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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/s21165283

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.

Leveraging label hierarchy using transfer and multi-task learning: A case study on patent classification (2021)
Journal Article
Aroyehun, S. T., Angel, J., Majumder, N., Gelbukh, A., & Hussain, A. (2021). Leveraging label hierarchy using transfer and multi-task learning: A case study on patent classification. Neurocomputing, 464, 421-431. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2021.07.057

When labels are organized into a meaningful taxonomy, the parent-child relationship between labels at different levels can give the classifier additional information not deducible from the data alone, especially with limited training data. As a case... Read More about Leveraging label hierarchy using transfer and multi-task learning: A case study on patent classification.

Cloud based scalable object recognition from video streams using orientation fusion and convolutional neural networks (2021)
Journal Article
Usman Yaseen, M., Anjum, A., Fortino, G., Liotta, A., & Hussain, A. (2022). Cloud based scalable object recognition from video streams using orientation fusion and convolutional neural networks. Pattern Recognition, 121, Article 108207. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2021.108207

Object recognition from live video streams comes with numerous challenges such as the variation in illumination conditions and poses. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been widely used to perform intelligent visual object recognition. Yet, CN... Read More about Cloud based scalable object recognition from video streams using orientation fusion and convolutional neural networks.

A Novel Multi-Stage Residual Feature Fusion Network for Detection of COVID-19 in Chest X-Ray Images (2021)
Journal Article
Fang, Z., Ren, J., MacLellan, C., Li, H., Zhao, H., Hussain, A., & Fortino, G. (2022). A Novel Multi-Stage Residual Feature Fusion Network for Detection of COVID-19 in Chest X-Ray Images. IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological and Multi-Scale Communications, 8(1), 17-27. https://doi.org/10.1109/TMBMC.2021.3099367

To suppress the spread of COVID-19, accurate diagnosis at an early stage is crucial, chest screening with radiography imaging plays an important role in addition to the real-time reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) swab test. Due... Read More about A Novel Multi-Stage Residual Feature Fusion Network for Detection of COVID-19 in Chest X-Ray Images.

Arabic question answering system: a survey (2021)
Journal Article
Alwaneen, T. H., Azmi, A. M., Aboalsamh, H. A., Cambria, E., & Hussain, A. (2022). Arabic question answering system: a survey. Artificial Intelligence Review, 55, 207-253. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-021-10031-1

Question answering is a subfield of information retrieval. It is a task of answering a question posted in a natural language. A question answering system (QAS) may be considered a good alternative to search engines that return a set of related docume... Read More about Arabic question answering system: a survey.

Public Perception of the Fifth Generation of Cellular Networks (5G) on Social Media (2021)
Journal Article
Dashtipour, K., Taylor, W., Ansari, S., Gogate, M., Zahid, A., Sambo, Y., …Imran, M. A. (2021). Public Perception of the Fifth Generation of Cellular Networks (5G) on Social Media. Frontiers in Big Data, 4, Article 640868. https://doi.org/10.3389/fdata.2021.640868

With the advancement of social media networks, there are lots of unlabeled reviews available online, therefore it is necessarily to develop automatic tools to classify these types of reviews. To utilize these reviews for user perception, there is a n... Read More about Public Perception of the Fifth Generation of Cellular Networks (5G) on Social Media.

Radar Sensing for Activity Classification in Elderly People Exploiting Micro-Doppler Signatures Using Machine Learning (2021)
Journal Article
Taylor, W., Dashtipour, K., Shah, S. A., Hussain, A., Abbasi, Q. H., & Imran, M. A. (2021). Radar Sensing for Activity Classification in Elderly People Exploiting Micro-Doppler Signatures Using Machine Learning. Sensors, 21(11), Article 3881. https://doi.org/10.3390/s21113881

The health status of an elderly person can be identified by examining the additive effects of aging along with disease linked to it and can lead to ‘unstable incapacity’. This health status is determined by the apparent decline of independence in act... Read More about Radar Sensing for Activity Classification in Elderly People Exploiting Micro-Doppler Signatures Using Machine Learning.

