Hafeez Ur Rehman Siddiqui

• PhD
• Professor (Assistant) at Khwaja Fareed University of Engineering and Information Technology

Buildings contribute 40% of the worldwide energy usage and contribute notable amount of the total CO2 emissions. The drive to cut building energy consumption and the CO2 emissions is the key catalyst to automate energy consumption monitoring systems. Reduction in energy consumption can be attained through sensible cooperation between end users and...

Cervical cancer remains a significant global public health challenge, affecting over half a million women annually, with a mortality rate of approximately 60%, especially in resource-limited regions. This study presents an advanced methodology for cervical cancer diagnosis through deep learning techniques. Utilizing a publicly available cervical ca...

Colon cancer remains a leading cause of cancer-related mortality globally, necessitating early and accurate diagnosis to improve patient outcomes. Traditional diagnostic methods rely heavily on manual interpretation by pathologists, which can result in inaccuracies and delays in treatment. This study proposes an innovative, automated approach to co...

Cervical cancer remains a significant global public health challenge, affecting over half a million women annually, with a mortality rate of approximately 60%, especially in resource-limited regions. This study presents an advanced methodology for cervical cancer diagnosis through deep learning techniques. Utilizing a publicly available cervical ca...

Telephysiotherapy has emerged as a vital solution for delivering remote healthcare, particularly in response to global challenges such as the COVID-19 pandemic. This study seeks to enhance telephysiotherapy by developing a system capable of accurately classifying physiotherapeutic exercises using PoseNet, a state-of-the-art pose estimation model. A...

Physiotherapy plays a crucial role in the rehabilitation of damaged or defective organs due to injuries or illnesses, often requiring long-term supervision by a physiotherapist in clinical settings or at home. AI-based support systems have been developed to enhance the precision and effectiveness of physiotherapy, particularly during the COVID-19 p...

Objectives: Mechanical ventilator plays a vital role in saving millions of lives. Patients with COVID-19 symptoms need a ventilator to survive during the pandemic. Studies have reported that the mortality rates rise from 50% to 97% in those requiring mechanical ventilation during COVID-19. The pumping of air into the patient’s lungs using a ventila...

Video content on the web platform has increased explosively during the past decade, thanks to the open access to Facebook, YouTube, etc. YouTube is the second-largest social media platform nowadays containing more than 37 million YouTube channels. YouTube revealed at a recent press event that 30,000 new content videos per hour and 720,000 per day a...

Driving while drowsy poses significant risks, including reduced cognitive function and the potential for accidents, which can lead to severe consequences such as trauma, economic losses, injuries, or death. The use of artificial intelligence can enable effective detection of driver drowsiness, helping to prevent accidents and enhance driver perform...

Food adulteration is a global concern, drawing attention from safety authorities due to its potential health risks. Detecting and categorizing oil adulteration is crucial for consumer safety and food industry integrity. This research explores hyperspectral imaging (HSI) analysis to identify substandard oil adulteration at different stages. Using th...

Biofloc technology assists in increasing the sustainability of fish farming by reusing and recycling waste water. However, its sophisticated operation makes it very sensitive to environmental conditions. A slight disturbance in one or more parameters can lead to high fish mortality and loss. IoT systems provide an efficient way of closely monitorin...

The identification of individuals based on their walking patterns, also known as gait recognition, has garnered considerable interest as a biometric trait. The use of gait patterns for gender classification has emerged as a significant research domain with diverse applications across multiple fields. The present investigation centers on the classif...

Peripheral Sensory Neuropathy (PSN) affects a large proportion of individuals suffering from type 2 diabetes. To avoid ulceration and other damage to the patient’s feet, regular PSN testing, and assessment must be undertaken. Currently, the Semmes-Weinstein Monofilament Examination (SWME) is one of the most widely accepted techniques for PSN assess...

Power networks are vital to modern society, yet service outages and faults can have devastating consequences. This study introduces a novel integration of machine learning and data augmentation techniques for fault detection and classification, addressing gaps in data diversity and imbalance. Unlike traditional approaches, the research utilizes an...

