Publications by authors named "Refat Khan Pathan"

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  • The study focuses on Syrian people's understanding and attitudes toward HIV/AIDS and STIs to promote safe sex practices.
  • Conducted online between September and November 2022 with over 1,000 participants, it assessed knowledge through a questionnaire covering demographics, knowledge and practice, and attitudes towards these infections.
  • Results indicated moderate knowledge levels about STIs and HIV, but negative attitudes remained prevalent, emphasizing the need to address these gaps in lower-income countries like Syria.
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Among many types of cancers, to date, lung cancer remains one of the deadliest cancers around the world. Many researchers, scientists, doctors, and people from other fields continuously contribute to this subject regarding early prediction and diagnosis. One of the significant problems in prediction is the black-box nature of machine learning models.

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  • Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) is a common hormonal disorder in women of reproductive age, but there's limited awareness of it among Syrian women.
  • A survey conducted with 1840 Syrian women found that 27.4% had confirmed PCOS diagnoses, with higher knowledge scores among those with a degree and those previously diagnosed.
  • The study highlights a moderate understanding of PCOS among participants and calls for enhanced awareness and regular screening programs to better educate women about the disorder.
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Sign Language Recognition is a breakthrough for communication among deaf-mute society and has been a critical research topic for years. Although some of the previous studies have successfully recognized sign language, it requires many costly instruments including sensors, devices, and high-end processing power. However, such drawbacks can be easily overcome by employing artificial intelligence-based techniques.

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Monkeypox is a double-stranded DNA virus with an envelope and is a member of the Poxviridae family's Orthopoxvirus genus. This virus can transmit from human to human through direct contact with respiratory secretions, infected animals and humans, or contaminated objects and causing mutations in the human body. In May 2022, several monkeypox affected cases were found in many countries.

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Breast cancer is one of the most widely recognized diseases after skin cancer. Though it can occur in all kinds of people, it is undeniably more common in women. Several analytical techniques, such as Breast MRI, X-ray, Thermography, Mammograms, Ultrasound, etc.

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The disease may be an explicit status that negatively affects human health. Cardiopathy is one of the common deadly diseases that is attributed to unhealthy human habits compared to alternative diseases. With the help of machine learning (ML) algorithms, heart disease can be noticed in a short time as well as at a low cost.

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Compelling facial expression recognition (FER) processes have been utilized in very successful fields like computer vision, robotics, artificial intelligence, and dynamic texture recognition. However, the FER's critical problem with traditional local binary pattern (LBP) is the loss of neighboring pixels related to different scales that can affect the texture of facial images. To overcome such limitations, this study describes a new extended LBP method to extract feature vectors from images, detecting each image from facial expressions.

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SARS-CoV-2, a novel coronavirus mostly known as COVID-19 has created a global pandemic. The world is now immobilized by this infectious RNA virus. As of June 15, already more than 7.

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