{"id":2061,"date":"2026-05-18T15:25:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T13:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sbe.eng.cu.edu.eg\/?p=2061"},"modified":"2026-05-18T15:25:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T13:25:24","slug":"two-graduation-project-papers-accepted-at-ieee-embc-2026-in-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbe.eng.cu.edu.eg\/en\/blog\/2026\/05\/18\/two-graduation-project-papers-accepted-at-ieee-embc-2026-in-toronto\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Graduation Project Papers Accepted at IEEE EMBC 2026 in Toronto!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><!-- English section --><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:1.2em;line-height:1.7\">\nThe <strong>Department of Systems and Biomedical Engineering<\/strong> proudly celebrates the acceptance of <strong>two graduation project research papers<\/strong> at the <strong>48th Annual IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC 2026)<\/strong>, to be held in Toronto, Canada.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#f7f7f7;padding:16px;border-left:5px solid #d99f53;margin-bottom:16px\">\n<p><strong>\u201cEvaluation of nnU-Net for FCD II Lesion Segmentation in FLAIR MRI\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>by <strong>Yassien Tawfik<\/strong>, <strong>Mazen Marwan<\/strong>, <strong>Mohamed Yasser<\/strong>, <strong>Nancy Mahmoud<\/strong>, and <strong>Madonna Mosaad (SBME 2026)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Supervised by <strong>Dr. Aya Khalaf<\/strong>, <strong>Eng. Mahmoud Salman<\/strong> (SBME 2024, currently at Western University, Canada), and <strong>Dr. Tamer Basha<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The work focuses on automated detection of <strong>Focal Cortical Dysplasia (FCD)<\/strong>, one of the leading causes of drug-resistant epilepsy, using deep learning methods for MRI lesion segmentation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"background:#f7f7f7;padding:16px;border-left:5px solid #1b2656;margin-bottom:16px\">\n<p><strong>\u201cUnlocking Hidden Patterns: Transfer Learning Boosts Insulin Prediction Leveraging Unlabelled Gut Microbiome Data\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>by <strong>Ghada Elboghdady<\/strong>, <strong>Youssef Awad<\/strong>, <strong>Sama Mohamed<\/strong>, <strong>Amr Doma<\/strong>, <strong>Ahmed Wesal<\/strong> (BDE 2026), <strong>Eng. Yara Elshamy<\/strong> and <strong>Dr. Tamer Basha<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Under the guidance of <strong>Eng. Yara Elshamy<\/strong>, teaching assistant at SBME and Professor <strong>Dr. Tamer Basha<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>It is a proud moment to see undergraduate graduation projects from SBME Cairo University reach one of the world\u2019s leading biomedical engineering conferences. These achievements highlight the talent, ambition, and research potential of SBME and BDE students across diverse interdisciplinary areas.<\/p>\n<p>The department extends its sincere congratulations to all participating students, teaching assistants, and supervisors for this outstanding accomplishment and wishes them continued success in their research journeys.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/embc.embs.org\/2026\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n&#x1f30d; Official IEEE EMBC 2026 Conference Website<br \/>\n<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Systems and Biomedical Engineering proudly celebrates the acceptance of two graduation project research papers at the 48th Annual IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC 2026), to be held in Toronto, Canada. \u201cEvaluation of nnU-Net for FCD II Lesion Segmentation in FLAIR MRI\u201d by Yassien Tawfik, Mazen Marwan, Mohamed Yasser, Nancy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,48,5,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conferences","category-generalnews","category-slider","category-studentnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbe.eng.cu.edu.eg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbe.eng.cu.edu.eg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbe.eng.cu.edu.eg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbe.eng.cu.edu.eg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbe.eng.cu.edu.eg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2061"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/sbe.eng.cu.edu.eg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2072,"href":"https:\/\/sbe.eng.cu.edu.eg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061\/revisions\/2072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbe.eng.cu.edu.eg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbe.eng.cu.edu.eg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbe.eng.cu.edu.eg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbe.eng.cu.edu.eg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}