Professor Nada Philip

Faculty of Engineering, Computing and the Environment
Department of Networks and Digital Media
School of Computer Science and Mathematics
Penrhyn Road

Professor

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About

I am a Professor of Mobile Health (mHealth) at Kingston University London and the founder of the research group Digital Media for Health in 2012. I obtained my PhD in mHealth with the thesis titled 'Medical Quality of Service for Optimised Ultrasound Streaming in Wireless Robotic Tele-ultrasonography System' from the Faculty of Science, Engineering and Computing at Kingston University, UK, in 2008.

My research interests are mainly in Data and Multimedia Communication, Networking and Information Technology in healthcare and medical applications. I have more than 15 years of experience in mHealth. I have been involved in many national and international mHealth projects in the areas of chronic disease management (e.g. diabetes, COPD and Cancer), decision support systems, behavioural change management, telehealth and telecare in developing countries, need assessment and evaluation of telehealth services, Social robotics, medical video streaming, medical Quality of Service and medical Quality of Experience and Big Data for Health, namely; OTELO, E-Dispute, Delphi, LTE-Health, WELCOME and AEGLE. I was part of one of the top 10 finalist teams (SCANURSE) of The Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE (2014) for developing innovative and integrated diagnostic technologies, helping citizens make their own reliable health diagnoses anywhere and anytime.

Current and previous work

I author and co-author over 100 journals, peer-reviewed conferences, and book chapters.
I am a member of the review panels for many Transactions and journals and a member of the program committee for a number of international conferences.
I am a grant proposals reviewer on the MRC and the NIHR research bodies.
I am a committee member (Industry relation coordinator) of the IEEE communication Society – Women in Communications Engineering (WICE) (2015-2017), which is a standing committee within the IEEE Communication Society (ComSoc). Its mission is to promote the visibility and roles of women communications engineers and to provide a venue for their professional growth.
I am a fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a member of the Institute of Engineering Technology (IET), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS).
I was a member and editor of the ITU Focus Group, which is developing the standard for the M2M service layer for e-health.
I was the Chair for many special sessions and workshops in major international conferences (e.g. IEEE/EMBC and MobiHealth).
I have been an invited speaker at a number of Industrial, scientific, and governmental events (e.g. ETSI, British Council-BUIC and Intel).

Qualifications

2008 - PhD - Kingston University - UK
2003 - MSc - Data Communications - Brunel University - UK
1991 - BSc - Control and Instrumentation Engineering - University of Technology - Baghdad

Domains

KTP – Salutem: Digital health technology to support personalized care home service delivery for people with autism and learning difficulties. £220,000. 2021-2025.
- I am the PI in this project. The project investigates the introduction of digital health into the social home care sector. One of the main scenarios to address here is to support carers to predict distress for residents with autism and learning disabilities using ehealth and environment remote monitoring, wearables, IoT, and AI technologies.
KTP - Pangea: The project aims to deliver enriched video compression for effectively streaming video over 5G networks to deliver huge benefits to emergency services including CTTV, in-car Video and healthcare. £266,628. 2019-2022.
- I am co-PI in this project. I am leading on the ambulance healthcare scenario (5G smart ambulance) and the communications on the vital signs and end-to-end video streaming and related QoE between the ambulance and the A&E department at the hospital.
EU H2020: AEGLE - An analytics framework for integrated and personalized healthcare services in Europe. Euro 718,142. 2015 – 2019.
- I am the PI in this project. This is recognized as a Flagship project for Big Data and I am also the technical lead in this project. My role is to design the AI and Big data analytics of the AEGLE system and then lead the technical integration and validation of the whole AEGLE project.
British Council UKIERI programme: ‘Study and development of non-invasive ambulatory respiratory and cardiac monitoring system for mobile health monitoring using photonic crystal fibre'. Prof. Andy Augousti. £39, 959. 2015 – 2016
- I am co-PI in this project and my role is to investigate the mobile health data monitoring aspects that include design and development of the data acquisition module to acquire data from this novel optical sensor.
KTP – Entryphone: ‘Develop and embed remote door intercom, CCTV and access control technologies enabling users to securely interact with their entry door, through their personal devices from anywhere in the world'. £334.990, 2016-2018.
- I am co-PI in this KTP. My responsibility is the end-to-end video streaming and related QoE control.
EU FP7: WELCOME - Wearable Sensing and Smart Cloud Computing for Integrated Care to COPD Patients with Comorbidities – 2013-2017. EU FP7. Euro 631,351. 2013-2017.
- I am co-PI in this project. This is recognised as a Flagship project for integrated and connected care. I am also the technical lead in this project. My role is to design the patient hub based on Internet of Things principles for the system and then lead the technical integration of the whole WELCOME project.
EU FP7 Marie Curie Actions Incoming International Fellowships (IIF) - "LTeHealth – Long-Term e-Health Evolution for Improving Diabetic Social and Behavioural Change Management". Euro 270,680. 2012-2014.
- I am the PI in this project and my role is to supervise a senior researcher in the development of a social robotic platform to monitor and manage Type 1 Diabetic patients to change their behaviour towards a better lifestyle.
The Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE (2014): (SCANURSE) ‘Developing innovative and integrated diagnostic technologies, helping citizens make their own reliable health diagnoses anywhere and anytime'. (2014).
- I was contacted by the SCANURSE founder to contribute towards the design of the Tricorder. I was the lead from Kingston in this application. We were one of the 10 finalists in the competition. My role was to design the SCANURSE device and user interfaces. In this proposal I mentored a non-research active academic staff member which will definitely help to build Kingston's research community. Kingston Team and its contribution are clearly shown in this link http://tricorder.xprize.org/teams/scanurse.
- SCANURSE was the only entry from Britain in this worldwide competition. This is an article in the Sunday Times newspaper about Kingston University contribution in the competition https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/its-a-tricorder-but-not-as-we-know-it-7qlzz79cvjz
British Council DELPHI grant for "e-health inclusion in Medical Higher education in Developing countries". £72,000. 2010-2012.
- I was co-PI in this project. My role is to train and teach healthcare professionals from the developing countries and post-war Middle Eastern countries, including Iraq, in the area of e-health and its inclusion in their medical school teaching and learning curriculum and strategy. The project was ranked as one of the best for that call in terms of results achieved.
London Creative and Digital Fusion Collaborative Awards Application: Feasibility and acceptability of using a digital platform to deliver content of the Bridges stroke workbook and carers' booklet'. £10,000. 2014.
- I was the PI in this project.
London Creative and Digital Fusion Collaborative Awards Application: Curated Mobile Health Application Store. £10,000. 2013.
- I was the PI in this project.
International Travel Grant, Royal Academy of Engineering, International Travel Grant, IJB/KN/10-875, 2010, £600.
- I was the PI in this project.
Philips: Feasibility study for Location Technologies within Healthcare Institutions, Industrial project, 2009, £4,000.
- I was co-PI in this project.

