Azurah A Samah

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor (Associate) at University of Technology Malaysia

Genetic and genomic variations are primary drivers of tumor development. Identifying driver genes from numerous passenger genes across pan-cancer poses a significant challenge due to varying mutation loads. While independent studies have elucidated cancer-associated mutation patterns within specific cancer types, a systematic approach to integratin...

We are proud to invite you to the 2023 4th International Conference on Applied Computing (ICAC2023). ICAC2023 will be held as a hybrid conference in Sunway Big Box Hotel, Johor Bahru, Malaysia on the 20-21 August 2023. Pre-conference workshop is on 19th August 2023 in Faculty of Computing, UTM Johor Bahru. International presenters can opt for eithe...

Advancement of high-throughput technologies in omics studies had produced large amount of information that enables integrated analysis of complex diseases. Complex diseases such as cancer are often caused by a series of interactions that involve multiple biological mechanisms. Integration of multi-omics data allows more advanced analysis using feat...

Malocclusion is a condition of misaligned teeth or irregular occlusion of the upper and lower jaws. This condition leads to poor performance of vital functions such as chewing. A common procedure in orthodontic treatment for malocclusion is a conventional diagnostic procedure where a dental health professional takes dental x-rays to examine the tee...

The challenge in classifying cancer may lead to inaccurate classification of cancers, especially sarcoma cancer since it consists of rare types of cancer. It is hard for the clinician to confirm the patient's condition because an accurate diagnosis can only be made by the specialist pathology. Therefore, instead of a single omics is used to identif...

Protease is a proteolytic enzyme that hydrolyzes the amino acid where the cleavage only occurs at specific sites of the amino acid substrate. By discovering the nick site, the prediction on the function of proteases can be identified and enable humans to control the protein's hydrolysis by their corresponding protease. It is very contributed to con...

Retrofitting building envelope thermal performance is crucial to ensure adequate interior thermal comfort of the building, minimize cooling load rate and, therefore, reduce overall building energy consumption. The retrofit process of an existing building envelope involves the design team selecting the best performing building materials and componen...

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) categorize as one of the typical neurodevelopmental and mental disorders. Over the years, researchers have identified ADHD as a complicated disorder since it is not directly tested with a standard medical test such as a blood or urine test on the early-stage diagnosis. Apart from the physical symptoms...

Information and communication technology (ICT) have offered various platforms and tools for organization to promote business information and services to the global market. Port Terminal is known as the largest and biggest place for the logistic and transportation industry. It provides services such as shipping and marine request and required a powe...

Breast cancer is a type of tumour that could be treated if the disease is identified at an earlier stage. Early diagnosis is crucial when it comes to reducing the mortality rate. In this study, deep neural network method is applied to facilitate the detection of breast cancer. The aim of this study is to implement deep neural network in breast canc...

Building envelope plays an important role to protect a building from external climatic factors while providing a comfortable indoor environment. However, the choices of construction materials, opening sizes, and glazing types for optimized sustainability performance require discrete analyses and decision-making processes. Thereby this study explore...

Decision-making (DM) at the early building design stages is essential to optimise sustainability performances. Nevertheless, the current methods of optimising building sustainability are complex as they involve multiple design variables and performance objectives. With the development of building information modelling (BIM), complicated buildings c...

Past decades had seen the concerned by researchers in authenticating the originality of an image as the result of advancement in computer technology. Many methods have been developed to detect image forgeries such as copy-move, splicing, resampling and et cetera. The most common type of image forgery is copy-move where the copied region is pasted o...

Metabolic engineering of microorganism is widely used to enhance the production of metabolites that is useful in food additives, pharmaceutical, supplements, cosmetics, and polymer materials. One of the approaches for enhancing the biomass production is to utilize gene deletion strategies. Flux Balance Analysis is introduced to delete the gene that...

Over recent years, there has been an explosive growth of interest in the pattern recognition. For example, handwritten signature is one of human biometric that can be used in many areas in terms of access control and security. However, handwritten signature is not a uniform characteristic such as fingerprint, iris or vein. It may change to several...

