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Abdul Qayyum

Postdoctoral researcher · Imperial College London

Dr Abdul Qayyum received a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Universiti Teknologi Petronas, Malaysia, in 2018, and was then a lecturer in computer and information science at the University of Burgundy, France. Dr Qayyum joined the National Heart and Lung Institute at Imperial College London in 2023, and develops deep learning models for medical image segmentation, including whole-heart segmentation from CT and MRI.

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First author 17

  1. Abdul Qayyum, Moona Mazher, M. K. A. Ahamed Khan, Ridzuan A., Mastaneh Mokayef, …, Steven Niederer

    Deep Spatiotemporal Convolutional Network for Brain Reperfusion Prediction using Multiphase Computed Tomographic Angiography and Clinical Data

    WSEAS Transactions on Signal Processing archive, 2026

  2. Abdul Qayyum, Moona Mazher, Steven A. Niederer

    AortaST: A Student-Teacher Framework for Multi-class Aortic Segmentation

    Lecture notes in computer science, 2026

  3. Abdul Qayyum, Moona Mazher, Steven A Niederer

    CardioSeqM: A Scalable and Context-Aware Model for Unified Heart Segmentation from Volumetric Cardiac Data

    Lecture notes in computer science, 2026

  4. Abdul Qayyum, Moona Mazher, Steven A Niederer

    Exploring Foundation Model Adaptations for 3D Medical Imaging: Prompt-Based Segmentation with xLSTM Network

    Lecture notes in computer science, 2026

  5. Abdul Qayyum, Moona Mazher, Muhammad Yamin, Steven A. Niederer

    UniSeg-CT: A Foundation Model for Medical Image Segmentation across Cardiac, Oncologic, and Neurovascular Applications

    Lecture notes in electrical engineering, 2026

  6. Abdul Qayyum, Moona Mazher, Steven A. Niederer

    A Two-Stage Self-Supervised Learning Framework for Automated Whole Heart Segmentation in CT and MRI: Addressing Challenges in Cardiac Imaging

    Lecture notes in computer science, 2025

  7. Abdul Qayyum, Moona Mazher, Steven A. Niederer

    Assessing Self-supervised xLSTM-UNet Architectures for Head and Neck Tumor Segmentation in MR-Guided Applications

    Lecture notes in computer science, 2025

  8. Abdul Qayyum, Moona Mazher, Imran Razzak, Steven A. Niederer

    Efficient Deep Learning Models for Evaluating the Progression of Age-Related Macular Degeneration Through Optical Coherence Tomography

    Lecture notes in computer science, 2025

  9. Abdul Qayyum, Moona Mazher, Steven A. Niederer

    Efficient Deep Learning Models for Ultra-widefield Fundus Imaging for Diabetic Retinopathy

    Lecture notes in computer science, 2025

  10. Abdul Qayyum, Moona Mazher, Angela Lee, Jose A. Solis-Lemus, Imran Razzak, Steven A. Niederer

    Assessment of Left Atrium Motion Deformation Through Full Cardiac Cycle

    Lecture notes in computer science, 2024

  11. Abdul Qayyum, Steven Niederer, M.K.A Ahamed Khan, Moona Mazher, Imran Razzak, Mastaneh Mokayef, …

    Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS) Reconstruction Using Style Transfer Deep Depth wise Framework

    Proceedings of International Conference on Artificial Life and Robotics, 2024

  12. Abdul Qayyum, Steven Niederer, M.K.A Ahamed Khan, Moona Mazher, Imran Razzak, Mastaneh Mokayef, …

    Parallel Cross Window Attention Transformer and CNN Model for Segmentation of Instrument during Surgery

    Proceedings of International Conference on Artificial Life and Robotics, 2024

The 12 most recent of 17. All of them are under Every group paper.

Middle author 24

  1. Olivier Bernard, William A. Romero R., Cyprien Bouton, Celia Goujat, Hang Jung Ling, …, Abdul Qayyum, …, Steven A. Niederer, …

    The MYOSAIQ Challenge: Myocardial Segmentation with Automated Infarct Quantification

    The Journal of Machine Learning for Biomedical Imaging, 2026

  2. Shuang Qian, Devran Ugurlu, Elliot Fairweather, Richard E. Jones, Hassan Zaidi, Sanjay Prasad, Brian P. Halliday, …, Cristobal Rodero, Abdul Qayyum, …, Martin Bishop, Steven Niederer

