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Enhancedbert: A Feature-Rich Ensemble Model For Arabic Word Sense Disambiguation With Statistical Analysis And Optimized Data Collection, Sanaa Kaddoura, Reem Nassar

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Accurate assignment of meaning to a word based on its context, known as Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD), remains challenging across languages. Extensive research aims to develop automated methods for determining word senses in different contexts. However, the literature lacks the presence of datasets generated for the Arabic language WSD. This paper presents a dataset comprising a hundred polysemous Arabic words. Each word in the dataset encompasses 3–8 distinct senses, with ten example sentences per sense. Some statistical operations are conducted to gain insights into the dataset, enlightening its characteristics and properties. Subsequently, a novel WSD approach is proposed to utilize …

The Metaverse, Religious Practice And Wellbeing: A Narrative Review, Justin Thomas, Mohammad Amin Kuhail, Fahad Albeyahi

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The metaverse is touted as the next phase in the evolution of the Internet. This emerging digital ecosystem is widely conceptualized as a persistent matrix of interconnected multiuser, massively scaled online environments optimally experienced through immersive digital technologies such as virtual reality (VR). Much of the prognostication about the social implications of the metaverse center on secular activities. For example, retail, entertainment (gaming/concerts), and social networking. Little attention has been given to how the metaverse might impact religion. This narrative review explores contemporary research into online religious practice and the use of immersive digital technologies for religious purposes. This focus …

Informing The State Of Process Modeling And Automation Of Blood Banking And Transfusion Services Through A Systematic Mapping Study, Shaima' Abdallah Elhaj, Yousra Odeh, Dina Tbaishat, Anwar Rjoop, Asem Mansour, Mohammed Odeh

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Purpose: The current state of the art in process modeling of blood banking and transfusion services is not well grounded; methodological reviews are lacking to bridge the gap between such blood banking and transfusion processes (and their models) and their automation. This research aims to fill this gap with a methodological review. Methods: A systematic mapping study was adopted, driven by five key research questions. Identified research studies were accepted based on fulfilling the following inclusion criteria: 1) research studies should focus on blood banking and transfusion process modeling since the late 1970s; and 2) research studies should focus on …

Assessing The Impact Of Chatbot-Human Personality Congruence On User Behavior: A Chatbot-Based Advising System Case, Mohammad Amin Kuhail, Mohamed Bahja, Ons Al-Shamaileh, Justin Thomas, Amina Alkazemi, Joao Negreiros

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Chatbot personality has been demonstrated to influence user behavior, such as trust and intended engagement. However, previous research on chatbot-user personality congruence’s influence on user behavior is scant despite its significance in human-human conversations. This study explores the effect of chatbot-human personality trait congruence on user behavior in the context of a chatbot-based advising system. In this study, 54 college students interacted with chatbots with three different personalities (extraversion, agreeableness, and conscientiousness) and rated their trust, usage intention, and intended engagement with the chatbots. Additionally, 18 participants were interviewed to gain further insights into their perceptions and evaluations of the …

A Reputation-Based Aodv Protocol For Blackhole And Malfunction Nodes Detection And Avoidance, Qussai M. Yaseen, Monther Aldwairi, Ahmad Manasrah

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Enhancing the security of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) improves the usability of their applications. Therefore, finding solutions to various attacks, such as the blackhole attack, is crucial for the success of WSN applications. This paper proposes an enhanced version of the AODV (Ad Hoc On-Demand Distance Vector) protocol capable of detecting blackholes and malfunctioning benign nodes in WSNs, thereby avoiding them when delivering packets. The proposed version employs a network-based reputation system to select the best and most secure path to a destination. To achieve this goal, the proposed version utilizes the Watchdogs/Pathrater mechanisms in AODV to gather and broadcast …

