1. Naeem, Muhammad, Qaisar Abbas, Haseeb Ahmad, Muhammad Salman Naeem, Mutlaq B. Aldajani, Hussain Dawood, and Muhammad Awais Hussain. “DCGAN-based synthetic image generation of denim jeans defects.” PeerJ Computer Science (2025),11, pp. e3167. (SCI, IF: 2.5, Scopus: Q1)
2. Din, Saira, Muhammad Imran, Saad Irfan, Anees Tariq, Zenab Elgamal, and Hussain Dawood. “Federated learning for melanoma detection: A decentralized and privacy-preserving approach using deep learning.” Biomedical Signal Processing and Control (2026):112, 108576. (SCI, IF: 4.9, Scopus: Q1)
3. Hussain Dawood, Marriam Nawaz, Tahira Nazir, Ali Javed, Abdul Khader Jilani Saudagar, and Hatoon S. AlSagri “ARNet: Integrating Spatial and Temporal Deep Learning for Robust Action Recognition in Videos” Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences (2025),144 (1) (SCI, IF: 2.2, Scopus: Q2)
4. Afzal Badshah, Ali Daud, Omar Ibrahim Aboulola, Amal Bukhari, Bader Alshemaimri and “Network Optimization by Regional Computing for UAVs' Big Data.” Frontiers in Computer Science (2025),7, pp. 1565716 (SCI, IF: 2.4, Scopus: Q2)
5. Atif Raza Zaidi, Tahir Abbas, Ali Daud, Omar Alghushairy, Hussain Dawood, and Nadeem Sarwar, “Enhancing Android Malware Detection with XGBoost and Convolutional Neural Networks.” CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua (2025),18 (6): pp.333 (SCI, IF: 2.1, Scopus: Q1)
6. Abdul Rehman, Muzamil Ahmed, Hikmat Ullah Khan, Amal Bukhari, Ali Daud, Hussain Dawood “Mental Health Sentiment Analysis: Exploring an Optimized BERT Model with Deep Encodings.” Engineering, Technology & Applied Science Research. (Accepted, SCI, IF: 1.5, Scopus: Q2)
7. Muhammad Waqar, Muhammad Bilal Shahnawaz, Sajid Saleem, Hassan Dawood, Usman Muhammad, Hussain Dawood. “Enhancing Heart Attack Prediction: Feature Identification from Multiparametric Cardiac Data Using Explainable AI.” Algorithms (2025), 18(6): pp.333 (SCI, IF: 1.8, Scopus: Q1)
8. Hussain, Sayyed Shahid, Pir Masoom Shah, Hussain Dawood, Xu Degang, Ahmad Alshamayleh, Muhammad Adnan Khan, and Taher M. Ghazal. “A swin transformer and CNN fusion framework for accurate Parkinson disease classification in MRI.” Scientific Reports (2025),15 (1): pp. 15117. (SCI, IF: 3.8, Scopus: Q1)
9. Aljunaid, Saif Khalifa, Saif Jasim Almheiri, Hussain Dawood, and Muhammad Adnan Khan. “Secure and Transparent Banking: Explainable AI-Driven Federated Learning Model for Financial Fraud Detection.” Journal of Risk and Financial Management (2025),18 (4): pp. 179. (IF: 0, Scopus: Q1)
10. Hussain Dawood, Marriam Nawaz, Muhammad U. Ilyas, Tahira Nazir, and Ali Javed “Attention-guided CenterNet deep learning approach for lung cancer detection.” Computers in Biology and Medicine (2025): 186, pp. 109613. (SCI, IF: 7.0, Scopus: Q1)
11. Ameen Banjar, Ali Javed, Marriam Nawaz, and Hussain Dawood “E-AppleNet: An enhanced deep learning approach for apple fruit leaf disease classification”. Erwerbs-Obstbau (2024) (SCI, IF: 1.3, Scopus: Q3)
12. Ashraf, Muhammad Azeem, Samson Maekele Tsegay, Nida Gull, Muneeba Saeed, and Hussain Dawood. “The role of blended learning in improving medical students’ academic performance: evidence from Pakistan.” Frontiers in Medicine (2024):11: pp. 1425659. (SCI, IF: 3.1, Scopus: Q1)
13. Khan, Muhammad Ahmad, Maqbool Khan, Hussain Dawood, Hassan Dawood, and Ali Daud. “Secure Explainable-AI Approach for Brake Faults Prediction in Heavy Transport.” IEEE Access (2024). (SCI, IF: 3.4, Scopus: Q1)
14. Nasir Mahmood, Sohail Masood Bhatti, Hussain Dawood, Manas Ranjan
Pradhan, and Haseeb Ahmad “Measuring the Behavioral and Emotional Features-based Students’
Engagement using Deep Learning Models” Algorithms (2024). (SCI, IF: 1.8, Scopus: Q1)