    In silico trials for sex-specific patient inclusion criteria in cardiac resynchronization therapy

    npj Digital Medicine, 2026

  3. Cristobal Rodero, Lara Curran, Christopher W. Lanyon, Paolo Inglese, Abdul Qayyum, Rosie K. Barrows, Jose A. Solis-Lemus, Shahrokh Rahmani, Marina Strocchi, Angela W.C. Lee, Tiffany M.G. Baptiste, Ludovica Cicci, Edward Burford, Elias Karabelas, …, Steven A. Niederer

    Computational models show that functional remodeling, not anatomy, reshapes physiological determinants of cardiac performance in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

    Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology, 2026

  4. Shambhavi Malik, Ludovica Cicci, Abdul Qayyum, Rahul Ghelani, Ji-jian Chow, Jagdeep Singh Mohal, Zachary I. Whinnett, …, Steven A. Niederer

    Body surface potential driven personalisation of electrophysiological digital twins in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

    PLoS Computational Biology, 2026

  5. Kaiyuan Yang, Fabio Musio, Yihui Ma, Norman Juchler, Johannes C. Paetzold, …, Abdul Qayyum, …, Steven Niederer, …

    The TopCoW Challenge — Topology-Aware Circle of Willis Segmentation for CT and MR Angiography

    NEJM AI, 2026

  6. Muhammad Imran, Jonathan R. Krebs, Vishal Balaji Sivaraman, Teng Zhang, Amarjeet Kumar, …, Abdul Qayyum, …, Steven A. Niederer, …

    Multi-class segmentation of aortic branches and zones in computed tomography angiography: The AortaSeg24 challenge

    Medical Image Analysis, 2026

  7. Xichong Liu, Abdul Qayyum, Sabyasachi Bandyopadhyay, Sulaiman Somani, Prasanth Ganesan, Rayan A. Ansari, …, Steven Niederer, …

    Identifying the Presence and Characteristics of Mid-Myocardial and Epicardial Fibrosis From Intracardiac Electrograms in Patients Undergoing Ventricular Arrhythmia Ablation Using a Transformer-Based Self-Supervised Classifier

    Circulation Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology, 2026

  8. José Alonso Solís-Lemus, Rosie K. Barrows, Cristobal Rodero, Marina Strocchi, Natalie Montarello, Nishant Lahoti, Cesare Corrado, Abdul Qayyum, Shahrokh Rahmani, Caroline Roney, Gernot Plank, Christoph Augustin, …, Steven A. Niederer

    Assessing the importance of sex and disease-specific anatomy in electrophysiology and mechanical simulations with a newly developed public virtual cohort of four-chamber heart models

    PLoS Computational Biology, 2026

  9. Jia Fu, Litingyu Wang, He Li, Zihao Luo, Huamin Wang, …, Abdul Qayyum, …, Steven A. Niederer, …

    SegRap2025: A benchmark of gross tumor volume and lymph node clinical target volume Segmentation for Radiotherapy Planning of nasopharyngeal carcinoma

    Medical Image Analysis, 2026

  10. C. Shen, M. Zhang, H. Keramati, S. Zhang, R. Gharleghi, J. J. Wentzel, …, A. Qayyum, S. A. Niederer, …

    The Anatomy of Coronary Risk: How Arterial Geometry Shapes Coronary Artery Disease Through Blood Flow Haemodynamics – Latest Methods, Insights and Clinical Implications

    Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering, 2026

  11. Vladyslav Zalevskyi, Thomas Sanchez, Misha Kaandorp, Margaux Roulet, Diego Fajardo-Rojas, …, Abdul Qayyum, …, Steven A. Niederer, …

    Advances in automated fetal brain MRI segmentation and biometry: Insights from the FeTA 2024 challenge

    Medical Image Analysis, 2026

  12. Kang Wang, Chen Qin, Zhang Shi, Haoran Wang, Xiwen Zhang, …, Abdul Qayyum, …, Steven A. Niederer, …

    Extreme cardiac MRI analysis under respiratory motion: Results of the CMRxMotion challenge

    Medical Image Analysis, 2025

The 12 most recent of 24. All of them are under Every group paper.

Last author 2

  1. Moona Mazher, Steven A. Niederer, Abdul Qayyum

    HectoMixNet: Advancing Automated Head and Neck Tumor Segmentation with Multicenter PET/CT Data

    Lecture notes in computer science, 2026

  2. Moona Mazher, Steven A. Niederer, Abdul Qayyum

    NeuroNetMix: A 3D Encoder-Decoder with Quasiseparable Mixing for Robust Lesion Segmentation in Traumatic Brain Injury

    Lecture notes in computer science, 2026