Syed Sibte Raza Abidi

About Me

I am a professor at the Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Canada. I am also the Director of the health informatics graduate program.

I lead the NICHE (kNowledge Intensive Computing for Healthcare Enterprises) research group. My research interest span across three areas: (1) Health Informatics, (2) Knowledge Management, and (3) Health Data Analytics.

My research projects have been funded by both government agencies, organizations and industry, such as CANARIE, National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Canadian Foundation of Innovation (CFI), Canadian Institute for Health Research (CIHR), Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation (NSHRF), Green Shield Foundation Canada and Agfa Healthcare Canada.I teach specialized topics in health informatics such as healthcare knowledge management and healthcare data mining.  

Publications

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2020

William Van Woensel; Samina Abidi; Borna Jafarpour; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi

A CIG Integration Framework to Provide Decision Support for Comorbid Conditions using Transaction-based Semantics and Temporal Planning Proceedings Article

In: International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME 2020), 2020.

Abstract | BibTeX | Tags: Clinical Decision Support Systems, Clinical Practice Guidelines, Comorbidities, Ontology, Semantic Web

2016

Samina Raza Abidi; Jafna Cox; Ashraf Abusharekh; Nima Hashemian; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi

A Digital Health System to Assist Family Physicians to Safely Prescribe NOAC Medication Proceedings Article

In: Exploring Complexity in Health: An Interdisciplinary Systems Approach. 26th European Medical Informatics Conference (MIE2016), Munich, pp. 519-523, IOS Press, 2016.

Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Clinical Decision Support Systems, Clinical Practice Guidelines, Digital Health

Borna Jafarpour; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi; Samina Raza Abidi

Exploiting Semantic Web Technologies to Develop OWL-Based Clinical Practice Guideline Execution Engines Journal Article

In: IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 388-398, 2016, ISSN: 2168-2194.

Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Clinical Decision Support Systems, Clinical Practice Guidelines, OWL, Semantic Web

2015

Syed Sibte Raza Abidi; Samina Raza Abidi; Ashraf Abusharekh; Jafna Cox

A Clinical Decision Support Framework to Monitor and Manage Atrial Fibrillation Patients Proceedings Article

In: 17th International Symposium on Health Information Management Research, York, UK, 2015.

BibTeX | Tags: Chronic Disease Management, Clinical Decision Support Systems, Clinical Practice Guidelines, Knowledge Management, Mobile Health

2014

Samuel Alan Stewart; Samina Raza Abidi; Louise Parker; Mark Bernstein; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi

Clinical Guideline-Driven Personalized Self-Management Diary for Paediatric Cancer Survivors Proceedings Article

In: e-Health - For Continuity of Care - Proceedings of MIE2014, the 25th European Medical Informatics Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, August 31 - September 3, 2014, pp. 18–22, 2014.

Links | BibTeX | Tags: Chronic Disease Management, Clinical Practice Guidelines, Information Personalization, Patient Diary, Patient Education, Self-Management

Patrice C. Roy; Newres Al Haider; William Van Woensel; Ahmad Marwan Ahmad; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi

Towards Guideline Compliant Clinical Decision Support System Integration in Smart and Mobile Environments: Formalizing and Using Clinical Guidelines For Diagnosing Sleep Apnea Proceedings Article

In: AAAI Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Applied to Assistive Technologies and Smart Environments (ATSE 2014), AAAI Press, Quebec, Canada, 2014.

Links | BibTeX | Tags: Clinical Decision Support Systems, Clinical Practice Guidelines, Health Informatics

2012

Samina Raza Abidi; Jafna Cox; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi; Michael A. Shepherd

Using OWL Ontologies for Clinical Guidelines Based Comorbid Decision Support Proceedings Article

In: 45th Hawaii International International Conference on Systems Science (HICSS-45 2012), Proceedings, 4-7 January 2012, Grand Wailea, Maui, HI, USA, pp. 3030–3038, 2012.

Links | BibTeX | Tags: Clinical Decision Support Systems, Clinical Practice Guidelines, Comorbidities, OWL

2011

Borna Jafarpour; Samina Raza Abidi; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi

Exploiting OWL Reasoning Services to Execute Ontologically-Modeled Clinical Practice Guidelines Proceedings Article

In: 13th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, AIME 2011, Bled, Slovenia, July 2-6, 2011. , pp. 307–311, 2011.

