Conferences

M.D. Hssayeni, A. Chala, R. Dev, L. Xu, J. Shaw, J., B. Furht, and B. Ghoraani, "The Forecast of COVID-19 Spread Risk at The County Level," HPCC Systems Community Virtual Summit, October 2021.

J.Y. Chan, M.D. Hssayeni, T. Wilcox, and B. Ghoraani, “Tensor decomposition as a method to analyze functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) data,” Society of fNIRS Conference, Virtual, October 2021.

M.D. Hssayeni, J. Jimenez-Shahed, M.A. Burack, and B. Ghoraani, “Dyskinesia Severity Estimation in Patients with Parkinson's Disease Using Wearable Sensors and a Deep LSTM Network”, International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Montreal, Canada, Pages: 6001-6004, July 2020.

L. N. Boettcher, M.D. Hssayeni, A. Rosenfeld, M. I. Tolea, J. E. Galvin, and B. Ghoraani, “Dual-Task Gait Assessment and Machine Learning for Early-Detection of Cognitive Decline”, International Conference of the IEEE EMBC, Montreal, Canada, Pages: 3204-3207, July 2020.

M.D. Hssayeni, T. Wilcox, and B. Ghoraani, “Tensor Decomposition of Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) Signals for Pattern Discovery of Cognitive Response in Infants”, International Conference of the IEEE EMBC, Montreal, Canada, Pages: 394-397, July 2020.

M.D. Hssayeni, J. Jimenez-Shahed, M.A. Burack, and B. Ghoraani, “Continuous Parkinsonian Tremor Estimation Using Motion Data”, IEEE GlobalSIP, Ottawa, Canada, November 2019.

P. Ganesan, S. Rajaraman, R.L. Long, B. Ghoraani, and S. Antani, “Assessment of Data Augmentation Strategies Toward Performance Improvement of Abnormality Classification in Chest Radiographs,” International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Berlin, Germany, July 2019.

P. Ganesan, Z. Xue, S. Singh, R.L. Long, B. Ghoraani, and S. Antani, “Performance Evaluation of a Generative Adversarial Network for Deblurring Mobile-Phone Cervical Images,” International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Berlin, Germany, July 2019.

B. Ghoraani, “A Novel Resource-Aware Tensor Decomposition Design Based on Reinforcement Learning”, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Pages: 3447-3451, May 2019.

M.D. Hssayeni, M.A. Burack, J. Jimenez-Shahed, and B. Ghoraani, “Symptom-based, Dual-channel LSTM Network for The Estimation of Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale III”, IEEE International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics, May 2019.

M.D. Hssayeni, M.A. Burack, J. Jimenez-Shahed, and B. Ghoraani, “Activity-independent detection of mediation states in individuals with Parkinson's disease using wearable sensors”, Annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology, Neurology 92 (15 Supplement), P2. 8-004, May 2019. Read Here

B. Ghoraani, A.M. Suszko, R.J. Selvaraj, A. Subramanian, S. Krishnan, V.S. Chauhan, “Effectiveness of T wave Alternans Testing for Risk Stratification of Ventricular Tachyarrhythmias and Sudden Death in Patients with Cardiomyopathy”, International Society for Computerized Electrocardiology Annual Conference, April 2019.

P. Ganesan, E. Cherry, A. Pertsov, and B. Ghoraani, “Development of a Rotor-Mapping Algorithm to Locate Ablation Targets During Atrial Fibrillation”, The IEEE Life Sciences Conference, Pages: 41-44, Montreal, Canada, October 2018. Read Here

P. Ganesan, H. Zilouchian, E. Cherry, A. Pertsov, and B. Ghoraani, “Developing an Iterative Tracking Algorithm to Guide a Catheter Towards Atrial Fibrillation Rotor Sources in Simulated Fibrotic Tissue”, International Conference of the Computing in Cardiology, Masstricht, Netherlands, September 2018. Read Here

M. Hssayeni, J. Adams and B. Ghoraani, "Deep Learning for Medication Assessment of Individuals with Parkinson’s Disease Using Wearable Sensors," International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 10.1109/EMBC.2018.8513344, Pages: 1-4, Honolulu, Hawaii, July 2018. Read Here

P. Ganesan, K. Shillieto, B. Ghoraani, “Simulation of Spiral Waves and Point Sources in Atrial Fibrillation with Application to Rotor Localization”, 30th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, IEEE CBMS 2017, Pages: 379- 384Thessaloniki, Greece, June 2017 Read Here

