Husam Lahza

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Faculty Member at King Abdulaziz University

Dragon boat racing, a popular aquatic folklore team sport, is traditionally held during the Dragon Boat Festival. Inspired by this event, we propose a novel human‐based meta‐heuristic algorithm called dragon boat optimization (DBO) in this paper. It models the unique behaviours of each crew member on the dragon boat during the race by introducing s...

Gynaecological cancers, especially ovarian cancer, remain a critical public health issue, particularly in regions like India, where there are challenges related to cancer awareness, variable pathology, and limited access to screening facilities. These challenges often lead to the diagnosis of cancer at advanced stages, resulting in poorer outcomes...

This study investigates the transformative impact of smart intelligence, leveraging the Internet of Things and edge-cloud platforms in smart urban development. Smart urban development, by integrating diverse digital technologies, generates substantial data crucial for informed decision-making in disaster management and effective urban well-being. T...

Dragon Boat Racing, a popular aquatic folklore team sport, is traditionally held during the Dragon Boat Festival. Inspired by this event, we propose a novel human-based meta-heuristic algorithm called dragon boat optimization (DBO) in this paper. It models the unique behaviors of each crew member on the dragon boat during the race by introducing so...

Operation centers often face challenges due to the high rate of misclassifications caused by the lower precision in Intrusion Detection System (IDS) models. Despite several research contributions ranging from machine learning and deep learning techniques aiming to reduce false positives and negatives, researchers and security experts consistently e...

Opportunistic networks (OppNets) have attracted widespread attention as wireless technologies have advanced. OppNets are widely used in delay‐tolerant applications because they route messages using a store‐carry‐forward mechanism. Recently, socially aware routing has been increasingly modeled for message dissemination in OppNets, where the message...

A farmer can use machine learning to make decisions about what crops to sow, how to care for those crops throughout the growing season, and how to predict crop yields. According to the World Health Organization, agriculture is essential to the nation’s quick economic development. Food security, access, and adoption are the three cornerstones of the...

Data is incredibly significant in today's digital age because data represents facts and numbers from our regular life transactions. Data is no longer arriving in a static form; it is now arriving in a streaming fashion. Data streams are the arrival of limitless, continuous, and rapid data. The healthcare industry is a major generator of data stream...

Lung cancer starts and spreads in the tissues of the lungs, more specifically, in the tissue that forms air passages. This cancer is reported as the leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide. In addition to being the most fatal, it is the most common type of cancer. Nearly 47,000 patients are diagnosed with it annually worldwide. This article propos...

Recently, researchers have turned their focus to predicting the age of people since numerous applications depend on facial recognition approaches. In the medical field, Alzheimer’s disease mainly depends on patients’ ages. Multiple methods have been implemented and developed to predict age. However, these approaches lack accuracy because every imag...

Lung cancer presents one of the leading causes of mortalities for people around the world. Lung image analysis and segmentation are one of the primary steps used for early diagnosis of cancer. Handcrafted medical imaging segmentation presents a very time-consuming task for radiation oncologists. To address this problem, we propose in this work to d...

ECG provides critical information in a waveform about the heart’s condition. This information is crucial to physicians as it is the first thing to be performed by cardiologists. When COVID-19 spread globally and became a pandemic, the government of Saudi Arabia placed various restrictions and guidelines to protect and save citizens and residents. O...

Saudi Arabia has started building smart cities and communities as part of the Saudi 2030 vision, which aims to digitalize all services. Smart cities use different types of technologies and data to improve the quality of life for citizens, manage resources, and make operations more efficient. In big cities such as Riyadh and Jeddah, the number of ve...

Breast cancer is considered one of the deadliest diseases in women. Due to the risk and threat it poses, the world has agreed to hold a breast cancer awareness day in October, encouraging women to perform mammogram inspections. This inspection may prevent breast-cancer-related deaths or reduce the death rate. The identification and classification o...

Drivers and motorists get annoyed when it takes a long time to find a vacant space in a parking lot. Looking for parking has become a headache as the number of vehicles in urban cities and the cost of land concurrently increase. There is an urgent need for innovation in smart parking systems. Currently, investors and contractors pay laborers to ope...

While online shopping is one of the fastest growing sectors in the U.S. economy and is quickly surpassing traditional retailers (Enright 2014), shopper demand data used to place warehouses is either proprietary or expensive. To address this, we present an alternative approach to identifying where online shopping demand occurs in Los Angeles County...