Aftab Ahmed

Dr. Aftab Ahmed


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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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7 September 2023 in Sensors
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AAAITIZAZ ALI
AITIZAZ ALI
HAHashim Ali
Hashim Ali
ASAamir Saeed
Aamir Saeed
AAAftab Ahmed
Aftab Ahmed
TTTing Tin Tin
Ting Tin Tin
HGHeba Gaber
Heba Gaber
The rapid advancements in technology have paved the way for innovative solutions in the healthcare domain, aiming to improve scalability and security while enhancing patient care. This abstract introduces a cutting-edge approach, leveraging blockchain technology and hybrid deep learning techniques to revolutionize healthcare systems. Blockchain technology provides a decentralized and transparent framework, enabling secure data storage, sharing, and access control. By integrating blockchain into healthcare systems, data integrity, privacy, and interoperability can be ensured while eliminating the reliance on centralized authorities. In conjunction with blockchain, hybrid deep learning techniques offer powerful capabilities for data analysis and decision making in healthcare. Combining the strengths of deep learning algorithms with traditional machine learning approaches, hybrid deep learning enables accurate and efficient processing of complex healthcare data, including medical records, images, and sensor data. This research proposes a permissions-based blockchain framework for scalable and secure healthcare systems, integrating hybrid deep learning models. The framework ensures that only authorized entities can access and modify sensitive health information, preserving patient privacy while facilitating seamless data sharing and collaboration among healthcare providers. Additionally, the hybrid deep learning models enable real-time analysis of large-scale healthcare data, facilitating timely diagnosis, treatment recommendations, and disease prediction. The integration of blockchain and hybrid deep learning presents numerous benefits, including enhanced scalability, improved security, interoperability, and informed decision making in healthcare systems. However, challenges such as computational complexity, regulatory compliance, and ethical considerations need to be addressed for successful implementation. By harnessing the potential of blockchain and hybrid deep learning, healthcare systems can overcome traditional limitations, promoting efficient and secure data management, personalized patient care, and advancements in medical research. The proposed framework lays the foundation for a future healthcare ecosystem that prioritizes scalability, security, and improved patient outcomes.

17 February 2022 in IEEE Access
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ISIsmail
Ismail
Muhammad Ismail MohmandMuhammad Ismail Mohmand
Muhammad Ismail Mohmand
HHHameed Hussain
Hameed Hussain
AKAyaz Ali Khan
Ayaz Ali Khan
UUUbaid Ullah
Ubaid Ullah
MHMuhammad Haleem
Muhammad Haleem
Distributed network attacks are referred to, usually, as Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. These attacks take advantage of specific limitations that apply to any arrangement asset, such as the framework of the authorized organization’s site. In the existing research study, the author worked on an old KDD dataset. It is necessary to work with the latest dataset to identify the current state of DDoS attacks. This paper, used a machine learning approach for DDoS attack types classification and prediction. For this purpose, used Random Forest and XGBoost classification algorithms. To access the research proposed a complete framework for DDoS attacks prediction. For the proposed work, the UNWS-np-15 dataset was extracted from the GitHub repository and Python was used as a simulator. After applying the machine learning models, we generated a confusion matrix for identification of the model performance. In the first classification, the results showed that both Precision (PR) and Recall (RE) are $\sim 89$ % for the Random Forest algorithm. The average Accuracy (AC) of our proposed model is ~89% which is superb and enough good. In the second classification, the results showed that both Precision (PR) and Recall (RE) are approximately 90% for the XGBoost algorithm. The average Accuracy (AC) of our suggested model is ~90%. By comparing our work to the existing research works, the accuracy of the defect determination was significantly improved which is approximately 85% and 79%, respectively.

16 January 2023 in IEEE Access
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SRShahid Rahman
Shahid Rahman
JUJamal Uddin
Jamal Uddin
Muhammad ZakaryaMuhammad Zakarya
Muhammad Zakarya
HHHameed Hussain
Hameed Hussain
AKAyaz Ali Khan
Ayaz Ali Khan
MHMuhammad Haleem
Muhammad Haleem
Steganography surpasses other mechanisms of securing data from potential threats. The modern digital arena calls for robust information hiding techniques and, thus, it has always been a flash point for researchers and academicians. Nowadays, transmission is susceptible to numerous hacks while sharing secret information through typical correspondence channel. Accordingly, everybody needs the classification, respectability, and realness of his or her privileged information. Particularly, different techniques are used to take on these security issues like advanced declaration, computerized mark, and cryptography. Nevertheless, these strategies alone cannot be negotiated. Steganography is a revolution where current information compression, data hypothesis, spread range, and cryptography advancements are integrated to meet the requirements for protection of data over the Internet. This study investigates and critically analyses various existing cover steganography techniques and identifies the valuable region that everyone can be benefited. Moreover, we present a comprehensive overview of the fundamental concepts with in the domain of the steganographic methods and steganalysis. These systems have been depicted in numerous areas of the steganography such as spatial space, transform domain, and adaptive space. Moreover, each space has its particular traits. A few regularly involved techniques for improving the steganographic security and upgrading steganalysis capacity are elaborated, summed up; and conceivable examination patterns are talked about. We also systematically separate different methodologies in our review and show their pros and cons, qualities, challenges and significance.

9 May 2023 in IEEE Access
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SAShahid Akbar
Shahid Akbar
HGHeba Gaber
Heba Gaber
HAHashim Ali
Hashim Ali
ASAamir Saeed
Aamir Saeed
AAAftab Ahmed
Aftab Ahmed
MAMuhammad Assam
Muhammad Assam
Neuropeptides (NPs) are a kind of neuromodulator/ neurotransmitter that works as signaling molecules in the central nervous system, and perform major roles in physiological and hormone regulation activities. Recently, machine learning-based therapeutic agents have gained the attention of researchers due to their high and reliable prediction results. However, the unsatisfactory performance of the existing predictors is due to their high execution cost and minimum predictive results. Therefore, the development of a reliable prediction is highly indispensable for scientists to effectively predict NPs. In this study, we presented an automatic and computationally effective model for identifying of NPs. The evolutionary information is formulated using a bigram position-specific scoring matrix (Bi-PSSM) and K-spaced bigram (KSB). Moreover, for noise reduction, a discrete wavelet transform (DWT) is utilized to form Bi-PSSM_DWT and KSB_DWT based high discriminative vectors. In addition, one-hot encoding is also employed to collect sequential features from peptide samples. Finally, a multi-perspective feature set of sequential and embedded evolutionary information. The optimum features are chosen from the extracted features via Shapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) by evaluating the contribution of the extracted features. The optimal features are trained via six classification models i.e., XGB, ETC, SVM, ADA, FKNN, and LGBM. The predicted labels of these learners are then provided to a genetic algorithm to form an ensemble classification approach. Hence, our model achieved a higher predictive accuracy of 94.47% and 92.55% using training sequences and independent sequences, respectively. Which is ~3% highest predictive accuracy than present methods. It is suggested that our presented tool will be beneficial and may execute a substantial role in drug development and research academia. The source code and all datasets are publicly available at https://github.com/shahidawkum/Target-ensC_NP.

18 February 2022 in IEEE Access
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ARAfzal Rahman
Afzal Rahman
HAHaider Ali
Haider Ali
NBNoor Badshah
Noor Badshah
Lavdie RadaLavdie Rada
Lavdie Rada
AKAyaz Ali Khan
Ayaz Ali Khan
MHMuhammad Haleem
Muhammad Haleem
Selective image segmentation is one of the most significant subjects in medical imaging and real-world applications. We present a robust selective segmentation model based on local spatial distance utilizing a dual-level set variational formulation in this study. Our concept tries to partition all objects using a global level set function and the selected item using a different level set function (local). Our model combines the marker distance function, edge detection, local spatial distance, and active contour without edges into one. The new model is robust to noise and gives better performance for images having intensity in-homogeneity (background and foreground). Moreover, we observed that the proposed model captures objects which do not have uniform features. The experimental results show that our model is robust to noise and works better than the other existing models.

9 April 2022 in Telecommunication Systems
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AAAftab Ahmed
Aftab Ahmed
Muhammad ZakaryaMuhammad Zakarya
Muhammad Zakarya
XLXuan Liu
Xuan Liu
RKRahim Khan
Rahim Khan
AAAhmad Ali
Ahmad Ali
AKAyaz Ali Khan
Ayaz Ali Khan
Millimetre-wave ultra-dense high capacity networks are an important component of future 5G and 6G cellular systems since they are providing extremely high network capacity and speed to the end users. However, disparate types of users coexist in such scenarios, which can make the heterogeneous network unfair in terms of allocation of resources to various users based on their requirements. Therefore, a mechanism is required for effective spectrum sharing and to achieve overall system fairness. In this paper, an analytical model is suggested, which is based on a two-dimensional Markov state-transition diagram, to help set the parameter values to control the issuance of resources in coexistence layouts. A restriction approach is further implemented to gain a fair balance of the Grade-of-Service (GoS) for both user groups using the User Admission Control (UAC) mechanism. The developed mechanism restricts access to various channel resources for users with complete choice to give a greater probability of access to different users with limited resource options. Various levels of restriction are investigated in order to offer a balanced low-blocking probability performance to both user groups in order to improve the overall network fairness. Also, the proposed approach could provide a precise level of Grade-of-Service guarantee for both the user groups if sufficient flexibility is available within the whole network. Our simulations results along with the analytical model demonstrate that approximately 30% to 45% enhancement, in terms of grade of service (GoS), could be achieved in high to medium loads by restricting some of the users’ flexibility. From the analytical model, it is concluded that the blocking of shadowed users are significantly reduced from 7% to 4.5% at high traffic loads. Moreover, the obtained results and findings are verified using a number of case studies and large-scale simulations.