Muhammad Nazrul Islam

Military Institute of Science and Technology · Computer Science and Engineering (CSE)

The World Health Organisation has emphasised that misinformation – spreading rapidly through social media – poses a serious threat to the COVID-19 response. Drawing from theories of health perception and cognitive load, we develop and test a research model hypothesising why people share unverified COVID-19 information through social media. Our find...

The objective of this paper is to synthesize the digital interventions initiatives to fight against COVID-19 in Bangladesh and compare with other countries. In order to obtain our research objective, we conducted a systematic review of the online content. We first reviewed the digital interventions that have been used to fight against COVID-19 acro...

The objective of this research is to explore the existing mobile applications developed for the COVID-19 pandemic. To obtain this research objective, firstly the related applications were selected through the systematic search technique in the popular application stores. Secondly, data related to the app objectives, functionalities provided by the...

Background: Data security has been a critical topic of research and discussion since the onset of data sharing in e-health systems. Although digitalization of data has increased efficiency and speed, it has also made data vulnerable to cyber attacks. Medical records in particular seem to be the regular victims of hackers. Several data breach incid...

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning(ML) have caused a paradigm shift in healthcare that can be used for decision support and forecasting by exploring medical data. Recent studies have shown that AI and ML can be used to fightCOVID-19. The objective of this review study is to summarize the recent AI- and ML-based studies that have addr...

Hand gesture-based sign language recognition (SLR) is one of the most advanced applications of machine learning, and computer vision uses hand gestures. Although, in the past few years, many researchers have widely explored and studied how to address BSL problems, specific unaddressed issues remain, such as skeleton and transformer-based BSL recogn...

In this digital era, users frequently share their thoughts, preferences, and ideas through social media, which reflect their Basic Human Values. Basic Human Values (aka values) are the fundamental aspects of human behavior, which define what we consider important, and worth having and pursue them. Existing studies identify the values of individuals...

COVID-19 is an infectious respiratory disease that has had a significant impact, resulting in a range of outcomes including recovery, continued health issues, and the loss of life. Among those who have recovered, many experience negative health effects, particularly influenced by demographic factors such as gender and age, as well as physiological...

The Artificial Intelligence (AI) natural language model ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer), often referred to as ChatGPT-4, has a wide range of possible uses in the fields of research, business, academia, health, and similar fields. This language model can accomplish a number of academic jobs that were previously completed by people,...

The segmentation of satellite images is crucial in remote sensing applications. Existing methods face challenges in recognizing small-scale objects in satellite images for semantic segmentation primarily due to ignoring the low-level characteristics of the underlying network and due to containing distinct amounts of information by different feature...

Visually impaired people have previously been brought into learning and educational systems through various forms of assistive technology, such as haptic feedback systems. Haptic systems generally need expensive equipment and support from sighted teachers. Moreover, the learning has always been carried out with letters of different alphabets mapped...

Cervical cancer is a significant contributor to female mortality on a global scale, especially in low-income countries where effective screening programs for the detection and treatment of precancerous conditions are lacking. Classification of pap-smear test cervical cell images is crucial as it gives essential information for the diagnosis of mali...

Background Cervical cancer is a malignancy among women worldwide, which is responsible for innumerable deaths every year. The primary objective of this review study is to offer a comprehensive and synthesized overview of the existing literature concerning digital interventions in cervical cancer care. As such, we aim to uncover prevalent research g...

Medicine counterfeiting has raised significant concern in recent years. Falsified and counterfeit drug production and distribution are illegal and a public health concern. The intensity of this problem varies significantly among different countries, depending on how strongly a country’s laws and procedures are followed. Preventing counterfeit medic...

Interactive whiteboards are used to make classroom teaching and discussion easier and are used in all levels of educational classes, corporate conference rooms, coaching studios, television studios, and the like. Interactive whiteboards need to be usable and user-friendly for the end-users having diverse backgrounds (e.g., education, familiarity wi...

In today’s fast-paced world, augmented reality (AR) has emerged as a widely accepted and profitable approach for engaging children in interactive learning experiences. However, the rapid development of this technology has left many individuals struggling with even basic interactions due to a lack of prior expertise and usability. While various stud...

Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) is among the most prevalent endocrinological abnormalities seen in reproductive female bodies posing serious health hazards. The correctness of interpreting this condition depends heavily on the wide spectrum of associated symptoms and the doctor's expertise, making real-time clinical detection quite challenging. Th...

Nowadays, Rogue DHCP attack is a crucial attack that provides malicious IP address and other related configurations to DHCP clients and triggers a Man-in-the-middle(MITM) attack. Although most of the existing studies proposed digital certificate based DHCP server authentication, but securing the DHCP server private key become very challenging and r...

Blind and Visually Impaired (BVI) persons depend on the assistive systems. An intelligent assistive system may provide situational awareness and support in the age of machine learning and computer vision with the help of deep learning and computer vision. Among many, multi-classed object detection and currency classification are the two key means f...

ChatGPT is an AI-based natural language model that has made a significant impact across various technological domains, including software development, network management, and the like. Network monitoring is one of the critical tasks in network management to ensure the proper and safe functioning of the entire network. The primary objective of this...

The design and info‐architecture of the web content contribute significantly to achieving better usability and user experience as well as to adopting a website to its intended end‐users. Although several design techniques exist, choosing a suitable one for designing a particular type of website is difficult and needs further investigation. Thus, th...

