Publications
Publications
1) The First Arab African Teleneurology Conference: A Treat and Teach initiative Tamer Emara, Mohamed Sherif Al-Kotb, Mayar Nawara, Hani Farouk A. Mohamed, and Ahmed Elbokl. World Neurology March 2016
5) Middle East and North African Health Informatics Association (MENAHIA): Building Sustainable Collaboration Najeeb Al-Shorbajia, Mowafa Househb, Adel Taweelc, Abdullah Alanizib, Bennani Othmani Mohammedd, Haitham Abazae, Hala Bawadif, Hamayon Rasulyg, Khalid Alyafeih, Luis Fernandez-Luquei, Mohamed Shoumanj, Osama El-Hassank, Rada Husseinl, Riyad Alshammarim, Salah Mandiln, Sarah Shoumanj, Shahrad Taherio, Tamer Emaraj, Wasmiya Dalhemp, Zaid Al-Hamdanq, Zineb Serhierr Yearb Med Inform 2018; 27(01): 286-291. DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1641207
6) Shoman S, Emara T, Saber HG, Allam M. Awareness and Attitude of Healthcare Workers towards Telehealth in Cairo, Egypt. Authorea. November 15,2020.
7) Non-invasive Calibration-Free Blood Pressure Estimation Based on Artificial Neural Network Nashat Maher, GA Elsheikh, Wagdy R Anis, Tamer Emara. International Conference on Advanced Machine Learning Technologies and Applications. 701-711. 2019
8) Need for Telehealth in the Era of Covid-19 Sara Ahmed Esmat Shoman, Tamer Emara, Heba Gamal Saber and Mohamed Farouk Allam. Biomed J Sci & Tech Res | BJSTR. MS.ID.005118. DOI: 10.26717/BJSTR.2020.31.005118
RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS
BOOK CHAPTERS
1) Alireza Abouhossein, Uriel Martinez-Hernandez, Mohammed I. Awad, Imran Mahmood, Derya Yilmaz, and Abbas A. Dehghani-Sanij. "Assistive Gait Wearable Robots—From the Laboratory to the Real Environment." In Reinventing Mechatronics, pp. 75-92. Springer, 2020.
2) K. S. Tee, M. Awad, C. F. Soon, A. Dehghani, D. Moser, and S. Zehedi, “Ambulatory System For Gait Monitoring And Assessment” In R. Abdul Rahim, K. H. Abas, and N. A. M Subra., editors, Sensor & Instrumentation System Series 3, pages 95-118, Penerbit UTHM, 2017. ISBN 978-967-2110-27-9.
JOURNAL PAPERS
1) Ahmed Halim, A. Abdellatif, Mohammed I. Awad and Mostafa R. A. Atia, “Prediction of Human Gait Activities Using Wearable Sensors”, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part H: Journal of Engineering in Medicine, 2021
3) Tahir Hussain, Nadeem Iqbal, Hafiz Farhan Maqbool, Mukhtaj Khan, Mohammed Ibrahim Awad, Abbas A Dehghani-Sanij, “Intent based recognition of walking and ramp activities for amputee using sEMG based lower limb prostheses”, Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering, 2020.
4) Omar T. Abdelaziz, Shady A. Maged, Mohammed I. Awad, “Towards Dynamic Task/Posture Control of a 4DOF Humanoid Robotic Arm”, International Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics Research, 2020.
5) Alireza Abouhossein, Mohammed I. Awad, Hafiz F. Maqbool, Carl Crisp, Todd Stewart, Neil Messenger, Robert C. Richardson, Abbas A. Dehghani-Sanij, and David Bradley, "Foot trajectories and loading rates in a transfemoral amputee for six different commercial prosthetic knees: An indication of adaptability", Medical engineering & physics, 2019.
