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VLC-Assisted Safety Message Dissemination in Roadside Infrastructure-Less IoV Systems: Modeling and Analysis (2023)
Journal Article
Xie, Y., Xu, D., Zhang, T., Yu, K., Hussain, A., & Guizani, M. (2024). VLC-Assisted Safety Message Dissemination in Roadside Infrastructure-Less IoV Systems: Modeling and Analysis. IEEE Internet of Things, 11(5), 8185-8198. https://doi.org/10.1109/jiot.20

Internet of Vehicles (IoV) is an emerging paradigm with significant potential to improve traffic efficiency and driving safety. Here, we focus on the design of a novel visible light communication (VLC)-assisted scheme to enable driving safety-related... Read More about VLC-Assisted Safety Message Dissemination in Roadside Infrastructure-Less IoV Systems: Modeling and Analysis.

CoDeS: A Deep Learning Framework for Identifying COVID-Caused Depression Symptoms (2023)
Journal Article
Wani, M. A., ELAffendi, M., Bours, P., Imran, A. S., Hussain, A., & Abd El-Latif, A. A. (2024). CoDeS: A Deep Learning Framework for Identifying COVID-Caused Depression Symptoms. Cognitive Computation, 16(1), 305-325. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-023-10

Depression is a serious mental health condition that affects a person’s ability to feel happy and engaged in activities. The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an increase in depression due to factors such as isolation, financial stress, and uncertainty ab... Read More about CoDeS: A Deep Learning Framework for Identifying COVID-Caused Depression Symptoms.

Resolving the Decreased Rank Attack in RPL’s IoT Networks (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ghaleb, B., Al-Duba, A., Hussain, A., Romdhani, I., & Jaroucheh, Z. (2023). Resolving the Decreased Rank Attack in RPL’s IoT Networks. In 2023 19th International Conference on Distributed Computing in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things (DCOSS-Io

The Routing Protocol for Low power and Lossy networks (RPL) has been developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standardization body to serve as a part of the 6LoWPAN (IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Networks) standard, a core... Read More about Resolving the Decreased Rank Attack in RPL’s IoT Networks.

Advancing the Understanding of Clinical Sepsis Using Gene Expression-Driven Machine Learning to Improve Patient Outcomes (2023)
Journal Article
Rashid, A., Al-Obeida, F., Hafez, W., Benakatti, G., Malik, R. A., Koutentis, C., …Hussain, A. (2024). Advancing the Understanding of Clinical Sepsis Using Gene Expression-Driven Machine Learning to Improve Patient Outcomes. Shock, 61(1), 4-18. https://

Sepsis remains a major challenge that necessitates improved approaches to enhance patient outcomes. This study explored the potential of Machine Learning (ML) techniques to bridge the gap between clinical data and gene expression information to bette... Read More about Advancing the Understanding of Clinical Sepsis Using Gene Expression-Driven Machine Learning to Improve Patient Outcomes.

A Digital Twin-Assisted Intelligent Partial Offloading Approach for Vehicular Edge Computing (2023)
Journal Article
Zhao, L., Zhao, Z., Zhang, E., Hawbani, A., Al-Dubai, A., Tan, Z., & Hussain, A. (2023). A Digital Twin-Assisted Intelligent Partial Offloading Approach for Vehicular Edge Computing. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 41(11), 3386-3400. htt

Vehicle Edge Computing (VEC) is a promising paradigm that exposes Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) to road scenarios. In VEC, task offloading can enable vehicles to offload the computing tasks to nearby Roadside Units (RSUs) that deploy computing capabili... Read More about A Digital Twin-Assisted Intelligent Partial Offloading Approach for Vehicular Edge Computing.

Interpreting Black-Box Models: A Review on Explainable Artificial Intelligence (2023)
Journal Article
Hassija, V., Chamola, V., Mahapatra, A., Singal, A., Goel, D., Huang, K., …Hussain, A. (2024). Interpreting Black-Box Models: A Review on Explainable Artificial Intelligence. Cognitive Computation, 16(1), 45-74. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-023-10179-

Recent years have seen a tremendous growth in Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based methodological development in a broad range of domains. In this rapidly evolving field, large number of methods are being reported using machine learning (ML) and Deep L... Read More about Interpreting Black-Box Models: A Review on Explainable Artificial Intelligence.

A Transcriptomic Appreciation of Childhood Meningococcal and Polymicrobial Sepsis from a Pro-Inflammatory and Trajectorial Perspective, a Role for Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor A and B Modulation? (2023)
Journal Article
Rashid, A., Brusletto, B. S., Al-Obeidat, F., Toufiq, M., Benakatti, G., Brierley, J., …Hussain, A. (2023). A Transcriptomic Appreciation of Childhood Meningococcal and Polymicrobial Sepsis from a Pro-Inflammatory and Trajectorial Perspective, a Role fo

This study investigated the temporal dynamics of childhood sepsis by analyzing gene expression changes associated with proinflammatory processes. Five datasets, including four meningococcal sepsis shock (MSS) datasets (two temporal and two longitudin... Read More about A Transcriptomic Appreciation of Childhood Meningococcal and Polymicrobial Sepsis from a Pro-Inflammatory and Trajectorial Perspective, a Role for Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor A and B Modulation?.

Towards Pose-Invariant Audio-Visual Speech Enhancement in the Wild for Next-Generation Multi-Modal Hearing Aids (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gogate, M., Dashtipour, K., & Hussain, A. (2023). Towards Pose-Invariant Audio-Visual Speech Enhancement in the Wild for Next-Generation Multi-Modal Hearing Aids. In 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Workshops

Classical audio-visual (AV) speech enhancement (SE) and separation methods have been successful at operating under constrained environments; however, the speech quality and intelligibility improvement is significantly reduced in unconstrained real-wo... Read More about Towards Pose-Invariant Audio-Visual Speech Enhancement in the Wild for Next-Generation Multi-Modal Hearing Aids.

ESPP: Efficient Sector-based Charging Scheduling and Path Planning for WRSNs with Hexagonal Topology (2023)
Journal Article
Naji, A., Hawbani, A., Wang, X., Al-Gunid, H. M., Al-Dhabi, Y., Al-Dubai, A., …Alsamhi, S. H. (2024). ESPP: Efficient Sector-based Charging Scheduling and Path Planning for WRSNs with Hexagonal Topology. IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, 9(1),

Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) is a promising technology that can potentially mitigate the energy provisioning problem for sensor networks. In order to efficiently replenish energy for these battery-powered devices, designing appropriate scheduling an... Read More about ESPP: Efficient Sector-based Charging Scheduling and Path Planning for WRSNs with Hexagonal Topology.

Sentiment Analysis Meets Explainable Artificial Intelligence: A Survey on Explainable Sentiment Analysis (2023)
Journal Article
Diwali, A., Saeedi, K., Dashtipour, K., Gogate, M., Cambria, E., & Hussain, A. (in press). Sentiment Analysis Meets Explainable Artificial Intelligence: A Survey on Explainable Sentiment Analysis. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, https://doi.org/

Sentiment analysis can be used to derive knowledge that is connected to emotions and opinions from textual data generated by people. As computer power has grown, and the availability of benchmark datasets has increased, deep learning models based on... Read More about Sentiment Analysis Meets Explainable Artificial Intelligence: A Survey on Explainable Sentiment Analysis.

Underwater image clarifying based on human visual colour constancy using double‐opponency (2023)
Journal Article
Kong, B., Qian, J., Song, P., Yang, J., & Hussain, A. (in press). Underwater image clarifying based on human visual colour constancy using double‐opponency. CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, https://doi.org/10.1049/cit2.12260

Underwater images are often with biased colours and reduced contrast because of the absorption and scattering effects when light propagates in water. Such images with degradation cannot meet the needs of underwater operations. The main problem in cla... Read More about Underwater image clarifying based on human visual colour constancy using double‐opponency.

Editorial: The new frontier in brain network physiology: from temporal dynamics to the principles of integration in physiological brain networks (2023)
Journal Article
Trenado, C., Mendez-Balbuena, I., Damborská, A., Hussain, A., Mahmud, M., & Daliri, M. R. (2023). Editorial: The new frontier in brain network physiology: from temporal dynamics to the principles of integration in physiological brain networks. Frontiers

Editorial on the Research Topic - The new frontier in brain network physiology: from temporal dynamics to the principles of integration in physiological brain networks

Artificial Intelligence for Cognitive Health Assessment: State-of-the-Art, Open Challenges and Future Directions (2023)
Journal Article
Javed, A. R., Saadia, A., Mughal, H., Gadekallu, T. R., Rizwan, M., Maddikunta, P. K. R., …Hussain, A. (2023). Artificial Intelligence for Cognitive Health Assessment: State-of-the-Art, Open Challenges and Future Directions. Cognitive Computation, 15, 1

The subjectivity and inaccuracy of in-clinic Cognitive Health Assessments (CHA) have led many researchers to explore ways to automate the process to make it more objective and to facilitate the needs of the healthcare industry. Artificial Intelligenc... Read More about Artificial Intelligence for Cognitive Health Assessment: State-of-the-Art, Open Challenges and Future Directions.