C11) V. Ramji, M. Hssayeni, M. Burack, B. Ghoraani, “Parkinson’s Disease Medication State Management Using Data Fusion of Wearable Sensors”, in the proceedings of the International Conference of the IEEE Biomedical and Health Informatics, Pages: 193 - 196, Orlando, February 2017. Read Here

P. Ganesan, A. Salmin, E. Cherry, A. Pertsov, D. Huang, and B. Ghoraani, “A Tracking Algorithm to Guide Multi-pole Diagnostic Catheters Towards Atrial Fibrillation Sustaining Sources in Simulated Fibrotic Tissue”, Abstract at Proceedings of the 38th Heart Rhythm Scientific Sessions, Chicago, May 2017.

M. Burack, M. Hssayeni, B. Ghoraani, “Individualized classification algorithms for OFF and ON levodopa motor states from continuous wearable motion sensor data in Parkinson disease with motor fluctuations”, at the 30th Annual Symposium on the Etiology, Pathogenesis, and Treatment of Parkinson Disease and Other Movement Disorders, September 2016, Portland, OR

P. Ganesan*, A. Salmin, E. Cherry, B. Ghoraani, “Development of a Novel Probabilistic Algorithm for Localization of Rotors During Atrial Fibrillation”, in the proceedings of the 38th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Pages: 493-496, Orlando, August 2016. Read Here

K. Shillieto, P. Ganesan, A. Salmin, E. Cherry, A. Pertsov, B. Ghoraani, “Catheter Simulator Software Tool to Generate Electrograms of Any Multi-Polar Diagnostic Catheter from 3D Atrial Tissue”, in the proceedings of the 38th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Pages: 2741-2744, Orlando, August 2016. Read Here

M. Hssayeni, M. Burack, B. Ghoraani, “Automatic Assessment of Medication States of Patients with Parkinson’s Disease Using Wearable Sensors”, in the proceedings of the 38th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Pages: 6082-6085, Orlando, August 2016. Read Here

A. Salmin, P. Ganesan, K. Shillieto, E. Cherry, D. Huang, A. Pertsov, B. Ghoraani, “A Novel Catheter-Guidance Algorithm for Localization of Atrial Fibrillation Rotor and Focal Sources”, in the proceedings of the 38th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Pages: 501-504, Orlando, August 2016. Read Here

R. Selby, A. Jonchhe, and B. Ghoraani, “Development of Data Acquisition Components for Simultaneous Recording of 3D Epicardial and Surface ECG Signals in the Langendorff Perfusion Apparatus”, in the proceedings of the 38th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Pages: 2733 - 2736, Orlando, August 2016. Read Here

E. Messier, B. Ghoraani, “Development of MATLAB Software to Control Data Acquisition from a Multichannel Systems Multi-Electrode Array”, in the proceedings of the 38th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Pages: 3551 - 3554, Orlando, August 2016. Read Here

A. Salmin, P. Ganesan, K.E. Shilieto, E. Cherry, A. Pertsov, D. Huang, and B. Ghoraani, “Developing and Evaluating a Novel Tracking Algorithm to Guide Multi-pole Diagnostic Catheters Towards Atrial Fibrillation Sources”, Abstract at Proceedings of the 37th Heart Rhythm Scientific Sessions, San Francisco, CA, May 2016.

A. Salmin, P. Ganesan, K.E. Shilieto, E. Cherry, A. Pertsov, D. Huang, and B. Ghoraani, “An Algorithm to Guide Multi-pole Diagnostic Catheters towards Atrial Fibrillation Sustaining Sites”, Abstract at Proceedings of the 21st Atrial Fibrillation Symposium, Orlando, FL, January 2016. Read Here

J. Medel, A. Savakis, and B. Ghoraani, “A Novel Time-Frequency Feature Extraction Algorithm Based on dictionary Learning”, the Proceedings of the 41st IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Pages: 4895-4899, Shanghai, China, March 2016. Read Here

C26) A. Salmin, P. Ganesan, K.E. Shilieto, E. Cherry, A. Pertsov, D.T. Huang, and B. Ghoraani, “An Algorithm to Guide Multi-pole Diagnostic Catheters Towards Atrial Fibrillation sustaining Sites”, at the 21st Atrial Fibrillation Symposium, Orlando, Florida, Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology, Vol. 27, No. 5, Page 632, May 2016.

