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Ensemble common features technique for lightweight intrusion detection in industrial control system. (2023)
Conference Proceeding
OTOKWALA, U.J. and PETROVSKI, A. 2023. Ensemble common features technique for lightweight intrusion detection in industrial control system. In Proceedings of the 6th IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) International conference on Industrial cyber-physical systems 2023 (ICPS 2023), 8-11 May 2023, Wuhan, China. Piscataway: IEEE [online], 10128040. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/icps58381.2023.10128040

The integration of the Industrial Control System (ICS) with corporate intranets and the internet has exposed the previously isolated SCADA system to a wide range of cyber-attacks. Interestingly, the vulnerabilities in the Modbus protocol, with which... Read More about Ensemble common features technique for lightweight intrusion detection in industrial control system..

Bayesian optimized autoencoder for predictive maintenance of smart packaging machines. (2023)
Conference Proceeding
ARIFEEN, M. and PETROVSKI, A. 2023. Bayesian optimized autoencoder for predictive maintenance of smart packaging machines. In Proceedings of the 6th IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) International conference on Industrial cyber-physical systems 2023 (ICPS 2023), 8-11 May 2023, Wuhan, China. Piscataway: IEEE [online], 10128064. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/icps58381.2023.10128064

Smart packaging machines incorporate various components (blades, motors, films) to accomplish the packaging process and are involved in almost all types of the manufacturing industry. Proper maintenance and monitoring of the components over time can... Read More about Bayesian optimized autoencoder for predictive maintenance of smart packaging machines..

Rethinking densely connected convolutional networks for diagnosing infectious diseases. (2023)
Journal Article
PODDER, P., ALAM, F.B., MONDAL, M.R.H., HASAN, M.J., ROHAN, A. and BHARATI, S. 2023. Rethinking densely connected convolutional networks for diagnosing infectious diseases. Computers [online], 12(5), article 95. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/computers12050095

Due to its high transmissibility, the COVID-19 pandemic has placed an unprecedented burden on healthcare systems worldwide. X-ray imaging of the chest has emerged as a valuable and cost-effective tool for detecting and diagnosing COVID-19 patients. I... Read More about Rethinking densely connected convolutional networks for diagnosing infectious diseases..

Data-driven solution to identify sentiments from online drug reviews. (2023)
Journal Article
HAQUE, R., LASKAR, S.H., KHUSHBU, K.G., HASAN, M.J. and UDDIN, J. 2023. Data-driven solution to identify sentiments from online drug reviews. Computers [online], 12(4), article 87. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/computers12040087

With the proliferation of the internet, social networking sites have become a primary source of user-generated content, including vast amounts of information about medications, diagnoses, treatments, and disorders. Comments on previously used medicin... Read More about Data-driven solution to identify sentiments from online drug reviews..

Rapid detection of multi-QR codes based on multistage stepwise discrimination and a compressed mobilenet. (2023)
Journal Article
CHEN, R., HUANG, H., YU, Y., REN, J., WANG, P., ZHAO, H. and LU, X. 2023. Rapid detection of multi-QR codes based on multistage stepwise discrimination and a compressed mobilenet. IEEE internet of things journal [online], 10(18), pages 15966-15979. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/JIOT.2023.3268636

Poor real-time performance in multi-QR codes detection has been a bottleneck in QR code decoding based Internet-of-Things (IoT) systems. To tackle this issue, we propose in this paper a rapid detection approach, which consists of Multistage Stepwise... Read More about Rapid detection of multi-QR codes based on multistage stepwise discrimination and a compressed mobilenet..

A comparative study of anomaly detection methods for gross error detection problems. (2023)
Journal Article
DOBOS, D., NGUYEN, T.T., DANG, T., WILSON, A., CORBETT, H., MCCALL, J. and STOCKTON, P. 2023. A comparative study of anomaly detection methods for gross error detection problems. Computers and chemical engineering [online], 175, article 108263. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compchemeng.2023.108263

The chemical industry requires highly accurate and reliable measurements to ensure smooth operation and effective monitoring of processing facilities. However, measured data inevitably contains errors from various sources. Traditionally in flow syste... Read More about A comparative study of anomaly detection methods for gross error detection problems..

Plug and abandonment of oil and gas wells: a comprehensive review of regulations, practices, and related impact of materials selection. (2023)
Journal Article
CHUKWUEMEKA, A.O., OLUYEMI, G., MOHAMMED, A.I. and NJUGUNA, J. 2023. Plug and abandonment of oil and gas wells: a comprehensive review of regulations, practices, and related impact of materials selection. Geoenergy science and engineering [online], 226, article 211718. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoen.2023.211718

This paper reviews the state of research in permanent barrier materials for plug and abandonment of oil and gas wells to identify key strengths and weaknesses of each barrier material and understand the impact of reservoir conditions and fluids on ba... Read More about Plug and abandonment of oil and gas wells: a comprehensive review of regulations, practices, and related impact of materials selection..

