Tahasin Ahmed Fahim
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Tahasin Ahmed Fahim has a total of 16 co-authors. Here are the top co-authors by number of shared publications:
- Fatema Binte Alam
School of Information Technology, Murdoch University, Perth, WA 6150, Australia
4 shared publications - Azad Hossain
Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology, Chattogram, Bangladesh
2 shared publications - Ajay Krishno Sarkar
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology, Kazla, Rajshahi, Bangladesh
1 shared publication - Bithe Ghosh
Northern University of Business and Technology Khulna
1 shared publication Farjana Akter Chumki
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering University of Chittagong Chattogram Bangladesh
1 shared publicationFatema Binte Alam
Murdoch University
1 shared publication
Latest Publications
- Open Access
PhysioSpeck-Net: Physics-Guided Feature Separation for Parameter-Efficient and Uncertainty-Aware Retinal OCT Classification Under Cross-Dataset Shift
Deep networks for optical coherence tomography (OCT) classification usually learn directly from image appearance, which leaves coherent speckle, depth-dependent attenuation, point-spread-function blur, and refractive distortion entangled with pathology inside a single feature representation. This work asks whether making that separation architecturally explicit is a useful inductive bias, rather than whether it raises benchmark accuracy. PhysioSpeck-Net routes a shared stem representation through four branches aligned one-to-one with distinct OCT image-formation effects, recombines them through cross-branch attention and a physics-guided gate, and constrains them with auxiliary objectives derived from a seven-layer retinal simulator. The framework is evaluated on a 1000-image balanced test set and, without fine-tuning, on 1400 images from a second OCT source. Under a common training protocol, the model is competitive with substantially larger convolutional and transformer baselines while using 8.80 million parameters, but the more informative results concern reliability: predictive entropy separates errors from correct predictions with error-detection AUCs of 0.9847 and 0.9688, expected calibration error remains near 4–5% on both sets, and Grad-CAM++ perturbation analysis shows that attribution faithfulness is class-dependent rather than uniformly high. Distributional analysis further shows a residual gap between simulated and clinical images. Leave-one-branch-out and loss ablations produced consistent performance reductions, paired significance testing confirmed gains over most conventional baselines, and duplicate-control analysis found no exact or confirmed near-duplicate images across the evaluated datasets. These findings support physics-guided feature separation as a compact and uncertainty-aware strategy for retinal OCT classification under dataset shift.
Open AccessPhysioSpeck-Net: Physics-Guided Feature Separation for Parameter-Efficient and Uncertainty-Aware Retinal OCT Classification Under Cross-Dataset Shift
Deep networks for optical coherence tomography (OCT) classification usually learn directly from image appearance, which leaves coherent speckle, depth-dependent attenuation, point-spread-function blur, and refractive distortion entangled with pathology inside a single feature representation. This work asks whether making that separation architecturally explicit is a useful inductive bias, rather than whether it raises benchmark accuracy. PhysioSpeck-Net routes a shared stem representation through four branches aligned one-to-one with distinct OCT image-formation effects, recombines them through cross-branch attention and a physics-guided gate, and constrains them with auxiliary objectives derived from a seven-layer retinal simulator. The framework is evaluated on a 1000-image balanced test set and, without fine-tuning, on 1400 images from a second OCT source. Under a common training protocol, the model is competitive with substantially larger convolutional and transformer baselines while using 8.80 million parameters, but the more informative results concern reliability: predictive entropy separates errors from correct predictions with error-detection AUCs of 0.9847 and 0.9688, expected calibration error remains near 4–5% on both sets, and Grad-CAM++ perturbation analysis shows that attribution faithfulness is class-dependent rather than uniformly high. Distributional analysis further shows a residual gap between simulated and clinical images. Leave-one-branch-out and loss ablations produced consistent performance reductions, paired significance testing confirmed gains over most conventional baselines, and duplicate-control analysis found no exact or confirmed near-duplicate images across the evaluated datasets. These findings support physics-guided feature separation as a compact and uncertainty-aware strategy for retinal OCT classification under dataset shift.