Ten Years of Sentic Computing (2021)
Journal Article
Susanto, Y., Cambria, E., Ng, B. C., & Hussain, A. (2022). Ten Years of Sentic Computing. Cognitive Computation, 14, 5-23. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-021-09824-x

Sentic computing is a multi-disciplinary approach to sentiment analysis at the crossroads between affective computing and commonsense computing, which exploits both computer and social sciences to better recognize, interpret, and process opinions and... Read More about Ten Years of Sentic Computing.

Advances in machine translation for sign language: approaches, limitations, and challenges (2021)
Journal Article
Farooq, U., Rahim, M. S. M., Sabir, N., Hussain, A., & Abid, A. (2021). Advances in machine translation for sign language: approaches, limitations, and challenges. Neural Computing and Applications, 33, 14357-14399. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-021-06079-3

Sign languages are used by the deaf community around the globe to communicate with one another. These are gesture-based languages where a deaf person performs gestures using hands and facial expressions. Every gesture represents a word or a phrase in... Read More about Advances in machine translation for sign language: approaches, limitations, and challenges.

Understanding Public Perceptions of COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps: Artificial Intelligence–Enabled Social Media Analysis (2021)
Journal Article
Cresswell, K., Tahir, A., Sheikh, Z., Hussain, Z., Domínguez Hernández, A., Harrison, E., …Hussain, A. (2021). Understanding Public Perceptions of COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps: Artificial Intelligence–Enabled Social Media Analysis. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 23(5), Article e26618. https://doi.org/10.2196/26618

Background: The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 in late 2019 and its subsequent spread worldwide continues to be a global health crisis. Many governments consider contact tracing of citizens through apps installed on mobile phones as a key mechanism to conta... Read More about Understanding Public Perceptions of COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps: Artificial Intelligence–Enabled Social Media Analysis.

Sentiment Analysis of Persian Movie Reviews Using Deep Learning (2021)
Journal Article
Dashtipour, W., Gogate, M., Adeel, A., Larijani, H., & Hussain, A. (2021). Sentiment Analysis of Persian Movie Reviews Using Deep Learning. Entropy, 23(5), Article 596. https://doi.org/10.3390/e23050596

Sentiment analysis aims to automatically classify the subject’s sentiment (e.g., positive, negative, or neutral) towards a particular aspect such as a topic, product, movie, news, etc. Deep learning has recently emerged as a powerful machine learning... Read More about Sentiment Analysis of Persian Movie Reviews Using Deep Learning.

A Novel Deep Learning Method for Recognition and Classification of Brain Tumors from MRI images (2021)
Journal Article
Masood, M., Nazir, T., Nawaz, M., Mehmood, A., Rashid, J., Kwon, H., …Hussain, A. (2021). A Novel Deep Learning Method for Recognition and Classification of Brain Tumors from MRI images. Diagnostics, 11(5), Article 744. https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics11050744

A brain tumor is an abnormal growth in brain cells that causes damage to various blood vessels and nerves in the human body. An earlier and accurate diagnosis of the brain tumor is of foremost important to avoid future complications. Precise segmenta... Read More about A Novel Deep Learning Method for Recognition and Classification of Brain Tumors from MRI images.

Improving generative adversarial networks with simple latent distributions (2021)
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Zhang, S., Huang, K., Qian, Z., Zhang, R., & Hussain, A. (2021). Improving generative adversarial networks with simple latent distributions. Neural Computing and Applications, 33, 13193-13203. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-021-05946-3

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have drawn great attention recently since they are the powerful models to generate high-quality images. Although GANs have achieved great success, they usually suffer from unstable training and consequently may... Read More about Improving generative adversarial networks with simple latent distributions.

