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Big Data and Cognitive Computing, Volume 9, Issue 5

2025 May - 32 articles

Cover Story: In the context of breast tumor detection and classification using ultrasound images, recent years have seen growing research interest, driven by the intersection of deep learning algorithms and medical image analysis. This article focuses on comparing a traditional, flat, three-class model with a hierarchical, two-tier classification approach, which first distinguishes normal from tumorous tissue and then classifies tumors as benign or malignant. Aimed at rethinking current methodologies, the study evaluates a novel architecture, providing insights for future algorithm development, broader clinical applicability, and the seamless integration of the proposed model into an existing web application for deployment. View this paper
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Articles (32)

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
9,424 Views
42 Pages

This study presents a comprehensive evaluation of embedding techniques and large language models (LLMs) for Information Retrieval (IR) and question answering (QA) across languages, focusing on English and Italian. We address a significant research ga...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,385 Views
25 Pages

Polarity of Yelp Reviews: A BERT–LSTM Comparative Study

  • Rachid Belaroussi,
  • Sié Cyriac Noufe,
  • Francis Dupin and
  • Pierre-Olivier Vandanjon

With the rapid growth in social network comments, the need for more effective methods to classify their polarity—negative, neutral, or positive—has become essential. Sentiment analysis, powered by natural language processing, has evolved...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,728 Views
17 Pages

Tri-Collab: A Machine Learning Project to Leverage Innovation Ecosystems in Portugal

  • Ângelo Marujo,
  • Bruno Afonso,
  • Inês Martins,
  • Lisandro Pires and
  • Sílvia Fernandes

This project consists of a digital platform named Tri-Collab, where investors, entrepreneurs, and other agents (mainly talents) can cooperate on their ideas and eventually co-create. It is a digital means for this triad of actors (among other potenti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,142 Views
29 Pages

Harmful algal blooms (HABs), driven by environmental pollution, pose significant threats to water quality, public health, and aquatic ecosystems. This study enhances the prediction of HABs in Lake Erie, part of the Great Lakes system, by utilizing en...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,205 Views
21 Pages

Low-resource languages remain underserved by contemporary large language models (LLMs) because they lack sizable corpora, bespoke preprocessing tools, and the computing budgets assumed by mainstream alignment pipelines. Focusing on Kazakh, we present...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,099 Views
15 Pages

With the development of the marine economy and the increase in marine activities, deep saturation diving has gained significant attention. Helium speech communication is indispensable for saturation diving operations and is a critical technology for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
7,142 Views
20 Pages

Predicting Early Employability of Vietnamese Graduates: Insights from Data-Driven Analysis Through Machine Learning Methods

  • Long-Sheng Chen,
  • Thao-Trang Huynh-Cam,
  • Van-Canh Nguyen,
  • Tzu-Chuen Lu and
  • Dang-Khoa Le-Huynh

Graduate employability remains a crucial challenge for higher education institutions, especially in developing economies. This study investigates the key academic and vocational factors influencing early employment outcomes among recent graduates at...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,019 Views
35 Pages

Maritime safety is a critical concern for the transport sector and remains a key challenge for the international shipping industry. Recognizing that maritime accidents pose significant risks to both safety and operational efficiency, this study explo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,162 Views
26 Pages

The present study proposes adaptive augmented reality (AR) architecture, specifically designed to enhance real-time operator assistance and occupational safety in industrial environments, which is representative of Industry 4.0. The proposed system a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
7,065 Views
25 Pages

This study presents a comparative analysis of several multimodal large language models (LLMs) for no-reference image quality assessment, with a particular focus on images containing authentic distortions. We evaluate three models developed by OpenAI...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
14,415 Views
17 Pages

The rapid advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) have significantly transformed various domains, including education, by introducing innovative tools that reshape teaching and learning processes. This research investigates the perceptions and a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,531 Views
20 Pages

Machine Learning-Based Classification of Sulfide Mineral Spectral Emission in High Temperature Processes

  • Carlos Toro,
  • Walter Díaz,
  • Gonzalo Reyes,
  • Miguel Peña,
  • Nicolás Caselli,
  • Carla Taramasco,
  • Pablo Ormeño-Arriagada and
  • Eduardo Balladares

Accurate classification of sulfide minerals during combustion is essential for optimizing pyrometallurgical processes such as flash smelting, where efficient combustion impacts resource utilization, energy efficiency, and emission control. This study...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,067 Views
21 Pages

Identifying Influential Nodes in Complex Networks via Transformer with Multi-Scale Feature Fusion

  • Tingshuai Jiang,
  • Yirun Ruan,
  • Tianyuan Yu,
  • Liang Bai and
  • Yifei Yuan

In complex networks, the identification of critical nodes is vital for optimizing information dissemination. Given the significant role of these nodes in network structures, researchers have proposed various identification methods. In recent years, d...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,928 Views
21 Pages

Quality control and predictive maintenance are two essential pillars of Industry 4.0, aiming to optimize production, reduce operational costs, and enhance system reliability. Real-time visual inspection ensures early detection of manufacturing defect...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,681 Views
18 Pages

Rail Surface Defect Diagnosis Based on Image–Vibration Multimodal Data Fusion

  • Zhongmei Wang,
  • Shenao Peng,
  • Wenxiu Ao,
  • Jianhua Liu and
  • Changfan Zhang

To address the challenges in existing multi-sensor data fusion methods for rail surface defect diagnosis, particularly their limitations in fully exploiting potential synergistic information among multimodal data and effectively bridging the semantic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,139 Views
28 Pages

Introducing a Novel Fast Neighbourhood Component Analysis–Deep Neural Network Model for Enhanced Driver Drowsiness Detection