Publications

A data analytics suite for exploratory predictive, and visual analysis of Type 2 Diabetes

Philip, Nada Y., Razaak, Manzoor, Chang, John, M, Suchetha., O'Kane, Maurice and Pierscionek, Barbara K., 2022, IEEE Access (10) pp 13460-13471, Published

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Variational mode decomposition based retinal area detection and merging of superpixels in SLO image

Manikandan, Suchetha, Deepika, V. and Philip, Nada, 2021, Current Signal Transduction Therapy (16), 2 pp 178-190, Published

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Internet of Things for in-home health monitoring systems: current advances, challenges and future directions

Philip, Nada Y., Rodrigues, Joel J. P. C., Wang, Honggang, Fong, Simon James and Chen, Jia, 2021, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (39), 2 pp 300-310, Published

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Time series classification based correlational neural network with bidirectional LSTM for automated detection of kidney disease

Bhaskar, Navaneeth, M, Suchetha and Philip, Nada Y, 2021, IEEE Sensors Journal (21), 4 pp 4811-4818, Published

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Big Data and diabetes: the applications of Big Data for diabetes care now and in the future

Rumbold, J. M. M., O'Kane, M., Philip, N. and Pierscionek, B. K., 2020, Diabetic Medicine (37), 2 pp 187-193, Published

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A systematic review of reviews to identify key research opportunities within the field of eHealth implementation

Ahmed, Bakhtiyar, Dannhauser, Thomas and Philip, Nada, 2019, Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare (25), 5 pp 276-285, Published

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Multilayer perceptron neural network-based QoS-aware, content-aware and device-aware QoE prediction model: a proposed prediction model for medical ultrasound streaming over small cell networks

Philip, Nada Y., Rehman, Ikram U. and Nasralla, Moustafa M., 2019, Electronics (8), 2, Published

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Design and usability ealuation of social mobile diabetes management system in the Gulf Region

Alanzi, Turki, Istepanian, Robert and Philip, Nada, 2016, JMIR Research Protocols (5), 3, Published

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Exploring COPD care pathway in different EU countries

Kayyali, Reem, Odeh, Bassel, Frerichs, Inez, Davies, Nikki, Perantoni, Eleni, D'Arcy, Shona, Vaes, Anouk, Elnabhani, Shereen, Chang, Jong, Spruit, Martin A, Deering, Brenda, Philip, Nada, Siva, Rosan, Kaimakamis, Evangelos, Chouvarda, Ioanna, Pierscionek, Barbara, Weiler, Norbert and Raptopoulos, Andreas, 2014, European Respiratory Journal (44), 1, Published

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A Feasibility Study of Mobile Phone Text Messaging to Support Education and Management of Type 2 Diabetes in Iraq

Haddad, Nazar S., Istepanian, Robert, Philip, Nada, Khazaal, Faris A. K., Hamdan, Thamer A., Pickles, Timothy, Amso, Nazar and Gregory, John W., 2014, Atomic Data and Nuclear Data Tables (16), 7 pp 454-459, Published

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Cross-layer design for optimized region of interest of ultrasound video data over mobile WiMAX

Debono, C. J., Micallef, B. W., Philip, N., Alinejad, A., Istepanian, R. S. H. and Amso, N. N., 2012, Formulary (16), 6 pp 1007-1014, Published

