Yarmouk University’s Model School team achieved the first place at the level of the Kingdom's schools in the Scholars of Tomorrow competition, which was organized by Al-Hussein Technical University in cooperation with the Irish Embassy in Amman and the Crown Prince Foundation, including all public and private schools, military culture schools and UNRWA schools in Jordan, an achievement that qualifies the School team to participate in the Tomorrow Scientists Exhibition in Ireland.
The model school team won this competition by designing a monitoring system for brain tumors, a system that analyzes and diagnoses brain radiology images to monitor and identify brain tumors, considering that the accuracy of the system in its latest version reached more than 85%. Thus, the benefits of the system are that it reduces medical errors by giving it the results of high-resolution radiology reports, and it improves the overall patient experience by reducing the time it takes to give the correct diagnosis.
The winning team included the students Wasfi Al-Rashdan, Ahmed Shatnawi and Mohamed Al-Sharman, and the teacher Ali Al-Dababi as the team supervisor. Al-Dababi said that the first phase of the competition witnessed the participation of (500) projects from various schools in the Kingdom, and after the initial judging process, (180) projects were nominated for the final stage, indicating that the judging committees included a group of university professors, heads of companies and leaders. Explaining the value of the project, Al-Dababi explained that after conducting a questionnaire by the work team, it was found that more than 40% of the recipients of health services in Jordan need to wait more than 24 hours to receive the results of x-rays, a state that delays and hinders rapid therapeutic intervention, which may cause death. Thus, the idea of this project is to provide solutions for such problems.
In the same context, the Director General of the School, Dr. Hamza Al-Rababah, confirmed that the work on the project began last January and continued until the last days before the competition, indicating that the system was developed and improved throughout this period by collecting databases from several sources. He then pointed out that the bulk of the project work was carried out in the School's computer lab, and the team carried out many field visits to hospitals in the City of Irbid, pointing to the cooperation of the Faculty of Information Technology and Computer Science at the University in the completion of this project. Moreover, Al-Rababah stressed the importance of participating in such competitions and events for their importance and active role in promoting creativity, innovation and scientific thinking among students, pointing to the interest of Yarmouk University in supporting and encouraging students of the Model School to interact and participate in various scientific, cultural and sports competitions at the national, Arab and international levels.
