Rawad Prof. Dr. Rawad Abdulghafor

Dr. Rawad Prof. Dr. Rawad Abdulghafor

International Islamic University Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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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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4 January 2023 in Sustainability
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NMNormaisharah Mamat
Normaisharah Mamat
Mohd Fauzi OthmanMohd Fauzi Othman
Mohd Fauzi Othman
RARawad Prof. Dr. Rawad Abdulghafor
Rawad Prof. Dr. Rawad Abdulghafor
Ali A. Alwan Al-jubooriAli A. Alwan Al-juboori
Ali A. Alwan Al-juboori
Yonis GulzarYonis Gulzar
Yonis Gulzar
An accurate image retrieval technique is required due to the rapidly increasing number of images. It is important to implement image annotation techniques that are fast, simple, and, most importantly, automatically annotate. Image annotation has recently received much attention due to the massive rise in image data volume. Focusing on the agriculture field, this study implements automatic image annotation, namely, a repetitive annotation task technique, to classify the ripeness of oil palm fruit and recognize a variety of fruits. This approach assists farmers to enhance the classification of fruit methods and increase their production. This study proposes simple and effective models using a deep learning approach with You Only Look Once (YOLO) versions. The models were developed through transfer learning where the dataset was trained with 100 images of oil fruit palm and 400 images of a variety of fruit in RGB images. Model performance and accuracy of automatically annotating the images with 3500 fruits were examined. The results show that the annotation technique successfully annotated a large number of images accurately. The mAP result achieved for oil palm fruit was 98.7% and the variety of fruit was 99.5%.

20 April 2021 in IEEE Access
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RARawad Prof. Dr. Rawad Abdulghafor
Rawad Prof. Dr. Rawad Abdulghafor
Sherzod TuraevSherzod Turaev
Sherzod Turaev
HAHamad Almohamedh
Hamad Almohamedh
Rana AlabdanRana Alabdan
Rana Alabdan
BABadr Almutairi
Badr Almutairi
SASultan Almotairi
Sultan Almotairi
Radio frequency identification (RFID) is a rapidly developing technology, and RFID sensors have become important components in many common technology applications. The passive ultra-high frequency (UHF) tags used in RFID sensors have a higher data transfer rate and longer read range and usually come in unique small and portable application designs. However, these tags suffer from significant frequency interference when mounted on metallic materials or placed near liquid surfaces. This paper presents the recent advancements made in passive UHF-RFID tag designs proposed to resolve the interference problems. We focus on those designs that are intended to improve antenna read range as well as scalability designs for miniaturized applications.

23 December 2024 in Diagnostics
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EYElbachir Mohammed Yahiaoui
Elbachir Mohammed Yahiaoui
MDMakhlouf DERDOUR
Makhlouf DERDOUR
RARawad Prof. Dr. Rawad Abdulghafor
Rawad Prof. Dr. Rawad Abdulghafor
Sherzod TuraevSherzod Turaev
Sherzod Turaev
MGMohamed Gasmi
Mohamed Gasmi
Mohammed Al-SaremMohammed Al-Sarem
Mohammed Al-Sarem
Background and Objectives: Brain tumors are complex diseases that require careful diagnosis and treatment. A minor error in the diagnosis may easily lead to significant consequences. Thus, one must place a premium on accurately identifying brain tumors. However, deep learning (DL) models often face challenges in obtaining sufficient medical imaging data due to legal, privacy, and technical barriers hindering data sharing between institutions. This study aims to implement a federated learning (FL) approach with privacy-preserving techniques (PPTs) directed toward segmenting brain tumor lesions in a distributed and privacy-aware manner.Methods: The suggested approach employs a model of 3D U-Net, which is trained using federated learning on the BraTS 2020 dataset. PPTs, such as differential privacy, are included to ensure data confidentiality while managing privacy and heterogeneity challenges with minimal communication overhead. The efficiency of the model is measured in terms of Dice similarity coefficients (DSCs) and 95% Hausdorff distances (HD95) concerning the target areas concerned by tumors, which include the whole tumor (WT), tumor core (TC), and enhancing tumor core (ET). Results: In the validation phase, the partial federated model achieved DSCs of 86.1%, 83.3%, and 79.8%, corresponding to 95% values of 25.3 mm, 8.61 mm, and 9.16 mm for WT, TC, and ET, respectively. On the final test set, the model demonstrated improved performance, achieving DSCs of 89.85%, 87.55%, and 86.6%, with HD95 values of 22.95 mm, 8.68 mm, and 8.32 mm for WT, TC, and ET, respectively, which indicates the effectiveness of the segmentation approach, and its privacy preservation.Conclusion: This study presents a highly competitive, collaborative federated learning model with PPTs that can successfully segment brain tumor lesions without compromising patient data confidentiality. Future work will improve model generalizability and extend the framework to other medical imaging tasks.

