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A novel SAR target detection algorithm based on contextual knowledge (2013)
Journal Article
Gao, F., Ru, A., Sun, J., & Hussain, A. (2013). A novel SAR target detection algorithm based on contextual knowledge. Progress In Electromagnetics Research, 142, 123-140. https://doi.org/10.2528/PIER13062403

This paper proposes a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) vehicle target detection algorithm based on contextual knowledge. The proposed algorithm firstly obtains the general classification of SAR image with a Markov Random Field (MRF)-based segmentation... Read More about A novel SAR target detection algorithm based on contextual knowledge.

Towards reduced EEG based brain-computer interfacing for mobile robot navigation (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Mahmud, M., & Hussain, A. (2013). Towards reduced EEG based brain-computer interfacing for mobile robot navigation. In Advances in Soft Computing and Its Applications: 12th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2013, Mexico City, Mexico, November 24-30, 2013, Proceedings, Part II (413-422). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45111-9_36

Rapid development in highly parallel neurophysiological recording techniques along with sophisticated signal processing tools allow direct communication with neuronal processes at different levels. One important level from the point of view of Rehabi... Read More about Towards reduced EEG based brain-computer interfacing for mobile robot navigation.

Tables and chairs go au naturel (2013)
Journal Article
Hussain, A. (2013). Tables and chairs go au naturel. InTents, 20,

Functional and aesthetic—tables and chairs provide structure and warmth to an event. Tables and chairs are the bones of an event. They provide the foundation upon which the rest of the event can be built. While glitz and glam still have their place,... Read More about Tables and chairs go au naturel.

Music genre classification: A semi-supervised approach (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Poria, S., Gelbukh, A., Hussain, A., Bandyopadhyay, S., & Howard, N. (2013). Music genre classification: A semi-supervised approach. In Pattern Recognition: 5th Mexican Conference, MCPR 2013, Querétaro, Mexico, June 26-29, 2013. Proceedings (254-263). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38989-4_26

Music genres can be seen as categorical descriptions used to classify music basing on various characteristics such as instrumentation, pitch, rhythmic structure, and harmonic contents. Automatic music genre classification is important for music retri... Read More about Music genre classification: A semi-supervised approach.

Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems: Preface (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Liu, D., Alippi, C., Zhao, D., & Hussain, A. (2013). Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems: Preface. . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38786-9

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems, BICS 2013, held in Beijing, China in June 2013. The 45 high-quality papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 68... Read More about Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems: Preface.

Improved efficiency of road sign detection and recognition by employing Kalman filter (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Zakir, U., Hussain, A., Ali, L., & Luo, B. (2013). Improved efficiency of road sign detection and recognition by employing Kalman filter. In Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems: 6th International Conference, BICS 2013, Beijing, China, June 9-11, 2013. Proceedings (216-224). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38786-9_25

This paper describes an efficient approach towards road sign detection, and recognition. The proposed system is divided into three sections namely: Road Sign Detection where Colour Segmentation of the road traffic signs is carried out using HSV colou... Read More about Improved efficiency of road sign detection and recognition by employing Kalman filter.

Efficient clinical decision making by learning from missing clinical data (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Farooq, K., Yang, P., Hussain, A., Huang, K., MacRae, C., Eckl, C., & Slack, W. (2013). Efficient clinical decision making by learning from missing clinical data. In 2013 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Healthcare and e-health (CICARE) (27-33). https://doi.org/10.1109/CICARE.2013.6583064

Clinical decision making frequently involves making decisions under uncertainty because of missing key patient data (e.g, demographics, episodic and clinical diagnosis details) - this information is essential for modern clinical decision support syst... Read More about Efficient clinical decision making by learning from missing clinical data.

Conceptual clustering of documents for automatic ontology generation (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Krishnan, R., Hussain, A., & Sherimon, S. P. C. (2013). Conceptual clustering of documents for automatic ontology generation. In Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems: 6th International Conference, BICS 2013, Beijing, China, June 9-11, 2013. Proceedings (235-244). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38786-9_27

In Information retrieval, Keyword based retrieval is unsatisfactory for user needs since it can’t always retrieve relevant words according to the concept. Since different words can represent the same concept (polysemy) and one word can represent diff... Read More about Conceptual clustering of documents for automatic ontology generation.

Cognitive computation: A case study in cognitive control of autonomous systems and some future directions (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Hussain, A. (2013). Cognitive computation: A case study in cognitive control of autonomous systems and some future directions. In The 2013 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN). https://doi.org/10.1109/IJCNN.2013.6706716

Cognitive computation is an emerging discipline linking together neurobiology, cognitive psychology and artificial intelligence. Springer Neuroscience has launched a journal in this exciting multidisciplinary topic, which seeks to publish biologicall... Read More about Cognitive computation: A case study in cognitive control of autonomous systems and some future directions.

A review of artificial intelligence and biologically inspired computational approaches to solving issues in narrative financial disclosure (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Minhas, S., Poria, S., Hussain, A., & Hussainey, K. (2013). A review of artificial intelligence and biologically inspired computational approaches to solving issues in narrative financial disclosure. In Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems: 6th International Conference, BICS 2013, Beijing, China, June 9-11, 2013. Proceedings (317-327). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38786-9_36

Indisputably, financial reporting has a key role to play in the efficient workings of capitalist economies. Problems related to agency and asymmetric information (Jensen and Meckling, 1976) would abound and cripple financial markets, as it has done w... Read More about A review of artificial intelligence and biologically inspired computational approaches to solving issues in narrative financial disclosure.

