Muhammad Afzal, PhD

Publications

(Journals, Conferences, Patents, and Book Chapters)

Journal Publication List

  1. Muhammad Afzal, Maqbool Hussain, Jamil Hussain, Jaehun Bang, and Sungyoung Lee. "COVID-19 Knowledge Resource Categorization and Tracking: Conceptual Framework Study." Journal of Medical Internet Research 23, no. 6 (2021): e29730.

  2. Muhammad Afzal, Fakhare Alam, Khalid Mahmood Malik, and Ghaus M. Malik. "Clinical Context–Aware Biomedical Text Summarization Using Deep Neural Network: Model Development and Validation." Journal of medical Internet research (SCIE, IF: 5.03) 22, no. 10 (2020): e19810.

  3. Muhammad Afzal, Beom Joo Park, Maqbool Hussain and Sungyoung Lee, "Deep Learning Based Biomedical Literature Classification Using Criteria of Scientific Rigor", Electronics (SCIE, IF:2.412), 9(8), doi:10.3390/electronics9081253 , 2020

  4. Muhammad Afzal, S.M. Riazul Islam, Maqbool Hussain, Sungyoung Lee, "Precision Medicine Informatics: Principles, Prospects, and Challenges", IEEE Access (SCIE, IF: 4.098), Vol.8, pp.1-20, 2020

  5. Muhammad Afzal, Maqbool Hussain, Khalid Mahmood Malik and Sungyoung Lee, "Impact of Automatic Query Generation and Quality Recognition Using Deep Learning to Curate Evidence From Biomedical Literature: Empirical Study", JMIR Med Inform, Vol.7, Issue 4, e13430, (SCIE, IF; 3.18), 2019.

  6. Muhammad Afzal, Syed Imran Ali, Rahman Ali, Maqbool Hussain, Taqdir Ali, Wajahat Ali Khan, Muhammad Bilal Amin, Byeong Ho Kang, and Sungyoung Lee, "Personalization of Wellness Recommendations Using Contextual Interpretation", Expert Systems with Applications (SCIE, IF: 3.928), Vol.96, pp.506-521, 2018

  7. Afzal, Muhammad; Hussain, M.; et al., "Context Aware Grading of Quality Evidences for Evidence-based Decision Making ", Health Informatics Journal, [SCIE, IF. 3.02], August 2017.

  8. Afzal, Muhammad; Hussain, M.; et al., "Comprehensible Knowledge Model Creation for Cancer Treatment Decision Making ", Computers in Biology and Medicine, [SCI, IF. 1.52], March 1, 2017.

  9. Muhammad Afzal, Maqbool Hussain, Wajahat Ali Khan, Taqdir Ali, Arif Jamshed and Sungyoung Lee, " Smart Extraction and Analysis System for Clinical Research", Telemedicine and e-Health (SCI, IF: 1.79), (Online), http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/tmj.2016.0157, May 1, 2017.

  10. Muhammad Afzal, Maqbool Hussain, Taqdir Ali, Jamil Hussain,Wajahat Ali Khan, Sungyoung Lee and Byeong Ho Kang, "Knowledge-Based Query Construction Using the CDSS Knowledge Base for Efficient Evidence Retrieval", Sensors (SCIE, IF:2.245), Vol.15, Issue 9, pp.21294-21314, 2015.


  12. Maqbool Hussain, Muhammad Afzal, Khalid M. Malik, Taqdir Ali, Wajahat A. Khan, Muhammad Irfan, Arif Jamshed and Sungyoung Lee, "Acquiring Guideline-enabled data driven clinical knowledge model using formally verified refined knowledge acquisition method", Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine (SCIE, IF: 3.632), Accepted, 2020

  13. Taqdir Ali, Jamil Hussain, Muhammad Bilal Amin, Musarrat Hussain, Usman Akhtar, Wajahat Ali Khan, Ubaid Ur Rehman, Sungyoung Lee, Byeong Ho Kang, Maqbool Hussain, Muhammad Afzal, Ho-Seong Han, June Young Choi, Hyeong Won Yu and Arif Jamshed, "Intelligent Medical Platform (IMP): A novel dialogue-based platform for healthcare services", IEEE Magazine: Computer (SCI, IF:3.564), 2019

  14. Shujaat Hussain, Maqbool Hussain, Muhammad Afzal, Jamil Hussain, Jaehun Bang, Hyonwoo Seung and Sungyoung Lee, "Semantic Preservation of standardized healthcare documents in big data", International Journal of Medical Informatics (SCI, IF:2.731), Vol. 129, pp.133-145, 2019.

  15. Jamil Hussain, Fahad Ahmed Satti, Wajahat Ali Khan, Muhammad Afzal, Hafiz Syed Muhammad Bilal, Muhammad Zaki Ansaar, Hafiz Farooq Ahmad, Taeho Hur, Jaehun Bang, Jee-In Kim, Gwang Hoon Park, Hyonwoo Seung, and Sungyoung Lee, "Exploring the dominant features of social media for depression detection", Journal of Information Science (SCIE, IF: 2.327), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0165551519860469, 2019

  16. Susan Sabra, Khalid Mahmood Malik, Muhammad Afzal, Vian Sabeeh, Ahmad Charaf Eddine, “A hybrid knowledge and ensemble classification approach forprediction of venous thromboembolism,” Expert Systems (SCIE, IF: 1.43), PP.1-14, 2019.

  17. Jamil Hussain, Wajahat Ali Khan, Taeho Hur, Hafiz Syed Muhammad Bilal, Jaehun Bang, Anees Ul Hassan, Muhammad Afzal and Sungyoung Lee, "A Multimodal Deep Log-Based User Experience (UX) Platform for UX Evaluation", Sensors (SCIE, IF:2.677), Vol.18, Issue 5, pp.1-31, 2018

  18. Jamil Hussain​, Anees Ul Hassan​, Hafiz Syed Muhammad Bilal​, Muhammad Afzal​, Shujaat Hussain​, Jaehun Bang,Oresti Banos​​, and Sungyoung Lee, "Model-based adaptive user interface based on context and user experience evaluation", Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces (SCIE, IF: 1.031​) , 2018.

  19. Taqdir Ali, Maqbool Hussain, Muhammad Afzal, Wajahat Ali Khan, Taeho Hur, Muhammad Bilal Amin, Dohyeong Kim, Byeong Ho Kang and Sungyoung Lee, "Clinically Harmonized Wellness Concepts Model for Health and Wellness Services", IEEE Access (SCIE, IF: 3.244), Vol.6, pp.26660-26674, 2018.

  20. Krishnamurthy, Madan, Pawel Marcinek, Khalid Mahmood Malik, and Muhammad Afzal. "Representing Social Network Patient Data as Evidence-Based Knowledge to Support Decision Making in Disease Progression for Comorbidities." IEEE Access 6 (2018): 12951-12965.

  21. Rahman Ali, Muhammad Afzal, Muhammad Sadiq, Maqbool Hussain, Taqdir Ali, Asad Masood Khatak, Do Hyung Kim and Sungyoung Lee, "Knowledge-Based Reasoning and Recommendation Framework for Intelligent Decision Making", Expert Systems (SCIE, IF: 1.18) (Accepted), 2017.

  22. Ali, T., Hussain, M., Khan, W. A., Afzal, M., Hussain, J., Ali, R., ... & Lee, S, “Multi-model-based interactive authoring environment for creating shareable medical knowledge,” Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, (SCI, IF:2.503), 150, 41-72, (2017).

  23. Oresti Banos, Muhammad Bilal Amin, Wajahat Ali Khan, Muhammad Afzal, Maqbool Hussain, Byeong Ho Kang and Sungyong Lee, "The Mining Minds Digital Health and Wellness Framework", BioMedical Engineering OnLine (SCIE, IF:1.43), DOI:10.1186/s12938-016-0179-9, 2016.

