Dr. Sahar Selim

Associate Professor

Faculty Office Ext.

1782

Faculty Building

UB1

Office Number

213

Biography

Dr. Sahar Selim is an Associate Professor in the Artificial Intelligence Program at the School of Information Technology and Computer Science (ITCS), Nile University. She also serves as Deputy Head of the Medical Imaging and Image Processing (MIIP) Research Group at the Center for Informatics Sciences (CIS). 

She received her B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Computer Science from Ain Shams University and her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cairo University. Before pursuing her academic career, she worked as a software developer for three years. She later joined the German University in Cairo as an Assistant Lecturer and subsequently as an Associate Researcher before joining Nile University. 

Her research focuses on artificial intelligence for healthcare, particularly medical imaging, EEG signal analysis, biomedical signal processing, neural engineering, and brain–computer interfaces. Her work also explores multimodal learning, explainable and trustworthy AI, large language and foundation models, privacy-preserving and federated learning, with an emphasis on developing practical healthcare solutions for low-resource settings. 

Dr. Selim has led and contributed to several funded multidisciplinary research projects and has supervised numerous postgraduate students and young researchers. She is a recipient of the L’Oréal–UNESCO For Women in Science Egypt Young Talents Award 2024 in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence and is actively involved in international research collaboration, scientific mentorship, peer review, and academic service. 

Achievements
  1. Recipient of the L’Oréal–UNESCO For Women in Science Egypt Young Talents Award 2024 for research on AI-based early detection of ovarian cancer using ultrasound imaging. (NU LinkedIn) 

  2. Honored by the Association for Egyptian Women in Mathematics during the 2026 International Day of Women in Mathematics celebration for contributions to artificial intelligence, medical imaging, and AI-driven healthcare solutions.  

  3. The research work “ArEEG: An Open-Access Arabic Inner Speech EEG Dataset” was featured by Nature Middle East, highlighting its contribution as the first open-access Arabic inner-speech EEG dataset.  

  4. Recipient of the ITCS Best Teaching Award 2022 and nominated by ITCS for the Prof. Abdelaziz Salem Outstanding Teaching Award.  

  5. Principal Investigator of “Human–Brain Robot Interaction for Mobility Rehabilitation Control”, selected among the ten finalist applications for the KUKA Innovation Award 2022.  

  6. Research Supervisor and Co-PI of MindPlay: Harnessing Neurofeedback for Children with ADHD, which received Second Place at Nile BioMed Tank 2025.  

  7. Mentor in the AFRICAI Mentorship Program, guiding young African researchers whose work resulted in three accepted papers at MICCAI 2024 satellite events, including one Best Paper Award at the EMERGE Workshop.  

  8. Served as an Area Chair for MICCAI from 2024 to 2026, a Session Co-Chair at MICCAI 2024, and a MICCAI Mentor in 2025.

Recent Publications
Conference Paper

Smart Prediction of Circulatory Failure: Machine Learning for Early Detection of Patient Deterioration

Circulatory failure, also known as shock, is a critical condition that can have serious consequences for one's health. Early detection and timely intervention are crucial for improving patient outcomes. Machine learning (ML) models have shown promise in predicting circulatory failure based on clinical data. In our study, we examined different machine learning (ML) models to predict circulatory

Artificial Intelligence
Healthcare
Circuit Theory and Applications
Conference Paper

A Comparative Analysis of Deep Learning Models for Brain Tumor Segmentation

A brain tumor is an extremely hazardous illness that can affect people of any age. Less than 50% of individuals with brain cancer have a chance of surviving. As a result, precise segmentation of brain tumors is crucial for the diagnosis, planning of the course of treatment, and tracking of the tumor growth. Deep Learning (DL) models can increase the precision and speed of brain tumor diagnosis by

Artificial Intelligence
Conference Paper

A Novel Diagnostic Model for Early Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease Based on Clinical and Neuroimaging Features

Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is a dangerous disease that is known for its characteristics of eroding memory and destroying the brain. The classification of Alzheimer's disease is an important topic that has recently been addressed by many studies using Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) methods. Most research papers tackling early diagnosis of AD use these methods as a feature extractor for

