Traditional engineering instruction is deductive, beginning with theories and progressing to the applications of those theories Alternative teaching approaches are more inductive Topics are introduced by presenting specific observations, case studies or problems, and theories are taught or the students are helped to discover them only after the need to know them has been established This study reviews several of the most commonly used inductive teaching methods, including inquiry learning, problem-based learning, project-based learning, case-based teaching, discovery learning, and just-in-time teaching The paper defines each method, highlights commonalities and specific differences, and reviews research on the effectiveness of the methods While the strength of the evidence varies from one method to another, inductive methods are consistently found to be at least equal to, and in general more effective than, traditional deductive methods for achieving a broad range of learning outcomes

Inductive Teaching and Learning Methods: Definitions, Comparisons, and Research Bases

COVID-19 appears to be having a devastating influence on world health and wellbeing. Moreover, the COVID-19 confirmed cases have recently increased to over 10 million worldwide. As the number of verified cases increase, it is more important to monitor and classify healthy and infected people in a timely and accurate manner. Many existing detection methods have failed to detect viral patterns. Henceforth, by using COVID-19 thoracic x-rays and the histogram-oriented gradients (HOG) feature extraction methodology; this research work has created an accurate classification method for performing a reliable detection of COVID-19 viral patterns. Further, the proposed classification model provides good results by leveraging accurate classification of COVID-19 disease based on the medical images. Besides, the performance of our proposed CNN classification method for medical imaging has been assessed based on different edge-based neural networks. Whenever there is an increasing number of a class in the training network, the accuracy of tertiary classification with CNN will be decreasing. Moreover, the analysis of 10 fold cross-validation with confusion metrics can also take place in our research work to detect various diseases caused due to lung infection such as Pneumonia corona viruspositive or negative. The proposed CNN model has been trained and tested with a public X-ray dataset, which is recently published for tertiary and normal classification purposes. For the instance transfer learning, the proposed model has achieved 85% accuracy of tertiary classification that includes normal, COVID-19 positive and Pneumonia. The proposed algorithm obtains good classification accuracy during binary classification procedure integrated with the transfer learning method. Journal of ISMAC (2021) Vol.03/ No.02 Pages: 132-148 http://irojournals.com/iroismac/ DOI: https://doi.org/10.36548/jismac.2021.2.006

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Design of Accurate Classification of COVID-19 Disease in X-Ray Images Using Deep Learning Approach

Introduction: The early detection and diagnosis of COVID-19 and the accurate separation of non-COVID-19 cases at the lowest cost and in the early stages of the disease are among the main challenges in the current COVID-19 pandemic. Concerning the novelty of the disease, diagnostic methods based on radiological images suffer from shortcomings despite their many applications in diagnostic centers. Accordingly, medical and computer researchers tend to use machine-learning models to analyze radiology images. Material and Methods. The present systematic review was conducted by searching the three databases of PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science from November 1, 2019, to July 20, 2020, based on a search strategy. A total of 168 articles were extracted and, by applying the inclusion and exclusion criteria, 37 articles were selected as the research population. Result: This review study provides an overview of the current state of all models for the detection and diagnosis of COVID-19 through radiology modalities and their processing based on deep learning. According to the findings, deep learning-based models have an extraordinary capacity to offer an accurate and efficient system for the detection and diagnosis of COVID-19, the use of which in the processing of modalities would lead to a significant increase in sensitivity and specificity values. Conclusion: The application of deep learning in the field of COVID-19 radiologic image processing reduces false-positive and negative errors in the detection and diagnosis of this disease and offers a unique opportunity to provide fast, cheap, and safe diagnostic services to patients.

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Deep Learning in the Detection and Diagnosis of COVID-19 Using Radiology Modalities: A Systematic Review.

Currently, COVID-19 is considered to be the most dangerous and deadly disease for the human body caused by the novel coronavirus. In December 2019, the coronavirus spread rapidly around the world, thought to be originated from Wuhan in China and is responsible for a large number of deaths. Earlier detection of the COVID-19 through accurate diagnosis, particularly for the cases with no obvious symptoms, may decrease the patient’s death rate. Chest X-ray images are primarily used for the diagnosis of this disease. This research has proposed a machine vision approach to detect COVID-19 from the chest X-ray images. The features extracted by the histogram-oriented gradient (HOG) and convolutional neural network (CNN) from X-ray images were fused to develop the classification model through training by CNN (VGGNet). Modified anisotropic diffusion filtering (MADF) technique was employed for better edge preservation and reduced noise from the images. A watershed segmentation algorithm was used in order to mark the significant fracture region in the input X-ray images. The testing stage considered generalized data for performance evaluation of the model. Cross-validation analysis revealed that a 5-fold strategy could successfully impair the overfitting problem. This proposed feature fusion using the deep learning technique assured a satisfactory performance in terms of identifying COVID-19 compared to the immediate, relevant works with a testing accuracy of 99.49%, specificity of 95.7% and sensitivity of 93.65%. When compared to other classification techniques, such as ANN, KNN, and SVM, the CNN technique used in this study showed better classification performance. K-fold cross-validation demonstrated that the proposed feature fusion technique (98.36%) provided higher accuracy than the individual feature extraction methods, such as HOG (87.34%) or CNN (93.64%).

