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Advanced Statistical Biomedical Signal Processing
Applications to fMRI, EEG and PCG Signals
Dewan Ilmuan 2, Aras 2, Menara Razak
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur Campus,
Jalan Semarak, Kuala Lumpur.
10th Dec 2015 (Thursday)
Speakers: Dr Abd-Krim Seghouane, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Melbourne
Prof. Ir. Dr. Sheikh Hussain Shaikh Salleh and Dr. Chee-Ming Ting,
Center for Center for Biomedical Engineering
Organizer: Center for Biomedical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia.
Advisor: Dato’ Prof Ir Dr Alias Mohd Noor
Organizing Chair: Prof. Ir. Dr. Sheikh Hussain Shaikh Salleh
Dear Prof/Dr/Mr/Mrs/Miss,
We cordially invite you to a one-day short course entitled “Advanced Statistical Biomedical Signal Processing: Applications to fMRI, EEG and PCG Signals” which will be held on 10th Dec 2015 (Thursday) at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur.
This short course will introduce the fundamentals of a range of statistical signal processing techniques for analyzing biomedical signals, in terms of modeling, estimation, inference and prediction of bio-signals. The methods will be illustrated with three important types of bio-signals, i.e. functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), electroencephalogram (EEG) and phonocardiogram (heart sound) with state-of-the-art applications to neuroimaging, brain connectivity analysis, brain-computer interface and cardiac diseases diagnostics.
The course is organized into four lecture sessions:
Session I and II review the main statistical techniques used to analyze fMRI data for human brain mapping. The first tutorial will give an overview on parametric and semi-parametric models for hemodynamic response function (HRF) estimation and activation detection of neural activity. Session II presents major modeling and estimation techniques for functional and effective brain connectivity analysis from fMRI data. Session III presents a covariance analysis of the dynamics across multiple-trials bio-signals, applied on multi-channel heart-sounds from different auscultation points. Session IV will introduce state-space approach to modeling EEG, for estimation of event-related potentials (ERPs) and desynchronization (ERD) for brain-computer-interface, using Kalman filtering and the particle filtering.
COURSE SCHEDULE
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0800 – 0900 – Registration
0900 – 1030 – Session I: HRF Estimation and Activation Detection in fMRI
(Dr. Abd-Krim Seghouane)
1030 – 1045 – Tea Break
1045 – 1215 – Session II: Brain Connectivity Analysis (Dr. Abd-Krim Seghouane)
1215 – 1415 – Lunch
1415 – 1530 – Session III: Analyzing Dependence in Multi-Auscultation Heart-Sound Signals (Prof. Ir. Dr. Sheikh Hussain Shaikh Salleh)
1530 – 1545 – Tea Break
1545 – 1700 – Session IV: State-space Analysis of Non-stationary Neural Signals
(Dr. Chee-Ming Ting)
1700 – Closing
SPEAKER SHORT BIOGRAPHY
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Dr. Abd-Krim Seghouane
PhD, University Paris Sud (Paris XI)
ARC Future Fellow, Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Uni. of Melbourne.
Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
Chair of IEEE Signal Processing Society, Victorian Chapter, Australia
Areas of Expertise: physiological signals, biomedical image analysis and statistical signal and image processing.
Prof. Ir. Dr. Sheikh Hussain Shaikh Salleh
PhD, Uni.of Edinburgh
Deputy Director of Center for Biomedical Engineering (CBE), UTM
Chairman of National Technical Committee on Biometrics
Areas of Expertise: biomedical signal processing and instrumentation, cardiac signals, speech and speaker recognition and biometrics.
Dr. Chee-Ming Ting
PhD (Statistics), UTM
Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Biosciences and Medical Engineering, UTM
Research Fellow, Center for Biomedical Engineering (CBE), UTM.
Areas of Expertise: Statistical signal processing, time-series analysis, and high-dimensional statistics, neural signals.
REGISTRATION FEE
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Each participant: RM 490.00
(The registration fee includes lunch and printed lecture slides)
Registration Deadline: 5th Dec 2015
For detailed information, enclosed is the short-course announcement pamphlet.
For registration, please fill up the attached registration form at this link
and send the proof of payment to cmting@utm.my.
If you have any inquiries, please contact me. We are looking forward to your participation. Thank you.
Yours Sincerely,
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Chee-Ming Ting, Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer
Center for Biomedical Engineering
Faculty of Biosciences & Medical Engineering
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia