Tahir Ahmad

Mr. Tahir Ahmad


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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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8 February 2022 in Applied Sciences
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TATahir Ahmad
Tahir Ahmad
MFMuhammad Shahzad Faisal
Muhammad Shahzad Faisal
Atif RizwanAtif Rizwan
Atif Rizwan
RAReem Alkanhel
Reem Alkanhel
Prince Waqas KhanPrince Waqas Khan
Prince Waqas Khan
Ammar MuthannaAmmar Muthanna
Ammar Muthanna
The spreading of accidental or malicious misinformation on social media, specifically in critical situations, such as real-world emergencies, can have negative consequences for society. This facilitates the spread of rumors on social media. On social media, users share and exchange the latest information with many readers, including a large volume of new information every second. However, updated news sharing on social media is not always true.In this study, we focus on the challenges of numerous breaking-news rumors propagating on social media networks rather than long-lasting rumors. We propose new social-based and content-based features to detect rumors on social media networks. Furthermore, our findings show that our proposed features are more helpful in classifying rumors compared with state-of-the-art baseline features. Moreover, we apply bidirectional LSTM-RNN on text for rumor prediction. This model is simple but effective for rumor detection. The majority of early rumor detection research focuses on long-running rumors and assumes that rumors are always false. In contrast, our experiments on rumor detection are conducted on real-world scenario data set. The results of the experiments demonstrate that our proposed features and different machine learning models perform best when compared to the state-of-the-art baseline features and classifier in terms of precision, recall, and F1 measures.

22 November 2022 in Healthcare
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NSNagwan Abdel Samee
Nagwan Abdel Samee
TATahir Ahmad
Tahir Ahmad
NMNoha Fekry Mahmoud
Noha Fekry Mahmoud
Ghada Emam Atteia AllahGhada Emam Atteia Allah
Ghada Emam Atteia Allah
HAhanaa abdallah
hanaa abdallah
Atif RizwanAtif Rizwan
Atif Rizwan
Brain tumors (BTs) are an uncommon but fatal kind of cancer. Therefore, the development of computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems for classifying brain tumors in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has been the subject of many research papers so far. However, research in this sector is still in its early stage. The ultimate goal of this research is to develop a lightweight effective implementation of the U-Net deep network for use in performing exact real-time segmentation. Moreover, a simplified deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) architecture for the BT classification is presented for automatic feature extraction and classification of the segmented regions of interest (ROIs). Five convolutional layers, rectified linear unit, normalization, and max-pooling layers make up the DCNN’s proposed simplified architecture. The introduced method was verified on multimodal brain tumor segmentation (BRATS 2015) datasets. Our experimental results on BRATS 2015 acquired Dice similarity coefficient (DSC) scores, sensitivity, and classification accuracy of 88.8%, 89.4%, and 88.6% for high-grade gliomas. When it comes to segmenting BRATS 2015 BT images, the performance of our proposed CAD framework is on par with existing state-of-the-art methods. However, the accuracy achieved in this study for the classification of BT images has improved upon the accuracy reported in prior studies. Image classification accuracy for BRATS 2015 BT has been improved from 88% to 88.6%.

22 August 2022 in Healthcare
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ANAftab Nawaz
Aftab Nawaz
YAYawar Abbas
Yawar Abbas
TATahir Ahmad
Tahir Ahmad
NMNoha Fekry Mahmoud
Noha Fekry Mahmoud
Atif RizwanAtif Rizwan
Atif Rizwan
NSNagwan Abdel Samee
Nagwan Abdel Samee
Home healthcare agencies (HHCAs) provide clinical care and rehabilitation services to patients in their own homes. The organization’s rules regulate several connected practitioners, doctors, and licensed skilled nurses. Frequently, it monitors a physician or licensed nurse for the facilities and keeps track of the health histories of all clients. HHCAs’ quality of care is evaluated using Medicare’s star ratings for in-home healthcare agencies. The advent of technology has extensively evolved our living style. Online businesses’ ratings and reviews are the best representatives of organizations’ trust, services, quality, and ethics. Using data mining techniques to analyze HHCAs’ data can help to develop an effective framework for evaluating the finest home healthcare facilities. As a result, we developed an automated predictive framework for obtaining knowledge from patients’ feedback using a combination of statistical and machine learning techniques. HHCAs’ data contain twelve performance characteristics that we are the first to analyze and depict. After adequate pattern recognition, we applied binary and multi-class approaches on similar data with variations in the target class. Four prominent machine learning models were considered: SVM, Decision Tree, Random Forest, and Deep Neural Networks. In the binary class, the Deep Neural Network model presented promising performance with an accuracy of 97.37%. However, in the case of multiple class, the random forest model showed a significant outcome with an accuracy of 91.87%. Additionally, variable significance is derived from investigating each attribute’s importance in predictive model building. The implications of this study can support various stakeholders, including public agencies, quality measurement, healthcare inspectors, and HHCAs, to boost their performance. Thus, the proposed framework is not only useful for putting valuable insights into action, but it can also help with decision-making.

7 September 2022 in Mathematics
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Muhammad Shehrayar KhanMuhammad Shehrayar Khan
Muhammad Shehrayar Khan
Atif RizwanAtif Rizwan
Atif Rizwan
MFMuhammad Shahzad Faisal
Muhammad Shahzad Faisal
TATahir Ahmad
Tahir Ahmad
Muhammad Saleem KhanMuhammad Saleem Khan
Muhammad Saleem Khan
Ghada Emam Atteia AllahGhada Emam Atteia Allah
Ghada Emam Atteia Allah
With the increase in users of social media websites such as IMDb, a movie website, and the rise of publicly available data, opinion mining is more accessible than ever. In the research field of language understanding, categorization of movie reviews can be challenging because human language is complex, leading to scenarios where connotation words exist. Connotation words have a different meaning than their literal meanings. While representing a word, the context in which the word is used changes the semantics of words. In this research work, categorizing movie reviews with good F-Measure scores has been investigated with Word2Vec and three different aspects of proposed features have been inspected. First, psychological features are extracted from reviews positive emotion, negative emotion, anger, sadness, clout (confidence level) and dictionary words. Second, readablility features are extracted; the Automated Readability Index (ARI), the Coleman Liau Index (CLI) and Word Count (WC) are calculated to measure the review’s understandability score and their impact on review classification performance is measured. Lastly, linguistic features are also extracted from reviews adjectives and adverbs. The Word2Vec model is trained on collecting 50,000 reviews related to movies. A self-trained Word2Vec model is used for the contextualized embedding of words into vectors with 50, 100, 150 and 300 dimensions.The pretrained Word2Vec model converts words into vectors with 150 and 300 dimensions. Traditional and advanced machine-learning (ML) algorithms are applied and evaluated according to performance measures: accuracy, precision, recall and F-Measure. The results indicate Support Vector Machine (SVM) using self-trained Word2Vec achieved 86% F-Measure and using psychological, linguistic and readability features with concatenation of Word2Vec features SVM achieved 87.93% F-Measure.

28 October 2026 in Expert Systems with Applications
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TATahir Ahmad
Tahir Ahmad
MMMuhammad Mansoor
Muhammad Mansoor
YYYeochan Yoon
Yeochan Yoon