15. Sukana Zulfqar, Zenab Elgamal, Muhammad Azam Zia, Abdul Razzaq, Sami Ullah, and Hussain Dawood “ACT-FRCNN: Progress Towards Transformer-Based Object Detection.” Algorithms (2024). (SCI, IF: 1.8, Scopus: Q1)
16. Alharbey, Riad, Aqib Shafiq, Ali Daud, Hussain Dawood, Amal Bukhari, and Bader Alshemaimri. “Digital twin technology for enhanced smart grid performance: integrating sustainability, security, and efficiency.” Frontiers in Energy Research (2024): 12, pp. 1397748. (SCI, IF: 3.4, Scopus: Q2)
17. Saqib, Malik Najmus, Hussain Dawood, Ahmed Alghamdi, and Hassan Dawood. “Weber's Law-based Regularization for Blind Image Deblurring.” Engineering, Technology & Applied Science Research (2024): 14(1), pp 12937-12943. (SCI, IF: 1.5, Scopus: Q2)
18. Banjar, Ameen, Hussain Dawood, Ali Javed, and Bushra Zeb. “Sports video summarization using acoustic symmetric ternary codes and SVM.” Applied Acoustics (2024): 216, pp. 109795 (SCI, IF: 3.4, Scopus: Q1)
19. Rubab Mehboob, Hassan Dawood, and Hussain Dawood “An Encoded Histogram of Ridge Bifurcations and Contours for fingerprint Presentation Attack Detection.” Pattern Recognition (2023): 143, pp.109782. (SCI, IF: 8.51, Scopus: Q1)
20. Ameen Banjar, Hussain Dawood, Ali Javed, and Farman Hassan “Fall Event Detection using the Mean Absolute Deviated Local Ternary Patterns and BiLSTM.” Applied Acoustics (2022): 192, pp. 108725. (SCI, IF: 2.63, Scopus: Q1))
21. Hussain Dawood, Sajid Saleem, Farman Hassan, and Ali Javed “A Robust Voice Spoofing Detection System using Novel CLS-LBP Features and LSTM.” Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences (2022): 34(9), pp. 7300-7312. (SCI, IF:13.47, Scopus: Q1)
22. Hussain Dawood, Ali Daud, Hassan Dawood, and Marium Azhar “Reduction of random-valued impulse noise by using multi-structured textons.” Multimedia Tools and Applications (2022): 81(11): pp. 15303-15331. (SCI, IF:2.75, Scopus: Q1))
23. Rubab Mehboob, Ali Javed, Hassan Dawood, and Hussain Dawood “Histogram of Low-level Visual Features for Salient Feature Extraction.” Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering (2022): 47 (8): pp. 10589-10604 (SCI, IF:2.33, Scopus: Q1)
24. Faqir Muhammad, Muhammad Riaz, Hassan Dawood, and Hussain Dawood “On best linear and Bayesian linear predictor in calibration.” Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods (2022): 51(11), pp. 3669-3693. (SCI, IF: 0.612, Scopus: Q3)
25. Bilquees, Samina, Hassan Dawood, Hussain Dawood, Nadeem Majeed, Ali Javed, and Muhammad Tariq Mahmood. “Noise Resilient Local Gradient Orientation for Content-Based Image Retrieval.” International Journal of Optics (2021): pp. 1-19. (SCI, IF:2.37, Scopus: Q3)
26. Mehmood, Anam, Ishtiaq Rasool Khan, Hassan Dawood and Hussain Dawood. “A non-uniform quantization scheme for visualization of CT images.” Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering: MBE (2021): 18 (4): pp. 4311-4326. (SCI, IF:1.28, Scopus: Q2)
27. Muhammad Waqar, Hassan Dawood, Hussain Dawood, Nadeem Majeed, Ameen Banjar, Riad Alharbey “An Efficient SMOTE-Based Deep Learning Model for Heart Attack Prediction.” Scientific Programming, (2021): pp. 1-12. (SCI, IF:0.963, Scopus: Q3)
28. Saqib Umer, Hassan Dawood, Muhammad Haroon Yousef, Hussain Dawood and Haseeb Ahmad “Efficient foreground object segmentation from video by Probability Weighted Moments.” Optik (2021): 229: pp. 166251 (SCI, IF:2.187, , Scopus: Q2)
29. Ameen Banjar, Zohair Ahmed, Ali Daud, Hussain Dawood, and Rabeeh Abbasi “Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis for Polarity Estimation of Customer Reviews on Twitter.” CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua (2021): 67(2): pp. 2203-2225. (SCI, IF:4.89, Scopus: Q1)
30. Usman Saeed, Khalid Masood and Hussain Dawood “Illumination Normalization Techniques for Makeup Invariant Face Recognition.” Computers and Electrical Engineering (2021):89: pp 10692. (SCI, IF:2.66, Scopus: Q1)