- 27 August 2026
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Continuum
- Vol. 5 (9) , 2914
Synthetic-data-driven optical-property mapping in OCT-like phantoms using an inclusion-guided consistency-regularized U-Net
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) provides depth-resolved structural information, but estimating dense optical-property maps from intensity data is an ill-conditioned inverse problem. This study presents LA-PG-UNet (localization-aware, prior-guided U-Net), an inclusion-guided and output-consistency-regularized framework evaluated entirely on controlled synthetic OCT-like phantoms. The network estimates the absorption coefficient μ a , the reduced scattering coefficient μ s ′, and a study-defined composite attenuation coefficient μ c = μ a + μ s ′ from a single-channel OCT-like B-scan produced by a phenomenological attenuation, surface-response, roll-off, speckle, and noise generator. A multi-phantom dataset of 1500 samples spans smooth layered, rough multilayer, heterogeneous inclusion, and shifted-parameter noisy conditions. Against a GroupNorm U-Net baseline, LA-PG-UNet reduced inclusion-region μ c mean absolute error (MAE) in all four test partitions (13.63%, 6.80%, 4.43%, 5.36%; all significant after Holm correction) and reduced output-consistency error in all four (significant in three), while the baseline retained lower global μ c MAE—a genuine trade-off between background-dominated full-image reconstruction and localized inclusion recovery. Regional errors for all three coefficients show the inclusion gain is carried almost entirely by μ s ′, with μ a unchanged. A controlled component-wise ablation under shared initialization shows that the output-consistency loss, the inclusion-weighted regression term, the auxiliary branch, and the feature gate each contribute measurably and in different directions, and pixel-level AUROC of 0.74–0.84 indicates coarse but non-random inclusion localization despite low dice. A training-calibrated classical depth-resolved attenuation estimator and a two-output analytical comparator were both outperformed in inclusion-region μ c MAE. All results describe generalization within the synthetic simulator; no experimental OCT or physical-phantom validation is claimed.
- 27 August 2026
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Continuum
- Vol. 5 (9) , 2914
Synthetic-data-driven optical-property mapping in OCT-like phantoms using an inclusion-guided consistency-regularized U-Net
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) provides depth-resolved structural information, but estimating dense optical-property maps from intensity data is an ill-conditioned inverse problem. This study presents LA-PG-UNet (localization-aware, prior-guided U-Net), an inclusion-guided and output-consistency-regularized framework evaluated entirely on controlled synthetic OCT-like phantoms. The network estimates the absorption coefficient μ a , the reduced scattering coefficient μ s ′, and a study-defined composite attenuation coefficient μ c = μ a + μ s ′ from a single-channel OCT-like B-scan produced by a phenomenological attenuation, surface-response, roll-off, speckle, and noise generator. A multi-phantom dataset of 1500 samples spans smooth layered, rough multilayer, heterogeneous inclusion, and shifted-parameter noisy conditions. Against a GroupNorm U-Net baseline, LA-PG-UNet reduced inclusion-region μ c mean absolute error (MAE) in all four test partitions (13.63%, 6.80%, 4.43%, 5.36%; all significant after Holm correction) and reduced output-consistency error in all four (significant in three), while the baseline retained lower global μ c MAE—a genuine trade-off between background-dominated full-image reconstruction and localized inclusion recovery. Regional errors for all three coefficients show the inclusion gain is carried almost entirely by μ s ′, with μ a unchanged. A controlled component-wise ablation under shared initialization shows that the output-consistency loss, the inclusion-weighted regression term, the auxiliary branch, and the feature gate each contribute measurably and in different directions, and pixel-level AUROC of 0.74–0.84 indicates coarse but non-random inclusion localization despite low dice. A training-calibrated classical depth-resolved attenuation estimator and a two-output analytical comparator were both outperformed in inclusion-region μ c MAE. All results describe generalization within the synthetic simulator; no experimental OCT or physical-phantom validation is claimed.
