scholarly journals Malware Detection using Deep Learning

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (VI) ◽  
pp. 1847-1853
Author(s):  
T. Shiva Rama Krishna
Keyword(s):  
Image Processing ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Malware Detection ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Image Processing Technique ◽  
Feature Engineering ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Static And Dynamic Analysis ◽  
Private Datasets ◽  
Learning Architectures

Malicious software or malware continues to pose a major security concern in this digital age as computer users, corporations, and governments witness an exponential growth in malware attacks. Current malware detection solutions adopt Static and Dynamic analysis of malware signatures and behaviour patterns that are time consuming and ineffective in identifying unknown malwares. Recent malwares use polymorphic, metamorphic and other evasive techniques to change the malware behaviour’s quickly and to generate large number of malwares. Since new malwares are predominantly variants of existing malwares, machine learning algorithms are being employed recently to conduct an effective malware analysis. This requires extensive feature engineering, feature learning and feature representation. By using the advanced MLAs such as deep learning, the feature engineering phase can be completely avoided. Though some recent research studies exist in this direction, the performance of the algorithms is biased with the training data. There is a need to mitigate bias and evaluate these methods independently in order to arrive at new enhanced methods for effective zero-day malware detection. To fill the gap in literature, this work evaluates classical MLAs and deep learning architectures for malware detection, classification and categorization with both public and private datasets. The train and test splits of public and private datasets used in the experimental analysis are disjoint to each other’s and collected in different timescales. In addition, we propose a novel image processing technique with optimal parameters for MLAs and deep learning architectures. A comprehensive experimental evaluation of these methods indicate that deep learning architectures outperform classical MLAs. Overall, this work proposes an effective visual detection of malware using a scalable and hybrid deep learning framework for real-time deployments. The visualization and deep learning architectures for static, dynamic and image processing-based hybrid approach in a big data environment is a new enhanced method for effective zero-day malware detection.

scholarly journals An Efficient DenseNet-Based Deep Learning Model for Malware Detection

Entropy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 344
Author(s):  
Jeyaprakash Hemalatha ◽  
S. Abijah Roseline ◽  
Subbiah Geetha ◽  
Seifedine Kadry ◽  
Robertas Damaševičius
Keyword(s):  
Deep Learning ◽  
Detection System ◽  
Malware Detection ◽  
Class Imbalance ◽  
Learning Model ◽  
Computational Time ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
Security Threat ◽  
Static And Dynamic Analysis ◽  
Deep Learning Model

Recently, there has been a huge rise in malware growth, which creates a significant security threat to organizations and individuals. Despite the incessant efforts of cybersecurity research to defend against malware threats, malware developers discover new ways to evade these defense techniques. Traditional static and dynamic analysis methods are ineffective in identifying new malware and pose high overhead in terms of memory and time. Typical machine learning approaches that train a classifier based on handcrafted features are also not sufficiently potent against these evasive techniques and require more efforts due to feature-engineering. Recent malware detectors indicate performance degradation due to class imbalance in malware datasets. To resolve these challenges, this work adopts a visualization-based method, where malware binaries are depicted as two-dimensional images and classified by a deep learning model. We propose an efficient malware detection system based on deep learning. The system uses a reweighted class-balanced loss function in the final classification layer of the DenseNet model to achieve significant performance improvements in classifying malware by handling imbalanced data issues. Comprehensive experiments performed on four benchmark malware datasets show that the proposed approach can detect new malware samples with higher accuracy (98.23% for the Malimg dataset, 98.46% for the BIG 2015 dataset, 98.21% for the MaleVis dataset, and 89.48% for the unseen Malicia dataset) and reduced false-positive rates when compared with conventional malware mitigation techniques while maintaining low computational time. The proposed malware detection solution is also reliable and effective against obfuscation attacks.

scholarly journals An Efficient SMOTE-Based Deep Learning Model for Heart Attack Prediction

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Muhammad Waqar ◽  
Hassan Dawood ◽  
Hussain Dawood ◽  
Nadeem Majeed ◽  
Ameen Banjar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Heart Attack ◽  
High Reliability ◽  
Learning Algorithms ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Feature Engineering ◽  
Unequal Distribution ◽  
The Given

Cardiac disease treatments are often being subjected to the acquisition and analysis of vast quantity of digital cardiac data. These data can be utilized for various beneficial purposes. These data’s utilization becomes more important when we are dealing with critical diseases like a heart attack where patient life is often at stake. Machine learning and deep learning are two famous techniques that are helping in making the raw data useful. Some of the biggest problems that arise from the usage of the aforementioned techniques are massive resource utilization, extensive data preprocessing, need for features engineering, and ensuring reliability in classification results. The proposed research work presents a cost-effective solution to predict heart attack with high accuracy and reliability. It uses a UCI dataset to predict the heart attack via various machine learning algorithms without the involvement of any feature engineering. Moreover, the given dataset has an unequal distribution of positive and negative classes which can reduce performance. The proposed work uses a synthetic minority oversampling technique (SMOTE) to handle given imbalance data. The proposed system discarded the need of feature engineering for the classification of the given dataset. This led to an efficient solution as feature engineering often proves to be a costly process. The results show that among all machine learning algorithms, SMOTE-based artificial neural network when tuned properly outperformed all other models and many existing systems. The high reliability of the proposed system ensures that it can be effectively used in the prediction of the heart attack.

