Program ISSPIT 2018

	Thursday, December 6	Friday, December 7	Saturday, December 8
8:00 am 9:00 am	Conference Breakfast	Conference Breakfast	Conference Breakfast
9:00 am 10:00 am	Future of Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology - Roman Yampolskiy	Neuromodulation of the Spinal Circuitry for the recovery of human paralysis Susan Harkema	Plenary IV TBD
10:00 am 11:00 am	Classification of Indoor Environments for IoT Applications: A Machine Learning Approach - Raed Shubair	Bioengineering Signal Processing	Bioengineering Online Papers
11:00 am 12:30 pm	Smart and Sustainable Communities Signal Processing	Bioengineering Signal Processing	Bioengineering Online Papers
12:30 pm 1:30 pm	Lunch Break	Conference Lunch	Lunch Break
1:30 pm 2:30 pm	Cybersecurity and Blockchain Health and Wellness		Bioengineering Online Papers
2:30 pm 3:30 pm	Cybersecurity and Blockchain Health and Wellness	Computer Applications and A.I Bioengineering	Bioengineering Online Papers
3:30 pm 6:00 pm	Health and Wellness Computer Applications and A.I	Computer Applications and A.I Bioengineering	Bioengineering Online Papers
7:30 pm 9:00 pm	Conference Dinner (Tickets Required)

Conference Breakfast

Future of Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology - Roman Yampolskiy

Classification of Indoor Environments for IoT Applications: A Machine Learning Approach - Raed Shubair

Smart and Sustainable Communities

11:15 In the Borderlands of Information Security with Digital Evidence: Digital Objects, Inference and Guilt: Michael Losavio (University of Louisville, USA); Pavel Pastukov and Svetlana Polyakova (Perm State University, Russia)
11:30 Survey on Wireless Charging and Placement of Stations for Electric Vehicles: Govind Yatnalkar (Computer Science, USA); Husnu S Narman (Marshall University, USA)
11:45 Real-Time Multi-Channel TVWS Sensing Prototype Using Software Defined Radio: Faroq A Awin (University of Windsor, Canada & University of Tripoli, Libya); Aarron Younan (University of Windsor & WiCIP Lab, Canada); Danilo Corral-De-Witt (University of Windsor & Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas ESPE, Canada); Kemal Tepe and Esam Abdel-Raheem (University of Windsor, Canada)
12:00 Enhanced Direction of Arrival Estimation via Received Signal Strength of Directional Antennas: Ricardo Kehrle Miranda and Daniel Akira Ando (University of Brasilia, Brazil); João Paulo Carvalho Lustosa da Costa (Universidade de Brasília (UnB), Brazil); Marcos de Oliveira (University of Brasilia, Brazil)
12:15 Pre-Processing Equipment of 8K Video Codec with Low-Pass Filtering and Noise Reduction Functions: Yasutaka Matsuo (Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK), Japan); Kazuhisa Iguchi and Kikufumi Kanda (NHK, Japan)
12:30 Preliminary Results of Forecasting of the Loop Current System in Gulf of Mexico Using Robust Principal Component: Analysis Ali Muhamed Ali, Ali Ibrahim, Hanqi Zhuang and Justin Wang (Florida Atlantic University, USA)

Signal Processing

11:15 Nonlinear Electrical Equalization for Multimode Fiber Systems: Chi-Hao Cheng, Yizhou Liu and Kuang-Yi Wu (Miami University, USA)
11:30 Using Attention to Process RF for Cognitive Radio: James Graham and Ashwin Fisher (Riverside Research, USA)
11:45 Live Line Aging Estimation of AC Adapters: Fumihiko Ishiyama and Yohei Toriumi (NTT, Japan)
12:00 Combined Fusion Schemes for Cluster-Based Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radio Networks: Noor Salout (University of Windsor, Canada); Faroq A Awin (University of Windsor, Canada & University of Tripoli, Libya); Esam Abdel-Raheem and Kemal Tepe (University of Windsor, Canada)
12:15 Frequency Decomposition & Synthesis of Images with DCT Diagonal Filter Bank: Humera Rafique (SZABIST, Pakistan)

Lunch Break

Health and Wellness

1:30 Classification of White Blood Cells with PatternNet-fused Ensemble of Convolutional Neural Networks (PECNN)

Justin Wang, Anthony LI, Michelle Huang, Ali Ibrahim, Hanqi Zhuang and Ali Muhamed Ali (Florida Atlantic University, USA)

1:45 EEG Seizure Detection with Low Ranked Shared Dictionary Learning and Slantlet Transform