  24. Rahman Ali, Muhammad Afzal, Maqbool Hussain, Maqbool Ali, Muhammad Hameed Siddiqi, Sungyoung Lee, Byeong Ho Kang, "Multimodal Hybrid Reasoning Methodology for Personalized Wellbeing Services", Computers in Biology and Medicine (SCI, IF:1.24), Vol.69, pp.10-28, 2016.

  25. Hussain, Maqbool, Taqdir Ali, Wajahat Ali Khan, Muhammad Afzal, Sungyoung Lee, and Khalid Latif. "Recommendations Service for Chronic Disease Patient in Multimodel Sensors Home Environment." Telemedicine and e-Health (2015).

  26. Khan, Wajahat Ali, Muhammad Bilal Amin, Asad Masood Khattak, Maqbool Hussain, Muhammad Afzal, Sungyoung Lee, and Eun Soo Kim. "Object-oriented and ontology-alignment patterns-based expressive Mediation Bridge Ontology (MBO)." Journal of Information Science 41, no. 3 (2015): 296-314.

  27. Wajahat Ali Khan, M Bilal, AM Khattak, Maqbool, Afzal, SY Lee and Eun Soo Kim, "Object Oriented and Ontology Alignment Patterns based Expressive Mediation Bridge Ontology (MBO)", Journal of Information Science, (SCIE, IF:1.08), 2014.

  28. Wajahat Ali Khan, AM Khattak, Maqbool Hussain, Bilal Amin, M Afzal, Christopher Nugent and Sungyoung Lee, "An Adaptive Semantic based Mediation System for Data Interoperability among Health Information Systems", Journal of Medical Systems (SCIE, IF 1.783), Vol. 38, Issue 8, DOI: 10.1007/s10916-014-0028-y, 2014.

  29. M. Hussain, A. M. Khattak, W. A. Khan, I. Fatima, M. B. Amin, Z. Pervez, R. Batool, M. A. Saleem, M. Afzal, M. Faheem, M. H. Saddiqi, S. Y. Lee, K. Latif, “Cloud-based Smart CDSS for chronic diseases”, Health and Technology Journal, 2013.

  30. Wajahat Ali Khan, Maqbool Hussain, Khalid Latif, Muhammad Afzal, Farooq Ahmad, Sungyoung Lee, "Process Interoperability in Healthcare Systems with Dynamic Semantic Web Services", Computing Journal (SCI, IF:0.701), 2013.

  31. M. Hussain, A. M. Khattak, W. A. Khan, I. Fatima, M. B. Amin, Z. Pervez, R. Batool, M. A. Saleem, M. Afzal, M. Faheem, M. H. Saddiqi, S. Y. Lee, K. Latif, “Cloud-based Smart CDSS for chronic diseases”, Health and Technology Journal, 2013.

  32. Wajahat Ali Khan, Maqbool Hussain, Khalid Latif, Muhammad Afzal, Farooq Ahmad, Sungyoung Lee, "Process Interoperability in Healthcare Systems with Dynamic Semantic Web Services", Computing Journal (SCI, IF:0.701), 2013.

  33. Wajahat Ali Khan, Maqbool Hussain, Muhammad Afzal, Muhammad Bilal Amin, Muhammad Aamir Saleem and Sungyoung Lee, "Personalized-Detailed Clinical Model for Data Interoperability among Clinical Standards", Telemedicine and EHealth (SCI, IF:1.416), 2013.

  34. Shagufta Umer, Muhammad Afzal, Maqbool Hussain, Hafiz Farooq Ahmad, Khalid Latif, “Autonomous Mapping of HL7 RIM and Relational Database Schema, “Information System Frontier - Special Issue on eHealth Interoperability, 2012, 14(1), pp. 5-18, Springer.

Conference Publication List

  1. Muhammad Afzal, , Maqbool Hussain, Sungyoung Lee and Hasan Ali Khattak, "Redesign of Clinical Decision Systems to Support Precision Medicine", IEEE TENCON 2018, Jeju, Korea, Oct 28-31, 2018.

