Abstract The growing elderly population in smart home environments necessitates increased remote medical support and frequent doctor visits. To address this need, wearable sensor technology plays a crucial role in designing effective healthcare systems for the elderly, facilitating human–machine interaction. However, wearable technology has not been implemented accurately in monitoring various vital healthcare parameters of elders because of inaccurate monitoring. In addition, healthcare providers encounter issues regarding the acceptability of healthcare parameter monitoring and secure data communication within the context of elderly care in smart home environments. Therefore, this research is dedicated to investigating the accuracy of wearable sensors in monitoring healthcare parameters and ensuring secure data transmission. An architectural framework is introduced, outlining the critical components of a comprehensive system, including Sensing, Data storage, and Data communication (SDD) for the monitoring process. These vital components highlight the system's functionality and introduce elements for monitoring and tracking various healthcare parameters through wearable sensors. The collected data is subsequently communicated to healthcare providers to enhance the well-being of elderly individuals. The SDD taxonomy guides the implementation of wearable sensor technology through environmental and body sensors. The proposed system demonstrates the accuracy enhancement of healthcare parameter monitoring and tracking through smart sensors. This study evaluates state-of-the-art articles on monitoring and tracking healthcare parameters through wearable sensors. In conclusion, this study underscores the importance of delineating the SSD taxonomy by classifying the system's major components, contributing to the analysis and resolution of existing challenges. It emphasizes the efficiency of remote monitoring techniques in enhancing healthcare services for the elderly in smart home environments.

Abstract The aim of this research is to propose an extended mean value cloning algorithm with automatic trimap generation and accurate alpha matting. This implementation improves the visualization accuracy of the merged video by reducing the discolored and smudging artefacts of the remote surgeon’s boundary. It also makes the merge robust for the illumination changes by taking less processing time in real time surgery. The proposed system uses automatic trimap generation from the source video for accurate foreground extraction. Extended mean value cloning with gradient mixing is then applied for the cloning with optimized alpha matting for accurate and realistic video composition. The proposed system improved the visualization accuracy by providing almost 99.7% visibility of the pixels compared to the state-of-the-art solution, which provides 99.1% visibility of pixels. The overlay error was reduced from 0.93 mm to 0.63 mm. The processing time was also reduced. The proposed solution processed 8 frames per second, which is less time than the state-of-the-art solution, which processed 5 frames per second. The extended mean value cloning smooths the differences that presented in the target and source frames for seamless and realistic blending of pixels. The automatic trimap generation reduced the risk of false foreground selection and the generated optimal trimaps improved the alpha matte quality, which is optimized to reduce the smudging artefacts completely and to produce accurate visualization of the final merged image.

Accurate classification of Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI) is essential to accurately predict Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) to Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) conversion. Meanwhile, deep learning has been successfully implemented to classify and predict dementia disease. However, the accuracy of MRI image classification is low. This paper aims to increase the accuracy and reduce the processing time of classification through Deep Learning Architecture by using Elastic Net Regularisation in Feature Selection. The proposed system consists of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to enhance the accuracy of classification and prediction by using Elastic Net Regularisation. Initially, the MRI images are fed into CNN for features extraction through convolutional layers alternate with pooling layers, and then through a fully connected layer. After that, the features extracted are subjected to Principle Component Analysis (PCA) and Elastic Net Regularisation for feature selection. Finally, the selected features are used as an input to Extreme Machine Learning (EML) for the classification of MRI images. The result shows that the accuracy of the proposed solution is better than the current system. In addition to that, the proposed method has improved the classification accuracy by 5% on average and reduced the processing time by 30 ~ 40 seconds on average. The proposed system is focused on improving the accuracy and processing time of MCI converters/non-converters classification. It consists of features extraction, feature selection, and classification using CNN, FreeSurfer, PCA, Elastic Net, and Extreme Machine Learning. Finally, this study enhances the accuracy and the processing time by using Elastic Net Regularisation, which provides important selected features for classification.

