Human emotion recognition based on analyzing facial expressions
Rami Alazrai and C. S. George Lee, Real-Time Emotion Identification for Socially Intelligent Robots, Proc. of 2012 IEEE International Conference of Robotics and Automation, pp. 1212-1217, St. Paul, Minnesota, May 14-18, 2012.
Rami Alazrai and C. S. George Lee, An NARX-based Approach for Human Emotion Identification, Proc. of 2012 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 4571-4576, Vilamoura, Algarve, Oct. 7-12, 2012.
Rami Alazrai, Khalil Yousef, and Mohammad I. Daoud, "Emotion Recognition Based on Decoupling the Spatial Context from the Temporal Dynamics of Facial Expressions", The 2019 International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC): Signals and Communications, Istanbul, Turkey,18-20 June 2019.
Human activity recognition
Rami Alazrai and C. S. George Lee, Connectionist-Based Approach for Human Action Identification, Proc. of 2012 IEEE International Conference of Robotics and Automation, pp. 1212-1217, St. Paul, Minnesota, May 14-18, 2012.
Rami Alazrai, Ahmad Zmily, and Yaser Mowafi, "Fall Detection for Elderly using Anatomical-Plane-Based Representation," Proc. of The 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 2014), Pages: 5916 - 5919, At Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Rami Alazrai, Yaser Mowafi, and Eyad Hamad "A Fall Prediction Methodology for Elderly Based on a Depth Camera," Proc. of The 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 2015), At Milan, Italy.
Rami Alazrai, Mohammad Momani, Mohammad I. Daoud, "Fall Detection for Elderly from Partially Observed Depth-Map Video Sequences Based on View-Invariant Human Activity Representation," Applied Sciences, MDPI, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 316, Mar., 2017 (Impact Factor: 1.679, 5-Year Impact Factor: 1.913).
Mohammad I. Daoud, Rami Alazrai, Abdullah Alhusseini, Dima Shihan, Ekhlass Alhwayan, Dhiah El Diehn I. Abou-Tair, and Talal Qadoummi , "Interactive Kinect-based Rehabilitation Framework for Assisting Children with Upper Limb Cerebral Palsy," ICTs for improving Patients Rehabilitation Research Techniques, Springer, New York, Accepted, Oct., 2017.
Mohammad I. Daoud, Abdullah Alhusseini, Mostafa Z Ali, Rami Alazrai, "A Game-Based Rehabilitation System for Upper-Limb Cerebral Palsy: A Feasibility Study ", Sensors, MDPI, vol. 20, no. 8, pp. 2416, Apr., 2020 (Impact Factor: 3.01).
Baha' A. Alsaify, Mahmoud M Almazari, Rami Alazrai, and Mohammad I. Daoud, "A dataset for Wi-Fi-based human activity recognition in line-of-sight and non-line-of-sight indoor environments," Data in Brief, Elsevier, Nov., 2020
Baha A. Alsaify, Mahmoud M. Almazari, Rami Alazrai, and Mohammad I. Daoud, "Exploiting Wi-Fi Signals for Human Activity Recognition," Proc. of the IEEE 12th International Conference on Information and Communication Systems (ICICS 2021), Valencia, Spain, May 24 - May 26, 2021.
Rami Alazrai, Ali Awad, Baha A. Alsaify, and Mohammad I. Daoud, "A Wi-Fi-based Approach for Recognizing Human-Human Interactions," Proc. of the IEEE 12th International Conference on Information and Communication Systems (ICICS 2021), Valencia, Spain, May 24 - May 26, 2021
Baha A Alsaify, Mahmoud M Almazari, Rami Alazrai, Sahel Alouneh, Mohammad I Daoud, "A CSI-Based Multi-Environment Human Activity Recognition Framework," Applied Sciences, MDPI, Vol. 12, pp. 930, Jan., 2022
Human-Human interaction recognition
Rami Alazrai, Yaser Mowa , and C. S. George Lee "Anatomical-Plane-Based Representation for Human-Human Interactions Analysis," Pattern Recognition, Elsevier, Vol.48, pp.2346-2363, 2015 (Impact Factor: 4.582, 5-Year Impact Factor: 4.991).
Rami Alazrai, Ali Awad, Baha’ A. Alsaify, Mohammad Hababeh, Mohammad I. Daoud, "A dataset for Wi-Fi-based human-to-human interaction recognition", Data in Brief, Elsevier, Vol.31, no.105668, 2020.
