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RoadSeg-CD: A Network With Connectivity Array and Direction Map for Road Extraction From SAR Images (2022)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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 Integrated Approach for Cancer Survival Prediction Using Data Mining Techniques (2021)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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.

Extending persian sentiment lexicon with idiomatic expressions for sentiment analysis (2021)
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Dashtipour, K., Gogate, M., Gelbukh, A., & Hussain, A. (2022). Extending persian sentiment lexicon with idiomatic expressions for sentiment analysis. Social Network Analysis and Mining, 12(1), Article 9. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13278-021-00840-1

Nowadays, it is important for buyers to know other customer opinions to make informed decisions on buying a product or service. In addition, companies and organizations can exploit customer opinions to improve their products and services. However, th... Read More about Extending persian sentiment lexicon with idiomatic expressions for sentiment analysis.

A Novel Fingerprinting Technique for Data Storing and Sharing through Clouds (2021)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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.

Lane-DeepLab: Lane semantic segmentation in automatic driving scenarios for high-definition maps (2021)
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Li, J., Jiang, F., Yang, J., Kong, B., Gogate, M., Dashtipour, K., & Hussain, A. (2021). Lane-DeepLab: Lane semantic segmentation in automatic driving scenarios for high-definition maps. Neurocomputing, 465, 15-25. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2021.08

Accurate high-definition maps with lane markings are often used as the navigation back-end for commercial autonomous vehicles. Currently, most high-definition maps are manually constructed by human labelling. Therefore, it is urgently required to pro... Read More about Lane-DeepLab: Lane semantic segmentation in automatic driving scenarios for high-definition maps.