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Big Data and Cognitive Computing, Volume 9, Issue 1

2025 January - 17 articles

Cover Story: Efficient and scalable vision models are vital for real-world applications like medical imaging and deepfake detection. MobileNet-HeX introduces a novel framework leveraging Heterogeneous MobileNet eXperts to deliver top-tier performance with low computational demands. The Expand-and-Squeeze mechanism ensures diversity in a MobileNet population, selecting high-performing, heterogeneous models through clustering. These models are then combined using Sequential Quadratic Programming to form an optimized ensemble. MobileNet-HeX surpasses state-of-the-art vision models in accuracy, speed, and memory efficiency on tasks such as skin cancer classification and deepfake detection, demonstrating the power of lightweight, heterogeneous ensembles. View this paper
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Articles (17)

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,998 Views
30 Pages

In this article, a fuzzy controller mathematical model synthesising method that uses cognitive computing and a genetic algorithm for automated tuning and adaptation to changing environmental conditions has been developed. The technique consists of 12...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
9,698 Views
19 Pages

AI-Driven Mental Health Surveillance: Identifying Suicidal Ideation Through Machine Learning Techniques

  • Hesham Allam,
  • Chris Davison,
  • Faisal Kalota,
  • Edward Lazaros and
  • David Hua

As suicide rates increase globally, there is a growing need for effective, data-driven methods in mental health monitoring. This study leverages advanced artificial intelligence (AI), particularly natural language processing (NLP) and machine learnin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,054 Views
18 Pages

Eliciting Emotions: Investigating the Use of Generative AI and Facial Muscle Activation in Children’s Emotional Recognition

  • Manuel A. Solis-Arrazola,
  • Raul E. Sanchez-Yanez,
  • Ana M. S. Gonzalez-Acosta,
  • Carlos H. Garcia-Capulin and
  • Horacio Rostro-Gonzalez

This study explores children’s emotions through a novel approach of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) and Facial Muscle Activation (FMA). It examines GenAI’s effectiveness in creating facial images that produce genuine emotional...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,989 Views
20 Pages

In the era of deepfakes and AI-generated content, digital image manipulation poses significant challenges to image authenticity, creating doubts about the credibility of images. Traditional image forensics techniques often struggle to detect sophisti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,804 Views
31 Pages

Intensive Care Units (ICUs) have been in great demand worldwide since the COVID-19 pandemic, necessitating organized allocation. The spike in critical care patients has overloaded ICUs, which along with prolonged hospitalizations, has increased workl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,198 Views
22 Pages

Contemporary machine learning (ML) systems excel in recognising and classifying images with remarkable accuracy. However, like many computer software systems, they can fail by generating confusing or erroneous outputs or by deferring to human operato...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,685 Views
24 Pages

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a transformative framework for collaborative learning, offering robust model training across institutions while ensuring data privacy. In the context of making a COVID-19 diagnosis using lung imaging, FL enables...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,431 Views
20 Pages

SqueezeMaskNet: Real-Time Mask-Wearing Recognition for Edge Devices

  • Gibran Benitez-Garcia,
  • Lidia Prudente-Tixteco,
  • Jesus Olivares-Mercado and
  • Hiroki Takahashi

This paper presents SqueezeMaskNet, a lightweight convolutional neural network designed for real-time recognition of proper and improper mask usage. The model classifies four categories: masks worn correctly, masks covering only the mouth, masks not...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,748 Views
25 Pages

DRCCT: Enhancing Diabetic Retinopathy Classification with a Compact Convolutional Transformer

  • Mohamed Touati,
  • Rabeb Touati,
  • Laurent Nana,
  • Faouzi Benzarti and
  • Sadok Ben Yahia

Diabetic retinopathy, a common complication of diabetes, is further exacerbated by factors such as hypertension and obesity. This study introduces the Diabetic Retinopathy Compact Convolutional Transformer (DRCCT) model, which combines convolutional...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
10,376 Views
19 Pages

Crop diseases significantly threaten agricultural productivity, leading to unstable food supply and economic losses. The current approaches to automated crop disease recognition face challenges such as limited datasets, restricted coverage of disease...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,935 Views
27 Pages

Topic Analysis of the Literature Reveals the Research Structure: A Case Study in Periodontics

  • Carlo Galli,
  • Maria Teresa Colangelo,
  • Marco Meleti,
  • Stefano Guizzardi and
  • Elena Calciolari

Periodontics is a complex field characterized by a constantly growing body of research, which poses a challenge for researchers and stakeholders striving to stay abreast of the evolving literature. Traditional bibliometric surveys, while accurate, ar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,372 Views
18 Pages

For many complex industrial applications, traditional attribute reduction algorithms are often inefficient in obtaining optimal reducts that align with mechanistic analyses and practical production requirements. To solve this problem, we propose a re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,430 Views
26 Pages

Training Neural Networks with a Procedure Guided by BNF Grammars

  • Ioannis G. Tsoulos  and
  • Vasileios Charilogis

Artificial neural networks are parametric machine learning models that have been applied successfully to an extended series of classification and regression problems found in the recent literature. For the effective identification of the parameters o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,704 Views
21 Pages

Face-to-Face Interactions Estimated Using Mobile Phone Data to Support Contact Tracing Operations

  • Silvino Pedro Cumbane,
  • Gyözö Gidófalvi,
  • Osvaldo Fernando Cossa,
  • Afonso Madivadua Júnior,
  • Nuno Sousa and
  • Frederico Branco

Understanding people’s face-to-face interactions is crucial for effective infectious disease management. Traditional contact tracing, often relying on interviews or smartphone applications, faces limitations such as incomplete recall, low adopt...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,937 Views
32 Pages

DETEC-ADHD: A Data-Driven Web App for Early ADHD Detection Using Machine Learning and Electroencephalography

  • Ismael Santarrosa-López,
  • Giner Alor-Hernández,
  • Maritza Bustos-López,
  • Jonathan Hernández-Capistrán,
  • Laura Nely Sánchez-Morales,
  • José Luis Sánchez-Cervantes and
  • Humberto Marín-Vega

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) diagnosis is often challenging due to subjective assessments and symptom variability, which can delay accurate detection and treatment. To address these limitations, this study introduces DETEC-ADHD, a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,640 Views
19 Pages

MobileNet-HeX: Heterogeneous Ensemble of MobileNet eXperts for Efficient and Scalable Vision Model Optimization

  • Emmanuel Pintelas,
  • Ioannis E. Livieris,
  • Vasilis Tampakas and
  • Panagiotis Pintelas

Efficient and accurate vision models are essential for real-world applications such as medical imaging and deepfake detection, where both performance and computational efficiency are critical. While recent vision models achieve high accuracy, they of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,495 Views
21 Pages

Integrating Social Relationships and Personality into MAS-Based Group Recommendations

  • Ariel Monteserin,
  • Daiana Elin Madsen,
  • Daniela Godoy and
  • Silvia Schiaffino

Recommender systems aim to predict the preferences of users and suggest items of interest to them in various domains. While traditional recommendation techniques consider users as individuals, some approaches aim to satisfy the needs of a group of pe...

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Big Data Cogn. Comput. - ISSN 2504-2289