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An Augmented Artificial Intelligence Approach for Chronic Diseases Prediction (2022)
Journal Article
Rashid, J., Batool, S., Kim, J., Wasif Nisar, M., Hussain, A., Juneja, S., & Kushwaha, R. (2022). An Augmented Artificial Intelligence Approach for Chronic Diseases Prediction. Frontiers in Public Health, 10, Article 860396. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.

Chronic diseases are increasing in prevalence and mortality worldwide. Early diagnosis has therefore become an important research area to enhance patient survival rates. Several research studies have reported classification approaches for specific di... Read More about An Augmented Artificial Intelligence Approach for Chronic Diseases Prediction.

A novel 3D unsupervised domain adaptation framework for cross-modality medical image segmentation (2022)
Journal Article
Yao, K., Su, Z., Huang, K., Yang, X., Sun, J., Hussain, A., & Coenen, F. (2022). A novel 3D unsupervised domain adaptation framework for cross-modality medical image segmentation. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 26(10), 4976-4986. https

We consider the problem of volumetric (3D) unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) in cross-modality medical image segmentation, aiming to perform segmentation on the unannotated target domain (e.g. MRI) with the help of labeled source domain (e.g. CT).... Read More about A novel 3D unsupervised domain adaptation framework for cross-modality medical image segmentation.

Design and Evaluation of a Button Sensor Antenna for On-Body Monitoring Activity in Healthcare Applications (2022)
Journal Article
Ali, S. M., Sovuthy, C., Noghanian, S., Saeidi, T., Majeed, M. F., Hussain, A., …Abbasi, Q. H. (2022). Design and Evaluation of a Button Sensor Antenna for On-Body Monitoring Activity in Healthcare Applications. Micromachines, 13(3), Article 475. https:

A button sensor antenna for on-body monitoring in wireless body area network (WBAN) systems is presented. Due to the close coupling between the sensor antenna and the human body, it is highly challenging to design sensor antenna devices. In this pape... Read More about Design and Evaluation of a Button Sensor Antenna for On-Body Monitoring Activity in Healthcare Applications.

Antimicrobial Resistance and Machine Learning: Challenges and Opportunities (2022)
Journal Article
Elyan, E., Hussain, A., Sheikh, A., Elmanama, A. A., Vuttipittayamongkol, P., & Hijazi, K. (2022). Antimicrobial Resistance and Machine Learning: Challenges and Opportunities. IEEE Access, 10, 31561-31577. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2022.3160213

Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) has been identified by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as one of the top ten global health threats. Inappropriate use of antibiotics around the world and in particular in Low-to-Middle-Income Countries (LMICs), wher... Read More about Antimicrobial Resistance and Machine Learning: Challenges and Opportunities.

FastAdaBelief: Improving Convergence Rate for Belief-Based Adaptive Optimizers by Exploiting Strong Convexity (2022)
Journal Article
Zhou, Y., Huang, K., Cheng, C., Wang, X., Hussain, A., & Liu, X. (2023). FastAdaBelief: Improving Convergence Rate for Belief-Based Adaptive Optimizers by Exploiting Strong Convexity. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 34(9), 6515

AdaBelief, one of the current best optimizers, demonstrates superior generalization ability over the popular Adam algorithm by viewing the exponential moving average of observed gradients. AdaBelief is theoretically appealing in which it has a data-d... Read More about FastAdaBelief: Improving Convergence Rate for Belief-Based Adaptive Optimizers by Exploiting Strong Convexity.

A Bibliometric Study and Science Mapping Research of Intelligent Decision (2022)
Journal Article
Li, B., Xu, Z., Hong, N., & Hussain, A. (2022). A Bibliometric Study and Science Mapping Research of Intelligent Decision. Cognitive Computation, 14, 989-1008. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-022-09993-3

Intelligent decision (ID) has received a great deal of attention and has been integrated into various fields, such as machine learning, fuzzy inference system, and natural language processing. The advanced technologies have become hot topics and have... Read More about A Bibliometric Study and Science Mapping Research of Intelligent Decision.

A fuzzy-enhanced deep learning approach for early detection of Covid-19 pneumonia from portable chest X-ray images (2022)
Journal Article
Ieracitano, C., Mammone, N., Versaci, M., Varone, G., Ali, A., Armentano, A., …Morabito, F. C. (2022). A fuzzy-enhanced deep learning approach for early detection of Covid-19 pneumonia from portable chest X-ray images. Neurocomputing, 481, 202-215. http

The Covid-19 pandemic is the defining global health crisis of our time. Chest X-Rays (CXR) have been an important imaging modality for assisting in the diagnosis and management of hospitalised Covid-19 patients. However, their interpretation is time... Read More about A fuzzy-enhanced deep learning approach for early detection of Covid-19 pneumonia from portable chest X-ray images.