Abstract Recently, deep learning using convolutional neural network (CNN) has been used successfully to classify the images of breast cells accurately. However, the accuracy of manual classification of those histopathological images is comparatively low. This research aims to increase the accuracy of the classification of breast cancer images by utilizing a patch‐based classifier (PBC) along with deep learning architecture. The proposed system consists of a deep convolutional neural network that helps in enhancing and increasing the accuracy of the classification process. This is done by the use of the PBC. CNN has completely different layers where images are first fed through convolutional layers using hyperbolic tangent function together with the max‐pooling layer, drop out layers, and SoftMax function for classification. Further, the output obtained is fed to a PBC that consists of patch‐wise classification output followed by majority voting. The results are obtained throughout the classification stage for breast cancer images that are collected from breast‐histology datasets. The proposed solution improves the accuracy of classification whether or not the images had normal, benign, in‐situ, or invasive carcinoma from 87% to 94% with a decrease in processing time from 0.45 to 0.2 s on average. The proposed solution focused on increasing the accuracy of classifying cancer in the breast by enhancing the image contrast and reducing the vanishing gradient. Finally, this solution for the implementation of the contrast limited adaptive histogram equalization technique and modified tangent function helps in increasing the accuracy.

Abstract Over time, Augmented Reality (AR) based technology becomes not being properly to implement with oral and maxillofacial surgery to visualise the narrow area spot in jaw surgery as blood vassals and root canals in these types of surgeries. Image registration is considered the major limitation of using the AR in these types of surgeries and reduces the accuracy of visualising the narrow areas. In this research, we propose a Correntropy based scale ICP algorithm as a solution to improve the image registration during jaw surgery. Correntropy is considered here to minimise the error metric of the ICP algorithm instead of the Euclidean distance measurement compared to the state-of-the-art solution. This led to decrease the registration error, increase the video accuracy and reduce the processing time simultaneously. The proposed system consists of Enhanced Tracking Learning Detection (TLD), which is used as an occlusion removal featured algorithm in the intra-operative stage of the AR-based jaw surgery system. In this research, a Modified Correntropy-based enhanced ICP (MCbeICP) algorithm is proposed for the system’s pose-refinement phase. Moreover, this proposed algorithm (MCbeICP) has a new function to process the point set registration with great noises and outliers. It eliminates the poor performance of the ICP algorithm of the noisy point set. Furthermore, the ICP algorithm considers the scale factor to register the point with different scales of the real-time video and the sample models. Additionally, this method improves the result of the pose refinement stage in terms of registration accuracy and processing time. By this method, the pose refinement stage gives an improved result in terms of registration accuracy and processing time. The samples, which were taken from the upper (maxillary) and the lower (mandible) jaw bone show that the proposed algorithm provides a significant accuracy improvement in alignment to 0.21- 0.29 mm from 0.23 to 0.35 mm and an increment in processing time from 8 to 12 frames per second (fs/s) to 10-14 fs/s compared to the result provided by state of the art. The proposed augmented reality (AR) system is focused on the overlay accuracy and processing time. Finally, this study addressed the limitation of Image registration with AR using modified Correntropy-based enhanced ICP algorithm to implement oral and maxillofacial surgery successfully.

Abstract Gastrointestinal stromal tumor is one of the critical tumors that doctors do not suggest to get frequent endoscopy, so there is a need for a diagnosis system which can process ultrasound images and figure out the tumor. Many gastrointestinal tumor diagnosis methods were developed, but all of these methods used manual contour rather than automatic segmentation. The research adopts enhanced automatic segmentation to improve the diagnosis of the gastrointestinal stromal tumor with deep convolutional neural networks. This solution’s proposed system is an enhanced automated segmentation methodology using multi-scale Gaussian kernel fuzzy clustering and multi-scale vector field convolution, which segments the ultrasound image automatically into the region of interest (the infected area). Convolutional Neural Network with Class Activation Mapping is done to diagnose an image with the tumor for Four datasets, namely (USS1, SH Hospital, SNUH, BUSI). This proposed system helps to get a clearer tumor image, and the accuracy has increased from 84.275% to 88.4%, and the processing time has reduced from 28.525% to 24.575%. The proposed solution enhanced Automatic Segmentation helped to get clearer tumor image which resulted in increased accuracy and decreased performance time compared to the state-of-the-art. Automatic segmentation overcomes the dependency on the expert for drawing the Region of Interest (ROI).