This paper discussed the internet access had become primary issues among Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) students and it causes difficulty in discussion for tasks and assignment. Thus, this proposed P2P audio and video calling application using local area network of UTM and it does not require any installation of extra plug-ins. The application...

This paper describes an application system named HAJJRAH which offer solutions to common problems faced by pilgrims in performing the obligatory and supplementary activities of Hajj and Umrah. Background of pilgrimage and problems faced by various agencies who manage pilgrims were also provided in this paper to give an understanding on the problem...

This paper describes the development of a decision support system (DSS) using System Dynamics (SD) simulation approach to project and analyse the supply of dentist at both local and private Malaysian healthcare provider from 2015 to 2030. The project was driven by the need to provide sustainable, quality dental services in a complex environment giv...

In this paper, a framework is presented to outline the steps of automating doctor scheduling process using an evolutionary algorithm. Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is applied within the framework to generate optimum work schedule for on-call doctors in emergency department at a public hospital in Malaysia. Currently, the doctor schedules are pr...

Efficient and effective energy management is an important factor in the new global economy. The Malaysian government is fulfilling this ambition by implementing a Nuclear Power Programme (NPP) to provide sustainable energy for the country. However, the safety issue has become important in the light of public concern. The focus of this paper is to e...

In early study of manufacturing, warranty studies were mainly carried out by researchers in the legal profession and, thus, such articles appeared only in the law journals. Subsequently, warranty studies attracted researchers from such field as economics, accounting, management, marketing engineering, operations research and statistics. There are t...

This paper presents a study on enhanced genetic operator within genetic algorithm for rostering on-call doctor. We review the literature on genetic operator approach method which focused on genetic operator. The enhanced genetic operator is to be used within genetic algorithm to generate Oncall doctor rostering. On call doctor rostering problems re...

A framework for determining optimal period and cost in extended warranty is proposed in this paper. The optimal period and cost is derived from two-dimensional delay time model. Two-dimensional delay time model is governed by age and mileage. Age and mileage gives effect for the rate of defect arrival λ. The steps for obtaining the model to estimat...

Appointment scheduling is very popular in healthcare where long waiting times for treatment in the outpatient department of internal medicine; followed by short consultations has long been a complaint of patients. This issue is becoming increasingly important with the progressively aging society. In this paper, there will two parts of major scopes...

Modeling of two-dimensional warranty policy is an important but difficult task due to the uncertainty and instability of data collection. Moreover, conventional numerical methods of modeling a two-dimensional warranty policy involves complex distribution function and cost analysis. Therefore, this paper attempts to present an Artificial Intelligenc...

Malaysia is in advancement towards the establishment of effective and efficient energy mix plan within its Nuclear Power Programme (NPP) resulting from current governance acceptance and support. Prior precautions have been inculcated in order to comprehend nuclear energy accountability in striving high income economic growth and energy security. Th...

Line labelling has been used to determine whether a two-dimensional (2D) line drawing object is a possible or impossible representation of a three-dimensional (3D) solid object. However, the results are not sufficiently robust because the existing line labelling methods do not have any validation method to verify their own result. In this research...

Several researches had worked on the development of sketch interpreters. However, very few of them gave a complete cycle of the sketch interpreter which can be used to transform an engineering sketch to a valid solid object. In this paper, a framework of the complete cycle of the sketch interpreter is presented. The discussion in this paper will st...

In this paper, feed forward back-propagation neural network with multi layer perceptron is used as an expert system tool to model the warranty cost and inspection interval during the warranty period. In the implementation stage, the values of Mean Square Error has achieved to the goal and from the accuracy analysis of experimental result, the propo...

This paper present a data analysis of reservation system for vehicle inspection centre. From the original data collected, data was improved by a little adjustment. After a few steps of data analysis, we noticed that there is a clash between two vehicles at some point in this analysis. We tried to resolve the situation by adding a period of time cal...