School of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering
Faculty Muhammad Asim Waris

Muhammad Asim Waris

HOD Department of Biomedical Engineering & Sciences
  • School of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering
  • 5190856068
Summary

Academic Background
PhD (Neural Engineering) Aalborg University December 01, 2014 - June 12, 2018
Honours and Awards
School / College Best Researcher Award -2022
Publications
Optimizing the Impact of Time Domain Segmentation Techniques on Upper Limb EMG Decoding Using Multimodal Features June 30, 2026 PLoS One - Accepted
3-Dimensional Convolutional Neural Network for Detection of an 1 Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury in Knee Magnetic Resonance 2 Imaging Scans June 30, 2026 Complexity - Accepted
Experimental investigation and energy-exergy-economic (3E) evaluation of a pyramid solar still with application of phase change material and Fresnel lenses for spring and autumn seasons July 01, 2026 Applied Thermal Engineering - Volume 300, Part 4, Article Number 131448
ViT-Stain: Vision transformer-driven virtual staining for skin histopathology via global contextual learning February 02, 2026 Plos one - Volume:21(2), Article Number: e0341311, Pages:30
Enhanced spectro-temporal feature extraction for prosthetic control using variational mode decomposition December 23, 2025 Scientific Reports - Volume:15, Article Number: 44386, Pages:16
VISGAB: Virtual staining-driven GAN benchmarking for optimizing skin tissue histology November 27, 2025 Scientific Reports - Volume:15, Issue:1, Article Number: 42430
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Immersive Virtual Reality Rehabilitation Games With Enhanced Visual Training for Hand Motor Function Improvement Using Electromyography: Randomized Controlled Trial November 25, 2025 JMIR Serious Games - Volume 13, Article Number e74314
CRISP: A Correlation-filtered Recursive Feature Elimination 1 & Integration of SMOTE Pipeline for Gait-Based Parkinson’s 2 Disease Screening October 10, 2025 Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience - Volume 19, Article Number1660963
Enhancing ECG disease detection accuracy through deep learning models and P-QRS-T waveform features June 10, 2025 PLoS One - Volume:20, Issue:6, Article Number e0325358
Evaluation of balance and orthotic gait training techniques for rehabilitation in hemiplegic stroke patients April 29, 2025 Scientific Reports - Volume:15, Issue:1, Article Number 15059
Identification and Quantification of Muscular Co-contraction for Ankle Rehabilitation through Variational Mode Decomposition in Surface Electromyography April 28, 2025 Scientific Reports - Volume 15, Article Number: 14847
Automated karyogram analysis for early detection of genetic and neurodegenerative disorders: a hybrid machine learning approach January 22, 2025 Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience - Volume 18, Article Number 1525895
Analyzing and Decoding Natural Reach and Grasp Action Using Convolutional Neural Network December 13, 2024 Advanced Electroencephalography Analytical Methods: Fundamentals, Acquisition, and Applications - 1st Edition, Chapter 09, Pages 9-27
Random survival forest model for early prediction of Alzheimer’s disease conversion in early and late Mild cognitive impairment stages December 13, 2024 PLoS ONE - Volume 19(12), Article Number e0314725
A Comprehensive Approach to Wind Turbine Power Curve Modeling: Addressing Outliers and Enhancing Accuracy September 30, 2024 Energy - Volume 304, Article Number 131981
Virtual reality as a non-conventional rehabilitation for stroke: A comprehensive review September 01, 2024 Journal of Neurorestoratology - Volume 12, Issue 3, Article Number 100135
Development of Residual Dense U-Net (RDU-Net)-Based Metal Artefacts Reduction Technique Using Spectral Photon Counting CT August 19, 2024 IEEE Access - Volume 12, Pages 109735-109749
Maximizing stroke recovery with advanced technologies: A comprehensive assessment of robot-assisted, EMG-Controlled robotics, virtual reality, and mirror therapy interventions March 01, 2024 Results in Engineering - Volume 21, Article Number: 101725, Pages: 18
Optimizing the performance of convolutional neural network for enhanced gesture recognition using sEMG February 23, 2024 Scientific Reports - Vol:14, Article Number: 2020, Pages: 14