Does semantics aid syntax? An empirical study on named entity recognition and classification (2021)
Journal Article
Zhong, X., Cambria, E., & Hussain, A. (2022). Does semantics aid syntax? An empirical study on named entity recognition and classification. Neural Computing and Applications, 34, 8373-8384. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-021-05949-0

Many researchers jointly model multiple linguistic tasks (e.g., joint modeling of named entity recognition and named entity classification and joint modeling of syntactic parsing and semantic parsing) with an implicit assumption that these individual... Read More about Does semantics aid syntax? An empirical study on named entity recognition and classification.

Artificial Intelligence–Enabled Analysis of Public Attitudes on Facebook and Twitter Toward COVID-19 Vaccines in the United Kingdom and the United States: Observational Study (2021)
Journal Article
Hussain, A., Tahir, A., Hussain, Z., Sheikh, Z., Gogate, M., Dashtipour, K., …Sheikh, A. (2021). Artificial Intelligence–Enabled Analysis of Public Attitudes on Facebook and Twitter Toward COVID-19 Vaccines in the United Kingdom and the United States: Observational Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 23(4), Article e26627. https://doi.org/10.2196/26627

Background: Global efforts toward the development and deployment of a vaccine for COVID-19 are rapidly advancing. To achieve herd immunity, widespread administration of vaccines is required, which necessitates significant cooperation from the general... Read More about Artificial Intelligence–Enabled Analysis of Public Attitudes on Facebook and Twitter Toward COVID-19 Vaccines in the United Kingdom and the United States: Observational Study.

COVID-19 UK Social Media Dataset for Public Health Research (2021)
Dataset
Plant, R., Hussain, A., & Sheikh, A. (2021). COVID-19 UK Social Media Dataset for Public Health Research. [Dataset]. https://doi.org/10.17869/enu.2021.2755974

We present a benchmark database of public social media postings from the United Kingdom related to the Covid-19 pandemic for academic research purposes, along with some initial analysis, including a taxonomy of key themes organised by keyword. This r... Read More about COVID-19 UK Social Media Dataset for Public Health Research.

A novel domain activation mapping-guided network (DA-GNT) for visual tracking (2021)
Journal Article
Tu, Z., Zhou, A., Gan, C., Jiang, B., Hussain, A., & Luo, B. (2021). A novel domain activation mapping-guided network (DA-GNT) for visual tracking. Neurocomputing, 449, 443-454. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2021.03.056

Conventional convolution neural network (CNN)-based visual trackers are easily influenced by too much background information in candidate samples. Further, extreme imbalance of foreground and background samples has a negative impact on training the c... Read More about A novel domain activation mapping-guided network (DA-GNT) for visual tracking.

Learning Polar Encodings for Arbitrary-Oriented Ship Detection in SAR Images (2021)
Journal Article
He, Y., Gao, F., Wang, J., Hussain, A., Yang, E., & Zhou, H. (2021). Learning Polar Encodings for Arbitrary-Oriented Ship Detection in SAR Images. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 14, 3846-3859. https://doi.org/10.1109/jstars.2021.3068530

Common horizontal bounding box-based methods are not capable of accurately locating slender ship targets with arbitrary orientations in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. Therefore, in recent years, methods based on oriented bounding box (OBB) ha... Read More about Learning Polar Encodings for Arbitrary-Oriented Ship Detection in SAR Images.

A Novel Coupled Reaction-Diffusion System for Explainable Gene Expression Profiling (2021)
Journal Article
Farouq, M. W., Boulila, W., Hussain, Z., Rashid, A., Shah, M., Hussain, S., …Hussain, A. (2021). A Novel Coupled Reaction-Diffusion System for Explainable Gene Expression Profiling. Sensors, 21(6), Article 2190. https://doi.org/10.3390/s21062190

Machine learning (ML)-based algorithms are playing an important role in cancer diagnosis and are increasingly being used to aid clinical decision-making. However, these commonly operate as ‘black boxes’ and it is unclear how decisions are derived. Re... Read More about A Novel Coupled Reaction-Diffusion System for Explainable Gene Expression Profiling.