Advanced Technologies in Intelligent Detection of Biological Information

A special issue of Information (ISSN 2078-2489). This special issue belongs to the section "Artificial Intelligence".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 November 2024 | Viewed by 2353

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College of Engineering, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
Interests: machine vision; agricultural robot; near infrared spectroscopy; nondestructive measurement; signal processing

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College of Informatics, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
Interests: multimodal data fusion; multimodal deep learning; brain-like computing; application of FPGA technology

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College of Engineering, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
Interests: networked control system; visual navigation; multi machine collaborative control

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Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 209N Scott Engineering Center, P.O. Box 880511, Lincoln, NE 68588-0511, USA
Interests: data compression; joint source-channel coding; bioinformatics; metagenomics; neuroscience of cognition and memory; biological signal processing
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Dear Colleagues,

As one of the basic technologies for the design, development, and application of automated and intelligent equipment, biological information detection is of great significance in the fields of medicine, food, and agriculture. The combination of high-throughput, non-destructive biological information detection technology and intelligent information processing technology enables developing more intelligent and convenient application devices.

This Special Issue of Information will provide a current overview of the most significant research carried out in the field of advanced technologies in biological information intelligent detection. Scientists and researchers from all over the world are invited to submit original research and review articles related to, but not limited to, the following topics:

  • Biological information detection or measurement;
  • Intelligent detection;
  • Advanced information assessment;
  • Intelligent signal processing;
  • Other related intelligent detection theory of technology in the biological information acquisition.

Dr. Jie Liu
Dr. Shanmei Liu
Dr. Fang Yang
Prof. Dr. Khalid Sayood
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Keywords

  • biological information
  • intelligent
  • detection
  • sensor
  • measurement
  • information processing

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Multi-Level Attention Split Network: A Novel Malaria Cell Detection Algorithm
by Zhao Xiong and Jiang Wu
Information 2024, 15(3), 166; https://doi.org/10.3390/info15030166 - 15 Mar 2024
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Malaria is one of the major global health threats. Microscopic examination has been designated as the “gold standard” for malaria detection by the World Health Organization. However, it heavily relies on the experience of doctors, resulting in long diagnosis time, low efficiency, and [...] Read more.
Malaria is one of the major global health threats. Microscopic examination has been designated as the “gold standard” for malaria detection by the World Health Organization. However, it heavily relies on the experience of doctors, resulting in long diagnosis time, low efficiency, and a high risk of missed or misdiagnosed cases. To alleviate the pressure on healthcare workers and achieve automated malaria detection, numerous target detection models have been applied to the blood smear examination for malaria cells. This paper introduces the multi-level attention split network (MAS-Net) that improves the overall detection performance by addressing the issues of information loss for small targets and mismatch between the detection receptive field and target size. Therefore, we propose the split contextual attention structure (SPCot), which fully utilizes contextual information and avoids excessive channel compression operations, reducing information loss and improving the overall detection performance of malaria cells. In the shallow detection layer, we introduce the multi-scale receptive field detection head (MRFH), which better matches targets of different scales and provides a better detection receptive field, thus enhancing the performance of malaria cell detection. On the NLM—Malaria Dataset provided by the National Institutes of Health, the improved model achieves an average accuracy of 75.9% in the public dataset of Plasmodium vivax (malaria)-infected human blood smear. Considering the practical application of the model, we introduce the Performance-aware Approximation of Global Channel Pruning (PAGCP) to compress the model size while sacrificing a small amount of accuracy. Compared to other state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods, the proposed MAS-Net achieves competitive results. Full article
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Identifying Smartphone Users Based on Activities in Daily Living Using Deep Neural Networks
by Sakorn Mekruksavanich and Anuchit Jitpattanakul
Information 2024, 15(1), 47; https://doi.org/10.3390/info15010047 - 15 Jan 2024
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Smartphones have become ubiquitous, allowing people to perform various tasks anytime and anywhere. As technology continues to advance, smartphones can now sense and connect to networks, providing context-awareness for different applications. Many individuals store sensitive data on their devices like financial credentials and [...] Read more.
Smartphones have become ubiquitous, allowing people to perform various tasks anytime and anywhere. As technology continues to advance, smartphones can now sense and connect to networks, providing context-awareness for different applications. Many individuals store sensitive data on their devices like financial credentials and personal information due to the convenience and accessibility. However, losing control of this data poses risks if the phone gets lost or stolen. While passwords, PINs, and pattern locks are common security methods, they can still be compromised through exploits like smudging residue from touching the screen. This research explored leveraging smartphone sensors to authenticate users based on behavioral patterns when operating the device. The proposed technique uses a deep learning model called DeepResNeXt, a type of deep residual network, to accurately identify smartphone owners through sensor data efficiently. Publicly available smartphone datasets were used to train the suggested model and other state-of-the-art networks to conduct user recognition. Multiple experiments validated the effectiveness of this framework, surpassing previous benchmark models in this area with a top F1-score of 98.96%. Full article
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