An Attribute Weight Estimation Using Particle Swarm Optimization and Machine Learning Approaches for Customer Churn Prediction (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kanwal, S., Rashid, J., Kim, J., Nisar, M. W., Hussain, A., Batool, S., & Kanwal, R. (2021). An Attribute Weight Estimation Using Particle Swarm Optimization and Machine Learning Approaches for Customer Churn Prediction. In 2021 International Conference

One of the most challenging problems in the telecommunications industry is predicting customer churn (CCP). Decision-makers and business experts stressed that acquiring new clients is more expensive than maintaining current ones. From current churn d... Read More about An Attribute Weight Estimation Using Particle Swarm Optimization and Machine Learning Approaches for Customer Churn Prediction.

An Integrated Approach for Cancer Survival Prediction Using Data Mining Techniques (2021)
Journal Article
Kaur, I., Doja, M. N., Ahmad, T., Ahmad, M., Hussain, A., Nadeem, A., & Abd El-Latif, A. A. (2021). An Integrated Approach for Cancer Survival Prediction Using Data Mining Techniques. Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience, 2021, Article 6342226. h

Ovarian cancer is the third most common gynecologic cancers worldwide. Advanced ovarian cancer patients bear a significant mortality rate. Survival estimation is essential for clinicians and patients to understand better and tolerate future outcomes.... Read More about An Integrated Approach for Cancer Survival Prediction Using Data Mining Techniques.

A Machine Learning Approach Involving Functional Connectivity Features to Classify Rest-EEG Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures from Healthy Controls (2021)
Journal Article
Varone, G., Boulila, W., Lo Giudice, M., Benjdira, B., Mammone, N., Ieracitano, C., …Aguglia, U. (2022). A Machine Learning Approach Involving Functional Connectivity Features to Classify Rest-EEG Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures from Healthy Controls

Until now, clinicians are not able to evaluate the Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures (PNES) from the rest-electroencephalography (EEG) readout. No EEG marker can help differentiate PNES cases from healthy subjects. In this paper, we have investigate... Read More about A Machine Learning Approach Involving Functional Connectivity Features to Classify Rest-EEG Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures from Healthy Controls.

FairDrop: Biased Edge Dropout for Enhancing Fairness in Graph Representation Learning (2021)
Journal Article
Spinelli, I., Scardapane, S., Hussain, A., & Uncini, A. (2022). FairDrop: Biased Edge Dropout for Enhancing Fairness in Graph Representation Learning. IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, 3(3), 344-354. https://doi.org/10.1109/tai.2021.3133818

Graph representation learning has become a ubiquitous component in many scenarios, ranging from social network analysis to energy forecasting in smart grids. In several applications, ensuring the fairness of the node (or graph) representations with r... Read More about FairDrop: Biased Edge Dropout for Enhancing Fairness in Graph Representation Learning.

Attributes Guided Feature Learning for Vehicle Re-Identification (2021)
Journal Article
Li, H., Lin, X., Zheng, A., Li, C., Luo, B., He, R., & Hussain, A. (2022). Attributes Guided Feature Learning for Vehicle Re-Identification. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, 6(5), 1211-1221. https://doi.org/10.1109/tetci

Vehicle Re-ID has recently attracted enthusiastic attention due to its potential applications in smart city and urban surveillance. However, it suffers from large intra-class variation caused by view variations and illumination changes, and inter-cla... Read More about Attributes Guided Feature Learning for Vehicle Re-Identification.

A Novel Fingerprinting Technique for Data Storing and Sharing through Clouds (2021)
Journal Article
Fatima, M., Nisar, M. W., Rashid, J., Kim, J., Kamran, M., & Hussain, A. (2021). A Novel Fingerprinting Technique for Data Storing and Sharing through Clouds. Sensors, 21(22), Article 7647. https://doi.org/10.3390/s21227647

With the emerging growth of digital data in information systems, technology faces the challenge of knowledge prevention, ownership rights protection, security, and privacy measurement of valuable and sensitive data. On-demand availability of various... Read More about A Novel Fingerprinting Technique for Data Storing and Sharing through Clouds.

