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This article utilizes the discrete wavelet transformation to introduce an advanced 3D object watermarking model depending on the characteristics of the object's vertices. The model entails two different phases: integration and extraction. In the integration phase, a novel technique is proposed, which embeds the secret grayscale image three times using both the encrypted pixels and the vertices' coefficients of the original 3D object. In the extraction phase, the secret image is randomly extracted and recaptured using the inverse phase of the integration technique. Four common 3D objects (Stanford bunny, horse, cat figurine, and angel), with different faces and different vertices, are used in this model as a dataset. The performance of the proposed technique is evaluated using different metrics to show its superiority in terms of execution time and imperceptibility. The results demonstrated that the proposed method achieved high imperceptibility and transparency with low distortion. Moreover, the extracted secret grayscale image perfectly matched the original watermark with a structural similarity index of 1 for all testing models. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study introduces a novel approach for integrating sensitive patient information within medical images with minimal impact on their diagnostic quality. Utilizing the mask region-based convolutional neural network for identifying regions of minimal medical significance, the method embeds information using discrete cosine transform-based steganography. The focus is on embedding within "insignificant areas", determined by deep learning models, to ensure image quality and confidentiality are maintained. The methodology comprises three main steps: neural network training for area identification, an embedding process for data concealment, and an extraction process for retrieving embedded information. Experimental evaluations on the CHAOS dataset demonstrate the method's effectiveness, with the model achieving an average intersection over union score of 0.9146, indicating accurate segmentation. Imperceptibility metrics, including peak signal-to-noise ratio, were employed to assess the quality of stego images, with results showing high capacity embedding with minimal distortion. Furthermore, the embedding capacity and payload analysis reveal the method's high capacity for data concealment. The proposed method outperforms existing techniques by offering superior image quality, as evidenced by higher peak signal-to-noise ratio values, and efficient concealment capacity, making it a promising solution for secure medical image handling. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Magnetic resonance imaging is a medical imaging technique to create comprehensive images of the tissues and organs in the body. This study presents an advanced approach for storing and compressing neuroimaging informatics technology initiative files, a standard format in magnetic resonance imaging. It is designed to enhance telemedicine services by facilitating efficient and high-quality communication between healthcare practitioners and patients. The proposed downsampling approach begins by opening the neuroimaging informatics technology initiative file as volumetric data and then planning it into several slice images. Then, the quantization hiding technique will be applied to each of the two consecutive slice images to generate the stego slice with the same size. This involves the following major steps: normalization, microblock generation, and discrete cosine transformation. Finally, it assembles the resultant stego slice images to produce the final neuroimaging informatics technology initiative file as volumetric data. The upsampling process, designed to be completely blind, reverses the downsampling steps to reconstruct the subsequent image slice accurately. The efficacy of the proposed method was evaluated using a magnetic resonance imaging dataset, focusing on peak signal-to-noise ratio, signal-to-noise ratio, structural similarity index, and Entropy as key performance metrics. The results demonstrate that the proposed approach not only significantly reduces file sizes but also maintains high image quality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Indoor localization methods can help many sectors, such as healthcare centers, smart homes, museums, warehouses, and retail malls, improve their service areas. As a result, it is crucial to look for low-cost methods that can provide exact localization in indoor locations. In this context, imagebased localization methods can play an important role in estimating both the position and the orientation of cameras regarding an object. Image-based localization faces many issues, such as image scale and rotation variance. Also, image-based localization's accuracy and speed (latency) are two critical factors. This paper proposes an efficient 6-DoF deep-learning model for image-based localization. This model incorporates the channel attention module and the Scale PyramidModule (SPM). It not only enhances accuracy but also ensures the model's real-time performance. In complex scenes, a channel attention module is employed to distinguish between the textures of the foregrounds and backgrounds. Our model adapted an SPM, a feature pyramid module for dealing with image scale and rotation variance issues. Furthermore, the proposed model employs two regressions (two fully connected layers), one for position and the other for orientation, which increases outcome accuracy. Experiments on standard indoor and outdoor datasets show that the proposed model has a significantly lower Mean Squared Error (MSE) for both position and orientation. On the indoor 7-Scenes dataset, the MSE for the position is reduced to 0.19 m and 6.25° for the orientation. Furthermore, on the outdoor Cambridge landmarks dataset, the MSE for the position is reduced to 