Links | BibTeX | Tags: Clinical Practice Guidelines, Decision Support Systems, Knowledge Execution, Ontology, OWL Reasoning

2010

Muzammil Abdulrehman Din; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi; Borna Jafarpour

Ontology Based Modeling and Execution of Nursing Care Plans and Practice Guidelines Proceedings Article

In: Stud Health Technol Inform, pp. 1104-8, Netherlands, 2010, ISSN: 0926-9630.

Abstract | BibTeX | Tags: Care Plans, Clinical Practice Guidelines, Health Informatics, Knowledge Modelling, Nursing, Ontology

2009

Samina Raza Abidi; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi

Towards the Merging of Multiple Clinical Protocols and Guidelines via Ontology-Driven Modeling Proceedings Article

In: 12th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Verona, Italy, July 18-22, 2009. , pp. 81–85, 2009.

Links | BibTeX | Tags: Clinical Pathways, Clinical Practice Guidelines, CPG Merging, Health Informatics, Ontology

Sajjad Hussain; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi

Integrating Healthcare Knowledge Artifacts for Clinical Decision Support: Towards Semantic Web Based Healthcare Knowledge Morphing Proceedings Article

In: 12th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, AIME 2009, Verona, Italy, July 18-22, 2009. , pp. 171–175, 2009.

Links | BibTeX | Tags: Clinical Decision Support Systems, Clinical Practice Guidelines, Knowledge Management, Knowledge Morphing

Ali Daniyal; Samina Raza Abidi; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi

Computerizing Clinical Pathways: Ontology-Based Modeling and Execution Proceedings Article

In: The 22nd International Congress of the European Federation for Medical Informatics, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, pp. 643–647, 2009.

Links | BibTeX | Tags: Clinical Practice Guidelines, CPG Computerization, Knowledge Execution, Knowledge Modelling, Ontology

2008

Sajjad Hussain; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi

An Ontology-based Framework for Authoring and Executing Clinical Practice Guidelines for Clinical Decision Support Systems Journal Article

In: The Journal on Information Technology in Healthcare, pp. 8, 2008.

BibTeX | Tags: Clinical Decision Support Systems, Clinical Practice Guidelines, CPG Execution, Ontology

Syed Sibte Raza Abidi; Shapoor Shayegani

Modeling the Form and Function of Clinical Practice Guidelines: An Ontological Model to Computerize Clinical Practice Guidelines Proceedings Article

In: Knowledge Management for Health Care Procedures, ECAI 2008 Workshop, K4HelP 2008, Patras, Greece, July 21, 2008, Revised Selected Papers, pp. 81–91, 2008.

Links | BibTeX | Tags: Clinical Practice Guidelines, Knowledge Management, Knowledge Modelling, Ontology

2007

Samina Abidi; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi; Sajjad Hussain; Michael A. Shepherd

Ontology-based Modeling of Clinical Practice Guidelines: A Clinical Decision Support System for Breast Cancer Follow-up Interventions at Primary Care Settings Proceedings Article

In: MEDINFO 2007 - Proceedings of the 12th World Congress on Health (Medical) Informatics - Building Sustainable Health Systems, 20-24 August, 2007, Brisbane, Australia, pp. 845–849, 2007.

Links | BibTeX | Tags: Breast Cancer, Clinical Decision Support Systems, Clinical Practice Guidelines, CPG Computerization, Ontology, Semantic Web

2005

Syed Sibte Raza Abidi; Michael Kershaw; Evangelos Milios

BiRD: A Strategy to Autonomously Supplement Clinical Practice Guidelines with Related Clinical Studies Proceedings Article

In: 38th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-38 2005), CD-ROM / Abstracts Proceedings, 3-6 January 2005, Big Island, HI, USA, 2005.

Links | BibTeX | Tags: Clinical Practice Guidelines, Info-Button, Knowledge Linkage

Brent Jones; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi; Winston Ying

Using Computerized Clinical Practice Guidelines to Generate Tailored Patient Education Materials Proceedings Article

In: 38th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-38 2005), CD-ROM / Abstracts Proceedings, 3-6 January 2005, Big Island, HI, USA, 2005.

Links | BibTeX | Tags: Clinical Practice Guidelines, Information Personalization, Knowledge Management

Syed Sibte Raza Abidi; Michael Kershaw; Evangelos Milios

Augmenting GEM-Encoded Clinical Practice Guidelines with Relevant Best Evidence Autonomously Retrieved from MEDLINE Journal Article

In: Health Informatics Journal, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 95–110, 2005.

