Hany Kasban

Hany Kasban
Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority · Nuclear Research Center

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Introduction
Prof. Kasban received B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Menoufia University, Egypt. Currently, He is the Head of Engineering and Scientific Instruments Department, Nuclear Research Center (NRC), Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority (EAEA), Cairo, Egypt. He is a co-author of international journals papers. His research areas of interest are in; electronics, digital signal processing, communication systems and nuclear applications in industry and medicine
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May 2004 - present
Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority
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  • Head of Department
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  • B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Research areas of interest are ; electronics, digital signal processing, communication systems and nuclear applications in industry, water and medicine

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Publications (109)
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Recently, digital gamma spectrometers have replaced analog ones due to their durability, flexibility, and compact size. The main part of the digital gamma spectrometer is the digital pulse processing (DPP) unit. The implementation of the DPP unit using the ARM Cortex-M-based microcontroller units is a recent attractive approach. This originates fro...
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This paper manipulates a creative online learning solution for optimal band/channel assignment in hybrid radio frequency and visible light communication (RF/VLC) systems. Typically, the multiband transmitter (Tx) has no prior information about different channel characteristics including their payoffs (achievable data rate) and energy consumption ou...
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Due to the importance of both rate‐less digital fountain codes and Multi‐Input Multi‐Output (MIMO) schemes in Fifth and Sixth Generation (5G/6G) wireless networks, this paper investigates enhancing the performance of MIMO‐Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (MIMO‐OFDM) based system by employing the rate‐less fountain codes. The rate‐less cod...
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Gamma spectrometer is not available in many laboratories because it is very expensive. Analog to digital converter ADC is the basic component of digital gamma spectrometers. The sampling rate of the ADC plays an important role in determining the performance and the cost of the gamma spectrometers. This paper investigates experimentally the ADC's sa...
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The primary goal of this paper is to assess the performance of an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing Access (OFDMA) transmission system with a High Power Amplifier (HPA) at the transmitter edge. Differential Phase Shift Keying (DPSK) and Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) modulation techniques are used to generate the OFDMA signal. For m...
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Low cost and self-configured communication make Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is a promising technology for enhancing security in several nuclear applications. In this research paper, efficient techniques are proposed to immune audio signals transmitted over mobile communications channels. The various randomizing data tools are used and combined wi...
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This paper presents a modified Neutron Computerized Tomography (NCT) reconstruction method to obtain an effective and accurate 3D volume rendering with more cleared details that achieve the optimization for contrast, raise the resolution, real view and reduce noise. This proposed method depends on dealing with the slice duplication in case of full...
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This paper presents several proposed scenarios for medical image transmission over Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks with multi-level security tools and Unequal Error Protection (UEP) technique to provide highly secure and improved medical images transmitted over the wireless link. The proposed scenario is based on embedding the medical images wi...
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During the spread of the COVID-I9 pandemic in early 2020, the WHO organization advised all people in the world to wear face-mask to limit the spread of COVID-19. Many facilities required that their employees wear face-mask. For the safety of the facility, it was mandatory to recognize the identity of the individual wearing the mask. Hence, face rec...
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The unique features of millimeter waves (mmWaves) motivate its leveraging to future, beyond-fifth-generation/sixth-generation (B5G/6G)-based device-to-device (D2D) communications. However, the neighborhood discovery and selection (NDS) problem still needs intelligent solutions due to the trade-off of investigating adjacent devices for the optimum d...
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Free space optics uplink to Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite with 500Km distance and 1.55μm wavelength is evaluated with 10Gbps data rate and 70W transmitted power. The equivalent effects for all weather parameters are given by the measured visibility used to determine the weather attenuations by using Mie-Scattering, in this proposed. These high at...
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This paper presents a modified Neutron Computerized Tomography reconstruction method for solving three main problems facing the Inverse Radon Transform based reconstruction method. The three problems are poor contrast of the reconstructed slice, the duplication of slice and the error in the center of rotation position in the images. The paper aims...
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This paper studies the effects of fog and scintillation attenuations on the performance of the vertical free‐space optical (FSO) link from the Earth to low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite. FSO link performance was investigated under different foggy conditions and turbulence by calculating the power received, achieved data rate, and link margin. Differe...
