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220 Citations
29,004 Views
26 Pages

17 February 2023

In the past decade, deep neural networks, particularly convolutional neural networks, have revolutionised computer vision. However, all deep learning models may require a large amount of data so as to achieve satisfying results. Unfortunately, the av...

  • Review
  • Open Access
204 Citations
30,536 Views
28 Pages

Deep Learning Approaches for Data Augmentation in Medical Imaging: A Review

  • Aghiles Kebaili,
  • Jérôme Lapuyade-Lahorgue and
  • Su Ruan

Deep learning has become a popular tool for medical image analysis, but the limited availability of training data remains a major challenge, particularly in the medical field where data acquisition can be costly and subject to privacy regulations. Da...

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  • Open Access
177 Citations
25,761 Views
16 Pages

GANs for Medical Image Synthesis: An Empirical Study

  • Youssef Skandarani,
  • Pierre-Marc Jodoin and
  • Alain Lalande

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have become increasingly powerful, generating mind-blowing photorealistic images that mimic the content of datasets they have been trained to replicate. One recurrent theme in medical imaging, is whether GANs ca...

  • Review
  • Open Access
80 Citations
27,583 Views
38 Pages

Millions of people are affected by retinal abnormalities worldwide. Early detection and treatment of these abnormalities could arrest further progression, saving multitudes from avoidable blindness. Manual disease detection is time-consuming, tedious...

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  • Open Access
78 Citations
23,028 Views
12 Pages

The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Echocardiography

  • Timothy Barry,
  • Juan Maria Farina,
  • Chieh-Ju Chao,
  • Chadi Ayoub,
  • Jiwoong Jeong,
  • Bhavik N. Patel,
  • Imon Banerjee and
  • Reza Arsanjani

20 February 2023

Echocardiography is an integral part of the diagnosis and management of cardiovascular disease. The use and application of artificial intelligence (AI) is a rapidly expanding field in medicine to improve consistency and reduce interobserver variabili...

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  • Open Access
76 Citations
10,954 Views
20 Pages

The current advancement towards retinal disease detection mainly focused on distinct feature extraction using either a convolutional neural network (CNN) or a transformer-based end-to-end deep learning (DL) model. The individual end-to-end DL models...

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72 Citations
24,835 Views
22 Pages

Developments in Image Processing Using Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning

  • Jorge Valente,
  • João António,
  • Carlos Mora and
  • Sandra Jardim

30 September 2023

The growth in the volume of data generated, consumed, and stored, which is estimated to exceed 180 zettabytes in 2025, represents a major challenge both for organizations and for society in general. In addition to being larger, datasets are increasin...

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72 Citations
15,966 Views
27 Pages

Applications of LiDAR in Agriculture and Future Research Directions

  • Sourabhi Debnath,
  • Manoranjan Paul and
  • Tanmoy Debnath

24 February 2023

Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) sensors have accrued an ever-increasing presence in the agricultural sector due to their non-destructive mode of capturing data. LiDAR sensors emit pulsed light waves that return to the sensor upon bouncing off sur...

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  • Open Access
64 Citations
27,890 Views
18 Pages

Drowsiness-related car accidents continue to have a significant effect on road safety. Many of these accidents can be eliminated by alerting the drivers once they start feeling drowsy. This work presents a non-invasive system for real-time driver dro...

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  • Open Access
62 Citations
7,453 Views
16 Pages

BotanicX-AI: Identification of Tomato Leaf Diseases Using an Explanation-Driven Deep-Learning Model

  • Mohan Bhandari,
  • Tej Bahadur Shahi,
  • Arjun Neupane and
  • Kerry Brian Walsh

20 February 2023

Early and accurate tomato disease detection using easily available leaf photos is essential for farmers and stakeholders as it help reduce yield loss due to possible disease epidemics. This paper aims to visually identify nine different infectious di...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
57 Citations
11,180 Views
29 Pages

A Systematic Review on Deep Learning with CNNs Applied to Surface Defect Detection

  • Esteban Cumbajin,
  • Nuno Rodrigues,
  • Paulo Costa,
  • Rolando Miragaia,
  • Luís Frazão,
  • Nuno Costa,
  • Antonio Fernández-Caballero,
  • Jorge Carneiro,
  • Leire H. Buruberri and
  • António Pereira

25 September 2023

Surface defect detection with machine learning has become an important tool in industries and a large field of study for researchers or workers in recent years. It is necessary to have a simplified source of information that helps us to better focus...

