Dr Kamran Soomro's Outputs (20)

Leveraging LLMs for smart cities qualitative data analysis (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Public authorities regularly conduct surveys and gather data from their citizens. The data is often analysed manually and consumes significant effort. This paper explores how Generative Artificial Intelli- gence (GAI) can help public authorities in a... Read More about Leveraging LLMs for smart cities qualitative data analysis.

An evaluation into procalcitonin levels in full-term neonates managed for suspected early onset sepsis due to probable maternal intrapartum sepsis (2023)
Journal Article

Purpose: To investigate procalcitonin (PCT) levels in full-term neonates managed for suspected early onset sepsis (EOS) due to probable maternal intrapartum sepsis. Methods: Prospective longitudinal observational study at University Hospitals of Bris... Read More about An evaluation into procalcitonin levels in full-term neonates managed for suspected early onset sepsis due to probable maternal intrapartum sepsis.

SIGNED: Smart cIty diGital twiN vErifiable data framework (2023)
Journal Article

Smart city digital twins can provide useful insights by making effective use of multidisciplinary urban data from diverse sources. Whilst these insights provide new information that helps cities in decision making, verifying the authenticity, integri... Read More about SIGNED: Smart cIty diGital twiN vErifiable data framework.

An evaluation into the use of procalcitonin levels as a biomarker of bacterial sepsis to aid the management of intrapartum pyrexia and chorioamnionitis (2022)
Journal Article

BACKGROUND
Procalcitonin is an established biomarker for bacterial sepsis in the nonpregnant population with better diagnostic and prognostic value for bacterial infections.

OBJEC... Read More about An evaluation into the use of procalcitonin levels as a biomarker of bacterial sepsis to aid the management of intrapartum pyrexia and chorioamnionitis.

Supporting patient nutrition in critical care units (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Critical Care Unit (CCU) patients often benefit from being referred to dietitians for various reasons. This can help improve recovery time, resulting in more effective utilisation of valuable resources within the NHS (National Health Service) in the... Read More about Supporting patient nutrition in critical care units.

The dynamics of procalcitonin in COVID-19 patients admitted to Intensive care unit - a multi-centre cohort study in the South West of England, UK. (2021)
Journal Article

Automated screening of patients for dietician referral (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Critical Care Units (CCU) in a hospital treat the severely sick patients that need constant monitoring and close medical attention. Feeding patients, enteral feeding in particular, is a critical and continuous process. Monitoring patients, managing t... Read More about Automated screening of patients for dietician referral.

Smart city big data analytics: An advanced review (2019)
Journal Article

© 2019 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. With the increasing role of ICT in enabling and supporting smart cities, the demand for big data analytics solutions is increasing. Various artificial intelligence, data mining, machine learning and statistical analysis... Read More about Smart city big data analytics: An advanced review.

Participatory governance in smart cities: The urbanAPI case study (2017)
Journal Article

Copyright © 2017 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. This paper presents some results from an EU FP7 RTD project urbanAPI, in which three ICT applications target different aspects of participatory urban governance. The 3D Scenario Creator allows urban plan... Read More about Participatory governance in smart cities: The urbanAPI case study.

From top-down land use planning intelligence to bottom-up stakeholder engagement for smart cities – A case study: DECUMANUS service products (2017)
Journal Article

Copyright © 2017 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Intelligence delivered by earth observation (EO) satellites performs a vital role in supporting ICT enabled urban governance, and the creation of decision making tools delivering integrated urban plannin... Read More about From top-down land use planning intelligence to bottom-up stakeholder engagement for smart cities – A case study: DECUMANUS service products.

Tracking the virality of news in Smart Cities (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Effective communication with citizens is an important goal of smart cities. To this end the digital age offers many mechanisms to not only enable timely communication, but also bilateral communication. Mechanisms such as blog posts and online press r... Read More about Tracking the virality of news in Smart Cities.

Developing knowledge-based citizen participation platform to support smart city decision making: The smarticipate case study (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 by the authors. Citizen participation for social innovation and co-creating urban regeneration proposals can be greatly facilitated by innovative IT systems. Such systems can use Open Government Data, visualise urban proposals in 3D models and... Read More about Developing knowledge-based citizen participation platform to support smart city decision making: The smarticipate case study.

Towards provisioning of real-time smart city services using clouds (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

ICT is becoming an enabler for smart city applications by making effective use of various data resources generated daily in an urban environment. Mostly this data is utilised by city authorities for city planning purposes and often citi- zens become... Read More about Towards provisioning of real-time smart city services using clouds.

HyDRA Hybrid workflow Design Recommender Architecture (2016)
Thesis

Workflows are a way to describe a series of computations on raw e-Science data. These data may be MRI brain scans, data from a high energy physics detector or metric data from an earth observation project. In order to derive meaningful knowledge from... Read More about HyDRA Hybrid workflow Design Recommender Architecture.

Incorporating semantics in pattern-based scientific workflow recommender systems (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Recommender systems are used to enable decision support. Using them to assist users when designing scientific workflows introduces a number of challenges. These include selecting appropriate components and specifying correct parameter values. Pattern... Read More about Incorporating semantics in pattern-based scientific workflow recommender systems.

Towards cloud based big data analytics for smart future cities (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015, Khan et al.; licensee Springer. A large amount of land-use, environment, socio-economic, energy and transport data is generated in cities. An integrated perspective of managing and analysing such big data can answer a number of science, polic... Read More about Towards cloud based big data analytics for smart future cities.

A framework for cloud-based context-aware information services for citizens in smart cities (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014 Khan et al.; licensee Springer. Background: In the context of smart cities, public participation and citizen science are key ingredients for informed and intelligent planning decisions and policy-making. However, citizens face a practical chal... Read More about A framework for cloud-based context-aware information services for citizens in smart cities.

ICT enabled participatory urban planning and policy development: The UrbanAPI project (2014)
Journal Article

Purpose: The aim of this paper is to present the effectiveness of participatory information and communication technology (ICT) tools for urban planning, in particular, supporting bottom-up decision-making in urban management and governance. Design/me... Read More about ICT enabled participatory urban planning and policy development: The UrbanAPI project.

Providing traceability for neuroimaging analyses (2013)
Journal Article

Introduction
With the increasingly digital nature of biomedical data and as the complexity of analyses in medical research increases, the need for accurate information capture, traceability and accessibility has become crucial to medical researchers... Read More about Providing traceability for neuroimaging analyses.

Provenance management for neuroimaging workflows in neuGrid (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution