Ahmed Alksas

Ahmed Alksas received the B.Sc. degree in computer engineering and control systems from Mansoura University, Egypt, in 2013. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree with the Computer Engineering and Computer Science Department. In 2019, he joined the University of Louisville. He has been actively working on medical imaging analysis, specifically, design of computer-aided diagnostic (CAD) systems for detection/classification of Hepatocellular carcinoma, Gliomas, and lung cancer. In addition, he is working on developing new techniques for automatic segmentation, early diagnosis, detection, and response prediction of different types of cancers, such as renal cancer, liver cancer, spine cancer, breast cancer, prostate cancer, and Willm’s tumors. He is also working on the design of AI-based image processing techniques for extraction of vessels from OCTA scans and oil spills detection from satellite images. He has authored multiple technical peer-reviewed publications and also received many prestigious awards. In 2017, he was awarded the M.Sc. degree.