IDS Lab

About Team Lead

Mohammad Shaheryar Furqan (PhD)

Senior Research Fellow

Division of Biomedical Informatics
Department of Surgery
Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
National University of Singapore

Lead Data Scientist

AIO - Innovation Office
National University Health System

Research Interests

Application of Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare Challenges

Deep learning models for Medical Image analysis

Perceiver IO for multi-modal analysis of Healthcare Datasets

Reinforcement Learning and Recommendation System for Treatment Optimization

Generative models - Vision Models (VMs) - application to Healthcare

Generative models - Large languange Models (LLMs) - application to Healthcare

Generative models - Tiny multi-modal models (TMMs) - application to HealthCare

Casual Inference for Evidence-based Medicine

Group Achivements

Projects Completed

On-going Projects

Grants (SGD $ Million)

Grants

Developing Operation Theatre Resource Monitoring Solution for NUHS.

Role: CO - PI
Duration: 2023 -2024
Funding Source: NUHS, Napier and ESG
Amount (SGD$): 1.98 Million (0.44 Million from ESG)

Precision BRAin COnnectivity Profiling of Learning Difficulties for future therapeutic strategy using network-targeted neurostimulation (BRACO-LD)

Role: CO - I
Duration: 2023 -2027
Funding Source: NMRC
Amount (SGD$): 0.38 Million

Implementation of Automated Detection of Calcium Abnormalities to Improve Treatment of Hyperparathyroidsm.

Role: CO - PI
Duration: 2022 -2023
Funding Source: MOH\MHI
Amount (SGD$): 0.42 Million

Automate Radiology Reporting using Machine Vision.

Role: CO - PI
Duration: 2022 -2024
Funding Source: NUHS Seed Funds
Amount (SGD$): 0.25 Million

Predicting Future Hospital Bed States Using Length of Stay Predictor Based on Admission Text

Role: Collaborator
Duration: 2021 -2022
Funding Source: NMRC-CIDA
Amount (SGD$): 0.19 Million

Awards

NUS Medicine Outstanding Award Mentor Award for Research Fellows 2022.
Session Chair In IEEE 3rd International Conference On Artificial Intelligence, Modelling And Simulation 2015.
Graduate Research Scholarship, Nanyang Technological University 2012-2016.
GOLD MEDAL for best graduate of batch 2007 awarded in March from Hamdard University.
Hakim Muhammad Said Shaheed Gold Medal for outstanding performance throughout the study awarded in March from Hamdard University.

Professional Engagements

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), USA - Full Member since 2012

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), UK - Full Member since 2017

Holomedicine Association - Founding Member

Reviewer for IET Systems Biology

IEEE Young Professionals - Member

IEEE Biometrics Council - Member

IEEE Young Professionals - Member

IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society - Member

Pakistan Engineering Council

Past Experience

Research Fellow

Cancer Science Institute Singapore
National University of Singapore

Research Fellow

Institute For Health Innovation & Technology
National University of Singapore

Research Fellow

Department of Surgery, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
National University of Singapore

Research Associate

Department of Surgery, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
National University of Singapore

Selected Publications

Kian Wei Ng, Yujia Gao, Mohammed Shaheryar Furqan, Zachery Yeo, Joel Lau, Kee Yuan Ngiam, Eng Tat Khoo. HoloPOCUS: Portable Mixed-Reality 3D Ultrasound Tracking, Reconstruction and Overlay. ASMUS 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14337, (2023).

Ng, K.W.; Furqan, M.S.; Gao, Y.; Ngiam, K.Y.; Khoo, E.T.HoloVein—Mixed-Reality Venipuncture Aid via Convolutional Neural Networks and Semi-Supervised Learning., Electronics 2023, 12, 292.

Suiani, Noor, Soriano, Victoria, Furqan, Mohammad Shaheryar, Peters, Rachel, et al. PREVALENCE AND RISK FACTORS FOR ALLERGIC COMORBIDITIES IN AUSTRALIAN CHILDREN AND ASIAN CHILDREN LIVING IN SINGAPORE AND AUSTRALIA Internal Medicine Journal, vol 53, 2023

Soekojo, C.Y., Chung, TH., Furqan, M.S. Wee-Joo Chng. Genomic characterization of functional high-risk multiple myeloma patients. Blood Cancer J. 12, 24 (2022).

Cinnie Yentia Soekojo T-HC,Muhammad Shaheryar Furqan, Wee-Joo Chng.Identifying the Genomic Profile of Functional High-Risk Multiple Myeloma Patients. Blood. 2020;136(Supplement 1):51-2.

Najim Y, Gao Y, Furqan MS, Bonney GK, Kow AWC, Madhavan K, et al. Acute pancreatitis with or without cholangitis-Implications on antibiotic protocols. HPB. 2019;21:S320-S1.

Ng DWK, Gao Y,Furqan MS, Bonney GK, Kow AWC, Madhavan K, et al.Validation of Harmless Acute Pancreatitis Score (HAPS) In a Tertiary Asian Medical Institute. HPB. 2019;21:S406-S7.

Furqan MS, Siyal MY.Inference of biological networks using Bi-directional Random Forest Granger causality. SpringerPlus. 2016;5(1):514.

Furqan MS, Siyal MY. Elastic-Net Copula Granger Causality for Inference of Biological Networks. PloS one. 2016;11(10):e0165612.

Furqan MS, Siyal MY. Biological Network Detection using Forward Backward Pair-wise Granger Causality. International Journal of Simulation-Systems, Science and Technology. 2016;17.

Furqan MS, Siyal MY. Random forest Granger causality for detection of effective brain connectivity using high-dimensional data. Journal of Integrative Neuroscience. 2016;15(01):55-66.

Furqan MS, Siyal MY. Protein Map of Control Mice Exposed to Context Fear Using A Novel Implementation of Granger Causality. 2015 3rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Modelling and Simulation (AIMS); 2015: IEEE.

Furqan MS, Siyal MY. Gene Network Inference Using Forward Backward Pairwise Granger Causality. 2015 3rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Modelling and Simulation (AIMS); 2015: IEEE.

Siyal MY, Furqan M, Monir SMG. Granger causality: Comparative analysis of implementations for Gene Regulatory Networks. 2014 13th International Conference on Control Automation Robotics & Vision (ICARCV); 2014: IEEE.