scholarly journals Phishing Webpage Classification via Deep Learning-Based Algorithms: An Empirical Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (19) ◽  
pp. 9210
Author(s):  
Nguyet Quang Do ◽  
Ali Selamat ◽  
Ondrej Krejcar ◽  
Takeru Yokoi ◽  
Hamido Fujita

Phishing detection with high-performance accuracy and low computational complexity has always been a topic of great interest. New technologies have been developed to improve the phishing detection rate and reduce computational constraints in recent years. However, one solution is insufficient to address all problems caused by attackers in cyberspace. Therefore, the primary objective of this paper is to analyze the performance of various deep learning algorithms in detecting phishing activities. This analysis will help organizations or individuals select and adopt the proper solution according to their technological needs and specific applications’ requirements to fight against phishing attacks. In this regard, an empirical study was conducted using four different deep learning algorithms, including deep neural network (DNN), convolutional neural network (CNN), Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), and gated recurrent unit (GRU). To analyze the behaviors of these deep learning architectures, extensive experiments were carried out to examine the impact of parameter tuning on the performance accuracy of the deep learning models. In addition, various performance metrics were measured to evaluate the effectiveness and feasibility of DL models in detecting phishing activities. The results obtained from the experiments showed that no single DL algorithm achieved the best measures across all performance metrics. The empirical findings from this paper also manifest several issues and suggest future research directions related to deep learning in the phishing detection domain.

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (15) ◽  
pp. 4953
Author(s):  
Sara Al-Emadi ◽  
Abdulla Al-Ali ◽  
Abdulaziz Al-Ali

Drones are becoming increasingly popular not only for recreational purposes but in day-to-day applications in engineering, medicine, logistics, security and others. In addition to their useful applications, an alarming concern in regard to the physical infrastructure security, safety and privacy has arisen due to the potential of their use in malicious activities. To address this problem, we propose a novel solution that automates the drone detection and identification processes using a drone’s acoustic features with different deep learning algorithms. However, the lack of acoustic drone datasets hinders the ability to implement an effective solution. In this paper, we aim to fill this gap by introducing a hybrid drone acoustic dataset composed of recorded drone audio clips and artificially generated drone audio samples using a state-of-the-art deep learning technique known as the Generative Adversarial Network. Furthermore, we examine the effectiveness of using drone audio with different deep learning algorithms, namely, the Convolutional Neural Network, the Recurrent Neural Network and the Convolutional Recurrent Neural Network in drone detection and identification. Moreover, we investigate the impact of our proposed hybrid dataset in drone detection. Our findings prove the advantage of using deep learning techniques for drone detection and identification while confirming our hypothesis on the benefits of using the Generative Adversarial Networks to generate real-like drone audio clips with an aim of enhancing the detection of new and unfamiliar drones.


2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Sunil Rao ◽  
Vivek Narayanaswamy ◽  
Michael Esposito ◽  
Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan ◽  
Andreas Spanias

Reliable and rapid non-invasive testing has become essential for COVID-19 diagnosis and tracking statistics. Recent studies motivate the use of modern machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) tools that utilize features of coughing sounds for COVID-19 diagnosis. In this paper, we describe system designs that we developed for COVID-19 cough detection with the long-term objective of embedding them in a testing device. More specifically, we use log-mel spectrogram features extracted from the coughing audio signal and design a series of customized deep learning algorithms to develop fast and automated diagnosis tools for COVID-19 detection. We first explore the use of a deep neural network with fully connected layers. Additionally, we investigate prospects of efficient implementation by examining the impact on the detection performance by pruning the fully connected neural network based on the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis (LTH) optimization process. In general, pruned neural networks have been shown to provide similar performance gains to that of unpruned networks with reduced computational complexity in a variety of signal processing applications. Finally, we investigate the use of convolutional neural network architectures and in particular the VGG-13 architecture which we tune specifically for this application. Our results show that a unique ensembling of the VGG-13 architecture trained using a combination of binary cross entropy and focal losses with data augmentation significantly outperforms the fully connected networks and other recently proposed baselines on the DiCOVA 2021 COVID-19 cough audio dataset. Our customized VGG-13 model achieves an average validation AUROC of 82.23% and a test AUROC of 78.3% at a sensitivity of 80.49%.


Complexity ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Yang ◽  
Jing Zhang ◽  
Sifeng Wang ◽  
XueDong Zhang

Recommender system has received tremendous attention and has been studied by scholars in recent years due to its wide applications in different domains. With the in-depth study and application of deep learning algorithms, deep neural network is gradually used in recommender systems. The success of modern recommender system mainly depends on the understanding and application of the context of recommendation requests. However, when leveraging deep learning algorithms for recommendation, the impact of context information such as recommendation time and location is often neglected. In this paper, a time-aware convolutional neural network- (CNN-) based personalized recommender system TC-PR is proposed. TC-PR actively recommends items that meet users’ interests by analyzing users’ features, items’ features, and users’ ratings, as well as users’ time context. Moreover, we use Tensorflow distributed open source framework to implement the proposed time-aware CNN-based recommendation algorithm which can effectively solve the problems of large data volume, large model, and slow speed of recommender system. The experimental results on the MovieLens-1m real dataset show that the proposed TC-PR can effectively solve the cold-start problem and greatly improve the speed of data processing and the accuracy of recommendation.


Nowadays, machine learning and deep learning algorithms, are considered as new technologies increasingly used in the biomedical field. Machine learning is a branch of Artificial Intelligence that aims to automatically find patterns in existing data. A new Machine Learning subfield, the deep learning theory, has emerged. It deals with object recognition in images. In this paper, our goal is DNA Microarrays’analysis with these algorithms to classify two genes’ types. The first class represents cell cycle regulated genes and the second is non cell cycle regulated ones. In the current state of the art, the researchers are processing the numerical data associated to gene evolution to achieve this classification. Here, we propose a new and different approach, based on the microarrays images’ treatment. To classify images, we use three machine learning algorithms which are: Support Vector Machine, KNearest Neighbors and Random Forest Classifier. We also use the Convolutional Neural Network and the fully connected neural network algorithms. Experiments demonstrate that our approaches outperform the state of art by a margin of 14.73 per cent by using machine learning algorithms and a margin of 22.39 per cent by using deep learning models. Our models accomplish real time test accuracy of ~ 92.39 % at classifying using CNNand 94.73% using machine learning algorithms.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 58-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Syed Junaid ◽  
Asad Saeed ◽  
Zeili Yang ◽  
Thomas Micic ◽  
Rajesh Botchu

The advances in deep learning algorithms, exponential computing power, and availability of digital patient data like never before have led to the wave of interest and investment in artificial intelligence in health care. No radiology conference is complete without a substantial dedication to AI. Many radiology departments are keen to get involved but are unsure of where and how to begin. This short article provides a simple road map to aid departments to get involved with the technology, demystify key concepts, and pique an interest in the field. We have broken down the journey into seven steps; problem, team, data, kit, neural network, validation, and governance.


Diagnostics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 1672
Author(s):  
Luya Lian ◽  
Tianer Zhu ◽  
Fudong Zhu ◽  
Haihua Zhu

Objectives: Deep learning methods have achieved impressive diagnostic performance in the field of radiology. The current study aimed to use deep learning methods to detect caries lesions, classify different radiographic extensions on panoramic films, and compare the classification results with those of expert dentists. Methods: A total of 1160 dental panoramic films were evaluated by three expert dentists. All caries lesions in the films were marked with circles, whose combination was defined as the reference dataset. A training and validation dataset (1071) and a test dataset (89) were then established from the reference dataset. A convolutional neural network, called nnU-Net, was applied to detect caries lesions, and DenseNet121 was applied to classify the lesions according to their depths (dentin lesions in the outer, middle, or inner third D1/2/3 of dentin). The performance of the test dataset in the trained nnU-Net and DenseNet121 models was compared with the results of six expert dentists in terms of the intersection over union (IoU), Dice coefficient, accuracy, precision, recall, negative predictive value (NPV), and F1-score metrics. Results: nnU-Net yielded caries lesion segmentation IoU and Dice coefficient values of 0.785 and 0.663, respectively, and the accuracy and recall rate of nnU-Net were 0.986 and 0.821, respectively. The results of the expert dentists and the neural network were shown to be no different in terms of accuracy, precision, recall, NPV, and F1-score. For caries depth classification, DenseNet121 showed an overall accuracy of 0.957 for D1 lesions, 0.832 for D2 lesions, and 0.863 for D3 lesions. The recall results of the D1/D2/D3 lesions were 0.765, 0.652, and 0.918, respectively. All metric values, including accuracy, precision, recall, NPV, and F1-score values, were proven to be no different from those of the experienced dentists. Conclusion: In detecting and classifying caries lesions on dental panoramic radiographs, the performance of deep learning methods was similar to that of expert dentists. The impact of applying these well-trained neural networks for disease diagnosis and treatment decision making should be explored.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Luca Sbodio ◽  
Natasha Mulligan ◽  
Stefanie Speichert ◽  
Vanessa Lopez ◽  
Joao Bettencourt-Silva

There is a growing trend in building deep learning patient representations from health records to obtain a comprehensive view of a patient’s data for machine learning tasks. This paper proposes a reproducible approach to generate patient pathways from health records and to transform them into a machine-processable image-like structure useful for deep learning tasks. Based on this approach, we generated over a million pathways from FAIR synthetic health records and used them to train a convolutional neural network. Our initial experiments show the accuracy of the CNN on a prediction task is comparable or better than other autoencoders trained on the same data, while requiring significantly less computational resources for training. We also assess the impact of the size of the training dataset on autoencoders performances. The source code for generating pathways from health records is provided as open source.


2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (10) ◽  
pp. 1784-1790 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fahimeh Ghasemi ◽  
Alireza Mehridehnavi ◽  
Alfonso Pérez-Garrido ◽  
Horacio Pérez-Sánchez

Author(s):  
James Dallas ◽  
Yifan Weng ◽  
Tulga Ersal

Abstract In this work, a novel combined trajectory planner and tracking controller is developed for autonomous vehicles operating on off-road deformable terrains. Common approaches to trajectory planning and tracking often rely on model-dependent schemes, which utilize a simplified model to predict the impact of control inputs to future vehicle response. However, in an off-road context and especially on deformable terrains, accurately modeling the vehicle response for predictive purposes can be challenging due to the complexity of the tire-terrain interaction and limitations of state-of-the-art terramechanics models in terms of operating conditions, computation time, and continuous differentiability. To address this challenge and improve vehicle safety and performance through more accurate prediction of the plant response, in this paper, a nonlinear model predictive control framework is presented that accounts for terrain deformability explicitly using a neural network terramechanics model for deformable terrains. The utility of the proposed scheme is demonstrated on high fidelity simulations for a notional lightweight military vehicle on soft soil. It is shown that the neural network based controller can outperform a baseline Pacejka model based scheme by improving on performance metrics associated with the cost function. In more severe maneuvers, the neural network based controller can achieve sufficient fidelity as compared to the plant to complete maneuvers that lead to failure for the Pacejka based controller. Finally, it is demonstrated that the proposed framework is conducive to real-time implementability.


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