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Abstract MRI and CT images are widely utilized for detecting tumors in internal organs. However, accurately distinguishing tumors using these images only, poses a challenge. This demands human expertise to effectively mark tumors in a given MRI or CT image, which is time-consuming. In this study, MONAI Label and MONAI Dynamic U-Net (DynU-Net) were used to segment tumors in any given 3D CT image of the pelvic bone, aiming to assist radiologists further. This method helps to run the model without needing a GPU which is better than traditional approaches. In addition, a convolutional neural network (CNN) was used to classify the tumors as benign or malignant and to predict three grades of tumors (low, medium, and high). The use of CNN in classification and prediction gives higher results than other studies. A dataset of 178 3D CT picture images was employed to feed the networks with the help of Adam optimizer and Categorical cross-entropy. We employ a set of 3D CT scans because of their greater contrast and spatial resolution which is better used for pelvic bone tumors. The Dice similarity coefficient (DSC) and Hausdorff distance (HD) have been used to perform calculations in segmentation. The results show a DSC of 0.7660280 and an HD of 16.75480. A range of performance metrics, such as sensitivity, specification, and F1-score for classification and prediction methods, are used to evaluate the accuracy of the proposed system. The system has accuracy (99.4%) for classification and (97.8%) for prediction. These findings indicate that MONAI Label is effective for automatic segmentation of tumors in a given CT scan; with high accuracy. Moreover, CNN is useful for classification and prediction systems with high accuracy. However, achieving better results is possible with an abundance of training samples.

Abstract One of the goals of smart environments is to improve the quality of human life in terms of comfort and efficiency. The Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm has recently evolved into a technology for building smart environments. Security and privacy are considered key issues in any real-world smart environment based on the IoT model. The security vulnerabilities in IoT-based systems create security threats that affect smart environment applications. Thus, there is a crucial need for intrusion detection systems (IDSs) designed for IoT environments to mitigate IoT-related security attacks that exploit some of these security vulnerabilities. Due to the limited computing and storage capabilities of IoT devices and the specific protocols used, conventional IDSs may not be an option for IoT environments. This article presents a comprehensive survey of the latest IDSs designed for the IoT model, with a focus on the corresponding methods, features, and mechanisms. This article also provides deep insight into the IoT architecture, emerging security vulnerabilities, and their relation to the layers of the IoT architecture. This work demonstrates that despite previous studies regarding the design and implementation of IDSs for the IoT paradigm, developing efficient, reliable and robust IDSs for IoT-based smart environments is still a crucial task. Key considerations for the development of such IDSs are introduced as a future outlook at the end of this survey.

Abstract Brain tumour is a serious disease, and the number of people who are dying due to brain tumours is increasing. Manual tumour diagnosis from magnetic resonance images (MRIs) is a time consuming process and is insufficient for accurately detecting, localizing, and classifying the tumour type. This research proposes a novel two-phase multi-model automatic diagnosis system for brain tumour detection and localization. In the first phase, the system structure consists of preprocessing, feature extraction using a convolutional neural network (CNN), and feature classification using the error-correcting output codes support vector machine (ECOC-SVM) approach. The purpose of the first system phase is to detect brain tumour by classifying the MRIs into normal and abnormal images. The aim of the second system phase is to localize the tumour within the abnormal MRIs using a fully designed five-layer region-based convolutional neural network (R-CNN). The performance of the first phase was assessed using three CNN models, namely, AlexNet, Visual Geometry Group (VGG)-16, and VGG-19, and a maximum detection accuracy of 99.55% was achieved with AlexNet using 349 images extracted from the standard Reference Image Database to Evaluate Response (RIDER) Neuro MRI database. The brain tumour localization phase was evaluated using 804 3D MRIs from the Brain Tumor Segmentation (BraTS) 2013 database, and a DICE score of 0.87 was achieved. The empirical work proved the outstanding performance of the proposed deep learning-based system in tumour detection compared to other non-deep-learning approaches in the literature. The obtained results also demonstrate the superiority of the proposed system concerning both tumour detection and localization.