Publications by authors named "Usman Akram"

Industry 4.0 represents the fourth industrial revolution, which is characterized by the incorporation of digital technologies, the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence, big data, and other advanced technologies into industrial processes. Industrial Machinery Health Management (IMHM) is a crucial element, based on the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), which focuses on monitoring the health and condition of industrial machinery.

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Failure of industrial assets can cause financial, operational and safety hazards across different industries. Monitoring their condition is crucial for successful and smooth operations. The colossal volume of sensory data generated and acquired throughout industrial operations supports real-time condition monitoring of these assets.

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Heart rate monitoring using PPG signal has emerged as an attractive as well as an applied research problem which enjoys a renewed interest in the recent years. Spectral analysis of PPG for heart rate monitoring, though effective when the subject is at rest, suffers from performance degradation in case of motion artifacts which mask the peak related with the actual heart rate. Leveraging the recent advancements in deep (machine) learning and exploiting the signal, spectral and time-frequency perspectives, we introduce an effective method for heart rate estimation from PPG signals acquired from subjects performing different exercises.

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The paper describes a dataset, entitled Retina Identification Database (RIDB). The stated dataset contains Retinal fundus images acquired using Fundus imaging camera TOPCON-TRC 50 EX. The abovementioned dataset holds a significant position in retinal recognition and identification.

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Article Synopsis
  • * The proposed framework utilizes VGG-16 architecture to classify pixels into inner limiting membrane (ILM), retinal pigmented epithelium (RPE), or background, allowing for the calculation of the cup-to-disc ratio (CDR), an important metric for diagnosing glaucoma.
  • * Tested on a dataset of 196 optical coherence tomography images, the system successfully extracts retinal layers with minimal error and achieves high diagnostic performance metrics, including sensitivity (94.6%) and accuracy (94.68
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This paper presents the data set of Optic coherence tomography (OCT) and fundus Images of human eye. The OCT machine TOPCON'S 3D OCT-1000 camera is employed to acquire the images. The dataset is comprised of 50 images which includes control and glaucomatous images.

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Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is an eye disease that victimize the people suffering from diabetes from many years. The severe form of DR results in form of the blindness that can initially be controlled by the DR-screening oriented treatment. The effective screening programs require the trained human resource that manually grade the fundus images to understand the severity of the disease.

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Increased recycling of nutrient-rich organic waste to meet crop nutrient needs is an essential component of a more sustainable food system. However, agricultural specialization continues to pose a significant challenge to balancing crop nutrient needs and the nutrient supply from animal manure and human excreta locally. For Sweden, this study found that recycling all excreta (in 2007) could meet up to 75% of crop nitrogen and 81% of phosphorus needs, but that this would exceed crop potassium needs by 51%.

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Maculopathy is the group of diseases that affects central vision of a person and they are often associated with diabetes. Many researchers reported automated diagnosis of maculopathy from optical coherence tomography (OCT) images. However, to the best of our knowledge there is no literature that presents a complete 3D suite for the extraction as well as diagnosis of macula.

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Age-related macular degeneration (ARMD) is one of the most common retinal syndromes that occurs in elderly people. Different eye testing techniques such as fundus photography and optical coherence tomography (OCT) are used to clinically examine the ARMD-affected patients. Many researchers have worked on detecting ARMD from fundus images, few of them also worked on detecting ARMD from OCT images.

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Maculopathy is the excessive damage to macula that leads to blindness. It mostly occurs due to retinal edema (RE), central serous chorioretinopathy (CSCR), or age related macular degeneration (ARMD). Optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging is the latest eye testing technique that can detect these syndromes in early stages.

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Rapid development in the field of ophthalmology has increased the demand of computer aided diagnosis of various eye diseases. Papilledema is an eye disease in which the optic disc of the eye is swelled due to an increase in intracranial pressure. This increased pressure can cause severe encephalic complications like abscess, tumors, meningitis or encephalitis, which may lead to a patient's death.

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Background And Objectives: Macular diseases tend to damage macula within human retina due to which the central vision of a person is affected. Macular edema (ME) and central serous retinopathy (CSR) are two of the most common macular diseases. Many researchers worked on automated detection of ME from optical coherence tomography (OCT) and fundus images, whereas few researchers have worked on diagnosing central serous retinopathy.

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Objectives: Frozen shoulder is a disease in which shoulder becomes stiff. Accurate diagnosis of frozen shoulder is helpful in providing economical and effective treatment for patients. This research provides the classification of unstructured data using data mining techniques.

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Digital dermoscopy aids dermatologists in monitoring potentially cancerous skin lesions. Melanoma is the 5th common form of skin cancer that is rare but the most dangerous. Melanoma is curable if it is detected at an early stage.

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This paper presents a novel technique for segmentation of skin lesion in dermoscopic images based on wavelet transform along with morphological operations. The acquired dermoscopic images may include artifacts inform of gel, dense hairs and water bubble which make accurate segmentation more challenging. We have also embodied an efficient approach for artifacts removal and hair inpainting, to enhance the overall segmentation results.

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Glaucoma is a chronic disease often called "silent thief of sight" as it has no symptoms and if not detected at an early stage it may cause permanent blindness. Glaucoma progression precedes some structural changes in the retina which aid ophthalmologists to detect glaucoma at an early stage and stop its progression. Fundoscopy is among one of the biomedical imaging techniques to analyze the internal structure of retina.

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Macular edema (ME) and central serous retinopathy (CSR) are two macular diseases that affect the central vision of a person if they are left untreated. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging is the latest eye examination technique that shows a cross-sectional region of the retinal layers and that can be used to detect many retinal disorders in an early stage. Many researchers have done clinical studies on ME and CSR and reported significant findings in macular OCT scans.

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Macular edema (ME) is considered as one of the major indications of proliferative diabetic retinopathy and it is commonly caused due to diabetes. ME causes retinal swelling due to the accumulation of protein deposits within subretinal layers. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging provides an early detection of ME by showing the cross-sectional view of macular pathology.

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Glaucoma is a chronic and irreversible neuro-degenerative disease in which the neuro-retinal nerve that connects the eye to the brain (optic nerve) is progressively damaged and patients suffer from vision loss and blindness. The timely detection and treatment of glaucoma is very crucial to save patient's vision. Computer aided diagnostic systems are used for automated detection of glaucoma that calculate cup to disc ratio from colored retinal images.

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Retinal blood vessels are the source to provide oxygen and nutrition to retina and any change in the normal structure may lead to different retinal abnormalities. Automated detection of vascular structure is very important while designing a computer aided diagnostic system for retinal diseases. Most popular methods for vessel segmentation are based on matched filters and Gabor wavelets which give good response against blood vessels.

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With the increase of transistors' density, popularity of System on Chip (SoC) has increased exponentially. As a communication module for SoC, Network on Chip (NoC) framework has been adapted as its backbone. In this paper, we propose a methodology for designing area-optimized application specific NoC while providing hard Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees for real time flows.

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National security has gained vital importance due to increasing number of suspicious and terrorist events across the globe. Use of different subfields of information technology has also gained much attraction of researchers and practitioners to design systems which can detect main members which are actually responsible for such kind of events. In this paper, we present a novel method to predict key players from a covert network by applying a hybrid framework.

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