We are looking for MS and Ph.D. students in the following area:
Better transfer learning techniques for medical images
Please go through the following pre-print of one of our studies in this regard to get a better idea of what we are doing and what are our plans:
Resource-efficient domain adaptive pre-training for medical images
Please email your CV at usamabajwa@cuilahore.edu.pk if you are interested.
Drafts
Research Grants
NVidia Academic Hardware Grant (Feb 2022)
The grant is worth 2400 USD and is awarded for the project "Computationally efficient domain-adaptive pre-training"
Completed Projects
Deep Learning-Based Prediction of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) and its Severity Cl
Image Segmentation Method for Brain Tumor Detection using MRI Imaging
Prediction of COVID vs. Non-COVID Lungs Infections through Multimodal CRIs
Brain Tumor Segmentation from Multimodal MRI Images
Automated Detection and Classification of Brain Tumor from MRI Images using Machine Learning Methods
Image Segmentation Method for Brain Tumor Detection using MRI
Super-Resolution Based Image Enhancement of Biomedical Images
A CADe System for Fast and Accurate Malignant Lung Nodule Detection
Automated Detection of Early Pulmonary Nodule in Computed Tomography Images
Automatic Brain Tumor Segmentation in Magnetic Resonance Images through Region Based Approach
Skin Disease Classification
CAD Application for Brain Tumor Detection Using Image Segmentation
Derma Diagnosis
Breast Cancer detection using image processing
Systems being Used in Clinical Settings
Colorization of Greyscale MR Images (Deployed at Bahawal Victoria Hospital, Bahawalpur)
Expected Future Projects
Diagnosis of Dementia through Biomedical Images
Resource and Data-Efficient for Better Transfer Performance from Generic Dataset Pre-Training
Use of 2D Images/Slices Pre-Training on 3D Medical Data
Team Members
Dr. Usama Ijaz Bajwa (Associate Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, CUI Lahore Campus)
Dr. Ghulam Gilanie (Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, Islamia University Bahawalpur)
Yasar Mehmood (PhD Student, CUI Lahore Campus)
Graduated Team Members
Dr Ghulam Gilanie
Dr Khurram Ejaz
Salahuddin Ayubi
Abdullah Ali Shah
Ahmad Usama
Javaid Iqbal
Sardar Alam
Hassan Khan
Muhammad Arslan
Sundas Saif
Maham Nasir
Abeera Alvi
Amna Hashmat
Bushra Ishfaq
Suman Khalid
Mughees Ahmad
Rehan Raza
Muhammad Sohaib Iqbal
Journal Publications
Raza, R., Bajwa, U. I., Mehmood, Y., Anwar, M. W., & Jamal, M. H. (2022). dResU-Net: 3D deep residual U-Net based brain tumor segmentation from multimodal MRI. Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, 103861. (IF = 5.076)
Ghulam Gilanie, Usama Ijaz Bajwa*, Mustansar Waraich, Mutyyba Asghar, Rehana Kousar, Adnan Kashif, Rabab Aslam, Muhammad Qasim, Hamza Rafique (2021), “Coronavirus (COVID-19) Detection from Chest Radiology Images using Convolutional Neural Networks”, Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, Volume 66, (Published Online) (IF = 3.137)
Ghulam Gilanie, Usama Ijaz Bajwa*, Mustansar Mahmood Waraich, Muhammad Waqas Anwar (2021), “Riskfree WHO grading of Astrocytoma using Convolutional Neural Networks from MRI Images”, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Vol. 80, Issue: 3, pp. 4295-4306 (IF = 2.313)
Khurram Ejaz, Mohd Shafry Mohd Rahim, Usama Ijaz Bajwa, Huma Chaudhry, Amjad Rehman, Farhan Ejaz (2021), “Hybrid Segmentation Method with Confidence Region Detection for Tumor Identification”, IEEE Access, (Accepted) (IF = 3.745)
Ghulam Gilanie, Usama Ijaz Bajwa*, Mustansar Mahmood Waraich, Zulfiqar Habib (2019), “Automated and Reliable Brain Radiology with Texture Analysis of MRI and Cross Dataset Validation”, International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology, Volume 29, pp. 531-538 (IF = 1.423)
