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Information, Volume 13, Issue 4

2022 April - 48 articles

Cover Story: Non-alcoholic fatty pancreas disease is a common condition that can lead to the development of critical pathogens such as type 2 diabetes mellitus, atherosclerosis, acute pancreatitis, and pancreatic cancer. This work aims to solve the issue of steatosis prevalence quantification in pancreatic biopsy specimens with a methodology that employs image segmentation and ensemble convolutional neural network classification techniques. The ensemble decision model is based on a voting system for the separation of fat cells from histological artifacts in order to reduce the diagnostic error. The proposed method presents an 0.08% mean fat quantification error and 83.3% mean dice fat segmentation similarity compared to the semi-quantitative estimates of specialist physicians. View this paper
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Articles (48)

  • Review
  • Open Access
42 Citations
13,934 Views
17 Pages

Sign Language Avatars: A Question of Representation

  • Rosalee Wolfe,
  • John C. McDonald,
  • Thomas Hanke,
  • Sarah Ebling and ,
  • Davy Van Landuyt,
  • Frankie Picron,
  • Verena Krausneker,
  • Eleni Efthimiou,
  • Evita Fotinea and
  • Annelies Braffort
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

18 April 2022

Given the achievements in automatically translating text from one language to another, one would expect to see similar advancements in translating between signed and spoken languages. However, progress in this effort has lagged in comparison. Typical...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Frontiers in Machine Translation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,685 Views
16 Pages

18 April 2022

The aim of Medical Knowledge Graph Completion is to automatically predict one of three parts (head entity, relationship, and tail entity) in RDF triples from medical data, mainly text data. Following their introduction, the use of pretrained language...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Knowledge Graph Technology and Its Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
9,229 Views
15 Pages

18 April 2022

On the 1st of February 2017, The New York Times published the first episode of ‘The Daily’, a news podcast hosted by Michael Barbaro that, five years later, has become the most popular in the world with four million listeners each day and...

(This article belongs to the Section Information and Communications Technology)
  • Review
  • Open Access
158 Citations
24,945 Views
26 Pages

17 April 2022

The use of artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques across all disciplines has exploded in the past few years, with the ever-growing size of data and the changing needs of higher education, such as digital education. Similarly, online...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence Applications for Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,069 Views
15 Pages

A Traffic-Load-Based Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks’ Lifetime Extension

  • Georgios Tsoumanis,
  • Nikolaos Giannakeas,
  • Alexandros T. Tzallas,
  • Evripidis Glavas and ,
  • Kyriakos Koritsoglou,
  • Evaggelos Karvounis,
  • Konstantinos Bezas and
  • Constantinos T. Angelis
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

15 April 2022

It has been shown in the literature that the lifetime of a wireless sensor network is heavily connected to the number of transmissions that network nodes have to undertake. Considering this finding, along with the effects of the energy hole problem w...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Design Automation, Computer Engineering, Computer Networks and Social Media (SEEDA-CECNSM 2021))
  • Article
  • Open Access
5,189 Views
32 Pages

15 April 2022

Nowadays, many people are deeply concerned about their physical well-being; as a result, they invest much time and effort investigating health-related topics. In response to this, many online websites and social media profiles have been created, resu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Crossing “Data, Information, Knowledge, and Wisdom” Models—Challenges, Solutions, and Recommendations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,204 Views
22 Pages

15 April 2022

In this paper, we consider a non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) system with coordinated multi-point (CoMP), which is used in 5G cellular networks to guarantee the rate requirements from the different edge users. Based on the China Family Panel Stu...

(This article belongs to the Section Information and Communications Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
10,859 Views
16 Pages

15 April 2022

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly adopted by organizations. In general, scholars agree that the adoption of AI will be associated with substantial changes in the workplace. Empirical evidence on the phenomenon remains scarce, however. In t...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,893 Views
19 Pages

Local Transformer Network on 3D Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation

  • Zijun Wang,
  • Yun Wang,
  • Lifeng An,
  • Jian Liu and
  • Haiyang Liu

14 April 2022

Semantic segmentation is an important component in understanding the 3D point cloud scene. Whether we can effectively obtain local and global contextual information from points is of great significance in improving the performance of 3D point cloud s...

