Muhammad Ateeb Ather

Mr. Muhammad Ateeb Ather

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2Years (2025-Present)

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

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AAAbdullah Abdullah
Abdullah Abdullah
MAMuhammad Ateeb Ather
Muhammad Ateeb Ather
OKOlga Kolesnikova
Olga Kolesnikova
GSGrigori Sidorov
Grigori Sidorov
Detecting biased language in large-scale corpora, such as the Wiki Neutrality Corpus, is essential for promoting neutrality in digital content. This study systematically evaluates a range of machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) models for the detection of biased and pre-conditioned phrases. Conventional classifiers, including Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost), Light Gradient-Boosting Machine (LightGBM), and Categorical Boosting (CatBoost), are compared with advanced neural architectures such as Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT), Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks, and Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). A novel hybrid architecture is proposed, integrating DistilBERT, LSTM, and GANs within a unified framework. Extensive experimentation with intermediate variants DistilBERT + LSTM (without GAN) and DistilBERT + GAN (without LSTM) demonstrates that the fully integrated model consistently outperforms all alternatives. The proposed hybrid model achieves a cross-validation accuracy of 99.00%, significantly surpassing traditional baselines such as XGBoost (96.73%) and LightGBM (96.83%). It also exhibits superior stability, statistical significance (paired t-tests), and favorable trade-offs between performance and computational efficiency. The results underscore the potential of hybrid deep learning models for capturing subtle linguistic bias and advancing more objective and reliable automated content moderation systems.

25 November 2025 in Computers
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AAAbdullah Abdullah
Abdullah Abdullah
ZFZulaikha Fatima
Zulaikha Fatima
Carlos Guzman-Sanchez-MejoradaCarlos Guzman-Sanchez-Mejorada
Carlos Guzman-Sanchez-Mejorada
MAMuhammad Ateeb Ather
Muhammad Ateeb Ather
JRJosé Luis Oropeza Rodriguez
José Luis Oropeza Rodriguez
GSGrigori Sidorov
Grigori Sidorov
Cortisol and testosterone are key digital biomarkers reflecting neuroendocrine activity across the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal (HPA) and hypothalamic–pituitary–gonadal (HPG) axes, encoding stress adaptation and behavioral regulation. Continuous real-world monitoring remains challenging due to the sparsity of sensing and the complexity of multimodal data. This study introduces a synthetic sensor-driven computational framework that models hormone variability through data-driven simulation and predictive learning, eliminating the need for continuous biosensor input. A hybrid deep ensemble integrates biological, behavioral, and contextual data using bidirectional multitask learning with one-dimensional convolutional neural network (1D-CNN) and long short-term memory (LSTM) branches, meta-gated expert fusion, Bayesian variational layers with Monte Carlo Dropout, and adversarial debiasing. Synthetically derived longitudinal hormone profiles that were validated by Kolmogorov–Smirnov (KS), Wasserstein, maximum mean discrepancy (MMD), and dynamic time warping (DTW) metrics account for class imbalance and temporal sparsity. Our framework achieved up to 99.99% macro F1-score on augmented samples and more than 97% for unseen data with ECE below 0.001. Selective prediction further maximized the convergence of predictions for low-confidence cases, achieving 99.9992–99.9998% accuracy on 99.5% of samples, which were smaller than 5 MB in size so that they can be employed in real time when mounted on wearable devices. Explainability investigations revealed the most important features on both the physiological and behavioral levels, demonstrating framework capabilities for adaptive clinical or organizational stress monitoring.

