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Ahmed Iqbal is currently serving as Assistant Professor in Department of Computing at Sir Syed CASE Institute of Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan. He previously worked as Research Associate in Predictive Analytics Lab under National Center in Big Data & Cloud Computing (NCBC), Islamabad, Pakistan. He completed his Ph.D. (CS), 2020-2023, from COMSATS University Islamabad, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Muhammad Sharif. He has published his research works in Top Tier (Q1) Journals of the medical imaging field including Knowledge-Based Systems, Expert Systems with Applications, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences, Biomedical Signal Processing Control, Cognitive Computation, and Tuberculosis Journal, etc., and have an accumulated impact factor of more than 60+. His main research interests include Computer Vision, Medical Imaging, Deep Learning, Vision Transformers. He is also serving as a reviewer of more than 40+ ISI indexed well-reputed Journals. He is proficient in Python and MATLAB and has used various frameworks and tools such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, Open CV, and LaTeX. He has published more than 6 source codes at GitHub (PDF-UNet | FF-UNet | MDA-Net | TB-DenseNet | MET-Net | CPS-Former), and 3 datasets (BUS_UC | BUSC | BUS Synthetic Dataset) at Mendeley data repository.

Recent Updates

• [11/2024] I'm excited to announce that my student paper, with me as the corresponding author, has been accepted for publication in Pattern Recognition Letters (Link)
• [07/2024] I'm delighted to announce that my research paper on colorectal cancer & surgical instrument segmentation has been accepted by Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence.
• [04/2024] Grateful to ALLAH Almighty for blessing our family with a beautiful baby girl.
• [05/2024] Successfully conducted an Open House & Job Fair 2024 at Sir Syed CASE Institute of Technology, B-17 Islamabad. (Picture)
• [02/2024] An amazing hiking trip with undergraduate students of Sir Syed CASE Institute of Technology, Mushkpuri Top (Picture 1), (Picture 2), and (Picture 3)
• [02/2024] I joined Sir Syed CASE Institute of Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computing.
• [12/2023] Dept. of Artificial Intelligence and Predictive Analytics Lab at SZABIST University has successfully organized the ZAB AI CUP 2023 (Picture)
• [24/11/2023] Big Thanks to Almighty ALLAH, I have successfully defended PhD (CS) Thesis. After successful Defense: (Picture)
• [11/2023] Serving as Reviewer in Applied Soft Computing - Elsevier
• [11/2023] Serving as Reviewer in Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence - Elsevier
• [10/2023] MET-Net Transfomer Paper is accpted & published on Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
• [06/2023] Serving as Reviewer in Scientific Reports - Nature
• [06/2023] Serving as Reviewer in IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
• [06/2023] Serving as Reviewer in Artificial Intelligence Review - Springer
• [02/2023] Serving as Reviewer in IEEE Network Magazine
• [02/2023] PDF-UNet Paper is accpted & published on Journal of Expert Systems with Applications
• [02/2023] BTS-ST Transfomer Paper is accpted & published on Journal of Knowledge-Based Systems
• [02/2023] TB-Dense Net Paper is accpted & published on Journal of Biomedical Signal Processing and Control
• [12/2022] Attended National Center in Big Data and Cloud Computing (NCBC) three days conference, Lahore, 2022.
• [09/2022] TBXNet Paper is accpted & published on Journal of Tuberculosis
• [06/2022] FF-UNet Paper is accpted & published on Journal of Cognitive Computation
• [05/2022] Presented Ph.D Thesis in Pre-PhD seminar before Ph.D Thesis submission.
• [03/2022] Attended COMSATS University, Islamabad, AI Industrial Meetup, 2022 (Picture)
• [10/2021] MDA-Net Paper is accpted & published on Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences
• [08/2021] Passed Ph.D. Comprehensive and moved to candidacy.
• [07/09/2021] Heartbreaking News: Sudden Passing of Beloved Mother Due to COVID-19 (Inna Lillahi Wa Inna Ilayhi Rajioon)
• [09/2021] Joined Predictive Analytics Lab as Research Associate
• [02/2020] Started Ph. D. at the COMSATS University, Islamabad