COVID-19 Detection from Chest X-ray Images Using Feature Fusion and Deep Learning.

Coronavirus disease, first detected in late 2019 (COVID-19), has spread fast throughout the world, leading to high mortality. This condition can be diagnosed using RT-PCR technique on nasopharyngeal and throat swabs with sensitivity values ranging from 30 to 70%. However, chest CT scans and X-ray images have been reported to have sensitivity values of 98 and 69%, respectively. The application of machine learning methods on CT and X-ray images has facilitated the accurate diagnosis of COVID-19. In this study, we reviewed studies which used machine and deep learning methods on chest X-ray images and CT scans for COVID-19 diagnosis and compared their performance. The accuracy of these methods ranged from 76% to more than 99%, indicating the applicability of machine and deep learning methods in the clinical diagnosis of COVID-19.

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Application of Machine Learning in Diagnosis of COVID-19 Through X-Ray and CT Images: A Scoping Review

This paper evaluates the performance of the Neural Architecture Search Network (NASNet) in the automatic detection of COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease 2019) from chest x-ray images. COVID-19 is a disease caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) that produces in patients fever, cough, shortness of breath, muscle pain, sputum production, diarrhea, and even sore throat. The virus spreads through the air, and to date, is expanding as a global pandemic. There is no vaccine, and it is fatal to approximately 2-7% of the infected population. Among the clinical and paraclinical characteristics of infected patients, nodules have been identified in images of chest x-rays that can be visually identified, producing a simple, rapid, and generally available method of identification. However, the rapid spread of the disease means that there is a lack of specialized medical personnel capable of identifying it, which is why automated schemes are being developed. We propose the tuning of a NASNet-type convolutional model to automatically determine the initial state of a patient in the triage process or intervention protocol of health care centers. The neural network is trained with public images of cases positively identified as patients infected with the virus and patients in normal conditions without infection. Performance evaluation is also done with real images unknown to the neuronal model. As for performance metrics, we use the function of loss of cross-entropy (categorical cross-entropy), the accuracy (or success rate), and the MSE (Mean Squared Error). The tuned model was able to correctly classify the test images with an accuracy of 97%.

Performance Evaluation of the NASNet Convolutional Network in the Automatic Identification of COVID-19

The use of swarms robots to search in collapsed environments, today becomes in a real alternative solution to support rescue efforts in landslide and other disasters. However, these environments have special features (unknown and dynamic) under which rapid responses are required (little processing time) with a major limitation of sensors (problems for the use of cameras and GPS's for example) and communication. In this paper, we analyze an alternative of navigation for a swarm robots with very limited capabilities (very limited processing power, communication and sensing). Our minimalist approach seeks to solve the problem without requiring system identification, geometric map building, localization, or state estimation. Instead, we propose a strategy based on Brownian motion, in which each robot is modeled as a particle whose motion is influenced by landmarks installed in the environment. The degree of influence on the robot corresponds to the design of the navigation route. Under this scheme, the robots perform minimal processing, and the parallel navigation increases confidence in the search process. The proposed navigation scheme is analyzed and then evaluated by simulation.

Brownian motion as exploration strategy for autonomous swarm robots

This paper presents a low cost strategy for real-time estimation of the position of obstacles in an unknown environment for autonomous robots. The strategy was intended for use in autonomous service robots, which navigate in unknown and dynamic indoor environments. In addition to human interaction, these environments are characterized by a design created for the human being, which is why our developments seek morphological and functional similarity equivalent to the human model. We use a pair of cameras on our robot to achieve a stereoscopic vision of the environment, and we analyze this information to determine the distance to obstacles using an algorithm that mimics bacterial behavior. The algorithm was evaluated on our robotic platform demonstrating high performance in the location of obstacles and real-time operation.

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Obstacle detection for autonomous systems using stereoscopic images and bacterial behaviour

This paper proposes a geometric strategy for generating optimal navigation paths for robots in static and observable environments. As design principles for the algorithm, robustness, simplicity and low computational cost were established. The algorithm uses image segmentation into regions as architecture support. These regions are constructed from the vertices of the obstacles, which define two independent sets of regions. From the boundaries between regions we build a set of secure navigation points, points that are the basis for generating a bank of secure paths. Finally, a search algorithm selects, from this bank, the path that the robot will follow. The algorithm has been successfully evaluated by simulation on over 30 environments, finding a suitable path in 100% of the cases.

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Edwar Jacinto

Papers

Performance Evaluation of the NASNet Convolutional Network in the Automatic Identification of COVID-19

Brownian motion as exploration strategy for autonomous swarm robots

Obstacle detection for autonomous systems using stereoscopic images and bacterial behaviour

Generación de Ruta Óptima para Robots Móviles a Partir de Segmentación de Imágenes

Algoritmo de navegación a bordo en ambientes controlados a partir de procesamiento de imágenes