Patient-Specific Movement Regime: Investigating the Potential of Upper-Extremity Motions for Intelligent Myoelectric Prosthetic Control February 13, 2024 IEEE Access - Vol 12
ExoMechHand prototype development and testing with EMG signals for hand rehabilitation February 01, 2024 Medical Engineering and Physics - Volume 124, Article Number 104095
A Fusion of EMG and IMU for an Augmentative Speech Detection and Recognition System January 22, 2024 IEEE Access - Volume 12
Effectiveness of Immersive Virtual Reality-Based Hand Rehabilitation Games for Improving Hand Motor Functions in Subacute Stroke Patients January 01, 2024 IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering - Volume 32, Pages 2060-2069
Robust CNN architecture for classification of reach and grasp actions from neural correlates: an edge device perspective December 11, 2023 Measurement Science and Technology - Volume 35, Number 3, Article Number 035703
Memorability-based multimedia analytics for robotic interestingness prediction system using trimmed Q-learning algorithm November 13, 2023 Scientific Reports - Volume 13, Issue 1, Article Number 19799
Assessing the Impact of Body Mass Index on Gait Symmetry of Able-Bodied Adults Using Pressure-Sensitive Insole September 27, 2023 Book on Biomedical Signal Processing: A Modern Approach - 1st Edition, Chapter 12, Pages 246-257
Deploying efficient net batch normalizations (BNs) for grading diabetic retinopathy severity levels from fundus images September 02, 2023 Scientific Reports - Volume 13, Issue 1, Article Number 14462
Multivariate wind power curve modeling using multivariate adaptive regression splines and regression trees August 28, 2023 PLOS ONE - Volume 18, Issue 8, Article Number e0290316
Variational mode decomposition for surface and intramuscular EMG signal denoising April 01, 2023 Biomedical Signal Processing and Control - Volume 82, Article Number 104560
Restoration of IL-11 and IL-15 cytokine production post calcium modulators and ROS treatment can assist viral clearance both in vitro and in vivo February 01, 2023 Iranian Journal of Basic Medical Sciences - Volume 26, Issue 2, Pages 176-182
The Impact of Laminations on the Mechanical Strength of Carbon-Fiber Composites for Prosthetic Foot Fabrication October 10, 2022 Crystals - Volume 12, Issue 10, Article Number 1429
A Training Exoskeleton for rehabilitation in Upper Extremity for Stroke Patients. Journal of Computational Biophysics and Chemistry September 21, 2022 Journal of Computational Biophysics and Chemistry - Pages 1-9
The effects of surface inclination on gastrocnemius, soleus and tibialis anterior muscle activation during gait August 04, 2022 Journal of Back and Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation - vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-6, 2022
A Low-Cost Device for Measurement of Exhaled Breath for the Detection of Obstructive Lung Disease June 13, 2022 Biosensors - Volume 12, Issue 6, Article Number 409
Melanoma Segmentation using Deep Learning with Test-Time Augmentations and Conditional Random Fields March 10, 2022 Scientific Reports - Volume 12, Article Number 3948
Rehabilitation of Upper Limb Motor Impairment in Stroke: A Narrative Review on the Prevalence, Risk Factors, and Economic Statistics of Stroke and State of the Art Therapies January 19, 2022 Healthcare - Volume 10(2), Article Number 190
Effective Voting Ensemble of Homogenous Ensembling with Multiple Attribute-Selection Approaches for Improved Identification of Thyroid Disorder December 03, 2021 Electronics - Volume 10(23), Article Number 3026
Automatic detection of pathological myopia using machine learning August 16, 2021 Scientific Reports - Volume 11, Article Number 16570
Predicting Risk of Antenatal Depression and Anxiety Using Multi-Layer Perceptrons and Support Vector Machines March 12, 2021 Journal of Personalized Medicine - Volume 11(3), Article Number 199
Threshold Parameters Selection for Empirical Mode Decomposition-Based EMG Signal Denoising March 01, 2021 Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing - Volume 27, No.3, Pages 799-815
Decoding of Ankle Joint Movements in Stroke Patients Using Surface Electromyography February 24, 2021 Sensors - Volume 21(5), Article Number 1575
Evaluation of windowing techniques for intramuscular EMG-based diagnostic, rehabilitative and assistive devices February 22, 2021 Journal of Neural Engineering - Volume 18, Article Number 016017