เทคนิคการจัดกลุ่ม K-Means แบบการคำนวณควอนตัม, ภานุวัฒน์ ธนาภรณ์ชินพงษ์

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

วิทยานิพนธ์ฉบับนี้ศึกษาอัลกอริธึม K-Means แบบผสมระหว่างควอนตัมและคลาสสิก สำหรับการจัดกลุ่มข้อมูลผู้ป่วยโรคหัวใจ โดยใช้วงจร swap-test ของควอนตัมในการคำนวณระยะทาง และได้ทำการทดสอบบนควอนตัมคอมพิวเตอร์จำลองใน 2 แนวทาง คือแบบที่มีสัญญาณรบกวน และแบบอุดมคติ ด้วยชุดข้อมูลจริงที่มีมากกว่า 1,000 รายการ ผลการทดลองแสดงให้เห็นว่า วิธีควอนตัมทั้งสองสามารถทำความแม่นยำได้สูงถึง 0.83 และให้ค่า F1-score ใกล้เคียงกับ K-Means แบบคลาสสิก (0.82–0.83) แม้ในกรณีค่าจากควอนตัมคอมพิวเตอร์ที่มีสัญญาณรบกวน ผลการศึกษานี้ชี้ให้เห็นถึงศักยภาพในการใช้งานจริงของวิธีจัดกลุ่มที่ได้รับการเสริมด้วยควอนตัม

การพยากรณ์จำนวนสายโทรศัพท์เข้าของศูนย์บริการข้อมูลทางโทรศัพท์แบบรายครึ่งชั่วโมง, กฤตชญา ประภารัตน์

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

การวิจัยนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อศึกษาโมเดลที่เหมาะสมสำหรับการพยากรณ์จำนวนสายโทรศัพท์เข้าของศูนย์บริการข้อมูลทางโทรศัพท์แบบรายครึ่งชั่วโมง โดยศูนย์บริการข้อมูลทางโทรศัพท์ หรือ Call Center มีบทบาทเป็นศูนย์รวมสายโทรเข้าและโทรออกของธุรกิจ ซึ่งเป็นช่องทางสำคัญในการตอบสนองความต้องการของลูกค้า ไม่ว่าจะเป็นการสอบถามข้อมูล การขอคำแนะนำ หรือแก้ปัญหาต่าง ๆ ศูนย์บริการข้อมูลทางโทรศัพท์จึงมีการจัดวางแผนกำลังคนรับสาย เพื่อให้สอดคล้องกับปริมาณสายโทรศัพท์ที่คาดว่าจะเข้ามา แต่ในบางครั้งการวางแผนจัดกำลังคนรับสายอาจต้องมีการปรับระหว่างวัน เนื่องจากจำนวนสายโทรเข้าอาจมีจำนวนมากกว่าหรือน้อยกว่าที่คาดการณ์ไว้ ซึ่งวิธีการเดิมที่บริษัทใช้ในการคำนวน อาจมีความคลาดเคลื่อน และไม่สามารถปรับตัวเลขได้ภายในระยะเวลาอันสั้น งานวิจัยนี้จึงนำเสนอการพยากรณ์จำนวนสายโทรศัพท์เข้าของศูนย์บริการข้อมูลทางโทรศัพท์แบบรายครึ่งชั่วโมง มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อพยากรณ์ปริมาณสายการโทรเข้าช่วงหลัง 10 น. เพื่อช่วยให้ฝ่ายวางแผนกำลังคนเห็นแนวโน้มปริมาณสายที่คาดว่าจะเข้ามา และตัดสินใจปรับแผนการจัดกำลังคนได้อย่างทันท่วงที โดยโมเดลจะจัดกลุ่มและพยากรณ์รูปแบบการกระจายตัวของปริมาณสายโทรเข้า และพยากรณ์จำนวนสายที่คาดว่าจะเข้ามา ผลการทดลองพบว่า โมเดลที่พัฒนาขึ้นมี MAPE อยู่ที่ 20.8% ซึ่งมีประสิทธิภาพดีกว่าวิธีการคำนวนเดิมของบริษัทที่มี MAPE อยู่ที่ 52.7%