Multiscale superpixelwise prophet model for noise-robust feature extraction in hyperspectral images. [Dataset] (2023)
Dataset
MA, P., REN, J., SUN, G., ZHAO, H., JIA, X., YAN, Y. and ZABALZA, J. 2023. Multiscale superpixelwise prophet model for noise-robust feature extraction in hyperspectral images. [Dataset]. IEEE transactions on geoscience and remote sensing [online], 61, article 5508912. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/tgrs.2023.3260634/mm1

In this paper, we have proposed Multiscale Superpixelwise Prophet model (MSPM), a novel spectral-spatial feature mining framework for noise-robust feature extraction and effective data classification of the HSI. First, we demonstrate that the Prophet... Read More about Multiscale superpixelwise prophet model for noise-robust feature extraction in hyperspectral images. [Dataset].

Multiscale superpixelwise prophet model for noise-robust feature extraction in hyperspectral images. (2023)
Journal Article
MA, P., REN, J., SUN, G., ZHAO, H., JIA, X., YAN, Y. and ZABALZA, J. 2023. Multiscale superpixelwise prophet model for noise-robust feature extraction in hyperspectral images. IEEE transactions on geoscience and remote sensing [online], 61, article 5508912. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2023.3260634

Despite of various approaches proposed to smooth the hyperspectral images (HSIs) before feature extraction, the efficacy is still affected by the noise, even using the corrected dataset with the noisy and water absorption bands discarded. In this stu... Read More about Multiscale superpixelwise prophet model for noise-robust feature extraction in hyperspectral images..

Structural response of a compliant pipe-in-pipe under frictionless and frictional conditions of the seabed. (2023)
Journal Article
MOHAMMED, A.I., BARTZAS, K., JOHNSON, C., SPENCE, S., SYKES, P., KIDD, G., MCCONNACHIE, J. and NJUGUNA, J. 2023. Structural response of a compliant pipe-in-pipe under frictionless and frictional conditions of the seabed. Ocean engineering [online], 276, article 114020. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2023.114020

Pipe-in-Pipe (PIP) technology has been studied significantly owing to its superior performance in deep-water and high-pressure high temperature fields than conventional single pipe. The PIP system has excellent track record of mitigating flow assuran... Read More about Structural response of a compliant pipe-in-pipe under frictionless and frictional conditions of the seabed..

On the elusivity of dynamic optimisation problems. (2023)
Journal Article
ALZA, J., BARTLETT, M., CEBERIO, J. and MCCALL, J. 2023. On the elusivity of dynamic optimisation problems. Swarm and evolutionary computation [online], 78, article 101289. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.swevo.2023.101289

The field of dynamic optimisation continuously designs and compares algorithms with adaptation abilities that deal with changing problems during their search process. However, restarting the search algorithm after a detected change is sometimes a bet... Read More about On the elusivity of dynamic optimisation problems..

Contour extraction of medical images using an attention-based network. (2023)
Journal Article
LV, J.J., CHEN, H.Y., LI, J.W., LIN, K.H., CHEN, R.J., WANG, L.J., ZENG, X.X., REN, J.C. and ZHAO, H.M. 2023. Contour extraction of medical images using an attention-based network. Biomedical signal processing and control [online], 84, article 104828. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bspc.2023.104828

A comprehensive analysis of medical images is important, as it assists in early screening and clinical treatment as well as subsequent rehabilitation. In general, the contour information can elaborately describe the shape and size of lesions in a med... Read More about Contour extraction of medical images using an attention-based network..

A PESTEL and SWOT impact analysis on renewable energy development in Togo. (2023)
Journal Article
KANSONGUE, N., NJUGUNA, J. and VERTIGANS, S. 2023. A PESTEL and SWOT impact analysis on renewable energy development in Togo. Frontiers in sustainability [online], 3, article 990173. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3389/frsus.2022.990173

Like most developing countries, Togo continues to rely on the use of traditional forms of biomass energy which causes tremendous socio-economic, environmental and health hazards. In addition, the imbalanced distribution and use of electricity, petrol... Read More about A PESTEL and SWOT impact analysis on renewable energy development in Togo..

PSSA: PCA-domain superpixelwise singular spectral analysis for unsupervised hyperspectral image classification. (2023)
Journal Article
LIU, Q., XUE, D., TANG, Y., ZHAO, Y., REN, J. and SUN, H. 2023. PSSA: PCA-domain superpixelwise singular spectral analysis for unsupervised hyperspectral image classification. Remote sensing [online], 15(4), article 890. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15040890

Although supervised classification of hyperspectral images (HSI) has achieved success in remote sensing, its applications in real scenarios are often constrained, mainly due to the insufficiently available or lack of labelled data. As a result, unsup... Read More about PSSA: PCA-domain superpixelwise singular spectral analysis for unsupervised hyperspectral image classification..

