Publications in Journals

 

1.      Ali S. Saad, Visual enhancement of digital ultrasound images: Wavelet versus Gauss-Laplace contrast pyramid, International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, volume 2. No2 August-2007 pp. 117-125.

 

2.  Ali Saad, Simultaneous Speckle Reduction and Contrast Enhancement for Ultrasound Images: Wavelet versus Laplacian Pyramid , PRIA. Accepted on 16/May/2007

 

 3.  Ali S. Saad: Orientation determination by wavelets matching for 3D reconstruction of very noisy electron microscopic virus images, BMC Structural Biology 2005,   5:9. http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6807/5/5.

 

4.  Angel M. Paredes, D. Ferreira, M. Horton, Ali Saad, H. Tsuruta, R. Johnston, W. Klimstra, K. Ryman, R. Hernandez, W. Chiu and D. T. Brown, Conformational Changes in Sindbis virions Resulting from Exposure to Low pH and Interactions with Cells Suggest that Cell Penetration May Occur at the Cell Surface in the Absence of Membrane Fusion, Virology 324,  pp: 373-385, 2004.

 

5.  Ali S. Saad, Wavelets filtering for classification of very noisy electron microscopic single particles images- Application on structure determination of VP5-VP19C recombinant.  BMC Structural Biology 2003,3:9. http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6807/3/9.     

6.   Ali Saad, Steven J. Ludtke, Joanita Jakana , Frazer  J. Rixon, Hiro Tsuruta and Wah Chiu, Estimates of the Amplitude Decay of Electron Micrographs of Single Particles and its Effects on High Resolution Structure Determination   Journal of Structural Biology 133, 32-42 2001.

 

7.    Ali Saad, Z. Hong Zhou, J. Jakana, W. Chiu and F. J. Rixon, Roles of triplex and scaffolding Proteins in HSV-1 Capsid Formation Suggested by the Structures of Recombinant Particles, Journal of Virology. Vol. 73, pp. 6821-6830, 1999.

 

8.    Ali Saad, S. El Assad, Adaptive Ranked-Order Vectorial Speckle Filtering in  Polarimetric SAR Images: Comparison with a Class of Filters. Signal Processing. Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 286-300, 1997.

 

9.    S. El Assad, A. Saad, D. Barba, Non Supervised Vectorial Segmentation using Markov Field of  Polarimetrics Radar Images, Signal processing. Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 405-421, 1997.

 

10.  Ali Saad, S. El Assad, D. Barba, Speckle Filtering in SAR images by contrast modification, comparison with a large class of filters Annals of Telecommunications, Vol. 51, No. 5-6, pp. 233-244, June 1996.

11.  Ali  Saad, S. El Assad, D. Barba, Unsupervised statistical segmentation of polarimetric SAR data using the K-distribution, Journal on Communication, Image Processing I, Vol. XLV, pp. 72-77, June 1994.

 

Presentations in International Conferences

 

1.    Ali Saad, “Speckle Reduction of Ultrasound Images Using Wavelets Analysis” , International Medical and biomedical Engineering symposium IMIBE, Jordan , Aman, March 2006.

 

2.    Ali Saad, Ali El Zaart and Ali Al-Mejrad,

Speckle Reduction in Digital Ultrasound Images by Multi-Resolution Contrast Enhancement International Conference on Biomedical Engineering 2004, IFMBE, BioMed 2004,  Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, September 2-4, 2004.

 

3.   Ali El Zaart,  Ali Al-Mejrad and Ali Saad,

Segmentation of Mammography Images for Breast Cancer Detection. International Conference on Biomedical Engineering 2004, IFMBE BioMed 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, September 2-4, 2004.

 

4.    Ali Saad and Wah Chiu.: Hierarchical wavelet projection matching for orientation determination of low contrast electron cryomicroscopic images of icosahedral virus particles ICASSP-2000, International conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2000.

 

5.    Ali Saad, W. Chiu, and P. Thuman-Commike. Multi-resolution approach for automatic selection of spherical particles, p. 8647-8651. Inter. Conf. on Image Processing,  Chicago, USA, 1998.

 

6.  Ali  Saad, S. El Assad, D.Barba, Unsupervised statistical segmentation of radar polarimetric imagesConf., Colloque international sur le radar, Radar 94, pp. 602-607, Paris, France May 1994.

 

7.    Ali Saad, S. El Assad, D. Barba, Filtrage du speckle dans les images SAR par modification de contraste en multi-resolution pyramidale, A. 1er Colloque International sur l'Imagerie Scientifique et le traitement d'images, pp. 69-73, Cannes, France, April 1995.

 

8.    Ali Saad, S. El Assad, D.Barba,  A new approche to filtering in SAR images, Conf., JIPR: Journees International de la polarimetrie radar, pp. 690-697, , IRESTE, NANTES, France, March, 1995.

 

9.    Ali  Saad, S. El Assad, Filtrage d'ordre vectoriel adaptatif du speckle dans les images radar a ouverture synthetique (ROS).  GRETSI, pp. 1129-1132, France, 18-22 September 1995.

 

10. Ali  Saad, S. El Assad, D. Barba , Adaptive vectorial speckle filtering in SAR images based on a fuzzy clustering criteria, , European Symposium on Satellite Remote Sensing III, Taormina Italy, 23-27 September 1996.

 

11. S. El Assad, Ali Saad, D. Barba, Unsupervised optimal fuzzy clustering and markov segmentation of polarimetric radar imaging, European Symposium on Satellite Remote Sensing III, Taormina Italy, 23-27 September 1996

 

12. Z. Belhadj, Ali Saad, S. El Assad,   Comparative study of some algorithms of terrain classification using SAR images,: Conf. ICASSP'94 International conference on Acoustics, Speech&Signal Processing, Vol. V, pp. 165-168, delaide, Australia, 18-22 April, 1994.

 

13. J-C. Saloumet, Ali  Saad, M. Leroux, H. Oiry: Retrieval of script information appearing on bank checks for automatic reading purposes, Conf., SPIE, Visual Communication and Image Processing'90 Lausanne; Switzerland, Switzerland, october1990.