Professor Darren Dancey
Head of Department: Computing and Mathematics
My profile
Biography
I am the Head of Department for Computing and Mathematics. I have a research background in Artificial Intelligence with a PhD in Artificial Neural Networks. My teaching interests centre on Software Development and I have recently taught courses in Data Structures and Algorithms, Comparative Programming languages and applied courses such as Website Development and Mobile Application Development. In recent years I have concentrated on creating collaborations and knowledge exchange between universities and industry with a focus on the SME sector. I have led several large projects funded by Innovate UK, the Digital R&D Fund for the Arts, and the European Research Council. I am on the organising committee for the Manchester Raspberry Pi Jam and sit on the BCS Manchester branch committee.
Research outputs
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Journal articles
Yap, M.H., Cassidy, B., Byra, M., Liao, T.Y., Yi, H., Galdran, A., Chen, Y.H., Brüngel, R., Koitka, S., Friedrich, C.M., Lo, Y.W., Yang, C.H., Li, K., Lao, Q., Ballester, M.A.G., Carneiro, G., Ju, Y.J., Huang, J.D., Pappachan, J.M., Reeves, N.D., Chandrabalan, V., Dancey, D., Kendrick, C. (2024) 'Diabetic foot ulcers segmentation challenge report: Benchmark and analysis.' Medical Image Analysis, 94
Akintoye, S.B., Han, L., Lloyd, H., Zhang, X., Dancey, D., Chen, H., Zhang, D. (2023) 'Layer-wise partitioning and merging for efficient and scalable deep learning.' Future Generation Computer Systems, 149pp. 432-444.
Zhang, X., Han, L., Han, L., Chen, H., Dancey, D., Zhang, D. (2023) 'sMRI-PatchNet: a novel efficient explainable patch-based deep learning network for Alzheimer’s Disease diagnosis with structural MRI.' IEEE Access, 11pp. 108603-108616.
Shi, Y., Han, L., González-Moreno, P., Dancey, D., Huang, W., Zhang, Z., Liu, Y., Huang, M., Miao, H., Dai, M. (2023) 'A fast Fourier convolutional deep neural network for accurate and explainable discrimination of wheat yellow rust and nitrogen deficiency from Sentinel-2 time series data.' Frontiers in Plant Science, 14pp. 1250844-1250844.
Shi, Y., Han, L., Han, L., Chang, S., Hu, T., Dancey, D. (2022) 'A Latent Encoder Coupled Generative Adversarial Network (LE-GAN) for Efficient Hyperspectral Image Super-resolution.' IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 60pp. 5534819-5534819.
Khan, M.U.S., Bukhari, S.M.A.H., Maqsood, T., Fayyaz, M.A.B., Dancey, D., Nawaz, R. (2022) 'SCNN-Attack: A Side-Channel Attack to Identify YouTube Videos in a VPN and Non-VPN Network Traffic.' Electronics (Basel), 11(3) pp. 350-350.
Rashid, A., Saleem, J., Amin, M., Ali, S.M., Khan, A.A., Qureshi, M.B., Ali, S., Dancey, D., Nawaz, R. (2021) 'Investigation of 9000 hours multi-stress aging effects on High-Temperature Vulcanized Silicone Rubber with silica (nano/micro) filler hybrid composite insulator.' PLOS ONE, 16(7)
Shi, Y., Han, L., Huang, W., Chang, S., Dong, Y., Dancey, D., Han, L. (2021) 'A Biologically Interpretable Two-Stage Deep Neural Network (BIT-DNN) for Vegetation Recognition From Hyperspectral Imagery.' IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 60pp. 4401320-4401320.
Nizami, M.H.A., Shah, Z.A., Ayaz, Y., Khan, M.J., Ali, S., Naveed, M., Akhtar, K., Dancey, D., Nawaz, R. (2020) 'Proximal Actuation of an Elastically Loaded Scissors Mechanism for the Leg Design of a Quadruped Robot.' IEEE Access, 8pp. 208240-208252.
Shi, Y., Qayyum, S., Memon, S.A., Khan, U., Imtiaz, J., Ullah, I., Dancey, D., Nawaz, R. (2020) 'A Modified Bayesian Framework for Multi-Sensor Target Tracking with Out-of-Sequence-Measurements.' Sensors, 20(14)
Gul, B., Khan, I.A., Mustafa, S., Khalid, O., Hussain, S.S., Dancey, D., Nawaz, R. (2020) 'CPU and RAM Energy-based SLA-aware Workload Consolidation Techniques for Clouds.' IEEE Access, 8pp. 62990-63003.
Goyal, M., Oakley, A., Bansal, P., Dancey, D., Yap, M.H. (2020) 'Skin Lesion Segmentation in Dermoscopic Images with Ensemble Deep Learning Methods.' IEEE Access, 8pp. 4171-4181.
Ali, S., Mehmood, F., Dancey, D., Ayaz, Y., Khan, M.J., Naseer, N., Amadeu, R.D.C., Sadia, H., Nawaz, R. (2019) 'An Adaptive Multi-Robot Therapy for Improving Joint Attention and Imitation of ASD Children.' IEEE Access, 7pp. 81808-81825.
Derbyshire, E., Dancey, D. (2013) 'Smartphone medical applications for women's health: What is the evidence-base and feedback?.' International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications, 2013
Dancey, D., Bandar, Z.A., McLean, D. (2010) 'Rule extraction from neural networks for medical domains.' Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks,
Dancey, D., Bandar, Z.A., McLean, D.A. (2007) 'Logistic model tree extraction from artificial neural networks.' man and cybernetics part B (Cybernetics), 37(4) pp. 794-802.
Dancey, D., McLean, D.A., Bandar, Z.A. (2004) 'Decision tree extraction from trained neural networks.'
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Conference papers
Baig, D., Khan, M.U.S., Dancey, D., Abbas, A., Ali, M., Nawaz, R. (2021) 'Malware Detection and Classification along with Trade-off Analysis for Number of Features, Feature Types, and Speed.' pp. 246-251.
Kayani, M., Hassan, S.U., Aljohani, N.R., Dancey, D., Liu, L., Nawaz, R. (2019) 'Towards Interdisciplinary Research: A Bibliometric View of Information Communication Technology for Development in Different Disciplines.' 30/7/2019 - 31/7/2019. IEEE,
Alarifi, J., Fry, J., Dancey, D., Yap, M.H. (2019) 'Understanding face age estimation: Humans and machine.' In 2019 International Conference on Computer, Information and Telecommunication Systems.
Khalid, S., Ul Hassan, S., Shardlow, M., Dancey, D., Nawaz, R. (2019) 'Author Name Disambiguation on Ambiguous Data of Chinese Authors using Machine Learning Approaches.' In Conference on Smart Information & Communication Technologies. 26/9/2019 - 28/9/2019.
Wilson, D., Nawaz, R., Kayas, O., Dancey, D., Welch, K. (2018) ''The web is not print’: tracing historical influences on changing web coding practices.' In 3rd Research Infrastructure for the Study of Archived Web Materials conference. Amsterdam, 19/6/2019 - 21/6/2019.
Alarifi, J.S., Goyal, M., Davison, A.K., Dancey, D., Khan, R., Yap, M.H. (2017) 'Facial skin classification using convolutional neural networks.' pp. 479-485.