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  • Open Access
51 Citations
17,212 Views
18 Pages

A Robust Approach to Multimodal Deepfake Detection

  • Davide Salvi,
  • Honggu Liu,
  • Sara Mandelli,
  • Paolo Bestagini,
  • Wenbo Zhou,
  • Weiming Zhang and
  • Stefano Tubaro

The widespread use of deep learning techniques for creating realistic synthetic media, commonly known as deepfakes, poses a significant threat to individuals, organizations, and society. As the malicious use of these data could lead to unpleasant sit...

  • Review
  • Open Access
51 Citations
13,446 Views
23 Pages

Diagnostic Applications of Intraoral Scanners: A Systematic Review

  • Francesca Angelone,
  • Alfonso Maria Ponsiglione,
  • Carlo Ricciardi,
  • Giuseppe Cesarelli,
  • Mario Sansone and
  • Francesco Amato

In addition to their recognized value for obtaining 3D digital dental models, intraoral scanners (IOSs) have recently been proven to be promising tools for oral health diagnostics. In this work, the most recent literature on IOSs was reviewed with a...

  • Review
  • Open Access
50 Citations
23,220 Views
35 Pages

This paper addresses the significant problem of identifying the relevant background and contextual literature related to deep learning (DL) as an evolving technology in order to provide a comprehensive analysis of the application of DL to the specifi...

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  • Open Access
46 Citations
3,230 Views
15 Pages

MRI-Based Effective Ensemble Frameworks for Predicting Human Brain Tumor

  • Farhana Khan,
  • Shahnawaz Ayoub,
  • Yonis Gulzar,
  • Muneer Majid,
  • Faheem Ahmad Reegu,
  • Mohammad Shuaib Mir,
  • Arjumand Bano Soomro and
  • Osman Elwasila

16 August 2023

The diagnosis of brain tumors at an early stage is an exigent task for radiologists. Untreated patients rarely survive more than six months. It is a potential cause of mortality that can occur very quickly. Because of this, the early and effective di...

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  • Open Access
45 Citations
6,359 Views
30 Pages

Vision-based human activity recognition (HAR) has emerged as one of the essential research areas in video analytics. Over the last decade, numerous advanced deep learning algorithms have been introduced to recognize complex human actions from video s...

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  • Open Access
44 Citations
7,751 Views
17 Pages

24 January 2024

Breast cancer is considered one of the most-common types of cancers among females in the world, with a high mortality rate. Medical imaging is still one of the most-reliable tools to detect breast cancer. Unfortunately, manual image detection takes m...

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  • Open Access
44 Citations
18,185 Views
26 Pages

25 September 2024

The combination of medical imaging and deep learning has significantly improved diagnostic and prognostic capabilities in the healthcare domain. Nevertheless, the inherent complexity of deep learning models poses challenges in understanding their dec...

  • Review
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42 Citations
18,545 Views
30 Pages

Advancements and Challenges in Handwritten Text Recognition: A Comprehensive Survey

  • Wissam AlKendi,
  • Franck Gechter,
  • Laurent Heyberger and
  • Christophe Guyeux

Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) is essential for digitizing historical documents in different kinds of archives. In this study, we introduce a hybrid form archive written in French: the Belfort civil registers of births. The digitization of these...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
13,148 Views
31 Pages

30 August 2023

Recently, deep learning has gained significant attention as a noteworthy division of artificial intelligence (AI) due to its high accuracy and versatile applications. However, one of the major challenges of AI is the need for more interpretability, c...