Ali Ibrahim, Ali Muhamed Ali, Hanqi Zhuang and Nurgun Erdol (Florida Atlantic University, USA)

2:00 Simulation and Development of a System for Real-Time Remote Parametrization of Ostomized Patients

Cristian Castillo (Universidad de Deusto, Spain)

2:15 Morphological Analysis of Pressure Injury Images

Daniel Sierra-Sosa and Adel S Elmaghraby (University of Louisville, USA); Begoña García Zapirain (University of Deusto, Spain)

2:30 A Robust Compressive Sampling Method for MR Images Based on Partial Scanning and Apodization

Henry Kiragu, Elijah Mwangi and George Kamucha (University of Nairobi, Kenya)

2:45 Colon Polyp Segmentation Using Texture Analysis

Adel S Elmaghraby (University of Louisville, USA); Maria Begonya Garcia (University of Deusto, Spain)

Cybersecurity and Blockchain

1:30 Generative Adversarial Networks for Black-Box API Attacks with Limited Training Data: Yi Shi (Intelligent Automation Inc., USA); Yalin E Sagduyu (Intelligent Automation, Inc., USA); Kemal Davaslioglu (Intelligent Automation, Inc, USA); Jason Hongjun Li (Intelligent Automation Inc., USA)
1:45 Detection and Identification of Background Sounds to Improvise Voice Interface in Critical Environments: Parashar Dhakal (The University of Toledo, USA); Praveen Damacharla (Purdue University Northwest & the University of Toledo, USA); Ahmad Y Javaid (University of Toledo, USA); Vijay Devabhaktuni (The University of Toledo, USA)
2:00 Profile Analysis for Cryptocurrency in Social Media: Husnu S Narman and Alymbek Damir Uulu (Marshall University, USA); Jinwei Liu (University of Central Florida, USA)
2:15 A Single-Template Strategy Using Multi-Distance Measures and Weighting for Signature Verification: Manabu Okawa (MPD, Japan)

Health and Wellness

3:30 Automatic Seizure Detection in Face Videos Based on CWT: Ayman E. Tawfik (Ajman University, United Arab Emirates); Gamal Fahmy (Kuwait College for Science and Technology, Kuwait); Abdul Illiyasu (Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, United Arab Emirates)
3:45 Voice Features Analysis for Early Detection of Voice Disability in Children: Mohammed Tarique (Ajman University of Science and Technology, United Arab Emirates); Rumana Islam (Ajman University, United Arab Emirates)
4:00 Extraction of Fetal Electrocardiogram Signals Using Blind Source Extraction Based Parallel Linear Predictor Filter: Luay Yassin Taha and Esam Abdel-Raheem (University of Windsor, Canada)
4:15 Trends on Health in Social Media: Analysis Using Twitter Topic Modeling: Mohsen Asghari, Daniel Sierra-Sosa and Adel S Elmaghraby (University of Louisville, USA)
4:30 Annotation Technique for Health-Related Tweets Sentiment Analysis: Asma Baccouche (University of Louisville, USA); Begonya Garcia-Zapirain (University of Deusto, Spain); Adel S Elmaghraby (University of Louisville, USA)

Computer Applications and A.I

3:30 Parameter Density Inheritance Using Kernel Density Estimation for Efficient CNN Learning: Keisuke Horiuchi and Keisuke Kameyama (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
3:45 Noise Flooding for Detecting Audio Adversarial Examples Against Automatic Speech Recognition: Krishan Rajaratnam (University of Chicago, USA); Jugal Kalita (University of Colorado at Colorado Spings, USA)
4:00 Quantifying Intertidal Zone Species Using Semantic Segmentation: Mitali Shah, Geoffrey Dilly, Kaylen Meeker and Jason T Isaacs (California State University Channel Islands, USA)
4:15 Artificial Intelligence Architecture Inspired by Personality Theory: Corey Graves (North Carolina A&T State University, USA); Gabriel Popoola (North Carolina A & T State University, USA)

Conference Dinner (Tckets Required)

Conference Breakfast

Neuromodulation of the Spinal Circuitry for the recovery of human paralysis Susan Harkema

Signal Processing

10:15 Efficient Integration of Cognitive Radio in a Multiuser MIMO Channel Environment: Anthony Bessios (Assistant Professor, Department ECE, University of South Alabama)
10:30 Deep Learning-Based Hazardous Sound Classification for the Hard of Hearing and Deaf: Hyewon Suh, Seungwook Seo and Young H. Kim (Korea Science Academy of KAIST, Korea)
10:45 Resampling with Less than One-Hundredth Hz Difference Accuracy Through on Demand Sample Creation: Andreas Falkenberg (366 Somerset Hills Glen & Ostendo Technology, USA)
11:00 Analyzing Vowel Triangles in Spoken Arabic Dialects: Fatimah Aloqayli and Yousef A Alotaibi (King Saud University, Saudi Arabia)
11:15 Spectral Illumination Correction: Achieving Relative Color Constancy Under the Spectral Domain: Yunfeng Zhao and Chris Elliot (Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Huiyu Zhou (University of Leicester, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Karen Rafferty (Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
11:30 Diversity Coding for Instantaneous Link Recovery in Millimeter Wave Communications: Mohammed Jasim (Valparaiso University & University of South Florida, USA); Adel Aldalbahi (King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia)
11:45 Signal Identification Based on Internal Model Principle in Discrete Time: Jie Chen, Lyndon J Brown and Edris Mohsen (Western University, Canada)
12:00 Oversampled Adaptive Sensing with Random Projections: Analysis and Algorithmic Approaches: Ralf R. Müller (Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany); Ali Bereyhi (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany); Christoph F Mecklenbräuker (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
12:15 Fast Converging Distributed Pulse-coupled Clock Synchronization for Half-duplex D2D Communications over Multipath Channels: Onur Karatalay, Ioannis Psaromiligkos and Benoit Champagne (McGill University, Canada); Benoit Pelletier (InterDigital Canada, Canada)
12:30 Behavioral Implementation of SVD on FPGA: Mi Tian, Mihai Sima and Michael McGuire (University of Victoria, Canada)

Bioengineering

10:15 Novel Technique for Improved Texture and Information Content of Fused Medical Images: Fayadh Alenezi and Ezzatollah Salari (University of Toledo, USA)
10:30 Modeling the Bursting Behavior of the Hodgkin-Huxley Neurons Using Genetic Algorithm Based Parameter Search: Saliya Kirigeeganage, Douglas Jackson, John Naber and Jacek Zurada (University of Louisville, USA)
10:45 Ring Based Wearable Bioelectrical Impedance Analyzer for Body Fat Estimation: Muhammad Usman, Shani Thapa, Adarsh Gupta and Wei Xue (Rowan University, USA)
11:00 A Comparison of EEG Alpha Rhythm Detection by Tripolar Concentric Ring Electrodes and Conventional Disk Electrodes: Chase Haddix and Amir Al-Bakri (University of Kentucky, USA); Walter Besio (University of Rhode Island, USA); Sridhar Sunderam (University of Kentucky, USA)
11:15 A Sensorless Non-Linear Control Algorithm for Continuous Flow Right Ventricular Assist Devices: Moustafa Meki (University of Louisville & USA, USA); Yu Wang (Dalian University, P.R. China); Palaniappan Sethu (University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA); M Ghazal (Abu Dhabi University & Abu Dhabi University, United Arab Emirates); Ayman Sabry El-Baz and Guruprasad Giridharan (University of Louisville, USA)
11:30 Elucidating the Mechanism of 200 kHz Tumor Treating Fields with a Modified DEP Theory: Yu Zhao and Guigen Zhang (University of Kentucky, USA)
11:45 Noninvasive Noncontact 3D Optical Imaging of Blood Flow Distributions in Animals and Humans: Siavash Mazdeyasna, Chong Huang, Mingjun Zhao, Alisha Bonaroti, Kathryn Saatman, Lei Chen, Elie G Abu Jawdeh, Henrietta Bada, Lesley Wong, Brandon Miller and Guoqiang Yu (University of Kentucky, USA)
12:00 Target Frequency Band of Cognition and Tempo of Music: Cardiac Synchronous EEG: Mohammad Javad Mollakazemi (University of Kentucky & Mr., USA); Dibyajyoti Biswal and Abhijit Patwardhan (University of Kentucky, USA)
12:15 Composite Polymeric Scaffolds of Poly Acid) and Poly Ester) with Controlled Pore Opening and Drug Delivery: Amir Najarzadeh (USA, USA)

Conference Lunch

Bioengineering

2:30 Engineering Sequence and Stimuli Dependent Doxorubicin Release from Anti-Nucleolin Aptamer Coated Gold: Nanoparticles Rajat Chauhan, Nicholas Allen, Paula Bates, Robert Keynton, Mohammad Malik and Martin O'Toole (University of Louisville, USA)
2:45 Predictive Biomarkers for Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy Response in Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer: A Survey: Hisham Abdeltawab and Fahmi Khalifa (University of Louisville, USA); Mohammed Ghazal (Abu Dhabi University, United Arab Emirates); Ahmed Haddad, Tamer Mohamed, Guruprasad Giridharan and Ayman Sabry El-Baz (University of Louisville, USA)
3:00 Gold Nanoparticles Conjugate Cancer-Targeting Aptamer and Gadolinium Chelate for MR Cancer Imaging: Nagwa El-Baz and Rajat Chauhan (University of Louisville, USA); Kurtis James, Danial Malik and Mingming Zhu (UofL, USA); Robert Keynton (University of Louisville, USA); Chin Ng (UofL, USA); Paula Bates (University of Louisville, USA); Tariq Malik (UofL, USA); Martin O'Toole (University of Louisville, USA)
3:15 Lung Cancer Survival Prediction via Machine Learning Regression, Classification, and Statistical Techniques: James Bartholomai and Hermann Frieboes (University of Louisville, USA)

Computer Applications and A.I

2:30 A GPU Parallel Algorithm for Non Parametric Tensor Learning: Laura Falaschetti and Claudio Turchetti (Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy)
2:45 Comparing Performance of Acoustic-to-Articulatory Inversion for Mandarin Accented English and American English Speakers: Narjes Alsadat Agha Seyed Mirza Bozorg (University of Kentucky, USA); MichaelT. Johnson (University of Kentucky, unknown)
3:00 Bandwidth Smoothing Estimation Method for DASH-based Streaming Media: Yupen Fu (Noaffiliation, P.R. China)
3:15 A Semi-Automatic System for Data Management and Cleaning: Mohsen Asghari, Daniel Sierra-Sosa and Adel S Elmaghraby (University of Louisville, USA)

Bioengineering

3:30 Development of a High-Performance Ultrasonic Flow System for Cell Transformation: Connor S. Centner, Emily M. Murphy, Caroline M. Stivers, Marie S. Burns, Mariah C. Priddy, Brett R. Janis, Michael A. Menze and Jonathan A. Kopechek (University of Louisville, USA)
3:45 Optimal Feature Selection for the Detection of Autonomic Dysreflexia in Individuals with Tetraplegia: Shruthi Suresh and Bradley Duerstock (Purdue University, USA)
4:00 Developing Rehabilitation Practices Using Virtual Reality Exergaming: Shanmugam Muruga Palaniappan and Bradley Duerstock (Purdue University, USA)
4:15 Adaptive Window for Automatic Classification-Based Segmentation of Multimodal Brain Tumor: Moumen El-Melegy and Khaled M. Abo El-Magd (Assiut University, Egypt); Ayman Sabry El-Baz (University of Louisville, USA)
4:30 Using Unsupervised Anomaly Detection to Analyze Physiological Signals for Emotion Recognition: Gabriel Popoola (North Carolina A & T State University, USA); Corey Graves and Phyllis Ford-Booker (North Carolina A&T State University, USA)
4:45 Diabetic Retinopathy Early Detection Based on OCT and OCTA Feature Fusion: Ahmed ElTanboly (University of Louisville, USA); Nabila Eladawi (Faculty of Computers and Information, Mansoura University, Egypt); Mohammed M. Elmogy (Faculty of Computers and Information & Mansoura University, Egypt); Luay Fraiwan (Abu Dhabi University, USA); Mohammed Ghazal (University of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates); Ahmed Aboulfotouh (Mansoura University, Egypt); Alaa Riad (Faculty of Computers and Information, Mansoura University, Egypt); Robert Keynton (University of Louisville, USA); Magdi El-Azab (Mansoura University, Egypt); Shlomit Schaal (University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA); Ayman Sabry El-Baz (University of Louisville, USA); Harpal Sandhu (UofL, USA)
5:00 Spectral Analysis of Lower Limb EMG Activity in Individuals with Motor Complete SCI During Standing with Epidural Stimulation: Samineh Mesbah (University of Louisville, USA); Federica Gonnelli (University of Udine, Italy); Ayman Sabry El-Baz, Claudia Angeli, Susan Harkema and Enrico Rejc (University of Louisville, USA)
5:15 Automated Staging of Diabetic Retinopathy Using a 2D Convolutional Neural Network: Mohamed Shaban (Southern Arkansas University, USA); Zeliha Ogur (UofL, USA); Ahmed Shalaby (University of Louisville, USA); Ali Mahmoud (Alexandria University, Egypt); Mohammed Ghazal (University of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates); Harpal Sandhu and Henry Kaplan (UofL, USA); Ayman Sabry El-Baz (University of Louisville, USA)
5:30 Using 3-D CNNs and Local Blood Flow Information to Segment Cerebral Vasculature: Heba Kandil and Ahmed Soliman (University of Louisville, USA); Fatma Taher (Dubai, UAE & Zayed University, United Arab Emirates); Ali Mahmoud, Adel S Elmaghraby and Ayman Sabry El-Baz (University of Louisville, USA)
5:45 Development of a Rigid Body Musculoskeletal Computer Model for Evaluation of Gait in a Healthy and Neurologically Impaired Chondrodystrophic Dog: Dena Howland (University of Louisville & Robley Rex VAMC, USA); Gina Bertocci (University of Louisville, USA)

Computer Applications and A.I

3:30 A Graph Database of Yelp Dataset Challenge 2018 and Using Cypher for Basic Statistics and Graph Pattern Exploration: Michael Kronmueller, Dar-Jen Chang and Hanqing Hu (University of Louisville, USA); Ahmed Desoky (University of Louisville & Speed School of Engineering, USA)
3:45 Analytical Performance Modeling of Non-Deterministic Cloud Workflows Using CSM: Abdullah Alenizi (University of Connecticut, USA); Raafat Elfouly (Rhode Island College, USA); Reda Ammar (University of Connecticut, USA)
4:00 A Simulated Annealing Accelerated Bayesian Optimization (SAABO) for Real-Time Deep Neural Network Model with Range Constraints: Srinath Madasu and Keshava Rangarajan (Halliburton, USA)

Conference Breakfast

Plenary IV TBD

Online Papers

10:00 An Integrated Technological Solution for a Real-Time Remote Monitoring of Patients with Cardiovascular Diseases: Cristian Castillo (Universidad de Deusto, Spain); Ibon Oleagordia Ruiz (University of Deusto, Spain)
10:10 An Alarm Generation Technology Solution to Prevent Cardiorespiratory and/or Cardiovascular Complications Caused by Air Pollution: Cristian Castillo (Universidad de Deusto, Spain); Ibon Oleagordia Ruiz (University of Deusto, Spain)
10:20 Backing Up Control of a Self-Driving Truck-Trailer Vehicle with Deep Reinforcement Learning and Fuzzy Logic: Eduardo Bejar and Antonio Moran (Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, Peru)
10:30 Depression Detection from Eye Blink Features: Sarmad Al-wawwam and Mohammed Benaissa (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
10:40 Evaluation of Machine Learning and Deep Learning Algorithms Combined with Dimensionality Reduction Techniques for Classification of Parkinson's Disease: Anuj Anand (Vellore Institute of Technology, India); Mohammad Amaan Haque and John sahaya rani Alex (Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai, India); Nithya Venkatesan (VIT University, India)
10:50 Recursive Inverse Adaptive Filtering with Low Computational Complexity for Sparse System Identification: Hakan Bercag, Osman Kukrer and Aykut Hocanin (Eastern Mediterranean University, Turkey)
11:00 Layer-wise Relevance Propagation for Explainable Deep Learning Based Speech Recognition: Homanga Bharadhwaj (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India)
11:10 Detection of People from Time-Of-Flight Depth Images Using a Cell-Tracking Methodology: Basavarajaiah Totada and Sergio D Cabrera (University of Texas at El Paso, USA)
11:20 Accelerating GenSeT Reconstruction for Sparsely Sampled DCE-MRI with GPU: Son B. Dinh (Vietnamese-German University, Vietnam); Nam H. Le (HELLA Vietnam, Vietnam); Hien M. Nguyen (Vietnamese-German University, Vietnam)
11:30 EFA-An Efficient Algorithm for Front Allocation in Non-Dominated Sorting: Samson Saju (Mindtree Ltd, India); Soumalya Ghosh (Galgotias University, India); Uttam Ghosh (Vanderbilt University, USA)
11:40 Multiple Convolutional Neural Network for Skin Dermoscopic Image Classification: Yanhui Guo (University of Illinois Springfield, USA); Amira Ashour (Faculty of Engineering, Tanta University, Egypt); Lei Si and Deep Mandalaywala (University of Illinois Springfield, USA)
11:50 Applying Game Theoretic Techniques to Improve the Accuracy of Tree-based Classification Results: Ahmed Salem, Carol M. Jim and George Dimitoglou (Hood College, USA)
12:00 Statistical Detector of Resampled TIFF Images: Thi Ai Nhan Le (Université de Technologie de Troyes, France); Florent Retraint (UTT & University of Technology of Troyes, France)
12:10 A Review on the Cerebrovascular Segmentation Methods: Fatma Taher (Dubai, UAE & Zayed University, United Arab Emirates); Ali Mahmoud, Ahmed Shalaby and Ayman Sabry El-Baz (University of Louisville, USA)