Links | BibTeX | Tags: Clinical Practice Guidelines, Knowledge Linkage

0000

William Van Woensel; Samina Raza Abidi; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi

Decision Support for Comorbid Conditions via Execution-Time Integration of Clinical Guidelines Using Transaction-based Semantics and Temporal Planning (under review) Journal Article

In: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 0000.

BibTeX | Tags: Clinical Decision Support Systems, Clinical Practice Guidelines, Comorbidity

Supervision

Current Post Doctoral Fellows

  1. William Van Woensel. Investigations in mobile Reasoning Frameworks.
  2. Patrice Roy. Semantic Web based Event Processing for Smart Environments.

Past Post Doctoral Fellows

  1. Borna Jafarpour. Semantic Web for Clinical Decision Support, Feb. 2014 – Dec. 2014.
  2. Sangwhan ChaBig Data Analytics Framework for Health, Jan. 2014 – Nov. 2014.
  3. Newras Al-Haider. Semantic Integration of Heterogeneous Data, April 2013 – Dec. 2014.
  4. Greg Lee. Computerizing Behaviour Modelling to Develop Personalized Interventions, June 2013 – Feb. 2014. (Co-Supervision)
  5. Ashraf Abusharekh. Big Data Management for an E-Science Framework, July 2009 – Dec. 2013.
  6. Jocelyne Fadoul. Investigations in Clinical Pathways, Sept. 2011 – Aug. 2012
  7. Andrew McIntyre. Machine Learning Methods for Analyzing Optic Disc Data for Glaucoma Detection, Jan. 2008 – Dec. 2008.

Current PhD (Computer Science and IDPhD)

  1. Hossein Hassanzadeh. TBD.
  2. Calvino Cheng. Process Mining to Abstract Clinical Pathways from Laboratory Information Data (IDPhD).
  3. Ghdeer Tashkandi. Personalized Patient Education Programs Driven by Computerized Health Models (IDPhD).
  4. Krista Elvidge. A Lifelong Patient Educational Intervention Program: Investigating the Role of Behavioural Models (IDPhD).
  5. Muzammil Bashir Ahmed. A Semantic Web Framework for Personalized Patient Care Planning in Hospital Settings (IDPhD).

Completed Ph.D. Thesis

  1. Borna Jafarpour. Ontology Merging Using Semantically-Defined Merge Criteria And Owl Reasoning Services: Towards Execution-Time Merging Of Multiple Clinical Workflows, Dec. 2013.
  2. Samuel Stewart. Combining Social Network And Semantic Content Analysis To Improve Knowledge Translation In Online Communities Of Practice (IDPhD), Dec. 2013.
  3. Joyline Makani. Knowledge Management in Knowledge Intensive Organizations: An Investigation of Factors Influencing Choices of Knowledge Management Systems (IDPhD), May 2012 (Co-Supervisor).
  4. Syed Sajjad Hussain. K-MORPH: Knowledge Morphing via Reconciliation of Contextualized Sub-ontologies, March 2011.
  5. Cheah Yu-N. A Knowledge Management Info-structure for Knowledge Creation: A Scenario-based Strategy for the Explication and Crystallisation of Tacit Knowledge, Universiti Sains Malaysia, May 2002.

Current Masters Theses (Computer Science & Health Informatics)

  1. Arun Salunke. Topic in Health Data Mining. 
  2. Ahmad Marwan Ahmad. Topic in Knowledge Translation. 
  3. Wasif Baig. Modeling Behaviour Modification Strategies to Derive Patient Educational Interventions, (Co-Supervisor).

