Alaa M. Elsayad received a PhD degree in image processing from Cairo University in 1998. He has completed his postdoctoral research studying the telemedicine system and image analysis in the Imaging Sciences and Information System (ISIS) unit at the Medical Center of Georgetown University. Currently, He works as an associate professor of computer science at the Electronics Research Institute, Cairo, Egypt where he heads the information and decision support center. Before working in different universities in the Arab region, he has collected different experiences in information technology while working in different governmental organizations in Egypt which include Ministry of Administrative Development, Ministry of Communication and Ministry of International Cooperation. Dr. Alaa published several papers; all are focusing in image analysis and data mining. His current research interests cover the theory of data mining algorithms and their applications to image understanding and signal processing. Special research topics include medical image analysis and telemedicine systems.
