Muhammad Nurmahir Mohamad Sehmi, M. F. A. Fauzi, Wan Siti Halimatul Munirah Wan Ahmad, E. Chan
{"title":"PancreaSys: An Automated Cloud-Based Pancreatic Cancer Grading System","authors":"Muhammad Nurmahir Mohamad Sehmi, M. F. A. Fauzi, Wan Siti Halimatul Munirah Wan Ahmad, E. Chan","doi":"10.3389/frsip.2022.833640","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/frsip.2022.833640","url":null,"abstract":"Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest diseases which has taken millions of lives over the past 20 years. Due to challenges in grading pancreatic cancer, this study presents an automated cloud-based system, utilizing a convolutional neural network deep learning (DL) approach to classifying four classes of pancreatic cancer grade from pathology image into Normal, Grade I, Grade II, and Grade III. This cloud-based system, named PancreaSys, takes an input of high power field images from the web user interface, slices them into smaller patches, makes predictions, and stitches back the patches before returning the final result to the pathologist. Anvil and Google Colab are used as the backbone of the system to build a web user interface for deploying the DL model in the classification of the cancer grade. This work employs the transfer learning approach on a pre-trained DenseNet201 model with data augmentation to alleviate the small dataset’s challenges. A 5-fold cross-validation (CV) was employed to ensure all samples in a dataset were used to evaluate and mitigate selection bias during splitting the dataset into 80% training and 20% validation sets. The experiments were done on three different datasets (May Grunwald-Giemsa (MGG), hematoxylin and eosin (H&E), and a mixture of both, called the Mixed dataset) to observe the model performance on two different pathology stains (MGG and H&E). Promising performances are reported in predicting the pancreatic cancer grade from pathology images, with a mean f1-score of 0.88, 0.96, and 0.89 for the MGG, H&E, and Mixed datasets, respectively. The outcome from this research is expected to serve as a prognosis system for the pathologist in providing accurate grading for pancreatic cancer in pathological images.","PeriodicalId":93557,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in signal processing","volume":"137 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76548458","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Low Dose CT Denoising by ResNet With Fused Attention Modules and Integrated Loss Functions","authors":"Luella Marcos, J. Alirezaie, P. Babyn","doi":"10.3389/frsip.2021.812193","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/frsip.2021.812193","url":null,"abstract":"X-ray computed tomography (CT) is a non-invasive medical diagnostic tool that has raised public concerns due to the associated health risks of radiation dose to patients. Reducing the radiation dose leads to noise artifacts, making the low-dose CT images unreliable for diagnosis. Hence, low-dose CT (LDCT) image reconstruction techniques have offered a new research area. In this study, a deep neural network is proposed, specifically a residual network (ResNet) using dilated convolution, batch normalization, and rectified linear unit (ReLU) layers with fused spatial- and channel-attention modules to enhance the quality of LDCT images. The network is optimized using the integration of per-pixel loss, perceptual loss via VGG16-net, and dissimilarity index loss. Through an ablation experiment, these functions show that they could effectively prevent edge oversmoothing, improve image texture, and preserve the structural details. Finally, comparative experiments showed that the qualitative and quantitative results of the proposed network outperform state-of-the-art denoising models such as block-matching 3D filtering (BM3D), Markovian-based patch generative adversarial network (patch-GAN), and dilated residual network with edge detection (DRL-E-MP).","PeriodicalId":93557,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in signal processing","volume":"68 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86238383","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analysis of a 2D Representation for CPS Anomaly Detection in a Context-Based Security Framework","authors":"Sara Baldoni, M. Carli, F. Battisti","doi":"10.3389/frsip.2021.814129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/frsip.2021.814129","url":null,"abstract":"In this contribution, a flexible context-based security framework is proposed by exploring two types of context: distributed and local. While the former consists in processing information from a set of spatially distributed sources, the second accounts for the local environment surrounding the monitored system. The joint processing of these two types of information allows the identification of the anomaly cause, differentiating between natural and attack-related events, and the suggestion of the best mitigation strategy. In this work, the proposed framework is applied the Cyber Physical Systems scenario. More in detail, we focus on the distributed context analysis investigating the definition of a 2D representation of network traffic data. The suitability of four representation variables has been evaluated, and the variable selection has been performed.","PeriodicalId":93557,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in signal processing","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89626413","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Thangarajan, T. D. Nguyen, Meng-Liang Liu, Sam Michiels, F. Yang, K. Man, Jieming Ma, W. Joosen, D. Hughes
