Hessah Alsalamah

Al-Yamamah University · Department of Software Engineering

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated exceptional results in the analysis of time- series data when used for Human Activity Recognition (HAR). The manual design of such neural architectures is an error-prone and time-consuming process. The search for optimal CNN architectures is considered a revolution in the design of neural netwo...

University undergraduate pro- grams in computing disciplines are updated regularly to adapt to advancements in the field and emerging, fast-growing industry demand. This paper reports the current status of a selected set of undergraduate programs in com- puting fields in Saudi Arabia and compares them to other programs from international universi-...

Obesity is considered one of the leading causes of chronic and noncommunicable diseases; these include diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer. The obesity prevalence is threefold higher in the Arab Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) population than the rest of the world and leaves healthcare providers within the region with no alternative than to...

The pandemic has triggered an unprecedented global demand for home caregiving to manage asymptomatic and mild COVID-19 cases. Older people and others with pre-existing medical conditions (including diabetes) appear to be more vulnerable to severe illness caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. Approximately 25% of Saudis suff...

Research in recent years has shown a merge between the areas of requirements engineering and semantic technologies. With the release of the semantic concept and the progress of semantic technologies, the opportunities for applying ontologies as a means to define information and knowledge semantics have become increasingly accepted in different doma...

The Requirements elicitation involves knowledge intensive and collaborative activities. Requirements engineering research has proposed a range of knowledge elicitation and requirements gathering techniques, few of which apply specific strategies for eliciting tacit knowledge from stakeholders. The difficulty of taking the deliberate advantage of im...

Remote health monitoring applications with the advent of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies have changed traditional healthcare services. Additionally, in terms of personalized healthcare and disease prevention services, these depend primarily on the strategy used to derive knowledge from the analysis of lifestyle factors and activities. Through...

Mobile devices and the Internet of Things (IoT) are revolutionizing today's digital sectors, including healthcare. eHealth services delivery enables integrated mHealth care and informed-decision making for emergency medical services, especially in the event of disasters when every second could mean the difference between life or death. The risk of...

Extracting indicative characteristics from sensor data provides diverse avenues for improving the well-being of elderly people living alone in their homes through understanding and identifying their behavioral patterns while considering any environmental changes. In this paper, we present a new model to explore the challenges associated with mining...

e-Government services require intensive information exchange and interconnection among governmental agencies to provide specialized online services and allow informed decision-making. This could compromise on the integrity, confidentiality, and/or availability of the information being exchanged. Government agencies are accountable and liable for th...

Blockchain technology is a ledger system that is popularly known as the backbone of the Bitcoin cryptocur-rency. Since its conception, the potential beneficial applications of blockchain in other digital sectors have been lauded in the literature, and related challenges have been disputed. In this study, the literature is reviewed for frameworks an...

Healthcare applications in Internet of Things (IoT) systems have been increasingly researched because they facilitate remote monitoring of patients. Though IoT may create data consisting of much useful information, finding meaningful patterns in huge amounts of IoT data is a challenge. In this paper, we propose a new type of behavioral pattern call...

Disturbing crowd disaster incidents have been witnessed in every corner of the planet, which often lead to extensive difficulties, especially when they involve mass multi-nation casualties. When conducting Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) tasks, starting from finding the missing, curing the injured, and identifying the deceased, the challenge i...

A new era of clinical care has been enabled by the global shift towards an individualized, holistic, and integrated healthcare delivery model. This model requires the flow of medical information along with the patient across multiple systems to be seamlessly accessible to the right care team member at the right point of care. Studies in the literat...

Recently, tele-health systems have gained attention from vast research fields because they facilitate remote monitoring of patients (e.g. vital sign data, physical activities, etc.) by utlizing various technologies such as body sensor network, wireless communications, multimedia and human-computer interactions without interrupting the quality of li...

The past few decades have witnessed a huge increase in the number of heart disease patients globally. An estimated 17.7 million people died from Cardio-Vascular Diseases (CVDs) in 2015, representing 31% of all global deaths. Saudi Arabia is no exception when it comes to the growing number of CVDs patients. The most common CVDs in Saudi Arabia is Pa...

Healthcare is taking an evolutionary approach towards the adoption of Patient-Centred (PC) delivery approach, which requires the flow of information between different healthcare providers to support a patient’s treatment plan, so the Care Team (CT) can seamlessly and securely access relevant information held in the different discrete Legacy Informa...

Access Control to patients’ medical information in Hospital Information Systems (HIS) is a challenge in modern Patient-Centered (PC) healthcare. Fine–Grained Access Control (FGAC) in particular has been identified as one of the security requirements in these systems. In FGAC, only parts of medical information that are relevant and required by healt...

Healthcare is taking an evolutionary approach towards the adoption of Patient-Centred (PC) delivery approach, which requires the flow of information between different healthcare providers to support a patient's treatment plan, so the Care Team (CT) can seamlessly and securely access relevant information held in the different discrete Legacy Informa...

Enabling Patient-Centred (PC) care in modern healthcare requires the flow of medical information with the patient between different healthcare providers as they follow the patient's treatment plan. However, PC care threatens the stability of the balance of information security in the support systems since legacy systems fall short of attaining a se...

Teamwork, collaboration and coordination are key aspects of the patient-centric approach taken by modern healthcare. Although many projects have been and are currently being undertaken to improve support for health care professionals, adequate support for teamwork, communication and coordination has yet to be achieved. The delivery of the healthcar...