Ayyaz Hussain

Dr. Ayyaz Hussain


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Academic Career Length

7Years (2020-Present)

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

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11 May 2023 in Diagnostics
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Blessed ZiyambeBlessed Ziyambe
Blessed Ziyambe
AYAbid Yahya
Abid Yahya
Tawanda MushiriTawanda Mushiri
Tawanda Mushiri
Muhammad Usman TariqMuhammad Usman Tariq
Muhammad Usman Tariq
Qaisar AbbasQaisar Abbas
Qaisar Abbas
SJSohail Jabbar
Sohail Jabbar
Ovarian cancer ranks as the fifth leading cause of cancer-related mortality in women. Late-stage diagnosis (stages III and IV) is a major challenge due to the often vague and inconsistent initial symptoms. Current diagnostic methods, such as biomarkers, biopsy, and imaging tests, face limitations, including subjectivity, inter-observer variability, and extended testing times. This study proposes a novel convolutional neural network (CNN) algorithm for predicting and diagnosing ovarian cancer, addressing these limitations. In this paper, CNN was trained on a histopathological image dataset, divided into training and validation subsets and augmented before training. The model achieved a remarkable accuracy of 94%, with 95.12% of cancerous cases correctly identified and 93.02% of healthy cells accurately classified. The significance of this study lies in overcoming the challenges associated with the human expert examination, such as higher misclassification rates, inter-observer variability, and extended analysis times. This study presents a more accurate, efficient, and reliable approach to predicting and diagnosing ovarian cancer. Future research should explore recent advances in this field to enhance the effectiveness of the proposed method further.

9 April 2023 in Agriculture
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TNTahira Nazir
Tahira Nazir
MIMuhammad Munwar Iqbal
Muhammad Munwar Iqbal
SJSohail Jabbar
Sohail Jabbar
AHAyyaz Hussain
Ayyaz Hussain
MAMubarak Albathan
Mubarak Albathan
The potato plant is amongst the most significant vegetable crops farmed worldwide. The output of potato crop production is significantly reduced by various leaf diseases, which poses a danger to the world’s agricultural production in terms of both volume and quality. The two most destructive foliar infections for potato plants are early and late blight triggered by Alternaria solani and Phytophthora infestans. In actuality, farm owners predict these problems by focusing primarily on the alteration in the color of the potato leaves, which is typically problematic owing to uncertainty and significant time commitment. In these circumstances, it is vital to develop computer-aided techniques that automatically identify these disorders quickly and reliably, even in their early stages. This paper aims to provide an effective solution to recognize the various types of potato diseases by presenting a deep learning (DL) approach called EfficientPNet. More specifically, we introduce an end-to-end training-oriented approach by using the EfficientNet-V2 network to recognize various potato leaf disorders. A spatial-channel attention method is introduced to concentrate on the damaged areas and enhance the approach’s recognition ability to effectively identify numerous infections. To address the problem of class-imbalanced samples and to improve network generalization ability, the EANet model is tuned using transfer learning, and dense layers are added at the end of the model structure to enhance the feature selection power of the model. The model is tested on an open and challenging dataset called PlantVillage, containing images taken in diverse and complicated background conditions, including various lightning conditions and the different color changes in leaves. The model obtains an accuracy of 98.12% on the task of classifying various potato plant leaf diseases such as late blight, early blight, and healthy leaves in 10,800 images. We have confirmed through the performed experiments that our approach is effective for potato plant leaf disease classification and can robustly tackle distorted samples. Hence, farmers can save money and harvest by using the EfficientPNet tool.

11 March 2020 in Applied Sciences
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TSTariq Sadad
Tariq Sadad
AHAyyaz Hussain
Ayyaz Hussain
AMAsim Munir
Asim Munir
MHMuhammad Habib
Muhammad Habib
SASajid Ali
Sajid Ali
MAMohammed Alawairdhi
Mohammed Alawairdhi
Breast cancer is a highly prevalent disease in females that may lead to mortality in severe cases. The mortality can be subsided if breast cancer is diagnosed at an early stage. The focus of this study is to detect breast malignancy through computer-aided diagnosis (CADx). In the first phase of this work, Hilbert transform is employed to reconstruct B-mode images from the raw data followed by the marker-controlled watershed transformation to segment the lesion. The methods based only on texture analysis are quite sensitive to speckle noise and other artifacts. Therefore, a hybrid feature set is developed after the extraction of shape-based and texture features from the breast lesion. Decision tree, k-nearest neighbor (KNN), and ensemble decision tree model via random under-sampling with Boost (RUSBoost) are utilized to segregate the cancerous lesions from the benign ones. The proposed technique is tested on OASBUD (Open Access Series of Breast Ultrasonic Data) and breast ultrasound (BUS) images collected at Baheya Hospital Egypt (BHE). The OASBUD dataset contains raw ultrasound data obtained from 100 patients containing 52 malignant and 48 benign lesions. The dataset collected at BHE contains 210 malignant and 437 benign images. The proposed system achieved promising accuracy of 97% with confidence interval (CI) of 91.48% to 99.38% for OASBUD and 96.6% accuracy with CI of 94.90% to 97.86% for the BHE dataset using ensemble method.