{"title":"Static: Low Frequency Energy Harvesting and Power Transfer for the Internet of Things","authors":"A. Thangarajan, T. D. Nguyen, Meng-Liang Liu, Sam Michiels, F. Yang, K. Man, Jieming Ma, W. Joosen, D. Hughes","doi":"10.3389/frsip.2021.763299","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/frsip.2021.763299","url":null,"abstract":"The Internet of Things (IoT) is composed of wireless embedded devices which sense, analyze and communicate the state of the physical world. To achieve truly wireless operation, today’s IoT devices largely depend on batteries for power. However, this leads to high maintenance costs due to battery replacement, or the environmentally damaging concept of disposable devices. Energy harvesting has emerged as a promising approach to delivering long-life, environmentally friendly IoT device operation. However, with the exception of solar harvesting, it remains difficult to ensure sustainable system operation using environmental power alone. This paper tackles this problem by contributing Static, a Radio Frequency (RF) energy harvesting and wireless power transfer platform. Our approach comprises autonomous energy management techniques, adaptive power transfer algorithms and an open-source hardware reference platform to enable further research. We evaluate Static in laboratory conditions and show that 1) ambient RF energy harvesting can deliver sustainable operation using common industrial sources, while 2) wireless power transfer provides a simple means to power motes at a range of up to 3 m through a variety of media.","PeriodicalId":93557,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in signal processing","volume":"34 2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77231112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Optimization of Network Throughput of Joint Radar Communication System Using Stochastic Geometry","authors":"S. S. Ram, Shubhi Singhal, Gourab Ghatak","doi":"10.3389/frsip.2022.835743","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/frsip.2022.835743","url":null,"abstract":"Recently joint radar communication (JRC) systems have gained considerable interest for several applications such as vehicular communications, indoor localization and activity recognition, covert military communications, and satellite based remote sensing. In these frameworks, bistatic/passive radar deployments with directional beams explore the angular search space and identify mobile users/radar targets. Subsequently, directional communication links are established with these mobile users. Consequently, JRC parameters such as the time trade-off between the radar exploration and communication service tasks have direct implications on the network throughput. Using tools from stochastic geometry (SG), we derive several system design and planning insights for deploying such networks and demonstrate how efficient radar detection can augment the communication throughput in a JRC system. Specifically, we provide a generalized analytical framework to maximize the network throughput by optimizing JRC parameters such as the exploration/exploitation duty cycle, the radar bandwidth, the transmit power and the pulse repetition interval. The analysis is further extended to monostatic radar conditions, which is a special case in our framework. The theoretical results are experimentally validated through Monte Carlo simulations. Our analysis highlights that for a larger bistatic range, a lower operating bandwidth and a higher duty cycle must be employed to maximize the network throughput. Furthermore, we demonstrate how a reduced success in radar detection due to higher clutter density deteriorates the overall network throughput. Finally, we show a peak reliability of 70% of the JRC link metrics for a single bistatic transceiver configuration.","PeriodicalId":93557,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in signal processing","volume":"70 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77382171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ju-hong Lei, Tao Lei, Weiqiang Zhao, Min-Qi Xue, Xiaogang Du, A. Nandi
{"title":"Rethinking Pooling Operation for Liver and Liver-Tumor Segmentations","authors":"Ju-hong Lei, Tao Lei, Weiqiang Zhao, Min-Qi Xue, Xiaogang Du, A. Nandi","doi":"10.3389/frsip.2021.808050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/frsip.2021.808050","url":null,"abstract":"Deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) have been widely used in medical image segmentation due to their excellent feature learning ability. In these DCNNs, the pooling operation is usually used for image down-sampling, which can gradually reduce the image resolution and thus expands the receptive field of convolution kernel. Although the pooling operation has the above advantages, it inevitably causes information loss during the down-sampling of the pooling process. This paper proposes an effective weighted pooling operation to address the problem of information loss. First, we set up a pooling window with learnable parameters, and then update these parameters during the training process. Secondly, we use weighted pooling to improve the full-scale skip connection and enhance the multi-scale feature fusion. We evaluated weighted pooling on two public benchmark datasets, the LiTS2017 and the CHAOS. The experimental results show that the proposed weighted pooling operation effectively improve network performance and improve the accuracy of liver and liver-tumor segmentation.","PeriodicalId":93557,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in signal processing","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81179611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Albert Podusenko, B. V. Erp, Magnus T. Koudahl, B. Vries