S. Kumar, B. Ghoraani, A. Savakis, “Joint and Discriminative Dictionary Learning for Facial Expression Recognition," Electronic Imaging, No. 11, Pages: 1-6, February 14-18, San Francisco, 2016. Read Here

A. Salmin**, P. Ganesan, K.E. Shilieto, E. Cherry, A. Pertsov, and B. Ghoraani, “An Algorithm to Guide Multi-pole Diagnostic Catheters towards an Atrial Fibrillation Sustaining Site”, Abstract at Proceedings of the Upstate NY Cardiac Electrophysiology Society annual meeting, Rochester, NY, November, 2015, Rochester.

S. Traitruengsakul, L. E. Seltzer, A. R. Paciorkowski, and B. Ghoraani, “Automatic Localization of Epileptic Spikes in EEGs of Children with Infantile Spasms”, the Proceedings of 37th Annual International IEEE EMBS, Pages: 6194-6197, 2015. Read Here

L. Seltzer, S. Traitruengsakul, S. Demarest, K. Knupp, T. Benke, D. Phillips, B. Ghoraani, and A. R. Paciorkowski, “A Novel Approach to Spike Detection in Hypsarrhythmia Using Matching Pursuit Time-Frequency Domain”, presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Epilepsy Society, Philadelphia, PA, December 2015.

P. Ganesan, E. Cherry, A. Pertsov and B. Ghoraani, “Rotational Activities During Atrial Fibrillation Associate with Incremental Gradient of Total Conduction Delay from Multi-pole Diagnostic Catheters”, in the Proceedings of the Upstate NY Cardiac Electrophysiology Society annual meeting, November, 2014.

D. Sinkiewicz, L. Friesen and B. Ghoraani, “Analysis of Cochlear Implant Artifact Removal Techniques Using the Continuous Wavelet Transform”, in the proceedings of the 36th Annual International IEEE EMBS Conference, Pages: 5482-5485, September, 2014. Read Here

C30) S. Ladavich and B. Ghoraani, “Developing An Atrial Activity-Based Algorithm For Detection Of Atrial Fibrillation”, in the proceedings of the 36th Annual International IEEE EMBS Conference, Pages: 54-57, September, 2014. Read Here

M. Sterling, D. Huang and B. Ghoraani, “Developing Time-Frequency Features For Prediction of the Recurrence of Atrial Fibrillation After Electrical Cardioversion Therapy”, in the proceedings of the 36th Annual International IEEE EMBS Conference, Pages: 5498-5501, September, 2014. Read Here

S. Ladavich and B. Ghoraani, “Developing An Atrial Activity-Based Algorithm For Detection Of Atrial Fibrillation”, in the proceedings of the 2nd Annual Effective Access Technology Conference, Rochester, NY June, 2014. Read Here

B. Mamaghani, M. Sterling, D. Gruendike, M. Hamer and B. Ghoraani, “Entropy & Frequency Analysis of New Electrocardiogram Lead Placement for Atrial Fibrillation Detection”, in the proceedings of the 2nd Annual Effective Access Technology Conference, Rochester, NY June, 2014. Read Here

M. Sterling and B. Ghoraani, “Matching Pursuit Decomposition For Disorganization Analysis of the Surface Electrocardiogram During Atrial Fibrillation”, in the proceedings of the IEEE International Humanitarian Technology Conference (IHTC), Montreal, Canada, June, 2014.

A. Zeller, B. Ghoraani, “Optimum Lead Placement for Sudden Cardiac Risk Stratification in Cardiomyopathy Patients”, Abstract in Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting, Seattle, September 25-28 2013.

B. Ghoraani, R. Dalvi, S. Gizurarson, M. Das, A. Martin, A. Ha, A. Suszko, S. Krishnan, V. Chauhan, “Localized Reentrant Activation in the Left Atrium during Human Atrial Fibrillation: Relationship to Complex Fractionated Atrial Electrograms and Low Voltage Zones”. Abstract in American Heart Association Scientific Sessions, 2013. Read Here

S. Gizurarson, R. Dalvi, M. Das, B. Ghoraani, A. Ha, A. Suszko, S. Krishnan, V. Chauhan, “Identifying areas of rapid focal activity in AF by periodic component analysis. A novel target in AF ablation?”, Abstract in Heart Rhythm Society Meeting, 2013.

