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The 2018 IEEE Signal Processing in Medicine and Biology Symposium

Science Education and Research Center, Temple University, 1925 North 12th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19122, USA

December 1, 2018

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Technical Program

Time Room Presenter Session
Plenary Session No. 1 (Chair: Joseph Picone)
08:00 AM - 08:20 AM 108 Organizing Committee Continental Breakfast
08:20 AM - 08:30 AM 110 Joseph Picone I01.00: J. Picone, "Welcoming Remarks and Symposium Overview"
08:30 AM - 09:30 AM 110 Hasan Ayaz I01.01: H. Ayaz, "Observing the Brain-on-Task using Functional Optical Brain Monitoring"
09:30 AM - 10:00 AM 110 Organizing Committee Break
Lecture Session No. 1 (Chair: Davide Piovesan)
10:00 AM - 10:20 AM 110 Timothy Wroge L01.01: T. Wroge, Y. Ozkanca, C. Demiroglu, D. Si, D. Atkins, and R. Ghomi, "Parkinson’s Disease Diagnosis Using Machine Learning and Voice"
10:20 AM - 10:40 AM 110 Binit Panda L01.02: B. Panda, S. Chin, S. Mandal, and S. Majerus, "Skin-Coupled PVDF Microphones for Noninvasive Vascular Blood Sound Monitoring"
10:40 AM - 11:00 AM 110 Nasim Alamdari L01.03: N. Alamdari, S. Yaraganalu, and N. Kehtarnavaz, "A Real-Time Personalized Noise Reduction Smartphone App For Hearing Enhancement"
11:00 AM - 11:20 AM 110 Yining Feng L01.04: Y. Feng, H. Graber, and I. Selesnick, "The Suppression of Transient Artifacts in Time Series via Convex Analysis"
11:20 AM - 11:40 AM 110 Malcolm D'Souza L01.05: M. D’Souza, D. Wentzien, R. Bautista, J. Santana, M. Skivers, S. Stotts, and F. Fiedler, "Data-intensive Undergraduate Research Project Informs to Advance Healthcare Analytics"
11:40 AM - 12:00 PM 110 Golam Shadhin L01.06: D. Houser, G. Shadhin, R. Anstotz, C. Campbell, I. Obeid, J. Picone, T. Farkas, Y. Persidsky, and N. Jhala, "The Temple University Hospital Digital Pathology Corpus"
Poster Session No. 1 (Chair: Silvia Lopez)
12:00 PM - 12:20 PM Atrium Organizing Committee Lunch
12:30 PM - 02:00 PM Atrium Kamyar Esmaeili P01.01: K. Pourfarhangi and B. Gligorijevic, "Machine Learning Classification of Cancer Cells Migration in 3D Multi-cue Microenvironments"
12:30 PM - 02:00 PM Atrium Md Chowdhury P01.02: M. Chowdhury, K. Poudel, and Y. Hu, "Phonocardiography Data Compression using Discrete Wavelet Transform"
12:30 PM - 02:00 PM Atrium Berj Bardizbanian P01.03: B. Bardizbanian, Z. Zhu, J. Li, C. Dai, C. Martinez-Luna, T. Farrell, and E. Clancy, "Calibration of Dynamic Hand-Wrist EMG-Force Models using a Minimum Number of Electrodes"
12:30 PM - 02:00 PM Atrium Jianan Li P01.04: J. Li, M. Bhuiyan, X. Huang, B. McDonald, T. Farrell, and E. Clancy, "Reducing Electric Power Consumption when Transmitting ECG/EMG/EEG using a Bluetooth Low Energy Microcontroller"
12:30 PM - 02:00 PM Atrium Ed Marcus P01.05: E. Marcus, A. Adar, D. Mah, and D. Harrild, "A Statistical Technique to Assess Overall Cardiac Ventricle Contraction Dyssynchrony"
12:30 PM - 02:00 PM Atrium Christopher Campbell P01.06: C. Campbell, N. Mecca, T. Duong, I. Obeid, and J. Picone, "Expanding an HPC Cluster to Support the Computational Demands of Digital Pathology"
12:30 PM - 02:00 PM Atrium Sean Ferrell P01.07: S. Ferrell, E. von Weltin, I. Obeid, and J. Picone, "Open Source Resources to Advance EEG Research"
12:30 PM - 02:00 PM Atrium Noah Capp P01.08: N. Capp, C. Campbell, T. Elseify, I. Obeid, and J. Picone, "Optimizing EEG Visualization Through Remote Data Retrieval"
12:30 PM - 02:00 PM Atrium Vinit Shah P01.09: V. Shah, R. Anstotz, I. Obeid, and J. Picone, "Adapting an Automatic Speech Recognition System to Event Classification of Electroencephalograms"