0.63 m and 2.03° for the orientation. According to the findings, the proposed approach is superior and more successful than the baseline methods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Several pests feed on leaves, stems, bases, and the entire plant, causing plant illnesses. As a result, it is vital to identify and eliminate the disease before causing any damage to plants. Manually detecting plant disease and treating it is pretty challenging in this period. Image processing is employed to detect plant disease since it requires much effort and an extended processing period. The main goal of this study is to discover the disease that affects the plants by creating an image processing system that can recognize and classify four different forms of plant diseases, including Phytophthora infestans, Fusarium graminearum, Puccinia graminis, tomato yellow leaf curl. Therefore, this work uses the Support vector machine (SVM) classifier to detect and classify the plant disease using various steps like image acquisition, Pre-processing, Segmentation, feature extraction, and classification. The gray level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM) and the local binary pattern features (LBP) are used to identify the disease-affected portion of the plant leaf. According to experimental data, the proposed technology can correctly detect and diagnose plant sickness with a 97.2 percent accuracy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aims to hide patient's privacy details of digital imaging and communications in medicine (DICOM) files using the quick response (QR) code images with the same size using steganographic technique. The proposed method is based on the properties of the discrete cosine transform (DCT) of the DICOM images to embed a QR code image. The proposed method includes two parts: data embedding and extraction process. Moreover, the stego DICOM image could be blindly used to produce the embedded QR code image without the existence of the original DICOM image. The performances of proposed method were evaluated using the metrics of the peak signal to noise ratio (PSNR), the structural similarity index (SSIM), the universal quality index (UQI), the correlation coefficient (R) and the bit error rate (BER) values. The experimental results scored a high PSNR after the embedding process by embedding a QR code image into the DICOM image with the same size. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the mid-1970s, the first-generation sequencing technique (Sanger) was created. It used Advanced BioSystems sequencing devices and Beckman's GeXP genetic testing technology. The second-generation sequencing (2GS) technique arrived just several years after the first human genome was published in 2003. 2GS devices are very quicker than Sanger sequencing equipment, with considerably cheaper manufacturing costs and far higher throughput in the form of short reads. The third-generation sequencing (3GS) method, initially introduced in 2005, offers further reduced manufacturing costs and higher throughput. Even though sequencing technique has result generations, it is error-prone due to a large number of reads. The study of this massive amount of data will aid in the decoding of life secrets, the detection of infections, the development of improved crops, and the improvement of life quality, among other things. This is a challenging task, which is complicated not just by a large number of reads and by the occurrence of sequencing mistakes. As a result, error correction is a crucial duty in data processing; it entails identifying and correcting read errors. Various k-spectrum-based error correction algorithms' performance can be influenced by a variety of characteristics like coverage depth, read length, and genome size, as demonstrated in this work. As a result, time and effort must be put into selecting acceptable approaches for error correction of certain NGS data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A new computing paradigm that has been growing in computing systems is fog computing. In the healthcare industry, Internet of Things (IoT) driven fog computing is being developed to speed up the services for the general public and save billions of lives. This new computing platform, based on the fog computing paradigm, may reduce latency when transmitting and communicating signals with faraway servers, allowing medical services to be delivered more quickly in both spatial and temporal dimensions. One of the necessary qualities of computing systems that can enable the completion of healthcare operations is latency reduction. Fog computing can provide reduced latency when compared to cloud computing due to the use of only low-end computers, mobile phones, and personal devices in fog computing. In this paper, a new framework for healthcare monitoring for managing real-time notification based on fog computing has been proposed. The proposed system monitors the patient's body temperature, heart rate, and blood pressure values obtained from the sensors that are embedded into a wearable device and notifies the doctors or caregivers in real time if there occur any contradictions in the normal threshold value using the machine learning algorithms. The notification can also be set for the patients to alert them about the periodical medications or diet to be maintained by the patients. The cloud layer stores the big data into the cloud for future references for the hospitals and the researchers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Patients are required to be observed and treated continually in some emergency situations. However, due to time constraints, visiting the hospital to execute such tasks is challenging. This can be achieved using a remote healthcare monitoring system. The proposed system introduces an effective data science technique for IoT supported healthcare monitoring system with the rapid adoption of cloud computing that enhances