6) H. F. Maqbool, M. A. B. Husman, M. I. Awad, A. Abouhossein, N. Iqbal, and A. A. Dehghani-Sanij, "Heuristic real-time detection of temporal gait events for lower limb amputees”, IEEE Sensors Journal, 2019 (DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2018.2889970)
7) M. Zarzoura, P. Del Moral, M. I Awad, and F. A. Tolbah, “Investigation into reducing anthropomorphic hand degrees of freedom while maintaining human hand grasping functions”, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part H: Journal of Engineering in Medicine, 2019
8) S. A. Abdelwahab, F. A. Tolbah, M. M. Abdelhameed, M. B. Trabia, and M. I. Awad, “Characterization and Control of IPMC for Use in Bio-inspired Actuators”, International Journal of Mechanisms and Robotic Systems (ISSN 2047-7252), 4(3), pp.155-175, 2018.
9) H. F. Maqbool, M. A. B. Husman, M. I. Awad, A. Abouhossein, N. Iqbal, and A. A. Dehghani-Sanij, "A Real-Time Gait Event Detection for Lower Limb Prosthesis Control and Evaluation," IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering (ISSN: 1534-4320), Vol. 25, Issue 9, pp.1500-1509, 2017.
10) A. A. Ibrahim, M. I. Awad, A. A. Alnaqi, A. A. Abdel Kader, and F. A. Tolbah, “Features Selection and Pattern Classification of Electroencephalography Motor Imagery Tasks of Right Hand”, Research Journal of Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology (ISSN 2040-7467), 14(10): 372-379, 2017.
11) Z. W. Lui, M. I. Awad, A. Abouhossein, A. A. Dehghani-Sanij, and N. Messenger, "Virtual prototyping of a semi-active transfemoral prosthetic leg," Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part H: Journal of Engineering in Medicine (ISSN 2041-3033), vol. 229, pp. 350-361, 2015.
12) F. A. Tolbah, M. M. Abdelhameed, M. I. Awad, and S. A. Abdelwahab, "Towards development of a bio-inspired artificial muscle using IPMC for potential applications in robotics," International Journal of Mechanisms and Robotic Systems (ISSN 2047-7252), vol. 2, pp. 341-364, 2015.
PEER-REVIEWED FULL CONFERENCE PAPERS
1) H. Sarwat, H. Sarwat, M. I. Awad and S. A. Maged, "Assessment of Post-Stroke Patients Using Smartphones and Gradient Boosting," 2020 15th International Conference on Computer Engineering and Systems (ICCES), Cairo, Egypt, 2020, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ICCES51560.2020.9334654.
2) H. Sarwat, M. I. Awad, S. A. Maged and H. Sarwat, "Self-Organizing Maps to Assess Rehabilitation Progress of Post-Stroke Patients," 2020 2nd Novel Intelligent and Leading Emerging Sciences Conference (NILES), Giza, Egypt, 2020, pp. 116-121, doi: 10.1109/NILES50944.2020.9257927.
3) M. N . El-Agroudy, M. I. Awad, A. Rehan, and S. A. Maged. "Assistive exoskeleton hand glove using soft pneumatic actuators: design optimization." In IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, IOP Publishing, 2020
4) S. A. Mohamed, M. I. Awad and S. A. Maged, "Online Gait Generation For NAO Humanoid Robot Using Model Predictive Control," 2020 International Conference on Innovative Trends in Communication and Computer Engineering (ITCE), Aswan, Egypt, 2020, pp. 205-209, doi: 10.1109/ITCE48509.2020.9047782.
5) A. Halim, A. A. Ibrahim, M. I. Awad and M. R. A. Atia, "Optimization of Sensor Number for Lower Limb Prosthetics using Genetic Algorithm," 2020 International Conference on Innovative Trends in Communication and Computer Engineering (ITCE), Aswan, Egypt, 2020, pp. 210-215, doi: 10.1109/ITCE48509.2020.9047780
6) M. N. El-Agroudy, M Gaber, D Joseph, M Ibrahim, M Amin, D Helmy, M Hanafy, S Hisham, M. I. Awad, A. R. Youssef, S. A. Maged, "Assistive Exoskeleton Hand Glove," 2020 International Conference on Innovative Trends in Communication and Computer Engineering (ITCE), Aswan, Egypt, 2020, pp. 164-169, doi: 10.1109/ITCE48509.2020.9047803.