M. Das, S. Gizurarson, R. Dalvi, B. Ghoraani, A. Ha, A. Suszko, S. Krishnan, V. Chauhan, “Focal activation sites in the left atrium of patients with atrial fibrillation: Prevalence, distribution and relationship to scar”, Abstract in Heart Rhythm Society Meeting, 2013.

B. Ghoraani, S. Krishnan, and V. Chauhan, “Cancellation of Ventricular Activity in Unipolar Endocardial Recordings During Atrial Fibrillation”, In the proceedings of the Biosignals and Robotics for Better and safer Living (ISSNIP), Feb. 2013.

B. Ghoraani, R. Dalvi, S. Krishnan, A. Ha, and V. Chauhan, “Utility of Waveform Similarity Mapping and Dominant Frequency Mapping to Identify Activity during Atrial Fibrillation in Patients undergoing Atrial Fibrillation Catheter Ablation Organized Atrial ”, at the 22st Annual Upstate New York Cardiac Electrophysiology Society Meeting, Oct. 2012.

B. Ghoraani, S. Krishnan, and V. Chauhan, “Characterization of Fractionated Electrograms Using a Novel Time-Frequency Based Algorithm”, in the proceedings of the 34th Annual International IEEE EMBS Conference, Sept. 2012, Pages: 6361 - 6364. Read Here

B. Ghoraani, R. Dalvi, A. Wald, E. Moult, M. Hemnani, S. Krishnan, A. Ha, and V. Chauhan, “Identifying Hierarchical Organization in Complex Fractionated Atrial Electrograms using Waveform Similarity Mapping: A Novel Approach to Localizing Potential Drivers”, Abstract in Heart Rhythm Society Meeting, 2012.

B. Ghoraani, A. Suszko, R. Selvaraj, A. Hill, S. Krishnan, V. Chauhan, “Dynamic Body Surface Spatial Distribution of T wave alternans in Patients with Cardiomyopathy as a Function of Heart Rate and Venricular Activation: Implications for the Interpretation of a Negative Test”, Abstract in Heart Rhythm Society Meeting, 2011.

M.F. Kaleem, B. Ghoraani, A. Guergachi, S. Krishnan, “Telephone-quality Pathological Speech Classification using Empirical Mode Decomposition”, in the proceedings of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2011, Pages: 7095 - 7098. Read Here

H. Asefi, B. Ghoraani, A. Ye, and S. Krishnan, “Audio Scene Analysis using Parametric Signal Features”, in the proceedings of the IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), 2011, Page(s): 922 - 925. Read Here

H. Asefi, B. Ghoraani, A. Ye, and S. Krishnan, “Hardware-Software Analysis of Pole Model Features”, in the proceedings of the IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), 2011 , Page(s): 1288 – 1291. Read Here

B. Ghoraani, and S. Krishnan, “Discriminative Base Decomposition for Time-frequency Matrix Decomposition", in the proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, (ICASSP 2010), March 2010, Pages: 3674 – 3677. Read Here

N. Shams, B. Ghoraani and S. Krishnan, " Audio Feature Clustering for Hearing Aid Systems", in the proceedings of the IEEE Toronto International Conference - Science and Technology for Humanity (TIC-STH 2009), Sept. 26-27, 2009, Pages: 976-680, Canada.

B. Ghoraani, S. Krishnan, R. J. Selvaraj and V. S. Chauhan, " Adaptive Time-frequency Matrix Features for T wave Alternans Analysis ", Invited paper, the proceedings of the 31st IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Conference (EMBC 2009), Pages: 39 – 42 September 2-6. Read Here

B. Ghoraani, S. Krishnan, R. J. Selvaraj and V. S. Chauhan, "Adaptive Time-Frequency Signal Analysis and its Case Study in Biomedical ECG Waveform Analysis", in the proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP 2009), Pages: 1 – 5, July 5-7 2009. Read Here

B. Ghoraani and S. Krishnan , "Quantification and localization of features in time- frequency plane", the proceedings of the IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE 2008), 4-7 May 2008, Pages: 1207 – 1210. Read Here

B. Ghoraani, and S. Krishnan, "Chirp-based image watermarking as error-control coding", in the proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing (IIH-MSP 2006), Dec. 2006, Pages: 647– 650. Read Here

L. Le, S. Krishnan, and B. Ghoraani, "Discrete Polynomial Transform for Digital Image Watermarking Application", in the proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2006), July 2006, Toronto, CA, Pages: 1569 – 1572. Read Here