the efficiency of data processing and the accessibility of data in the cloud. Many IoT sensors are employed, which collect real healthcare data. These data are retained in the cloud for the processing of data science. In the Healthcare Monitoring-Data Science Technique (HM-DST), initially, an altered data science technique is introduced. This algorithm is known as the Improved Pigeon Optimization (IPO) algorithm, which is employed for grouping the stored data in the cloud, which helps in improving the prediction rate. Next, the optimum feature selection technique for extraction and selection of features is illustrated. A Backtracking Search-Based Deep Neural Network (BS-DNN) is utilized for classifying human healthcare. The proposed system's performance is finally examined with various healthcare datasets of real time and the variations are observed with the available smart healthcare systems for monitoring. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since the Pre-Roman era, olive trees have a significant economic and cultural value. In 2019, the Al-Jouf region, in the north of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, gained a global presence by entering the Guinness World Records, with the largest number of olive trees in the world. Olive tree detecting and counting from a given satellite image are a significant and difficult computer vision problem. Because olive farms are spread out over a large area, manually counting the trees is impossible. Moreover, accurate automatic detection and counting of olive trees in satellite images have many challenges such as scale variations, weather changes, perspective distortions, and orientation changes. Another problem is the lack of a standard database of olive trees available for deep learning applications. To address these problems, we first build a large-scale olive dataset dedicated to deep learning research and applications. The dataset consists of 230 RGB images collected over the territory of Al-Jouf, KSA. We then propose an efficient deep learning model (SwinTUnet) for detecting and counting olive trees from satellite imagery. The proposed SwinTUnet is a Unet-like network which consists of an encoder, a decoder, and skip connections. Swin Transformer block is the fundamental unit of SwinTUnet to learn local and global semantic information. The results of an experimental study on the proposed dataset show that the SwinTUnet model outperforms the related studies in terms of overall detection with a 0.94% estimation error. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cardiac arrhythmia is an illness in which a heartbeat is erratic, either too slow or too rapid. It happens as a result of faulty electrical impulses that coordinate the heartbeats. Sudden cardiac death can occur as a result of certain serious arrhythmia disorders. As a result, the primary goal of electrocardiogram (ECG) investigation is to reliably perceive arrhythmias as life-threatening to provide a suitable therapy and save lives. ECG signals are waveforms that denote the electrical movement of the human heart (P, QRS, and T). The duration, structure, and distances between various peaks of each waveform are utilized to identify heart problems. The signals' autoregressive (AR) analysis is then used to obtain a specific selection of signal features, the parameters of the AR signal model. Groups of retrieved AR characteristics for three various ECG kinds are cleanly separated in the training dataset, providing high connection classification and heart problem diagnosis to each ECG signal within the training dataset. A new technique based on two-event-related moving averages (TERMAs) and fractional Fourier transform (FFT) algorithms is suggested to better evaluate ECG signals. This study could help researchers examine the current state-of-the-art approaches employed in the detection of arrhythmia situations. The characteristic of our suggested machine learning approach is cross-database training and testing with improved characteristics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we propose a novel model for 3D object watermarking. The proposed method is based on the properties of the discrete cosine transform (DCT) of the 3D object vertices to embed a secret grayscale image three times. The watermarking process takes place by using the vertices coefficients and the encrypted image pixels. Moreover, the extraction process is totally blind based on the reverse steps of the embedding process to recover the secret grayscale image. Various performance aspects of the method are measured and compared between the original 3D object and the watermarked one using Euclidean distance, Manhattan distance, cosine distance, and correlation distance. The obtained results show that the proposed model provides better performances in terms of execution time and invisibility. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Watermarking techniques in a wide range of digital media was utilized as a host cover to hide or embed a piece of information message in such a way that it is invisible to a human observer. This study aims to develop an enhanced rapid and blind method for producing a watermarked 3D object using QR code images with high imperceptibility and transparency. The proposed method is based on the spatial domain, and it starts with converting the 3D object triangles from the three-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system to the two-dimensional coordinates domain using the corresponding transformation matrix. Then, it applies a direct modification on the third vertex point of each triangle. Each triangle's coordinates in the 3D object can be used to embed one pixel from the QR code image. In the extraction process, the QR code pixels can be successfully extracted without the need for the original image. The imperceptibly and the transparency performances of the proposed watermarking algorithm were evaluated using Euclidean