Sarah Mohammed Allabun

Dr. Sarah Mohammed Allabun

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Academic Career Length

5Years (2022-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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24 February 2023 in Molecules
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SJShubham Joshi
Shubham Joshi
SASarah Mohammed Allabun
Sarah Mohammed Allabun
Stephen A OjoStephen A Ojo
Stephen A Ojo
MAMohammed Alqahtani
Mohammed Alqahtani
Piyush Kumar ShuklaPiyush Kumar Shukla
Piyush Kumar Shukla
HAHussain Almohiy
Hussain Almohiy
Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have newly developed as a potential drug delivery system. MSC-based drug delivery systems (MSCs-DDS) have made significant strides in the treatment of several illnesses, as shown by a plethora of research. However, as this area of research rapidly develops, several issues with this delivery technique have emerged, most often as a result of its intrinsic limits. To increase the effectiveness and security of this system, several cutting-edge technologies are being developed concurrently. However, the advancement of MSC applicability in clinical practice is severely hampered by the absence of standardized methodologies for assessing cell safety, effectiveness, and biodistribution. In this work, the biodistribution and systemic safety of MSCs are highlighted as we assess the status of MSC-based cell therapy at this time. We also examine the underlying mechanisms of MSCs to better understand the risks of tumor initiation and propagation. Methods for MSC biodistribution are explored, as well as the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of cell therapies. We also highlight various promising technologies, such as nanotechnology, genome engineering technology, and biomimetic technology, to enhance MSC-DDS. For statistical analysis, we used analysis of variance (ANOVA), Kaplan Meier, and log-rank tests. In this work, we created a shared DDS medication distribution network using an extended enhanced optimization approach called enhanced particle swarm optimization (E-PSO). To identify the considerable untapped potential and highlight promising future research paths, we highlight the use of MSCs in gene delivery and medication, also membrane-coated MSC nanoparticles, for treatment and drug delivery.

14 April 2023 in Diagnostics
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RMRicky Mohanty
Ricky Mohanty
SASarah Mohammed Allabun
Sarah Mohammed Allabun
SSSandeep Singh Solanki
Sandeep Singh Solanki
SPSubhendu kumar Pani
Subhendu kumar Pani
MAMohammed Alqahtani
Mohammed Alqahtani
BSBen Othman Sofiene
Ben Othman Sofiene
Spinal cord segmentation is the process of identifying and delineating the boundaries of the spinal cord in medical images such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or computed tomography (CT) scans. This process is important for many medical applications, including the diagnosis, treatment planning, and monitoring of spinal cord injuries and diseases. The segmentation process involves using image processing techniques to identify the spinal cord in the medical image and differentiate it from other structures, such as the vertebrae, cerebrospinal fluid, and tumors. There are several approaches to spinal cord segmentation, including manual segmentation by a trained expert, semi-automated segmentation using software tools that require some user input, and fully automated segmentation using deep learning algorithms. Researchers have proposed a wide range of system models for segmentation and tumor classification in spinal cord scans, but the majority of these models are designed for a specific segment of the spine. As a result, their performance is limited when applied to the entire lead, limiting their deployment scalability. This paper proposes a novel augmented model for spinal cord segmentation and tumor classification using deep nets to overcome this limitation. The model initially segments all five spinal cord regions and stores them as separate datasets. These datasets are manually tagged with cancer status and stage based on observations from multiple radiologist experts. Multiple Mask Regional Convolutional Neural Networks (MRCNNs) were trained on various datasets for region segmentation. The results of these segmentations were combined using a combination of VGGNet 19, YoLo V2, ResNet 101, and GoogLeNet models. These models were selected via performance validation on each segment. It was observed that VGGNet-19 was capable of classifying the thoracic and cervical regions, while YoLo V2 was able to efficiently classify the lumbar region, ResNet 101 exhibited better accuracy for sacral-region classification, and GoogLeNet was able to classify the coccygeal region with high performance accuracy. Due to use of specialized CNN models for different spinal cord segments, the proposed model was able to achieve a 14.5% better segmentation efficiency, 98.9% tumor classification accuracy, and a 15.6% higher speed performance when averaged over the entire dataset and compared with various state-of-the art models. This performance was observed to be better, due to which it can be used for various clinical deployments. Moreover, this performance was observed to be consistent across multiple tumor types and spinal cord regions, which makes the model highly scalable for a wide variety of spinal cord tumor classification scenarios.

