Samar M. Alqhtani

Najran University · College of Computer Science and Information System

Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is a pervasive network of interlinked smart devices that provide a variety of intelligent computing services in industrial environments. Several IIoT nodes operate confidential data (such as medical, transportation, military, etc.) which are reachable targets for hostile intruders due to their openness and varie...

The abnormal heart conduction, known as arrhythmia, can contribute to cardiac diseases that carry the risk of fatal consequences. Healthcare professionals typically use electrocardiogram (ECG) signals and certain preliminary tests to identify abnormal patterns in a patient’s cardiac activity. To assess the overall cardiac health condition, cardiac...

A growing kind of communication, the Internet of Things (IoT), links all network-capable devices worldwide. The most recent phase of the Internet of Things (IoT), known as the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT), is one that is rapidly catching researchers’ interest. The centralized storage system houses the substantial amount of medical data created...

Cervical cancer, the second most prevalent cancer among women worldwide, is primarily attributed to the human papillomavirus (HPV). Despite advances in healthcare, it remains a significant cause of mortality among women across diverse regions, surpassing other hereditary cancers. Early detection is pivotal, as survival rates exceed 90% when the dis...

Cancer associated with the nervous system and brain tumors ranks among the leading causes of death in various countries. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT) capture brain images. MRI is pivotal in diagnosing brain tumors and analyzing other brain disorders. Typically, radiologists or experts manually assess MRI images to d...

Brain tumor has become one of the fatal causes of death worldwide in recent years, affecting many individuals annually and resulting in loss of lives. Brain tumors are characterized by the abnormal or irregular growth of brain tissues that can spread to nearby tissues and eventually throughout the brain. Although several traditional machine learnin...

Significant yield challenges are posed by biotic stress on coffee leaves, which has a negative effect on the revenue generation of this highly utilized commodity. Numerous studies have proposed techniques for the early detection and classification of biotic stress in coffee leaves. In this study, we propose a technique called extracted feature ense...

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are a newly emerging kind of “flying Internet of Things (IoT)” device. Multi-UAV systems consist of a collection of UAVs. They autonomously fly in free space to carry out a mission. Multi-UAV systems provide advanced services and have diverse applications. Examples include road traffic monitoring, logistics inspectio...

A brain tumor is a significant health concern that directly or indirectly affects thousands of people worldwide. The early and accurate detection of brain tumors is vital to the successful treatment of brain tumors and the improved quality of life of the patient. There are several imaging techniques used for brain tumor detection. Among these techn...

A brain tumor is a mass or growth of abnormal cells in the brain. In children and adults, brain tumor is considered one of the leading causes of death. There are several types of brain tumors, including benign (non-cancerous) and malignant (cancerous) tumors. Diagnosing brain tumors as early as possible is essential, as this can improve the chances...

The mental and physical well-being of healthcare workers is being affected by global COVID-19. The pandemic has impacted the mental health of medical staff in numerous ways. However, most studies have examined sleep disorders, depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic problems in healthcare workers during and after the outbreak. The study's objective...

Sentiment analysis (SA) is an area of study currently being investigated in text mining. SA is the computational handling of a text’s views, emotions, subjectivity, and subjective nature. The researchers realized that generating generic sentiment from textual material was inadequate, so they developed SA to extract expressions from textual informat...

Aiming at the distributed flexible job shop scheduling problem under dual resource constraints considering the influence of workpiece transportation time between factories and machines, a distributed flexible job shop scheduling problem (DFJSP) model with the optimization goal of minimizing completion time is established, and an improved mayfly alg...

Business owners and managers need strategic information to plan and execute their decisions regarding business operations. They work in a cyclic plan of execution and evaluation. In order to run this cycle smoothly, they need a mechanism that should access the entire business performance. The sole purpose of this study is to assist them through app...

Analyzing medical images has always been a challenging task because these images are used to observe complex internal structures of the human body. This research work is based on the study of the retinal fundus and magnetic resonance images (MRI) for the analysis of ocular and cerebral abnormalities. Typically, clinical quality images of the eyes a...

Human brain consists of millions of cells to control the overall structure of the human body. When these cells start behaving abnormally, then brain tumors occurred. Precise and initial stage brain tumor detection has always been an issue in the field of medicines for medical experts. To handle this issue, various deep learning techniques for brain...

Today, liver disease, or any deterioration in one’s ability to survive, is extremely common all around the world. Previous research has indicated that liver disease is more frequent in younger people than in older ones. When the liver’s capability begins to deteriorate, life can be shortened to one or two days, and early prediction of such diseases...

Coronavirus (COVID-19 or SARS-CoV-2) is a novel viral infection that started in December 2019 and has erupted rapidly in more than 150 countries. The rapid spread of COVID-19 has caused a global health emergency and resulted in governments imposing lock-downs to stop its transmission. There is a significant increase in the number of patients infect...

High end-to-end delay is a significant challenge in the data collection process in the underwater environment. Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) are a considerably reliable source of data collection if they have significant trajectory movement. Therefore, in this paper, a new routing algorithm known as Elliptical Shaped Efficient Data Gathering...

