gulnaz ahmed

Dr. gulnaz ahmed

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Academic Career Length

12Years (2015-Present)

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

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20 October 2022 in Molecules
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gulnaz ahmed
Meng Joo ErMeng Joo Er
Meng Joo Er
MFMian Muhammad Sadiq Fareed
Mian Muhammad Sadiq Fareed
Shahid ZikriaShahid Zikria
Shahid Zikria
MFMian Muhammad Sadiq Fareed
Mian Muhammad Sadiq Fareed
MAMUAHMMAD ASLAM
MUAHMMAD ASLAM
Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is a neurological brain disorder that causes dementia and neurological dysfunction, affecting memory, behavior, and cognition. Deep Learning (DL), a kind of Artificial Intelligence (AI), has paved the way for new AD detection and automation methods. The DL model’s prediction accuracy depends on the dataset’s size. The DL models lose their accuracy when the dataset has an imbalanced class problem. This study aims to use the deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to develop a reliable and efficient method for identifying Alzheimer’s disease using MRI. In this study, we offer a new CNN architecture for diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease with a modest number of parameters, making it perfect for training a smaller dataset. This proposed model correctly separates the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease and displays class activation patterns on the brain as a heat map. The proposed Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease Network (DAD-Net) is developed from scratch to correctly classify the phases of Alzheimer’s disease while reducing parameters and computation costs. The Kaggle MRI image dataset has a severe problem with class imbalance. Therefore, we used a synthetic oversampling technique to distribute the image throughout the classes and avoid the problem. Precision, recall, F1-score, Area Under the Curve (AUC), and loss are all used to compare the proposed DAD-Net against DEMENET and CNN Model. For accuracy, AUC, F1-score, precision, and recall, the DAD-Net achieved the following values for evaluation metrics: 99.22%, 99.91%, 99.19%, 99.30%, and 99.14%, respectively. The presented DAD-Net outperforms other state-of-the-art models in all evaluation metrics, according to the simulation results.

30 September 2019 in Sensors
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GAgulnaz ahmed
gulnaz ahmed
XZXi Zhao
Xi Zhao
MFMian Muhammad Sadiq Fareed
Mian Muhammad Sadiq Fareed
MFMuhammad Zeeshan Fareed
Muhammad Zeeshan Fareed
Underwater Acoustic Network (UAN) is an emerging technology with attractive applications. In such type of networks, the control-overhead, redundant inner-network transmissions management, and data-similarity are still very challenging. The cluster-based frameworks manage the control-overhead and redundant inner-network transmissions persuasively. However, the current clustering protocols consume a big part of their energy resources in data-similarity as these protocols periodically sense and forward the same information. In this paper, we introduce a novel two-level Redundant Transmission Control (RTC) approach that ensures the data-similarity using some statistical tests with an appropriate degree of confidence. Later, the Cluster Head (CH) and the Region Head (RH) remove the data-similarity from the original data before forwarding it to the next level. We also introduce a new spatiotemporal and dynamic CH role rotation technique which is capable to adjust the drifted field nodes because of water current movements. The beauty of the proposed model is that the RH controls the communications and redundant transmission between the CH and Mobile Sink (MS), while the CH controls the redundant inner-network transmissions and data-similarity between the cluster members. We conduct simulations to evaluate the performance of our designed framework under different criteria such as average end-to-end delay, the packet delivery ratio, and energy consumption of the network with respect to the recent schemes. The presented results reveal that the proposed model outperforms the current approaches in terms of the selected metrics.

5 September 2022 in Biomedicines
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MFMian Muhammad Sadiq Fareed
Mian Muhammad Sadiq Fareed
MFMian Muhammad Sadiq Fareed
Mian Muhammad Sadiq Fareed
GAgulnaz ahmed
gulnaz ahmed
FDFarhan Dawood
Farhan Dawood
Shahid ZikriaShahid Zikria
Shahid Zikria
MAMUAHMMAD ASLAM
MUAHMMAD ASLAM
Accurate patient disease classification and detection through deep-learning (DL) models are increasingly contributing to the area of biomedical imaging. The most frequent gastrointestinal (GI) tract ailments are peptic ulcers and stomach cancer. Conventional endoscopy is a painful and hectic procedure for the patient while Wireless Capsule Endoscopy (WCE) is a useful technology for diagnosing GI problems and doing painless gut imaging. However, there is still a challenge to investigate thousands of images captured during the WCE procedure accurately and efficiently because existing deep models are not scored with significant accuracy on WCE image analysis. So, to prevent emergency conditions among patients, we need an efficient and accurate DL model for real-time analysis. In this study, we propose a reliable and efficient approach for classifying GI tract abnormalities using WCE images by applying a deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). For this purpose, we propose a custom CNN architecture named GI Disease-Detection Network (GIDD-Net) that is designed from scratch with relatively few parameters to detect GI tract disorders more accurately and efficiently at a low computational cost. Moreover, our model successfully distinguishes GI disorders by visualizing class activation patterns in the stomach bowls as a heat map. The Kvasir-Capsule image dataset has a significant class imbalance problem, we exploited a synthetic oversampling technique BORDERLINE SMOTE (BL-SMOTE) to evenly distribute the image among the classes to prevent the problem of class imbalance. The proposed model is evaluated against various metrics and achieved the following values for evaluation metrics: 98.9%, 99.8%, 98.9%, 98.9%, 98.8%, and 0.0474 for accuracy, AUC, F1-score, precision, recall, and loss, respectively. From the simulation results, it is noted that the proposed model outperforms other state-of-the-art models in all the evaluation metrics.