Artificial Intelligence
Healthcare
Circuit Theory and Applications
Software and Communications
Conference Paper

A Multi-scale Self-supervision Method for Improving Cell Nuclei Segmentation in Pathological Tissues

Nuclei detection and segmentation in histopathological images is a prerequisite step for quantitative analysis including morphological shape and size to help in identifying cancer prognosis. Digital pathology field aims to improve the quality of cancer diagnosis and has helped pathologists to reduce their efforts and time. Different deep learning architectures are widely used recently in Digital

Artificial Intelligence
Healthcare
Circuit Theory and Applications
Software and Communications
Agriculture and Crops
Conference Paper

Mobile Application Code Generation Approaches: A Survey

With the extensive usage of mobile applications in daily life, it has become crucial for the companies of software to develop applications for the most popular platforms such as Android and iOS in the shortest possible time and at the lowest possible cost. However, ensuring consistent UIs and functionalities among cross-platform versions can be challenging and costly since different platforms have

Artificial Intelligence
Circuit Theory and Applications
Software and Communications
Conference Paper

Differentiation Between Normal and Abnormal Functional Brain Connectivity Using Non-directed Model-Based Approach

Brain Connectivity refers to networks of functional and anatomical connections found throughout the brain. Multiple neural populations are connected by intricate connectivity circuits and interact with one another to exchange information, synchronize their activity, and participate in the accomplishment of complex cognitive tasks. Issues about how various brain regions contribute to cognition and

Artificial Intelligence
Circuit Theory and Applications
Software and Communications
Conference Paper

Lung Segmentation Using ResUnet++ Powered by Variational Auto Encoder-Based Enhancement in Chest X-ray Images

X-ray has a huge popularity around the world. This is due to its low cost and easy to access. Most of lung diseases are diagnosed using Chest X-ray (CXR). So, developing computer aided detection (CAD) provided with automatic lung segmentation can improve the efficiency of the detection and support the physicians to make a reliable decision at early stages. But when the input image has image

Artificial Intelligence
Healthcare
Energy and Water
Circuit Theory and Applications
Software and Communications
Conference Paper

A CAD System for Lung Cancer Detection Using Chest X-ray: A Review

For many years, lung cancer has been ranked among the deadliest illnesses in the world. Therefore, it must be anticipated and detected at an early stage. We need to build a computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) system to help physicians to provide better treatment. In this study, the whole pipeline and the process of the CAD system for lung cancer detection in Chest X-ray are provided. It demonstrates

Artificial Intelligence
Healthcare
Circuit Theory and Applications
Journal

Automatic Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease Using 3D Deep Ensemble Approach

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is considered the 6 th leading cause of death worldwide. Early diagnosis of AD is not an easy task, and no preventive cures have been discovered yet. Having an accurate computer-aided system for the early detection of AD is important to help patients with AD. This study proposes a new approach for classifying disease stages. First, we worked on the MRI images and split

Artificial Intelligence
Healthcare
Circuit Theory and Applications
Software and Communications
Research Tracks
  • Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare  

  • Medical Imaging and Image Processing  

  • Biomedical Signal Processing and EEG Analysis  

  • Brain–Computer Interfaces and Neural Engineering  

  • Multimodal AI and Data Fusion  

  • Trustworthy and Explainable AI  

  • Large Language Models and Foundation Models for Healthcare  

Projects
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Research Project

Lung Cancer Detection in Chest X-Ray Images Empowered by 3D Computed Tomography Deep Convolutional Radiomics (CXRClear)

Objective/Contributions: Cancer is treatable if it is discovered at an early stage, and lung cancer screening is a critical component in a preventive care protocol. Although CT imaging affords higher spatial resolution and 3D density information than digital chest X-rays, there are still limitations to having it as a cheap and fast method for rural areas outreach. These limitations are outlined in
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Research Project

Smart Agricultural Clinic: Egyptian Farmer Electronic Platform for the Future

Objective/Contributions: Smart agricultural clinic (SAC) aims to: 1) Provide an integrated end-to-end digital system to effectively deliver personalized agriculture extension and veterinary services, including best cultivation, fertilization and breeding practices, to farmers and animal producers through the use of mobile/handheld devices. 2) Use advanced computer vision and deep learning