Bioengineering

10:15 Analysis of a Novel Bioreactor Designed for Ultrasound Stimulation of Cell-Seeded Scaffolds: Jacob Crapps, Natasha Case and Abdolrasol Rahimi (Saint Louis University, USA)
10:30 MRI Markers for Early Assessment of Bladder Cancer: A Review: Kamal Hammouda (Mansoura University & University of Louisville, USA); Fahmi Khalifa (University of Louisville, USA); Mohammed Ghazal (Abu Dhabi University, United Arab Emirates); Ahmed Haddad (University of Louisville, USA); Mohammed M. Elmogy (Faculty of Computers and Information & Mansoura University, Egypt); Hanan Darwish (Mansoura University, Egypt); Adel S Elmaghraby and Ayman Sabry El-Baz (University of Louisville, USA)
10:45 A Computer-Aided System for Prostate Cancer Diagnosis: Islam Reda (Mansoura University, Egypt); Mohammed Ghazal (University of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates); Ahmed Shalaby (University of Louisville, USA); Mohammed M. Elmogy (Faculty of Computers and Information & Mansoura University, Egypt); Ahmed Aboulfotouh (Mansoura University, Egypt); Mohamed Abou El-Ghar (Urology and Nephrology Center, University of Mansoura, USA); Adel S Elmaghraby, Robert Keynton and Ayman Sabry El-Baz (University of Louisville, USA)
11:00 Athlete-Customized Injury Prediction Using Training Load Statistical Records and Machine Learning: Ahmed Naglah, Fahmi Khalifa and Ali Mahmoud (University of Louisville, USA); Mohammed Ghazal (Abu Dhabi University, United Arab Emirates); Paul Jones, Teena Murray, Adel S Elmaghraby and Ayman Sabry El-Baz (University of Louisville, USA)
11:15 On the Integration of CT-Derived Features for Accurate Detection of Lung Cancer: Ahmed Shaffie and Ahmed Soliman (University of Louisville, USA); Hadil Abu Khalifeh (Abu Dhabi University, United Arab Emirates); Mohammed Ghazal (University of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates); Fatma Taher (Dubai, UAE & Zayed University, United Arab Emirates); Robert Keynton, Adel S Elmaghraby and Ayman Sabry El-Baz (University of Louisville, USA)
11:30 Extracting Motor Imagery Features to Control Two Robotic Hands: Adam Reust, Jaydip Desai and Louis Gomez (Wichita State University, USA)
11:45 Towards Accurate Personalized Autism Diagnosis Using Different Imaging Modalities: sMRI, fMRI, and DTI: Yaser A ElNakieb (University of Louisville, USA); Omar Dekhil (CECS, USA); Mohamed Ali (University of Louisville, USA); Mohamed Khalifa (Alexandria University, Egypt); Ahmed Soliman, Ahmed Shalaby and Ali Mahmoud (University of Louisville, USA); Mohammed Ghazal and Hassan Hajjdiab (Abu Dhabi University, United Arab Emirates); Adel S Elmaghraby and R. Keynton (University of Louisville, USA); Gregory Barnes (University of Louisville Autism Center, USA); Ayman Sabry El-Baz (University of Louisville, USA)
12:00 Early Assessment of Acute Renal Rejection Post-Transplantation: A Combined Imaging and Clinical Biomarkers Protocol: Mohamed Shehata (University of Louisville, USA); Fatma Taher (Dubai, UAE & Zayed University, United Arab Emirates); Mohammed Ghazal (University of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates); Ali Mahmoud and Garthe Beache (University of Louisville, USA); Mohamed Abou El-Ghar (Mansoura University, Egypt); Amy Dwyer, Adel S Elmaghraby and Ayman Sabry El-Baz (University of Louisville, USA)
12:15 A Significant Regional-based Diagnosis System for Early Detection of Alzheimer's Disease Using sMRI Scans: Fatma El-Zahraa El-Gamal (Faculty of Computers and Information, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt); Mohammed M. Elmogy (Faculty of Computers and Information & Mansoura University, Egypt); Ashraf Khalil (Abu Dhabi University, United Arab Emirates); Mohammed Ghazal (University of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates); Hassan Soliman and Ahmed Atwan (Faculty of Computers and Information, Mansoura University, Egypt); Robert Keynton (University of Louisville, USA); Gregory Barnes (University of Louisville Autism Center, USA); Ayman Sabry El-Baz (University of Louisville, USA)

