Imran Shafi

Dr. Imran Shafi


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Academic Career Length

21Years (2006-Present)

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

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29 July 2023 in Land
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Saad Mazhar KhanSaad Mazhar Khan
Saad Mazhar Khan
ISImran Shafi
Imran Shafi
WBWasi Haider Butt
Wasi Haider Butt
Isabel De La Torre DíezIsabel De La Torre Díez
Isabel De La Torre Díez
MIGUEL ANGEL LOPEZ FLORESMIGUEL ANGEL LOPEZ FLORES
MIGUEL ANGEL LOPEZ FLORES
Imran AshrafImran Ashraf
Imran Ashraf
Disaster management is a critical area that requires efficient methods and techniques to address various challenges. This comprehensive assessment offers an in-depth overview of disaster management systems, methods, obstacles, and potential future paths. Specifically, it focuses on flood control, a significant and recurrent category of natural disasters. The analysis begins by exploring various types of natural catastrophes, including earthquakes, wildfires, and floods. It then delves into the different domains that collectively contribute to effective flood management. These domains encompass cutting-edge technologies such as big data analysis and cloud computing, providing scalable and reliable infrastructure for data storage, processing, and analysis. The study investigates the potential of the Internet of Things and sensor networks to gather real-time data from flood-prone areas, enhancing situational awareness and enabling prompt actions. Model-driven engineering is examined for its utility in developing and modeling flood scenarios, aiding in preparation and response planning. This study includes the Google Earth engine (GEE) and examines previous studies involving GEE. Moreover, we discuss remote sensing; remote sensing is undoubtedly a valuable tool for disaster management, and offers geographical data in various situations. We explore the application of Geographical Information System (GIS) and Spatial Data Management for visualizing and analyzing spatial data and facilitating informed decision-making and resource allocation during floods. In the final section, the focus shifts to the utilization of machine learning and data analytics in flood management. These methodologies offer predictive models and data-driven insights, enhancing early warning systems, risk assessment, and mitigation strategies. Through this in-depth analysis, the significance of incorporating these spheres into flood control procedures is highlighted, with the aim of improving disaster management techniques and enhancing resilience in flood-prone regions. The paper addresses existing challenges and provides future research directions, ultimately striving for a clearer and more coherent representation of disaster management techniques.
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6 November 2022 in Cancers
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ISImran Shafi
Imran Shafi
SDSadia Din
Sadia Din
AKAsim Khan
Asim Khan
Isabel De La Torre DíezIsabel De La Torre Díez
Isabel De La Torre Díez
RPRamón de Jesús Pali-Casanova
Ramón de Jesús Pali-Casanova
IAImran Ashraf
Imran Ashraf
The diagnosis of early-stage lung cancer is challenging due to its asymptomatic nature, especially given the repeated radiation exposure and high cost of computed tomography(CT). Examining the lung CT images to detect pulmonary nodules, especially the cell lung cancer lesions, is also tedious and prone to errors even by a specialist. This study proposes a cancer diagnostic model based on a deep learning-enabled support vector machine (SVM). The proposed computer-aided design (CAD) model identifies the physiological and pathological changes in the soft tissues of the cross-section in lung cancer lesions. The model is first trained to recognize lung cancer by measuring and comparing the selected profile values in CT images obtained from patients and control patients at their diagnosis. Then, the model is tested and validated using the CT scans of both patients and control patients that are not shown in the training phase. The study investigates 888 annotated CT scans from the publicly available LIDC/IDRI database. The proposed deep learning-assisted SVM-based model yields 94% accuracy for pulmonary nodule detection representing early-stage lung cancer. It is found superior to other existing methods including complex deep learning, simple machine learning, and the hybrid techniques used on lung CT images for nodule detection. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach can greatly assist radiologists in detecting early lung cancer and facilitating the timely management of patients.

