Rafikha Aliana A Raof
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Raof, R. A.A.
Raof, Rafikha Alaina A.
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Reliable Early Breast Cancer Detection using Artificial Neural Network for Small Data Set

2021-03-01 , Vijayasarveswari V. , Muzammil Jusoh , Thennarasan Sabapathy , Rafikha Aliana A Raof , Khatun S. , Iszaidy I.

This paper proposes a breast cancer detection module using Artificial Neural Network for small data set. The developed system consists of hardware and software. Hardware included UWB transceiver and a pair of home-made directional sensor/antenna. The software included a Graphical User Interface (GUI) and k-fold based feed-forward back propagation Neural Network module to detect the tumor existence, size and location along with soft interface between software and hardware. Forward scattering technique is used by placing two sensors diagonally opposite sides of a breast phantom. UWB pulses are transmitted from one side of phantom and received from other side, controlled by the software interface in PC environment. Firstly feed forward backpropagation neural network (FFBNN) is developed. Then, k-fold is combined with developed FFBNN for testing purpose. Four data sets are created where contains 125, 95, 65 and 30 data samples in 1st,2nd,3rd and 4th data set respectively. Collected received signals were then fed into the NN module for training, testing and validation. The process is done for all data sets separately. The system exhibits detection efficiency of tumor existence, location (x, y, z), and size were approximately 87.72%, 87.24%, 83.93% and 80.51% for 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th data set respectively. The proposed module is very practical with low-cost and user friendly. The developed breast cancer detection module can be used for large data samples as well as for minimum data samples.

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Enhancement and segmentation of Ziehl Neelson sputum slide images using contrast enhancement and Otsu threshold technique

2023 , Ainul Kamilah Mohd Yusoff , Rafikha Aliana A Raof , Norfadila Mahrom , Siti Suraya Md Noor , Fazrul Faiz Zakaria , Phak Len Al Eh Kan

Image processing is the most effective method for enhancement and segmentation of tuberculosis bacilli in sputum smear samples. Improper straining can result in poor screening results such as over-staining, under-staining, and blurred images. The goal is to find an image enhancement and segmentation technique that will prepare the image for feature extraction. There are still some shortcomings with existing method when it is implemented on Ziehl Neelsen images. In normal images, TB bacilli can be identified easily, but in blur and images with dark background, TB bacilli are sometimes hidden behind the sputum cells. Hence, the basic method of contrast enhancement is not enough to improve the contrast of TB bacilli as the object of interest within the image. In this study, the combination of local and partial contrast enhancement is proposed as the best method for image enhancement. Image segmentation can be accomplished using Otsu thresholding technique. Otsu's method is presented as most suitable image processing techniques in this paper. The goal of the Otsu Threshold is to find a threshold value that distinguishes the object of interest from the background. Experiment shows that the combination of local and partial contrast enhancement followed by Otsu’s method achieve an average segmentation accuracy of 98.93% when applied on 50 images of sputum smear.

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Chatbot Application Training Using Natural Language Processing Techniques: Case of Small-Scale Agriculture

2024-06-07 , Ong R.J. , Rafikha Aliana A Raof , Suhizaz Sudin , Choong K.Y.

Tacit knowledge, which is based on first-hand experience and is more difficult to articulate, has evolved alongside natural languages as they are passed down through the years. In computing, Natural Language Processing (or NLP) refers to a set of methods for studying and modelling human languages that may be studied and represented automatically. Extracting or searching through vast bodies of unregulated text for specific information can be a complex and time-consuming process. Knowledge comes in several shapes and sizes, but can usually be differentiated into two types: structured or unstructured. Using NLP techniques, unstructured text data can be translated into a structured and well-organized database and then used for question-answering purposes. This paper is about the implementation of NLP techniques to convert unstructured text data into a structured database for Chatbot application training.