Satellite remote sensing is widely being used by the researchers and geospatial scientists due to its free data access for land observation and agricultural activities monitoring. The world is suffering from food shortages due to the dramatic increase in population and climate change. Various crop genotypes can survive in harsh climatic conditions...

Satellite remote sensing is widely being used by the researchers and geospatial scientists due to its free data access for land observation and agricultural activities monitoring. The world is suffering from food shortages due to the dramatic increase in population and climate change. Various crop genotypes can survive in harsh climatic conditions...

Myocardial infarction (MI), commonly known as a heart attack, is a serious medical con�dition that can lead to congestive heart failure and even death. Prompt diagnosis and early intervention are essential for improving a patient’s survival chances. Electrocardiography (ECG) is the most commonly used diagnostic method for MI, but other noninvasive...

Lower limb disorders are a substantial contributor to both disability and lower standards of life. The prevalent disorders affecting the lower limbs include osteoarthritis of the knee, hip, and ankle. The present study focuses on the use of footwear that incorporates force-sensing resistor sensors to classify lower limb disorders affecting the knee...

Cardiovascular disease is the main cause of death worldwide. TheWorld Health Organization (WHO) reports that 17.9 million individuals die yearly due to complications from heart disease and other heart-related ailments. ECG monitoring and early detection are critical to decreasing myocardial infarction (MI) mortality. Thus, a non-invasive method to...

A novel approach is presented in this study for the classification of lower limb disorders, with a specific emphasis on the knee, hip, and ankle. The research employs gait analysis and the extraction of PoseNet features from video data in order to effectively identify and categorize these disorders. The PoseNet algorithm facilitates the extraction...

Despite significant improvement in prognosis, myocardial infarction (MI) remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality around the globe. MI is a life-threatening cardiovascular condition that requires prompt diagnosis and appropriate treatment. The primary objective of this research is to identify instances of anterior and inferior myocardial in...

Despite significant improvement in prognosis, myocardial infarction (MI) remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality around the globe. MI is a life-threatening cardiovascular condition that requires prompt diagnosis and appropriate treatment. The primary objective of this research is to identify instances of anterior and inferior myocardial in...

Cricket has a massive global following and is ranked as the second most popular sport globally, with an estimated 2.5 billion fans. Batting requires quick decisions based on ball speed, trajectory, fielder positions, etc. Recently, computer vision and machine learning techniques have gained attention as potential tools to predict cricket strokes pl...

Cybersecurity incident response is a very crucial part of the cybersecurity management system. Adversaries emerge and evolve with new cybersecurity tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs). It is essential to detect the TTPs in a timely manner to respond effectively and mitigate the vulnerabilities to secure business operations. This research foc...

Microbe organisms make up approximately 60% of the earth’s living matter and the human body is home to millions of microbe organisms. Microbes are microbial threats to health and may lead to several diseases in humans like toxoplasmosis and malaria. The microbiological toxoplasmosis disease in humans is widespread, with a seroprevalence of 3.6-84%...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a severe and chronic ailment that is currently ranked as the third most common cause of mortality across the globe. COPD patients often experience debilitating symptoms such as chronic coughing, shortness of breath, and fatigue. Sadly, the disease frequently goes undiagnosed until it is too late, leav...

Business collapse is a common event in economies, small and big alike. A firm's health is crucial to its stakeholders like creditors, investors, partners, etc. and prediction of the upcoming financial crisis is significantly important to devise appropriate strategies to avoid business collapses. Bankruptcy prediction has been regarded as a critical...

Business collapse is a common event in economies, small and big alike. A firm’s health is crucial to its stakeholders like creditors, investors, partners, etc. and prediction of the upcoming financial crisis is significantly important to devise appropriate strategies to avoid business collapses. Bankruptcy prediction has been regarded as a critical...

