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Arabic sentiment analysis using dependency-based rules and deep neural networks (2022)
Journal Article
Diwali, A., Dashtipour, K., Saeedi, K., Gogate, M., Cambria, E., & Hussain, A. (2022). Arabic sentiment analysis using dependency-based rules and deep neural networks. Applied Soft Computing, 127, Article 109377. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asoc.2022.109377

With the growth of social platforms in recent years and the rapid increase in the means of communication through these platforms, a significant amount of textual data is available that contains an abundance of individuals’ opinions. Sentiment analysi... Read More about Arabic sentiment analysis using dependency-based rules and deep neural networks.

A novel multiple kernel fuzzy topic modeling technique for biomedical data (2022)
Journal Article
Rashid, J., Kim, J., Hussain, A., Naseem, U., & Juneja, S. (2022). A novel multiple kernel fuzzy topic modeling technique for biomedical data. BMC Bioinformatics, 23(1), Article 275. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-022-04780-1

Background: Text mining in the biomedical field has received much attention and regarded as the important research area since a lot of biomedical data is in text format. Topic modeling is one of the popular methods among text mining techniques used t... Read More about A novel multiple kernel fuzzy topic modeling technique for biomedical data.

Novel single and multi-layer echo-state recurrent autoencoders for representation learning (2022)
Journal Article
Chouikhi, N., Ammar, B., Hussain, A., & Alimi, A. M. (2022). Novel single and multi-layer echo-state recurrent autoencoders for representation learning. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 114, Article 105051. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.en

Representation learning impacts the performance of Machine Learning (ML) models. Feature extraction-based methods such as Auto-Encoders (AEs) are used to find new, more accurate data representations from original ones. They perform efficiently on a s... Read More about Novel single and multi-layer echo-state recurrent autoencoders for representation learning.

Educational data mining to predict students' academic performance: A survey study (2022)
Journal Article
Batool, S., Rashid, J., Nisar, M. W., Kim, J., Kwon, H., & Hussain, A. (2023). Educational data mining to predict students' academic performance: A survey study. Education and Information Technologies, 28(1), 905-971. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-022-11

Educational data mining is an emerging interdisciplinary research area involving both education and informatics. It has become an imperative research area due to many advantages that educational institutions can achieve. Along these lines, various da... Read More about Educational data mining to predict students' academic performance: A survey study.

An Artificial Neural Network-Based Model for Effective Software Development Effort Estimation (2022)
Journal Article
Rashid, J., Kanwal, S., Wasif Nisar, M., Kim, J., & Hussain, A. (2023). An Artificial Neural Network-Based Model for Effective Software Development Effort Estimation. Computer Systems Science and Engineering, 44(2), 1309-1324. https://doi.org/10.32604/css

In project management, effective cost estimation is one of the most crucial activities to efficiently manage resources by predicting the required cost to fulfill a given task. However, finding the best estimation results in software development is ch... Read More about An Artificial Neural Network-Based Model for Effective Software Development Effort Estimation.

Exploiting Attention-Consistency Loss For Spatial-Temporal Stream Action Recognition (2022)
Journal Article
Xu, H., Jin, X., Wang, Q., Hussain, A., & Huang, K. (2022). Exploiting Attention-Consistency Loss For Spatial-Temporal Stream Action Recognition. ACM transactions on multimedia computing communications and applications, 18(2S), Article 119. https://doi.or

Currently, many action recognition methods mostly consider the information from spatial streams. We propose a new perspective inspired by the human visual system to combine both spatial and temporal streams to measure their attention consistency. Spe... Read More about Exploiting Attention-Consistency Loss For Spatial-Temporal Stream Action Recognition.

Artificial intelligence-enabled social media analysis for pharmacovigilance of COVID-19 vaccinations in the United Kingdom: Observational Study (2022)
Journal Article
Hussain, Z., Sheikh, Z., Tahir, A., Dashtipour, K., Gogate, M., Sheikh, A., & Hussain, A. (2022). Artificial intelligence-enabled social media analysis for pharmacovigilance of COVID-19 vaccinations in the United Kingdom: Observational Study. JMIR Public

Background: The roll-out of vaccines for SARS-CoV-2 in the United Kingdom, started in December 2020. Uptake has been high, and there has been a subsequent reduction in infections, hospitalisations and deaths in vaccinated individuals. However, vacci... Read More about Artificial intelligence-enabled social media analysis for pharmacovigilance of COVID-19 vaccinations in the United Kingdom: Observational Study.

Towards Faster Training Algorithms Exploiting Bandit Sampling From Convex to Strongly Convex Conditions (2022)
Journal Article
Zhou, Y., Huang, K., Cheng, C., Wang, X., Hussain, A., & Liu, X. (2023). Towards Faster Training Algorithms Exploiting Bandit Sampling From Convex to Strongly Convex Conditions. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, 7(2), 565

The training process for deep learning and pattern recognition normally involves the use of convex and strongly convex optimization algorithms such as AdaBelief and SAdam to handle lots of “uninformative” samples that should be ignored, thus incurrin... Read More about Towards Faster Training Algorithms Exploiting Bandit Sampling From Convex to Strongly Convex Conditions.

RoadSeg-CD: A Network With Connectivity Array and Direction Map for Road Extraction From SAR Images (2022)
Journal Article
Gao, F., Tu, J., Wang, J., Hussain, A., & Zhou, H. (2022). RoadSeg-CD: A Network With Connectivity Array and Direction Map for Road Extraction From SAR Images. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 15, 3992-4003

Road extraction from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images has attracted much attention in the field of remote sensing image processing. General road extraction algorithms, affected by shadows of buildings and trees, are prone to producing fragmented... Read More about RoadSeg-CD: A Network With Connectivity Array and Direction Map for Road Extraction From SAR Images.

Deep Learning Models for Arrhythmia Detection in IoT Healthcare Applications (2022)
Journal Article
Hammad, M., Abd El-Latif, A. A., Hussain, A., Abd El-Samie, F. E., Gupta, B. B., Ugail, H., & Sedik, A. (2022). Deep Learning Models for Arrhythmia Detection in IoT Healthcare Applications. Computers and Electrical Engineering, 100, Article 108011. https:

In this paper, novel convolutional neural network (CNN) and convolutional long short-term (ConvLSTM) deep learning models (DLMs) are presented for automatic detection of arrhythmia for IoT applications. The input ECG signals are represented in 2D for... Read More about Deep Learning Models for Arrhythmia Detection in IoT Healthcare Applications.

A novel temporal attentive-pooling based convolutional recurrent architecture for acoustic signal enhancement (2022)
Journal Article
Hussain, T., Wang, W., Gogate, M., Dashtipour, K., Tsao, Y., Lu, X., Ahsan, A., & Hussain, A. (2022). A novel temporal attentive-pooling based convolutional recurrent architecture for acoustic signal enhancement. IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligen

Removing background noise from acoustic observations to obtain clean signals is an important research topic regarding numerous real acoustic applications. Owing to their strong model capacity in function mapping, deep neural network-based algorithms... Read More about A novel temporal attentive-pooling based convolutional recurrent architecture for acoustic signal enhancement.

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.