  2. Muhammad Afzal, and Sungyoung Lee, "KAP Based PICO-Compliant Query Construction", 2016 International Symposium on Perception, Action and Cognitive Systems (PACS), Seoul, Korea, Oct 27-28, 2016.

  3. Muhammad Afzal, Sungyoung Lee, "Relevant Evidence Acquisition and Appraisal using Knowledge-intensive Queries", ICACT 2016, Korea, Jan 31-Feb.3, 2016.

  4. Muhammad Afzal, Maqbool Hussain, Wajahat Ali Khan, Taqdir Ali and Sungyoung Lee, "Towards Evidence Adaptive Clinical Decision Support System", 12th International Conference on Ubiquitous Healthcare (u-Healthcare 2015), Osaka, Japan, Nov 30- Dec 2, 2015.

  5. Muhammad Afzal, Maqbool Hussain, Taqdir Ali, Wajahat Ali Khan, Sungyoung Lee, Byeong Ho Kang, "MLM-based Automated Query Generation for CDSS Evidence Support", 8th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing & Ambient Intelligence (UCAmI 2014), Belfast, United Kingdom, December 2-5, 2014.

  6. Muhammad Afzal, Maqbool Hussain, Wajahat Ali Khan,Taqdir Ali, Sungyoung Lee and Byeong Ho Kang, "KnowledgeButton: An Evidence Adaptive Tool for CDSS and Clinical Research", International Symposium on INnovations in Intelligent SysTems and Applications (INISTA’14), June 23-25, 2014.

  7. Muhammad Afzal, Maqbool Hussain, Wajahat Ali Khan, Taqdir Ali, Sungyoung Lee and Hafiz Farooq Ahmad, "Meaningful Integration of Online Knowledge Resources with Clinical Decision Support System", 11th International Conference On Smart homes and Health Telematics (ICOST 2013), Singapore, June 19-21, 2013.

  8. Muhammad Afzal, Maqbool Hussain, Wajahat Ali Khan, Taqdir Ali, Sungyoung Lee and Tae Choong Chung, " Knowledgebuttons in Health Systems", The 39th Conference of the KIPS, Busan, South Korea, May 10-11, 2013.

  9. Muhammad Afzal, Maqbool Hussain, Wajahat Ali Khan, Taqdir Ali and Sungyoung Lee Sungyoung Lee, " Role of Online Knowledge Resources in Clinical Decision Making", The 38th Conference of the KIPS, Jeju, South Korea, Nov 2012.

  10. Muhammad Afzal, Maqbool Hussain, Wajahat Ali Khan, Sungyoung Lee and Hafiz Farooq Ahmad, "Social Media Canonicalization in Healthcare: Smart CDSS as an Exemplary Application", 14th IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking, Application & Services (IEEE Healthcom2012), Oct 10-13, 2012.

  11. Muhammad Afzal, Maqbool Hussain, Mahmood Ahmad, Zahid Anwar, “Trusted Framework for Health Information Exchange,” 10th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT’ 12), Dec 17-19, 2011, Islamabad, Pakistan.

  12. Muhammad Afzal, Maqbool Hussain, Farooq Ahmad, Khalid Latif, “Social Media Canonicalization in Healthcare: Requirements and Challenges,” 12th International HL7 Interoperability Conference (IHIC), May 13-14, 2011, Orlando, FL USA.

  13. Muhammad Afzal, Maqbool Hussain, Noor-Ul-Qayyum, Hafiz Farooq Ahmad “Emerging Role of ICT in Medical Education and Healthcare,” International ICME Conference, 25-27 Jan, 2009, Islamabad, Pakistan.

  14. Muhammad Afzal, Maqbool Hussain, Hafiz Farooq Ahmad and Arshad Ali “Design and Implementation of Open Source HL7 Version 3 for e-Health Services,” Proceedings of 9th International HL7 Interoperability Conference (IHIC), pp 174-179, October 8-10, 2008, Crete Greece.

  15. Niazi, Seemal, Hasan Ali Khattak, Zoobia Ameer, Muhammad Afzal, and Wajahat Ali Khan. "Cardiovascular Care in the Era of Machine Learning enabled Personalized Medicine." In 2020 International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN), pp. 55-60. IEEE, 2020.