A novel clinical expert system for chest pain risk assessment (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Farooq, K., Hussain, A., Atassi, H., Leslie, S., Eckl, C., MacRae, C., & Slack, W. (2013). A novel clinical expert system for chest pain risk assessment. In Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems: 6th International Conference, BICS 2013, Beijing, China, June 9-11, 2013. Proceedings (296-307). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38786-9_34

Rapid access chest pain clinics (RACPC) enable clinical risk assessment, investigation and arrangement of a treatment plan for chest pain patients without a long waiting list. RACPC Clinicians often experience difficulties in the diagnosis of chest p... Read More about A novel clinical expert system for chest pain risk assessment.

A basal ganglia inspired soft switching approach to the motion control of a car-like autonomous vehicle (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Yang, E., Hussain, A., & Gurney, K. (2013). A basal ganglia inspired soft switching approach to the motion control of a car-like autonomous vehicle. In Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems: 6th International Conference, BICS 2013, Beijing, China, June 9-11, 2013. Proceedings (245-254). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38786-9_28

This paper presents a new brain-inspired, switching control approach for a car-like autonomous vehicle using a basal ganglia (BG) model as an action selection mechanism. The problem domain has challenging nonholonomic and state constraints which impl... Read More about A basal ganglia inspired soft switching approach to the motion control of a car-like autonomous vehicle.

A novel mortality model for acute alcoholic hepatitis including variables recorded after admission to hospital (2013)
Journal Article
Mazzocco, T., Hussain, A., Hussain, S., & Shah, A. A. (2014). A novel mortality model for acute alcoholic hepatitis including variables recorded after admission to hospital. Computers in Biology and Medicine, 44, 132-135. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiomed.2013.11.005

Severe forms of alcoholic hepatitis in patients with alcoholic liver disease are associated with high mortality; it is therefore vital to identify those patients at greatest risk of mortality in 28 days as they may benefit from aggressive interventio... Read More about A novel mortality model for acute alcoholic hepatitis including variables recorded after admission to hospital.

Novel Two-Stage Audiovisual Speech Filtering in Noisy Environments (2013)
Journal Article
Abel, A., & Hussain, A. (2014). Novel Two-Stage Audiovisual Speech Filtering in Noisy Environments. Cognitive Computation, 6(2), 200-217. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-013-9231-2

In recent years, the established link between the various human communication production domains has become more widely utilised in the field of speech processing. In this work, we build on previous work by the authors and present a novel two-stage a... Read More about Novel Two-Stage Audiovisual Speech Filtering in Noisy Environments.

Sentic blending: Scalable multimodal fusion for the continuous interpretation of semantics and sentics (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Cambria, E., Howard, N., Hsu, J., & Hussain, A. (2013). Sentic blending: Scalable multimodal fusion for the continuous interpretation of semantics and sentics. In 2013 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Human-like Intelligence (CIHLI) (108-117). https://doi.org/10.1109/CIHLI.2013.6613272

The capability of interpreting the conceptual and affective information associated with natural language through different modalities is a key issue for the enhancement of human-agent interaction. The proposed methodology, termed sentic blending, ena... Read More about Sentic blending: Scalable multimodal fusion for the continuous interpretation of semantics and sentics.

A brain-computer interface test-bench based on EEG signals for research and student training (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Raif, P., Mahmud, M., Hussain, A., Klos-Witkowska, A., & Suchanek, R. (2013). A brain-computer interface test-bench based on EEG signals for research and student training. In 2013 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Healthcare and e-health (CICARE) (46-50). https://doi.org/10.1109/CICARE.2013.6583067

The paper describes a test-bench model for braincomputer interface research based on EEG signals. The test-bench is going to be used for students training and education. The goal is to prepare modern Brain-Computer Interface development environment i... Read More about A brain-computer interface test-bench based on EEG signals for research and student training.

In Memory of John G Taylor: A Polymath Scholar (2013)
Journal Article
Cutsuridis, V., & Hussain, A. (2013). In Memory of John G Taylor: A Polymath Scholar. Cognitive Computation, 5(3), 279-280. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-013-9226-z

The scope of this special issue is to celebrate the work of the late Professor John Taylor. John began his career in 1956 as a theoretical physicist and has contributed many seminal papers and books to high-energy physics, black holes, quantum gravit... Read More about In Memory of John G Taylor: A Polymath Scholar.

Toward a Formal, Visual Framework of Emergent Cognitive Development of Scholars (2013)
Journal Article
Hussain, A., & Niazi, M. (2014). Toward a Formal, Visual Framework of Emergent Cognitive Development of Scholars. Cognitive Computation, 6(1), 113-124. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-013-9219-y

Understanding the cognitive evolution of researchers as they progress in academia is an important but complex problem; one that belongs to a class of problems, which often require the development of models to gain further understanding of the intrica... Read More about Toward a Formal, Visual Framework of Emergent Cognitive Development of Scholars.