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Real Time Detection of Object Blob Localization Application using 1-D Connected Pixel and Windowing Method on FPGA

2021-03-01 , Lam Chee Yuen , Phaklen Ehkan , Rafikha Aliana A Raof , Jungjit S.

Blob detection and localization is a common process used in the machine vision. Current existing blob detection method is using 2-dimensional kernel matrix which is higher in time consumption and also memory space. This study has proposed a dedicated digital architecture consist of two modules to detect binary image blob using only 1-dimensional image pixel. First module is used to detect connected pixel in a row of pixel, and second module is used to perform windowing to justify blob location. This study has been successfully implemented and tested on Altera DE2 FPGA board. The proposed architecture only takes 24 clock cycles to deliver blob location and related features. The tested architecture only utilizes 1597 logic element, or 4.81% of the FPGA total resources.

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Time Series Analysis for Vegetable Price Forecasting in E-Commerce Platform: A Review

2021-06-11 , Choong K.Y. , Rafikha Aliana A Raof , Suhizaz Sudin , Ong R.J.

Vegetables industry plays an important role especially in providing the abundant fresh agricultural products. Forecasting the vegetable price is vital in agriculture sector for effective decision making. In Malaysia, the problems faced by the farmers are not only their age, but also their competitive skill where the wholesale market and the hypermarket/supermarket are prioritized by the consumers in Malaysia for the fresh vegetables and fruits. This review article helps to recognize the current problems faced by the agricultural sector of Malaysia and study the relationship between the agriculture and E-Commerce. Recent researchers have mentioned the growth of the E-Agribusiness and the authors found the potential of an Agricultural E-Commerce platform with price forecasting model in solving the current national issue. This research reviews the existing agricultural E-Commerce platforms in worldwide and try to compare with the local one. After the reviews have been done, the authors bring up an idea in constructing the time analysis model in hybrid approach for veggies price forecasting in an agricultural E-Commerce platform which can be used by the government in deriving their policies.

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A proposed framework for improving the detection and classification of Ki67 expression in Astrocytoma histopathological images

2024-03 , Fahmi Akmal Dzulkifli , Mohd Yusoff Mashor , Rafikha Aliana A Raof , Hasnan Jaafar

Detecting and classifying the Ki67 expression is a challenging process. The inconsistency in staining intensity and the variations in image quality are the main factors that may reduce the performance of an automated system. Therefore, this study proposes a framework that objectively improves detecting and classifying Ki67 expression in astrocytoma histopathological images. The proposed framework began with implementing the double stain normalization procedure to reduce the colour-staining intensity variations. Then, the system automatically enhanced the morphological features of the Ki67 expression. The following step was to segment the enhanced images by using the U-Net network model. The last step of the proposed framework was to localize and classify the Ki67 expression based on the modified YOLOv3 model. In conclusion, the proposed YOLOv3 model produced a high detection result with a mean average precision of 0.80 for detecting Ki67-positive cells and 0.87 for detecting Ki67-negative cells.

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Data Security Implementation using Data Encryption Standard Method for Student Values at the Faculty of Medicine, University of North Sumatra

2021-03-01 , Ikhwan A. , Rafikha Aliana A Raof , Phaklen Ehkan , Yasmin Mohd Yacob , Syaifuddin M.

It is undeniable that advances in technology and the rapid spread of information are also accompanied by an increase of crime in the IT field, very valuable information is sought by criminals in the IT field in order to be misused so that they gain enormous profits. One of the information is student value data, so a system is needed that applies a cryptographic algorithm that can secure the information in this case the method used is securing student value data using the Data Encryption Standard (DES) algorithm. DES is asymmetrical cryptographic algorithm and is also classified as a cipher block with a 64-bit key size. DES converts plaintext into a ciphertext of the same size, 64 bits using a 56-bit internal key. By building a system to implement the DES algorithm in securing data values, it is hoped that it can help the Faculty of Medicine, University of North Sumatra in protecting the confidentiality of data values from irresponsible parties.

