Outputs (28)

Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on audiology service delivery: Observational study of the role of social media in patient communication (2024)
Journal Article
Hussain, A., Hussain, Z., Gogate, M., Dashtipour, K., Ng, D., Riaz, M. S., …Hussain, A. (2024). Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on audiology service delivery: Observational study of the role of social media in patient communication. PLOS ONE, 19(4), Art

The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted an era in hearing health care that necessitates a comprehensive rethinking of audiology service delivery. There has been a significant increase in the number of individuals with hearing loss who seek information... Read More about Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on audiology service delivery: Observational study of the role of social media in patient communication.

Robust Real-time Audio-Visual Speech Enhancement based on DNN and GAN (2024)
Journal Article
Gogate, M., Dashtipour, K., & Hussain, A. (in press). Robust Real-time Audio-Visual Speech Enhancement based on DNN and GAN. IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, https://doi.org/10.1109/tai.2024.3366141

The human auditory cortex contextually integrates audio-visual (AV) cues to better understand speech in a cocktail party situation. Recent studies have shown that AV speech enhancement (SE) models can significantly improve speech quality and intellig... Read More about Robust Real-time Audio-Visual Speech Enhancement based on DNN and GAN.

A hybrid dependency-based approach for Urdu sentiment analysis (2023)
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Sehar, U., Kanwal, S., Allheeib, N. I., Almari, S., Khan, F., Dashtipur, K., …Khashan, O. A. (2023). A hybrid dependency-based approach for Urdu sentiment analysis. Scientific Reports, 13, Article 22075. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-48817-8

In the digital age, social media has emerged as a significant platform, generating a vast amount of raw data daily. This data reflects the opinions of individuals from diverse backgrounds, races, cultures, and age groups, spanning a wide range of top... Read More about A hybrid dependency-based approach for Urdu sentiment analysis.

Sentiment Analysis Meets Explainable Artificial Intelligence: A Survey on Explainable Sentiment Analysis (2023)
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Diwali, A., Saeedi, K., Dashtipour, K., Gogate, M., Cambria, E., & Hussain, A. (in press). Sentiment Analysis Meets Explainable Artificial Intelligence: A Survey on Explainable Sentiment Analysis. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, https://doi.org/

Sentiment analysis can be used to derive knowledge that is connected to emotions and opinions from textual data generated by people. As computer power has grown, and the availability of benchmark datasets has increased, deep learning models based on... Read More about Sentiment Analysis Meets Explainable Artificial Intelligence: A Survey on Explainable Sentiment Analysis.

Arabic Sentiment Analysis Based on Word Embeddings and Deep Learning (2023)
Journal Article
Elhassan, N., Varone, G., Ahmed, R., Gogate, M., Dashtipour, K., Almoamari, H., El-Affendi, M. A., Al-Tamimi, B. N., Albalwy, F., & Hussain, A. (2023). Arabic Sentiment Analysis Based on Word Embeddings and Deep Learning. Computers, 12(6), Article 126. ht

Social media networks have grown exponentially over the last two decades, providing the opportunity for users of the internet to communicate and exchange ideas on a variety of topics. The outcome is that opinion mining plays a crucial role in analyzi... Read More about Arabic Sentiment Analysis Based on Word Embeddings and Deep Learning.

Interactive Effect of Learning Rate and Batch Size to Implement Transfer Learning for Brain Tumor Classification (2023)
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Usmani, I. A., Qadri, M. T., Zia, R., Alrayes, F. S., Saidani, O., & Dashtipour, K. (2023). Interactive Effect of Learning Rate and Batch Size to Implement Transfer Learning for Brain Tumor Classification. Electronics, 12(4), Article 964. https://doi.org/

For classifying brain tumors with small datasets, the knowledge-based transfer learning (KBTL) approach has performed very well in attaining an optimized classification model. However, its successful implementation is typically affected by different... Read More about Interactive Effect of Learning Rate and Batch Size to Implement Transfer Learning for Brain Tumor Classification.

A Novel Hierarchical Extreme Machine-Learning-Based Approach for Linear Attenuation Coefficient Forecasting (2023)
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Varone, G., Ieracitano, C., Çiftçioğlu, A. Ö., Hussain, T., Gogate, M., Dashtipour, K., Al-Tamimi, B. N., Almoamari, H., Akkurt, I., & Hussain, A. (2023). A Novel Hierarchical Extreme Machine-Learning-Based Approach for Linear Attenuation Coefficient

The development of reinforced polymer composite materials has had a significant influence on the challenging problem of shielding against high-energy photons, particularly X-rays and γ-rays in industrial and healthcare facilities. Heavy materials’ sh... Read More about A Novel Hierarchical Extreme Machine-Learning-Based Approach for Linear Attenuation Coefficient Forecasting.

