The performance of any machine learning algorithm heavily depends on the quality and quantity of the training data. Machine learning algorithms, driven by training data can accurately predict and produce the right outcome when trained through enough amount of quality data. In the medical applications, being more critical, the accuracy is of utmost importance. Obtaining medical imaging data, enough to train machine learning algorithm is difficult due to a variety of reasons. An effort has been made to produce an augmented dental radiography dataset to train machine learning algorithms. 116 panoramic dental radiographs have been manually segmented for each tooth producing 32 classes of teeth. Out of 3712 images of individual tooth, 2910 were used for machine learning through general augmentation methods that include rotation, intensity transformation and flipping of the images, creating a massive dataset of 5.12 million unique images. The dataset is labeled and classified into 32 classes. This dataset can be used to train deep convolutional neural networks to perform classification and segmentation of teeth in x-rays, Cone-Beam CT scans and other radiographs. We retrained AlexNet on a subset of 80,000 images of the entire dataset and obtained classification accuracy of 98.88% on 10 classes. The retraining on original dataset yielded 88.31%. The result is evident of nearly a 10% increase in the performance of the classifier trained on the augmented dataset. The training and validation datasets include teeth affected with metal objects. The manually segmented dataset can be used as a benchmark to evaluate the performance of machine learning algorithms for performing tooth segmentation and tooth classification.

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-AODV and DSR are normally taken as a standard in reactive routing protocols for Mobile Ad-hoc Network (MANETs). Both of these protocols are widely used in different applications of MANET because of their simple design and better performance. AODV does not provide optimal results in the scenarios where we have heavy traffic with large number of connections and higher routing load. In this paper, we have introduced a novel idea of "Reliability Factor" to determine reliable links between the intermediate nodes; based on this factor a reactive routing protocol is proposed, the simulation results of Reliability Factor Based Routing Protocol (RFBRP) show that it outperforms AODV and SP-AODV in terms of better packet delivery fraction, routing load and end-to-end delay.

Over the past decade, there has been a rapidly rising trend of malware (ransomware) that limits user access by encrypting the data and demanding the ransom against the decryption key. In most cases, such encryption may lead to a permanent data loss. In order to prevent this unwanted encryption, we propose a method based on Moving Target Defense (MTD) approach. Our method is based on the alteration of the attack surface to reduce the attack success ratio. We have used multiple layers of MTD. The first layer generates random extensions that hide the existing known file extensions. This will protect user files against those ransomware variants which encrypt files having some specific extensions. Our second layer of protection uses event-based MTD in which tasks are scheduled to change file extensions at the occurrence of specific events which mostly occur due to the execution of ransomware in the system. As a result of our proposed method, we have successfully protected user files against well-known ransomware variants such as WannaCry,

Many researchers have examined the risks imposed by the Internet of Things (IoT) devices on big companies and smart towns. Due to the high adoption of IoT, their character, inherent mobility, and standardization limitations, smart mechanisms, capable of automatically detecting suspicious movement on IoT devices connected to the local networks are needed. With the increase of IoT devices connected through internet, the capacity of web traffic increased. Due to this change, attack detection through common methods and old data processing techniques is now obsolete. Detection of attacks in IoT and detecting malicious traffic in the early stages is a very challenging problem due to the increase in the size of network traffic. In this paper, a framework is recommended for the detection of malicious network traffic. The framework uses three popular classification-based malicious network traffic detection methods, namely Support Vector Machine (SVM), Gradient Boosted Decision Trees (GBDT), and Random Forest (RF), with RF supervised machine learning algorithm achieving far better accuracy (85.34%). The dataset NSL KDD was used in the recommended framework and the performances in terms of training, predicting time, specificity, and accuracy were compared.

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Healthcare Informatics is a phenomenon being talked about from the early 21st century in the era in which we are living. With evolution of new computing technologies huge amount of data in healthcare is produced opening several research areas. Managing the massiveness of this data is required while extracting knowledge for decision making is the main concern of today. For this task researchers are doing explorations in big data analytics, deep learning (advanced form of machine learning known as deep neural nets), predictive analytics and various other algorithms to bring innovation in healthcare. Through all these innovations happening it is not wrong to establish that disease prediction with anticipation of its cure is no longer unrealistic. First, Dengue Fever (DF) and then Covid-19 likewise are new outbreak in infectious lethal diseases and diagnosing at all stages is crucial to decrease mortality rate. In case of Diabetes, clinicians and experts are finding challenging the timely diagnosis and analyzing the chances of developing underlying diseases. In this paper, Louvain Mani-Hierarchical Fold Learning healthcare analytics, a hybrid deep learning technique is proposed for medical diagnostics and is tested and validated using real-time dataset of 104 instances of patients with dengue fever made available by Holy Family Hospital, Pakistan and 810 instances found for infectious diseases including prognosis of; Covid-19, SARS, ARDS, Pneumocystis, Streptococcus, Chlamydophila, Klebsiella, Legionella, Lipoid, etc. on GitHub. Louvain Mani-Hierarchical Fold Learning healthcare analytics showed maximum 0.952 correlations between two clusters with Spearman when applied on 240 instances extracted from comorbidities diagnostic data model derived from 15696 endocrine records of multiple visits of 100 patients identified by a unique ID. Accuracy for induced rules is evaluated by Laplace (Fig. 8) as 0.727, 0.701 and 0.203 for 41, 18 and 24 rules, respectively. Endocrine diagnostic data is made available by Shifa International Hospital, Islamabad, Pakistan. Our results show that in future this algorithm may be tested for diagnostics on healthcare big data.