การแบ่งส่วนเนื้องอกตับโดยใช้โมเดลการเรียนรู้เชิงลึกด้วยโครงข่ายความสนใจจากรูปภาพสเปคซีที, วันรัฐ ลิ้มประไพพงษ์

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

การแบ่งส่วนเนื้องอกในตับโดยอัตโนมัติจากภาพถ่ายทางการแพทย์มีบทบาทสำคัญในการช่วยลดภาระงานของรังสีแพทย์ในขั้นตอนการวางแผนรักษามะเร็งตับด้วยวิธีรังสีบำบัด โดยรูปสเปคซีทีมักถูกนำมาใช้เพื่อช่วยระบุส่วนเนื้องอกให้แม่นยำเพื่อให้การวางแผนการรักษามีประสิทธิภาพ อย่างไรก็ตาม การแบ่งส่วนเนื้องอกจากภาพเหล่านี้เป็นเรื่องท้าทายเนื่องจากปัญหาต่างๆ เช่น การกระจายแสงที่ผิดปกติ ทำให้ขนาดเนื้องอกดูใหญ่กว่าความเป็นจริงและลดความแม่นยำในการแบ่งส่วน งานวิจัยฉบับนี้ได้นำเสนอโครงข่ายคัดกรองหลายระดับแบบคู่ (Paired Multiscale Attention Network) ซึ่งเป็นสถาปัตยกรรมที่แบ่งออกเป็นสองทาง เส้นทางแรกฝึกฝนชุดข้อมูลสเปคซีทีโดยใช้โครงข่าย Multiscale Attention Network (MA-Net) เส้นทางที่สองมีการใช้การแปลงแบบไวซ์ท็อปแฮท (White Top-Hat) แล้วนำลักษณะเด่นที่ได้มาควบรวมกับเส้นทางแรก ช่วยลดความบกพร่องของการแบ่งส่วนที่มักเกิดจากความแปรปรวนของแสง ในงานวิจัยนี้จะแบ่งการทดสอบเป็นสองส่วน ส่วนแรกคือการทดสอบโมเดลแบ่งส่วนเนื้อตับ โดยใช้ MA-Net โดยมีโมเดลย่อยคือ ResNet50 ฝึกกับชุดข้อมูลซีทีโดยรวมระหว่างชุดข้อมูลสาธารณะ 3DIRCADb-01 และชุดข้อมูลจากโรงพยาบาลจุฬาลงกรณ์ สภากาชาดไทย โดยมีค่า Dice similarity coefficient (DSC) อยู่ที่ 89.67% ในส่วนการทดสอบโมเดลแบ่งส่วนเนื้องอกตับ จะใช้โครงข่ายคัดกรองหลายระดับแบบคู่ ฝึกด้วยชุดข้อมูล เทคนีเซียม-99 เอ็มเอเอ สเปคซีทีจากโรงพยาบาลจุฬาลงกรณ์ สภากาชาดไทยโดยมีค่า DSC ที่ 67.00% ซึ่งให้ประสิทธิภาพการแบ่งส่วนที่ดีที่สุดเมื่อเทียบกับสถาปัตยกรรมอื่นๆ รวมถึงผลจากงานวิจัยก่อนหน้านี้ที่ทดสอบด้วยชุดข้อมูลเดียวกัน

Designing High-Performance Identity-Based Quantum Signature Protocol With Strong Security, Sunil Prajapat, Pankaj Kumar, Sandeep Kumar, Ashok Kumar Das, Sachin Shetty, M. Shamim Hossain

