Data mining and knowledge discovery are important technologies for business and research. Despite their benefits in various areas such as marketing, business and medical analysis, the use of data mining techniques can also result in new threats to privacy and information security. Therefore, a new class of data mining methods called privacy preserving data mining (PPDM) has been developed. The aim of researches in this field is to develop techniques those could be applied to databases without violating the privacy of individuals. In this work we introduce a new approach to preserve sensitive information in databases with both numerical and categorical attributes using fuzzy logic. We map a database into a new one that conceals private information while preserving mining benefits. In our proposed method, we use fuzzy membership functions (MFs) such as Gaussian, P-shaped, Sigmoid, S-shaped and Z-shaped for private data. Then we cluster modified datasets by Expectation Maximization (EM) algorithm. Our experimental results show that using fuzzy logic for preserving data privacy guarantees valid data clustering results while protecting sensitive information. The accuracy of the clustering algorithm using fuzzy data is approximately equivalent to original data and is better than the state of the art methods in this field. تفاصيل المقالة

Deep Learning (DL) is the most widely used image-analysis process, especially in medical image processing. Though DL has entered image processing to solve Machine Learning (ML) problems, identifying the most suitable model based on evaluation of the epochs is still an open question for scholars in the field. There are so many types of function approximators like Decision Tree, Gaussian Processes and Deep Learning, used in multi-layered Neural Networks (NNs), which should be evaluated to determine their effectiveness. Therefore, this study aimed to assess an approach based on DL techniques for modern medical imaging methods according to Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) segmentation. To do so, an experiment with a random sampling approach was conducted. One hundred patient cases were used in this study for training, validation, and testing. The method used in this study was based on full automatic processing of segmentation and disease classification based on MRI images. U-Net structure was used for the segmentation process, with the use of cardiac Right Ventricular Cavity (RVC), Left Ventricular Cavity (LVC), Left Ventricular Myocardium (LVM), and information extracted from the segmentation step. With train and using random forest classifier, and Multilayer Perceptron (MLP), the task of predicting the pathologic target class was conducted. Segmentation extracted information was in the form of comprehensive features handcrafted to reflect demonstrative clinical strategies. Our study suggests 92% test accuracy for cardiac MRI image segmentation and classification. As for the MLP ensemble, and for the random forest, test accuracy was equal to 91% and 90%, respectively. This study has implications for scholars in the field of medical image processing. تفاصيل المقالة

مخاطب یک تصویر مایل است که در کوتاه‌ترین زمان، پیام اصلی تصویر را دریافت کند. از این رو سیستم بینایی انسان توجه بصری را ناخودآگاه به سمت نواحی برجسته، با فرض وجود اطلاعات مفید در آنها هدایت می‌کند. عملاً این فرض همواره صادق نبوده و در مواردی، نواحی برجسته صرفاً موجب مزاحمت بصری می‌گردند. از این رو در کاربردهای مختلف نیاز به ساز و کاری جهت تشخیص این نواحی می‌باشد تا با حذف این نواحی، حواس مخاطب از سوژه اصلی تصویر پرت نشود. همچنین نادیده‌گرفتن این نواحی، کمک شایانی است به روش‌هایی که بر پایه تشخیص نواحی برجسته و مهم عمل می‌کنند. بدین منظور در این مقاله، بر اساس روش‌های منطبق بر چالش عدم توازن دسته‌ها، هر قطعه از تصاویر آموزشی با توجه به ماسک آنها به 9 دسته افراز می‌شود که شماره هر دسته متناسب با شدت مزاحمت است. سپس ویژگی‌های مبتنی بر قطعه استخراج و دسته هر قطعه بر اساس روش نمایش تنک دومرحله‌ای و وزن‌دار نمونه آزمون که بر مبنای سیستم کدگذاری و بازنمایی تنک است، تعیین می‌شود. به منظور ارزیابی دقیق روش پیشنهادی و مقایسه آن با سایر روش‌ها، 4 معیار ارزیابی با رویکردهای مختلف معرفی و پیشنهاد می‌شود. با ارزیابی و سنجش نتایج نشان داده می‌شود که روش پیشنهادی علی‌رغم زمان‌بر بودن، نسبت به کارهای پیشین دارای دقت بیشتری است. تفاصيل المقالة