11 May 2026 in Scientific Reports
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ZFZulaikha Fatima
Zulaikha Fatima
MAMuhammad Ateeb Ather
Muhammad Ateeb Ather
JRJosé Luis Oropeza Rodriguez
José Luis Oropeza Rodriguez
Existing reinforcement learning (RL) approaches struggle to balance real-time decision-making with adaptive learning in dynamic healthcare environments. We propose a brain-inspired hybrid RL framework that integrates model-based (MB) planning and model-free (MF) reflexes via a dynamic meta-controller, neuro-symbolic clinical knowledge, counterfactual reasoning, and ethical safeguards. The framework is validated on a multimodal cerebral palsy (CP) dataset (86 patients) using NetLogo multi-agent simulations and Weka classifiers. A combined reward mechanism achieves 99% total reward accumulation, with 98% optimal reward in 95% of training episodes. Component analysis shows a 60% MB / 40% MF contribution, yielding a 15% improvement over standalone methods. Optimal weighting (0.7 MB, 0.3 MF) further enhances performance. External zero-shot validation on three public datasets (NTNU-HARChildren, EEG-EMG exoskeleton, D4RL) confirms generalizability (macro F1 84.3%, accuracy 81.7%, D4RL scores 68.5 and 62.3). Regression methods achieve correlation coefficients up to 0.94, and classification models (multinomial Naïve Bayes, logistic regression) attain 100% precision, recall, and F-measure. The framework provides a reliable, explainable, and simulation-validated solution for patient-centric autonomous decision-making.

2 February 2026 in Computers
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MAMuhammad Ateeb Ather
Muhammad Ateeb Ather
AAAbdullah Abdullah
Abdullah Abdullah
ZFZulaikha Fatima
Zulaikha Fatima
JRJosé Luis Oropeza Rodriguez
José Luis Oropeza Rodriguez
GSGrigori Sidorov
Grigori Sidorov
Despite the numerous advancements that have been made in the treatment and management of breast cancer, it continues to be a source of mortality in millions of female patients across the world each year; thus, there is a need for proper and reliable diagnostic assistance tools that are quite effective in the prediction of the disease in its early stages. In our research, in addition to the proposed framework, a comprehensive comparative assessment of traditional machine learning, deep learning, and transformer-based models has been performed to predict breast cancer in a multi-dataset environment. For the purpose of improving diversity and reducing any possible biases in the datasets, our research combined three datasets: breast cancer biopsy morphological (WDBC), biochemical and metabolic properties (Coimbra), and cytological attributes (WBCO), intended to expose the model to heterogeneous feature domains and evaluate robustness under distributional variation. Based on the thorough process conducted in our research involving traditional machine learning models, deep learning models, and transformers, a proposed hybrid architecture referred to as the FT-Transformer-Attention-LSTM-SVM framework has been designed and developed in our research that is compatible and well-suited for the processing and analysis of the given tabular biomedical datasets. The proposed design in the research has an effective performance of 99.90% accuracy in the primary test environment, an average mean accuracy of 99.56% in the 10-fold cross-validation process, and an accuracy of 98.50% in the WBCO test environment, with a considerable margin of significance less than 0.0001 in the paired two-sample t-test comparison process. In our research, we have performed the importance assessment in conjunction with the SHAP and LIME techniques and have demonstrated that its decisions are based upon important attributes such as the values of the attributes of radius, concavity, perimeter, compactness, and texture. Additionally, the research has conducted the ablation test and has proved the importance of the designed FT-Transformer.

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AAAbdullah Abdullah
Abdullah Abdullah
ZFZulaikha Fatima
Zulaikha Fatima
MAMuhammad Ateeb Ather
Muhammad Ateeb Ather
LCLiliana Chanona-Hernandez
Liliana Chanona-Hernandez
JRJosé Luis Oropeza Rodriguez
José Luis Oropeza Rodriguez
Accurately identifying drug off-targets is essential for reducing toxicity and improving the success rate of pharmaceutical discovery pipelines. However, current deep learning approaches often struggle to fuse chemical structure, protein biology, and multi-target context. Here, we introduce HDPC-LGT (Hybrid Dual-Prompt Cross-Attention Ligand–Protein Graph Transformer), a framework designed to predict ligand binding across sixteen human translation-related proteins clinically associated with antibiotic toxicity. HDPC-LGT combines graph-based chemical reasoning with protein language model embeddings and structural priors to capture biologically meaningful ligand–protein interactions. The model was trained on 216,482 experimentally validated ligand–protein pairs from the Chemical Database of Bioactive Molecules (ChEMBL) and the Protein–Ligand Binding Database (BindingDB) and evaluated using scaffold-level, protein-level, and combined holdout strategies. HDPC-LGT achieves a macro receiver operating characteristic–area under the curve (macro ROC–AUC) of 0.996 and a micro F1-score (micro F1) of 0.989, outperforming Deep Drug–Target Affinity Model (DeepDTA), Graph-based Drug–Target Affinity Model (GraphDTA), Molecule–Protein Interaction Transformer (MolTrans), Cross-Attention Transformer for Drug–Target Interaction (CAT–DTI), and Heterogeneous Graph Transformer for Drug–Target Affinity (HGT–DTA) by 3–7%. External validation using the Papyrus universal bioactivity resource (Papyrus), the Protein Data Bank binding subset (PDBbind), and the benchmark Yamanishi dataset confirms strong generalisation to unseen chemotypes and proteins. HDPC-LGT also provides biologically interpretable outputs: cross-attention maps, Integrated Gradients (IG), and Gradient-weighted Class Activation Mapping (Grad-CAM) highlight catalytic residues in aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases (aaRSs), ribosomal tunnel regions, and pharmacophoric interaction patterns, aligning with known biochemical mechanisms. By integrating multimodal biochemical information with deep learning, HDPC-LGT offers a practical tool for off-target toxicity prediction, structure-based lead optimisation, and polypharmacology research, with potential applications in antibiotic development, safety profiling, and rational compound redesign.