- Open Access
- 28 May 2026
- Published by Wiley in Engineering Reports
- Vol. 8 (6) , e70856
LCDLNet: Attention Mechanism‐Based Deep Learning Framework for Lung Cancer Diagnosis from Computed Tomography (CT) Images
- 28 May 2026
- Published by Wiley in Engineering Reports
- Vol. 8 (6) , e70856
Open AccessLCDLNet: Attention Mechanism‐Based Deep Learning Framework for Lung Cancer Diagnosis from Computed Tomography (CT) Images
- Open Access
- 13 September 2024
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Access
- Vol. 12, 131942-131953
OVANet: Dual Attention Mechanism Based New Deep Learning Framework for Diagnosis and Classification of Ovarian Cancer Subtypes From Histopathological Images
This paper introduces OVANet, a new deep learning framework for the diagnosis and classification of ovarian cancer subtypes from histopathological images. OVANet has been designed by integrating modified VGG19 and InceptionV3 blocks, incorporating dual attention mechanism (Squeeze-and-Excitation and custom spatial attention) to capture rich, multi-scale, and context-aware feature representations. This unique architecture combines intermediate layers from both base models, along with additional convolutional and max-pooling layers, dual attention mechanisms and global average pooling to extract diverse image features crucial for accurate subtype differentiation. OVANet is trained and evaluated on an original dataset of 508 histopathological images, augmented to approximately 13,024 images through preprocessing and augmentation techniques like rotations, shifts, zooms, and flips. This approach significantly enhances the generalization capabilities of the model, enabling it to achieve superior performance compared to well-known pretrained models and existing research outputs. The propose model shows accuracy, precision and AUC of 99.01% along with a recall of 99.87%. Using feature map visualization of all layers of the model and a model explainibility technique GRADCam, visual representation of classification have been shown which will help to establish transparency in clinical aspect. This architecture can be considered as a significant advancement in medical imaging, especially for the diagnosis and treatment planning of ovarian cancer. To reduce the death rate of cancer, proper detection is very essential and this model exhibits so promising results that can easily implemented clinically.
- 13 September 2024
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Access
- Vol. 12, 131942-131953
Open AccessOVANet: Dual Attention Mechanism Based New Deep Learning Framework for Diagnosis and Classification of Ovarian Cancer Subtypes From Histopathological Images
This paper introduces OVANet, a new deep learning framework for the diagnosis and classification of ovarian cancer subtypes from histopathological images. OVANet has been designed by integrating modified VGG19 and InceptionV3 blocks, incorporating dual attention mechanism (Squeeze-and-Excitation and custom spatial attention) to capture rich, multi-scale, and context-aware feature representations. This unique architecture combines intermediate layers from both base models, along with additional convolutional and max-pooling layers, dual attention mechanisms and global average pooling to extract diverse image features crucial for accurate subtype differentiation. OVANet is trained and evaluated on an original dataset of 508 histopathological images, augmented to approximately 13,024 images through preprocessing and augmentation techniques like rotations, shifts, zooms, and flips. This approach significantly enhances the generalization capabilities of the model, enabling it to achieve superior performance compared to well-known pretrained models and existing research outputs. The propose model shows accuracy, precision and AUC of 99.01% along with a recall of 99.87%. Using feature map visualization of all layers of the model and a model explainibility technique GRADCam, visual representation of classification have been shown which will help to establish transparency in clinical aspect. This architecture can be considered as a significant advancement in medical imaging, especially for the diagnosis and treatment planning of ovarian cancer. To reduce the death rate of cancer, proper detection is very essential and this model exhibits so promising results that can easily implemented clinically.
