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    GAN data augmentation for improved automated atherosclerosis screening from coronary CT angiography
    (2023) Laidi, Amel; Ammar, Mohammed; El Habib Daho, Mostafa; Mahmoudi, Said
    Atherosclerosis is a chronic medical condition that can result in coronary artery disease,strokes, or even heart attacks. early detection can result in timely interventions and save lives.OBJECTIVES: In this work, a fully automatic transfer learning-based model was proposed for Atherosclerosisdetection in coronary CT angiography (CCTA). The model’s performance was improved by generating trainingdata using a Generative Adversarial Network.METHODS: A first experiment was established on the original dataset with a Resnet network, reaching 95.2%accuracy, 60.8% sensitivity, 99.25% specificity and 90.48% PPV. A Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) wasthen used to generate a new set of images to balance the dataset, creating more positive images. Experimentswere made adding from 100 to 1000 images to the dataset.RESULTS: adding 1000 images resulted in a small drop in accuracy to 93.2%, but an improvement in overallperformance with 89.0% sensitivity, 97.37% specificity and 97.13% PPV.CONCLUSION: This paper was one of the early research projects investigating the efficiency of dataaugmentation using GANs for atherosclerosis, with results comparable to the state of the art
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    High-capacity DWT-SVD watermarking for MRI images embedding MITR medical information
    (Elsevier, 2025) Benyoucef, Aicha; Goudjil, Aya; Hamadouche, M'Hamed; Boutalbi, Mohammed Chaker; Ammar, Mohammed; El Habib Daho, Mostafa
    Securing Medical Imaging Test Reports (MITRs) during digital transmission is a growing concern in the era of telemedicine. Conventional watermarking methods often face a trade-off between imperceptibility, robustness, and payload capacity, especially in the context of sensitive medical data. To address this challenge, we propose an efficient and secure watermarking technique tailored for MRI brain images, using a combination of Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) and Singular Value Decomposition (SVD). The core idea involves embedding four sub-watermarks—a QR-encoded MITR, patient photo, and hospital logos—into strategically selected Region of Non-Interest (RONI) blocks of the cover image, while preserving the diagnostic Region of Interest (ROI). This region-based design ensures both high payload capacity and minimal visual distortion, even under hardware constraints. Experimental evaluations demonstrate that our method maintains high imperceptibility (PSNR > 67 dB, SSIM = 1.000), robustness (NC > 0.9430), and zero Bit Error Rate (BER = 0.1120) under common image processing attacks. Additionally, the use of QR codes for encoding the MITR improves the security and confidentiality of patient data. Compared to recent approaches, our method achieves better performance in both visual quality and robustness, confirming its effectiveness for secure medical image transmission in clinical and telehealth applications
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    Toward an automatic detection of cardiac structures in short and long axis views
    (Elsevier, 2023) Laidi, Amel; Mohammed, Ammar; El Habib Daho, Mostafa; Mahmoudi, Said
    Objective: This work aims to create an automatic detection process of cardiac structures in both short-axis and long-axis views. A workflow inspired by human thinking process, for better explainability. Methods: we began by separating the images into two classes: long axis and short axis, using a Residual Network model. Then, we used Particle Swarm Optimization for general segmentation. After segmentation, a characterization step based on shape descriptors calculated from bounding box and ANOVA for features selection were applied on the binary images to detect the location of each region of interest: lung, left and right ventricle in the short-axis view, the aorta, the left heart (left atrium and ventricle), and the right heart (right atrium and ventricle) in the long axis view. Results: we achieved a 90% accuracy on view separation. We have selected: Elongation, Compactness, Circularity, Type Factor, for short axis identification; and:Area, Centre of Mass Y, Moment of Inertia XY, Moment of Inertia YY, for long axis identification. Conclusion: a successful separation of long axis and short axis views allows for a better characterization and detection of segmented cardiac structures. After that, any method can be applied for segmentation, attribute selection, and classification. Significance: an attempt to introduce explainability into cardiac image segmentation, we tried to mimic the human workflow while computerizing each step. The process seems to be valid and added clarity and interpretability to the detection