Completed Masters Thesis

  1. Swapnil Mahajan. A Generic Framework for Providing Psychosocial Support to Patients through an Online Virtual World, Jan. 2015 (Co-Supervisor).
  2. Hani Mufti. Predictors of Post-operative Neurocognitive Complications in Patients Undergoing Cardiac Operation: A Predictive Analytics Approach, August 2014.
  3. Ehsan Maghsoudlou. Integrating Protocol-Driven Decision Support Within E-Referral System: Supporting Primary Care Practitioners For Spinal Care Consultation And Triaging, April 2014.
  4. Nelofar Kureshi. Personalized Medicine: Development of a Predictive Computational Model for Personalized Therapeutic Interventions, August 2013 (Co-Supervisor).
  5. Ali Haider Zaidi. An OWL Ontology for Modeling HL-7 Compliant Electronic Patient Records for Chronic Disease Management, Dec. 2012.
  6. Shirin Sharif. Characterization of a Longitudinal Care Plan Model For Managing Chronic Diseases: A Care Plan Ontology to Computerize Paper-Based Care Plans, April 2012.
  7. Nima Hashemian. Modelling Clinical Pathways as Business Process Models Using Business Process Modelling Notation, March 2012.
  8. Mostafa Omaish. Ontology-based Knowledge Model for an ACS Management Clinical Guideline: Handling Updates and Institutional Priorities, Dec. 2011.
  9. Syed Farrukh Mehdi. Exploiting Semantics and Syntax for service Specification and Signature Matching: The S5 Web Service Matchmaker, Dec. 2011.
  10. Ashraf Mohammed Iqbal. An Ontology-Based Electronic Medical Record for Chronic Disease Management, Feb. 2011 (Co-Supervisor).
  11. Ryan Druggan. Clinical Knowledge Modelling to Develop E-Clinics for Neuropituary Care, April 2010.
  12. Brett Taylor. Re-Imaging Surveillance in the Context of Emergency Care, August 2009.
  13. Muzammil Bashir Ahmad. Ontology Modelling for Nursing Care Plans and Clinical Practice Guidelines, April 2009.
  14. Shapoor Sheghani. Knowledge Modeling to Develop a Clinical Practice Guideline Ontology: Towards Computerization and Merging of Clinical Practice Guidelines, Sept. 2007.
  15. Katrina Hurley. Practice-Oriented Knowledge Abstraction in Development of an Ontology to Model Clinical Pathways, May 2007.
  16. Philip O’Brien. Semantic Web Approach for Context-Aware Knowledge Sharing, March 2007.
  17. Selana Davis. Personalization of Cardiovascular Risk Management Using Linkages of SCORE and Behaviour Change Readiness to Web-based Education, August 2006.
  18. Aliko Mwakatobe. Information Personalization on the Semantic Web Using Reasoning, August 2006.
  19. Yan Zeng. Pursuing Information Personalization as a Constraint Satisfaction Problem, Dec. 2005.
  20. Zeina Chedrawy. PRECISE: A Hybrid of Item-Based Collaborative Filtering and Case Based Reasoning for Contextual Information Personalization. July 2005.
  21. Sanjun Yan. Using Unsupervised Learning Methods to Sub-classify Optic Disk Damage Images, April 2005.
  22. Xuan Hu. Evaluating Discretization Techniques to Discretize Visual Field Data, April 2005.
  23. Qingshuang Jiang. Discovering Generalized Symbolic Rule from Un-annotated Data: A Hybrid of Rough Sets and Attribute Oriented Induction, April 2005.
  24. Jin Yu. A Hybrid Feature Selection Method Classifying Optic Nerve Images, April 2005.
  25. Brent Jones. Leveraging Clinical Practice Guidelines to Develop Objective User Models for Customizing Healthcare Information to Manage High Cholesterol, Sept. 2004.
  26. Zahid Hasan Zaidi. A Multi-Agent Info-Structure to Provide End-User Data Mining: From Automatic Query Generation to Algorithm Selection to Result Visualization. Universiti Sains Malaysia, August 2004.
  27. Zafar Iqbal Hashmi. An Intelligent Agent Framework for Context-Sensitive Knowledge Retrieval from an Enterprise Memory. Universiti Sains Malaysia, August 2004.
  28. Chong Yong Han. Adaptive Hypermedia and Constraint Satisfaction Programming: Towards Automated Generation of Personalized and Factually Consistent Healthcare Information. Universiti Sains Malaysia, Oct. 2003.
  29. Selvakumar Manickam. Automated Transformation of Generic Electronic-Medical-Records To Specialised Cases: Towards an Internet-Mediated, Multi-Tier Case-Base-Reasoning Info-Structure. Universiti Sains Malaysia, December 2002.
  30. Hoe Kok Meng. Knowledge Discovery from Unannotated Datasets: A Symbolic Rule Extraction Framework Featuring Neural Network Analysis and Rough Set Decision Synthesis. Universiti Sains Malaysia, July 2002.
  31. Wai Han Soo. A CBR Framework for Personalizing Healthcare Information. Universiti Sains Malaysia, August 2002.
  32. Jason Ong Hing Soon. Exploratory Data Mining Using Self-Organising Maps: An Info-Structure for Data Clustering. Universiti Sains Malaysia, 2000.