13 December 2019 in Sensors
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HFHamza Fahim
Hamza Fahim
WLWei Li
Wei Li
SJShumaila Javaid
Shumaila Javaid
MFMian Muhammad Sadiq Fareed
Mian Muhammad Sadiq Fareed
GAgulnaz ahmed
gulnaz ahmed
MKMuhammad Kashif Khattak
Muhammad Kashif Khattak
An intrabody nanonetwork (IBNN) is composed of nanoscale (NS) devices, implanted inside the human body for collecting diverse physiological information for diagnostic and treatment purposes. The unique constraints of these NS devices in terms of energy, storage and computational resources are the primary challenges in the effective designing of routing protocols in IBNNs. Our proposed work explicitly considers these limitations and introduces a novel energy-efficient routing scheme based on a fuzzy logic and bio-inspired firefly algorithm. Our proposed fuzzy logic-based correlation region selection and bio-inspired firefly algorithm based nano biosensors (NBSs) nomination jointly contribute to energy conservation by minimizing transmission of correlated spatial data. Our proposed fuzzy logic-based correlation region selection mechanism aims at selecting those correlated regions for data aggregation that are enriched in terms of energy and detected information. While, for the selection of NBSs, we proposed a new bio-inspired firefly algorithm fitness function. The fitness function considers the transmission history and residual energy of NBSs to avoid exhaustion of NBSs in transmitting invaluable information. We conduct extensive simulations using the Nano-SIM tool to validate the in-depth impact of our proposed scheme in saving energy resources, reducing end-to-end delay and improving packet delivery ratio. The detailed comparison of our proposed scheme with different scenarios and flooding scheme confirms the significance of the optimized selection of correlated regions and NBSs in improving network lifetime and packet delivery ratio while reducing the average end-to-end delay.

23 February 2017 in Sensors
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GAgulnaz ahmed
gulnaz ahmed
JZJianhua Zou
Jianhua Zou
XZXi Zhao
Xi Zhao
MAMurtaza Adil
Murtaza Adil
The longer network lifetime of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is a goal which is directly related to energy consumption. This energy consumption issue becomes more challenging when the energy load is not properly distributed in the sensing area. The hierarchal clustering architecture is the best choice for these kind of issues. In this paper, we introduce a novel clustering protocol called Markov chain model-based optimal cluster heads (MOCHs) selection for WSNs. In our proposed model, we introduce a simple strategy for the optimal number of cluster heads selection to overcome the problem of uneven energy distribution in the network. The attractiveness of our model is that the BS controls the number of cluster heads while the cluster heads control the cluster members in each cluster in such a restricted manner that a uniform and even load is ensured in each cluster. We perform an extensive range of simulation using five quality measures, namely: the lifetime of the network, stable and unstable region in the lifetime of the network, throughput of the network, the number of cluster heads in the network, and the transmission time of the network to analyze the proposed model. We compare MOCHs against Sleep-awake Energy Efficient Distributed (SEED) clustering, Artificial Bee Colony (ABC), Zone Based Routing (ZBR), and Centralized Energy Efficient Clustering (CEEC) using the above-discussed quality metrics and found that the lifetime of the proposed model is almost 1095, 2630, 3599, and 2045 rounds (time steps) greater than SEED, ABC, ZBR, and CEEC, respectively. The obtained results demonstrate that the MOCHs is better than SEED, ABC, ZBR, and CEEC in terms of energy efficiency and the network throughput.

12 October 2022 in Applied Sciences
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Ali RazaAli Raza
Ali Raza
Kashif MunirKashif Munir
Kashif Munir
MAMubarak Saad Almutari
Mubarak Saad Almutari
FYFaizan Younas
Faizan Younas
MFMian Muhammad Sadiq Fareed
Mian Muhammad Sadiq Fareed
GAgulnaz ahmed
gulnaz ahmed
Asteroseismology studies the physical structure of stars by analyzing their solar-type oscillations as seismic waves and frequency spectra. The physical processes in stars and oscillations are similar to the Sun, which is more evolved to the red-giant branch (RGB), representing the Sun’s future. In stellar astrophysics, the RGB is a crucial problem to determine. An RGB is formed when a star expands and fuses all the hydrogen in its core into helium which starts burning, resulting in helium burning (HeB). According to a recent state by NASA Kepler mission, 7000 HeB and RGB were observed. A study based on an advanced system needs to be implemented to classify RGB and HeB, which helps astronomers. The main aim of this research study is to classify the RGB and HeB in asteroseismology using a deep learning approach. Novel bidirectional-gated recurrent units and a recurrent neural network (BiGR)-based deep learning approach are proposed. The proposed model achieved a 93% accuracy score for asteroseismology classification. The proposed technique outperforms other state-of-the-art studies. The analyzed fundamental properties of RGB and HeB are based on the frequency separation of modes in consecutive order with the same degree, maximum oscillation power frequency, and mode location. Asteroseismology Exploratory Data Analysis (AEDA) is applied to find critical fundamental parameters and patterns that accurately infer from the asteroseismology dataset. Our key findings from the research are based on a novel classification model and analysis of root causes for the formation of HeB and RGB. The study analysis identified that the cause of HeB increases when the value of feature Numax is high and feature Epsilon is low. Our research study helps astronomers and space star oscillations analyzers meet their astronomy findings.