7) Ahmed Mobrez, Muhammad El-Brollossy, Muhammad Yehia, Mohammed I. Awad, Shady A. Maged, Dilruba Siddiqi, Hafiz F. Maqbool, "Microprocessor-Based Hydraulic Damping-Controlled Prosthetic Knee for Developing Countries," 2019 International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Industry (ICRAI), Rawalpindi, Pakistan, 2019, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ICRAI47710.2019.8967393.
8) S. A. Mohamed, S. A. Maged and M. I. Awad, "Design and Control of the Lower Part of Humanoid Biped Robot," 2018 3rd International Conference on Robotics and Automation Engineering (ICRAE), Guangzhou, China, pp. 19-23, 2018. doi: 10.1109/ICRAE.2018.8586705
9) Alireza Abouhossein, Uriel Martinez Hernandez, Mohammed I. Awad, David Bradley, and Abbas A. Dehghani-Sanij. "Human-activity-centered measurement system: challenges from laboratory to the real environment in assistive gait wearable robotics." In 16th Mechatronics Forum International Conference, 2018.
10) U. Martinez-Hernandez, M. I. Awad, I. Mahmood, and A. A. Dehghani-Sanij, “Prediction of gait events in walking activities with a Bayesian perception system”, 2017 IEEE-RAS-EMBS International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR 2017), London, UK, 17-20 July, 2017.
11) M. A. Husman, H. F. Maqbool, M. I. Awad, and A. Dehghani-Sanij, “Portable Haptic Device for Lower Limb Amputee Gait Feedback: Assessing Static and Dynamic Perceptibility”, 2017 IEEE-RAS-EMBS International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR 2017), London, UK, 17-20 July, 2017.
12) M. A. Arafa, M. I. Awad, and F. A. Tolbah, “Proportional myoelectric prosthetic hand control using multiregression model estimator with pattern classifier selector”, IEEE International Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts (ARSO 2017), Austin, USA, 8-10 March, 2017.
13) Z. Muhammad, H. F. Maqbool, T. Hussain, M. I. Awad, P. Mehryar, N. Iqbal, and A. A. Dehghani-Sanij, “Heuristic Based Gait Event Detection for Human Lower Limb Movement”, International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI 2017), Orlando, Florida, USA, 16-19 February, 2017.
14) M. I. Awad, A. Abouhossein, B. Chong, A. A. Dehghani-Sanij, R. Richardson, D. Moser and S. Zahedi, “Investigation into Energy Efficiency and Regeneration in an Electric Prosthetic Knee”, International Conference on Neurorehabilitation, Segovia, Spain, 18-21 October, 2016.
15) H. F. Maqbool, M. A. B. Husman, M. I. Awad, A. Abouhossein, N. Iqbal and A. A. Dehghani-Sanij, “Stance Sub-Phases Gait Event Detection in Real-time for Ramp Ascent and Descent”, International Conference on Neurorehabilitation, Segovia, Spain, 18-21 October, 2016.
16) A. Abouhossein, M. I. Awad, C. Crisp, A. A. Dehghani-Sanij, N. Messenger, T.D. Stewart, O. M. Querin, R. Richardson, D. Bradley, “Gait abnormalities of above knee amputees, is it a design deficiency or compensatory strategy?”, International Conference on Neurorehabilitation, Segovia, Spain, 18-21 October, 2016.
17) M. I. Awad, A. Abouhossein, A. Dehghani-Sanij, R. Richardson, D. Moser, S. Zahedi, and D. Bradley, “Towards a Smart Semi-Active Prosthetic Leg: Preliminary Assessment and Testing”, in 7th IFAC Symposium on Mechatronics & 15th Mechatronics Forum International Conference, Loughborough, UK, 5-8 September, 2016.
18) H. Maqbool, M. Husman, M. I. Awad, A. Abouhossein, P. Mehryar, N. Iqbal, and A. Dehghani-Sanij, “Real-time gait event detection for lower limb amputees using a single wearable sensor”, in 38th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Orlando, FL, USA, 16-20 August 2016.