20 August 2021 in IT Professional
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ARAmjad Rehman
Amjad Rehman
TSTariq Sadad
Tariq Sadad
TSTanzila Saba
Tanzila Saba
AHAyyaz Hussain
Ayyaz Hussain
Usman TariqUsman Tariq
Usman Tariq
The novel coronavirus named COVID-19 has quickly spread among humans worldwide, and the situation remains hazardous to the health system. The existence of this virus in the human body is identified through sputum or blood samples. Furthermore, computed tomography (CT) or X-ray has become a significant tool for quick diagnoses. Thus, it is essential to develop an online and real-time computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) approach to support physicians and avoid further spreading of the disease. In this research, a convolutional neural network (CNN) -based Residual neural network (ResNet50) has been employed to detect COVID-19 through chest X-ray images and achieved 98% accuracy. The proposed CAD system will receive the X-ray images from the remote hospitals/healthcare centers and perform diagnostic processes. Furthermore, the proposed CAD system uses advanced load balancer and resilience features to achieve fault tolerance with zero delays and perceives more infected cases during this pandemic.

9 December 2022 in Diagnostics
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Qaisar AbbasQaisar Abbas
Qaisar Abbas
AHAyyaz Hussain
Ayyaz Hussain
Abdul Rauf BaigAbdul Rauf Baig
Abdul Rauf Baig
The major cause of death worldwide is due to cardiovascular disorders (CVDs). For a proper diagnosis of CVD disease, an inexpensive solution based on phonocardiogram (PCG) signals is proposed. (1) Background: Currently, a few deep learning (DL)-based CVD systems have been developed to recognize different stages of CVD. However, the accuracy of these systems is not up-to-the-mark, and the methods require high computational power and huge training datasets. (2) Methods: To address these issues, we developed a novel attention-based technique (CVT-Trans) on a convolutional vision transformer to recognize and categorize PCG signals into five classes. The continuous wavelet transform-based spectrogram (CWTS) strategy was used to extract representative features from PCG data. Following that, a new CVT-Trans architecture was created to categorize the CWTS signals into five groups. (3) Results: The dataset derived from our investigation indicated that the CVT-Trans system had an overall average accuracy ACC of 100%, SE of 99.00%, SP of 99.5%, and F1-score of 98%, based on 10-fold cross validation. (4) Conclusions: The CVD-Trans technique outperformed many state-of-the-art methods. The robustness of the constructed model was confirmed by 10-fold cross-validation. Cardiologists can use this CVT-Trans system to help patients with the diagnosis of heart valve problems.

13 March 2023 in Healthcare
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Kashif ShaheedKashif Shaheed
Kashif Shaheed
Piotr SzczukoPiotr Szczuko
Piotr Szczuko
Qaisar AbbasQaisar Abbas
Qaisar Abbas
AHAyyaz Hussain
Ayyaz Hussain
MAMubarak Albathan
Mubarak Albathan
In recent years, a lot of attention has been paid to using radiology imaging to automatically find COVID-19. (1) Background: There are now a number of computer-aided diagnostic schemes that help radiologists and doctors perform diagnostic COVID-19 tests quickly, accurately, and consistently. (2) Methods: Using chest X-ray images, this study proposed a cutting-edge scheme for the automatic recognition of COVID-19 and pneumonia. First, a pre-processing method based on a Gaussian filter and logarithmic operator is applied to input chest X-ray (CXR) images to improve the poor-quality images by enhancing the contrast, reducing the noise, and smoothing the image. Second, robust features are extracted from each enhanced chest X-ray image using a Convolutional Neural Network (CNNs) transformer and an optimal collection of grey-level co-occurrence matrices (GLCM) that contain features such as contrast, correlation, entropy, and energy. Finally, based on extracted features from input images, a random forest machine learning classifier is used to classify images into three classes, such as COVID-19, pneumonia, or normal. The predicted output from the model is combined with Gradient-weighted Class Activation Mapping (Grad-CAM) visualisation for diagnosis. (3) Results: Our work is evaluated using public datasets with three different train–test splits (70–30%, 80–20%, and 90–10%) and achieved an average accuracy, F1 score, recall, and precision of 97%, 96%, 96%, and 96%, respectively. A comparative study shows that our proposed method outperforms existing and similar work. The proposed approach can be utilised to screen COVID-19-infected patients effectively. (4) Conclusions: A comparative study with the existing methods is also performed. For performance evaluation, metrics such as accuracy, sensitivity, and F1-measure are calculated. The performance of the proposed method is better than that of the existing methodologies, and it can thus be used for the effective diagnosis of the disease.