Group
Status	Former member
Country	Portugal
Students
Former PhD students
Former masters students
Projects
Past projects
Events	CAIP2011, ECCB12, ENS 2011, HBM 2011, ICIAR 2012, ICIP 2012, ISI proceedings
Proposals	GOLD - Genome Wide Association, PermuTest
Personal page	http://www.ieeta.pt/~malrawi/

Info

My current research is a mix between pattern recognition and neuroimaging.The purpose is using machine learning and pattern recognition algorithms on functional magnetic resonance imaging data to decode brain states, and/or analyzing structural brain data. I am also interested in developing computer vision techniques to detect 2D and 3D objects, applying evolutionary algorithms, and developing/using permutation testing methods. Besides music, (soccer) video games, scientific research is my other favorite pastime.

Expertise

- Functional and Structural (human) Brain Analysis 
- Medical Image Processing
- Multi-voxel Pattern Analysis
- 2D and 3D object recognition, invariant to affine and rigid transformations
- Pseudo Zernike and Zernike Moments
- Multi-objective Optimization using Evolutionary Algorithms / Genetic algorithms
- Higher Order Neural Networks
- Pattern Classification
- Machine Learning
- Diabetic Retinopathy
- Genome wide association studies
- Music Generation via Computer Algorithms
- Iris Recognition and Clustering
- Permutation Testing

Membership(s)

IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS)

Human Brain Mapping (2010)

Other links

http://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=UiOMHdYAAAAJ
http://www.researcherid.com/rid/C-7251-2008
http://cordis.europa.eu/partners/web/malrawi/profile

Contribution to Open Source

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/authors/215770

Which contains:

1- Armitage’s Trend Test, usually used in genome-wide association studies (GWAS)
2- Finding SNP markers contingency tables 
3- Fast generation of Zernike radial polynomials via q-recursion

4- Fast generation of pseudo Zernike radial polynomials via p-recursion

5- Kintner's method to generate Zernike radial polynomials

6- Prata's method  to generate Zernike radial polynomials

7-  2D, 3D, ND Trapezoidal integrals

Matlab versus C/C++ language, which one is faster?

_{To test for the speed issue, and how fast each environment is, I computed the so called pseudo Zernike radial polynomials for 1 milion r values, up to the order 99, using an efficient method widely known as the p-recursive.}

_{Running the C++ executable in release mode:}

_{[alrawi@srv Release]$Pzmp                                              
Number of r values is: 1000,000 (1M)
execution time (s) of Pseudo Zernike Polynomials values is: 3.25 seconds
[alrawi@srv Release]$}

_{As for matlab, the execution for the same size problem, by using vectorized technique, was nearly twice as that of the C function.
>> tic; R = pseudo_zernike_polynomials_p_recursive(99,0, x); toc
Elapsed time is 6.589477 seconds.}

_{Result: For the above task, C is twice faster than matlab.}

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Publications

Articles in international journals listed in the ISI

• Mohammed S. Al-Rawi, João Paulo Cunha. On using permutation tests to estimate the classification significance of functional magnetic resonance imaging data. Neurocomputing, vol. 82, p. 224–233, April 2012 [IF 2012: 1.634 (Q2, 37/115)] [IF 2017: 3.241 (Q1, 27/132)]
• Mohammed S. Al-Rawi, João Paulo Cunha. Using multivariate pattern analysis to study how specific brain regions respond to different visual stimulation. Journal of Neurology, vol. 258, p. S167, May 2011 [IF 2011: 3.473, 3.473, 3.473, 3.473]
• Mohammed S. Al-Rawi. Fast Computation of Pseudo Zernike Moments. Journal of Real-Time Image Processing, vol. 5, p. 3-10, 2010 [IF 2010: 0.962]
• Mohammed S. Al-Rawi, Jie Yang. Using Gabor filter for the illumination invariant recognition of color texture. Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, vol. 77, no. 5-6, p. 550-555, May 2008 [IF 2008: 0.930]
• Mohammed S. Al-Rawi. Fast Zernike Moments. Journal of Real-Time Image Processing, vol. 3, p. 89-96, January 2008
• Mohammed S. Al-Rawi, Huda Karajeh. Genetic algorithm matched filter optimization for automated detection of blood vessels from digital retinal images. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, vol. 87, no. 3, p. 248-253, September 2007 [IF 2007: 0.887] [IF 2017: 2.674 (Q1, 19/103)]
• Mohammed S. Al-Rawi, Munib Qutaishat, Mohd Arrar. An improved matched filter for blood vessel detection of digital retinal images. Computers in Biology and Medicine, vol. 37, no. 2, p. 262-267, February 2007 [IF 2007: 1.170, 1.170, 1.170]
• Jie Yang, Mohammed S. Al-Rawi. Illumination invariant recognition of three-dimensional texture in color images. Journal of Computer Science and Technology, vol. 20, no. 3, p. 378-388, 2005
• Mohammed S. Al-Rawi. A neural network to solve the hybrid N-parity: Learning with generalization issues. Neurocomputing, vol. 68, p. 273-280, October 2005 [IF 2005: 0.790] [IF 2017: 3.241 (Q1, 27/132)]
• Mohammed S. Al-Rawi, Jie Yang, Ye Chen Zhou. Illumination-euclidean invariant recognition of color texture using correlation and covariance. Journal of Infrared and Millimeter Waves, vol. 22, p. 321-326, October 2003
• Mohammed S. Al-Rawi, Jie Yang. Practical fast computation of Zernike moments. Journal of Computer Science and Technology, vol. 17, no. 2, p. 181-188, March 2002