Multiscale diff-changed feature fusion network for hyperspectral image change detection. (2023)
Journal Article
LUO, F., ZHOU, T., LIU, J., GUO, T., GONG, X. and REN, J. 2023. Multiscale diff-changed feature fusion network for hyperspectral image change detection. IEEE transactions on geoscience and remote sensing [online], 61, article 5502713. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2023.3241097

For hyperspectral images (HSI) change detection (CD), multi-scale features are usually used to construct the detection models. However, the existing studies only consider the multi-scale features containing changed and unchanged components, which is... Read More about Multiscale diff-changed feature fusion network for hyperspectral image change detection..

Stress analysis of pipe-in-pipe systems under free span for deep water pipeline applications. (2023)
Journal Article
MOHAMMED, A.I., JOHNSON, C., SPENCE, S., SKYES, P. and NJUGUNA, J. 2023. Stress analysis of pipe-in-pipe systems under free span for deep water pipeline applications. Petroleum and petrochemical engineering journal [online], 7(1). Available from: https://doi.org/10.23880/ppej-16000325

This study examined the phenomena of free span for a pipe -in- pipe (PIP) system for pipeline application. Two different span length of 8 and 30 meters are modelled and simulated using nonlinear stress analysis. The effect of pressure, temperature an... Read More about Stress analysis of pipe-in-pipe systems under free span for deep water pipeline applications..

Attention mechanism enhanced multi-layer edge perception network for deep semantic medical segmentation. (2023)
Journal Article
SUN, M., LI, P., REN, J. and WANG, Z. 2023. Attention mechanism enhanced multi-layer edge perception network for deep semantic medical segmentation. Cognitive computation [online], 15(1), pages 348-358. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-022-10094-4

Existing deep learning–based medical image segmentation methods have achieved gratifying progress, but they still suffer from the coarse boundaries with similar pixels of target. Because the boundary of medical images becomes blurred and the gradient... Read More about Attention mechanism enhanced multi-layer edge perception network for deep semantic medical segmentation..

LDDNet: a deep learning framework for the diagnosis of infectious lung diseases. (2023)
Journal Article
PODDER, P., RANI DAS, S., MONDAL, M.R.H., BHARATI, S., MALIHA, A., HASAN, M.J. and PILTAN, F. 2023. LDDNet: a deep learning framework for the diagnosis of infectious lung diseases. Sensors [online], 23(1), article 480. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/s23010480

This paper proposes a new deep learning (DL) framework for the analysis of lung diseases, including COVID-19 and pneumonia, from chest CT scans and X-ray (CXR) images. This framework is termed optimized DenseNet201 for lung diseases (LDDNet). The pro... Read More about LDDNet: a deep learning framework for the diagnosis of infectious lung diseases..

Lightweight interpolation-based surrogate modelling for multi-objective continuous optimisation. (2022)
Conference Proceeding
ZAVOIANU, A.-C., LACROIX, B. and MCCALL, J. 2022. Lightweight Interpolation-based surrogate modelling for multiobjective continuous optimisation. In Moreno-Díaz, R., Pichler, F. and Quesada-Arencibia, A. (eds.) Computer aided systems theory: Eurocast 2022; revised selected papers from the 18th International conference on computer aided systems theory (Eurocast 2022), 20-25 February 2022, Las Palmas, Spain. Lecture notes in computer science, 13789. Cham: Springer [online], pages 53-60. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25312-6_6

We propose two surrogate-based strategies for increasing the convergence speed of multi-objective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) by stimulating the creation of high-quality individuals early in the run. Both offspring generation strategies are desig... Read More about Lightweight interpolation-based surrogate modelling for multi-objective continuous optimisation..

On discovering optimal trade-offs when introducing new routes in existing multi-modal public transport systems. (2022)
Conference Proceeding
HAN, K., CHRISTIE, L.A., ZAVOIANU, A.-C. and MCCALL, J. 2022. On discovering optimal trade-offs when introducing new routes in existing multi-modal public transport systems. In Moreno-Díaz, R., Pichler, F. and Quesada-Arencibia, A. (eds.) Computer aided systems theory: Eurocast 2022; revised selected papers from the 18th International conference on computer aided systems theory (Eurocast 2022), 20-25 February 2022, Las Palmas, Spain. Lecture notes in computer science, 13789. Cham: Springer [online], pages 104-111. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25312-6_12

While self-driving technology is still being perfected, public transport authorities are increasingly interested in the ability to model and optimise the benefits of adding connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) to existing multi-modal transport sy... Read More about On discovering optimal trade-offs when introducing new routes in existing multi-modal public transport systems..