Genetic disorders are the result of mutation in the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) sequence which can be developed or inherited from parents. Such mutations may lead to fatal diseases such as Alzheimer’s, cancer, Hemochromatosis, etc. Recently, the use of artificial intelligence-based methods has shown superb success in the prediction and prognosis of...

Wheat species play important role in the price of products and wheat production estimation. There are several mathematical models used for the estimation of the wheat crop but these models are implemented without considering the wheat species which is an important independent variable. The task of wheat species identification is challenging both fo...

Emotions play an important part in our daily lives since they influence our feelings and interactions. Because of the involvement of various response channels, emotion identification is a sophisticated and complex process. Emotion recognition has recently attracted the attention of the research industries as well as the scientific communities in th...

Maternal health is an important aspect of women’s health during pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period. Specifically, during pregnancy, different health factors like age, blood disorders, heart rate, etc. can lead to pregnancy complications. Detecting such health factors can alleviate the risk of pregnancy-related complications. This stud...

Energy consumption prediction has become an integral part of a smart and sustainable environment. With future demand forecasts, energy production and distribution can be optimized to meet the needs of the growing population. However, forecasting the demand of individual households is a challenging task due to the diversity of energy consumption pat...

Driving a vehicle is a complex, multidimensional, and potentially risky activity demanding full mobilization and utilization of physiological and cognitive abilities. Drowsiness, often caused by stress, fatigue, and illness declines cognitive capabilities that affect drivers’ capability and cause many accidents. Drowsiness-related road accidents ar...

Noisy environments, changes and variations in the volume of speech, and non-face-to-face conversations impair the user experience with hearing aids. Generally, a hearing aid amplifies sounds so that a hearing-impaired person can listen, converse, and actively engage in daily activities. Presently, there are some sophisticated hearing aid algorithms...

During recent years, the increase in the ageing population, the ubiquity of chronic diseases in the world, and the development in technologies have resulted in high demand for efficient healthcare systems. Physical anomalies mostly caused by injury, disease, and ageing lead to limit the regular ability of people to move and function. Primary health...

Rail is one of the most energy efficient and economical modes of transportation among many. Regular inspection of railway track health is essential for ensuring robust and secure train operations. Investigations and delayed discovery pose a serious risk to the safe functioning of rail transportation. The traditional method of manually examining the...

COPD is a progressive disease that may lead to death if not diagnosed and treated at an early stage. The examination of vital signs such as respiration rate is a promising approach for the detection of COPD. However, simultaneous consideration of the demographic and medical characteristics of patients is very important for better results. The objec...

The periodic inspection of railroad tracks is very important to find structural and geometrical problems that lead to railway accidents. Currently, in Pakistan, rail tracks are inspected by an acoustic-based manual system that requires a railway engineer as a domain expert to differentiate between different rail tracks’ faults, which is cumbersome,...

Emotion recognition gained increasingly prominent attraction from a multitude of fields recently due to their wide use in human-computer interaction interface, therapy, and advanced robotics, etc. Human speech, gestures, facial expressions, and physiological signals can be used to recognize different emotions. Despite the discriminating properties...

Reviews of users on social networks have been gaining rapidly interest on the usage of sentiment analysis which serve as feedback to the government, public and private companies. Text Mining has a wide variety of applications such as sentiment analysis, spam detection, sarcasm detection, and news classification. Reviews classification using user se...

Regular inspection of railway track health is crucial for maintaining safe and reliable train operations. Factors, such as cracks, ballast issues, rail discontinuity, loose nuts and bolts, burnt wheels, superelevation, and misalignment developed on the rails due to non-maintenance, pre-emptive investigations and delayed detection, pose a grave dang...

The link prediction has attracted majority of researchers from various domains since the beginning of behavioral science. For instance, online social networks such as Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook change rapidly as new users appear in the graph. For all these networks, the more challenging task is to find and recommend friends to the users. In cas...

Drowsiness when in command of a vehicle leads to a decline in cognitive performance that affects driver behavior, potentially causing accidents. Drowsiness-related road accidents lead to severe trauma, economic consequences, impact on others, physical injury and/or even death. Real-time and accurate driver drowsiness detection and warnings systems...