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This paper leverages multiagent multi-armed bandit (MA-MAB) schemes to handle efficiently the millimeter wave (mmWave) concurrent transmission problem. MA-MAB selects the beams with the maximum long-term reward, mostly data rate, from the concurrent links. The mmWave access points (APs) are the bandit game agents, while the arms are the existing be...
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Image manipulation plays important role in fake news spreading and it may cause ethical, economic, or political problems for people and sometimes for countries. Image integrity verification becomes a very important research issue due to increasing the forged images on the Internet and social media. The objective of this paper is presenting an accur...
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The authentication of the Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) nodes is a vital factor in its medical applications. This paper, investigates methods of authentication over these networks. Also, an effective unimodal and multimodal biometrics identification approaches based on individual face and voice recognition or combined using different fusion t...
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The communication in the Millimeter-wave (mmWave) band, i.e., 30~300 GHz, is characterized by short-range transmissions and the use of antenna beamforming (BF). Thus, multiple mmWave access points (APs) should be installed to fully cover a target environment with gigabits per second (Gbps) connectivity. However, inter-beam interference prevents max...
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This paper presents a proposed algorithm for discriminating neutron and gamma radiation events. In the proposed algorithm, discriminating features are extracted from the input radiation event. These features are extracted using charge integration, matched filtering, and Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) methods. The extracted features are then fed i...
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This paper presents a proposed method for medical image retrieval in order to search in a database for an image that is similar to a query image. The proposed Medical Image Retrieval System (MIRS) consists of two phases; enrollment phase and querying phase. In enrollment phase, the Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) coefficients are computed from eve...
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This paper presents a proposed procedure for neutron radiography image enhancement through studying the effect of the projection exposure time on the quality of Neutron Computerized Tomography (NCT) image. A sample was exposure at the Egyptian Second Research Reactor (ETRR-2) NCT facility with projection exposure time varying from one second to six...
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The objective of this paper is to provide a proposed method for radiographic image compression with maximum Compression Ratio (CR) as possible and keeping all details, especially in the Region Of Interest (ROI) that contains the important information in the image. In the proposed method; firstly, the ROI is separated from the image background using...
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In this paper, an effective multimodal biometric identification approach for human authentication tool based on face and voice recognition fusion is proposed. Cepstral coefficients and statistical coefficients are employed to extract features of voice recognition and these two coefficients are compared. Face recognition features are extracted utili...
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In nuclear applications related to radiation energy measurement, digital pulse processing for fast sampling facility has great advantages compared to the traditional analog pulse processing. A distortion in energy spectrum and degradation in timing resolution take place when pulse pile-up occurs. This in turn leads to degradations of the signals us...
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Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (WMSN) Security Techniques
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تكنولوجيا التصوير بالاشعاع
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الاجهزة المستخدمة في معامل التحاليل بعض
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Image database can be used in forensic research it collected from different Internet websites, it contains several authentic and forged images with different size and different format. Some exampls are
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The objective of this paper is to provide a proposed method for radiographic image compression with maximum Compression Ratio (CR) as possible and keeping all details, especially in the Region Of Interest (ROI) that contains the important information in the image. In the proposed method; firstly, the ROI is separated from the image background using...
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This paper proposes a multimodal biometric scheme for human authentication based on fusion of voice and face recognition. For voice recognition, three categories of features (statistical coefficients, cepstral coefficients and voice timbre) are used and compared. The voice identification modality is carried out using Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM). F...
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The primary aim is to familiarizes readers with more important medical applications of electronics where there is direct connection low the requirements for the equipment are derived also adequate performance and safety of electronics circuits are provided it seeks to encourage dialog appreciate more fully the applications requirements specificatio...
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This paper studies the performance of image transmission over WiMAX networks under different fading channels. The objective is determining the optimum technique in every transmission stage that can be used for obtaining the optimum performance of the image transmission process. The results are evaluated in terms of Bit Error Rate, and Peak Signal t...
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The main objective of developing the image watermarking technique is satisfying the robustness and the imperceptibility of multimedia protection. To achieve this objective, a novel hybrid image watermarking scheme based on Karhunen Loeve transform (KLT) and discrete hartley transform (DHT) and is proposed. In the proposed scheme (KL–DHT based water...