Lunch Break

Online Papers

1:30 Real-Time Polyphonic Pitch Detection on Acoustic Musical Signals: Thomas A Goodman and Ian Batten (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
1:40 Automated Foveal Detection in OCT Scans: Bilal Hassan (Beihang University, P.R. China); Ramsha Ahmed (University of Science & Technology Beijing, P.R. China); Bo Li (Beihang University, P.R. China)
1:50 Vehicle Longitudinal Acceleration Determination from Mobile Phone Sensor: An IoT System Solution for Intelligent Transportation: Fayçal Saffih and Paul Fieguth (University of Waterloo, Canada)
2:00 A Comparative Analysis of Unsupervised Machine Learning Techniques for Liver Disease Prediction: Varun Vats, Lining Zhang, Kemal Tepe, Sreejit Chatterjee, Elvin Eziama and Sabbir Ahmed (University of Windsor, Canada)
2:10 Multi-resolution Classification Techniques for PTSD Detection from Audio Interviews: Sergey Voronin, Lemin Xiao and Gang Mei (Intelligent Automation, Inc., USA); Roger Xu (Intelligent Automation Inc., USA)
2:20 Three-dimensional Ultrasound Doppler Simulation for Vascular Bifurcation Model: Zhaohui Wang (Texas A&M University-Kingsville, USA); Santosh T p (NIT Trichy, India)
2:30 SAM-GCNN: A Gated Convolutional Neural Network with Segment-Level Attention Mechanism for Home Activity Monitoring: Yuhan Shen, Kexin He and Wei-Qiang Zhang (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
2:40 Pruning the Convolution Neural Network (SqueezeNet) Using Taylor Expansion-based Criterion: Mohamed El-Sharkawy and Akash Gaikwad (Purdue School of Engineering and Technology, USA)
2:50 Hiding Bitcoins in Steganographic Fractals: Osama Hosam (The City for Scientific Research and Technology Applications, Egypt)
3:00 Initialization of Active Contour for Dermoscopic Image Segmentation: A Comparative Study: Reham Mohamed Nagieb (Tanta University, Egypt); Amira Ashour (Faculty of Engineering, Tanta University, Egypt); Yanhui Guo (University of Illinois Springfield, USA); Heba El-Khobby and Mostafa AbdElnaby (Tanta University, Faculty of Engineering, Egypt)
3:10 An Effective Method for Hole Filling in 3D Triangular Meshes: Nahla Sakr (City of Scientific Research and Technological Applications, Egypt); Bayumy Youssef (The city for Scientific Research and Technology Applications, Egypt); Yasser Fouad (Alexandria University, Egypt); Essam Atta (City of Scientific Research and Technological ApplicationsI, USA)
3:20 Identification of Internal Faults in Indirect Symmetrical Phase Shift Transformers Using Ensemble Learning: Pallav Kumar Bera, Rajesh Kumar and Can Isik (Syracuse University, USA)

Bioengineering

1:30 Modeling of 3D Printed Check Valves for Microfluidic Systems: Alexa Melvin and Thomas Roussel, Jr. (University of Louisville, USA)
1:45 Development of Proportional Valve for Respiratory Training System BreathForce: Thomas Roussel, Jr., Eli Ackermann, Alexa Melvin, Kevin Tran and Yangsheng Chen (University of Louisville, USA); Alexander Ovechkin (220 Abraham Flexner Way & University of Louisville, USA)
2:00 Can Artificial Intelligence Predict Impulsive Behaviour?: Jaskarn Singh (BBSSW Medical & Jamia Millia Islamia, USA)
2:15 Validation and Testing of Sorbents for Renal Replacement Therapy (RRT) Following Combat Injuries: Leslie Donoghue (University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA); Ambal Jayaraman and Christopher Marotta (TDA Research, USA); Palaniappan Sethu (University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA)
2:30 Development of a Computer Simulation Model to Describe Potential Bruising Patterns Associated with Common Childhood Falls: Gina Bertocci (University of Louisville, USA)
2:45 Investigating Potential Fractures in Feet-First Falls Using an in-Silico Pediatric Femur: Gina Bertocci (University of Louisville, USA)