Emotions are feelings that are the result of biochemical processes in the body that are influenced by a variety of factors such as one's state of mind, situations, experiences, and surrounding environment. Emotions have an impact on one's ability to think and act. People interact with each other to share their thoughts and feelings. Emotions play a...

Wireless capsule endoscopy (WCE) is an efficient tool to investigate gastrointestinal tract disorders and perform painless imaging of the intestine. Despite that, several concerns make its wide applicability and adaptation challenging like efficacy, tolerance, safety, and performance. Besides, automatic analysis of the WCE provided dataset is of gr...

Wireless capsule endoscopy (WCE) is an efficient tool to investigate gastrointestinal tract disorders and perform painless imaging of the intestine. Despite that, several concerns make its wide applicability and adaptation challenging like efficacy, tolerance, safety, and performance. Besides, automatic analysis of the WCE provided dataset is of gr...

Reviews of users on social networks have been gaining rapidly interest on the usage of sentiment analysis which serve as feedback to the government, public and private companies. Text Mining has a wide variety of applications such as sentiment analysis, spam detection, sarcasm detection, and news classification. Reviews classification using user se...

With the increase of world population, the availability of food to all inhabitants on globe is one of the significant challenges. These challenges need to be addressed by adopting innovative options to improve the soil capacity and the safety of environmental resources. The availability of real-time vital parameters related to farming such as moist...

With the rapid proliferation in population of the big cities, numbers of vehicles are also growing with proportionate pace. People prefer to use private transport rather than public transport which results an increase in the number of vehicles. Thus, finding vacant parking place becomes cumbersome, resulting in several issues like increase in consu...

With the rapid proliferation in population of the big cities, number of vehicles are also growing with proportionate pace. People prefer to use private transport rather than public transport which results an increase in the number of vehicles. Thus, finding vacant parking place becomes cumbersome, resulting in several issues like increase in consum...

This paper describes an experimental demonstration of machine learning (ML) techniques supplementing radar to distinguish and detect vital signs of users in a domestic environment. This work augments an intelligent location awareness system previously proposed by the authors. That research employed Ultra-Wide Band (UWB) radar complemented by superv...

An indoor positioning system (IPS) is a technology employed to locate objects and people within a building scenario using signal processing or other sensory information. Ultra Wide Band (UWB) is a versatile wireless technology that can be employed as an IPS and has shown very good performances. UWB can be used in many scenarios and its effectivenes...

Human behaviour and occupancy accounts for a substantial proportion of variation in the energy efficiency profile of domestic buildings. Yet while people often claim that they would like to reduce their energy bills, rhetoric frequently fails to match action due to the effort involved in understanding and changing deeply engrained energy consumptio...

A large proportion of individuals who live with type-2 diabetes suffer from plantar sensory neuropathy. Regular testing and assessment for the condition is required to avoid ulceration or other damage to patient's feet. Currently accepted practice involves a trained clinician testing a patient's feet manually with a hand-held nylon monofilament pro...

The World Health Organization reports more than 135 million people globally suffer from diabetes, with 25% developing peripheral neuropathy and estimates the numbers living with diabetes will reach over 300 million by 2025. Peripheral neuropathy is a term used to describe the loss of feeling in the peripheral limbs. If not properly managed, amputat...

The World Health Organization reports more than 135 million people globally suffer from diabetes, with 25% developing peripheral neuropathy and estimates the numbers living with diabetes will reach over 300 million by 2025. Peripheral neuropathy is a term used to describe the loss of feeling in the peripheral limbs. If not properly managed, amputat...

Plantar sensory neuropathy (PSN) affects a large proportion of individuals suffering from type 2 diabetes. In order to avoid ulceration or other damage to patients' feet regular testing and assessment of PSN needs to be undertaken. Currently, the standard test involves a trained podiatrist visiting the patient and testing their feet manually with a...