Journal Papers
Ibtihaj Ahmad, Yong Xia, Hengfei Cui, Zain Ul Islam, DAN-NucNet: A dual attention based framework for nuclei segmentation in cancer histology images under wild clinical conditions, Expert Systems with Applications, Volume 213, Part A, 2023, 118945, ISSN 0957-4174, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2022.118945 Paper code is available at Code Ocean Accession number: 20224212973878, WOS:000874657300008, Abstracting and indexing: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Scopus, SCImago Journal Rank (SJR), SNIP
Ibtihaj Ahmad, Yong Xia, Hengfei Cui, Zain Ul Islam, AATSN: Anatomy Aware Tumor Segmentation Network for PET-CT volumes and images using a lightweight fusion-attention mechanism, Computers in Biology and Medicine, Volume 157, 2023,
106748, ISSN 0010-4825, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiomed.2023.106748, Accession number: 20231213781984, WOS:000957115000001, Abstracting and indexing: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Scopus, Medline, SCImago Journal Rank (SJR), SNIP
Ibtihaj Ahmad, Syed Muhammad Israr, Zain Ul Islam, “A three in one bottom-up framework for simultaneous semantic segmentation, instance segmentation and classification of multi-organ nuclei in digital cancer histology,” Image and Vision Computing. Volume 146, , 105047, June, 2024, Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.imavis.2024.105047, Accession number: 20241815997092, WOS:001236193400001, Abstracting and indexing: Scopus, Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), SCImago Journal Rank (SJR), SNIP
Ibtihaj Ahmad, Saleem Riaz, "Deep-SEA: a deep learning based patient specific multi-modality post-cancer survival estimation architecture", Applied Intelligence, 2024, Springer, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10489-024-05794-3, WOS:001297076300003, Accession Number: 20243516933785
Ibtihaj Ahmad, Farhan Hussain, Shoab Ahmad Khan Usman Akram, Gwanggil Jeon, "CPS-based fully automatic cardiac left ventricle and left atrium segmentation in 3D MRI", Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 36, no. 5, pp. 4153-4164, 2019, 10.3233/JIFS-169974, WOS:000467907000020, Abstracting and indexing: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Computer Science Index, Engineering Index.
Muhammad Fawad Khan, Muhammad Azam, Muhammad Asghar Khan, Fahad Algarni, Mujaddad Ashfaq, Ibtihaj Ahmad, and Insaf Ullah. "A review of big data resource management: Using smart grid systems as a case study." Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing 2021, no. 1 (2021): 3740476. DOI10.1155/2021/3740476 WOS:000811911900004
Ibtihaj Ahmad, Zain Ul Islam, Saleem Riaz and Fuzhong Xue, "MANS-Net: Multiple Attention-Based Nuclei Segmentation in Multi Organ Digital Cancer Histopathology Images", IEEE Access, Volume 12, Pages 173530-173539, 2024, 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3502766, EI: 20244817438824, WOS:001409550200020
Ibtihaj Ahmad, Sadia Jabbar Anwar, Bagh Hussain, Atiq ur Rehman, Amine Bermak, "Anatomy guided modality fusion for cancer segmentation in PET CT volumes and images," Scientific Reports, Volume 15, Issue 1, 12153 (2025). 10.1038/s41598-025-95757-6
Conference Papers
Ibtihaj Ahmad, Zain Ul Islam and Saleem Riaz, "Complexity Analysis of Industrial Scale Cyber Physical Systems," 7th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPS), May 12-15, 2024, St. Louis, MO, USA. doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPS59941.2024.10639975, Accession Number: 20243817044903
Ibtihaj Ahmad, M. A. Ahmad and S. J. Anwar, "Transfer Learning and Dual Attention Network Based Nuclei Segmentation in Head and Neck Digital Cancer Histology Images," 2023 15th International Conference on Electronics, Computers and Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), Bucharest, Romania, 2023, pp. 01-05, doi: 10.1109/ECAI58194.2023.10193937, Accession number: 20233414586264
Ibtihaj Ahmad, Z. UI Islam, F. Ullah, M. Abbas Hussain and S. Nabi, "An FPGA Based Approach For People Counting Using Image Processing Techniques," 2019 11th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technology (KST), Phuket, Thailand, 2019, pp. 148-152, doi; 10.1109/KST.2019.8687568, Accession number: 20191906881551
Ibtihaj Ahmad, M. K. Zarrar, T. Saeed and S. Rehman, "Security Aspects of Cyber Physical Systems," 2018 1st International Conference on Computer Applications & Information Security (ICCAIS), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 2018, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/CAIS.2018.8442009, Accession number: 20183905847930
Ibtihaj Ahmad and Z. U. Islam, "Laryngeal Cancer Lesion Segmentation in P63 Immunohistochemically Stained Histology Images," 2021 4th International Conference on Bio-Engineering for Smart Technologies (BioSMART), Paris / Créteil, France, 2021, pp. 1-4, doi: 10.1109/BioSMART54244.2021.9677811., Accession number: 20220911722420
M. A. Hussain, I. Ahmad, A. Shaukat and Z. U. Islam, "Leukocytes Segmentation and Classification in Digital Microscopic Images," 2021 4th International Conference on Computing & Information Sciences (ICCIS), Karachi, Pakistan, 2021, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ICCIS54243.2021.9676191.Accession number: 20220911727006
U. Saleem, W. Li, W. Liu, I. Ahmad, M. M. Aslam and H. U. Lateef, "Investigation of Deep Learning Based Techniques for Prognostic and Health Management of Lithium-Ion Battery," 2023 15th International Conference on Electronics, Computers and Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), Bucharest, Romania, 2023, pp. 01-06, IEEE. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10194122, Accession number: 20233414586196
Anwar, S.J., Ahmad, I., Saleem, U., Riaz, S., Ying, L. (2026). Attention Based Tri-Decoder Framework for Segmentation and Classification of Nuclei in Bladder Histology. In: Narváez, F.R., Villa, M.N., Díaz, G.M. (eds) Smart Technologies, Systems and Applications. SmartTech-IC 2024. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 2392. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-98287-3_18