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.

Artificial intelligence-enabled social media analysis for pharmacovigilance of COVID-19 vaccinations in the United Kingdom: Observational Study (2022)
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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.

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.

Synchronization of Monostatic Radar Using a Time-Delayed Chaos-Based FM Waveform (2022)
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Abd, M. H., Al-Suhail, G. A., Tahir, F. R., Ali Ali, A. M., Abbood, H. A., Dashtipour, K., …Ahmad, J. (2022). Synchronization of Monostatic Radar Using a Time-Delayed Chaos-Based FM Waveform. Remote Sensing, 14(9), Article 1984. https://doi.org/10.3390/

There is no doubt that chaotic systems are still attractive issues in various radar applications and communication systems. In this paper, we present a new 0.3 GHz mono-static microwave chaotic radar. It includes a chaotic system based on a time-dela... Read More about Synchronization of Monostatic Radar Using a Time-Delayed Chaos-Based FM Waveform.

Personalized wearable electrodermal sensing-based human skin hydration level detection for sports, health and wellbeing (2022)
Journal Article
Liaqat, S., Dashtipour, K., Rizwan, A., Usman, M., Shah, S. A., Arshad, K., …Ramzan, N. (2022). Personalized wearable electrodermal sensing-based human skin hydration level detection for sports, health and wellbeing. Scientific Reports, 12(1), Article 3

Personalized hydration level monitoring play vital role in sports, health, wellbeing and safety of a person while performing particular set of activities. Clinical staff must be mindful of numerous physiological symptoms that identify the optimum hyd... Read More about Personalized wearable electrodermal sensing-based human skin hydration level detection for sports, health and wellbeing.

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.

Extending persian sentiment lexicon with idiomatic expressions for sentiment analysis (2021)
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Dashtipour, K., Gogate, M., Gelbukh, A., & Hussain, A. (2021). 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.

Intrusion Detection Framework for the Internet of Things Using a Dense Random Neural Network (2021)
Journal Article
Latif, S., Huma, Z. E., Jamal, S. S., Ahmed, F., Ahmad, J., Zahid, A., …Abbasi, Q. H. (2022). Intrusion Detection Framework for the Internet of Things Using a Dense Random Neural Network. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 18(9), 6435-6444. ht

The Internet of Things (IoT) devices, networks, and applications have become an integral part of modern societies. Despite their social, economic, and industrial benefits, these devices and networks are frequently targeted by cybercriminals. Hence, I... Read More about Intrusion Detection Framework for the Internet of Things Using a Dense Random Neural Network.

Ultra-Low-Power, High-Accuracy 434 MHz Indoor Positioning System for Smart Homes Leveraging Machine Learning Models (2021)
Journal Article
Nawaz, H., Tahir, A., Ahmed, N., Fayyaz, U. U., Mahmood, T., Jaleel, A., …Abbasi, Q. (2021). Ultra-Low-Power, High-Accuracy 434 MHz Indoor Positioning System for Smart Homes Leveraging Machine Learning Models. Entropy, 23(11), Article 1401. https://doi.

Global navigation satellite systems have been used for reliable location-based services in outdoor environments. However, satellite-based systems are not suitable for indoor positioning due to low signal power inside buildings and low accuracy of 5 m... Read More about Ultra-Low-Power, High-Accuracy 434 MHz Indoor Positioning System for Smart Homes Leveraging Machine Learning Models.

Lane-DeepLab: Lane semantic segmentation in automatic driving scenarios for high-definition maps (2021)
Journal Article
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.

A Review and Comparison of the State-of-the-Art Techniques for Atrial Fibrillation Detection and Skin Hydration (2021)
Journal Article
Liaqat, S., Dashtipour, K., Zahid, A., Arshad, K., Ullah Jan, S., Assaleh, K., & Ramzan, N. (2021). A Review and Comparison of the State-of-the-Art Techniques for Atrial Fibrillation Detection and Skin Hydration. Frontiers in Communications and Networks,

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is one of the most common types of cardiac arrhythmia, with a prevalence of 1–2% in the community, increasing the risk of stroke and myocardial infarction. Early detection of AF, typically causing an irregular and abnormally... Read More about A Review and Comparison of the State-of-the-Art Techniques for Atrial Fibrillation Detection and Skin Hydration.

Radar Sensing for Activity Classification in Elderly People Exploiting Micro-Doppler Signatures Using Machine Learning (2021)
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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.

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.