Decoding Attempted Hand Movements in Stroke Patients Using Surface Electromyography November 26, 2020 Sensors - Volume 20(23), Article Number 6763
Leveraging ANN and LDA Classifiers for Characterizing Different Hand Movements Using EMG Signals November 05, 2020 Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering - Pages 1-9
Eye and Voice-Controlled Human Machine Interface System for Wheelchairs Using Image Gradient Approach September 26, 2020 Sensors - Volume 20(19), Article Number 5510
Brain Tumour Image Segmentation Using Deep Networks September 01, 2020 IEEE Access - Volume 8, Pages 153589-153598
A Multiday Evaluation of Real-Time Intramuscular EMG Usability with ANN June 15, 2020 Sensors - Volume 20(12), Article Number 3385
Determination of Optimum Segmentation Schemes for Pattern Recognition Based Myoelectric Control: A Multi-Dataset Investigation May 27, 2020 IEEE Access - Volume 8, Pages 90862-90877
Performance Evaluation of Convolutional Neural Network for Hand Gesture Recognition Using EMG March 15, 2020 Sensors - Volume 20(6), Article Number 1642
Skin Lesion Segmentation from Dermoscopic Images Using Convolutional Neural Network March 13, 2020 Sensors - Volume 20(6), Article Number 1601
Design of Robust Higher-Order Repetitive Controller Using Phase Lead Compensator February 19, 2020 IEEE Access - Volume: 8, Pages 30603-30614
A comparative study of motion detection with FMG and sEMG methods for assistive applications January 01, 2020 Journal of Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies Engineering - Volume 7, Pages 1-11
The Effect of Eye Movements in Response to Different Types of Scenes Using a Graph-Based Visual Saliency Algorithm December 09, 2019 Applied Sciences - Vol.9(24), Article Number 5378
On the robustness of real-time myoelectric control investigations: a multiday Fitts’ law approach April 01, 2019 Journal of Neural Engineering - Volume 16, Issue 2, Article Number 026003
Automated Classification of Retinal Diseases in STARE Database January 05, 2019 Gyancity Journal of Engineering and Technology - Vol.5, No.1, Pages 16-25
Multiday Evaluation of Techniques for EMG Based Classification of Hand Motions August 08, 2018 IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics - NULL
Multiday EMG-based classification of hand motions with deep learning techniques August 01, 2018 Sensors - Volume 18 Issue 8
Effect of threshold values on the combination of EMG time domain features: Surface versus intramuscular EMG August 01, 2018 Biomedical Signal Processing and Control - NULL
Stacked Sparse Autoencoders for EMG-Based Classification of Hand Motions: A Comparative Multi Day Analyses between Surface and Intramuscular EMG July 11, 2018 Applied Sciences - Volume 8 Issue 7
The Effect of Time on EMG classification of hand motions in able-bodied and transradial amputees June 01, 2018 Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology - Volume 40, June 2018, Pages 72-80
The effect of arm position on classification of hand gestures with intramuscular EMG May 01, 2018 Biomedical Signal Processing and Control - NULL
Fuzzy logic controller for boiler temperature control using labview and matlab September 01, 2016 International Journal of Control and Automation - Volume 9, Issue 9, Pages 89-104
Design and Development of Experimental Hardware in Loop Model for the Study of Vibration Induced in Tall Structure with Active Control June 01, 2016 Indian Jouranl of Science and Technology - Volume 9, Issue 21, Pages 1-5
Effect of Project Management Practices on Project Success in Make-to-Order Manufacturing Organizations June 01, 2016 Indian Jouranl of Science and Technology - Vol 9, Issue 21, Pages 1-8
Design and analysis of optimal controllers for grid connected inverters for photovoltaic applications January 01, 2016 International Journal of Control and Automation - Volume 9, Issue 10, Pages 229-236
Conferences
Leveraging Vertical Ground Reaction Force (VGRF) in Gait Assessment for Parkinson’s Disease Severity December 02, 2025 - December 04, 2025 Namra Afzal, Javaid Iqbal, Muhammad Asim Waris, Syed Omer Gilani, Nida Shabbir, Nazli Khuram, 2025 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Smart Communities: Improving Quality of Life using AI, Robotics and IoT (HONET)
