Dr Ahmed, is a research active academic. He is currently the Head of School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus. He is also the Director of the CiH (Computing in Health) Research Group.
Amr’s research interest and expertise is focused on the AI and Machine Learning and their applications in computer vision and image/video analysis, understanding, and interpretation of visual contents (Images and Videos). His current (and previous) research topics include:
- Medical Image/Video Analysis and Health-related applications, including:
- in-vivo Digital Pathology (e.g. Detection and Classification of BE).
- Tumor Lesion Characterization (using Radiologist terminologies).
- Lesion detection, segmentation, and classification.
- Integration of knowledge with computer vision for semantic analysis and diagnosis.
- CBIR and fusion of multimodal data for diagnosis.
- Minimally-invasive Personalized Health screening & monitoring.
- Video Analysis: Matching, Similarity, annotation, scene understanding and Semantic Analysis.
- Contents-Based Video Retrieval (CBVR).
- Contents-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR).
- Handwriting recognition, especially in Arabic.
Dr Ahmed has successfully supervised a number of PhDs and MSc by research students, and couple of RAs on his research projects. He is a Member of the British Computer Society (MBCS) and the IEEE Computer Society. Amr is also a committee member, a member of Editorial Board, and reviewer for a number of international journals and conferences. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and M.Sc. degree (by research) in Computer and Systems Engineering, from Ain Shams University, Egypt, in 1993 and 1998 respectively, and his Ph.D. degree in 3D Computer Graphics and Animation from the University of Surrey, U.K., in 2005.
Before joining Nottingham, Amr worked in the industry for several years, including in Sharp Labs of Europe (SLE), Oxford (UK), as a Research Scientist, and other Engineering Consultants companies abroad. He also worked as a Research Fellow, at the University of Surrey, before joining the academic staff at the University of Lincoln in 2005. He then founded and has been the Leader of the DCAPI {Digital Contents Analysis, Production, and Interaction} research group, in Lincoln.
Amr welcomes any potential collaborators and/or potential researchers/students to contact him to discuss any potential research ideas. {See “Vacancies” page for current vacancies}
| Contact details | On the Web: |
| Dr Amr Ahmed | On ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Amr_Ahmed |
| On ORCID (ORCID: 0000-0002-7749-7911): https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7749-7911 |
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| Email: Amr@AmrAhmed.net | Staff Web Page: https://www.nottingham.edu.my/ComputerScience/People/amr.ahmed |