Protein nanoparticles in drug delivery: animal protein, plant proteins and protein cages, albumin nanoparticles

E Kianfar - Journal of Nanobiotechnology, 2021 - Springer
In this article, we will describe the properties of albumin and its biological functions, types of
sources that can be used to produce albumin nanoparticles, methods of producing albumin …

Magnetic nanoparticles in targeted drug delivery: a review

E Kianfar - Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism, 2021 - Springer
Magnetic nanoparticles are one of the most important and widely used types of
nanomaterials, whose unique properties make them special compared to other …

RUN beyond the metaphor: An efficient optimization algorithm based on Runge Kutta method

I Ahmadianfar, AA Heidari, AH Gandomi, X Chu… - Expert Systems with …, 2021 - Elsevier
The optimization field suffers from the metaphor-based “pseudo-novel” or “fancy” optimizers.
Most of these cliché methods mimic animals' searching trends and possess a small …

Hunger games search: Visions, conception, implementation, deep analysis, perspectives, and towards performance shifts

Y Yang, H Chen, AA Heidari, AH Gandomi - Expert Systems with …, 2021 - Elsevier
A recent set of overused population-based methods have been published in recent years.
Despite their popularity, most of them have uncertain, immature performance, partially done …

The colony predation algorithm

J Tu, H Chen, M Wang, AH Gandomi - Journal of Bionic Engineering, 2021 - Springer
This paper proposes a new stochastic optimizer called the Colony Predation Algorithm
(CPA) based on the corporate predation of animals in nature. CPA utilizes a mathematical …

Multilevel threshold image segmentation for COVID-19 chest radiography: A framework using horizontal and vertical multiverse optimization

H Su, D Zhao, H Elmannai, AA Heidari… - Computers in Biology …, 2022 - Elsevier
COVID-19 is currently raging worldwide, with more patients being diagnosed every day. It
usually is diagnosed by examining pathological photographs of the patient's lungs. There is …

Simulated annealing-based dynamic step shuffled frog leaping algorithm: Optimal performance design and feature selection

Y Liu, AA Heidari, Z Cai, G Liang, H Chen, Z Pan… - Neurocomputing, 2022 - Elsevier
The shuffled frog leaping algorithm is a new optimization algorithm proposed to solve the
combinatorial optimization problem, which effectively combines the memetic algorithm …

Quantum differential evolution with cooperative coevolution framework and hybrid mutation strategy for large scale optimization

W Deng, S Shang, X Cai, H Zhao, Y Zhou… - Knowledge-Based …, 2021 - Elsevier
In order to overcome the low solution efficiency, insufficient diversity in the later search
stage, slow convergence speed and a high search stagnation possibility of differential …

Image segmentation of Leaf Spot Diseases on Maize using multi-stage Cauchy-enabled grey wolf algorithm

H Yu, J Song, C Chen, AA Heidari, J Liu, H Chen… - … Applications of Artificial …, 2022 - Elsevier
Grey wolf optimizer (GWO) is a widespread metaphor-based algorithm based on the
enhanced variants of velocity-free particle swarm optimizer with proven defects and …

Boosted kernel search: Framework, analysis and case studies on the economic emission dispatch problem

R Dong, H Chen, AA Heidari, H Turabieh… - Knowledge-Based …, 2021 - Elsevier
In recent years, a variety of meta-heuristic nature-inspired algorithms have been proposed to
solve complex optimization problems. However, these algorithms suffer from the …