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Khaled El Emam

Khaled El Emam

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Computer Science

D-Index
59
Citations
11970
World Ranking
3472
National Ranking
137

Overview

Khaled El Emam is affiliated with the University of Ottawa in Canada. Their research spans both Medicine and Computer Science, with a substantive focus on Artificial Intelligence, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Sociology and Political Science, Statistics and Probability, and Health Information Management.

The scientist has contributed extensively to the study of Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data, Machine Learning in Healthcare, Sex and Gender in Healthcare, Ethics in Clinical Research, Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare, Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology, and Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education.

Their recent papers include:

  • "Synthetic data as an enabler for machine learning applications in medicine" (2022, iScience)
  • "Can synthetic data be a proxy for real clinical trial data? A validation study" (2021, BMJ Open)
  • "Evaluating Identity Disclosure Risk in Fully Synthetic Health Data: Model Development and Validation" (2020, Journal of Medical Internet Research)
  • "Seven Ways to Evaluate the Utility of Synthetic Data" (2020, IEEE Security & Privacy)
  • "Utility Metrics for Evaluating Synthetic Health Data Generation Methods: Validation Study" (2022, JMIR Medical Informatics)

Their frequent co-authors include Lucy Mosquera, Louise Pilote, Zahra Azizi, Valeria Raparelli, and Colleen M. Norris.

Their studies have been published predominantly in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, BMJ Open, Canadian Journal of Cardiology, Value in Health, and BMC Medical Research Methodology.

Best Publications

  • The prediction of faulty classes using object-oriented design metrics

    Khaled El Emam;Walcelio Melo;Javam C. Machado

  • Spice: The Theory and Practice of Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination

    Khaled El Emam;Walcelio Melo;Jean-Normand Drouin

  • A Systematic Review of Re-Identification Attacks on Health Data

    Khaled El Emam;Elizabeth Jonker;Luk Arbuckle;Bradley Malin

  • The Confounding Effect of Class Size on the Validity of Object-Oriented Metrics

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  • Protecting privacy using k-anonymity.

    Khaled El Emam;Khaled El Emam;Fida Kamal Dankar

  • An assessment and comparison of common software cost estimation modeling techniques

    L.C. Briand;K. El Emam;D. Surmann;I. Wieczorek

  • A Replicated Survey of IT Software Project Failures

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  • A Globally Optimal k-Anonymity Method for the De-Identification of Health Data

    Khaled El Emam;Khaled El Emam;Fida Kamal Dankar;Romeo Issa;Elizabeth Jonker

  • On the application of measurement theory in software engineering

    Lionel C. Briand;Khaled El Emam;Sandro Morasca

  • Who’s Using PDAs? Estimates of PDA Use by Health Care Providers: A Systematic Review of Surveys

    Chantelle Garritty;Khaled El Emam

  • Software Cost Estimation with Incomplete Data

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  • Anonymising and sharing individual patient data.

    Khaled El Emam;Khaled El Emam;Sam Rodgers;Bradley Malin

  • "Not all my friends need to know": a qualitative study of teenage patients, privacy, and social media.

    Maja van der Velden;Khaled El Emam;Khaled El Emam

  • COBRA: a hybrid method for software cost estimation, benchmarking, and risk assessment

    L.C. Briand;K. El Emam;F. Bomarius

  • A comprehensive evaluation of capture-recapture models for estimating software defect content

    L.C. Briand;K. El Emam;B.G. Freimut;O. Laitenberger

  • Comparing case-based reasoning classifiers for predicting high risk software components

    Khaled El Emam;Saida Benlarbi;Nishith Goel;Shesh N. Rai

  • A field study of requirements engineering practices in information systems development

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  • An Investigation into the Functional Form of the Size-Defect Relationship for Software Modules

    A.G. Koru;Dongsong Zhang;K. El Emam;Hongfang Liu

  • Validating the ISO/IEC 15504 measure of software requirements analysis process capability

    K. El Emam;A. Birk

  • An experimental comparison of reading techniques for defect detection in UML design documents

    Oliver Laitenberger;Colin Atkinson;Maud Schlich;Khaled El Emam

  • Theoretical and Empirical Validation of Software Product Measures

    Lionel C. Briand;Khaled El Emam;Sandro Morasca

  • Biomedical data privacy: problems, perspectives, and recent advances

    Bradley A Malin;Khaled El Emam;Khaled El Emam;Christine M O'Keefe

  • Anonymizing Health Data: Case Studies and Methods to Get You Started

    Khaled El Emam;Luk Arbuckle

  • Correction: a systematic review of re-identification attacks on health data.

    Khaled El Emam;Elizabeth Jonker;Luk Arbuckle;Bradley Malin

Frequent Co-Authors

Bradley A. Malin
Bradley A. Malin Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Daniel Amyot
Daniel Amyot University of Ottawa
Stan Matwin
Stan Matwin Dalhousie University
Murat Kantarcioglu
Murat Kantarcioglu The University of Texas at Dallas
Bartha Maria Knoppers
Bartha Maria Knoppers McGill University Health Centre
Lionel C. Briand
Lionel C. Briand University of Ottawa
Sandro Morasca
Sandro Morasca University of Insubria
Marni Brownell
Marni Brownell University of Manitoba
Lincoln Stein
Lincoln Stein Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
Sohrab P. Shah
Sohrab P. Shah Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

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