Rania Ahmed Kadry Abdelgawad Birry

Dr. Rania Ahmed Kadry Abdelgawad Birry


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Academic Career Length

2Years (2025-Present)

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

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4 December 2025 in AI
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MEMARWA ALI ELSHENAWY
MARWA ALI ELSHENAWY
NTNoha S. Tawfik
Noha S. Tawfik
NHNada Hamada
Nada Hamada
RBRania Ahmed Kadry Abdelgawad Birry
Rania Ahmed Kadry Abdelgawad Birry
SFSalema Fayed
Salema Fayed
NGNoha Ghatwary
Noha Ghatwary
Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related mortality among women. Early detection enables timely treatment, improving survival outcomes. This paper presents a comparative evaluation of federated learning (FL) frameworks for multiclass breast cancer classification using ultrasound images drawn from three datasets: BUSI, BUS-UCLM, and BCMID, which include 600, 38, and 323 patients, respectively. Five state-of-the-art networks were tested, with MobileNet, ResNet and InceptionNet identified as the most effective for FL deployment. Two aggregation strategies, FedAvg and FedProx, were assessed under varying levels of data heterogeneity in two and three client settings. Results from experiments indicate that the FL models outperformed local and centralized training, bypassing the adverse impacts of data isolation and domain shift. In the two-client federations, FL achieving up to 8% higher accuracy and almost 6% higher macro-F1 scores on average that local and centralized training. FedProx on MobileNet maintained a stable performance in the three-client federation with best average accuracy of 73.31%, and macro-F1 of 67.3% despite stronger heterogeneity. Consequently, these results suggest that the proposed multiclass model has the potential to support clinical workflows by assisting in automated risk stratification. If deployed, such a system could allow radiologists to prioritize high-risk patients more effectively. The findings emphasize the potential of federated learning as a scalable, privacy-preserving infrastructure for collaborative medical imaging and breast cancer diagnosis.

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AAAlyaa Amer
Alyaa Amer
NGNoha Ghatwary
Noha Ghatwary
SFSalema Fayed
Salema Fayed
SMSahar Magdy
Sahar Magdy
AAAlaa Hussein Ahmed
Alaa Hussein Ahmed
AAAmina Ibrahim Abdelmaksoud
Amina Ibrahim Abdelmaksoud
MRI-guided radiotherapy (MRIgRT) enables the real-time visualization of tumor motion, allowing adaptive radiation delivery based on dynamic anatomical changes. However, respiratory-induced tumor motion remains a major challenge, particularly for thoracic and abdominal tumors. Continuous tumor motion may reduce treatment accuracy and increase radiation exposure to surrounding healthy tissues. Therefore, reliable and efficient tumor tracking is essential for real-time motion management in MRI-guided radiotherapy. Recent advances in artificial intelligence have demonstrated significant potential for medical image analysis; however, many existing tumor tracking approaches rely on segmentation-based methods that require detailed annotations and complex processing, which can limit their use in real-time clinical environments. In this work, we propose a detection-based tumor tracking framework that integrates the YOLOv11 object detection model with an enhanced StrongSORT tracking algorithm (EA-StrongSORT). The proposed approach replaces the conventional re-identification backbone with a lightweight EfficientNetV2 architecture augmented with an Efficient Channel Attention (ECA) mechanism. The overall framework follows a tracking-by-detection concept, where tumor regions are first detected and subsequently associated across frames. The proposed framework is evaluated on the TrackRAD2025 dataset using multiple YOLOv11 variants to analyze the balance between performance and model complexity. Experimental results demonstrate that the lightweight YOLOv11n model achieves the best detection performance, with a precision of 0.912, recall of 0.607, mean Average Precision (mAP) of 0.771, and mAP50–95 of 0.608. Furthermore, the proposed tracking framework achieves stable temporal association, with Multiple-Object Tracking Accuracy (MOTA) scores exceeding 91% and Higher-Order Tracking Accuracy (HOTA) scores around 90%. The proposed framework demonstrates the potential of detection-based tumor localization and tracking for real-time MRI-guided radiotherapy applications.