Rami Alazrai, Mohammad Hababeh, Baha' A. Alsaify, Mostafa Z. Ali, and Mohammad I. Daoud, "An End-to-End Deep Learning Framework for Recognizing Human-to-Human Interactions using Wi-Fi Signals," IEEE Access, IEEE, Oct., 2020
Rami Alazrai, Mohammad Hababeh, Baha' A. Alsaify, and Mohammad I. Daoud, "Anatomical Planes-Based Representation for Recognizing Two-Person Interactions from Partially Observed Video Sequences: A Feasibility Study ," Proc. of the IEEE 8th International Conference On Electrical And Electronics Engineering (ICEEE 2021), Antalya, Turkey, Apr. 9 - Apr.11, 2021.
Rami Alazrai, Ali Awad, Mostafa Z Ali, Mohammad I Daoud, "An Approach for Recognizing Two-Human Interactions Using Channel State Information," Proc. of the IEEE 9th International Conference On Electrical And Electronics Engineering (ICEEE 2022), Antalya, Turkey, Mar. 28 - Mar.31, 2022
Context in computing
Yaser Mowafi, Rami Alazrai, and Ahmad Zmily,"User-centered Approaches to Context Awareness: Prospects and Challenges", In book: Context in Computing, A Cross-Disciplinary Approach for Modeling the Real World, Edition: 2014th, Chapter: User-centered Approaches to Context Awareness: Prospects and Challenges, Publisher: Springer, Editors: Patrick Brézillon, Avelino Gonzalez.
Yaser mowafi, Tareq Alaqarbeh, and Rami Alazrai "A Context-Based Personalization for Mobile Applications’ Network Access," Proc. of The 13th International Conference of Mobile Web and Intelligent Information Systems (MobiWIS), Vienna, Austria, 2016.
Yaser A. Mowa , Tareq Alaqarbeh, and Rami Alazrai, "Putting Context in the Network Access of Mobile Applications Using Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process," International Journal of Decision Support System Technology (IJDSST), IGI Global, vol. 11, Apr.-Jun., 2019.
EMG-based hand movement classification and joint angles estimation
Rami Alazrai, Ala Khalifeh, Nasim Alnuman, Deena Alabed, and Yaser Mowafi "An Ensemble-based Regression Approach for Continuous Estimation of Wrist and Fingers Movements from Surface Electromyography," Proc. of The 38th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 2016), At Orlando, Florida, USA.
Rami Alazrai, Deena Alabed, Nasim Alnuman, Ala Khalifeh, and Yaser Mowafi , "Continuous Estimation of Hand's Joint Angles from sEMG using Wavelet-based Features and SVR," the 2016 Workshop on ICTs for improving Patients Rehabilitation Research Techniques, Proc. 2016 Workshop ICTs Improving Patients Rehabilitation Research Techniques (Published by ACM), pp. 65-68, Lisbon, Portugal, October 13-14, 2016.
Rami Alazrai, Deena Alabed, Nasim Alnuman, Ala Khalifeh, and Yaser Mowafi , "sEMG-based approach for estimating wrist and fingers joint angles using discrete wavelet transform," Proc. of the 2016 IEEE EMBS Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Sciences (IECBES), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, pp. 596-599, Dec. 4-8, 2016.
Rami Alazrai, Mohammad I. Daoud, Ala Khalifeh, Nasim Alnuman, Yaser Mowa , and Deena Alabed , "A Wavelet-based Approach for Estimating the Joint Angles of the Fingers and Wrist using Electromyography Signals," Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS), Springer, New York, Accepted, Feb., 2019.
EEG-based BCI systems (EEG signals analysis and classification)
Rami Alazrai, Hisham Wanni, Yara Baslan, and Mohammad I. Daoud, "EEG-based Brain-Computer Interface for Decoding Motor Imagery Tasks within the Same Hand Using Choi-Williams Time-Frequency Distribution," Sensors, MDPI, vol. 17, no. 9, pp. 1937, Aug., 2017 (Impact Factor: 2.475, 5-Year Impact Factor: 3.014).
Rami Alazrai, Mohammad Momani, Hussein Abu Khudair, Mohammad I. Daoud, "EEG-based Tonic Cold Pain Recognition System Using Wavelet Transform," Neural Computing and Applications, Springer, Accepted Oct. 14, 2017 (Impact Factor: 4.213).
Rami Alazrai, Sarah Aburub, Farah Fallouh, and Mohammad I. Daoud, "EEG-based BCI System for Classifying Motor Imagery Tasks of the Same Hand Using Empirical Mode Decomposition," Proc. of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Electrical and Electronics Engineering, (ELECO), Bursa, Turkey, Nov. 30- Dec.2, 2017.