19) M. Husman, H. Maqbool, M. I. Awad, A. Abouhossein, and A. Dehghani-Sanij, “A Wearable Skin Stretch Haptic Feedback Device: Towards Improving Balance Control in Lower Limb Amputees”, in 38th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Orlando, FL, USA, 16-20 August 2016.
20) M. I. Awad, A. Abouhossein, A. Dehghani-Sanij, R. Richardson, O. Querin, D. Moser, and S. Zahedi, “Estimation of Actuation System Parameters for Lower Limb Prostheses”, in 17th International Conference on Research and Education in Mechatronics, France, 15-17 June, 2016.
21) M. I. Awad, A. Dehghani-Sanij, D. Moser, and S. Zahedi, “Motor Electrical Damping for Back-Drivable Prosthetic Knee”, in 17th International Conference on Research and Education in Mechatronics, France, 15-17 June, 2016.
22) H. F. Maqbool, M. A. B. Husman, M. I. Awad, A. Abouhossein, and A. A. Dehghani-Sanij, "Real-time gait event detection for transfemoral amputees during ramp ascending and descending," 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE in Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), pp. 4785-4788, 2015.
23) M. M. Hamdi, M. I. Awad, M. M. Abdelhameed, and F. A. Tolbah, "Lower limb gait activity recognition using Inertial Measurement Units for rehabilitation robotics," International Conference in Advanced Robotics (ICAR), pp. 316-322, 2015.
24) M. I. Awad, A. Dehghani-Sanij, D. Moser, and S. Zahedi, "Inertia Properties of a Prosthetic Knee Mechanism," in Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems. vol. 9287, C. Dixon and K. Tuyls, Eds., ed: Springer International Publishing, pp. 38-43, 2015.
25) H. Maqbool, P. Mehryar, M. Husman, M. I. Awad, A. Abouhossein, and A. Dehghani-Sanij, "Towards Intelligent Lower Limb Prostheses with Activity Recognition," in Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems. vol. 9287, C. Dixon and K. Tuyls, Eds., ed: Springer International Publishing, pp. 180-185, 2015.
27) F. A. Tolbah, M. M. Abdelhameed, M. I. Awad, and S. A. Abdelwahab, "Modeling and simulation of a new bioinspired muscle actuator," 15th International Workshop on Research and Education in Mechatronics (REM), pp. 1-7, 2014
28) M. Awad, A. Dehghani, David Moser, and Saeed Zahedi, “Dynamic Coupling Characteristics of a Semi-Active Knee Prosthesis”, CLAWAR 2013, Sydney, Australia, 14 – 17 July,
29) M. Awad, K. Sek Tee, Abbas A. Dehghani-Sanij, David Moser, and Saeed Zahedi, “Analysis and Performance of A Semi-Active Prosthetic Knee”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics (ICMEM 2012), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 16-18 August 2012.
30) M. Awad, K. Sek Tee, A. Dehghani, David Moser, and Saeed Zehedi ,“Design of An Efficient Back-Drivable Semi-Active Above Knee Prosthesis”, Proceedings of CLAWAR 2011: the 14th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots and the Support Technologies for Mobile Machines, pp. 35-42, Paris, France, 6 – 8 September 2011.
31) Z. Lui, M. Awad, A. Dehghani, and Neil Messenger, “Virtual Modelling, Prototyping and Simulation of Transfemoral Active Prosthetic Limb”, Proceedings of CLAWAR 2011: the 14th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots and the Support Technologies for Mobile Machines, pp. 759-766, Paris, France, 6 – 8 September 2011.
32) K. Sek Tee, M. Awad, A. Dehghani, David Moser, and Saeed Zehedi, “A Portable Gait Monitoring System for Lower Limb Prosthetic Alignment”, Proceedings of the World Congress on Engineering 2011 Vol. III WCE 2011, London, U.K, July 6 - 8, 2011.
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