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  • Open Access
39 Citations
10,590 Views
17 Pages

Real-Time Obstacle Detection with YOLOv8 in a WSN Using UAV Aerial Photography

  • Shakila Rahman,
  • Jahid Hasan Rony,
  • Jia Uddin and
  • Md Abdus Samad

10 October 2023

Nowadays, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have a significant and long-lasting impact on numerous fields that affect all facets of our lives, including governmental, civil, and military applications. WSNs contain sensor nodes linked together via wirel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
4,679 Views
22 Pages

The prognosis of patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is greatly improved by an early and accurate diagnosis. Several studies have created automated methods to forecast PDAC development utilising various medical imaging modalities. T...

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38 Citations
11,522 Views
42 Pages

Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, and Machine Learning to Support the Analysis of Microscopic Images of Cells and Tissues

  • Muhammad Ali,
  • Viviana Benfante,
  • Ghazal Basirinia,
  • Pierpaolo Alongi,
  • Alessandro Sperandeo,
  • Alberto Quattrocchi,
  • Antonino Giulio Giannone,
  • Daniela Cabibi,
  • Anthony Yezzi and
  • Albert Comelli
  • + 2 authors

15 February 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) transforms image data analysis across many biomedical fields, such as cell biology, radiology, pathology, cancer biology, and immunology, with object detection, image feature extraction, classification, and segmentation a...

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  • Open Access
38 Citations
10,500 Views
19 Pages

Different techniques are being applied for automated vehicle counting from video footage, which is a significant subject of interest to many researchers. In this context, the You Only Look Once (YOLO) object detection model, which has been developed...

  • Review
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38 Citations
15,109 Views
29 Pages

Applied Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: A Review of Computer Vision Technology Application in Hospital Settings

  • Heidi Lindroth,
  • Keivan Nalaie,
  • Roshini Raghu,
  • Ivan N. Ayala,
  • Charles Busch,
  • Anirban Bhattacharyya,
  • Pablo Moreno Franco,
  • Daniel A. Diedrich,
  • Brian W. Pickering and
  • Vitaly Herasevich

Computer vision (CV), a type of artificial intelligence (AI) that uses digital videos or a sequence of images to recognize content, has been used extensively across industries in recent years. However, in the healthcare industry, its applications are...

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  • Open Access
36 Citations
19,650 Views
42 Pages

Deepfake Media Forensics: Status and Future Challenges

  • Irene Amerini,
  • Mauro Barni,
  • Sebastiano Battiato,
  • Paolo Bestagini,
  • Giulia Boato,
  • Vittoria Bruni,
  • Roberto Caldelli,
  • Francesco De Natale,
  • Rocco De Nicola and
  • Domenico Vitulano
  • + 14 authors

28 February 2025

The rise of AI-generated synthetic media, or deepfakes, has introduced unprecedented opportunities and challenges across various fields, including entertainment, cybersecurity, and digital communication. Using advanced frameworks such as Generative A...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
6,197 Views
12 Pages

Multimodal Approach for Enhancing Biometric Authentication

  • Nassim Ammour,
  • Yakoub Bazi and
  • Naif Alajlan

22 August 2023

Unimodal biometric systems rely on a single source or unique individual biological trait for measurement and examination. Fingerprint-based biometric systems are the most common, but they are vulnerable to presentation attacks or spoofing when a fake...

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  • Open Access
32 Citations
7,042 Views
14 Pages

Enhanced Self-Checkout System for Retail Based on Improved YOLOv10

  • Lianghao Tan,
  • Shubing Liu,
  • Jing Gao,
  • Xiaoyi Liu,
  • Linyue Chu and
  • Huangqi Jiang

10 October 2024

With the rapid advancement of deep learning technologies, computer vision has shown immense potential in retail automation. This paper presents a novel self-checkout system for retail based on an improved YOLOv10 network, aimed at enhancing checkout...

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  • Open Access
30 Citations
5,693 Views
13 Pages

Breast Cancer Detection with an Ensemble of Deep Learning Networks Using a Consensus-Adaptive Weighting Method

  • Mohammad Dehghan Rouzi,
  • Behzad Moshiri,
  • Mohammad Khoshnevisan,
  • Mohammad Ali Akhaee,
  • Farhang Jaryani,
  • Samaneh Salehi Nasab and
  • Myeounggon Lee

13 November 2023

Breast cancer’s high mortality rate is often linked to late diagnosis, with mammograms as key but sometimes limited tools in early detection. To enhance diagnostic accuracy and speed, this study introduces a novel computer-aided detection (CAD)...

