Md. Rafiqul Islam, Muhammad Ashad Kabir, Ashir Ahmed, Abu Raihan Mostofa Kamal et al.
Purpose Social networks have been developed as a great point for its users to communicate with their interested friends and share their opinions, photos, and videos reflecting their moods, feelings and sentiments. This creates an opportunity to analyze social network data for user's feelings and sen...
Nazmul Hossain, Fumihiko Yokota, Nazneen Sultana, Ashir Ahmed
Background: Existing studies regarding e-health are mostly focused on information technology design and implementation, system architecture and infrastructure, and its importance in public health with ancillaries and barriers to mass adoption. However, not enough studies have been conducted to asses...
Mohammad Akter Hossain, A.K.M. Muzahidul Islam, Salekul Islam, Swakkhar Shatabda et al.
Leukemia is not only fatal in nature, it is also extremely expensive to treat. However, leukemia detection at early stage can save lives and money of the affected people, specially children among whom leukemia as a cancer type is very common. In this paper, we propose an explainable supervised machi...
Yasunobu Nohara, Eiko Kai, Partha Pratim Ghosh, Rafiqul Islam et al.
BACKGROUND: The prevalence of non-communicable diseases is increasing throughout the world, including developing countries. OBJECTIVE: The intent was to conduct a study of a preventive medical service in a developing country, combining eHealth checkups and teleconsultation as well as assess stratifi...
Nuren Abedin, Md Mahmudur Rahman, Muhammad Ismail Hossain, Kenji Hisazumi et al.
Corporate employees like to save the time they spend commuting to work. However, public transport in many emerging cities is not scheduled. Only big enterprises can afford scheduled staff buses. Rideshare services (e.g., Uber, Lyft, Pathao) can be a good alternative but are not affordable for every ...
Ashir Mehmood Awan, Awais Khalid, Pervaiz Ahmad, Abdulrahman I. Alharthi et al.
Pure and manganese-doped titanium dioxide nanoparticles (MnTiO2-NPs) were synthesized by the defect-oriented hydrothermal approach. The synthesized material was then characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX), and UV–visib...
Fahmida Tofail, Jena Hamadani, Ashir Zeeshan Ahmed, Fardina Mehrin et al.
Background/objectives Adverse developmental consequences of low-birth-weight (LBW) infants have been frequently reported from developed countries where most of them are preterm. Few reports are available from developing countries, where the problem is huge and newborns are mostly term babies. We aim...
Shaira Tabassum, Ryo Takahashi, Md. Mahmudur Rahman, Yosuke Imamura et al.
Inability to read doctors’ handwritten prescriptions causes 7,000 deaths a year in a developed country like the US. The situation should be worse in developing countries where more doctors use handwriting prescriptions. In Bangladesh, the writings become more indecipherable as they contain both Engl...
Ashir Ahmed, Andrew Rebeiro‐Hargrave, Yasunobu Nohara, Eiko Kai et al.
This study looks at how an e-Health System can reduce morbidity (poor health) in unreached communities. The e-Health system combines affordable sensors and Body Area Networking technology with mobile health concepts and is called a Portable Health Clinic. The health clinic is portable because all th...
Masuda Begum Sampa, Nazmul Hossain, Md. Rakibul Hoque, Rafiqul Islam et al.
BACKGROUND: Uric acid is associated with noncommunicable diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, chronic kidney disease, coronary artery disease, stroke, diabetes, metabolic syndrome, vascular dementia, and hypertension. Therefore, uric acid is considered to be a risk factor for the development of...
Shaira Tabassum, Nuren Abedin, Md. Mahmudur Rahman, Md Moshiur Rahman et al.
Doctors in developing countries are too busy to write digital prescriptions. Ninety-seven percent of Bangladeshi doctors write handwritten prescriptions, the majority of which lack legibility. Prescriptions are harder to read as they contain multiple languages. This paper proposes a machine learning...
Jecinta Kamau, Ashir Ahmed, Rebeiro-H Andrew, Hironobu Kitaoka et al.
Fundamental requirements in mobility are time, cost and comfort. Individual car ownership satisfies comfort component and to some extent, the time component as well. However, owning and maintaining a car is prohibitive for many due to cost and convenience implications. In selecting other public mode...
Md. Nazmul Hossain, Hiroshi Okajima, Hironobu Kitaoka, Ashir Ahmed
This paper explores and analyzes the current level of, reasons behind and factors affecting consumer acceptance of Portable Health Clinic (PHC), an e-Health initiative in Bangladesh. Our findings revealed that, 40% of the respondents have idea of using ICT in healthcare while 21% have their own expe...
Islam Rafiqul, Yasunobu Nohara, Rahman Md Jiaur, Nazneen Sultana et al.
The Portable Health Clinic (PHC) system endeavors to take healthcare facilities along with remote doctors' consultancy to the doorsteps of the unreached people using an advanced telemedicine system. Thus, the necessity of having physical healthcare peripheries specially in the developing countries c...
Ashir Ahmed, Andrew Rebeiro‐Hargrave, Yasunobu Nohara, Rafiqul Islam et al.