Novel Ensemble Algorithm for Multiple Activity Recognition in Elderly People Exploiting Ubiquitous Sensing Devices (2021)
Journal Article
Liaqat, S., Dashtipour, K., Shah, S. A., Rizwan, A., Alotaibi, A. A., Althobaiti, T., …Ramzan, N. (2021). Novel Ensemble Algorithm for Multiple Activity Recognition in Elderly People Exploiting Ubiquitous Sensing Devices. IEEE Sensors Journal, 21(16), 1

Ambient assisted living is good way to look after ageing population that enables us to detect human’s activities of daily living (ADLs) and postures, as number of older adults are increasing at rapid pace. Posture detection is used to provide the ass... Read More about Novel Ensemble Algorithm for Multiple Activity Recognition in Elderly People Exploiting Ubiquitous Sensing Devices.

Sentiment Analysis of Persian Movie Reviews Using Deep Learning (2021)
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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.

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:

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.

Novel Deep Convolutional Neural Network-Based Contextual Recognition of Arabic Handwritten Scripts (2021)
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Ahmed, R., Gogate, M., Tahir, A., Dashtipour, K., Al-tamimi, B., Hawalah, A., …Hussain, A. (2021). Novel Deep Convolutional Neural Network-Based Contextual Recognition of Arabic Handwritten Scripts. Entropy, 23(3), Article 340. https://doi.org/10.3390/e

Offline Arabic Handwriting Recognition (OAHR) has recently become instrumental in the areas of pattern recognition and image processing due to its application in several fields, such as office automation and document processing. However, OAHR continu... Read More about Novel Deep Convolutional Neural Network-Based Contextual Recognition of Arabic Handwritten Scripts.

A novel context-aware multimodal framework for persian sentiment analysis (2021)
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Dashtipour, K., Gogate, M., Cambria, E., & Hussain, A. (2021). A novel context-aware multimodal framework for persian sentiment analysis. Neurocomputing, 457, 377-388. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2021.02.020

Most recent works on sentiment analysis have exploited the text modality. However, millions of hours of video recordings posted on social media platforms everyday hold vital unstructured information that can be exploited to more effectively gauge pub... Read More about A novel context-aware multimodal framework for persian sentiment analysis.

A semi-supervised approach for sentiment analysis of arab (ic+ izi) messages: Application to the algerian dialect (2021)
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Guellil, I., Adeel, A., Azouaou, F., Benali, F., Hachani, A., Dashtipour, K., …Hussain, A. (2021). A semi-supervised approach for sentiment analysis of arab (ic+ izi) messages: Application to the algerian dialect. SN Computer Science, 2, Article 118. ht

In this paper, we propose a semi-supervised approach for sentiment analysis of Arabic and its dialects. This approach is based on a sentiment corpus, constructed automatically and reviewed manually by Algerian dialect native speakers. This approach c... Read More about A semi-supervised approach for sentiment analysis of arab (ic+ izi) messages: Application to the algerian dialect.

Robust Visual Saliency Optimization Based on Bidirectional Markov Chains (2020)
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Jiang, F., Kong, B., Li, J., Dashtipour, K., & Gogate, M. (2021). Robust Visual Saliency Optimization Based on Bidirectional Markov Chains. Cognitive Computation, 13, 69–80. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-020-09724-6

Saliency detection aims to automatically highlight the most important area in an image. Traditional saliency detection methods based on absorbing Markov chain only take into account boundary nodes and often lead to incorrect saliency detection when t... Read More about Robust Visual Saliency Optimization Based on Bidirectional Markov Chains.

CochleaNet: A robust language-independent audio-visual model for real-time speech enhancement (2020)
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Gogate, M., Dashtipour, K., Adeel, A., & Hussain, A. (2020). CochleaNet: A robust language-independent audio-visual model for real-time speech enhancement. Information Fusion, 63, 273-285. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2020.04.001

Noisy situations cause huge problems for the hearing-impaired, as hearing aids often make speech more audible but do not always restore intelligibility. In noisy settings, humans routinely exploit the audio-visual (AV) nature of speech to selectively... Read More about CochleaNet: A robust language-independent audio-visual model for real-time speech enhancement.

A hybrid Persian sentiment analysis framework: Integrating dependency grammar based rules and deep neural networks (2019)
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Dashtipour, K., Gogate, M., Li, J., Jiang, F., Kong, B., & Hussain, A. (2020). A hybrid Persian sentiment analysis framework: Integrating dependency grammar based rules and deep neural networks. Neurocomputing, 380, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.

Social media hold valuable, vast and unstructured information on public opinion that can be utilized to improve products and services. The automatic analysis of such data, however, requires a deep understanding of natural language. Current sentiment... Read More about A hybrid Persian sentiment analysis framework: Integrating dependency grammar based rules and deep neural networks.