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Lighting is the system or arrangement of lights, in a home or a theatre or film studio or wherever there are lights Lightening means becoming lighter in weight. Lightning is the visual presentation of the electrical discharge between clouds, or between clouds and objects, during a thunderstorm.
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Generation of Electrical Energy………………………….. Classification of Energy………………………………….. Solar Energy……………………………………………… Wind Power………………………………………………. Water Motion Tidal Energy………………………………. Water Motion Hydropower……………………………….. Biomass Energy………………………………………….. Geothermal Energy………………………………………. Thermal Energy…………………………………………... Nuclear Energy…………………………………...
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The battery is an essential component of almost all electrical systems. Batteries operate by converting chemical energy into electrical energy through electrochemical discharge reactions. Batteries are composed of one or more cells, each containing a positive electrode, negative electrode, separator, and electrolyte. Cells can be divided into two m...
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The book covers the topics of Energy and power applications. The main Traditional energy sources and the Non-conventional energy sources. The Batteries (kinds - tested - Applications). And lighting systems (properties – applications- design - Specifications - construction - installation - test). The book consists of four chapters as: Chapter 1: Ene...
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This study presents an experimental work in a petrochemical company for scanning a buried pipeline using Tc99m radiotracer based on the measured velocity changes, in order to determine the flow reduction along a pipeline. In this work, Tc99m radiotracer was injected into the pipeline and monitored by sodium iodide scintillation detectors located at...
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Radiotracers can be used in several industrial applications by injecting the radiotracer into the industrial system and monitoring the radiation using radiation detectors for obtaining signals. These signals are analyzed to obtain indications about what is happening within the system or to determine the problems that may be present in the system. F...
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يوجد العديد من برامج المحاكاة والتى تستخدم بشكلٍ أساسي عندما يكون الطالب أو المهندس أو الفني أو حتى الهاوي يريد أن يتأكد من سلامة الفكرة أو التصميم الذي يرغب بوضعه لدائرة إلكترونية أو كهربائيةٍ ما، وبدلاً من تجريب التصميم بشكلٍ فعلي ومباشر باستخدام العناصر الإلكترونية ولوحة التجريب الإلكترونية، يمكن أن يتم بناء التصميم كاملاً وتجريبه على الحاسب، وا...
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The book is arranged to equip the readers with a board understanding of the design and application of bio-electronic systems to the control and measurement of biological materials.The book gives an introduction to bio-potential signals, electrodes, bio-sensors, design of bio-amplifiers using operational amplifiers, , differential amplifiers, multis...
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Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis using k0 (k0-INAA) method has been used to determine a number of elements in sediment samples collected from El-Manzala Lake in Egypt. k0-INAA according to Westcott's formalism has been implemented using the complete irradiation kit of the fast pneumatic rabbit and some selected manually loaded irradiation s...
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This paper presents some advanced signal processing techniques for distillation column malfunctions identification as one of the most common industrial radioisotopes applications. In this industrial application, gamma scanning technique is used for examining the inner details of the column by recording the variations of the received gamma ray inten...
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Introduction to Communication Networks
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The book covers the topics of Energy and power applications. The main Traditional energy sources and the Non-conventional energy sources. The Batteries (kinds - tested - Applications). And lighting systems (properties – applications- design - Specifications - construction - installation - test). The book consists of four chapters as: Chapter 1: Ene...
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The goal of this paper is proposing a novel fingerprint verification approach to increase the accuracy and robustness of fingerprint verification process. The proposed approach is based on spectrum features extraction from the fingerprint image. In the proposed approach, the two dimensions (2-D) fingerprint image after enhancement is transformed in...
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The goal of this paper is proposing a novel fingerprint verification approach to increase the accuracy and robustness of fingerprint verification process. The proposed approach is based on spectrum features extraction from the fingerprint image. In the proposed approach, the two dimensions (2-D) fingerprint image after enhancement is transformed in...
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This paper presents a practical comparison between the Support Vector Machines (SVMs) and the Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) as identifiers for the Residence Time Distribution (RTD) signal identification. In these identifiers, the cepstral features are extracted from the signal or from its power density spectrum (PDS) estimated using eigenvector...
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Medical Imaging Techniques (MITs) are non-invasive methods for looking inside the body without opening up the body surgically. It used to assist diagnosis or treatment of different medical conditions. There are many medical imaging techniques; every technique has different risks and benefits. This paper presents a review of these techniques; concep...