VMASC Publications

Due to the rapid advancement of quantum computers, there has been a furious race for quantum technologies in academia and industry. Quantum cryptography is an important tool for achieving security services during quantum communication. Designated verifier signature, a variant of quantum cryptography, is very useful in applications like the Internet of Things (IoT) and auctions. An identity-based quantum-designated verifier signature (QDVS) scheme is suggested in this work. Our protocol features security attributes like eavesdropping, non-repudiation, designated verification, and hiding sources attacks. Additionally, it is protected from attacks on forgery, inter-resending, and impersonation. The proposed scheme benefits from the traditional designated …

Embedding Software Engineering In Mixed Methods: Computationally Enhanced Risk Communication, Ann Marie Reinhold, Madison H. Munro, Elizabeth A. Shanahan, Ross J. Gore, Barry C. Ezell, Clemente I. Izurieta

VMASC Publications

Mixed methods research ameliorates many convergent research challenges within the contemporary sociotechnical landscape. We suggest the integration of software engineering in mixed methods studies is a critical step to address some of the remaining and persistent challenges. One such research challenge where software engineering is particularly well suited is in hazard preparedness—in particular, the creation of risk communication messages to mitigate or prevent harm. Computationally enhanced risk communication is convergent research that integrates software engineering and social science research for the benefit of protecting humans and infrastructure. To this end, we developed a mixed methods framework for the efficient construction …

Enhancing Cyber Resilience Through Traffic Generation Patterns In Complex Networks: A Study On Cascading Failures, Aymar Le Père Tchimwa Bouom, Jean-Pierre Lienou, Wilson Ejuh Geh, Frederica Nelson, Sachin Shetty, Charles Kamhoua

VMASC Publications

Network resilience is the capacity of a network to maintain and restore its fundamental operations during or after a failure. This paper investigates the resilience of communication networks with heterogeneous nodes, with host nodes that generate and receive packets and routers that only forward packets. We focus on how traffic generation patterns, defined as the distribution of data packet creation across hosts, affect network resilience. While previous studies identified optimal host placements that balance traffic loads and enhance network performance, this research explores how traffic generation patterns influence network resilience, particularly during cascading failures, where the failure of one node …

Cyclegan-Gradient Penalty For Enhancing Android Adversarial Malware Detection In Gray Box Setting, Fabrice Setephin Atedjio, Jean-Pierre Lienou, Frederica F. Nelson, Sachin S. Shetty, Charles A. Kamhoua

VMASC Publications

Adversarial attacks pose significant threats to Android malware detection by undermining the effectiveness of machine learning-based systems. The rapid increase in Android apps complicates the management of malicious software that can compromise user defense solutions. Many current Android defense techniques rely on deep learning methods. Malicious users exploit GAN-based attacks to achieve adversarial attack transferability and deceive target models by crafting adversarial examples based on known models. We propose a new model based on a Cycle Generative Adversarial Network (CycleGAN) to detect GAN-based attacks. This model incorporates a gradient penalty to enhance the detection rate of the target model. Our …

Should The Future Of Ais Conferences Be Hybrid?, Traci Carte, Matthew Nelson, Monica J. Garfield, Athanasia Pouloudi, Mani R. Subramani, Guillermo Rodríguez-Abitia, Souren Paul

Faculty Publications - Information Technology

Academic conferences provide a needed opportunity for academic community members to come together and share ideas. COVID-19 forced AIS to host conferences remotely for two years. From that experience, we learned a few things about virtualizing our conference activities including the potential for virtual conferences to widen participation and membership. In this paper, we reflect on that learning through a lens informed by reviewing published work on conference hybridization. We also make recommendations for how future conference chairs can think about AIS conferences. Changing how our conferences are delivered is risky, but simply returning to the old normal is also …

Agentes Artificiales En Las Juntas Corporativas, Sergio Alberto Gramitto Ricci, David Cordero-Heredia, Carlos A. Carillo-Jaramillo