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Development of an automated intelligent diagnostic system for tuberculosis detection based on sputum specimen

2014 , Rafikha Aliana A Raof

Tuberculosis (TB) is a highly infectious disease. TB diagnosis is usually done manually by microbiologist through microscopic examination of sputum specimen of TB patients for pulmonary TB diseases. However, this practice is time consuming and labour-intensive. Hence, it results in fatigue and work overload to the microbiologists, thus reduces the diagnostic performance. This research involved in the development of automated intelligent diagnosis system for tuberculosis detection based on Ziehl-Neelsen sputum specimen. The system developed is also equipped with automatic capturing system for capturing sputum slide images automatically using 40X lens. Besides that, this study also suggested the combination of image processing technique with artificial neural network in creating a new procedure for diagnosing process of Ziehl-Neelsen sputum specimen. Image enhancement technique based on white balance and partial contrast method has been proposed. A new procedure for segmentation technique was also proposed based on the combination of kmeans clustering, 3 × 3 median filter and automated seed based region growing algorithm. The study also includes feature extraction where features such as size, colour and shape were chosen in classifying TB bacilli with the aid of artificial neural network. This research proposed to use HMLP network with MRPE algorithm for detection and classification of TB bacilli. The system is supposed to reduce the problems arise during the diagnosis of tuberculosis disease such as avoidance of eye fatigue to the microbiologist due to observing through the microscope eyepiece for a long period of time. It has been shown that the classification for sputum slide specimen for TB diagnosis produces good results with classification accuracy of more than 94%. These findings suggest the potential use of this software in diagnosing pulmonary TB disease. The conducted research has provided the platform for automated intelligent system to diagnose tuberculosis disease.

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Feature Targeted Image Enhancement for Acute Myeloid Leukemia

2023-01-01 , Rahman R.A. , Mashor M.Y. , Rafikha Aliana A Raof , Hassan R. , Nazahah Mustafa , Kanafiah S.N.A.B.M. , Rahman K.S.B.A. , Zulkeflee R.H.

Image enhancement is one of the pre-processing steps in various computer vision applications. The current image enhancement algorithm typically applies uniform enhancements across the entire image where this approach often falls short of accurately highlighting or enhancing the specific features due to the influence of the background color. Therefore, this paper proposes a feature-targeted image enhancement technique. Feature-targeted image enhancement (FTIE) algorithm is the improvement over the conventional technique. This method will only enhance the targeted feature instead of the entire image. Therefore, the targeted feature will be enhanced accurately without the influence of the background image. The FTIE method was done by extracting the target feature from the original images and then applying the enhancement method to that region only. Based on the 80 acute myeloid leukemia images, the proposed method showed a promising result, where the comparative analysis shows that the image produced from the proposed method surpasses other conventional methods in terms of structural similarity index (0.995), universal image quality index (0.996), peak signal-to-noise ratio (30.803), mean absolute error (0.002), correlation coefficient (0.997) and contrast enhancement-based image quality (1.743) values.

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A Review of Chatbot development for Dynamic Web-based Knowledge Management System (KMS) in Small Scale Agriculture

2021-03-01 , Ong R.J. , Rafikha Aliana A Raof , Suhizaz Sudin , Choong K.Y.

Market data indicates that the average age of Malaysian farmers to be 50 years old and that the majorities are in the B40 group. Malaysia have so much of land with a small population of over 30 million compared with neighbours country and yet still need to import over 50 billion in food commodities annually to feed the nation. Small-scale farmers are having issues in communicating with each other and usually lack of Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) compare to industrial farming. An information sharing platform is prominent to disseminate information and knowledge between farmers especially for most of the young farmers who having issues when they newly start to involve in agriculture field. This paper is about to design and develop a framework of dynamic web-based knowledge management system with Chatbot application in order to utilize the information sharing platform to disseminate knowledge and build networks among small-scale farmers and related experts. Thus, information sharing and working together with a related expert will effectively improve both the quality and quantity of the product and also against the diseases on the spot.

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