Abstract Accurate fall detection for the assistance of older people is crucial to reduce incidents of deaths or injuries due to falls. Meanwhile, vision‐based fall detection system has shown some significant results to detect falls. Still, numerous challenges need to be resolved. The impact of deep learning has changed the landscape of the vision‐based system, such as action recognition. The deep learning technique has not been successfully implemented in vision‐based fall detection system due to the requirement of a large amount of computation power and requirement of a large amount of sample training data. This research aims to propose a vision‐based fall detection system that improves the accuracy of fall detection in some complex environments such as the change of light condition in the room. Also, this research aims to increase the performance of the pre‐processing of video images. The proposed system consists of Enhanced Dynamic Optical Flow technique that encodes the temporal data of optical flow videos by the method of rank pooling, which thereby improves the processing time of fall detection and improves the classification accuracy in dynamic lighting condition. The experimental results showed that the classification accuracy of the fall detection improved by around 3% and the processing time by 40–50 ms. The proposed system concentrates on decreasing the processing time of fall detection and improving the classification accuracy. Meanwhile, it provides a mechanism for summarizing a video into a single image by using dynamic optical flow technique, which helps to increase the performance of image preprocessing steps.

Abstract Background and aim: Many sophisticated data mining and machine learning algorithms have been used for software defect prediction (SDP) to enhance the quality of software. However, real‐world SDP data sets suffer from class imbalance, which leads to a biased classifier and reduces the performance of existing classification algorithms resulting in an inaccurate classification and prediction. This work aims to improve the class imbalance nature of data sets to increase the accuracy of defect prediction and decrease the processing time. Methodology: The proposed model focuses on balancing the class of data sets to increase the accuracy of prediction and decrease processing time. It consists of a modified undersampling method and a correlation feature selection (CFS) method. Results: The results from ten open source project data sets showed that the proposed model improves the accuracy in terms of F1‐score to 0.52 ∼ 0.96, and hence it is proximity reached best F1‐score value in 0.96 near to 1 then it is given a perfect performance in the prediction process. Conclusion: The proposed model focuses on balancing the class of data sets to increase the accuracy of prediction and decrease processing time using the proposed model.

Accurate face recognition is today vital, principally for reasons of security. Current methods employ algorithms that index (classify) important features of human faces. There are many current studies in this field but most current solutions have significant limitations. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is one of the best facial recognition algorithms. However, there are some noises that could affect the accuracy of this algorithm. The PCA works well with the support of preprocessing steps such as illumination reduction, background removal and color conversion. Some current solutions have shown results when using a combination of PCA and preprocessing steps. This paper proposes a hybrid solution in face recognition using PCA as the main algorithm with the support of a triangular algorithm in face normalization in order to enhance indexing accuracy. To evaluate the accuracy of the proposed hybrid indexing algorithm, the PCAaTA is tested and the results are compared with current solutions.

This paper aims to demonstrate students' perception about the use of social media in learning English. The impact of social media for learning English is determined by an online survey, which was conducted from students with random division of male and female. Results of this survey shows that most of the female student respondents from both private and public sector schools consider social media as essential part of their learning process. The most popular social media forums used by students includes Edmodo, Google Plus, Google docs and YouTube. These platforms help student in better understanding of English in their secondary education. It plays a vital role as all the students doesn't have same fluency level and grip over every day English. Other than English, social media platforms also help them a lot in general learning.

Cloud-based Learning has increased the quality of learning; it has also increased demand of quantity and quality of learning contents. The existing methods for developing learning content which are based on using Analysis — Design — Development — Implementation — Evaluation (ADDIE) process has been proven the effects of creating qualified learning, however, existing ADDIE process has shown the issues with slow reacting against fast changing and productivity of the development process. This paper aims to find out a new method that can be used to increase the productivity in developing learning contents. The key point of new learning contents is the interaction between learners with the learning contents which change the learning contents into a form of software. Thus, the proposed method will keep the advantages from the existing ADDIE process and improve it with Agile method which is well-known method used for managing software development. The results have revealed an agile environment to boost up the development process and help to create better learning contents.