Online Papers

3:30 Robust Hybrid Watermarking for Security of Medical Images in Computer-Aided Diagnosis Based Telemedicine Applications: Ramsha Ahmed (University of Science & Technology Beijing, P.R. China); Bilal Hassan and Bo Li (Beihang University, P.R. China)
3:40 Investigating into Saliency Priority of Bottom-up Attributes in 2D Videos Without Cognitive Bias: Jila Hosseinkhani and Chris Joslin (Carleton University, Canada)
3:50 A Nonlinear Feedback Linearized Power Amplifier for Wireless Communication Systems: Wanzhi Ma, Chenxing Li, Xin Quan, Wensheng Pan, Qiang Xu, Ying Liu and Youxi Tang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China)
4:00 Digital Linearization of Multiple Power Amplifiers in Phased Arrays for 5G Wireless Communications: Wensheng Pan, Chenxing Li, Xin Quan, Wanzhi Ma, Ying Liu, Shihai Shao and Youxi Tang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China)
4:10 Improvement of Recovery in Segmentation-Based Parallel Compressive Sensing: Dipayan Mitra (Carleton University, Canada); Hadi Zanddizari (University of South Florida, USA); Sreeraman Rajan (Carleton University, Canada)
4:20 Time-Frequency Analysis Versus Cepstrum Analysis for Validating Respiratory Sounds in Infants and Children: Nancy Diaa Moussa (Egypt & Medical Research Institute Alexandria University, Egypt); Mohamed M Abougabal (Faculty of Medicine Alexandria University, Egypt)
4:30 Sensorimotor Cortex EEG Signal Classification Using Hidden Markov Models and Wavelet Decomposition: Maheen Mumtaz, Mubashira Afzal and Aleem Mushtaq (National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan)
4:40 Fluorescence to Color Feature-Based Image Registration for Medical Augmented Reality: Tri Quang (The University of Akorn, USA); Mingzhou Zhou (University of Akron, USA); Francis Papay (Cleveland Clinic, USA); Yang Liu (The University of Akron, USA)
4:50 Mobile Traumatic Brain Injury Assessment System: Tri Quang (The University of Akorn, USA); Christopher Mela and Mingzhou Zhou (University of Akron, USA); Yang Liu (The University of Akron, USA)
5:00 Displaced Thinned Coprime Arrays with an Additional Sensor for DOA Estimation: Ahsan Raza and Wei Liu (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Qing Shen (Beijing Institute of Technology, P.R. China)
5:10 Power Measurement Based Code Classification for Programmable Logic Circuits: Tamoghna Roy (DeepSig Inc., USA); A. A. (Louis) Beex (DSPRL - Wireless@VT & Virginia Tech, USA)
5:20 Machine Learning-Based Recommendation Trust Model for Machine to Machine Communication: Elvin Eziama and Kemal Tepe (University of Windsor, Canada); Ali Balador (Mälardalen University & RISE SICS Västerås, Sweden); Luz Jaimes (Universidad de Pamplona, Colombia); James Agajo (IAENG, MNSE, COREN, IACSIT, Nigeria); Kenneth S Nwizege (Ken Saro-Wiwa Polytechnic, Bori, Nigeria)
5:30 Narrowband Data Transmission in TV White Space: An Experimental Performance Analysis: Dewan Md Ariful Hassan (University of Windsor, Canada); Danilo Corral-De-Witt (University of Windsor & Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas ESPE, Canada); Sabbir Ahmed and Kemal Tepe (University of Windsor, Canada)
5:40 Residual Clustering Based Lossless Compression for Remotely Sensed Images: Zhaohui Wang (Texas A&M University-Kingsville, USA)
5:50 Collision Warning System: Embedded Enabled Using RTMaps and NXP BLBX2: Mohamed El-Sharkawy and Dewant Katare (Purdue School of Engineering and Technology, USA)

Bioengineering

3:30 A Comparison of Emulsion-Based and Electrosprayed Particle Architectures to Sustain the Release of Small Hydrophilic Agents: Keegan Curry and Jill Steinbach-Rankins (University of Louisville, USA)
4:20 Multiple Instance Learning for Benign vs. Malignant Classification of Lung Nodules in CT Scans: Wiem Safta (University of Louisville & CECS, USA); Hichem Frigui (University of Louisville, USA)
5:10 A Novel Fully Automated CAD System for Left Ventricle Volume Estimation: Omar Dekhil (CECS, USA); Fatma Taher (Dubai, UAE & Zayed University, United Arab Emirates); Adel S Elmaghraby and Ayman Sabry El-Baz (University of Louisville, USA)