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Miles de afios atras, empresarios romanos gestionaban negocios conjuntos a traves de esclavos altamente inteligentes de propiedad comun. Los esclavos romanos no tenfan plena capacidad legal y eran considerados propiedad de sus duefios comunes. Ahora, las corporaciones buscan delegar la toma de decisiones a maquinas superinteligentes mediante el uso de inteligencia artificial en las juntas corporativas. La inteligencia artificial podrfa asistir, integrar e incluso reemplazar a los directores humanos. Sin embargo, el concepto de usar inteligencia artificial en las juntas directivas esta, en gran medida, inexplorado y plantea varios problemas. Este artfculo arroja luz sobre los desaffos legales y de …

On Generative Models And Joint Architectures For Document-Level Relation Extraction, Aviv Brokman

Theses and Dissertations--Statistics

Biomedical text is being generated at a high rate in scientific literature publications and electronic health records. Within these documents lies a wealth of potentially useful information in biomedicine. Relation extraction (RE), the process of automating the identification of structured relationships between entities within text, represents a highly sought-after goal in biomedical informatics, offering the potential to unlock deeper insights and connections from this vast corpus of data. In this dissertation, we tackle this problem with a variety of approaches.

We review the recent history of the field of document-level RE. Several themes emerge. First, graph neural networks dominate the …

Implementing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles To Collect Human Gait Data At Distance And Altitude For Identification And Re-Identification, Donn E. Bartram

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Gait patterns are a class of biometric information pertaining to the way a person moves and poses. Gait information is unique to each person and can be used to identify and reidentify people. Historically, this task has been achieved through the use of multiple ground-based imaging sensors. However, as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) advance, they present the opportunity to evolve the process of persons identification and re-identification. Collecting human gait data using UAVs at distances ranging from 20m to 500m and altitudes ranging from 0m to 120m is a challenging task. The current biometric data collection methods, primarily designed for …

Adaptive Neh With Constrained Nearest Neighbor Subtours For The Electric Vehicle Routing Problem With Time Windows, Andrew Struthers

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The development of electric vehicles is currently considered one of the most innovative areas in manufacturing. Largely driven by the desire to reduce greenhouse emissions, electric vehicles are seen as a viable alternative to internal combustion engine cars. Starting from consumer cars, a dedicated effort is being made to translate this into commercial vehicles for freight and delivery. This research introduces a novel adaptive Nawaz, Enscore, Ham (NEH) algorithm with constrained nearest neighbor subtour (NEH-NN). This algorithm is tested on the standard benchmark problems in literature and used as a seed solution for the Genetic Algorithm (GA). The performance and …

Hack24f: Alzcare Ai Assist: Empowering Alzheimer's Care, Yao Zhang, Chengjie Zheng, Oliver Francois, Lingling Zhang

Paul English Applied Artificial Intelligence (AI) Institute Publications

AlzCare AI Assist is a groundbreaking solution that leverages the power of artificial intelligence to revolutionize Alzheimer's care. By delivering personalized assessments, psychological support, and caregiver assistance, we aim to transform the lives of those affected by this debilitating condition.

Hack24f: Painsync, Zihan Li, Zhen Lu, Ping Chen

Paul English Applied Artificial Intelligence (AI) Institute Publications

Pain is one of the most disruptive human experiences, influencing not only physical well-being but also emotional and mental health. The PainSync project proposes a technology-assisted framework for pain recognition, monitoring, and management, using AI-driven tools to bridge the gap between patient experiences and professional care. PainSync begins by recognizing an individual’s discomfort and offering immediate support through a chatbot that collects symptom information and provides preliminary guidance. The system then tracks vital signs and daily activities, generating data that is subsequently analyzed by custom-built AI models to detect patterns, assess severity, and identify potential causes of pain. This analysis …

Human-Centered Machine Learning With Interpretable Visual Knowledge Discovery, Lincoln Huber

