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Using Molecular Fingerprints as Descriptors in Toxicity Prediction: A Survey

During humans' lifetime, their bodies deal with different chemicals through various sources. Chemical toxicity is a challenging problem that needs rapid and efficient methods for evaluation of environmental chemicals, or medications development. Computer science helps in toxicity prediction through building models from pre-tested compounds by learning from data. These models raise a flag to avoid

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Design and implementation of robust firefighting/intruder detection system using fuzzy logic decision control (FIDFUZ)

This research focuses on using quantifiable methods for using the IoT as a main support to firefighting/intruder detection. From our research, we have found numerous researches associated to supplying remote services by means of portable sensors and communication technologies. We represent in our research a unique Smart Firefighting/lntruder Detection System with the support of Fuzzy Logic

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An encryption protocol for NEQR images based on one-particle quantum walks on a circle

Quantum walks are generalizations of random walks that have extensive applications in various fields including cryptography, quantum algorithms, and quantum networking. Discrete quantum walks can be seen as nonlinear mappings between quantum states and position probability distributions, and this mathematical property may be thought of as an imprint of chaotic behavior and consequently used to

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Efficient quantum-based security protocols for information sharing and data protection in 5G networks

Fifth generation (5G)networks aim at utilizing many promising communication technologies, such as Cloud Computing, Network Slicing, and Software Defined Networking. Supporting a massive number of connected devices with 5G advanced technologies and innovating new techniques will surely bring tremendous challenges for trust, security and privacy. Therefore, secure mechanisms and protocols are

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A Deep Learning Approach for Vehicle Detection

The autonomous driving needs some several features to achieve driving without human interference. One of these features is vehicle classification and detection since the target of this process is to help the CPU ''Central Processing Unit" of the vehicle to see what is around the vehicle, in order to evaluate the situation to take the best decision for each situation in real time. This paper is

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Evaluation of computational techniques for predicting non-synonymous single nucleotide variants pathogenicity

The human genetic diseases associated with many factors, one of these factors is the non-synonymous Single Nucleotide Variants (nsSNVs) cause single amino acid change with another resulting in protein function change leading to disease. Many computational techniques have been released to expect the impacts of amino acid alteration on protein function and classify mutations as pathogenic or neutral

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Deep convolutional encoder-decoders with aggregated multi-resolution skip connections for skin lesion segmentation

The prevalence of skin melanoma is rapidly increasing as well as the recorded death cases of its patients. Automatic image segmentation tools play an important role in providing standardized computer-assisted analysis for skin melanoma patients. Current state-of-the-art segmentation methods are based on fully convolutional neural networks, which utilize an encoder-decoder approach. However, these

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AmpliconNet: Sequence Based Multi-layer Perceptron for Amplicon Read Classification Using Real-time Data Augmentation

Taxonomic assignment is the core of targeted metagenomics approaches that aims to assign sequencing reads to their corresponding taxonomy. Sequence similarity searching and machine learning (ML) are two commonly used approaches for taxonomic assignment based on the 16S rRNA. Similarity based approaches require high computation resources, while ML approaches dont need these resources in prediction

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Healthcare

Deep Ensemble Learning for Skin Lesion Classification from Dermoscopic Images

Skin cancer is one of the leading causes of death globally. Early diagnosis of skin lesion significantly increases the prevalence of recovery. Automatic classification of the skin lesion is a challenging task to provide clinicians with the ability to differentiate between different kind of lesion categories and recommend the suitable treatment. Recently, Deep Convolutional Neural Networks have

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Automated Cell-Type Classification and Death-Detection of Spinal Motoneurons

Spinal motoneurons (MNs) play a crucial role in movement control. Decoding the firing activity of spinal MNs could help in real-life challenges, such as enhancing the control of myoelectric prostheses and diagnosing neurodegenerative diseases. In this paper, we propose a machine learning approach to automatically classify MNs based on their firing activity. Applying the proposed approach to data

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