distance, Manhattan distance, cosine distance, and the correlation distance values. The proposed method was tested under various filtering attacks, such as rotation, scaling, and translation. The proposed watermarking method improved the robustness and visibility of extracting the QR code image. The results reveal that the proposed watermarking method yields watermarked 3D objects with excellent execution time, imperceptibility, and robustness to common filtering attacks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Watermarking provides an efficient mechanism for copyright protection of digital media by embedding information in the object to identify the owner. This paper proposed a watermarking technique that can successfully embed a grey-scale image in a 3D mesh object. In our proposed technique, each three vertices of the 3D object can hide one pixel from the secret image. The experimental results showed that the proposed technique has better visual quality on both the watermarked object and the extracted secret image. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sensors are the modules or electronic devices that are used to measure and get environmental events and send the captured data to other devices, usually computer processors allocated on the cloud. One of the most recent challenges is to protect and save the privacy issues of those sensors data on the cloud sharing. In this paper, sensors data collection framework is proposed using mobile identification and proxy re-encryption model for data sharing. The proposed framework includes: identity broker server, sensors managing and monitoring applications, messages queuing sever and data repository server. Finally, the experimental results show that the proposed proxy re-encryption model can work in real time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

DNA watermarking is a data hiding technique that aims to protect the copyright of DNA sequences and ensures the security of private genetic information. In this paper, we proposed a novel DNA watermarking technique that can be used to embed binary bits into real DNA sequences. The proposed technique mutates the codon postfix according to the embedded bit. Our method was tested for a sample set of DNA sequences and the extracted bits showed robustness against mutation. Furthermore, the proposed DNA watermarking method proved to be secured, undetectable, resistance, and preservative to biological functions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, a framework to hide privacy in video is proposed based on data hiding principals. A novel data hiding technique is proposed and implemented to hide the original frame into the in-painted one. The proposed hiding technique is carried out in the discrete wavelet transform domain of the cover video. The proposed technique is embedding video into video. Furthermore, the proposed data hiding method can blindly reconstruct the original frame from the fake one. Experimental results showed that the proposed method can successfully hide the complete frames of the original video into their corresponding in-painted ones that are as large as themselves. Simple visual inspection of the results showed that the quality of the stego-frames maintain very high (above 45 dB) while providing an acceptable visual quality for the retrieved original frames. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Angiosarcoma (AS) of the urinary bladder is a very rare and aggressive malignancy with a dismal outcome., Case Report: Here, we report a primary epithelioid angiosarcoma (EAS) of the urinary bladder in a forty-nine-year-old male patient who presented with severe hematuria. Cystoscopic examination revealed hemorrhagic ulcerated bladder mucosa but no definite mass lesions. Intractable hematuria raised the initial clinical impression of idiopathic hemorrhagic cystitis. Analysis of the cystoscopic biopsy revealed features of old bilharzial cystitis, markedly atypical epithelioid endothelial cells arranged as primitive anastomosing vascular structures and expressing vascular markers. The diagnosis of EAS was established. The patient developed intractable severe hematuria, and a radical cystoprostatectomy was performed. The patient was started on chemotherapy but suddenly developed widespread distant metastasis (liver, lung, suprarenal glands, and lymph nodes) and succumbed to death two months after the surgery., Conclusion: To the best of these authors' knowledge, we presented the first report of primary EAS arising in a bilharzial bladder. The relevant studies were discussed.

Objective: To assess the epidemiological pattern and correlates with the clinical outcome of Cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) in Abha, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia., Methods: A retrospective record_based cohort design was conducted including all patients admitted with diagnosis of CVT in 2 main tertiary hospitals in Aseer Region between 2015 to the end of 2018. The study hospitals were Aseer Central Hospital and Armed Forces Hospitals Southern Region. The data were collected by structured data sheets, including sociodemographic data. Assessment of known risk factors for CVT, clinical presentation, treatment received, and clinical outcome after treatment were extracted., Results: The study included 119 patients with CVT, whose ages ranged from 15 to 97 years, with a mean age of 35.5-/+14.1 years. Majority of the patients were females (81.5%). Headache was the most presenting (82.4%) symptom, followed by vomiting (30.3%) and a decreased level of consciousness. Thirty_three cases (27.7%) had complications, and recanalization was recorded among 92 cases (94.8%) based on follow up vascular imaging., Conclusion: The study revealed that most of the cases of CVT had favorable clinical outcome and recanalization, especially those who had a shorter duration untildiagnosis. Young females were the most affected group.