the ASODCAE-SLR technique initially pre-processes the input frames by a weighted average filtering approach. In addition, the ASODCAE-SLR technique employs a capsule network (CapsNet) feature extractor to produce a collection of feature vectors. For the recognition of sign language, the DCAE model is exploited in the study. At the final stage, the ASO algorithm is utilized as a hyperparameter optimizer which in turn increases the efficacy of the DCAE model. The experimental validation of the ASODCAE-SLR model is tested using the Arabic Sign Language dataset. The simulation analysis exhibit the enhanced performance of the ASODCAE-SLR model compared to existing models.

Artificial intelligence enabled intrusion detection systems for cognitive cyber-physical systems in industry 4.0 environment.

In recent days, Cognitive Cyber-Physical System (CCPS) has gained significant interest among interdisciplinary researchers which integrates machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) techniques. This era is witnessing a rapid transformation in digital technology and AI where brain-inspired computing-based solutions will play a vital role in industrial informatics. The application of CCPS with brain-inspired computing in Industry 4.0 will create a significant impact on industrial evolution. Though the CCPSs in industrial environment offer several merits, security remains a challenging design issue. The rise of artificial intelligence AI techniques helps to address cybersecurity issues related to CCPS in industry 4.0 environment. With this motivation, this paper presents a new AI-enabled multimodal fusion-based intrusion detection system (AIMMF-IDS) for CCPS in industry 4.0 environment. The proposed model initially performs the data pre-processing technique in two ways namely data conversion and data normalization. In addition, improved fish swarm optimization based feature selection (IFSO-FS) technique is used for the appropriate selection of features. The IFSO technique is derived by the use of Levy Flight (LF) concept into the searching mechanism of the conventional FSO algorithm to avoid the local optima problem. Since the single modality is not adequate to accomplish enhanced detection performance, in this paper, a weighted voting based ensemble model is employed for the multimodal fusion process using recurrent neural network (RNN), bi-directional long short term memory (Bi-LSTM), and deep belief network (DBN), depicts the novelty of the work. The simulation analysis of the presented model highlighted the improved performance over the recent state of art techniques interms of different measures.

An Automated Glowworm Swarm Optimization with an Inception-Based Deep Convolutional Neural Network for COVID-19 Diagnosis and Classification.

Recently, the COVID-19 epidemic has had a major impact on day-to-day life of people all over the globe, and it demands various kinds of screening tests to detect the coronavirus. Conversely, the development of deep learning (DL) models combined with radiological images is useful for accurate detection and classification. DL models are full of hyperparameters, and identifying the optimal parameter configuration in such a high dimensional space is not a trivial challenge. Since the procedure of setting the hyperparameters requires expertise and extensive trial and error, metaheuristic algorithms can be employed. With this motivation, this paper presents an automated glowworm swarm optimization (GSO) with an inception-based deep convolutional neural network (IDCNN) for COVID-19 diagnosis and classification, called the GSO-IDCNN model. The presented model involves a Gaussian smoothening filter (GSF) to eradicate the noise that exists from the radiological images. Additionally, the IDCNN-based feature extractor is utilized, which makes use of the Inception v4 model. To further enhance the performance of the IDCNN technique, the hyperparameters are optimally tuned using the GSO algorithm. Lastly, an adaptive neuro-fuzzy classifier (ANFC) is used for classifying the existence of COVID-19. The design of the GSO algorithm with the ANFC model for COVID-19 diagnosis shows the novelty of the work. For experimental validation, a series of simulations were performed on benchmark radiological imaging databases to highlight the superior outcome of the GSO-IDCNN technique. The experimental values pointed out that the GSO-IDCNN methodology has demonstrated a proficient outcome by offering a maximal sensy of 0.9422, specy of 0.9466, precn of 0.9494, accy of 0.9429, and F1score of 0.9394.

Fuzzy Cognitive Maps with Bird Swarm Intelligence Optimization-Based Remote Sensing Image Classification.

Remote sensing image (RSI) scene classification has become a hot research topic due to its applicability in different domains such as object recognition, land use classification, image retrieval, and surveillance. During RSI classification process, a class label will be allocated to every scene class based on the semantic details, which is significant in real-time applications such as mineral exploration, forestry, vegetation, weather, and oceanography. Deep learning (DL) approaches, particularly the convolutional neural network (CNN), have shown enhanced outcomes on the RSI classification process owing to the significant aspect of feature learning as well as reasoning. In this aspect, this study develops fuzzy cognitive maps with a bird swarm optimization-based RSI classification (FCMBS-RSIC) model. The proposed FCMBS-RSIC technique inherits the advantages of fuzzy logic (FL) and swarms intelligence (SI) concepts. In order to transform the RSI into a compatible format, preprocessing is carried out. Besides, the features are produced by the use of the RetinaNet model. Besides, a FCM-based classifier is involved to allocate proper class labels to the RSIs and the classification performance can be improved by the design of bird swarm algorithm (BSA). The performance validation of the FCMBS-RSIC technique takes place using benchmark open access datasets, and the experimental results reported the enhanced outcomes of the FCMBS-RSIC technique over its state-of-the-art approaches.

Machine learning based skin lesion segmentation method with novel borders and hair removal techniques.