scholarly journals Certain Investigations on the Application of Machine learning Algorithms and Deep Learning Architectures for Covid -19 Diagnosis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soundariya R.S. ◽  
◽  
Tharsanee R.M. ◽  
Vishnupriya B ◽  
Ashwathi R ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Mathematical Models ◽  
Ct Scan ◽  
Virus Disease ◽  
Learning Algorithms ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Laboratory Test Results ◽  
Learning Architectures

Corona virus disease (Covid - 19) has started to promptly spread worldwide from April 2020 till date, leading to massive death and loss of lives of people across various countries. In accordance to the advices of WHO, presently the diagnosis is implemented by Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT- PCR) testing, that incurs four to eight hours’ time to process test samples and adds 48 hours to categorize whether the samples are positive or negative. It is obvious that laboratory tests are time consuming and hence a speedy and prompt diagnosis of the disease is extremely needed. This can be attained through several Artificial Intelligence methodologies for prior diagnosis and tracing of corona diagnosis. Those methodologies are summarized into three categories: (i) Predicting the pandemic spread using mathematical models (ii) Empirical analysis using machine learning models to forecast the global corona transition by considering susceptible, infected and recovered rate. (iii) Utilizing deep learning architectures for corona diagnosis using the input data in the form of X-ray images and CT scan images. When X-ray and CT scan images are taken into account, supplementary data like medical signs, patient history and laboratory test results can also be considered while training the learning model and to advance the testing efficacy. Thus the proposed investigation summaries the several mathematical models, machine learning algorithms and deep learning frameworks that can be executed on the datasets to forecast the traces of COVID-19 and detect the risk factors of coronavirus.

scholarly journals Deep Learning Image Processing Technique for Early Detection of Alzheimer's Disease

2017 ◽  
Vol 107 ◽  
pp. 85-104
Author(s):  
Raju Anitha ◽  
S. Jyothi ◽  
Venkata Naresh Mandhala ◽  
Debnath Bhattacharyya ◽  
Tai-hoon Kim
Keyword(s):  
Alzheimer’S Disease ◽  
Image Processing ◽  
Alzheimer's Disease ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Early Detection ◽  
Processing Technique ◽  
Image Processing Technique

Successful leveraging of image processing and machine learning in seismic structural interpretation: A review

2018 ◽  
Vol 37 (6) ◽  
pp. 451-461 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhen Wang ◽  
Haibin Di ◽  
Muhammad Amir Shafiq ◽  
Yazeed Alaudah ◽  
Ghassan AlRegib
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Image Processing ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Seismic Data ◽  
Domain Knowledge ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Hydrocarbon Exploration ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Structural Interpretation ◽  
Salt Domes

As a process that identifies geologic structures of interest such as faults, salt domes, or elements of petroleum systems in general, seismic structural interpretation depends heavily on the domain knowledge and experience of interpreters as well as visual cues of geologic structures, such as texture and geometry. With the dramatic increase in size of seismic data acquired for hydrocarbon exploration, structural interpretation has become more time consuming and labor intensive. By treating seismic data as images rather than signal traces, researchers have been able to utilize advanced image-processing and machine-learning techniques to assist interpretation directly. In this paper, we mainly focus on the interpretation of two important geologic structures, faults and salt domes, and summarize interpretation workflows based on typical or advanced image-processing and machine-learning algorithms. In recent years, increasing computational power and the massive amount of available data have led to the rise of deep learning. Deep-learning models that simulate the human brain's biological neural networks can achieve state-of-the-art accuracy and even exceed human-level performance on numerous applications. The convolutional neural network — a form of deep-learning model that is effective in analyzing visual imagery — has been applied in fault and salt dome interpretation. At the end of this review, we provide insight and discussion on the future of structural interpretation.

scholarly journals Deep-ACTINet: End-to-End Deep Learning Architecture for Automatic Sleep-Wake Detection Using Wrist Actigraphy

Electronics ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 1461 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taeheum Cho ◽  
Unang Sunarya ◽  
Minsoo Yeo ◽  
Bosun Hwang ◽  
Yong Seo Koo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Sleep Disorders ◽  
Learning Algorithms ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Feature Engineering ◽  
Model Based ◽  
Wrist Actigraphy ◽  
End To End ◽  
Wake Detection

Sleep scoring is the first step for diagnosing sleep disorders. A variety of chronic diseases related to sleep disorders could be identified using sleep-state estimation. This paper presents an end-to-end deep learning architecture using wrist actigraphy, called Deep-ACTINet, for automatic sleep-wake detection using only noise canceled raw activity signals recorded during sleep and without a feature engineering method. As a benchmark test, the proposed Deep-ACTINet is compared with two conventional fixed model based sleep-wake scoring algorithms and four feature engineering based machine learning algorithms. The datasets were recorded from 10 subjects using three-axis accelerometer wristband sensors for eight hours in bed. The sleep recordings were analyzed using Deep-ACTINet and conventional approaches, and the suggested end-to-end deep learning model gained the highest accuracy of 89.65%, recall of 92.99%, and precision of 92.09% on average. These values were approximately 4.74% and 4.05% higher than those for the traditional model based and feature based machine learning algorithms, respectively. In addition, the neuron outputs of Deep-ACTINet contained the most significant information for separating the asleep and awake states, which was demonstrated by their high correlations with conventional significant features. Deep-ACTINet was designed to be a general model and thus has the potential to replace current actigraphy algorithms equipped in wristband wearable devices.

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