- Open Access
- 11 September 2024
- Published by MDPI AG in Information
- Vol. 15 (9) , 560
WGCAMNet: Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Network Augmented and Custom Attention Mechanism Based Deep Neural Network for Enhanced Brain Tumor Detection and Classification
Brain tumor detection and categorization of its subtypes are essential for early diagnosis and improving patient outcomes. This research presents a cutting-edge approach that employs advanced data augmentation and deep learning methodologies for brain tumor classification. For this work, a dataset of 6982 MRI images from the IEEE Data Port was considered, in which a total of 5712 images of four classes (1321 glioma, 1339 meningioma, 1595 no tumor, and 1457 pituitary) were used in the training set and a total of 1270 images of the same four classes were used in the testing set. A Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Network was implemented to generate synthetic images to address class imbalance, resulting in a balanced and consistent dataset. A comparison was conducted between various data augmentation metholodogies demonstrating that Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Network-augmented results perform excellently over traditional augmentation (such as rotation, shift, zoom, etc.) and no augmentation. Additionally, a Gaussian filter and normalization were applied during preprocessing to reduce noise, highlighting its superior accuracy and edge preservation by comparing its performance to Median and Bilateral filters. The classifier model combines parallel feature extraction from modified InceptionV3 and VGG19 followed by custom attention mechanisms for effectively capturing the characteristics of each tumor type. The model was trained for 64 epochs using model checkpoints to save the best-performing model based on validation accuracy and learning rate adjustments. The model achieved a 99.61% accuracy rate on the testing set, with precision, recall, AUC, and loss of 0.9960, 0.9960, 0.0153, and 0.9999, respectively. The proposed architecture’s explainability has been enhanced by t-SNE plots, which show unique tumor clusters, and Grad-CAM representations, which highlight crucial areas in MRI scans. This research showcases an explainable and robust approach for correctly classifying four brain tumor types, combining WGAN-augmented data with advanced deep learning models in feature extraction. The framework effectively manages class imbalance and integrates a custom attention mechanism, outperforming other models, thereby improving diagnostic accuracy and reliability in clinical settings.
- 11 September 2024
- Published by MDPI AG in Information
- Vol. 15 (9) , 560
Open AccessWGCAMNet: Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Network Augmented and Custom Attention Mechanism Based Deep Neural Network for Enhanced Brain Tumor Detection and Classification
Brain tumor detection and categorization of its subtypes are essential for early diagnosis and improving patient outcomes. This research presents a cutting-edge approach that employs advanced data augmentation and deep learning methodologies for brain tumor classification. For this work, a dataset of 6982 MRI images from the IEEE Data Port was considered, in which a total of 5712 images of four classes (1321 glioma, 1339 meningioma, 1595 no tumor, and 1457 pituitary) were used in the training set and a total of 1270 images of the same four classes were used in the testing set. A Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Network was implemented to generate synthetic images to address class imbalance, resulting in a balanced and consistent dataset. A comparison was conducted between various data augmentation metholodogies demonstrating that Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Network-augmented results perform excellently over traditional augmentation (such as rotation, shift, zoom, etc.) and no augmentation. Additionally, a Gaussian filter and normalization were applied during preprocessing to reduce noise, highlighting its superior accuracy and edge preservation by comparing its performance to Median and Bilateral filters. The classifier model combines parallel feature extraction from modified InceptionV3 and VGG19 followed by custom attention mechanisms for effectively capturing the characteristics of each tumor type. The model was trained for 64 epochs using model checkpoints to save the best-performing model based on validation accuracy and learning rate adjustments. The model achieved a 99.61% accuracy rate on the testing set, with precision, recall, AUC, and loss of 0.9960, 0.9960, 0.0153, and 0.9999, respectively. The proposed architecture’s explainability has been enhanced by t-SNE plots, which show unique tumor clusters, and Grad-CAM representations, which highlight crucial areas in MRI scans. This research showcases an explainable and robust approach for correctly classifying four brain tumor types, combining WGAN-augmented data with advanced deep learning models in feature extraction. The framework effectively manages class imbalance and integrates a custom attention mechanism, outperforming other models, thereby improving diagnostic accuracy and reliability in clinical settings.