(This article belongs to the Topic Big Data and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,637 Views
16 Pages

14 April 2022

Personalized education aims to provide cooperative and exploratory courses for students by using computer and network technology to construct a more effective cooperative learning mode, thus improving students’ cooperation ability and lifelong...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence Applications for Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
7,609 Views
14 Pages

14 April 2022

Both Internet of Things (IoT) and Big Data Analytics (BDA) are innovations that already caused a significant disruption having a major impact on organizations. To reduce the attrition of new technology implementation, it is critical to examine the ad...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Processes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
8,463 Views
15 Pages

13 April 2022

State-of-the-art Earthquake Early Warning systems rely on a network of sensors connected to a fusion center in a client–server paradigm. The fusion center runs different algorithms on the whole data set to detect earthquakes. Instead, we propos...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence on the Edge)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,640 Views
15 Pages

Low Power EEG Data Encoding for Brain Neurostimulation Implants

  • Aikaterini Fragkou,
  • Athanasios Kakarountas and
  • Vasileios Kokkinos

12 April 2022

Neurostimulation devices applied for the treatment of epilepsy that collect, encode, temporarily store, and transfer electroencephalographic (EEG) signals recorded intracranially from epileptic patients, suffer from short battery life spans. The prin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Design Automation, Computer Engineering, Computer Networks and Social Media (SEEDA-CECNSM 2021))
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,274 Views
28 Pages

Instruments and Tools to Identify Radical Textual Content

  • Josiane Mothe,
  • Md Zia Ullah,
  • Guenter Okon,
  • Thomas Schweer and ,
  • Alfonsas Juršėnas and
  • Justina Mandravickaitė
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

12 April 2022

The Internet and social networks are increasingly becoming a media of extremist propaganda. On homepages, in forums or chats, extremists spread their ideologies and world views, which are often contrary to the basic liberal democratic values of the E...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Predictive Analytics and Illicit Activities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
105 Citations
23,629 Views
14 Pages

12 April 2022

Cybersecurity threats have grown exponentially, posing a heavy burden on organisations. Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are particularly vulnerable, and their cybersecurity issues are receiving greater attention. However, existing research on cy...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Technologies in Education, Research and Innovation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,218 Views
19 Pages

Coded Caching for Combination Networks with Multiaccess

  • Leitang Huang,
  • Jinyu Wang,
  • Minquan Cheng,
  • Qingyong Deng and
  • Bineng Zhong

11 April 2022

In a traditional (H,r) combination network, each user connects to a unique set of r relays. However, few research efforts have considered the (H,r,u) multiaccess combination network problem wherein each unique set of r relays is connected by u users....

(This article belongs to the Section Information Theory and Methodology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
9,325 Views
16 Pages

9 April 2022

Databases are an integral part of almost every application nowadays. For example, applications using Internet of Things (IoT) sensory data, such as in Industry 4.0, are a classic example of an organized storage system. Due to its enormous size, it ma...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Processes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,030 Views
19 Pages

8 April 2022

Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) are a huge public health issue. Identifying text that mentions ADRs from a large volume of social media data is important. However, we need to address two challenges for high-performing ADR-related text detection: the da...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
9,675 Views
12 Pages

8 April 2022

Currently, social networks allow individuals from all over the world to share ideas, activities, events, and interests over the Internet. Using location-based social networks (LBSNs), users can share their locations and location-related content, incl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Retrieval, Recommender Systems and Adaptive Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
6,341 Views
21 Pages

Model-Based Underwater Image Simulation and Learning-Based Underwater Image Enhancement Method

  • Yidan Liu,
  • Huiping Xu,
  • Bing Zhang,
  • Kelin Sun and ,
  • Jingchuan Yang,
  • Bo Li,
  • Chen Li and
  • Xiangqian Quan
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

7 April 2022

Due to the absorption and scattering effects of light in water bodies and the non-uniformity and insufficiency of artificial illumination, underwater images often present various degradation problems, impacting their utility in underwater application...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,787 Views
16 Pages

6 April 2022

As an informative electroencephalogram (EEG) signal, steady-state visual evoked potential (SSVEP) stands out from many paradigms for application in wireless wearable devices. However, its data are usually enormous, occupy too many bandwidth sources a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Biomedical Signal Processing and Data Analytics in Healthcare Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
33,113 Views
9 Pages

Business Process Re-Engineering: A Literature Review-Based Analysis of Implementation Measures

  • Aljazzi Fetais,
  • Galal M. Abdella,
  • Khalifa N. Al-Khalifa and
  • Abdel Magid Hamouda

5 April 2022

Business process re-engineering (BPR) is an approach to improving organizational performance. It evolved mostly within the private sector to maintain a successful business model despite increasing global competition. BPR presents a fundamental improv...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Business Process Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,362 Views
20 Pages

2 April 2022

To solve the problem of the redundant number of training samples in a correlation filter-based tracking algorithm, the training samples were implicitly extended by circular shifts of the given target patches, and all the extended samples were used as...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,281 Views
17 Pages

2 April 2022

Contemporary information-sharing environments such as Facebook offer a wide range of social and practical benefits. These environments, however, may also lead to privacy and security violations. Moreover, there is usually a trade-off between the bene...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Security and Privacy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,525 Views
19 Pages

2 April 2022

In this work a multicriteria optimization approach to minimize weight and maximize power output in piezoelectric energy harvesting systems for aerospace applications is studied. The design variables are the geometric and electric circuit parameters o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Design Automation, Computer Engineering, Computer Networks and Social Media (SEEDA-CECNSM 2021))
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,491 Views
19 Pages