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This research advances interpretable machine learning (ML) by introducing hyperblocks (HBs) as a structured, rule-based approach for creating transparent and accurate models using meaningful numeric attributes directly interpretable to end users. Key techniques, including Parallel Hyperblock Creation, Interactive Hyperblock Creation, Level n Hyperblock Creation, and k-Nearest Neighbor Hyperblock, provide a framework that ensures domain experts can meaningfully engage with the model’s decision-making process through lossless visualizations using General Line Coordinates (GLC). Case studies with the Wisconsin Breast Cancer and MNIST datasets demonstrated HBs' effectiveness in handling high-risk and complex classification tasks, offering interpretable accuracy that traditional models struggle to achieve. …

Monotone Ordinal Expert Knowledge Acquisition For Explanation Of Machine Learning Models, Harlow Huber

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There are significant difficulties for the acceptance of black-box Machine Learning (ML) models by subject matter experts (SMEs) despite significant achievements of many black-box models. A promising way to address this problem is by building a trustable, qualitative, interpretable models for the task based on SME knowledge. Such qualitative models can work as qualitative explainers of black-box models or as sanity checks for them. For instance, the expert model can expect that two cases belong to different classes, but the black box model predicts that they are in the same class. In this thesis, qualitative models operate with ordinal attributes, …

Hack24f: Ai Conversations In Healthcare, Patrick Finger, Hannah Neale, Anthony Ferreira, Ayaz Mohammed

Paul English Applied Artificial Intelligence (AI) Institute Publications

Nursing students often complete clinical hours under the supervision of instructors in traditional hospital settings. However, obtaining individualized, consistent feedback from patients about their interactions with nursing students is often not feasible. This limits students' ability to fully understand how their communication skills are perceived and how they can improve. Currently, there are no models that represent realistic real life conversations with patients. Most virtual simulation models used for nursing students provide scripted responses that do not feel genuine.

Hack24f: Ai Audio Extractor, David Wu, Tiffany Nham

Paul English Applied Artificial Intelligence (AI) Institute Publications

I want to make a next.js website locally and then be able to hopefully deploy on Vercel. Within the website I want to be able to use AI to separate the instruments (vocals, piano, guitar, drums, bass, etc.) and also identify which notes are being played. I was thinking that we might be able to use an AI stem splitter to separate the audio tracks and use another AI model for note detection.

A Secure And Robust Knowledge Transfer Framework Via Stratified-Causality Distribution Adjustment In Intelligent Collaborative Services, Ju Jia, Siqi Ma, Lina Wang, Yang Liu, Robert H. Deng

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

The rapid development of device-edge-cloud collaborative computing techniques has actively contributed to the popularization and application of intelligent service models. The intensity of knowledge transfer plays a vital role in enhancing the performance of intelligent services. However, the existing knowledge transfer methods are mainly implemented through data fine-tuning and model distillation, which may cause the leakage of data privacy or model copyright in intelligent collaborative systems. To address this issue, we propose a secure and robust knowledge transfer framework through stratified-causality distribution adjustment (SCDA) for device-edge-cloud collaborative services. Specifically, a simple yet effective density-based estimation is first employed to obtain …

Advanced Image Processing Techniques For Automated Detection Of Healthy And Infected Leaves In Agricultural Systems, E.D. Kanmani Ruby, G. Amirthayogam, G. Sasi, T. Chitra, Abhishek Choubey, S. Gopalakrishnan

Mesopotamian Journal of Computer Science

Advances in computer vision and machine learning have transformed leaf disease detection by enabling efficient and accurate identification of subtle disease signs in leaves. Leveraging high-resolution imaging, pattern recognition algorithms, and deep learning models, researchers and farmers can now conduct automated detection across various plant species. The development focuses on sophisticated image processing techniques applied to diverse datasets captured under controlled conditions, ensuring comprehensive coverage of lighting, time, and weather variations. Expert annotation of infection stages and types enhances dataset reliability, while pre-processing stages such as resizing and normalization optimize image consistency for robust model training. Data augmentation techniques enrich …

