Mizanu Zelalem Degu

Mr. Mizanu Zelalem Degu

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Academic Career Length

4Years (2023-Present)

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

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24 March 2023 in Smart Agricultural Technology
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GSGizeaddis Lamesgin Simegn
Gizeaddis Lamesgin Simegn


19 July 2024 in Applied AI Letters
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MMMillion Meshesha
Million Meshesha
Amharic is one of the under‐resourced languages, making news headline generation particularly challenging due to the scarcity of high‐quality linguistic datasets necessary for training effective natural language processing models. In this study, we fine‐tuned the small check point of the T5v1.1 model (t5‐small) to perform Amharic news headline generation with an Amharic dataset that is comprised of over 70k news articles along with their headline. Fine‐tuning the model involves dataset collection from Amharic news websites, text cleaning, news article size optimization using the TF‐IDF algorithm, and tokenization. In addition, a tokenizer model is developed using the byte pair encoding (BPE) algorithm prior to feeding the dataset for feature extraction and summarization. Metrics including Rouge‐L, BLEU, and Meteor were used to evaluate the performance of the model and a score of 0.5, 0.24, and 0.71, respectively, was achieved on the test partition of the dataset that contains 7230 instances. The results were good relative to result of the t5 model without fine‐tuning, which are 0.1, 0.03, and 0.14, respectively. A postprocessing technique using a rule‐based approach was used for further improving summaries generated by the model. The addition of the postprocessing helped the system to achieve Rouge‐L, BLEU, and Meteor scores of 0.72, 0.52, and 0.81, respectively. The result value is relatively better than the result achieved by the nonfine‐tuned T5v1.1 model and the result of previous studies report on abstractive‐based text summarization for Amharic language, which had a 0.27 Rouge‐L score. This contributes a valuable insight for practical application and further improvement of the model in the future by increasing the article length, using more training data, using machine learning–based adaptive postprocessing techniques, and fine‐tuning other available pretrained models for text summarization.

9 February 2025
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CRConfidence Raymond
Confidence Raymond
DZDong Zhang
Dong Zhang
ASAmal Saleh
Amal Saleh
UAUdunna Anazodo
Udunna Anazodo
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Gizeaddis Lamesgin Simegn

26 June 2026 in AI in Medicine
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Mizanu Zelalem Degu
MMMidhila Madhusoodanan
Midhila Madhusoodanan
MCMedha Chippa
Medha Chippa
AHAbhilash Rakkunedeth Hareendranathan
Abhilash Rakkunedeth Hareendranathan
(1) Background: Ultrasound (US) imaging is widely used in clinical diagnosis but is often degraded by speckle noise, which reduces image quality and can hinder interpretation. Deep learning (DL) has emerged as a promising approach for US denoising, yet its clinical applicability remains unclear. (2) Methods: A scoping review of studies published in the last four years on DL-based US denoising was conducted following PRISMA-ScR guidelines. Searches were performed in IEEE-Xplore, PubMed, ScienceDirect, Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar. Data was extracted on anatomy, noise type, learning paradigm, network architecture, datasets, evaluation metrics, and performance outcomes. (3) Results: From 951 records retrieved, 36 studies were included. Most focused on breast, fetal, cardiac, and abdominal US. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs), particularly U-Net, were the most common approach, while generative adversarial network, vision transformers, and variational autoencoders were less explored. Reported peak signal-to-noise ratio ranged from 30 to 45 dB and structural similarity index measure from 0.85 to 0.97. Most studies (34 out of 36) relied on synthetic noise, 2D images and paired datasets, with limited evaluation on real clinical images. (4) Conclusion: Supervised CNN-based methods dominate US image denoising, but clinical translation is limited by reliance on synthetic data. Non-paired and no-ground-truth learning approaches remain underexplored despite their suitability for US imaging. Progress is further hindered by inconsistent evaluation protocols, limited robustness assessment on clinical tasks, and restricted dataset access. Future work should focus on standardized clinically meaningful evaluation, openly available datasets, and clinical validation to improve reliability and generalizability of DL-based US denoising methods.

1 April 2026 in Preprints.org
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MDMizanu Zelalem Degu
Mizanu Zelalem Degu
MMMidhila Madhusoodanan
Midhila Madhusoodanan
MCMedha Chippa
Medha Chippa
AHAbhilash Rakkunedeth Hareendranathan
Abhilash Rakkunedeth Hareendranathan
(1) Background: Ultrasound (US) imaging is widely used in clinical diagnosis but is often degraded by speckle noise, which reduces image quality and can hinder interpretation. Deep learning has emerged as a promising approach for US denoising, yet its clinical applicability remains unclear. (2) Methods: A systematic review of studies published in the last three years on deep learning-based US denoising was conducted following PRISMA-DTA guidelines. Searches were performed in IEEE-Xplore, PubMed, ScienceDirect, Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar. Data were extracted on Anatomy, noise type, learning paradigm, network architecture, datasets, evaluation metrics, and performance outcomes. (3) Results: from 951 records scrapped, 36 studies were included. Most focused-on breast, fetal, cardiac, and abdominal US. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs), particularly U-Net, were the most common approach, while GANs, transformers, and variational autoencoders were less explored. Reported PSNR ranged from 30-45 dB and SSIM from 0.85-0.97. Most studies (34 out of 36) relied on synthetic noise and paired datasets, with limited evaluation on real clinical images. (4) Conclusions: CNN-based methods dominate US denoising research, but translation to clinical practice is limited due to reliance on synthetic data and inconsistent evaluation metrics. Future work should focus on large benchmark datasets and standardized metrics to improve generalizability across clinical settings.