Other articles in journals

• Hamido Hourani, Mohammed S. Al-Rawi, Abd El-Latif Abu Dalhoum, Sabina Jeschke. The Human Face Semantic Web. International Journal of Computers, vol. 3, no. 2, p. 218-230, September 2008
• Mohammed B. Al-Zoubi, Mohammed S. Al-Rawi. An Efficient Approach for Computing Silhouette Coefficients. Journal of Computer Science, vol. 4, no. 3, p. 252-255, March 2008

Chapters in books

• Mohammed S. Al-Rawi, Kamal R. Al-Rawi. On the Equivalence between High-Order Neural Networks and Ordinary Neural Networks. Artificial Higher Order Neural Networks for Computer Science and Engineering: Trends for Emerging Applications, M. Zhang (Ed.), IGI Global, p. 138-157, 2010
• Mohammed S. Al-Rawi, Huda Karajeh, Abdel Lait Dalhoum. Vessel Detection Experiments Using a Gaussian Matched Filter. Image Modeling of the Human Eye, R. Acharya, E.Y.K.N. Nanyang, J.S. Suri (Ed.), Arteck House, Boston, USA, 2008

Articles in conference proceedings

• Mohammed S. Al-Rawi. Numerical Stability Quality-Factor for Orthogonal Polynomials: Zernike Radial Polynomials Case Study. Image Analysis and Recognition, vol. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 7950, p. 676-686, June 2013
• Mohammed S. Al-Rawi, João Paulo Cunha. Using permutation tests to study how the dimensionality, the number of classes, and the number of samples affect classification analysis. Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition, ICIAR, 2012
• Mohammed S. Al-Rawi. 3D (Pseudo) Zernike Moments: Fast Computation via Symmetry Properties of Spherical Harmonics and Recursive Radial Polynomials. In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Orlando, USA, p. 2353-2356, October 2012
• Mohammed S. Al-Rawi, João Paulo Cunha. A winner shoe in the motor cortex. 22nd Meeting of the European Neurological Society, vol. 259, p. S84-S85, June 2012
• Mohammed S. Al-Rawi, João Paulo Cunha. Functional brain mapping by methods of evolutionary natural selection. Computer analysis of images and patterns, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, vol. LNCS 6855, p. 293-299, September 2011
• João Duarte, Maria Ribeiro, Inês Violante, Gil Cunha, Mohammed S. Al-Rawi, João Paulo Cunha, Miguel Castelo-Branco. Multivariate pattern analysis of brain structure: a diagnostic tool for Neurofibromatosis type 1. 1st Portuguese Meeting in Bioengineering, Portuguese chapter of IEEE EMBS, February 2011
• Mohammed S. Al-Rawi, João Paulo Cunha. Decoding visual cues from brain activity in humans,. 2nd Annual Meeting IBILI (From molecules to systems in health and diseases), Coimbra, Portugal, vol. 2, p. 69-70, December 2010
• Joao Duarte, Maria Ribeiro, Ines Violante, Mohammed S. Al-Rawi, João Paulo Cunha, Miguel Castelo-Branco. Machine Learning and Multivariate Pattern Recognition Techniques Identify Multiple Brain Areas of Abnormal Structure in Neurofibromatosis Type I. 2nd Annual Meeting IBILI (From molecules to systems in health and diseases), Coimbra, Portugal, vol. 2, p. 76-77, December 2010
• Mohammed S. Al-Rawi, João Paulo Cunha. Multivoxel Pattern Analysis Reveals Evidence of Robust Responses to Stimuli in the First Block. 16th meeting of the Organization for human brain mapping, Barcelona, Spain, December 2010
• Mohammed S. Al-Rawi, José Maria Fernandes, Sérgio Tafula, João Paulo Cunha. Association Analysis of Biosignals using Self Organizing Maps. Proceedings of the Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering World Congress, Munich, Germany, vol. 25/4, p. 2170-2173, 2009
• Mohammed S. Al-Rawi, Abdel Latif Abu-Dalhoum, Yousef Salah, Wisam Al-Mobaideen, Ansar Khoury. A New Color Transformation for JPEG-2000 Image Compression. Proceedings of the 12th Wseas International Conference on Computers , Pts 1-3 - New Aspects of Computers, p. 159-162, 2008
• Mohammed S. Al-Rawi, Abdel Latif Abu Dalhoum, Ahmed Al-Sharieh, Ayman M. Najjar, Maen M. Najjar, S. Shayreh. Intellibot: Remotely Controlled Intelligent Vehicle. New Aspects of Systems, Crete, Greece, vol. Parts 1-2, p. 620-625, 2008
• Mjid A. Al-Taee, Mohammed S. Al-Rawi, Fadi Al-Ghawamneh. Time-frequency analysis of the Arabian flute (Nay) tone applied to automatic music transcription. 2008 IEEE/ACS International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, Qatar, p. 891-894, 2008

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