{"title":"AIDA: An Active Inference-Based Design Agent for Audio Processing Algorithms","authors":"Albert Podusenko, B. V. Erp, Magnus T. Koudahl, B. Vries","doi":"10.3389/frsip.2022.842477","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/frsip.2022.842477","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we present Active Inference-Based Design Agent (AIDA), which is an active inference-based agent that iteratively designs a personalized audio processing algorithm through situated interactions with a human client. The target application of AIDA is to propose on-the-spot the most interesting alternative values for the tuning parameters of a hearing aid (HA) algorithm, whenever a HA client is not satisfied with their HA performance. AIDA interprets searching for the “most interesting alternative” as an issue of optimal (acoustic) context-aware Bayesian trial design. In computational terms, AIDA is realized as an active inference-based agent with an Expected Free Energy criterion for trial design. This type of architecture is inspired by neuro-economic models on efficient (Bayesian) trial design in brains and implies that AIDA comprises generative probabilistic models for acoustic signals and user responses. We propose a novel generative model for acoustic signals as a sum of time-varying auto-regressive filters and a user response model based on a Gaussian Process Classifier. The full AIDA agent has been implemented in a factor graph for the generative model and all tasks (parameter learning, acoustic context classification, trial design, etc.) are realized by variational message passing on the factor graph. All verification and validation experiments and demonstrations are freely accessible at our GitHub repository.","PeriodicalId":93557,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in signal processing","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83273457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. Dhulashia, N. Peters, C. Horne, P. Beasley, M. Ritchie
{"title":"Multi-Frequency Radar Micro-Doppler Based Classification of Micro-Drone Payload Weight","authors":"D. Dhulashia, N. Peters, C. Horne, P. Beasley, M. Ritchie","doi":"10.3389/frsip.2021.781777","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/frsip.2021.781777","url":null,"abstract":"The use of drones for recreational, commercial and military purposes has seen a rapid increase in recent years. The ability of counter-drone detection systems to sense whether a drone is carrying a payload is of strategic importance as this can help determine the potential threat level posed by a detected drone. This paper presents the use of micro-Doppler signatures collected using radar systems operating at three different frequency bands for the classification of carried payload of two different micro-drones performing two different motions. Use of a KNN classifier with six features extracted from micro-Doppler signatures enabled mean payload classification accuracies of 80.95, 72.50 and 86.05%, for data collected at S-band, C-band and W-band, respectively, when the drone type and motion type are unknown. The impact on classification performance of different amounts of situational information is also evaluated in this paper.","PeriodicalId":93557,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in signal processing","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87071583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Liyan Pan, Yongchan Gao, Z. Ye, Yuzhou Lv, Ming Fang
{"title":"Persymmetric Adaptive Union Subspace Detection","authors":"Liyan Pan, Yongchan Gao, Z. Ye, Yuzhou Lv, Ming Fang","doi":"10.3389/frsip.2021.782182","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/frsip.2021.782182","url":null,"abstract":"This paper addresses the detection of a signal belonging to several possible subspace models, namely, a union of subspaces (UoS), where the active subspace that generated the observed signal is unknown. By incorporating the persymmetric structure of received data, we propose three UoS detectors based on GLRT, Rao, and Wald criteria to alleviate the requirement of training data. In addition, the detection statistic and classification bound for the proposed detectors are derived. Monte-Carlo simulations demonstrate the detection and classification performance of the proposed detectors over the conventional detector in training-limited scenarios.","PeriodicalId":93557,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in signal processing","volume":"75 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85659143","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interference Utilization Precoding in Multi-Cluster IoT Networks","authors":"Yuanchen Wang, Eng Gee Lim, Xiaoping Xue, Guangyu Zhu, Rui Pei, Zhongxiang Wei","doi":"10.3389/frsip.2021.761559","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/frsip.2021.761559","url":null,"abstract":"In Internet-of-Things, downlink multi-device interference has long been considered as a harmful element deteriorating system performance, and thus the principle of the classic interference-mitigation based precoding is to suppress the multi-device interference by exploiting the spatial orthogonality. In recent years, a judicious interference utilization precoding has been developed, which is capable of exploiting multi-device interference as a beneficial element for improving device’s reception performance, thus reducing downlink communication latency. In this review paper, we aim to review the emerging interference utilization precoding techniques. We first briefly introduce the concept of constructive interference, and then we present two generic downlink interference-utilization optimizations, which utilizes the multi-device interference for enhancing system performance. Afterwards, the application of interference utilization precoding is discussed in multi-cluster scenario. Finally, some open challenges and future research topics are envisaged.","PeriodicalId":93557,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in signal processing","volume":"254 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75552943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}