  • Sama Hussein Al-Gburi,
  • Kanar Alaa Al-Sammak,
  • Ion Marghescu,
  • Claudia Cristina Oprea,
  • Ana-Maria Claudia Drăgulinescu,
  • George Suciu,
  • Khattab M. Ali Alheeti,
  • Nayef A. M. Alduais and
  • Nawar Alaa Hussein Al-Sammak

Driver fatigue is a key factor in road accidents worldwide, requiring effective real-time detection mechanisms. Traditional deep neural network (DNN)-based solutions have shown promising results in detecting drowsiness; however, they are often less s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,776 Views
23 Pages

Effectively identifying factors related to user satisfaction is crucial for evaluating customer experience. This study proposes a two-phase analytical framework that combines natural language processing techniques with hierarchical decision-making me...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,383 Views
19 Pages

Multivariate time series data (MTSD) anomaly detection due to complex spatio-temporal dependencies among sensors and pervasive environmental noise. The existing methods struggle to balance anomaly detection accuracy with robustness against data conta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,579 Views
20 Pages

In the era of information explosion, recommendation systems play a crucial role in filtering vast amounts of content for users. Traditional recommendation models leverage knowledge graphs, sentiment analysis, social capital, and generative AI to enha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,911 Views
20 Pages

Assessing the Transformation of Armed Conflict Types: A Dynamic Approach

  • Dong Jiang,
  • Jun Zhuo,
  • Peiwei Fan,
  • Fangyu Ding,
  • Mengmeng Hao,
  • Shuai Chen,
  • Jiping Dong and
  • Jiajie Wu

Armed conflict is a dynamic social phenomenon, yet existing research often overlooks its evolving nature. We propose a method to simulate the dynamic transformations of armed conflicts. First, we enhanced the Spatial Conflict Dynamic Indicator (SCDi)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,353 Views
21 Pages

Edge vs. Cloud: Empirical Insights into Data-Driven Condition Monitoring

  • Chikumbutso Christopher Walani and
  • Wesley Doorsamy

This study evaluates edge and cloud computing paradigms in the context of data-driven condition monitoring of rotating electrical machines. Two well-known platforms, the Raspberry Pi and Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud, are used to compare...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,724 Views
22 Pages

A Computational–Cognitive Model of Audio-Visual Attention in Dynamic Environments

  • Hamideh Yazdani,
  • Alireza Bosaghzadeh,
  • Reza Ebrahimpour and
  • Fadi Dornaika

Human visual attention is influenced by multiple factors, including visual, auditory, and facial cues. While integrating auditory and visual information enhances prediction accuracy, many existing models rely solely on visual-temporal data. Inspired...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,839 Views
26 Pages

Discovering Key Successful Factors of Mobile Advertisements Using Feature Selection Approaches

  • Kai-Fu Yang,
  • Venkateswarlu Nalluri,
  • Chun-Cheng Liu and
  • Long-Sheng Chen

Programmatic buying has attracted growing interest from manufacturers and has become a driving force behind the growth of digital advertising. Among various formats, mobile advertisements (ads) have emerged as a preferred choice over traditional ones...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2,068 Views
47 Pages

A Survey on Object-Oriented Assembly and Disassembly Operations in Nuclear Applications

  • Wenxing Liu,
  • Ipek Caliskanelli,
  • Hanlin Niu,
  • Kaiqiang Zhang and
  • Robert Skilton

Nuclear environments demand exceptional precision, reliability, and safety, given the high stakes involved in handling radioactive materials and maintaining reactor systems. Object-oriented assembly and disassembly operations in nuclear applications...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,623 Views
29 Pages

A Review of the State-of-the-Art Techniques and Analysis of Transformers for Bengali Text Summarization

  • MD Iftekharul Mobin,
  • Mahamodul Hasan Mahadi,
  • Al-Sakib Khan Pathan and
  • A. F. M. Suaib Akhter

Text summarization is a complex and essential task in natural language processing (NLP) research, focused on extracting the most important information from a document. This study focuses on the Extractive and Abstractive approaches of Bengali Text Su...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,652 Views
16 Pages

The decision-making process to rule R&D relies on information related to current trends in particular research areas. In this work, we investigated how one can use large language models (LLMs) to transfer the dataset and its annotation from one l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,143 Views
25 Pages

Deep learning applications for Edge Intelligence (EI) face challenges in achieving high model performance while maintaining computational efficiency, particularly under varying image orientations and perspectives. This study investigates the synergy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,926 Views
18 Pages

As AI becomes indispensable in healthcare, its vulnerability to adversarial attacks demands serious attention. Even minimal changes to the input data can mislead Deep Learning (DL) models, leading to critical errors in diagnosis and endangering patie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,801 Views
29 Pages

In this article, for the first time on this topic, we analyze the historical color palettes of Renaissance oil paintings by using machine-learning methods and digital images. Our work has two main parts: we collect data on their historical color pale...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,037 Views
21 Pages

Effective student feedback is fundamental to enhancing learning outcomes in higher education. While traditional assessment methods emphasise both achievements and development areas, the process remains time-intensive for educators. This research expl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,284 Views
14 Pages

The intersection of medical image classification and deep learning has garnered increasing research interest, particularly in the context of breast tumor detection using ultrasound images. Prior studies have predominantly focused on image classificat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,014 Views
24 Pages

A Formal Model of Trajectories for the Aggregation of Semantic Attributes

  • Francisco Javier Moreno Arboleda,
  • Georgia Garani and
  • Natalia Andrea Álvarez Hoyos

A trajectory is a set of time-stamped locations of a moving object usually recorded by GPS sensors. Today, an abundance of these data is available. These large quantities of data need to be analyzed to determine patterns and associations of interest...

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