Browsing University of Waterloo by Supervisor "Basir, Otman"
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Algorithm Selection in Multimodal Medical Image Registration
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-28)Medical image acquisition technology has improved significantly throughout the last several decades, and clinicians now rely on medical images to diagnose illnesses, and to determine treatment protocols, and surgical ... -
Brain Tumor Diagnosis Support System: A decision Fusion Framework
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-21)An important factor in providing effective and efficient therapy for brain tumors is early and accurate detection, which can increase survival rates. Current image-based tumor detection and diagnosis techniques are heavily ... -
Computer-Aided Diagnosis for Early Identification of Multi-Type Dementia using Deep Neural Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2017-10-24)With millions of people suffering from dementia worldwide, the global prevalence of this condition has a significant impact on the global economy. As well, its prevalence has a negative impact on patients’ lives and their ... -
Context Augmented Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radio Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-14)Spectrum management has become a crucial issue in wireless networks. However, optimal utilization of the spectrum among the different users is not a trivial task. Over the last two decades, wireless communication has ... -
Decentralized Identity and Access Management Framework for Internet of Things Devices
(University of Waterloo, 2020-06-03)The emerging Internet of Things (IoT) domain is about connecting people and devices and systems together via sensors and actuators, to collect meaningful information from the devices surrounding environment and take actions ... -
A Framework for Ensemble Predictive Modeling
(University of Waterloo, 2016-05-13)Ensemble systems have been successfully applied in many fields, such as finance, bioinformatics, medicine, cheminformatics, manufacturing, geography, information security, information retrieval, image retrieval, and ... -
An Intelligent Multi-stage Channel Acquisition Model for CR-WBANs: A Context Aware Approach
(University of Waterloo, 2017-07-31)Cognitive Radio (CR) came as a solution to mitigate challenges that wireless body area networks (WBANs) suffer from. CR is an intelligence-based technology that senses, observes, and learns from its operating environment ... -
A Multi-Tier Distributed fog-based Architecture for Early Prediction of Epileptic Seizures
(University of Waterloo, 2018-02-23)Epilepsy is the fourth most common neurological problem. With 50 million people living with epilepsy worldwide, about one in 26 people will continue experiencing recurring seizures during their lifetime. Epileptic seizures ... -
New Distributed Byzantine Fault Detection & Data Integrity Scheme for WANET
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-30)Wireless ad-hoc networks (WANET) with multi-hop communication are subject to a variety of faults and attacks, and detecting the source of any fault is highly important to maintain the quality of service, confidentiality, ... -
Popular Content Distribution in Public Transportation Using Artificial Intelligence Techniques
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-20)Outdoor wireless networks suffer nowadays from an increasing data traffic demand which comes at the time where almost no vacant frequency spectrum has been left. A vast majority of this demand comes from popular content ... -
Secure Harmonized Speed Under Byzantine Faults for Autonomous Vehicle Platoons Using Blockchain Technology
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-31)Autonomous Vehicle (AV) platooning holds the promise of safer and more efficient road transportation. By coordinating the movements of a group of vehicles, platooning offers benefits such as reduced energy consumption, ... -
Service-Level-Driven Load Scheduling and Balancing in Multi-Tier Cloud Computing
(University of Waterloo, 2019-06-06)Cloud computing environments often deal with random-arrival computational workloads that vary in resource requirements and demand high Quality of Service (QoS) obligations. A Service Level Agreement (SLA) is employed to ... -
Speaker Diarization Using Improved SincNet Models to Extract Speaker Embeddings
(University of Waterloo, 2021-10-25)Speaker diarization is the process of identifying who spoke when in an audio stream, and it is applied in many fields, such as information retrieval and psychotherapy. Speaker embeddings extraction is a crucial step in any ... -
Strategic Trip Planning: Striking a Balance Between Competition and Cooperation
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-15)In intelligent transportation systems, cooperative mobility planning is considered to be one of the challenging problems. Mobility planning as it stands today is an in- dividual decision-making effort that takes place in ...