Work place: National Institute of Technology/Computer Science and Engineering, Srinagar, 190006, India
E-mail: ifra_2023phacse009@nitsri.ac.in
Website: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-3593-8262
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Biography
Ifra Bilal Shah is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in computer science and engineering from the National Institute of Technology Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India. She received the Master of Computer Science and Technology degree from the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Sharda University, Greater Noida, India, and the Bachelor of Technology degree in computer science and engineering from the Islamic University of Science and Technology, Awantipora, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Her major field of study is computer science and engineering, with a focus on machine learning and deep learning methodologies.
She is presently engaged in doctoral research at the National Institute of Technology Srinagar. Her research primarily focuses on the application of machine learning and deep learning techniques for automated diagnosis of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) using medical imaging and clinical data, along with research interests in audio steganography. She has authored one research article published in a Scopus-indexed journal and one paper presented at an IEEE international conference. Ms. Shah‘s current research interests include medical image analysis, explainable artificial intelligence, and deep learning–based diagnostic systems.
By Ifra Bilal Shah Pramod Kumar Yadav
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijigsp.2026.01.06, Pub. Date: 8 Feb. 2026
Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) is a prevalent endocrine condition affecting women of reproductive age, hallmarked by hormonal abnormalities, ovarian cysts, and metabolic issues. Early diagnosis is essential to prevent long-term effects such as infertility, diabetes, and cardiovascular issues. Conventional diagnostic approaches relying on manual interpretation of ultrasound images are time-consuming and error-prone. To overcome these limitations, we propose an automated diagnostic framework leveraging deep feature extraction and ensemble learning. Initially, ResNet50 is utilized as a convolutional feature extractor, and its extracted features are classified using ensemble of Random Forest (RF) and Gradient Boosting (GB) classifiers. Subsequently, we also employed the Swin Transformer which is a hierarchical vision transformer to extract deep features from ultrasound images, which were fed to Random Forest and Gradient Boosting classifiers. These features were handled separately from those of ResNet50, and no feature concatenation was done. Compared to the ResNet50-based ensemble model, which achieved a classification accuracy of 99.2%, the Swin Transformer–based ensemble model performed better by attaining the accuracy of 99.87%. Furthermore, Explainable AI approaches (Grad-CAM) were applied to both ResNet50-based model and Swin Transformer-based model to highlight key regions contributing to the predictions. This scalable and interpretable system offers encouraging potential for advancing PCOS detection and other medical imaging applications.
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