Rami Alazrai, Faisal Alqasem, Saqr Alaarag, and Mohammad I. Daoud, "A Bispectrum-based Approach for Detecting Deception using EEG Signals ," Proc. of the 20th IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom), Ostrava, Czech Republic, 17-20 September, 2018.
Rami Alazrai, Rasha Homoud, Hisham Wanni, and Mohammad I. Daoud, "EEG-Based Emotion Recognition Using Quadratic Time-Frequency Distribution," Sensors, MDPI, vol. 18, no. 8, pp. 2739, Aug., 2018 (Impact Factor: 2.475, 5-Year Impact Factor: 3.014).
Rami Alazrai, Hisham Wanni, and Mohammad I. Daoud, "EEG-based BCI system for decoding finger movements within the same hand ," Neuroscience letters, Elsevier, Jan., 2019 (Impact Factor: 2.159, 5-Year Impact Factor: 2.124).
Rami Alazrai, Motaz Abuhijleh, Hisham Alwanni, and Mohammad I. Daoud, "A Deep Learning Framework for Decoding Motor Imagery Tasks of the Same Hand Using EEG Signals," IEEE Access, IEEE, vol. 7, pp. 109612-109627, Aug., 2019 (Impact Factor: 4.098).
Rami Alazrai, Saifaldeen Al-rawi, Hisham Alwanni, Mohammad I. Daoud, "Tonic Cold Pain Detection using Choi-Williams Time-Frequency Distribution Analysis of EEG Signals: A Feasibility Study," Applied Sciences, MDPI, vol. 9, no. 16, pp. 3433, Aug., 2019 (Impact Factor: 2.217, 5-Year Impact Factor: 2.287).
Rami Alazrai, Saifaldeen Al-rawi, Hisham Alwanni, Mohammad I. Daoud, "A Time-Frequency Distribution Based Approach for Detecting Tonic Cold Pain using EEG Signals ," Proc. of the 19th annual IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering, Athens, Greece, 28-30 Oct. 2019.
Rami Alazrai, Amal Al-Saqqaf, Feras Al-Hawari, Hisham Alwanni, Mohammad I. Daoud, "A Time-Frequency Distribution-based Approach for Decoding Visually Imagined Objects using EEG Signals," IEEE Access, IEEE, Jul., 2020
Rami Alazrai, Motaz Abuhijleh, Mostafa Z Ali, Mohammad I Daoud, "A deep learning approach for decoding visually imagined digits and letters using time{frequency{spatial representation of EEG signals," Expert Systems with Applications, Elsevier, vol. 203, pp. 117417, Oct., 2022
Alazrai, Rami, Khalid Naqi, Alaa Elkouni, Amr Hamza, Farah Hammam, Sahar Qaadan, Mohammad I. Daoud, Mostafa Z. Ali, and Hasan Al-Nashash. "Electroencephalogram Dataset of Visually Imagined Arabic Alphabet for Brain–Computer Interface Design and Evaluation." Data 10, no. 6 (2025): 81.
Ultrasound-based needle detection and tracking
Mohammad I. Daoud, Tariq M. Bdair, Mahasen Al-Najar, Rami Alazrai "A Fusion-Based Approach for Breast Ultrasound Image Classi cation Using Multiple-ROI Texture and Morphological Analyses," Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine, 6740956:1-6740956:12, 2016 (Impact Factor: 0.937).
Mohammad I. Daoud, Samira Khraiwesh, Adnan Zayadeen, and Rami Alazrai, "Accurate Needle Localization in Two-Dimensional Ultrasound Images," Proc. of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Electrical and Electronics Engineering, (ELECO), Bursa, Turkey, Nov. 30- Dec.2, 2017.
Mohammad I Daoud, Abdel-Latif Alshalalfah, Otmane Ait Mohamed, Rami Alazrai , "A hybrid camera-and ultrasound-based approach for needle localization and tracking using a 3D motorized curvilinear ultrasound probe" Medical Image Analysis, Elsevier, accepted Oct. 2018 (Impact factor: 5.356).
Mohammad I. Daoud, Ahmad Shtaiyat, Adnan Zayadeen, and Rami Alazrai, "Accurate Needle Localization Using Two-Dimensional Power Doppler and B-Mode Ultrasound Image Analyses: A Feasibility Study," Sensors, MDPI, vol. 18, no. 10, pp. 3475, Oct., 2018 (Impact Factor: 2.677, 5-Year Impact Factor: 2.964).