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Medical Imaging Techniques (MITs) are non-invasive methods for looking inside the body without opening up the body surgically. It used to assist diagnosis or treatment of different medical conditions. There are many medical imaging techniques; every technique has different risks and benefits. This paper presents a review of these techniques; concep...
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This paper presents a practical comparison between the Support Vector Machines (SVMs) and the Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) as identifiers for the Residence Time Distribution (RTD) signal identification. In these identifiers, the cepstral features are extracted from the signal or from its power density spectrum (PDS) estimated using eigenvector...
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paper presents a proposed approach for distillation column malfunction identification using Higher Order Statistics (HOS). Gamma ray scanning techniques have been used for examining the inner details of a distillation column. In the proposed method, the signals are firstly divided into frames; each frame contains only the signal of one column tray....
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The current paper proposes an Enhanced Modified Prime Code (EMPC) with a powerful array of Pulse Position Modulation (PPM) operations in the transceiver design, to tackle the problem of Multiple Access Interference (MAI) in Optical Code Division Multiple Access (OCDMA) systems. The proposed transceiver is based on MAI estimation and cancellation. M...
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This paper studies the performance of different Reed-Solomon (RS) error control codes. Also, it proposes using efficient data randomize tool as an interleaver and comparing it with traditional one. The presented scenarios are evaluated over wireless channel. In the computer simulation experiments the performance degrading with the different data pa...
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Radiotracer signal analysis and recognition still represents challenges in industrial and environmental applications especially in Residence Time Distribution (RTD) measurement. This paper presents a development for the RTD signal recognition method that is based on power density spectrum (PDS). In this development, the features are extracted from...
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This paper presents a powerful technique using different Reed-Solomon (RS) error control codes. Also, it proposes using efficient data randomize tool as an interleaver comparing it with traditional one. The presented scenarios are evaluated over fixed and wireless channel. In the computer simulation experiments the performance degrading with the di...
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Automated Diagnosis of Nuclear Cardiac Images Using Advanced Digital Image Processing Techniques International Conference on Integrated Medical Imaging in Cardiovascular Diseases (IMIC2013) IAEA Headquarters, Vienna, Austria, 30 September–4 October 2013
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One of the most important applications of radioisotopes in industry is the residence time distribution (RTD) measurement. RTD can be used for optimizing the design of industrial systems and determining their malfunctions. The RTD signal may be subject to different sorts of noise. This leads to errors in the RTD calculations, and hence leads to wron...
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Radioisotopes have many applications in military applications, industry, medical applications, agriculture and environment. This thesis is interested in industrial radioisotopes applications. Radioisotopes can be used to obtain signals or images in order to recognize the information inside the industrial systems. The main problems of using these te...
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This paper presents some image processing techniques that can be used for radiographic image enhancement. Contrast enhancement, filtering, denoising, and interpolation processes are carried out in this paper. Contrast enhancement is carried out using adaptive histogram equalization. Filtering is carried out using median, Wiener, Lee, and Kuan filte...
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One of the important applications of radioisotope in industry is the residence time distribution (RTD) measurement. RTD can be used for optimizing the design of the industrial system at the design stage and determination of the system malfunctions. The RTD signal may be subject to different sorts of noise; this leads to errors in the RTD calculatio...
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Gamma radiography plays an important role in checking the quality of welded components in many industries. Determination of the region of interest (ROI) which contains only the welding area from the whole radiography image is important process for elimination of irrelevant information, leaving only the area of interest in the image. This paper pres...
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This paper presents a new approach for feature extraction from radiography images acquired with gamma rays in order to detect weld defects. In this approach, images are lexicographically ordered into 1D signals. Then, Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCCs) and polynomial coefficients are extracted from these signals, one of their transforms, o...
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This paper presents a new technique for false alarm rate reduction to improve the performance of automatic object detection systems that operate on digital images. The proposed technique is applied to the images obtained by a Laser Doppler Vibrometer (LDV) based acoustic to seismic (A/S) system. This technique is based on morphological image proces...
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Several countries suffer from the existence of millions of buried landmines in their territories. These landmines have indefinite life, and may still cause horrific personal injuries and economic dislocation for decades after a war has finished. Therefore, there is a growing demand by these countries for reliable landmine inspection systems. There...