A collaborative team including two CSE faculty members has received the best paper award at the International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC23), held in Marrakesh, Morocco, between June 19-23, 2023. The awarded paper is titled “Real-time Imitation of Autonomous MCG Node using Dual ECG Probing IoT Node Suitable for Delivery by UAV”, and co-authored by Dr. Khalid Abualsaud and Dr. Elias Yaacoub from our department.

The paper is an outcome of research project NPRP13S-0205-200270 from the Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF) led by Dr. Khalid Abualsaud. The work was done in collaboration with Prof. Tamer Khattab (Dept of Electrical Engineering at QU) with medical advice from collaborators from Al-Ahli Hospital (a partner in the project) and the New York Presbyterian Hospital.

The work consists of building a testbed that uses electrocardiography (ECG) signals to generate magnetocardiography (MCG)-like signals, which can be used for various heart disease detection, including arrhythmia. A working prototype is built with weight and dimensions suitable to be carried by drones, for delivery to remote areas lacking medical infrastructure, e.g., in disaster recovery scenarios.”