SAE-Swin: Sparsity Aware Efficient Swin Transformer for Virtual Histopathological Staining August 19, 2025 - August 21, 2025 Muhammad Altaf Hussain, Muhammad Asim Waris, Muhammad Usman Akram, Ali Hassan, Amber Javaid, Fariha Sahrish, Danyal Mahmood, International conference on WorldS4
Unified Gait Event Detection using Temporal Convolutional Network and Bayesian Optimization July 14, 2025 - July 17, 2025 Hassan Ashraf, Muhammad Asim Waris, C. Schwartz, O. Brüls , M. Boutaayamou, The 47th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 2025)
An Explainable AI Framework for Chromosomal Anomaly Detection in Karyograms Using Grad-CAM and Advanced Neural Networks December 02, 2024 - December 03, 2024 Dr. JAVAID IQBAL, Muhammad Asim Waris, M. Adeel Ijaz, Sumaira Tabassum, Muhammad Jawad Khan, 3rd International Conference on Computational Intelligent Systems 2024 (ICCIS 2024)
Temporal Convolutional Network for Gait Event Detection July 15, 2024 - July 19, 2024 Hassan Ashraf, Cédric Schwartz, Muhammad Asim Waris, Olivier Brüls, Mohamed Boutaayamou, 2024 46th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC)
Optimizing Feature Reduction and Selection Techniques for Surface Electromyography October 03, 2023 - October 04, 2023 Affaf Khan, Dr Muhammad Asim Waris, Ajdarullah, Sikandar Qamar, 2023 International Conference on Digital Futures and Transformative Technologies, ICoDT2 2023
Examining the Impact of Different K Values on the Performance of Multiple Algorithms in K-Fold Cross-Validation October 03, 2023 - October 04, 2023 Urwa Imran, Muhammad Asim Waris, Maham Nayab, Uzma Shafiq, 2023 International Conference on Digital Futures and Transformative Technologies, ICoDT2 2023
Plantar Pressure Response for Classification of Parkinson's Disease patients with Gait Abnormalities using Machine Learning October 03, 2023 - October 04, 2023 Namra Afzal, Bisma Ramzan, Noor Fatima, Mina Khalid, Dr Muhammad Asim Waris, Dr Syed Omer Gilani, Dr. Muhammad Nabeel Anwar, 2023 International Conference on Digital Futures and Transformative Technologies, ICoDT2 2023
Improving Myoelectric Control Performance through Optimal EMG Signal Feature Selection October 03, 2023 - October 04, 2023 Maham Nayab, Urwa Imran, Dr Muhammad Asim Waris, Uzma Shafique, 2023 International Conference on Digital Futures and Transformative Technologies, ICoDT2 2023
Embedded Skin Lesion Segmentation using Lightweight Encoder-Decoder Architectures February 22, 2023 - February 23, 2023 Dr Muhammad Asim Waris, Haris Ijaz, Hajra Sultan, Mishal Altaf, 3rd IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ICAI 2023
Predicting Episodic Video Memorability using Deep Features Fusion Strategy May 25, 2022 - May 27, 2022 Hasnain Ali, Syed Omer Gilani, Muhammad Jawad Khan, Muhammad Asim Waris, Moazzam Khan Khattak, Mohsin Jamil, 2022 IEEE/ACIS 20th International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications (SERA)
Real Time Face Recognition Based Attendance System For University Classroom March 30, 2022 - March 31, 2022 Hajra Sultan, Muhammad Hamza Zafar , saba Anwer, Muhammad Asim Waris, Haris Ijaz, Moaz Sarwar, 2022 2nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI)
Detection of Attempted Stroke Hand Motions from Surface EMG October 13, 2021 - October 16, 2021 Mads Jochumsen, Muhammad Asim Waris, Imran Khan Niazi, International Conference on NeuroRehabilitation
Comparative Analysis of Classifiers for EMG Signals May 05, 2019 - May 08, 2019 Syed Omer Gilani, Bushra Saeed, Zia ur Rehman, MOHSIN JAMEEL, Asim Waris, Muhammad Nasir Khan, 2019 IEEE Canadian Conference of Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE)
A novel approach for classi- fication of hand movements using surface emg signals December 18, 2017 - December 20, 2017 Muhammad Zia ur Rehman, Syed Omer Gilani, Asim Waris, 17th IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology
Motor drive using surface electromyography for flexion and extension of finger and hand muscles October 15, 2011 - October 17, 2011 Zahak Jamal, Dr Muhammad Asim Waris, Shaheryar Nazir, Shahryar Khan, Dr Javaid Iqbal, Adnan Masood, Dr Umar Shahbaz Khan, 2011 4th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Informatics (BMEI)
Assitant Manager SUPARCO November 01, 2013 - April 30, 2015
Research Engineer National University of Sciences and Technology March 01, 2012 - September 30, 2013