Sheikh Md. Rabiul Islam

Work place: Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Khulna University of Engineering and Technology, Khulna-9203, Bangladesh

E-mail: robi@ece.kuet.ac.bd

Website: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7380-7767

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Biography

Dr. Sheikh Md. Rabiul Islam is a Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at Khulna University of Engineering & Technology (KUET), Bangladesh. He earned his Ph.D. in Information Sciences and Engineering from the University of Canberra, Australia, and holds master's degrees in both Telecommunication Engineering (University of Trento, Italy) and Public Health (ASA University, Bangladesh).
With over two decades of academic and research experience, Dr. Islam has authored more than 90 peer-reviewed journal articles and numerous international conference papers, focusing on biomedical signal processing, machine learning, antenna design, wireless communication, and FPGA-based systems. His recent works include cutting-edge research on EEG/fNIRS signal fusion, antenna optimization for 5G, and AI-driven diagnostics using medical imaging. He has received multiple research grants from the University Grants Commission (UGC), Bangladesh, and the Ministry of Science and Technology. He was honored with the Vice Chancellor’s Research Award in both 2023 and 2024 for his outstanding scholarly output. Dr. Islam has supervised numerous postgraduate theses, including both M.Sc. and Ph.D. research, and serves as an external board member for other universities. He regularly contributes as a speaker at IEEE-sponsored international conferences and maintains a strong publication record in Scopus-indexed and Q1/Q2-ranked journals such as MethodsX, Results in Engineering, Medical Reports, and Cognitive Neurodynamics. He is affiliated with an IEEE Senior member. Further info on his homepage: www.kuet.ac.bd/ece/rabiul/.

Author Articles
Noninvasive Hemoglobin Monitoring Device for Disease Detection

By Md. Altab Hossain Sheikh Md. Rabiul Islam

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijigsp.2025.06.04, Pub. Date: 8 Dec. 2025

A noninvasive blood hemoglobin monitoring device was designed specifically for monitoring anemia and polycythemia. Invasive techniques, which are painful and expensive, are commonly used to estimate blood hemoglobin concentrations. This paper presents a noninvasive method for monitoring blood hemoglobin values. A photodiode and a near-infrared (NIR) LED with a wavelength of 940 nm were used to construct a finger probe. At 940 nm wavelength shows distinct variation between oxygenated and deoxygenated hemoglobin and single-wavelength systems significantly reduce hardware complexity, cost, power consumption, and size. Use a continuous-wave NIR LED light through the finger to check the sensitivity of different hemoglobin concentrations. A total of 100 patients participated in our proposed device for evaluating noninvasive hemoglobin concentration. These participants collected both invasive and noninvasive hemoglobin concentration values. The correlation coefficient between the predicted (noninvasive) hemoglobin value and the reference (invasive) hemoglobin value was 0.9496, with a normalized root mean squared error (NRMSE) of 0.6504 and a mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) of 0.0505. The noninvasive blood hemoglobin level was classified using the k-nearest neighbour (kNN) classifier, and the proposed device accuracy was calculated at 90%. The Bland-Altman methodology evaluated differences between invasive and noninvasive blood hemoglobin concentrations. The absolute mean difference was 0.1124 (95% confidence interval [CI] -0.01535 to 0.2401), with an upper agreement limit of 1.374 (95% CI [1.153 - 1.595]) and a lower agreement limit of -1.149 (95% CI [-1.371 - 0.9282]).

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