31. Toheed, Abeer, Ali Javed, Aun Irtaza, Hassan Dawood, Hussain Dawood, and Ahmed S. Alfakeeh “An Automated Framework for Advertisement Detection and Removal from Sports Videos using Audio-Visual Cues.” Frontiers of Computer Science (2021): 15(2), pp. 152313. (SCI, IF:1.27, Scopus: Q1)
32. Maleeha Javed, Hassan Dawood, Muhammad Murtaza Khan, Ameen Banjar, Riad Alharbey, and Hussain Dawood “Density-Based Clustering for Content and Color Adaptive Tone Mapping.” Mobile Information Systems. (2020): pp. 8846033. (SCI, IF:1.50, Scopus: Q1)
33. Alshdadi Abdulrahman, Rubab Mehboob, Hassan Dawood, Madini O. Alassafi, Rayed Alghamdi, and Hussain Dawood “Exploiting Level 1 and Level 3 features of fingerprints for liveness detection.” Biomedical Signal Processing and Control (2020) 61: 102039 (SCI, IF:3.13, Scopus: Q1)
34. Hussain Dawood, Hassan Dawood, Guo Ping, Rashid Mehmood, Ali Daud, Abdullah Alamri, and Jalal S. Alowibdi “Probability Weighted Moments Regularization based Blind Image De-blurring.” Multimedia Tools and Applications (2020):79(7): pp.4483-4498. (SCI, IF:2.34, Scopus: Q1)
35. Jing Xu, Peng Wu, Yuehui Chen, Qiangfang Meng, Hussain Dawood, and Hassan Dawood “A Hierarchical Integration Deep Flexible NeuralForest Framework for Cancer Subtype Classification by Integrating Multi-Omics Data.” BMC bioinformatics (2019): 20(1): pp 1-11 (SCI, IF:3.24, Scopus: Q1)
36. Saba Sultan, Ali Javed, Syed Irtaza, Hassan Dawood, Hussain Dawood, and Ali Kashif Bashir “A Hybrid Egocentric Video Summarization Method to Improve the Healthcare for Alzheimer Patients.” Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (2019): 10 (10): pp 4197–4206 (SCI, IF: 4.594, Scopus: Q1)
37. Syeda Rida-e-Fatima, Ali Javed, Ameen Banjar, Aun Irtaza, Hassan Dawood, Hussain Dawood, and Abdullah Alamri “A Multi-Layer Dual Attention Deep Learning Model with Refined Word Embeddings for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis.” IEEE ACCESS (2019): 7: pp.114795-114807 (SCI, IF:4.098, Scopus: Q1)
38. Hussain Dawood, Monagi H. Alkinani, Ahmad Raza, Hassan Dawood, Rubab Mehboob, and Sidra Shabbir “Correlated Microstructure Descriptor for image retrieval.” IEEE ACCESS (2019): 7: 55206- 55228. (SCI, IF:3.74, Scopus: Q1)
39. Marium Azhar, Hassan Dawood, Hussain Dawood, Gulraiz Iqbal Choudhary, Ali Kashif Bashir, and Sajjad Hussain Chauhdary. “Detail-preserving switching algorithm for the removal of random-valued impulse noise.” Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (2019): 10 (10): pp.3925-3945(SCI, IF: 4.594, Scopus: Q1)
40. Malik Khizar Hayat, Ali Daud, Abdulrahman A. Alshdadi, Rabeeh Ayaz Abbasi, Ameen Banjar, Yukun Bao, Hussain Dawood “Towards Deep Learning Prospects: Insights for Social Media Analytics.” IEEE ACCESS (2019): 7: pp. 36958-36979. (SCI, IF:3.74, Scopus: Q1)
41. Jing Xu, Peng Wu, Yuehui Chen, Qingfang Meng, Hussain Dawood and Muhammad Murtaza Khan, “A novel deep flexible neural forest model for classification of cancer subtypes based on gene expression data.” IEEE ACCESS (2019): 7: pp.22086-22095. (SCI, IF:3.74, Scopus: Q1)
42. Hassan Dawood, Munsif Iqbal, Marium Azhar, Haseeb Ahmad, Hussain Dawood, Zahid Mehmood, and Jalal S Alowibdi “Texture-preserving denoising method for the removal of random-valued impulse noise in gray-scale images.” Optical Engineering (2019): 58(2): pp. 023103. (SCI, IF:1.113, Scopus: Q2)
43. Hussain Dawood, Sidra Shabbir, Hassan Dawood, Nadeem Majeed, Ahmad Raza, and Rubab Mehboob. “Sparsely encoded distinctive visual features for object recognition.” Journal of Electronic Imaging (2018): 27(6): pp. 063035. (SCI, IF:0.78, Scopus: Q3)