The effective segmentation of lesion(s) from dermoscopic skin images assists the Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CAD) systems in improving the diagnosing rate of skin cancer. The results of the existing skin lesion segmentation techniques are not up to the mark for dermoscopic images with artifacts like varying size corner borders with color similar to lesion(s) and/or hairs having low contrast with surrounding background. To improve the results of the existing skin lesion segmentation techniques for such kinds of dermoscopic images, an effective skin lesion segmentation method is proposed in this research work. The proposed method searches for the presence of corner borders in the given dermoscopc image and removes them if found otherwise it starts searching for the presence of hairs on it and eliminate them if present. Next, it enhances the resultant image using state-of-the-art image enhancement method and segments lesion from it using machine learning technique namely, GrabCut method. The proposed method was tested on PH2 and ISIC 2018 datasets containing 200 images each and its accuracy was measured with two evaluation metrics, i.e., Jaccard index, and Dice index. The evaluation results show that our proposed skin lesion segmentation method obtained Jaccard Index of 0.77, 0.80 and Dice index of 0.87, 0.82 values on PH2, and ISIC2018 datasets, respectively, which are better than state-of-the-art skin lesion segmentation techniques.

Intelligent Epileptic Seizure Detection and Classification Model Using Optimal Deep Canonical Sparse Autoencoder.

Epileptic seizures are a chronic and persistent neurological illness that mainly affects the human brain. Electroencephalogram (EEG) is considered an effective tool among neurologists to detect various brain disorders, including epilepsy, owing to its advantages, such as its low cost, simplicity, and availability. In order to reduce the severity of epileptic seizures, it is necessary to design effective techniques to identify the disease at an earlier stage. Since the traditional way of diagnosing epileptic seizures is laborious and time-consuming, automated tools using machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) models may be useful. This paper presents an intelligent deep canonical sparse autoencoder-based epileptic seizure detection and classification (DCSAE-ESDC) model using EEG signals. The proposed DCSAE-ESDC technique involves two major processes, namely, feature selection and classification. The DCSAE-ESDC technique designs a novel coyote optimization algorithm (COA)-based feature selection technique for the optimal selection of feature subsets. Moreover, the DCSAE-based classifier is derived for the detection and classification of different kinds of epileptic seizures. Finally, the parameter tuning of the DSCAE model takes place via the krill herd algorithm (KHA). The design of the COA-based feature selection and KHA-based parameter tuning shows the novelty of the work. For examining the enhanced classification performance of the DCSAE-ESDC technique, a detailed experimental analysis was conducted using a benchmark epileptic seizure dataset. The comparative results analysis portrayed the better performance of the DCSAE-ESDC technique over existing techniques, with maximum accuracy of 98.67% and 98.73% under binary and multi-classification, respectively.

Feature Subset Selection with Optimal Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Systems for Bioinformatics Gene Expression Classification.

Recently, bioinformatics and computational biology-enabled applications such as gene expression analysis, cellular restoration, medical image processing, protein structure examination, and medical data classification utilize fuzzy systems in offering effective solutions and decisions. The latest developments of fuzzy systems with artificial intelligence techniques enable to design the effective microarray gene expression classification models. In this aspect, this study introduces a novel feature subset selection with optimal adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (FSS-OANFIS) for gene expression classification. The major aim of the FSS-OANFIS model is to detect and classify the gene expression data. To accomplish this, the FSS-OANFIS model designs an improved grey wolf optimizer-based feature selection (IGWO-FS) model to derive an optimal subset of features. Besides, the OANFIS model is employed for gene classification and the parameter tuning of the ANFIS model is adjusted by the use of coyote optimization algorithm (COA). The application of IGWO-FS and COA techniques helps in accomplishing enhanced microarray gene expression classification outcomes. The experimental validation of the FSS-OANFIS model has been performed using Leukemia, Prostate, DLBCL Stanford, and Colon Cancer datasets. The proposed FSS-OANFIS model has resulted in a maximum classification accuracy of 89.47%.

Effect of stemming on text similarity for Arabic language at sentence level.

Semantic Text Similarity (STS) has several and important applications in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). The Aim of this study is to investigate the effect of stemming on text similarity for Arabic language at sentence level. Several Arabic light and heavy stemmers as well as lemmatization algorithms are used in this study, with a total of 10 algorithms. Standard training and testing data sets are used from SemEval-2017 international workshop for Task 1, Track 1 Arabic (ar-ar). Different features are selected to study the effect of stemming on text similarity based on different similarity measures. Traditional machine learning algorithms are used such as Support Vector Machines (SVM), Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) and Naïve Bayesian (NB). Compared to the original text, using the stemmed and lemmatized documents in experiments achieve enhanced Pearson correlation results. The best results attained when using Arabic light Stemmer (ARLSTem) and Farasa light stemmers, Farasa and Qalsadi Lemmatizers and Tashaphyne heavy stemmer. The best enhancement was about 7.34% in Pearson correlation. In general, stemming considerably improves the performance of sentence text similarly for Arabic language. However, some stemmers make results worse than those for original text; they are Khoja heavy stemmer and AlKhalil light stemmer.

Preprocessing Arabic text on social media.

Currently, social media plays an important role in daily life and routine. Millions of people use social media for different purposes. Large amounts of data flow through online networks every second, and these data contain valuable information that can be extracted if the data are properly processed and analyzed. However, most of the processing results are affected by preprocessing difficulties. This paper presents an approach to extract information from social media Arabic text. It provides an integrated solution for the challenges in preprocessing Arabic text on social media in four stages: data collection, cleaning, enrichment, and availability. The preprocessed Arabic text is stored in structured database tables to provide a useful corpus to which, information extraction and data analysis algorithms can be applied. The experiment in this study reveals that the implementation of the proposed approach yields a useful and full-featured dataset and valuable information. The resultant dataset presented the Arabic text in three structured levels with more than 20 features. Additionally, the experiment provides valuable information and processed results such as topic classification and sentiment analysis.