A Novel Epidemic Model for the Interference Spread in the Internet of Things

  • Emmanuel Tuyishimire,
  • Jean de Dieu Niyigena,
  • Fidèle Mweruli Tubanambazi,
  • Justin Ushize Rutikanga and ,
  • Paul Gatabazi,
  • Antoine Bagula and
  • Emmanuel Niyigaba
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

2 April 2022

Due to the multi-technology advancements, internet of things (IoT) applications are in high demand to create smarter environments. Smart objects communicate by exchanging many messages, and this creates interference on receivers. Collection tree algo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Spreading on Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,022 Views
13 Pages

2 April 2022

Named-entity recognition (NER) is a preliminary step for several text extraction tasks. In this work, we try to recognize Kazakh named entities by introducing a hybrid neural network model that leverages word semantics with multidimensional features...

(This article belongs to the Topic Big Data and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,686 Views
10 Pages

Study of Transformed ηζ Networks via Zagreb Connection Indices

  • Muhammad Hussain,
  • Atiq ur Rehman,
  • Andrii Shekhovtsov,
  • Muhammad Asif and
  • Wojciech Sałabun

31 March 2022

A graph is a tool for designing a system’s required interconnection network. The topology of such networks determines their compatibility. For the first time, in this work we construct subdivided ηζ network S(ηζΓ) and di...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,123 Views
27 Pages

31 March 2022

Recent advances in social commerce and mobile technology have led to the emergence of new professions such as vlogging, blogging and virtual pop-up store owning. Starting initially as hobbies, the services provided by these ‘new professionals&r...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Technology and Consumer Behavior: Challenges and Opportunities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
9,566 Views
25 Pages

A Game-Based Learning Approach in Digital Design Course to Enhance Students’ Competency

  • Chrysoula Velaora,
  • Ioannis Dimos,
  • Sofia Tsagiopoulou and
  • Athanasios Kakarountas

31 March 2022

Digital Design is a laboratory course, and the educator must focus on the students’ need to know why they study the theory and mainly on the transition from knowledge-based learning to competency-based learning. This study consists of five surv...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Design Automation, Computer Engineering, Computer Networks and Social Media (SEEDA-CECNSM 2021))
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,064 Views
18 Pages

Chinese-Uyghur Bilingual Lexicon Extraction Based on Weak Supervision

  • Anwar Aysa,
  • Mijit Ablimit,
  • Hankiz Yilahun and
  • Askar Hamdulla

31 March 2022

Bilingual lexicon extraction is useful, especially for low-resource languages that can leverage from high-resource languages. The Uyghur language is a derivative language, and its language resources are scarce and noisy. Moreover, it is difficult to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,185 Views
16 Pages

31 March 2022

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are neural networks (NN) designed for time-series applications. There is a growing interest in running RNNs to support these applications on edge devices. However, RNNs have large memory and computational demands that...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence on the Edge)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,157 Views
14 Pages

Num-Symbolic Homophonic Social Net-Words

  • Yi-Liang Chung,
  • Ping-Yu Hsu and
  • Shih-Hsiang Huang

29 March 2022

Many excellent studies about social networks and text analyses can be found in the literature, facilitating the rapid development of automated text analysis technology. Due to the lack of natural separators in Chinese, the text numbers and symbols al...

(This article belongs to the Topic Big Data and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
8,937 Views
12 Pages

Anticheat System Based on Reinforcement Learning Agents in Unity

  • Mihael Lukas,
  • Igor Tomicic and
  • Andrija Bernik

29 March 2022

Game cheating is a common occurrence that may degrade the experience of “honest” players. It can be hindered by using appropriate anticheat systems, which are being considered as a subset of security-related issues. In this paper, we impl...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Security and Privacy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,991 Views
15 Pages

29 March 2022

There exist various text-classification tasks using user-generated contents (UGC) on social media in the big data era. In view of advantages and disadvantages of feature-engineering-based machine-learning models and deep-learning models, we argue tha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,766 Views
12 Pages

29 March 2022

Enterprises with good long-term free cash flow data often have better prospects than enterprises with good net profit but unstable free cash flow for a long time, and free cash flow prediction is an important part of evaluating the enterprise value o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,111 Views
16 Pages

A Character String-Based Stemming for Morphologically Derivative Languages

  • Gvzelnur Imin,
  • Mijit Ablimit,
  • Hankiz Yilahun and
  • Askar Hamdulla

28 March 2022

Morphologically derivative languages form words by fusing stems and suffixes, stems are important to be extracted in order to make cross lingual alignment and knowledge transfer. As there are phonetic harmony and disharmony when linguistic particles...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
8,667 Views
11 Pages

A LiDAR–Camera Fusion 3D Object Detection Algorithm

  • Leyuan Liu,
  • Jian He,
  • Keyan Ren,
  • Zhonghua Xiao and
  • Yibin Hou

26 March 2022

3D object detection with LiDAR and camera fusion has always been a challenge for autonomous driving. This work proposes a deep neural network (namely FuDNN) for LiDAR–camera fusion 3D object detection. Firstly, a 2D backbone is designed to extr...