An Extensive Examination Of The Iot And Blockchain Technologies In Relation To Their Applications In The Healthcare Industry, Karthik Kumar Vaigandla, Madhu Kumar Vanteru, Mounika Siluveru

Mesopotamian Journal of Computer Science

Numerous domains have been transformed by the communication technologies made possible by the Internet of Things (IoT), one of which is health monitoring systems. Patterns associated with diseases and health conditions can be identified through the utilization of machine learning and cutting-edge AI techniques. Currently, scientific endeavours are concentrated on enhancing IoT-enabled applications such as medical report administration, prescription traceability, and infectious disease surveillance through the amalgamation of blockchain technology(BCT) and machine learning(ML) models. Although recent advancements have attempted to increase the adaptability of blockchain(BC) and ML for IoT applications, there are still a number of crucial considerations that must …

Segment Anything: A Review, Firas Hazzaa, Innocent Udoidiong, Akram Qashou, Sufian Yousef

Mesopotamian Journal of Computer Science

Segment Anything (SA) is a state-of-the art method for universal object segmentation, which does not need task-specific training. Herein, we emphasize that SA can overcome the limitations of traditional segmentation frameworks based on requiring extensive manually annotated datasets and predefined architectures, as extensively documented in this review. SB supercharges performance and reduces cost by combining Mutual Information learning with an Efficient Transformer architecture, benefiting from a substantially larger pool of in-the-wild data. In this paper we review SA and its specific key innovations generality, resource boundedness, and scalability to large datasets. We also face obstacles such as data biases, computational …

Potato Disease Identification Using Transfer Learning Approaches, Tarza Hasan Abdullah

Mesopotamian Journal of Computer Science

Potato crop is one of the prominent consumed foods by human beings. When potato crops are infected by diseases it affects farmers negatively and to run in a loss. Therefore, early detection of the potato crop disease can play a vital role in minimizing the loss of the farmers. Nowadays, artificial intelligence technologies, more specifically deep learning techniques, provide solutions to many crops disease-related problems. However, training deep learning models requires a high computational power and huge amount of data as they are data hungry models. Also, designing a custom CNN models a difficult task and there are some variations …

Enhancing Motion Detection In Video Surveillance Systems Using The Three-Frame Difference Algorithm, Suhaib Qassem Yahya Al-Hashemi, Majid Salal Naghmash, Ahmad Ghandour

Mesopotamian Journal of Computer Science

This paper outlines a methodology for motion detection in video surveillance systems, leveraging advanced algorithms and TCP/IP networks for real-time data acquisition and analysis. The primary focus is on the implementation of the Three-Frame Difference Algorithm, which detects moving targets by analyzing the differences between three consecutive video frames. This method significantly reduces redundant data transmission and storage, addressing the challenges posed by limited wireless network capabilities. The surveillance model, designed in MATLAB using SIMULINK, integrates computer vision systems with embedded coders to facilitate effective communication and processing of video data. The results demonstrate the system's capability to detect motion …

Examining Ghana's National Health Insurance Act, 2003 (Act 650) To Improve Accessibility Of Artificial Intelligence Therapies And Address Compensation Issues In Cases Of Medical Negligence, George Benneh Mensah, Maad M. Mijwil, Mostafa Abotaleb

Mesopotamian Journal of Computer Science

Objective: Examine Ghana’s National Health Insurance Act (Act 650) to identify coverage gaps limiting artificial intelligence (AI) therapy access and address medical negligence liability issues surrounding automated healthcare systems. Methods: Legal and regulatory analysis of Act 650 were conducted, review of academic literature on global uptake of AI interventions and medical negligence principles were elucidated, examination of case studies implementing pilot AI therapy programs under insurance schemes were considered. Results & Conclusions: Act 650 lacks clear provisions for funding innovative AI treatments with proven efficacy and undefined negligence determination guidelines involving AI systems, contributing to accessibility and accountability issues. Proposed …