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Brain tumors, characterized by the uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells, pose a significant threat to human health. Early detection is crucial for successful treatment and improved patient outcomes. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is the primary diagnostic tool for brain tumors, providing detailed visualizations of the brain's intricate structures. However, the complexity and variability of tumor shapes and locations often challenge physicians in achieving accurate tumor segmentation on MRI images. Precise tumor segmentation is essential for effective treatment planning and prognosis. To address this challenge, we propose a novel hybrid deep learning technique, Convolutional Neural Network and ResNeXt101 (ConvNet-ResNeXt101), for automated tumor segmentation and classification. Our approach commences with data acquisition from the BRATS 2020 dataset, a benchmark collection of MRI images with corresponding tumor segmentations. Next, we employ batch normalization to smooth and enhance the collected data, followed by feature extraction using the AlexNet model. This involves extracting features based on tumor shape, position, shape, and surface characteristics. To select the most informative features for effective segmentation, we utilize an advanced meta-heuristics algorithm called Advanced Whale Optimization (AWO). AWO mimics the hunting behavior of humpback whales to iteratively search for the optimal feature subset. With the selected features, we perform image segmentation using the ConvNet-ResNeXt101 model. This deep learning architecture combines the strengths of ConvNet and ResNeXt101, a type of ConvNet with aggregated residual connections. Finally, we apply the same ConvNet-ResNeXt101 model for tumor classification, categorizing the segmented tumor into distinct types. Our experiments demonstrate the superior performance of our proposed ConvNet-ResNeXt101 model compared to existing approaches, achieving an accuracy of 99.27% for the tumor core class with a minimum learning elapsed time of 0.53 s. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Data are a main resource of a computer system, which can be transmitted over network from source to destination. While transmitting, it faces lot of security issues such as virus, malware, infection, error, and data loss. The security issues are the attacks that have to be detected and eliminated in efficient way to guarantee the secure transmission. The attack detection rates of existing Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) are low, because the number of unknown attacks are high when compared to the known attacks in the network. Thus, recent researchers focus more on evaluation of known attacks attributes, that will help in identification of the attacks. But the difficulty here is the nature of the IDS datasets. The difficulty in any IDS dataset is to, too many attributes, irrelevant and unstructured in nature. So analyzing such attributes leads to a time consuming process and that produces an inefficient result. This article presents a combined approach Principle Component Analysis and Deep learning (PCA‐DL) model to address above issues. The proposed PCA‐DL method has achieved the accuracy 92.6% on detecting the attacks correctly. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the urban scene segmentation, the "image-to-image translation issue" refers to the fundamental task of transforming input images into meaningful segmentation maps, which essentially involves translating the visual information present in the input image into semantic labels for different classes. When this translation process is inaccurate or incomplete, it can lead to failed segmentation results where the model struggles to correctly classify pixels into the appropriate semantic categories. The study proposed a conditional Generative Adversarial Network (cGAN), for creating high-resolution urban maps from satellite images. The method combines semantic and spatial data using cGAN framework to produce realistic urban scenes while maintaining crucial details. To assess the performance of the proposed method, extensive experiments are performed on benchmark datasets, the ISPRS Potsdam and Vaihingen datasets. Intersection over Union (IoU) and Pixel Accuracy are two quantitative metrics used to evaluate the segmentation accuracy of the produced maps. The proposed method outperforms traditional methods with an IoU of 87% and a Pixel Accuracy of 93%. The experimental findings show that the suggested cGAN-based method performs better than traditional techniques, attaining better segmentation accuracy and generating better urban maps with finely detailed information. The suggested approach provides a framework for resolving the image-to-image translation difficulties in urban scene segmentation, demonstrating the potential of cGANs for producing excellent urban maps from satellite data., Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist., (Copyright: © 2024 Sangeetha et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.)