@article {Gryech2022,
	title = {An Exploration of Features Impacting Respiratory Diseases in Urban Areas},
	journal = {International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health},
	volume = {19},
	number = {5},
	year = {2022},
	note = {cited By 3},
	abstract = {Air pollution exposure has become ubiquitous and is increasingly detrimental to human health. Small Particulate matter (PM) is one of the most harmful forms of air pollution. It can easily infiltrate the lungs and trigger several respiratory diseases, especially in vulnerable populations such as children and elderly people. In this work, we start by leveraging a retrospective study of 416 children suffering from respiratory diseases. The study revealed that asthma prevalence was the most common among several respiratory diseases, and that most patients suffering from those diseases live in areas of high traffic, noise, and greenness. This paved the way to the construction of the MOREAIR dataset by combining feature abstraction and micro-level scale data collection. Unlike existing data sets, MOREAIR is rich in context-specific components, as it includes 52 temporal or geographical features, in addition to air-quality measurements. The use of Random Forest uncovered the most important features for the understanding of air-quality distribution in Moroccan urban areas. By linking the medical data and the MOREAIR dataset, we observed that the patients included in the medical study come mostly from neighborhoods that are characterized by either high average or high variations of pollution levels. {\textcopyright} 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.},
	keywords = {aged, air pollutant, Air Pollutants, Air pollution, Air quality, air quality control, Article, asthma, breathing disorder, child, controlled study, disease risk assessment, environmental exposure, environmental risk, exploratory research, geographic information system, GIS, health risk, human, Humans, major clinical study, Measurement, medical information, Moroccan, neighborhood, noise injury, Particulate Matter, prevalence, public health, random forest, Respiration Disorders, respiratory disease, respiratory tract disease, Retrospective Studies, retrospective study, Risk assessment, risk factor, traffic pollution, urban area},
	doi = {10.3390/ijerph19053095},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85125596721\&doi=10.3390\%2fijerph19053095\&partnerID=40\&md5=011cdce4b84286477d86b54655147f71},
	author = {Gryech, I. and Ghogho, M. and Mahraoui, C. and Kobbane, A.}
}
@article {Jeddi2021,
	title = {Machine learning for predicting the risk for childhood asthma using prenatal, perinatal, postnatal and environmental factors},
	journal = {Healthcare (Switzerland)},
	volume = {9},
	number = {11},
	year = {2021},
	note = {cited By 3},
	abstract = {The prevalence rate for childhood asthma and its associated risk factors vary significantly across countries and regions. In the case of Morocco, the scarcity of available medical data makes scientific research on diseases such as asthma very challenging. In this paper, we build machine learning models to predict the occurrence of childhood asthma using data from a prospective study of 202 children with and without asthma. The association between different factors and asthma diagnosis is first assessed using a Chi-squared test. Then, predictive models such as logistic regression analysis, decision trees, random forest and support vector machine are used to explore the relationship between childhood asthma and the various risk factors. First, data were pre-processed using a Chi-squared feature selection, 19 out of the 36 factors were found to be significantly associated (p-value < 0.05) with childhood asthma; these include: history of atopic diseases in the family, presence of mites, cold air, strong odors and mold in the child{\textquoteright}s environment, mode of birth, breastfeeding and early life habits and exposures. For asthma prediction, random forest yielded the best predictive performance (accuracy = 84.9\%), followed by logistic regression (accuracy = 82.57\%), support vector machine (accuracy = 82.5\%) and decision trees (accuracy = 75.19\%). The decision tree model has the advantage of being easily interpreted. This study identified important maternal and prenatal risk factors for childhood asthma, the majority of which are avoidable. Appropriate steps are needed to raise awareness about the prenatal risk factors. {\textcopyright} 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.},
	doi = {10.3390/healthcare9111464},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85118143874\&doi=10.3390\%2fhealthcare9111464\&partnerID=40\&md5=ed53157bb344c4ea98eaef10d4ade531},
	author = {Jeddi, Z. and Gryech, I. and Ghogho, M. and Hammoumi, M.E.L. and Mahraoui, C.}
}
@conference {Gryech2021,
	title = {On spatial prediction of urban air pollution},
	booktitle = {2021 17th International Conference on Intelligent Environments, IE 2021 - Proceedings},
	year = {2021},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {Air pollution continues to draw global attention, and still causes adverse environmental issues and health effects. Questions about how air pollution evolves spatially are also still unsolved. Many air quality monitoring stations are deployed in several countries to give insight about air quality. However, it is quite frequent for these stations to go out of order during their long life time. These incidents may lead to a significant loss of pollution data. To mitigate this issue, we propose to leverage spatial correlation between pollution monitoring stations to predict the lost data. To reduce the complexity of the prediction model, for each monitoring station, we identify the best set of other stations to use in the prediction model. Correlation-based station selection is shown to outperform distance-based station selection and provides an R2 above 0.8 when applied to the Airparif datasets. {\textcopyright} 2021 IEEE.},
	keywords = {Air quality, Air quality monitoring stations, Environmental issues, Forecasting, Intelligent agents, Monitoring stations, Pollution monitoring, Prediction model, Predictive analytics, Spatial correlations, Spatial prediction, Urban air pollution},
	doi = {10.1109/IE51775.2021.9486618},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85114499832\&doi=10.1109\%2fIE51775.2021.9486618\&partnerID=40\&md5=10a04db251b0bca163abb4d34f0c721a},
	author = {Gryech, I. and Ben-Aboud, Y. and Ghogho, M. and Kobbane, A.}
}
@article {Gryech2020379,
	title = {Machine learning for air quality prediction using meteorological and traffic related features},
	journal = {Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments},
	volume = {12},
	number = {5},
	year = {2020},
	note = {cited By 4},
	pages = {379-391},
	abstract = {The presence of pollutants in the air has a direct impact on our health and causes detrimental changes to our environment. Air quality monitoring is therefore of paramount importance. The high cost of the acquisition and maintenance of accurate air quality stations implies that only a small number of these stations can be deployed in a country. To improve the spatial resolution of the air monitoring process, an interesting idea is to develop data-driven models to predict air quality based on readily available data. In this paper, we investigate the correlations between air pollutants concentrations and meteorological and road traffic data. Using machine learning, regression models are developed to predict pollutants concentration. Both linear and non-linear models are investigated in this paper. It is shown that non-linear models, namely Random Forest (RF) and Support Vector Regression (SVR), better describe the impact of traffic flows and meteorology on the concentrations of pollutants in the atmosphere. It is also shown that more accurate prediction models can be obtained when including some pollutants{\textquoteright} concentration as predictors. This may be used to infer the concentrations of some pollutants using those of other pollutants, thereby reducing the number of air pollution sensors. {\textcopyright} 2020 - IOS Press and the authors. All rights reserved.},
	keywords = {Accurate prediction, Air quality, Air quality monitoring, Air quality prediction, Data-driven model, Decision trees, Forecasting, Machine learning, Non-linear model, Nonlinear systems, Pollution sensors, Predictive analytics, Spatial resolution, Support vector regression, Support vector regression (SVR)},
	doi = {10.3233/AIS-200572},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85093821240\&doi=10.3233\%2fAIS-200572\&partnerID=40\&md5=f8b7d726f054f01a2be432560d359fc5},
	author = {Gryech, I. and Ghogho, M. and Elhammouti, H. and Sbihi, N. and Kobbane, A.}
}
@article {Gryech2020,
	title = {Moreair: A low-cost urban air pollution monitoring system},
	journal = {Sensors (Switzerland)},
	volume = {20},
	number = {4},
	year = {2020},
	note = {cited By 25},
	abstract = {MoreAir is a low-cost and agile urban air pollution monitoring system. This paper describes the methodology used in the development of this system along with some preliminary data analysis results. A key feature of MoreAir is its innovative sensor deployment strategy which is based on mobile and nomadic sensors as well as on medical data collected at a children{\textquoteright}s hospital, used to identify urban areas of high prevalence of respiratory diseases. Another key feature is the use of machine learning to perform prediction. In this paper, Moroccan cities are taken as case studies. Using the agile deployment strategy of MoreAir, it is shown that in many Moroccan neighborhoods, road traffic has a smaller impact on the concentrations of particulate matters (PM) than other sources, such as public baths, public ovens, open-air street food vendors and thrift shops. A geographical information system has been developed to provide real-time information to the citizens about the air quality in different neighborhoods and thus raise awareness about urban pollution. {\textcopyright} 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.},
	keywords = {Agile deployments, Agile manufacturing systems, Air quality, Costs, Decision trees, Geographic information systems, Information systems, Information use, Learning systems, Machine learning, Mobile sensing, Monitoring, Particles (particulate matter), Particulate Matter, Pollution detection, Pollution monitoring, Random forests, Real-time information, Sensor deployment, Urban air pollution, Urban pollutions},
	doi = {10.3390/s20040998},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85079609813\&doi=10.3390\%2fs20040998\&partnerID=40\&md5=dc90b4357fcdc64d82d12f57a45f971f},
	author = {Gryech, I. and Ben-Aboud, Y. and Guermah, B. and Sbihi, N. and Ghogho, M. and Kobbane, A.}
}
@article {Rezzouqi20181145,
	title = {Analyzing the accuracy of historical average for urban traffic forecasting using google maps},
	journal = {Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing},
	volume = {868},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {1145-1156},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-01054-6_79},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85057079293\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-030-01054-6_79\&partnerID=40\&md5=5c985c898807cd5eb68ed52c62ea6335},
	author = {Rezzouqi, H. and Gryech, I. and Sbihi, N. and Ghogho, M. and Benbrahim, H.}
}