16 June 2026 in Cancers
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AAAbdullah Abdullah
Abdullah Abdullah
MSMuhammad Shahid
Muhammad Shahid
MAMuhammad Ateeb Ather
Muhammad Ateeb Ather
ZFZulaikha Fatima
Zulaikha Fatima
Carlos Guzman-Sanchez-MejoradaCarlos Guzman-Sanchez-Mejorada
Carlos Guzman-Sanchez-Mejorada
Roberto Zagal FloresRoberto Zagal Flores
Roberto Zagal Flores
Background: Heterogeneous data integration remains a major challenge in intelligent information systems, particularly under missing-modality and cross-domain conditions. Existing multimodal fusion approaches often rely on complete datasets and weak alignment mechanisms, limiting their robustness and practical applicability. Objectives: This study aims to develop and evaluate a genomics-guided multimodal representation learning framework that enables robust heterogeneous data fusion, reliable cross-modal correspondence, and accurate prediction under incomplete-data conditions. Methods: We propose a multimodal learning architecture that models genomics as the primary biological anchor and learns conditional projections to imaging modalities, including multiparametric MRI and whole-slide histopathology (WSI). The framework formulates multimodal fusion as a genomics-guided contrastive learning problem, incorporates domain-specific optimization constraints, and learns a latent shared-state representation to support inference without requiring fully paired datasets. Evaluation was conducted using public datasets, including TCGA-PRAD and TCIA, across low-risk versus higher-risk/clinically significant prostate cancer (csPCa) discrimination, Gleason-based risk stratification, and clinically significant outcome prediction tasks under realistic multimodal and missing-modality scenarios. Results: In the adequately powered Genomics+WSI cohort (n = 486), the framework achieved an AUROC of 0.985 ± 0.005 for low-risk versus higher-risk/csPCa discrimination (p < 0.001). Exploratory analysis in a small, matched Genomics+MRI cohort (n = 28) yielded an AUROC of 0.980 ± 0.006 for the same endpoint; these findings are reported descriptively with bootstrap confidence intervals due to limited sample size. Because the negative reference group consisted of low-risk prostate cancer cases rather than cancer-free controls, results are interpreted as within-cancer risk discrimination rather than de novo cancer detection. The framework achieved weighted accuracy up to 92.1%, Cohen’s κ up to 0.86, and reduced critical decision errors by 58%. Calibration remained strong (ECE 0.021–0.024), and decision-curve analysis indicated improved utility with reduced unnecessary invasive workups in retrospective modeling. Robustness analysis demonstrated AUROC degradation below 0.04 under domain shifts. Single-modality inference using genomics alone maintained AUROC > 0.90. Interpretability analysis revealed feature attributions aligned with domain-relevant genomic markers. Conclusions: The proposed framework provides a scalable and generalizable solution for heterogeneous multimodal data fusion, supporting reliable prediction, robustness to missing modalities, and applicability to complex information systems beyond the studied domain.