Current Masters Projects

  1. Perez Whitfield. Development of a Web-based Provincial NOAC Authorization System.

Completed Masters Projects

  1. Hari Gudigundla. Semantic Web Query Engine For Ocean Data, June 2014.
  2. Jagjit Sandhu. Ocean data browser: An Online Tool to Cluster and Analyze Multidimensional Ocean Data, Dec. 2011.
  3. Xin Sheng. Developing Social Networks from On-Line Discussions Between Emergency Care Health Professionals, Dec. 2004.
  4. Winston Ying. A Generic Framework to Incorporate Clinical Practice Guidelines for Information Personalization, Oct. 2004.
  5. Muqueem Lodhi. A Web Services Framework for Document Retrieval, Oct. 2004
  6. Fuhai Li. A Distributed Clinical Information System for Managing Breast Cancer Surgery, July 2004.
  7. Zhenming Hu. A Case-Based Reasoning Framework for Information Personalization, March 2004.
  8. Zhilun Gao. Applying Data Mining and Statistical Techniques to Create a Frailty Index from Geriatrics Data, Dec. 2003.
  9. Zarmina Nadeem. Using Decision Trees to Develop Predictive Models for Improved Product Sales Campaigns, Sept. 2003.
  10. Teh Kia Hock. Data-Mining for Customer Relationship Management (CRM) in an E-Commerce Environment, Universiti Sains Malaysia, May 2001.
  11. Lecthumanwan Balasubramaniam. A Generic Web-Mining Framework for Analysing Web Usage Patterns at Web-Portals, Universiti Sains Malaysia, May 2001.
  12. Chuah JuJu. Prediction and Sensitivity Analysis of General Data Using Neural Networks, Universiti Sains Malaysia, February 2000.
  13. Teh Woan Yong. Trend Analysis and Forecasting of Computer Network Traffic Using Neural Networks, Universiti Sains Malaysia, May 2000.
  14. Thiang Bee Nee. Using Neural Networks for DNA Sequence Analysis: Splice Site Prediction, Universiti Sains Malaysia, May 2000.
  15. Ng Sim Yam. Anatomy Advisor on the World Wide Web, Universiti Sains Malaysia, September 1999.
  16. Lee Gim Hoo. A System for Electronic Health Survey over the World Wide Web, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Sept. 1999.

Brief Bio

Academic Qualifications

  • Ph.D.       University of Surrey, Guildford, UK: 1994
    Specialization:  Computer Sciences (Neural Networks & AI)
  • M.S.           University of Miami, Miami, USA: 1989
    Specialization: Computer Engineering
  • B.Engg.   N.E.D. University of Engineering & Technology, Karachi, Pakistan: 1986
    Specialization: Electronic Engineering

Academic Honours

  • Best paper award at 16th International Symposium on Health Information Management Research (iSHIMR), Halifax, June 2013.
  • Best paper award at 2nd Advances in Health Informatics Conference, Toronto, April 2012.
  • Research Excellence Award, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, 2011.
  • Best paper award at 11th International Symposium on Health Information Management Research (iSHIMR), Halifax, July 2006
  • Best paper award at 39th IEEE Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (IT in healthcare track), Hawaii, January 2006.
  • Best paper award at 38th IEEE Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (IT in healthcare track), Hawaii, January 2005.
  • Best paper award at 16th International Congress of the European Federation for Medical Informatics (MIE’2000), Hannover, 2000.
  • VHK International Award for Innovation in Medical Informatics, Hannover, August 2000. The award was adjudged based on my R&D work presented at the International Congress of Medical Informatics in Europe (MIE’2000) in Hannover, Germany.

Employment Record

  • Professor (July 2007 – To date), Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
  • Professor (April 2013 – To date) [Cross-Appointment], Department of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada.
  • Director of Health Informatics (July 2005 – To date), Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada.
  • Adjunct Professor (March 2008 – 2012), Multimedia University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
  • Associate Professor (Jan 2002 – June 2007), Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada.
  • Associate Professor (May 1999 – Dec 2001), School of Computer Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia.
  • Lecturer (Oct. 1995 – April 1999), School of Computer Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia.
  • Research Officer (March 1993 – Dec 1994), AI Group, Dept. of Computing Sciences, Univ. of Surrey, Guildford, England.