12:30 PM - 02:00 PM Atrium Radana Kahankova P01.10: R. Rahankova and R. Martinek, "Comparison of Fetal Phonocardiogram Wavelet Denoising Methods"
12:30 PM - 02:00 PM Atrium Hongbo Du P01.11: H. Du, I. Jouny, Y. Yu, and S. Wang, "Exploring P300-based Biometric for Individual Identification Based on Convolutional Neural Networks"
12:30 PM - 02:00 PM Atrium Shivayogi Hiremath P01.12: N. Islam, A. Amiri, J. Forlizzi and S. Hiremath, "Automatic Mouth Detection for Self-Feeding"
Plenary Session No. 2 (Chair: Ivan Selesnick)
02:00 PM - 03:00 PM 110 Najim Dehak I01.02: N. Dehak, "Evaluation of Neurological Diseases by Means of Speech Processing and Multimodal Analysis"
03:00 PM - 03:30 PM 110 Organizing Committee Break
Lecture Session No. 2 (Chair: Hansen Mansy)
3:30 PM - 3:50 PM 110 Ghulam Rasool L02.01: N. Amor, G. Rasool, N. Bouaynaya, and R. Shterenberg, "Hand Movement Discrimination Using Particle Filters"
3:50 PM - 4:10 PM 110 Ibrahim Ghalyan L02.02: I. Ghalyan, Z. Abouelenin, and V. Kapila, "Gaussian Filtering of EMG Signals for Improved Hand Gesture Classification"
4:10 PM - 4:30 PM 110 Xin Sui L02.03: X. Sui, H. Ishikawa, I. Selesnick, G. Wollstein, and J. Schuman, "Speckle Noise Reduction in OCT and Projection Images using Hybrid Wavelet Thresholding"
4:30 PM - 4:50 PM 110 Ziming Qiu L02.04: Z. Qiu, J. Langerman, N. Nair, O. Aristizabal, J. Mamou, D. Turnbull, J. Ketterling, and Y. Wang, "Deep BV: A Fully Automated System For Brain Ventricle Localization and Segmentation in 3D Ultrasound images of Embryonic Mice"
4:50 PM - 5:10 PM 110 Hansen Mansy L02.05: A. Taebi, R. Sandler, B. Kakavand, and H. Mansy, "Estimating Peak Velocity Profiles from Doppler Echocardiography using Digital Image Processing"
5:10 PM - 5:30 PM 110 Stephanie Chin L02.06: S. Chin, B. Panda, M. Damaser, and S. Majerus, "Stenosis Characterization and Identification for Dialysis Vascular Access"
Lecture Session No. 3 (Chair: Nashwa Elarby)
3:30 PM - 3:50 PM 116 Gaelyn Angus-Barker L03.01: G. Angus-Barker and J. Kar, "Comprehensive Fully Automated Left-Ventricular Ejection and Contractility Analysis"
3:50 PM - 4:10 PM 116 Tanvir Hassan L03.02: T. Hassan, L. McKinney, R. Sandler, A. Kassab, C. Price, F. Moslehy, and H. Mansy, "An Acoustic Approach for Early Screening of Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip"
4:10 PM - 4:30 PM 116 Ran Wang L03.03: R. Wang, Y. Wang, and A. Flinker, "Reconstructing Speech Stimuli From Human Auditory Cortex Activity Using a WaveNet Approach"
4:30 PM - 4:50 PM 116 Davide Piovesan L03.04: I. Ohu, D. Piovesan, and J. Carlson, "The Hurst Exponent – A Novel Approach for Assessing Focus During Trauma Resuscitation"
4:50 PM - 5:10 PM 116 Peshala Gamage L03.05: P. Gamage, M. Azad, A. Taebi, R. Sandler, and H. Mansy, "Clustering SCG Events using Unsupervised Machine Learning"
5:10 PM - 5:30 PM 116 Junjie Liu L03.06: J. Liu and H. Yaggi, "Characterization of Arousals in Polysomnography using the Statistical Significance of Power Change"
Closing Remarks
05:30 PM - 05:45 PM 110 Joseph Picone J. Picone, "The Future of IEEE SPMB"

  • Organizing Committee

  • General Chairs
    • Joseph Picone (Temple)
    • Ivan Selesnick (NYU-Tandon)
  • Technical Program Chair
    • Silvia Lopez (Blackfynn)
  • Program Chairs
    • Nashwa Elaraby (Penn State)
    • Amir Harati (Ellipsis Health Inc.)
    • Hansen Mansy (UCF)
    • Iyad Obeid (Temple)
    • Amrita Sahu (Altria)
    • Robin Tibor Schirrmeister (Freiburg)
    • Yaroslav Koshka (MSU)
  • Industrial Liaison
    • Michael Mayor (IEEE SPS)
  • Publications Chair
    • Georgios Lazarou (USA)
  • Local Arrangements
    • Noah Capp (Temple)
    • Sean Fuller (Blackfynn)