  16. Alam, Fakhare, Muhammad Afzal, and Khalid Mahmood Malik. "Comparative Analysis of Semantic Similarity Techniques for Medical Text." In 2020 International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN), pp. 106-109. IEEE, 2020.

  17. Ali Syed Imran, Muhammad Sadiq, Muhammad Afzal and Sungyoung Lee, "Service Curation Framework for Context-Aware Personalized Recommendations", 2016 International Symposium on Perception, Action and Cognitive Systems (PACS), Seoul, Korea, Oct 27-28, 2016.

  18. Wajahat Ali Khan, Muhammad Bilal Amin, Oresti Banos, Taqdir Ali, Maqbool Hussain, Muhammad Afzal, Shujaat Hussain, Jamil Hussain, Rahman Ali, Maqbool Ali, Dongwook Kang, Jaehun Bang, Tae Ho Hur, Bilal Ali, Muhammad Idris, Asif Razzaq, Sungyoung Lee and Byeong Ho Kang, "Mining Minds: Journey of Evolutionary Platform for Ubiquitous Wellness", 12th International Conference on Ubiquitous Healthcare (u-Healthcare 2015), Osaka, Japan, Nov 30- Dec 2, 2015.

  19. Wajahat Ali Khan, Muhammad Idris, Taqdir Ali, Rahman Ali, Shujaat Hussain, Maqbool Hussain, Muhammad Bilal Amin, Asad Masood Khattak, Yuan Weiwei, Muhammad Afzal, Sungyoung Lee and Byeong Ho Kang, "Correlating Health and Wellness Analytics for Personalized Decision Making", 12th Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth 2015), Istanbul, Turkey, May 20-23, (2015).

  20. Banos, O., Bilal Amin, M., Ali Khan, W., Afzal, M., et al. An Innovative Platform for Person-Centric Health and Wellness Support. Proceedings of the International Work-Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering (IWBBIO 2015), Granada, Spain, April 15-17, (2015).

  21. Banos, O., Bilal Amin, M., Ali Khan, W., Afzal, M., Ali, T., Kang, B. H., Lee, S. Mining Minds: an innovative framework for personalized health and wellness support. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth 2015), Istanbul, Turkey, May 20-23, (2015).

  22. Ahmad, Zahoor, Musarrat Hussain, Abdur Rehman, Usman Qamar, and Muhammad Afzal. "Impact minimization of requirements change in software project through requirements classification." In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication, p. 15. ACM, January 8-10, 2015.

  23. Hussain J, Ali M, Bilal HS, Afzal M, Ahmad HF, Banos O, Lee S. SNS based predictive model for depression. In International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics 2015 Jun 10 (pp. 349-354). Springer, Cham.

  24. Jamil Hussain, Wajahat Ali Khan, Muhammad Afzal, Maqbool Hussain, Byeong Kang and Sungyoung Lee, "Adaptive User Interface and User Experience based Authoring Tool for Recommendation Systems", 8th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing & Ambient Intelligence (UCAmI 2014), Belfast, United Kingdom, December 2-5, 2014.

  25. Taqdir Ali, Maqbool Hussain, Wajahat Ali Khan, Muhammad Afzal, Byeong Ho Kang and Sungyoung Lee, "Arden Syntax Studio: Creating Medical Logic Module as Shareable knowledge", International Symposium on INnovations in Intelligent SysTems and Applications (INISTA’14), Alberobello, Italy, June 23-25, 2014.

  26. Taqdir Ali, Maqbool Hussain, Wajahat Ali Khan, Muhammad Afzal and Sungyoung Lee, "Customized clinical domain ontology extraction for Knowledge Authoring Tool", The 8th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication (ACM IMCOM (ICUIMC)’14), Siem Reap, Cambodia , January 9-11, 2014.