Ghulam Gilanie, Usama Ijaz Bajwa*, Mustansar Mahmood Waraich, Zulfiqar Habib (2019), “Computer Aided Diagnosis of Brain Abnormalities Using Texture Analysis of MRI Images”, International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology, Volume 29, Issue 3, pp. 260-271 (IF = 1.423)
S Alam, U I Bajwa*, N Haq, N I Ratyal, M W Anwar (2019), “Skin Disease Classification using Neural Network”, Current Medical Imaging (Accepted) (IF = 0.533)
U I Bajwa*, A A Shah, M W Anwar, G Gilanie, A E Bajwa (2018), “Computer-Aided Detection (CADe) System for Detection of Malignant Lung Nodules in CT Slices – A key for Early Lung Cancer Detection”, Current Medical Imaging Reviews, Volume 14, No. 3, 422 - 429(8), 2018 (IF = 0.613)
G Gilanie, H Ullah, M Mehmood, U I Bajwa*, Z Habib (2018), “Colored Representation of Brain Gray Scale MRI Images to potentially underscore the variability and sensitivity of images”, Current Medical Imaging Reviews, Volume 14, No. 4, 555 - 560, 2018 (IF = 0.613)
G Gilanie, U I Bajwa*, M M Waraich, Z H, H Ullah, M Nasir (2018), “Classification of normal and abnormal brain MRI slices using Gabor texture and support vector machines”, Signal Image and Video Processing, 12(3), 2018, 479-487 (IF = 1.102)
S Ayubi, U I Bajwa*, M W Anwar (2015), “Super-Resolution Based Enhancement of Cardiac MR Images”, Current Medical Imaging 11(2), 105-113. (IF = 1.059)
U.Bajwa*, R.Vardasca, F Ring, P Plassmann “A comparison of Boundary Detection Techniques to Improve Image Analysis in Medical Thermography”, The Imaging Science Journal, Volume 58, Number 1, February 2010, pages 12-19. (IF = 0.575)
Vardasca R., Bajwa U., "Segmentation and Noise Removal on Thermographic Images of Hands", Thermology International, vol 18, no.2, 2008, p.99-104.
Conference Publications
Khurram Ejaz, Mohd Shafy Mohd Rahim, Usama Ijaz Bajwa, Nadim Rana and Amjad Rehman, “An Unsupervised Learning with Feature Approach for Brain Tumor Identification and Segmentation Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging”, in Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Bioscience, Biochemistry and Bioinformatics (ICBBB 2019), Singapore
R. Vardasca, U.Bajwa, "Extracting outlines of Hands from Thermal Images", Proceedings of the 2nd Research Student Workshop, University of Glamorgan Business Centre. P.12-16, 1 November 2007, ISBN 978-1-84054-179-3
E.F.J. Ring, A.Jung, J.Zuber, P.Rutowski, B.Kalicki, U.Bajwa, "Detecting Fever in Polish Children by Infrared Thermography", Proceedings of 9th International conference on Quantitative InfraRed Thermography, July 2-5, 2008, Krakow-Poland, p125-128.
E.F.J. Ring, R. Vardasca, U.Bajwa, "Monitoring Cooling Agents Applied to the skin of Normal Subjects by Quantitative Thermal Imaging", Proceedings of 9th International conference on Quantitative InfraRed Thermography, July 2-5, 2008, Krakow-Poland, p129-134
Research work “The Cyber Imago” by Doug Hampson & Usama Ijaz Bajwa, presented at Institute of Developmental Transactional Analysis (IDTA) conference 9th/10th November 2007, Glasgow, UK.
Book Chapters
Ring EFJ, Jones CD, Ammer K, Plassmann P, Vardasca R, Bajwa UI (2017), “Cooling agents’ effect monitoring when applied to skin of healthy human subjects”, Innovative Research in Thermal Imaging for Biology and Medicine, Ricardo Vardasca, Joaquim Gabriel (Eds.), IGI-Global, USA 2017, 79-92. ISBN: 978-152-252-072-6. Chapter 4. (DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2072-6.ch004).
Collaborators
Anne Martel
Professor, Department of Medical Biophysics,
University of Toronto, Canada
Jianming Liang
Professor, College of Health Solutions,
Arizona State University, USA
Xianfang Sun
Senior Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Informatics,
Cardiff University, UK
Ghulam Gilanie
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Computing, Department of Artificial Intelligence,
Islamia University Bahawalpur, Pakistan
Mustansar Mahmood Waraich
Professor, Head of Radiology Department,
Fatima Jinnah Hospital, Bahawalpur, Pakistan
Former Head of Radiology Department, Bahawal Victoria Hospital, Bahwalpur, Pakistan