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30 Citations
8,077 Views
25 Pages

14 October 2024

With the advancement of deep learning (DL) technology, DL-based intrusion detection models have emerged as a focal point of research within the domain of cybersecurity. This paper provides an overview of the datasets frequently utilized in the resear...

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  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,587 Views
21 Pages

Optimizing Vision Transformers for Histopathology: Pretraining and Normalization in Breast Cancer Classification

  • Giulia Lucrezia Baroni,
  • Laura Rasotto,
  • Kevin Roitero,
  • Angelica Tulisso,
  • Carla Di Loreto and
  • Vincenzo Della Mea

This paper introduces a self-attention Vision Transformer model specifically developed for classifying breast cancer in histology images. We examine various training strategies and configurations, including pretraining, dimension resizing, data augme...

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  • Open Access
25 Citations
6,479 Views
16 Pages

A Framework for Detecting Thyroid Cancer from Ultrasound and Histopathological Images Using Deep Learning, Meta-Heuristics, and MCDM Algorithms

  • Rohit Sharma,
  • Gautam Kumar Mahanti,
  • Ganapati Panda,
  • Adyasha Rath,
  • Sujata Dash,
  • Saurav Mallik and
  • Ruifeng Hu

27 August 2023

Computer-assisted diagnostic systems have been developed to aid doctors in diagnosing thyroid-related abnormalities. The aim of this research is to improve the diagnosis accuracy of thyroid abnormality detection models that can be utilized to allevia...

  • Review
  • Open Access
25 Citations
6,839 Views
20 Pages

The continuous monitoring of civil infrastructures is crucial for ensuring public safety and extending the lifespan of structures. In recent years, image-processing-based technologies have emerged as powerful tools for the structural health monitorin...

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  • Open Access
24 Citations
7,958 Views
18 Pages

This paper focuses on image and video content analysis of handball scenes and applying deep learning methods for detecting and tracking the players and recognizing their activities. Handball is a team sport of two teams played indoors with the ball w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,211 Views
12 Pages

On the Generalization of Deep Learning Models in Video Deepfake Detection

  • Davide Alessandro Coccomini,
  • Roberto Caldelli,
  • Fabrizio Falchi and
  • Claudio Gennaro

The increasing use of deep learning techniques to manipulate images and videos, commonly referred to as “deepfakes”, is making it more challenging to differentiate between real and fake content, while various deepfake detection systems ha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,835 Views
15 Pages

Enhancing Fingerprint Liveness Detection Accuracy Using Deep Learning: A Comprehensive Study and Novel Approach

  • Deep Kothadiya,
  • Chintan Bhatt,
  • Dhruvil Soni,
  • Kalpita Gadhe,
  • Samir Patel,
  • Alessandro Bruno and
  • Pier Luigi Mazzeo

Liveness detection for fingerprint impressions plays a role in the meaningful prevention of any unauthorized activity or phishing attempt. The accessibility of unique individual identification has increased the popularity of biometrics. Deep learning...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,611 Views
13 Pages

Vasari Scoring System in Discerning between Different Degrees of Glioma and IDH Status Prediction: A Possible Machine Learning Application?

  • Laura Gemini,
  • Mario Tortora,
  • Pasqualina Giordano,
  • Maria Evelina Prudente,
  • Alessandro Villa,
  • Ottavia Vargas,
  • Maria Francesca Giugliano,
  • Francesco Somma,
  • Giulia Marchello and
  • Alberto Negro
  • + 7 authors

(1) The aim of our study is to evaluate the capacity of the Visually AcceSAble Rembrandt Images (VASARI) scoring system in discerning between the different degrees of glioma and Isocitrate Dehydrogenase (IDH) status predictions, with a possible appli...