  27. Taqdir Ali, Maqbool Hussain, Wajahat Ali Khan, Muhammad Afzal and Sungyoung Lee, "Authoring Tool: Acquiring sharable knowledge for Smart CDSS", 35th IEEE Annual International Conference of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology (EMBC’13), July 3-7, 2013.

  28. Maqbool Hussain, Muhammad Afzal, Wajahat Ali Khan and Sungyoung Lee, "Clinical Decision Support Service for Elderly People in Smart Home Environment", The 12th International Conference On Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV 2012), Guangzhou, China, December 05-07, 2012.

  29. Maqbool Hussain, Wajahat Ali Khan, Muhammad Afzal, Taqdir Ali and Sungyoung Lee, “CDSS enabled PHR system for chronic disease patients", The 38th Conference of the KIPS, Jeju, South Korea, Nov 2012.

  30. Rabia Batool, Wajahat Ali Khan, Maqbool Hussain, Jahanzeb Maqbool, Muhammad Afzal and Sungyoung Lee, "Towards Personalized Health Profiling in Social Network", ISSDM : 2012 6th International Conference on New Trends in Information Science, Service Science and Data Mining (NISS, ICMIA and NASNIT) , Taipei, Taiwan, 2012.

  31. Wajahat Ali Khan, Maqbool Hussain, Muhammad Afzal, Muhammad Bilal Amin, Sungyoung Lee “Healthcare Standards based Sensory Data Exchange for Home Healthcare Monitoring System”, 34th IEEE Annual International Conference of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology (EMBC’12), San Diego, USA, August 28-September 1, 2012.

  32. Maqbool Hussain, Wajahat Ali Khan, Muhammad Afzal, and Sungyoung Lee, “Smart CDSS in Smart Homes”, 10th International Conference On Smart homes and health Telematics, Artimino, Italy, June 12-15, 2012.

  33. Wajahat Ali Khan, Maqbool Hussain, Asad Masood Khattak, Muhammad Afzal, Bilal Amin, and Sungyoung Lee, “Integration of HL7 Compliant Smart Home Healthcare System and HMIS”, 10th International Conference On Smart homes and health Telematics, Artimino, Italy, June 12-15, 2012.

  34. Saman Iftikhar, Wajahat Ali Khan, Maqbool Hussain, Muhammad Afzal, Farooq Ahmad, “Design of Semantic Electronic Medical Record (SEMR) system as SaaS service model for Efficient Healthcare,” 12th International HL7 Interoperability Conference (IHIC), May 13-14, 2011, Orlando, FL USA.

  35. Mehtab Alam, Maqbool Hussain, Muhammad Afzal, Maajid Maqbool, H.Farooq Ahmad, Somia Razzaq “Design and Implementation of HL7 V3 Standard-based Service Aware System, “The 10th International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems,” 23-27, 2011, Tokyo & Hiroshima, Japan.

  36. Sarmad Jadoon, Farooq Ahmed, Khalid Latif, Wajahat Ali Khan, Maqbool Hussain, Muhammad Afzal ,“eHealth and the Road to the Millennium Development Goals” 2nd International eHealth Conference (eHAP), Jan 22-23, 2011, IIU, Islamabad, Pakistan.

  37. Muhammad Ejaz, Sharif Hussain, Dildar Hussain, Maqbool Hussain, Muhammad Afzal, “Design and implementation of CDA,” 11th International HL7 Interoperability Conference (IHIC), May 2010, Brazil.

  38. Muhammad Atif Khan, Yasir Mehmood, Muhammad Afzal, Maqbool Hussain, H Farooq Ahmad, “Design and implementation of Converter V2 and V3 for HL7 messages,” 11th International HL7 Interoperability Conference (IHIC), May 2010, Brazil.

  39. Mariyum Gul, Muhammad Afzal, Maqbool Hussain, Hafiz Farooq Ahmad, Khalid Latif, “Interactive Mapping Tool for HL7 RIM-to-Relational Database Mapping Using Knowledge Game,” 11th International HL7 Interoperability Conference (IHIC), May 2010, Brazil.