- Open Access
- 1 December 2023
- Published by Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science in Bulletin of Electrical Engineering and Informatics
- Vol. 12 (6) , 3428-3437
Microstrip patch antenna design and simulation for S-band wireless applications operating at 3.5 GHz
In the modern world, wireless technology is one way to send information from one place to another. This technology is getting better and better with time, which significantly impacts the activities that make up daily living. This wireless application has the most impact on mobile and other technologies. This research paper shows the design and analysis of a 3.5 GHz microstrip patch antenna (MPA) for wireless applications. The substrate material is Roggers RT/duroid, which has a dielectric permittivity of 2.2 computer simulation technology (CST) software does antenna design and simulation. Some observed parameters are the S-parameter, antenna directivity gain, voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR), and bandwidth. From the simulation, the return loss, VSWR, directivity gain, and bandwidth are -50.4227, 1.0061, 7.43 dBi, and 122.1 MHz respectively. This study aims to find the best return loss, get the most directional gain, and get the VSWR closer to 1. When this antenna was used, the results were better than those in scientific journals and conferences. As a result, this antenna is anticipated to fulfill the requirements of various wireless communication applications effectively.
- 1 December 2023
- Published by Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science in Bulletin of Electrical Engineering and Informatics
- Vol. 12 (6) , 3428-3437
Open AccessMicrostrip patch antenna design and simulation for S-band wireless applications operating at 3.5 GHz
In the modern world, wireless technology is one way to send information from one place to another. This technology is getting better and better with time, which significantly impacts the activities that make up daily living. This wireless application has the most impact on mobile and other technologies. This research paper shows the design and analysis of a 3.5 GHz microstrip patch antenna (MPA) for wireless applications. The substrate material is Roggers RT/duroid, which has a dielectric permittivity of 2.2 computer simulation technology (CST) software does antenna design and simulation. Some observed parameters are the S-parameter, antenna directivity gain, voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR), and bandwidth. From the simulation, the return loss, VSWR, directivity gain, and bandwidth are -50.4227, 1.0061, 7.43 dBi, and 122.1 MHz respectively. This study aims to find the best return loss, get the most directional gain, and get the VSWR closer to 1. When this antenna was used, the results were better than those in scientific journals and conferences. As a result, this antenna is anticipated to fulfill the requirements of various wireless communication applications effectively.
- 19 December 2020
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- p. 1-4
Multivariate Regression Model for Total Body Water Estimation by Non-Invasive Way
This paper shows total body water (TBW) measurement models for human body based on multivariate regression analysis by non-invasive way. A total number of 1500 people’s data (750 male and 750 female) have been used to develop two models. For developing different model for male and female, two models have been developed.To validate the proposed models some major statistical analysis have been considered. Statistical analysis reports exhibit excellent accuracy i.e. correlation coefficient is close to unity (0.998, 0.997), presence of error within the 95% of Limit of Agreement, less bias (0.03), 0.24) and less RMSE (0.82, 0.69) and hence the proposed models will be able to measure total body water more accurately than existing models.
- 19 December 2020
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- p. 1-4
Multivariate Regression Model for Total Body Water Estimation by Non-Invasive Way
This paper shows total body water (TBW) measurement models for human body based on multivariate regression analysis by non-invasive way. A total number of 1500 people’s data (750 male and 750 female) have been used to develop two models. For developing different model for male and female, two models have been developed.To validate the proposed models some major statistical analysis have been considered. Statistical analysis reports exhibit excellent accuracy i.e. correlation coefficient is close to unity (0.998, 0.997), presence of error within the 95% of Limit of Agreement, less bias (0.03), 0.24) and less RMSE (0.82, 0.69) and hence the proposed models will be able to measure total body water more accurately than existing models.