Md. Towhidul Islam Robin

Work place: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Stamford University Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh

E-mail: towhid@stamforduniversity.edu.bd

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Research Interests: Machine Learning

Biography

Md. Towhidul Islam Robin is an assistant professor in CSE at Stamford University Bangladesh. He holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering from Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology (AUST), where he received the Dean’s List of Honor (2015), and an M.Sc. in CSE from United International University (UIU) in 2020. His research interests include Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, and Blockchain technology. 

Author Articles
Sentence Classification in Medical Abstracts Using Quantized Transformer and BiLSTM Architecture

By Ahmed Abdal Shafi Rasel Md. Towhidul Islam Robin Md. Samiul Islam Mehedi Hasan

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijisa.2026.02.11, Pub. Date: 8 Apr. 2026

Automatically classifying abstract sentences into significant categories such as - background, methods, objective, result, and conclusions - is an essential support tool for scientific medical database querying that assists in searching and summarizing relevant literature works and writing new abstracts. This paper presents a memory-efficient deep learning model for sentence role classification in medical scientific abstracts, achieved by integrating quantized Transformer layers with a Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (BiLSTM) network. While the core components are recognized, our contribution is demonstrated in the successful application of quantization to this hybrid architecture, significantly reducing model size (from ~75MB to ~25MB) without a meaningful drop in classification performance on a subset of the PubMed 200k RCT dataset. This makes our approach distinctively practical for deployment in resource-constrained environments, offering an effective tool for automated literature analysis.

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