  40. Shagufta Umer, Muhammad Afzal, Maqbool Hussain, Hafiz Farooq Ahmad, Khalid Latif, “Towards Automatic HL7-RIM and Relational Database Mapping,” 11th International HL7 Interoperability Conference (IHIC), May 2010, Brazil.

  41. Sidra Aftab, Yasir Mehmood, Muhammad Younis Javed, Hafiz Farooq Ahmad, Maqbool Hussain, Muhammad Afzal “Mapping Integration the Healthcare Environment (IHE) to Business Process Execution Language for People (BPEL4PPL), INIMC (International Multitopic Conference), 21 Oct, 2009, Mohammad Ali Jinnah University (MAJU), Islamabad & University of Engineering & Technology (UET), Taxila.

  42. Yasir Mahmood, Younus Javed, Muhammad Afzal and Hafiz Farooq Ahmad, “Efficient Metadata Loading Algorithm for Generation and Parsing of Health Level 7 Version 3 Messages”, 5th International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET) 2009, Islamabad, Pakistan October 19-20, 2009.

  43. Naeem Khalid, Maqbool Hussain, Muhammad Afzal, and Hafiz Farooq Ahmad “Digital Health Care Ecosystem: SOA Compliant HL7 based Health Care Information Interchange, “IEEE DEST 2009, Istanbul, Turkey.

  44. Maqbool Hussain, Muhammad Afzal, Arshad Ali, Hafiz Farooq Ahmad and Naeem Khalid “Healthcare Applications Interoperability through Implementation of HL7 Web Service Basic Profile,” 6th ITNG Conference, 2009, USA.

  45. Somia Razzaq, Maqbool Hussain, Muhammad Afzal, Hafiz Farooq Ahmad, “Secure Web Service Transportation for HL7 V 3.0 Messages,” 10th International HL7 Interoperability Conference (IHIC), pp 53-58, May 8-11, 2009, Kyoto Japan.

  46. Wajahat Ali Khan, Maqbool Hussain, Muhammad Afzal, Khalid Latif, Hafiz Farooq Ahmad, A.M.Khattak, “Towards Semantic Process Interoperability,” 10th International HL7 Interoperability Conference (IHIC), pp 88-95, May 8-11, 2009, Kyoto Japan.

  47. Mehtab Alam, Muhammad Afzal, Maqbool Hussain, Hafiz Farooq Ahmad, “HL7 Laboratory Messaging Through SOA Infrastructure (HLMSI),” 10th International HL7 Interoperability Conference (IHIC), pp 59-63, May 8-11, 2009, Kyoto Japan.

  48. Shagufta Umer, Muhammad Afzal, Maqbool Hussain, Hafiz Farooq Ahmad, Khalid Latif, “Design and Implementation of an Automation Tool for HL7 RIM-to-Relational Database Mapping,” 10th International HL7 Interoperability Conference (IHIC), pp 111-116, May 8-11, 2009, Kyoto Japan.

  49. Maqbool Hussain, Muhammad Afzal, Arshad Ali, Hafiz Farooq Ahmad “Laboratory Messaging Interoperability using HL7 V 3.0,” 10th International HL7 Interoperability Conference (IHIC), pp 47-52, May 8-11, 2009, Kyoto Japan.

Patents

  1. Muhammad Afzal and Sungyoung Lee, "CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EVIDENCE ADAPTION USING EXTERNAL RESOURCES," International Patent, WO2016093407 , June 16, 2016.

  2. Muhammad Afzal and Sungyoung Lee, "PERMUTATION-BASED PATTERN DISCOVERY TECHNIQUE IN UNSTRUCTURED CLINICAL DOCUMENTS," Korean Patent, KR101607672B1, April 11, 2016.

  3. Muhammad Afzal and Sungyoung Lee, "A METHOD FOR KNOWLEDGE EXTRACTION FROM ONLINE CLINICAL RESOURCES," Korean Patent, 10-1509036 , April 14, 2016.

  4. Muhammad Afzal and Sungyoung Lee, "의학 지식 추출 장치 및 방법," Korean Patent, KR1020110109170 A* , April 7, 2015.