Publications by authors named "Walaa N Ismail"

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) refers to impairment of the kidneys that may worsen over time. Early detection of CKD is crucial for saving millions of lives. As a result, several studies are currently focused on developing computer-aided systems to detect CKD in its early stages.

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Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated exceptional results in the analysis of time- series data when used for Human Activity Recognition (HAR). The manual design of such neural architectures is an error-prone and time-consuming process. The search for optimal CNN architectures is considered a revolution in the design of neural networks.

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Article Synopsis
  • This paper presents a new framework that combines convolutional neural networks (CNN) and genetic algorithms (GA) to quickly and accurately detect COVID-19 cases using chest X-ray images and multi-access edge computing technology.
  • The framework aims to address challenges like heavy hospital workloads and delays in traditional RT-PCR testing, which can hinder timely treatment for patients.
  • The model introduces an innovative CNN architecture optimized by GA to enhance performance, facilitating access for users with 5G devices to utilize this automatic COVID-19 detection tool.
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The understanding of various health-oriented vital sign data generated from body sensor networks (BSNs) and discovery of the associations between the generated parameters is an important task that may assist and promote important decision making in healthcare. For example, in a smart home scenario where occupants' health status is continuously monitored remotely, it is essential to provide the required assistance when an unusual or critical situation is detected in their vital sign data. In this paper, we present an efficient approach for mining the periodic patterns obtained from BSN data.

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