A novel multimodal fusion network based on a joint-coding model for lane line segmentation (2021)
Journal Article
Zou, Z., Zhang, X., Liu, H., Li, Z., Hussain, A., & Li, J. (2022). A novel multimodal fusion network based on a joint-coding model for lane line segmentation. Information Fusion, 80, 167-178. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2021.10.008

There has recently been growing interest in utilizing multimodal sensors to achieve robust lane line segmentation. In this paper, we introduce a novel multimodal fusion architecture from an information theory perspective, and demonstrate its practica... Read More about A novel multimodal fusion network based on a joint-coding model for lane line segmentation.

Multi-lingual character handwriting framework based on an integrated deep learning based sequence-to-sequence attention model (2021)
Journal Article
Rabhi, B., Elbaati, A., Boubaker, H., Hamdi, Y., Hussain, A., & Alimi, A. M. (2021). Multi-lingual character handwriting framework based on an integrated deep learning based sequence-to-sequence attention model. Memetic Computing, 13, Article 459-475. htt

Online signals are rich in dynamic features such as trajectory chronology, velocity, pressure and pen up/down movements. Their offline counterparts consist of a set of pixels. Thus, online handwriting recognition accuracy is generally better than off... Read More about Multi-lingual character handwriting framework based on an integrated deep learning based sequence-to-sequence attention model.

A novel few-shot learning method for synthetic aperture radar image recognition (2021)
Journal Article
Yue, Z., Gao, F., Xiong, Q., Sun, J., Hussain, A., & Zhou, H. (2021). A novel few-shot learning method for synthetic aperture radar image recognition. Neurocomputing, 465, 215-227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2021.09.009

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image recognition is an important stage of SAR image interpretation. The standard convolutional neural network (CNN) has been successfully applied in the SAR image recognition due to its powerful feature extraction capa... Read More about A novel few-shot learning method for synthetic aperture radar image recognition.

Effectiveness of virtual and augmented reality for improving knowledge and skills in medical students: protocol for a systematic review (2021)
Journal Article
Hussain, Z., Ng, D. M., Alnafisee, N., Sheikh, Z., Ng, N., Khan, A., …Sheikh, A. (2021). Effectiveness of virtual and augmented reality for improving knowledge and skills in medical students: protocol for a systematic review. BMJ Open, 11(8), Article e0

Introduction Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) technologies are increasingly being used in undergraduate medical education. We aim to evaluate the effectiveness of VR and AR technologies for improving knowledge and skills in medical stu... Read More about Effectiveness of virtual and augmented reality for improving knowledge and skills in medical students: protocol for a systematic review.

A Hybrid-Domain Deep Learni/ng-Based BCI For Discriminating Hand Motion Planning From EEG Sources (2021)
Journal Article
Ieracitano, C., Morabito, F. C., Hussain, A., & Mammone, N. (2021). A Hybrid-Domain Deep Learni/ng-Based BCI For Discriminating Hand Motion Planning From EEG Sources. International Journal of Neural Systems, 31(9), Article 2150038. https://doi.org/10.1142

In this paper, a hybrid-domain deep learning (DL)-based neural system is proposed to decode hand movement preparation phases from electroencephalographic (EEG) recordings. The system exploits information extracted from the temporal-domain and time-fr... Read More about A Hybrid-Domain Deep Learni/ng-Based BCI For Discriminating Hand Motion Planning From EEG Sources.

Conceptual Text Region Network: Cognition-Inspired Accurate Scene Text Detection (2021)
Journal Article
Cui, C., Lu, L., Tan, Z., & Hussain, A. (2021). Conceptual Text Region Network: Cognition-Inspired Accurate Scene Text Detection. Neurocomputing, 464, 252-264. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2021.08.026

Segmentation-based methods are widely used for scene text detection due to their superiority in describing arbitrary-shaped text instances. However, two major problems still exist: (1) current label generation techniques are mostly empirical and lack... Read More about Conceptual Text Region Network: Cognition-Inspired Accurate Scene Text Detection.

Detection of Diabetic Eye Disease from Retinal Images Using a Deep Learning Based CenterNet Model (2021)
Journal Article
Nazir, T., Nawaz, M., Rashid, J., Mahum, R., Masood, M., Mehmood, A., …Hussain, A. (2021). Detection of Diabetic Eye Disease from Retinal Images Using a Deep Learning Based CenterNet Model. Sensors, 21(16), Article 5283. https://doi.org/10.3390/s2116528

Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is an eye disease that alters the blood vessels of a person suffering from diabetes. Diabetic macular edema (DME) occurs when DR affects the macula, which causes fluid accumulation in the macula. Efficient screening systems... Read More about Detection of Diabetic Eye Disease from Retinal Images Using a Deep Learning Based CenterNet Model.