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Currently, we witness the severe spread of the pandemic of the new Corona virus, COVID-19, which causes dangerous symptoms to humans and animals, its complications may lead to death. Although convolutional neural networks (CNNs) is considered the current state-of-the-art image classification technique, it needs massive computational cost for deployment and training. In this paper, we propose an improved hybrid classification approach for COVID-19 images by combining the strengths of CNNs (using a powerful architecture called Inception) to extract features and a swarm-based feature selection algorithm (Marine Predators Algorithm) to select the most relevant features. A combination of fractional-order and marine predators algorithm (FO-MPA) is considered an integration among a robust tool in mathematics named fractional-order calculus (FO). The proposed approach was evaluated on two public COVID-19 X-ray datasets which achieves both high performance and reduction of computational complexity. The two datasets consist of X-ray COVID-19 images by international Cardiothoracic radiologist, researchers and others published on Kaggle. The proposed approach selected successfully 130 and 86 out of 51 K features extracted by inception from dataset 1 and dataset 2, while improving classification accuracy at the same time. The results are the best achieved on these datasets when compared to a set of recent feature selection algorithms. By achieving 98.7%, 98.2% and 99.6%, 99% of classification accuracy and F-Score for dataset 1 and dataset 2, respectively, the proposed approach outperforms several CNNs and all recent works on COVID-19 images.

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A partial shading condition is an environmental phenomenon that causes multiple peaks in Photovoltaic (PV) characteristics. Introducing robust and reliable Maximum Power Point Tracking technique is essential in PV systems to extract the Global Maximum Power Point (GMPP) irrespective of the environmental conditions. Therefore in this manuscript, a novel optimization algorithm is implemented for MPPT. The developed technique named Chaotic Flower Pollination Algorithm (C-FPA) merges the chaos maps (Logistic, sine, and tent maps) to tune the basic algorithm parameters adaptively. The effectiveness of the introduced variants is proved using several patterns of partial shading condition. Moreover, these variants are certified for tracking the GMPP in case of dynamic and sudden variation in the irradiance conditions. Several statistical analysis is carried out to evaluate the performance of the proposed variants in comparison with the standard version of the Flower Pollination Algorithm (FPA). The significant outcome clarifies that combining the chaos maps with FPA improves the dependability and stability of the FPA and offers higher tracking efficiency with a reduction of tracking time by 50% when compared to FPA. Moreover, the proposed C-FPA provides a better dynamic response, especially with the tent chaos map. INDEX TERMS Chaos maps, flower pollination algorithm, maximum power point tracker, partial shading conditions.

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