(This article belongs to the Topic Big Data and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,972 Views
28 Pages

25 March 2022

The most common problem on routing networks is to compute the shortest paths from a source vertex to a set of target vertices. A variation of it, with applications for recommender systems, asks to merely rank the target vertices with respect to the s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,913 Views
12 Pages

Double-Layer Mobile Edge Computing-Enabled Power Line Inspection in Smart Grid Networks

  • Shimin Liu,
  • Xinhe Zhang,
  • Hailong Xiao,
  • Ziqi Li and
  • Heli Zhang

25 March 2022

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have the advantages of flexibility, low cost, and good communication channel gain. In recent years, the inspection of power grid systems supported by UAVs has been widely used. However, due to the constraint of wireles...

(This article belongs to the Section Information and Communications Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
4,360 Views
15 Pages

25 March 2022

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) continue to provide essential services for various applications such as surveillance, data gathering, and data transmission from hazardous environments to safer destinations. This has been enhanced by the energy-effici...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wireless IoT Network Protocols)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
9,670 Views
12 Pages

25 March 2022

The hotel industry has transformed the social and official interaction and communication landscape due to information technology. This has created a new venue for bullying, known as cyberbullying. This study aims to examine the impact of workplace cy...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Knowledge Management, Digital Trust, and Corporate Social Responsibility in the Era of Social Media)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
9,294 Views
19 Pages

A Smart Building Fire and Gas Leakage Alert System with Edge Computing and NG112 Emergency Call Capabilities

  • Evangelos Maltezos,
  • Konstantinos Petousakis,
  • Aris Dadoukis,
  • Lazaros Karagiannidis and ,
  • Eleftherios Ouzounoglou,
  • Maria Krommyda,
  • George Hadjipavlis and
  • Angelos Amditis
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

24 March 2022

Nowadays, the transformations of cities into smart cities is a crucial factor in improving the living conditions of the inhabitants as well as addressing emergency situations under the concept of public safety and property loss. In this context, many...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue IoT-Based Systems for Safe and Secure Smart Cities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
12,680 Views
19 Pages

24 March 2022

Meteorological phenomena is an area in which a large amount of data is generated and where it is more difficult to make predictions about events that will occur due to the high number of variables on which they depend. In general, for this, probabili...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Predictive Analytics and Data Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
10,903 Views
13 Pages

Evaluation of Public Services Considering the Expectations of Users—A Systematic Literature Review

  • Vítor G. de Menezes,
  • Glauco V. Pedrosa,
  • Marcos P. P. da Silva and
  • Rejane M. da C. Figueiredo

24 March 2022

Evaluating public services has become an important task in order to direct actions that may positively affect with the quality of the service provided by governments. To undertake an effective evaluation, it is necessary to analyze data and informati...

  • Review
  • Open Access
95 Citations
34,543 Views
17 Pages

23 March 2022

Knowledge graphs (KGs) have rapidly emerged as an important area in AI over the last ten years. Building on a storied tradition of graphs in the AI community, a KG may be simply defined as a directed, labeled, multi-relational graph with some form of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Knowledge Graph Technology and Its Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,832 Views
21 Pages

Ensemble Convolutional Neural Network Classification for Pancreatic Steatosis Assessment in Biopsy Images

  • Alexandros Arjmand,
  • Odysseas Tsakai,
  • Vasileios Christou,
  • Alexandros T. Tzallas and ,
  • Markos G. Tsipouras,
  • Roberta Forlano,
  • Pinelopi Manousou,
  • Robert D. Goldin,
  • Christos Gogos and
  • Nikolaos Giannakeas
  • + 6 authors+ 1 author

23 March 2022

Non-alcoholic fatty pancreas disease (NAFPD) is a common and at the same time not extensively examined pathological condition that is significantly associated with obesity, metabolic syndrome, and insulin resistance. These factors can lead to the dev...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Design Automation, Computer Engineering, Computer Networks and Social Media (SEEDA-CECNSM 2021))
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
8,979 Views
19 Pages

Design Patterns for Mobile Augmented Reality User Interfaces—An Incremental Review

  • Ingo Börsting,
  • Can Karabulut,
  • Bastian Fischer and
  • Volker Gruhn

22 March 2022

The virtual enhancement of the physical world through Augmented Reality (AR) has an enormous potential in its application, but faces challenges in its development. The lack of standards and the increased complexity of interaction opportunities compli...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Applications)
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