Heart disease prognosis (HDP) is a difficult undertaking that requires knowledge and expertise to predict early on. Heart failure is on the rise as a result of today's lifestyle. The healthcare business generates a vast volume of patient records, which are challenging to manage manually. When it comes to data mining and machine learning, having a h...

Disasters occur due to naturally stirring events like earthquake, floods, tsunamis, storms hurricanes, wildfire, and other geologic measures. Social media fake image posting influence is increasing day by day regarding the natural disasters. A natural disaster can result in the death or destruction of property, as well as economic damage, the sever...

Centrifugal pumps (CPs) are mainly composed of impeller and bearings. The operation of the CPs is disturbed if any of its components is faulty. Bearings faults are reported to be the major reason for pump failures. Condition monitoring of the CPs helps in early diagnosis and assists to keep machines in working condition with minimum maintenance cos...

Breast cancer is one of the most prominent sources of death in females. Every year many women suffer breast cancer, and, in the end, death occurs. The early detection of breast cancer may cause to reduce the death rate and save women’s lives. The medical care and cost of prevention of women’s breast cancer are costly and become a priority to diagno...

Privacy-preserving techniques allow private information to be used without compromising privacy. Most encryption algorithms, such as the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm, cannot perform computational operations on encrypted data without first applying the decryption process. Homomorphic encryption algorithms provide innovative solutions...

Software reliability is prioritised as the most critical quality attribute. Reliability prediction models participate in the prevention of software failures which can cause vital events and disastrous consequences in safety-critical applications or even in businesses. Predicting reliability during design allows software developers to avoid potentia...

The bearings faults are reported to be the major reason for centrifugal pump (CPs) failures. Limited literature is available to diagnose the minor scratches in the bearing surface through non-intrusive condition monitoring techniques. Recent research on the analysis of bearing scratches through non-intrusive motor current analysis (MCA) has shown e...

One of the major concerns for the utilities in the Smart Grid (SG) is electricity theft. With the implementation of smart meters, the frequency of energy usage and data collection from smart homes has increased, which makes it possible for advanced data analysis that was not previously possible. For this purpose, we have taken historical data of en...

The Internet of Things (IoT) is defined as interconnected digital and mechanical devices with intelligent and interactive data transmission features over a defined network. The ability of the IoT to collect, analyze and mine data into information and knowledge motivates the integration of IoT with grid and cloud computing. New job scheduling techni...

The computational cloud aims to move traditional computing from personal computers to cloud providers on the internet. Cloud security represents an important research area. Confidentiality, integrity, and availability are the main cloud security characteristics addressed. Cloud providers apply dynamic load balancing and reactive fault tolerance tec...

Mobile devices have become very important for our daily needs. The user authentication protocols with the key agreement are required to deal with the security issues that arise from the use of mobile devices through Internet applications. However, existing user authentication protocols are only suitable if the client and the server use a similar cr...

Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a diabetes disorder that disturbs human vision. It starts due to the damage in the light-sensitive tissues of blood vessels at the retina. In the beginning, DR may show no symptoms or only slight vision issues, but in the long run, it could be a permanent source of impaired vision, simply known as blindness in the advan...

Segmentation of retinal vessels plays a crucial role in detecting many eye diseases, and its reliable computerized implementation is becoming essential for automated retinal disease screening systems. A large number of retinal vessel segmentation algorithms are available, but these methods improve accuracy levels. Their sensitivity remains low due...

Natural disasters not only disturb the human ecological system but also destroy the properties and critical infrastructures of human societies and even lead to permanent change in the ecosystem. Disaster can be caused by naturally occurring events such as earthquakes, cyclones, floods, and wildfires. Many deep learning techniques have been applied...

The amazing fusion of the internet of things (IoT) into traditional health monitoring systems has produced remarkable advances in the field of e-health. Different wireless body area network devices and sensors are providing real-time health monitoring services. As the number of IoT devices is rapidly booming, technological and security challenges a...

Student performance prediction helps the educational stakeholders to take proactive decisions and make interventions, for the improvement of quality of education and to meet the dynamic needs of society. The selection of features for student's performance prediction not only plays significant role in increasing prediction accuracy, but also helps i...

An efficient way of extracting useful information from multiple sources of data is to use data fusion technology. This paper introduces a data fusion approach in multimedia data for earthquake detection in twitter by using kernel fusion. The fusion method applies to fuse two types of data. The first type is features extracted from text by using bag...

In this contribution, we develop an accurate and effective event detection method to detect events from a Twitter stream, which uses visual and textual information to improve the performance of the mining process. The method monitors a Twitter stream to pick up tweets having texts and images and stores them into a database. This is followed by appl...

In this paper, we describe an accurate and effective event detection method to detect events from Twitter stream. It detects events using visual information as well as textual information to improve the performance of the mining. It monitors Twitter stream to pick up tweets having texts and photos and stores them into database. Then it applies mini...