Publications

• Rethinking encoder-decoder architecture using vision transformer for colorectal polyp and surgical instruments segmentation
  Ahmed Iqbal, Zohair Ahmed, Muhammad Usman, Isra Malik
  Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (Impact Factor: 7.5)
  [ Paper, Code ]
• Memory-efficient transformer network with feature fusion for breast tumor segmentation and classification task
  Ahmed Iqbal, Muhammad Sharif
  Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (Impact Factor: 8.0)
  [ Paper, Code ]
• Tuberculosis chest X-ray detection using CNN-based hybrid segmentation and classification approach
  Ahmed Iqbal, Muhammad Usman, Zohair Ahmed
  Biomedical Signal Processing and Control (Impact Factor: 5.0)
  [ Paper, Code ]
• PDF-UNet: A semi-supervised method for segmentation of breast tumor images using a U-shaped pyramid-dilated network
  Ahmed Iqbal, Muhammad Sharif
  Expert Systems with Applications (Impact Factor: 8.6)
  [ Paper, Code ]
• BTS-ST: Swin transformer network for segmentation and classification of multimodality breast cancer images
  Ahmed Iqbal, Muhammad Sharif
  Knowledge-Based Systems (Impact Factor: 8.1)
  [ Paper ]
• MDA-Net: Multiscale dual attention-based network for breast lesion segmentation using ultrasound images
  Ahmed Iqbal, Muhammad Sharif
  Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences (Impact Factor: 13.4)
  [ Paper, Code ]
• An efficient deep learning-based framework for tuberculosis detection using chest X-ray images
  Ahmed Iqbal, Muhammad Usman, Zohair Ahmed
  Tuberculosis (Impact Factor: 2.9)
  [ Paper ]
• Generative adversarial networks and its applications in the biomedical image segmentation: a comprehensive survey
  Ahmed Iqbal, Muhammad Sharif, Mussarat Yasmin, Mudassar Raza, Shabib Aftab
  International Journal of Multimedia Information Retrieval (Impact Factor: 2.5)
  [ Paper ]
• FF-UNet: A U-Shaped Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Multimodal Biomedical Image Segmentation
  Ahmed Iqbal, Muhammad Sharif, Muhammad Attique Khan, Wasif Nisar, Majed Alhaisoni
  Cognitive Computation (Impact Factor: 4.8)
  [ Paper, Code ]

Teaching

• Digital Image Processing
• Software Engineering
• Digital Logic Design
• Machine Learning
• Cloud Computing
• Deep learning

Services

• Reviewer, Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering - Taylor & Francis
• Reviewer, International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics - Springer (Certificate)
• Reviewer, Computer Systems Science and Engineering - Tech Science Press
• Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
• Reviewer, Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology - Springer (Certificate)
• Reviewer, International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems (Certificate)
• Reviewer, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence - Elsevier
• Reviewer, Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing - Springer (Certificate)
• Reviewer, Biomedical Signal Processing & Control - SpringerNature
• Reviewer, Computers, Materials & Continua - Tech Science Press
• Reviewer, Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences
• Reviewer, International Journal of Intelligent Systems - Hindawi
• Reviewer, Computers and Electrical Engineering - Elsevier
• Reviewer, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
• Reviewer, Signal, Image and Video Processing - Springer
• Reviewer, World Journal of Surgical Oncology - Elsevier
• Reviewer, Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
• Reviewer, Journal of Cognitive Computation - Springer (Certificate)
• Reviewer, Machine Vision and Applications - Springer (Certificate)
• Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence
• Reviewer, Alexandria Engineering Journal - Elsevier
• Reviewer, Complex & Intelligent Systems - Springer
• Reviewer, Artificial Intelligence Review - Springer (Certificate)
• Reviewer, Discover Applied Sciences - Springer
• Reviewer, Neural Processing Letters - Springer (Certificate)
• Reviewer, Knowledge-Based Systems - Elsevier
• Reviewer, Journal of Digital Imaging - Springer
• Reviewer, Computational Intelligence - Wiley
• Reviewer, Applied Soft Computing - Elsevier
• Reviewer, The Visual Computer - Springer (Certificate)
• Reviewer, Sensing and Imaging - Springer (Certificate)
• Reviewer, Discover Computing - Springer (Certificate)
• Reviewer, Multimedia Systems - Springer
• Reviewer, Digital Health - Sage Journals
• Reviewer, Cluster Computing - Springer (Certificate)
• Reviewer, Scientific Reports - Nature (Certificate)
• Reviewer, Control and Cybernetics
• Reviewer, BMC Medical Imaging (Certificate)
• Reviewer, Cancer Medicine - Wiley (Certificate)
• Reviewer, IEEE Network Magazine
• Reviewer, Journal of Big Data (Certificate)
• Reviewer, BrainX - WILEY (Certificate)
• Reviewer, PLOS ONE

Supervision

• Nauman Iftikhar (1812134), Hira Adnan (1812115), "A Robust Scheme for Detection of Lung Diseases Using Deep Learning", 2022, SZABIST, Islamabad
• Asim Qamar (1880145), Muhammad Sayyam Khan (1880126), "Diagnosis of Tuberculosis by using Deep Learning Convolutional Neural Network", 2022, SZABIST, Islamabad
• Saqib Amin (1912273), Sajjad Karim (1912272), Zain Habib (1912283) "Diagnosis of Pneumonia by using DL CNN", 2023, SZABIST, Islamabad

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