A Hurst‐based diffusion model using time series characteristics for influence maximization in social networks (2023)
Journal Article
Saxena, B., Saxena, V., Anand, N., Hassija, V., Chamola, V., & Hussain, A. (2023). A Hurst‐based diffusion model using time series characteristics for influence maximization in social networks. Expert Systems, 40(9), Article e13375. https://doi.org/10.1

Online social networks have grown exponentially in the recent years while finding applications in real life like marketing, recommendation systems, and social awareness campaigns. An important research area in this field is Influence Maximization, wh... Read More about A Hurst‐based diffusion model using time series characteristics for influence maximization in social networks.

Arabic Sentiment Analysis Based on Word Embeddings and Deep Learning (2023)
Journal Article
Elhassan, N., Varone, G., Ahmed, R., Gogate, M., Dashtipour, K., Almoamari, H., El-Affendi, M. A., Al-Tamimi, B. N., Albalwy, F., & Hussain, A. (2023). Arabic Sentiment Analysis Based on Word Embeddings and Deep Learning. Computers, 12(6), Article 126. ht

Social media networks have grown exponentially over the last two decades, providing the opportunity for users of the internet to communicate and exchange ideas on a variety of topics. The outcome is that opinion mining plays a crucial role in analyzi... Read More about Arabic Sentiment Analysis Based on Word Embeddings and Deep Learning.

Application of a gene modular approach for clinical phenotype genotype association and sepsis prediction using machine learning in meningococcal sepsis (2023)
Journal Article
Rashid, A., Anwary, A. R., Al-Obeidat, F., Brierley, J., Uddin, M., Alkhzaimi, H., …Hussain, A. (2023). Application of a gene modular approach for clinical phenotype genotype association and sepsis prediction using machine learning in meningococcal seps

Sepsis is a major global health concern causing high morbidity and mortality rates. Our study utilized a Meningococcal Septic Shock (MSS) temporal dataset to investigate the correlation between gene expression (GE) changes and clinical features. The... Read More about Application of a gene modular approach for clinical phenotype genotype association and sepsis prediction using machine learning in meningococcal sepsis.

Toxic Fake News Detection and Classification for Combating COVID-19 Misinformation (2023)
Journal Article
Wani, M. A., ELAffendi, M., Shakil, K. A., Abuhaimed, I. M., Nayyar, A., Hussain, A., & El-Latif, A. A. A. (in press). Toxic Fake News Detection and Classification for Combating COVID-19 Misinformation. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, h

The emergence of COVID-19 has led to a surge in fake news on social media, with toxic fake news having adverse effects on individuals, society, and governments. Detecting toxic fake news is crucial, but little prior research has been done in this are... Read More about Toxic Fake News Detection and Classification for Combating COVID-19 Misinformation.

PointNu-Net: Keypoint-Assisted Convolutional Neural Network for Simultaneous Multi-Tissue Histology Nuclei Segmentation and Classification (2023)
Journal Article
Yao, K., Huang, K., Sun, J., & Hussain, A. (2023). PointNu-Net: Keypoint-Assisted Convolutional Neural Network for Simultaneous Multi-Tissue Histology Nuclei Segmentation and Classification. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligen

Automatic nuclei segmentation and classification play a vital role in digital pathology. However, previous works are mostly built on data with limited diversity and small sizes, making the results questionable or misleading in actual downstream tasks... Read More about PointNu-Net: Keypoint-Assisted Convolutional Neural Network for Simultaneous Multi-Tissue Histology Nuclei Segmentation and Classification.

WETM: A word embedding-based topic model with modified collapsed Gibbs sampling for short text (2023)
Journal Article
Rashid, J., Kim, J., Hussain, A., & Naseem, U. (2023). WETM: A word embedding-based topic model with modified collapsed Gibbs sampling for short text. Pattern Recognition Letters, 172, 158-164. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2023.06.007

Short texts are a common source of knowledge, and the extraction of such valuable information is beneficial for several purposes. Traditional topic models are incapable of analyzing the internal structural information of topics. They are mostly based... Read More about WETM: A word embedding-based topic model with modified collapsed Gibbs sampling for short text.

Towards individualised speech enhancement: An SNR preference learning system for multi-modal hearing aids (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kirton-Wingate, J., Ahmed, S., Gogate, M., Tsao, Y., & Hussain, A. (2023, June). Towards individualised speech enhancement: An SNR preference learning system for multi-modal hearing aids. Presented at 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speec

Since the advent of deep learning (DL), speech enhancement (SE) models have performed well under a variety of noise conditions. However, such systems may still introduce sonic artefacts, sound unnatural, and restrict the ability for a user to hear am... Read More about Towards individualised speech enhancement: An SNR preference learning system for multi-modal hearing aids.