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Cross layer ultrasound video streaming over Mobile WiMAX and HSUPA networks

Alinejad, A., Philip, N. and Istepanian, R., 2012, Bijdragen en Mededelingen Betreffende de Geschiedenis der Nederlanden (16), 1 pp 31-39, Published

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Robust multi-layer control for enhanced wireless telemedical video streaming

Martini, M.G., Istepanian, R. S. H., Mazzotti, M. and Philip, N. Y., 2010, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (9), 1 pp 5-16, Published

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Medical QoS provision based on reinforcement learning in ultrasound streaming over 3.5G wireless systems

Istepanian, Robert. S. H., Philip, Nada Y. and Martini, Maria. G., 2009, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (27), 4 pp 566-574, Published

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The potential of mobile robotic TeleUlstrasound system for medical diagnostic and training

Istepanian, R.S.H., Amsou, N. and Philip, N., 2007, International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (2), Suppl 1 pp S30-S31, Published

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Edge-guided ControlNet synthetic chest x-ray augmentation and ensemble classification

Abbasi, Negar, Philip, Nada and Rahim, Tariq (2026). IEEE [Published]

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Classification of retinal lesions in fundus images using atrous convolutional neural network

Radha,, Suchetha,, Raman, Rajiv, Madhumitha,, Meena, Sorna, Sruthi, and Philip, Nada (2021). In: Sivasubramanian, A., Shastry, Prasad N., Hong, Pua Chang, (eds.) Springer Nature pp 551-564 [Published]

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A novel privacy framework for secure M-Health applications: the case of the GDPR

Mustafa, Uzma, Pflugel, Eckhard and Philip, Nada (2019). [Published]

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Group-based key exchange for medical IoT Device-to-Device Communication (D2D) combining secret sharing and physical layer key exchange

Mustafa, Uzma and Philip, Nada (2019). [Published]

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An informal carer hub to support carers looking after COPD patients in the UK and Netherlands

Sobnath, D. and Philip, N. (2018). [Published]

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Small cell-based ambulance scenario for medical video streaming: a 5G-health use case

Rehman, Ikram Ur, Nasralla, Moustafa M., Ali, Ajaz and Philip, Nada (2018). [Published]

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A Lean Design Thinking Methodology (LDTM) for machine learning and modern data projects

Ahmed, Bakhtiyar, Dannhauser, Thomas and Philip, Nada (2018). [Published]

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Design of a hybrid multi-occupant visitor communication and door control system

Adeyemi-Ejeye, A.O., Mehdi, M., Martini, M.G., Philip, N. and Orwell, J. (2017). [Published]

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M-QoE driven context, content and network aware medical video streaming based on fuzzy logic system over 4G and beyond small cells

Rehman, Ikram U. and Philip, Nada Y. (2015). [Accepted/In press]

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Performance analysis of medical video streaming over 4G and beyond small cells for indoor and moving vehicle (ambulance) scenarios

Rehman, Ikram U., Philip, Nada and Istepanian, Robert S.H. (2014). [Published]

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End-to-end delay distributions in wireless tele-ultrasonography medical systems

Chen, Yu, Darwazeh, Izzat, Philip, Nada and Istepanian, Robert (2013). [Published]

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Medical Quality of Service (m-QoS) and Quality of Experience (m-QoE) for 4G-health Systems

Istepanian, Robert S. H., Alinejad, Ali and Philip, Nada Y. (2013). In: Farrugia, Reuben A., Debono, Carl J., (eds.), Hershey, PA, US: pp 359-376 [Published]

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Performance analysis of medical video streaming over mobile WiMAX

Alinejad, Ali, Istepanian, Robert and Philip, Nada (2010). [Published]

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Provisioning of medical quality of services for HSDPA and mobile WiMAX in healthcare applications

Istepanian, Robert and Philip, Nada (2009). [Published]

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3G/WLAN cross-layer design for medical video transmission in wireless robotic teleultrasonography

Martini, M.G., Istepanian, R.S.H., Mazzottii, M. and Philip, N. (2008). In: Xiao, Y, Chen, H, (eds.), Boca Racton, Florida, U.S.: [Published]

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Optimisation Issues of High Throughput Medical Data and Video Streaming Traffic in 3G Wireless Environments

Istepanian, R. S.H. and Philip, N. (2005). In: Bos, Lodewijk, Laxminarayan, Swamy, Marsh, Andy, (eds.) IOS Press pp 125-131 [Published]

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Non-telephone healthcare: the role of 4G and emerging mobile systems for future m-health systems

Istepanian, R., Philip, N., Wang, X. H. and Laxminarayan, S. (2004). In: Bos, L., Laxminarayan, S., Marsh, A., (eds.), Amsterdam, Netherlands: IOS Press pp 465-470 [Published]

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Developing AI and wearable technologies for autistic residents in care homes: carer’s perceptions and experiences

Blyth, James, Andersonine, Zoe, Tasiemska, Hania, Curtis, Katherine and Philip, Nada(2026). [Published]

Professor Nada Philip

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