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Modern malware is designed with mutation characteristics, namely polymorphism and metamorphism, which causes an enormous growth in the number of variants of malware samples. Categorization of malware samples on the basis of their behaviors…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-03-11 Mansour Ahmadi , Dmitry Ulyanov , Stanislav Semenov , Mikhail Trofimov , Giorgio Giacinto

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have advanced existing medical systems for automatic disease diagnosis. However, there are still concerns about the reliability of deep medical diagnosis systems against the potential threats of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Omid Nejati Manzari , Hamid Ahmadabadi , Hossein Kashiani , Shahriar B. Shokouhi , Ahmad Ayatollahi

In this paper, we consider the problem of malware detection and classification based on image analysis. We convert executable files to images and apply image recognition using deep learning (DL) models. To train these models, we employ…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-28 Niket Bhodia , Pratikkumar Prajapati , Fabio Di Troia , Mark Stamp

Machine learning is increasingly vital in cybersecurity, especially in malware detection. However, concept drift, where the characteristics of malware change over time, poses a challenge for maintaining the efficacy of these detection…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Numan Halit Guldemir , Oluwafemi Olukoya , Jesús Martínez-del-Rincón

Cyber-crimes have become a multi-billion-dollar industry in the recent years. Most cybercrimes/attacks involve deploying some type of malware. Malware that viciously targets every industry, every sector, every enterprise and even…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Marwan Omar

Cyber security can be enhanced through application of machine learning by recasting network attack data into an image format, then applying supervised computer vision and other machine learning techniques to detect malicious specimens.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Erik Larsen , Korey MacVittie , John Lilly

This paper presents an underlying framework for both automating and accelerating malware classification, more specifically, mapping malicious executables to known Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) groups. The main feature of this analysis is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Noah Subedar , Taeui Kim , Saathwick Venkataramalingam

In this paper, we consider malware classification using deep learning techniques and image-based features. We employ a wide variety of deep learning techniques, including multilayer perceptrons (MLP), convolutional neural networks (CNN),…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Pratikkumar Prajapati , Mark Stamp

The brain is a highly complex organ that manages many important tasks, including movement, memory and thinking. Brain-related conditions, like tumors and degenerative disorders, can be hard to diagnose and treat. Magnetic Resonance Imaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Shuvashis Sarker , Shamim Rahim Refat , Faika Fairuj Preotee , Shifat Islam , Tashreef Muhammad , Mohammad Ashraful Hoque

Malware currently presents a number of serious threats to computer users. Signature-based malware detection methods are limited in detecting new malware samples that are significantly different from known ones. Therefore, machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Miles Q. Li , Benjamin C. M. Fung , Philippe Charland , Steven H. H. Ding

In the last decade, convolutional neural networks (ConvNets) have dominated and achieved state-of-the-art performances in a variety of medical imaging applications. However, the performances of ConvNets are still limited by lacking the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-15 Junyu Chen , Yufan He , Eric C. Frey , Ye Li , Yong Du

Today, malware is one of the primary cyberthreats to organizations. Malware has pervaded almost every type of computing device including the ones having limited memory, battery and computation power such as mobile phones, tablets and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Sidharth Anand , Barsha Mitra , Soumyadeep Dey , Abhinav Rao , Rupsa Dhar , Jaideep Vaidya

The threat of malware is a serious concern for computer networks and systems, highlighting the need for accurate classification techniques. In this research, we experiment with multimodal machine learning approaches for malware…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Jonathan Jiang , Mark Stamp

Medical image analysis using computer-based algorithms has attracted considerable attention from the research community and achieved tremendous progress in the last decade. With recent advances in computing resources and availability of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-03 Huyen Tran , Duc Thanh Nguyen , John Yearwood

Malware classification is a contemporary and ongoing challenge in cyber-security: modern obfuscation techniques are able to evade traditional static analysis, while dynamic analysis is too resource intensive to be deployed at a large scale.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Jack Wilkie , Hanan Hindy , Ivan Andonovic , Christos Tachtatzis , Robert Atkinson

Malicious software are categorized into families based on their static and dynamic characteristics, infection methods, and nature of threat. Visual exploration of malware instances and families in a low dimensional space helps in giving a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Mohamed Nassar , Haidar Safa

While the rapid adaptation of mobile devices changes our daily life more conveniently, the threat derived from malware is also increased. There are lots of research to detect malware to protect mobile devices, but most of them adopt only…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Hye Min Kim , Hyun Min Song , Jae Woo Seo , Huy Kang Kim

Malware are malicious programs that are grouped into families based on their penetration technique, source code, and other characteristics. Classifying malware programs into their respective families is essential for building effective…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Filippo Leveni , Matteo Mistura , Francesco Iubatti , Carmine Giangregorio , Nicolò Pastore , Cesare Alippi , Giacomo Boracchi

Active learning for classification seeks to reduce the cost of labeling samples by finding unlabeled examples about which the current model is least certain and sending them to an annotator/expert to label. Bayesian theory can provide a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Ahmed Bensaoud , Jugal Kalita

Medical image segmentation plays an essential role in developing computer-assisted diagnosis and therapy systems, yet still faces many challenges. In the past few years, the popular encoder-decoder architectures based on CNNs (e.g., U-Net)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Guoping Xu , Xingrong Wu , Xuan Zhang , Xinwei He