44. Humaira Ghafoor, Ali Javed, Aun Irtaza, Hassan Dawood, Hussain Dawood, and Ameen Banjar. “Egocentric Video Summarization based on People Interaction using Deep Learning.” Mathematical Problems in Engineering (2018) (SCI, IF:1.14, Scopus: Q1)
45. Sidra Shabbir, Nadeem Majeed, Hassan Dawood, Hussain Dawood and Xiu Bingxin. “Integrating local patches of Weber orientation with sparse distribution method for object recognition.” Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering (2019):44(4): pp. 3603-3618. (SCI, IF:1.09, Scopus: Q1)
46. Rubab Mehboob, Hassan Dawood, Hussain Dawood, Muhammad Ilyas, Ping Guo and Ameen Banjar. “Live fingerprint detection using magnitude of perceived spatial stimuli and local phase information” Journal of Electronic Imaging (2018): 27(5): p.053038. (SCI, IF:0.78, Scopus: Q3)
47. Ahmad Raza, Hassan Dawood, Hussain Dawood, Sidra Shabbir, Rubab Mehboob and Ameen Banjar. “Correlated Primary Visual Texton Histogram Features for Content Base Image
Retrieval.” IEEE ACCESS (2018): 6: pp.46595-46616. (SCI, IF: 3.557, Scopus: Q1)
48. Zahid Mehmood, Muhammad Rashid, Amjad Rehman, Tanzila Saba, Hassan Dawood and Hussain Dawood. “Effect of complementary visual words versus complementary features on clustering for effective content-based image search.” Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, (2018):35(5): pp. 5421-5434. (SCI, IF: 1.42, Scopus: Q1)
49. Marium Azhar, Hassan Dawood and Hussain Dawood. “Texture-oriented image denoising technique for the removal of random-valued impulse noise.” Journal of Electronic Imaging (2018): 27(3), pp.033028. (SCI, IF:0.78, Scopus: Q3)
50. Raza Ahmad, Tabassam Nawaz, Hassan Dawood, and Hussain Dawood. “Square texton histogram features for image retrieval.” Multimedia Tools and Applications (2018): 78(3): pp.2719–2746. (SCI, IF: 1.54, Scopus: Q1)
51. Mehmood Rashid, Saeed El-Ashram, Rongfang Bie, Hussain Dawood and Anton Kos “Clustering by fast search and merge of local density peaks for gene expression microarray data.” Scientific Reports Nature (2017): 7: pp. 45602. (SCI, IF: 4.12, Scopus: Q1)
52. Haseeb Ahmad, Ali Daud, Licheng Wang, Haibo Hong, Hussain Dawood and Yixian Yang “Prediction of Rising Stars in the Game of Cricket.” IEEE Access (2017): 5: pp. 4104-4124. (SCI, IF: 3.33, Scopus: Q1)
53. Hussain Dawood, Hassan Dawood, and Ping Guo “Generalization of Impulse noise removal.” The International Arab Journal of Information Technology (2017): 14(5): pp.698-706. (SCI, IF: 0.46, Scopus: Q3)
54. Mehmood Rashid, Bie Rongfang, Jia Libin, Hussain Dawood, and Sun Yunchun, “Adaptive cutoff distance: Clustering by fast search and find of density peaks.” Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems (2016): 31 (5): pp. 2619-2628. (SCI, IF: 1.26, Scopus: Q1)
55. Rongfang Bie, Mehmood Rashid, Shanshan Ruan, Sun Yunchuan, and Hussain Dawood “Adaptive fuzzy clustering by fast search and find of density peaks.” Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (2016): 20 (5): pp.785-793. (SCI, IF: 2.39, Scopus: Q1)
56. Mehmood Rashid, Maqbool Uddin Shaikh, Rongfang Bie, Hussain Dawood, Hassan Dawood, “IoT Enabled Secure Service Oriented Web Warehouse Architecture” Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (2015): 19 (7): pp. 1157-1167. (SCI, IF: 1.49, Scopus: Q1)
57. Ali Daud, Faqir Muhammad, Hassan, Dawood, and Hussain, Dawood. “Ranking cricket teams.” Information Processing & Management (2015): 51(2): 62-73. (SCI, IF: 1.397, Scopus: Q1)
58. Hussain Dawood, Hassan Dawood, and Ping Guo. “Removal of High-Intensity Impulse Noise by Weber’s Law Noise Identifier.” Pattern Recognition Letters: (2014): 49: pp.121-130. (SCI, IF: 1.55, Scopus: Q1)
59. Dawood Hassan, Hussain Dawood, and Ping Guo. “Removal of random-valued impulse noise by local statistics.” Multimedia Tools and Applications (2014): 74(24): pp.11485-11498 (SCI, IF: 1.34, Scopus: Q1)