The RHU College of Arts and Sciences proudly announces that Dr. Roaa Soloh, Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer, Math, and Sciences, presented groundbreaking AI research on brain tumor segmentation at the 8th International Conference on Advances in Biomedical Engineering (ICABME 2025), held at Beirut Arab University on October 9–10, 2025. The study, co-authored by Dr. Lara Abou Orm and RHU graduate Mr. Mahmoud El Batish, highlights RHU’s culture of academic collaboration, student mentorship, and impactful applied research at the intersection of technology and healthcare.
The research originated from an undergraduate internship project supervised by Dr. Soloh at RHU. It demonstrates the university’s dedication to combining student learning with meaningful applied research. The study presents a hybrid deep-learning framework that merges a patch-wise U-Net with entropy-aware α-expansion graph-cut optimization, leading to enhanced spatial coherence and boundary accuracy for brain-tumor segmentation on the BraTS 2020 dataset.
The method shows great potential for clinical use in settings with limited computational resources. This achievement emphasizes RHU’s dedication to research-driven education, student mentorship, and contributions to advancing AI-based healthcare technologies both nationally and internationally.