Objectives Nowadays, mobile health applications are developed to raise awareness and facilitate screening and treatment of cervical cancer, while a very few studies have been conducted focusing on the measurement and assurance of usability and exploring the acceptable user experience of such applications. Usability issues become a crucial concern f...

Mental health is one of the most significant factors in the human life span. It also influences how we interact with people, manage stress, and make good decisions. From childhood and youth through maturity, mental health is crucial at every stage of life. In the era of the COVID-19 pandemic, it becomes more vulnerable and affects teenagers as othe...

Nowadays, the DHCP starvation attack is a crucial attack that denied the services for the legitimate network user where the attacker mainly occupies all the IP addresses in the DHCP server pool. Most of the existing studies proposed ICMP (Internet Control Message Protocol) and the ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) based techniques to detect the DHC...

Each military units have its own branch of service, mission, and composition. Personnel, equipment, training, and operations are all critical basic components of each unit. Recommending appropriate soldiers to pursue appropriate military training is a crucial problem for commanders aiming to increase soldiers’ skills. There have been few studies es...

Obesity has become a worldwide problem that has rapidly increased with the advancement of technology. This has become one of the most important reasons which reduced life expectancy within the “modern” world. Overweight and obesity tendency continue to increase both in developed and in developing countries. From pediatric to geriatric individuals,...

Dementia, being one of the leading causes of death worldwide, necessitates extensive research to develop specific types of diagnosis and treatments. Because it is a neurological disorder, it affects more than one region of the body and impairs the proper functioning of the entire nervous system. Numerous studies throughout the years have laid the p...

Usability, the key quality attributes of any software applications, needs to assess and ensure to design and develop any Augmented Reality(AR) based learning applications for children. Though a number of studies have been conducted focusing on AR-based learning applications, a less attention has been paid to its usability issues. Therefore, the pur...

Using a systematic literature review, this review examines existing studies on the design, usability, user experience (UX), and adoption of computer applications designed for illiterate and semi-literate users. A total of 45 articles were reviewed from an initial set of 527 articles following an inclusion-exclusion criterion. As outcomes, in additi...

Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is the most frequent endocrinological anomaly in reproductive women that causes persistent hormonal secretion disruption, leading to the formation of numerous cysts within the ovaries and serious health complications. But the real-world clinical detection technique for PCOS is very critical since the accuracy of int...

ChatGPT, also known as GPT-3, is an AI-based natural language model that has gained a lot of attention in recent times due to its potential applications in various sectors including academia, health, and the like. This AI model is able to offer various automated tasks in the academic sector which were traditionally performed by humans consuming a h...

Background Despite technological advancement in the field of healthcare, the worldwide burden of illness caused by cardio-vascular diseases (CVDs) is rising, owing mostly to a sharp increase in developing nations that are undergoing fast health transitions. People have been experimenting with techniques to extend their lives since ancient times. De...

ATMs are a type of equipment that uses a more managed method to provide customers with financial services. Almost all government and non-government banks have ATMs, allowing millions of people to get cash. For a wider adoption of ATM services in Bangladesh, ATM interfaces need to be usable, user-friendly, and easily accessible to the general public...

Counterfeit medicines are medicines that can lead to human death and increase the number of deaths as well. Therefore, it is important to set limits or lines for the end of counterfeiting in medicines to protect human life and health. In this study, a number of articles are reviewed to identify state-of-the-art digital processes to reduce counterfe...

This study explores the requirements and possibilities of wearable devices for ensuring and supporting the home quarantine of suspected COVID-19 patients. We adopted a design science research (DSR) approach and conducted a requirement elicitation study through semi-structured interviews with 36 participants including doctors, home quarantined peopl...

Mobile Financial Services (MFS) allows consumers to conduct financial transactions using their mobile devices. In Bangladesh, most of the population uses mobile phones whereas most of them are digitally illiterate. So, the objective of this research was to evaluate the usability of existing MFS applications. To attain this objective, the six most e...

A mobile user interface (UI) is a graphical and usually touch-sensitive display on a mobile device that allows the user to interact with the device’s apps, features, contents, and functions. Since people of the elderly age group were not as exposed to technology as much as the people of the present generation, they face hurdles while using mobile a...

Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is the most prevalent endocrinological abnormality and one of the primary causes of anovulatory infertility in women globally. The detection of multiple cysts using ovary ultrasonograpgy (USG) scans is one of the most reliable approach for making an accurate diagnosis of PCOS and creating an appropriate treatment pl...

Mental stress is the primary concern of increasing mental health problems and other medical problems like strokes, heart attacks, and ulcers. Thus, identifying and classifying stress at an early age is the prime requirement to avoid such diseases. Although a number of studies focused to predict and classify stress based on neurophysiological (brain...

Since the advent of the worldwide COVID‐19 pandemic, analyzing public sentiment has become one of the major concerns for policy and decision‐makers. While the priority is to curb the spread of the virus, mass population (user) sentiment analysis is equally important. Though sentiment analysis using different state‐of‐the‐art technologies has been f...

Background Hospital cabins are a part and parcel of the healthcare system. Most patients admitted in hospital cabins reside in bedridden and immobile conditions. Though different kinds of systems exist to aid such patients, most of them focus on specific tasks like calling for emergencies, monitoring patient health, etc. while the patients’ limitat...

The research on computer mediated interventions and technologies (e.g., digital tabletop tool) that have seminal relevance to the intervention strategies designed for the children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) mostly remain confined within the developed nation. The objective of this study is threefold: firstly, to reveal the design...