Dr. Sahar Selim

Assistant Professor

Faculty Office Ext.

1782

Faculty Building

UB1

Office Number

213

Biography

Dr. Sahar Selim received her bachelor's and M.Sc. degrees from the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Systems at Ain Shams University. She obtained her Ph.D. degree in Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) from the Faculty of Computers and Information at Cairo University. Prior to starting her academic career, Selim worked as a software developer for three years.

Before joining Nile University, where she currently holds the position of assistant professor, Selim was a research associate at the Faculty of Media Engineering & Technology at the German University in Cairo. Her research focuses on using machine learning to analyze biological signals for developing applications that enable disabled subjects to interact with computer devices using their brain electroencephalography (EEG).

Dr. Sahar Selim is an active member of multiple research groups at the Center for Informatics Sciences at Nile University, where she has contributed to numerous projects leveraging machine learning for medical applications. Her profound technical expertise is complemented by her interest in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. Her research interests primarily revolve around Medical Imaging, Brain Computer Interface, and Neural Engineering.

Achievements
  1. Nominated for the Prof. Abdelaziz Hegazy Award for Outstanding Teaching by the ITCS School for the Academic Year 2022.
  2. Recipient of the ITCS Teaching Award for the Academic Year 2022.
  3. Principal Investigator (PI) for the KUKA Innovation Award 2022, with the proposal "Human-Brain Robot Interaction for Mobility Rehabilitation Control" being selected among the top 10 applications.
  4. Led a project focused on the rehabilitation of post-stroke aphasia patients using machine learning, funded by the NU research office and in collaboration with the Neuromodulation lab at El-Demerdash Hospital, Ain Shams University.
  5. Co-PI for a project on lung cancer detection in Chest X-Ray images, funded by ITAC.

Recent Publications

Smart Prediction of Circulatory Failure: Machine Learning for Early Detection of Patient Deterioration

Circulatory failure, also known as shock, is a critical condition that can have serious consequences for one's health. Early detection and timely intervention are crucial for improving patient outcomes. Machine learning (ML) models have shown promise in predicting circulatory failure based on clinical data. In our study, we examined different machine learning (ML) models to predict circulatory

Artificial Intelligence
Healthcare
Circuit Theory and Applications

A Comparative Analysis of Deep Learning Models for Brain Tumor Segmentation

A brain tumor is an extremely hazardous illness that can affect people of any age. Less than 50% of individuals with brain cancer have a chance of surviving. As a result, precise segmentation of brain tumors is crucial for the diagnosis, planning of the course of treatment, and tracking of the tumor growth. Deep Learning (DL) models can increase the precision and speed of brain tumor diagnosis by

Artificial Intelligence

A Novel Diagnostic Model for Early Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease Based on Clinical and Neuroimaging Features

Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is a dangerous disease that is known for its characteristics of eroding memory and destroying the brain. The classification of Alzheimer's disease is an important topic that has recently been addressed by many studies using Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) methods. Most research papers tackling early diagnosis of AD use these methods as a feature extractor for

Artificial Intelligence
Healthcare
Circuit Theory and Applications
Software and Communications

A Multi-scale Self-supervision Method for Improving Cell Nuclei Segmentation in Pathological Tissues

Nuclei detection and segmentation in histopathological images is a prerequisite step for quantitative analysis including morphological shape and size to help in identifying cancer prognosis. Digital pathology field aims to improve the quality of cancer diagnosis and has helped pathologists to reduce their efforts and time. Different deep learning architectures are widely used recently in Digital

Artificial Intelligence
Healthcare
Circuit Theory and Applications
Software and Communications
Agriculture and Crops

Mobile Application Code Generation Approaches: A Survey

With the extensive usage of mobile applications in daily life, it has become crucial for the companies of software to develop applications for the most popular platforms such as Android and iOS in the shortest possible time and at the lowest possible cost. However, ensuring consistent UIs and functionalities among cross-platform versions can be challenging and costly since different platforms have

Artificial Intelligence
Circuit Theory and Applications
Software and Communications

Differentiation Between Normal and Abnormal Functional Brain Connectivity Using Non-directed Model-Based Approach

Brain Connectivity refers to networks of functional and anatomical connections found throughout the brain. Multiple neural populations are connected by intricate connectivity circuits and interact with one another to exchange information, synchronize their activity, and participate in the accomplishment of complex cognitive tasks. Issues about how various brain regions contribute to cognition and

Artificial Intelligence
Circuit Theory and Applications
Software and Communications

Lung Segmentation Using ResUnet++ Powered by Variational Auto Encoder-Based Enhancement in Chest X-ray Images

X-ray has a huge popularity around the world. This is due to its low cost and easy to access. Most of lung diseases are diagnosed using Chest X-ray (CXR). So, developing computer aided detection (CAD) provided with automatic lung segmentation can improve the efficiency of the detection and support the physicians to make a reliable decision at early stages. But when the input image has image

Artificial Intelligence
Healthcare
Energy and Water
Circuit Theory and Applications
Software and Communications

A CAD System for Lung Cancer Detection Using Chest X-ray: A Review

For many years, lung cancer has been ranked among the deadliest illnesses in the world. Therefore, it must be anticipated and detected at an early stage. We need to build a computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) system to help physicians to provide better treatment. In this study, the whole pipeline and the process of the CAD system for lung cancer detection in Chest X-ray are provided. It demonstrates

Artificial Intelligence
Healthcare
Circuit Theory and Applications

Automatic Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease Using 3D Deep Ensemble Approach

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is considered the 6 th leading cause of death worldwide. Early diagnosis of AD is not an easy task, and no preventive cures have been discovered yet. Having an accurate computer-aided system for the early detection of AD is important to help patients with AD. This study proposes a new approach for classifying disease stages. First, we worked on the MRI images and split

Artificial Intelligence
Healthcare
Circuit Theory and Applications
Software and Communications
Research Tracks
  • Biomedical Informatics
  • Medical Imaging and Image Processing MIIP
  • Software and Systems
  • Data Mining and Natural Language Processing
Projects
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Research Project

Lung Cancer Detection in Chest X-Ray Images Empowered by 3D Computed Tomography Deep Convolutional Radiomics (CXRClear)

Objective/Contributions: Cancer is treatable if it is discovered at an early stage, and lung cancer screening is a critical component in a preventive care protocol. Although CT imaging affords higher spatial resolution and 3D density information than digital chest X-rays, there are still limitations to having it as a cheap and fast method for rural areas outreach. These limitations are outlined in
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Research Project

Smart Agricultural Clinic: Egyptian Farmer Electronic Platform for the Future

Objective/Contributions: Smart agricultural clinic (SAC) aims to: 1) Provide an integrated end-to-end digital system to effectively deliver personalized agriculture extension and veterinary services, including best cultivation, fertilization and breeding practices, to farmers and animal producers through the use of mobile/handheld devices. 2) Use advanced computer vision and deep learning