31 August 2023 in Symmetry
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MCMahnoor Chaudhry
Mahnoor Chaudhry
ISImran Shafi
Imran Shafi
MMMahnoor Mahnoor
Mahnoor Mahnoor
DVDebora Libertad Ramírez Vargas
Debora Libertad Ramírez Vargas
ETErnesto Bautista Thompson
Ernesto Bautista Thompson
Imran AshrafImran Ashraf
Imran Ashraf
Data mining is an analytical approach that contributes to achieving a solution to many problems by extracting previously unknown, fascinating, nontrivial, and potentially valuable information from massive datasets. Clustering in data mining is used for splitting or segmenting data items/points into meaningful groups and clusters by grouping the items that are near to each other based on certain statistics. This paper covers various elements of clustering, such as algorithmic methodologies, applications, clustering assessment measurement, and researcher-proposed enhancements with their impact on data mining thorough grasp of clustering algorithms, its applications, and the advances achieved in the existing literature. This study includes a literature search for papers published between 1995 and 2023, including conference and journal publications. The study begins by outlining fundamental clustering techniques along with algorithm improvements and emphasizing their advantages and limitations in comparison to other clustering algorithms. It investigates the evolution measures for clustering algorithms with an emphasis on metrics used to gauge clustering quality, such as the F-measure and the Rand Index. This study includes a variety of clustering-related topics, such as algorithmic approaches, practical applications, metrics for clustering evaluation, and researcher-proposed improvements. It addresses numerous methodologies offered to increase the convergence speed, resilience, and accuracy of clustering, such as initialization procedures, distance measures, and optimization strategies. The work concludes by emphasizing clustering as an active research area driven by the need to identify significant patterns and structures in data, enhance knowledge acquisition, and improve decision making across different domains. This study aims to contribute to the broader knowledge base of data mining practitioners and researchers, facilitating informed decision making and fostering advancements in the field through a thorough analysis of algorithmic enhancements, clustering assessment metrics, and optimization strategies.

31 October 2022 in Healthcare
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AFAnum Fatima
Anum Fatima
ISImran Shafi
Imran Shafi
HAHammad Afzal
Hammad Afzal
Isabel De La Torre DíezIsabel De La Torre Díez
Isabel De La Torre Díez
MARIA LOURDES del Rio-SolaMARIA LOURDES del Rio-Sola
MARIA LOURDES del Rio-Sola
IAImran Ashraf
Imran Ashraf
Artificial intelligence has been widely used in the field of dentistry in recent years. The present study highlights current advances and limitations in integrating artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning in subfields of dentistry including periodontology, endodontics, orthodontics, restorative dentistry, and oral pathology. This article aims to provide a systematic review of current clinical applications of artificial intelligence within different fields of dentistry. The preferred reporting items for systematic reviews (PRISMA) statement was used as a formal guideline for data collection. Data was obtained from research studies for 2009–2022. The analysis included a total of 55 papers from Google Scholar, IEEE, PubMed, and Scopus databases. Results show that artificial intelligence has the potential to improve dental care, disease diagnosis and prognosis, treatment planning, and risk assessment. Finally, this study highlights the limitations of the analyzed studies and provides future directions to improve dental care.

6 November 2023 in IEEE Access
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BKBilal Hassan Ahmed Khattak
Bilal Hassan Ahmed Khattak
ISImran Shafi
Imran Shafi
AKAbdul Saboor Khan
Abdul Saboor Khan
EFEmmanuel Soriano Flores
Emmanuel Soriano Flores
RLRoberto García Lara
Roberto García Lara
Imran AshrafImran Ashraf
Imran Ashraf
Artificial intelligence (AI)-based models have emerged as powerful tools in financial markets, capable of reducing investment risks and aiding in selecting highly profitable stocks by achieving precise predictions. This holds immense value for investors, as it empowers them to make data-driven decisions. Identifying current and future trends in multi-class forecasting techniques employed within financial markets, particularly profitability analysis as an evaluation metric is important. The review focuses on examining studies conducted between 2018 and 2023, sourced from three prominent academic databases. A meticulous three-stage approach was em-ployed, encompassing the systematic planning, conduct, and analysis of the selected studies. Specifically, the analysis emphasizes technical assessment, profitability analysis, hybrid modeling, and the type of re-sults generated by models. Articles were shortlisted based on inclusion and exclusion criteria, while a rigorous quality assessment through ten quality criteria questions, utilizing a Likert-type scale was employed to ensure methodological robustness.We observed that ensemble and hybrid models with long short-term memory (LSTM) and support vector machines (SVM) are being more adopted for financial trends and price prediction. Moreover, hybrid models employing AI algorithms for feature engineering have great potential at par with ensemble techniques. Most studies only employ performance metrics and lack utilization of profitability metrics or investment or trading strategy (simulated or real-time). Similarly, research on multi-class or output is severely lacking in financial forecasting and can be a good avenue for future research.

9 June 2009 in EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing
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ISImran Shafi
Imran Shafi
JAJamil Ahmad
Jamil Ahmad
SSSyed Ismail Shah
Syed Ismail Shah
FKF. M. Kashif
F. M. Kashif
We present a review of the diversity of concepts and motivations for improving the concentration and resolution of timefrequencydistributions (TFDs) along the individual components of the multi-component signals. The central idea has been to obtain a distribution that represents the signal’s energy concentration simultaneously in time and frequency without blur andcrosscomponents so that closely spaced components can be easily distinguished. The objective is the precise description of spectralcontent of a signal with respect to time, so that first, necessary mathematical and physical principles may be developed, andsecond, accurate understanding of a time-varying spectrum may become possible. The fundamentals in this area of research havebeen found developing steadily, with significant advances in the recent past.