5 October 2022 in BioMed Research International
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SASarah Mohammed Allabun
Sarah Mohammed Allabun
Background. Current medical care deeply relies on informatics during all stages of patient care, which is significantly enhanced due to its use. The healthcare professional’s formation in medical informatics results crucial for their everyday practice. However, healthcare study programs not always provide education about the use of this wide variety of systems, and young professionals find that they need to learn about it over the experience. The aim of this study was to assess the understanding of medical and dental students regarding medical informatics and ICTs. Materials and Methods. A questionnaire was produced with 3 sections and a total of 24 questions. Students replied to the survey before and after taking the medical informatics course. Results. A total of 719 students from second year of medical and dental school were recruited for the study between the period of September of 2017‐May 2018, September 2018‐May 2019, September 2019‐May 2020, and September 2020‐May 2021. Medical and dental students showed a good level of understanding regarding medical informatics, as well as a good perception of the relevance of ICT learning for the professional practice. Course attendance increased the percentage of students that felt confident of their knowledge about medical informatics. However, most students felt that little or no medical informatics education was lectured at their schools and that the University should adapt the academic program to include it. After taking the course, the student’s perception on this matter was improved. Conclusion. Medical and dental students find medical informatics learning useful for their future professional practice and feel inclined to use it. However, they feel that Universities need to adapt their programs in order to include medical education courses and trainings; partly because they are not completely aware of the use of ICTs that already are established in their courses.

3 May 2023 in Research Square
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Stephen A OjoStephen A Ojo
Stephen A Ojo
SASarah Mohammed Allabun
Sarah Mohammed Allabun
PSPrashant Kumar Shukla
Prashant Kumar Shukla
MAMohammed Alqahtani
Mohammed Alqahtani
Piyush Kumar PareekPiyush Kumar Pareek
Piyush Kumar Pareek
BSBen Othman Sofiene
Ben Othman Sofiene
EEG signals are recordings of electrical activity in the brain, and they can be used to detect epileptic seizures. Cross-spectral analysis involves analyzing the spectral coherence between different frequency bands in EEG signals. Cross-spectral seizure detection is a technique used to detect seizures in electroencephalography (EEG) signals by analyzing the frequency content of the signal in different frequency bands. Spectral coherence is a measure of how correlated two signals are in the frequency domain, and it can be used to identify patterns in EEG signals that are characteristic of seizures. Even if the ECG, which provides a direct measure of heart rate, were polluted by noise or missing altogether, the heart rate computed from such signals would be erroneous. This necessitates the use of an accurate heart rate estimate, which is especially important when the ECG is noisy or missing. To put it another way, fusion combines cardiovascular data with no cardiovascular (NC) signals, which are not connected to cardiac activity but include signs of heartbeats. According to the results of our evaluation of standard datasets, they determined that the SSF-TKE approach is particularly successful at identifying R-peak artefacts in non-cardiovascular signals that ECG anomalies have contaminated. When tested on standard datasets, the beat SQI-based voting fusion technique demonstrated a high degree of accuracy in predicting heart rate from a fusion of multimodal information. Compared to the single signal technique, the fusion methodology out per-forms it when determining heart rate precision. This strategy was evaluated using ECG and ABP signals from a synthetic noise dataset, which was created by adding various forms of calibrated noise to clean signals and then testing the outcomes of the technique on those signals. As a result of our paper, we noticed that merging cardiovascular and no cardiovascular inputs increased the accuracy of physiological parameter assessment.