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  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,313 Views
23 Pages

ARAM: A Technology Acceptance Model to Ascertain the Behavioural Intention to Use Augmented Reality

  • Anabela Marto,
  • Alexandrino Gonçalves,
  • Miguel Melo,
  • Maximino Bessa and
  • Rui Silva

The expansion of augmented reality across society, its availability in mobile platforms and the novelty character it embodies by appearing in a growing number of areas, have raised new questions related to people’s predisposition to use this te...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,414 Views
13 Pages

A Robust Machine Learning Model for Diabetic Retinopathy Classification

  • Gigi Tăbăcaru,
  • Simona Moldovanu,
  • Elena Răducan and
  • Marian Barbu

28 December 2023

Ensemble learning is a process that belongs to the artificial intelligence (AI) field. It helps to choose a robust machine learning (ML) model, usually used for data classification. AI has a large connection with image processing and feature classifi...

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  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,909 Views
29 Pages

26 September 2023

Regular screening and timely treatment play a crucial role in addressing the progression and visual impairment caused by cataracts, the leading cause of blindness in Thailand and many other countries. Despite the potential for prevention and successf...

  • Review
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22 Citations
7,702 Views
23 Pages

14 October 2024

Both pathology and cytopathology still rely on recognizing microscopical morphologic features, and image analysis plays a crucial role, enabling the identification, categorization, and characterization of different tissue types, cell populations, and...

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  • Open Access
21 Citations
7,323 Views
15 Pages

Explainable Image Similarity: Integrating Siamese Networks and Grad-CAM

  • Ioannis E. Livieris,
  • Emmanuel Pintelas,
  • Niki Kiriakidou and
  • Panagiotis Pintelas

14 October 2023

With the proliferation of image-based applications in various domains, the need for accurate and interpretable image similarity measures has become increasingly critical. Existing image similarity models often lack transparency, making it challenging...

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  • Open Access
21 Citations
7,444 Views
20 Pages

Augmented Reality in Maintenance—History and Perspectives

  • Ana Malta,
  • Torres Farinha and
  • Mateus Mendes

Augmented Reality (AR) is a technology that allows virtual elements to be superimposed over images of real contexts, whether these are text elements, graphics, or other types of objects. Smart AR glasses are increasingly optimized, and modern ones ha...

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  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,772 Views
18 Pages

Automatic Localization of Five Relevant Dermoscopic Structures Based on YOLOv8 for Diagnosis Improvement

  • Esther Chabi Adjobo,
  • Amadou Tidjani Sanda Mahama,
  • Pierre Gouton and
  • Joël Tossa

The automatic detection of dermoscopic features is a task that provides the specialists with an image with indications about the different patterns present in it. This information can help them fully understand the image and improve their decisions....

  • Review
  • Open Access
21 Citations
9,215 Views
42 Pages

Image Inpainting Forgery Detection: A Review

  • Adrian-Alin Barglazan,
  • Remus Brad and
  • Constantin Constantinescu

2 February 2024

In recent years, significant advancements in the field of machine learning have influenced the domain of image restoration. While these technological advancements present prospects for improving the quality of images, they also present difficulties,...

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  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,391 Views
21 Pages

Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) poses a significant health risk globally, particularly among the elderly population. Recent studies underscore its prevalence, with over 50% of elderly Japanese facing a lifetime risk of dementia, primarily attributed t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,229 Views
25 Pages

Day-to-Night Street View Image Generation for 24-Hour Urban Scene Auditing Using Generative AI

  • Zhiyi Liu,
  • Tingting Li,
  • Tianyi Ren,
  • Da Chen,
  • Wenjing Li and
  • Waishan Qiu

A smarter city should be a safer city. Nighttime safety in metropolitan areas has long been a global concern, particularly for large cities with diverse demographics and intricate urban forms, whose citizens are often threatened by higher street-leve...

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  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,619 Views
18 Pages

29 September 2023

Fundus diseases cause damage to any part of the retina. Untreated fundus diseases can lead to severe vision loss and even blindness. Analyzing optical coherence tomography (OCT) images using deep learning methods can provide early screening and diagn...

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