Explainable AI in Healthcare Imaging for Medical Diagnoses

Prof. Tanzila Saba is a Research Professor and Associate Chair of the Information Sys tems Department in the College of Computer and Information Sciences, Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, KSA. Her primary research focus in recent years is medical imaging, pattern recognition, data mining, MRI analysis, and soft computing. She led more than 15 research-funded projects. She has full command of various subjects and taught several courses at the graduate and postgraduate levels. She is Senior Member of IEEE. Dr. Tanzila is Leader of Artificial Intelligence & Data Analytics Research Lab at PSU and Active Professional Member of ACM, AIS, and IAENG organizations. She is PSU WiDS (Women in Data Science) Ambassador at Stanford University. Prof. Ahmad Azar is a full Professor at Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Kingdom Saudi Arabia. He is the leader of Automated Systems and Computing Lab (ASCL), Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia.Prof. Azar is the Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Intelligent Engineering Informatics (IJIEI), Inderscience Publishers, Olney, UK. He is also the Editor in Chief of International Journal of Service Science, Management, Engineering, and Technology (IJSSMET) and International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development (IJSKD) published by IGI Global, USA. From 2013 to 2017, Prof. Azar was an associate editor of ISA Transactions, Elsevier.He is currently an editor for IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Systems Journal, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Springer's Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences.Prof. Azar specializes in artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, machine learning, control theory and applications, computational intelligence, reinforcement learning, and dynamic system modeling. He has published or co-published over 550 research papers, book chapters, and conference proceedings in prestigious peer-reviewed journals.Dr. Ahmad Azar has received several awards, including the Benha University Prize for Scientific Excellence (2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018) and the Benha University Highest Citation Award (2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018). In June 2018, he was awarded the Egyptian State Encouragement Award in Engineering Sciences by the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research. In August 2018, he was elected as a senior member of the International Rough Set Society (IRSS).Prof. Azar was named one of the top computer scientists in Saudi Arabia by Research.com since December 2019. He was awarded the Egyptian President's Distinguished Egyptian Order of the First Class in February 2020. In October 2020, Prof. Azar received Abdul Hameed Shoman Arab Researchers Award in Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics. From October 2020 to September 2023, Prof. Azar was recognized as a Distinguished researcher at Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.In November 2020, October 2021, October 2022, October 2023, September 2024, and September 2025 Prof. Azar was named one of the top 2% of scientists in the world in Artificial Intelligence by Stanford University, based on single-year impact and career-long impact. These rankings were published by Stanford University in the PLOS journal and were based on the SCOPUS database.Prof. Ahmad Azar has been recognized as one of the top ten researchers at Prince Sultan University, based on his Scopus H-index. He has also received a university award for being among his top publication of research.Prof. Azar has received Prince Sultan University’s Research Excellence Award. He is also the recipient of the university’s Highest Impact Researcher Award, based on his H-index. Additionally, he has earned a PSU research award for having publications ranked among the top five by impact factor.Prof. Ahmad Azar is the Vice Chair of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) Technical Committee of Control Design, Vice chair of IFAC Technical committee 4.3 Robotics, Vice chair of IFAC Technical committee 9.3 “Control for Smart Cities”. He is a technical Committee Member of Data Mining and Big Data Analytics of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS), IFAC Technical committee Member TC 2.2. Linear Control Systems, IFAC Technical committee Member TC 1.2. Adaptive and Learning Systems.Seifedine Kadry is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, at Norrof University College, in Norway. He has a Bachelor’s degree in 1999 from Lebanese University, MS degree in 2002 from Reims University (France) and EPFL (Lausanne), PhD in 2007 from Blaise Pascal University (France), HDR degree in 2017 from Rouen University. At present, his research focuses on data Science, education using technology, system prognostics, stochastic systems, and applied mathematics. He is an ABET program evaluator for computing, and ABET program evaluator for Engineering Tech. He is a Fellow of IET, Fellow of IETE, and Fellow of IACSIT. He is a distinguished speaker of IEEE Computer Society.

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