15 July 2022 in Agriculture
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NMNormaisharah Mamat
Normaisharah Mamat
Mohd Fauzi OthmanMohd Fauzi Othman
Mohd Fauzi Othman
RARawad Prof. Dr. Rawad Abdulghafor
Rawad Prof. Dr. Rawad Abdulghafor
samir brahimsamir brahim
samir brahim
NMNormahira Mamat
Normahira Mamat
SHShamsul Faisal Mohd Hussein
Shamsul Faisal Mohd Hussein
The implementation of intelligent technology in agriculture is seriously investigated as a way to increase agriculture production while reducing the amount of human labor. In agriculture, recent technology has seen image annotation utilizing deep learning techniques. Due to the rapid development of image data, image annotation has gained a lot of attention. The use of deep learning in image annotation can extract features from images and has been shown to analyze enormous amounts of data successfully. Deep learning is a type of machine learning method inspired by the structure of the human brain and based on artificial neural network concepts. Through training phases that can label a massive amount of data and connect them up with their corresponding characteristics, deep learning can conclude unlabeled data in image processing. For complicated and ambiguous situations, deep learning technology provides accurate predictions. This technology strives to improve productivity, quality and economy and minimize deficiency rates in the agriculture industry. As a result, this article discusses the application of image annotation in the agriculture industry utilizing several deep learning approaches. Various types of annotations that were used to train the images are presented. Recent publications have been reviewed on the basis of their application of deep learning with current advancement technology. Plant recognition, disease detection, counting, classification and yield estimation are among the many advancements of deep learning architecture employed in many applications in agriculture that are thoroughly investigated. Furthermore, this review helps to assist researchers to gain a deeper understanding and future application of deep learning in agriculture. According to all of the articles, the deep learning technique has successfully created significant accuracy and prediction in the model utilized. Finally, the existing challenges and future promises of deep learning in agriculture are discussed.

16 September 2023 in Sustainability
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AAABDULLAH SAID ALI ALAAMRI
ABDULLAH SAID ALI ALAAMRI
RARawad Prof. Dr. Rawad Abdulghafor
Rawad Prof. Dr. Rawad Abdulghafor
Sherzod TuraevSherzod Turaev
Sherzod Turaev
IAImad Al-Shaikhli
Imad Al-Shaikhli
AZAkram Zeki
Akram Zeki
STShuhaili Talib
Shuhaili Talib
Nowadays, countries face a multitude of electronic threats that have permeated almost all business sectors, be it private corporations or public institutions. Among these threats, advanced persistent threats (APTs) stand out as a well-known example. APTs are highly sophisticated and stealthy computer network attacks meticulously designed to gain unauthorized access and persist undetected threats within targeted networks for extended periods. They represent a formidable cybersecurity challenge for governments, corporations, and individuals alike. Recognizing the gravity of APTs as one of the most critical cybersecurity threats, this study aims to reach a deeper understanding of their nature and propose a multi-stage framework for automated APT detection leveraging time series data. Unlike previous models, the proposed approach has the capability to detect real-time attacks based on stored attack scenarios. This study conducts an extensive review of existing research, identifying its strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities for improvement. Furthermore, standardized techniques have been enhanced to enhance their effectiveness in detecting APT attacks. The learning process relies on datasets sourced from various channels, including journal logs, traceability audits, and systems monitoring statistics. Subsequently, an efficient APT detection and prevention system, known as the composition-based decision tree (CDT), has been developed to operate in complex environments. The obtained results demonstrate that the proposed approach consistently outperforms existing algorithms in terms of detection accuracy and effectiveess.

4 July 2022 in Healthcare
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RARawad Prof. Dr. Rawad Abdulghafor
Rawad Prof. Dr. Rawad Abdulghafor
Sherzod TuraevSherzod Turaev
Sherzod Turaev
MAMohammed A. H. Ali
Mohammed A. H. Ali
Given the current COVID-19 pandemic, medical research today focuses on epidemic diseases. Innovative technology is incorporated in most medical applications, emphasizing the automatic recognition of physical and emotional states. Most research is concerned with the automatic identification of symptoms displayed by patients through analyzing their body language. The development of technologies for recognizing and interpreting arm and leg gestures, facial features, and body postures is still in its early stage. More extensive research is needed using artificial intelligence (AI) techniques in disease detection. This paper presents a comprehensive survey of the research performed on body language processing. Upon defining and explaining the different types of body language, we justify the use of automatic recognition and its application in healthcare. We briefly describe the automatic recognition framework using AI to recognize various body language elements and discuss automatic gesture recognition approaches that help better identify the external symptoms of epidemic and pandemic diseases. From this study, we found that since there are studies that have proven that the body has a language called body language, it has proven that language can be analyzed and understood by machine learning (ML). Since diseases also show clear and different symptoms in the body, the body language here will be affected and have special features related to a particular disease. From this examination, we discovered that it is possible to specialize the features and language changes of each disease in the body. Hence, ML can understand and detect diseases such as pandemic and epidemic diseases and others.