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Early rice disease detection is vital in preventing damage to agricultural product output and quantity in the agricultural field. Manual observations of rice diseases are tedious, costly, and time-consuming, especially when classifying disease patterns and color while dealing with non- native diseases. Hence, image processing and Machine Learning (ML) techniques are used to detect rice disease early and within a relatively brief time period. This article aims to demonstrate the performance of different ML algorithms in rice disease detection through image processing. We critically examined different techniques, and the outcomes of previous research have been reviewed to compare the performance of rice disease classifications. Performance has been evaluated based on the criteria of feature extraction, clustering, segmentation, noise reduction, and level of accuracy of disease detection techniques. This paper also showcases various algorithms for different datasets in terms of training methods, image preprocessing with clustering and filtering criteria, and testing with reliable outcomes. Through this review, we provide valuable insights into the current state of ML-based approaches for the early detection of rice diseases, and assist future research and improvement. In addition, we discuss several challenges that must be overcome in order to achieve effective identification of rice diseases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Three-dimensional (3D) point cloud classification methods based on deep learning have good classification performance; however, they adapt poorly to diverse datasets and their classification accuracy must be improved. Therefore, FSDCNet, a neural network model based on the fusion of static and dynamic convolution, is proposed and applied for multiview 3D point cloud classification in this paper. FSDCNet devises a view selection method with fixed and random viewpoints, which effectively avoids the overfitting caused by the traditional fixed viewpoint. A local feature extraction operator of dynamic and static convolution adaptive weight fusion was designed to improve the model's adaptability to different types of datasets. To address the problems of large parameters and high computational complexity associated with the current methods of dynamic convolution, a lightweight and adaptive dynamic convolution operator was developed. In addition, FSDCNet builds a global attention pooling, integrating the most crucial information on different view features to the greatest extent. Due to these characteristics, FSDCNet is more adaptable, can extract more fine-grained detailed information, and can improve the classification accuracy of point cloud data. The proposed method was applied to the ModelNet40 and Sydney Urban Objects datasets. In these experiments, FSDCNet outperformed its counterparts, achieving state-of-the-art point cloud classification accuracy. For the ModelNet40 dataset, the overall accuracy (OA) and average accuracy (AA) of FSDCNet in a single view reached 93.8% and 91.2%, respectively, which were superior to those values for many other methods using 6 and 12 views. FSDCNet obtained the best results for 6 and 12 views, achieving 94.6%, 93.3%, 95.3%, and 93.6% in OA and AA metrics, respectively. For the Sydney Urban Objects dataset, FSDCNet achieved an OA and F1 score of 81.2% and 80.1% in a single view, respectively, which were higher than most of the compared methods. In 6 and 12 views, FSDCNet reached an OA of 85.3% and 83.6% and an F1 score of 85.5% and 83.7%, respectively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years, due to its powerful feature extraction ability, the deep learning method has been widely used in hyperspectral image classification tasks. However, the features extracted by classical deep learning methods have limited discrimination ability, resulting in unsatisfactory classification performance. In addition, due to the limited data samples of hyperspectral images (HSIs), how to achieve high classification performance under limited samples is also a research hotspot. In order to solve the above problems, this paper proposes a deep learning network framework named the three-dimensional coordination attention mechanism network (3DCAMNet). In this paper, a three-dimensional coordination attention mechanism (3DCAM) is designed. This attention mechanism can not only obtain the long-distance dependence of the spatial position of HSIs in the vertical and horizontal directions, but also obtain the difference of importance between different spectral bands. In order to extract the spectral and spatial information of HSIs more fully, a convolution module based on convolutional neural network (CNN) is adopted in this paper. In addition, the linear module is introduced after the convolution module, which can extract more fine advanced features. In order to verify the effectiveness of 3DCAMNet, a series of experiments were carried out on five datasets, namely, Indian Pines (IP), Pavia University (UP), Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Salinas Valley (SV), and University of Houston (HT). The OAs obtained by the proposed method on the five datasets were 95.81%, 97.01%, 99.01%, 97.48%, and 97.69% respectively, 3.71%, 9.56%, 0.67%, 2.89% and 0.11% higher than the most advanced A2S2K-ResNet. Experimental results show that, compared with some state-of-the-art methods, 3DCAMNet not only has higher classification performance, but also has stronger robustness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes a computer-aided cirrhosis diagnosis system to diagnose cirrhosis based on ultrasound images. We first propose a method to extract a liver capsule on an ultrasound image, then, based on the extracted liver capsule, we fine-tune a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) model to extract features from the image patches cropped around the liver capsules. Finally, a trained support vector machine (SVM) classifier is applied to classify the sample into normal or abnormal cases. Experimental results show that the proposed method can effectively extract the liver capsules and accurately classify the ultrasound images. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, a model based on discrete wavelet transform and convolutional neural network for brain MR image classification has been proposed. The proposed model is comprised of three main stages, namely preprocessing, feature extraction, and classification. In the preprocessing, the median filter has been applied to remove salt-and-pepper noise from the brain MRI images. In the discrete wavelet transform, discrete Harr wavelet transform has been used. In the proposed model, 3-level Harr wavelet decomposition has been applied on the images to remove low-level detail and reduce the size of the images. Next, the convolutional neural network has been used for classifying the brain MR images into normal and abnormal. The convolutional neural network is also a prevalent classification method and has been widely used in different areas. In this study, the convolutional neural network has been used for brain MRI classification. The proposed methodology has been applied to the standard dataset, and for performance evaluation, we have used different performance evaluation measures. The results indicate that the proposed method provides good results with 99% accuracy. The proposed method results are then presented for comparison with some state-of-the-art algorithms where simply the proposed method outperforms the counterpart algorithms. The proposed model has been developed to be used for practical applications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Classifying fine-grained categories (e.g., bird species, car, and aircraft types) is a crucial problem in image understanding and is difficult due to intra-class and inter-class variance. Most of the existing fine-grained approaches individually utilize various parts and local information of objects to improve the classification accuracy but neglect the mechanism of the feature fusion between the object (global) and object's parts (local) to reinforce fine-grained features. In this paper, we present a novel framework, namely object–part registration–fusion Net (OR-Net), which considers the mechanism of registration and fusion between an object (global) and its parts' (local) features for fine-grained classification. Our model learns the fine-grained features from the object of global and local regions and fuses these features with the registration mechanism to reinforce each region's characteristics in the feature maps. Precisely, OR-Net consists of: (1) a multi-stream feature extraction net, which generates features with global and various local regions of objects; (2) a registration–fusion feature module calculates the dimension and location relationships between global (object) regions and local (parts) regions to generate the registration information and fuses the local features into the global features with registration information to generate the fine-grained feature. Experiments execute symmetric GPU devices with symmetric mini-batch to verify that OR-Net surpasses the state-of-the-art approaches on CUB-200-2011 (Birds), Stanford-Cars, and Stanford-Aircraft datasets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Android operating system has gained popularity and evolved rapidly since the previous decade. Traditional approaches such as static and dynamic malware identification techniques require a lot of human intervention and resources to design the malware classification model. The real challenge lies with the fact that inspecting all files of the application structure leads to high processing time, more storage, and manual effort. To solve these problems, optimization algorithms and deep learning has been recently tested for mitigating malware attacks. This manuscript proposes Summing of neurAl aRchitecture and VisualizatiOn Technology for Android Malware identification (SARVOTAM). The system converts the malware non-intuitive features into fingerprint images to extract the quality information. A fine-tuned Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is used to automatically extract rich features from visualized malware thus eliminating the feature engineering and domain expert cost. The experiments were done using the DREBIN dataset. A total of fifteen different combinations of the Android malware image sections were used to identify and classify Android malware. The softmax layer of CNN was substituted with machine learning algorithms like K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN), Support Vector Machine (SVM), and Random Forest (RF) to analyze the grayscale malware images. It is observed that CNN-SVM model outperformed original CNN as well as CNN-KNN, and CNN-RF. The classification results showed that our method is able to achieve an accuracy of 92.59% using Android certificates and manifest malware images. This paper reveals the lightweight solution and much precise option for malware identification. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]