Mohammad I Daoud, Abdel-Latif Alshalalfah, Otmane Ait Mohamed, and Rami Alazrai, "A hybrid camera-and ultrasound-based approach for needle localization and tracking using a 3D motorized curvilinear ultrasound probe," Medical Image Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 50, pp. 145-166, Oct., 2018 (Impact Factor: 5.356, 5-Year Impact Factor: 5.417).
Mohammad I Daoud, Ayman A Atallah, Falah Awwad, Mahasen Al-Najjar, and Rami Alazrai, "Automatic superpixel-based segmentation method for breast ultrasound images," Expert Systems with Applications, Elsevier, vol. 121, pp. 78-96, May, 2019 (Impact Factor: 3.768, 5-Year Impact Factor: 3.711).
Mohammad I. Daoud, Ahmad Shtaiyat, and Rami Alazrai, "Enhanced Needle Detection in Ultrasound Images using Acoustic Excitation and Ultrasound Image Analyses," Proc. of the IEEE 11th Biomedical Engineering International Conference (BMEiCON), Chiang Mai, Thailand, Thailand, Nov.21 - Nov.24, 2018.
Mohammad I. Daoud, Nedaa Abu-Sabbah, Abdel-Latif Alshalalfah, Mahasen Al-Najar, and Rami Alazrai, "Investigating the In uence of the Kernel Size on the Performance of Three-Dimensional Ultrasound Volume Reconstruction Methods," Proc. of the IEEE 11th Biomedical Engineering International Conference (BMEiCON), Chiang Mai, Thailand, Thailand, Nov.21 - Nov.24, 2018.
Mohammad I. Daoud, Amro Saleh, Ismail Hababeh, and Rami Alazrai, "Content-based Image Retrieval for Breast Ultrasound Images using Convolutional Autoencoders: A Feasibility Study," Proc. of the IEEE 3rd International Conference on Bio-engineering for smart technologies (BioSMART), Paris, France, Apr.24 - Apr.26, 2019.
Mohammad I Daoud, Samer Abdel-Rahman, Rami Alazrai, "Breast Ultrasound Image Classification using a Pre-trained Convolutional Neural Network " Proc. of the 15th IEEE International Conference on Signal-Image Technology & Internet-Based Systems (SITIS), Italy Nov. 2019.
Mohammad I Daoud, Ayah F Abu‐Hani, Rami Alazrai, "Reliable and accurate needle localization in curvilinear ultrasound images using signature‐based analysis of ultrasound beamformed radio frequency signals " Medical physics, May, 2020
Optimization and Evolutionary Computation
Heba Abdel-Nabi, Mostafa Z Ali, Mohammad Daoud, Rami Alazrai, Arafat Awajan, robert Reynolds, Pounnuthurai N Suganthan, "An Enhanced Multi-Phase Stochastic Differential Evolution Framework for Numerical Optimization," Proc. of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), Padua, Italy, Jul. 18 - Jul.23, 2022.
Heba Abdel-Nabi, Mostafa Z Ali, Arafat Awajan, Rami Alazrai, Mohammad I. Daoud, Ponnuthurai N. Suganthan, "An iterative cyclic tri-strategy hybrid stochastic fractal with adaptive differential algorithm for global numerical optimization," Information Sciences, Elsevier, Vol. 628, pp. 92-133, Jan., 2023.
Heba Abdel-Nabi, Mostafa Z Ali, Arafat Awajan, Mohammad I. Daoud, Rami Alazrai, Ponnuthurai N. Suganthan, Talal Ali, "A comprehensive review of the deep learning-based tumor analysis approaches in histopathological images: segmentation, classification and multi-learning tasks," Cluster Computing, Springer, Vol. 576, pp. 242-273,Jan., 2023.
Mostafa Z Ali, Heba Abdel-Nabi, Rami Alazrai, Bushra AlHijawi, Mazen G AlWadi, Amer F Al-Badarneh, Ponnuthurai N Suganthan, Mohammad I Daoud, Robert G Reynolds, Ponnuthurai N. Suganthan, Talal Ali, "A cultural evolution with a modified selection function and adaptive cognition procedure for numerical optimization," Applied Soft Computing, Elsevier, Vol. 144, pp. 110483, Sept., 2023.
Heba Abdel-Nabi, Mostafa Z Ali, Arafat Awajan, Rami Alazrai, Mohammad I. Daoud, Pounnuthurai N Suganthan, robert Reynolds, "3-sCHSL: Three-Stage Cyclic Hybrid SFS and L-SHADE Algorithm for Single Objective Optimization," Proc. of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), Chicago, USA, Jul. 1 - Jul.5, 2023.