Hamid Soltanian-Zadeh, PhD

Senior Scientist/Professor

Radiology Image Analysis Lab.

Henry Ford Health System         

One Ford Place, 2F

Detroit, MI 48202, USA

Phone: (313) 874-4482

Fax: (313) 874-4494

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EDUCATION

FIELDS OF INTEREST

TRAINING

FACULTY APPOINTMENTS

HOSPITAL OR OTHER PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

MAJOR PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

HONORS/AWARDS

SERVICE

Editorial Board Member/Reviewer of Professional Journals

Technical Committee Member/Reviewer of Conferences

Committee Member/Reviewer of Research Proposals

TEACHING

Graduate Courses Taught

Undergraduate Courses Taught

PhD Theses Supervised

PhD Theses Advised (Consulted)

MS Theses Supervised

MS These Advised (Consulted)

PUBLICATIONS

A.   Journal Articles

B.   Technical Reports

C.   Book Chapters

D.   Proceeding Articles

E.   Presentations and Abstracts

EDUCATION

1988-1992 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

PhD, Electrical Engineering: Systems. May 1992.       

Major: Signal Processing. Minor: Bioelectrical Science.

Dissertation Title: Multidimensional Signal Processing of Magnetic Resonance Scene Sequences.

1988-1990 MSE, Electrical Engineering: Systems.

Major: Control. Minor: Communications.

1988-1988 Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA

Graduate Studies in the Department of Biomedical Engineering.

1985-1986 University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

MSc, Electrical Engineering: Electronics, with honors.

Projects included:

- Design of a CPU board for a CAD/CAM system

- Design and implementation of a programmable controller

- Design of a portable heart monitor  

1978-1984 University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

BS, Electrical Engineering: Electronics, with honors.

FIELDS OF INTEREST

1.    Medical imaging

2.    Medical signal and image processing and analysis

3.    Pattern recognition

4.    Neural networks

TRAINING

1992-1993 Assistant Staff Investigator, Radiology Department, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI 48202, USA.

FACULTY APPOINTMENTS

Jan. 2004- Assoc. Prof. of Radiology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA.

Oct. 2005- Prof., of Elec. and Comp. Eng., University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

1998-2004 Associate Prof. of Elec. and Comp. Eng., University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

1997-2003 Assistant Prof. of Radiology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

1994-1998 Assistant Prof. of Elec. and Comp. Eng., University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

HOSPITAL OR OTHER PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

Jan. 2006-     Level III Bioscientific Staff (Senior Scientist), Radiology Department, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI 48202, USA.

1993-2005         Levels I and II Bioscientific Staff (Assistant and Associate Scientist), Radiology Department, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI 48202, USA.

MAJOR PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

1.   International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM)  

2.   Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE, Senior Member)  

3.   International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE)  

4.   Society for Molecular Imaging (SMI)

5.   Iranian Society of Biomedical Engineering (ISBME)

6.   Iranian Society of Machine Vision and Image Processing (ISMVIP)

HONORS/AWARDS

1.   2009: Received “First Rank of the 10^th Ibnesina Festival” from the University of Tehran Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

2.   2008: Recognized by the standing COMmittee for Scientific and TECHnological cooperation (COMSTECH) as one of the Leading Iranian Scientists and Engineers.

3.   2008-2009: Associate Member of the Academy of Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

4.   2007: Received “Distinguished Professor of the Year Award” from the Ministry of Science, Research, and Technology, Tehran, Iran.

5.   2007: Received “Distinguished Researcher of the Year Award” from the Iranian Association of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IAEEE), Tehran, Iran.

6.   2006: Received “Best Basic Research Project Honor” from the University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

7.   2006: Received “Best Applied Research Project Honor” from the University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

8.   2006: Received a “Concept Award” grant from the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program, USA.

9.   2006: Received “Best Session Presentation Award” at the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Vancouver, Canada, July 15-21, 2006.

10. 2005: Received “Best Applied Research Project Honor” from the University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

11. 2004: Received a “R01 Research Project Grant Award” grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA.

12. 2003: Was recognized as an “Outstanding Researcher” by the University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

13. 2000: Received a “Research Project Grant Award” from the National Science Foundation (NSF), USA.

14. 1997-2003: Received multiple “Honorable Mention Awards” for the best poster presentation at the SPIE Medical Imaging Conference, San Diego, CA, USA.

15. 1993: Received a “First Award” grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA.

16. 1993: Was recognized as an “Outstanding Researcher” by the Department of Justice, USA.

17. 1988-1992: Honor Student (with highest GPA and most publications) during the graduate studies in the field of Electrical Engineering: Systems, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

18. 1987: Honor Student (with highest GPA) during the graduate studies in the field of Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA 

19. 1978-1986: Honor Student (first rank) during the undergraduate and graduate studies in the field of Electrical Engineering: Electronics, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

20. 1978,1979: Ranked 40 and 14, respectively, among over 112,000 participants in the national universities entrance exam in the field of Physics and Mathematics, Iran.

21. 1966-1978: Honor student (first rank) in primary, secondary, and high schools at the city and state levels, Yazd, Iran.

SERVICE

Editorial Board Member/Associate Editor/Reviewer of Professional Journals

1.   Amir Kabir Journal  

2.   Applied Soft Computing

3.   BMC Medical Imaging

4.   Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

5.   Computer Vision and Image Understanding

6.   Engineering Journal of Ferdowsi University

7.   EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing

8.   Faculty of Engineering Journal, University of Tehran  

9.   IEEE Trans. Biomedical Eng.

10. IEEE Trans. Fuzzy Systems

11. IEEE Trans. Image Processing

12. IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging

13. IEEE Trans. Signal Processing  

14. Information Sciences

15. International Journal of Biomedical Imaging  

16. International Journal of Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology

17. International Journal of Image and Graphics

18. Journal of Zhejiang University SCIENCE

19. Journal of Iranian Society of Biomed. Eng.

20. Iranian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering

21. Iranian Journal of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

22. Iranian Journal of Radiology

23. Journal on Applied Signal Processing

24. Journal of Engineering  

25. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

26. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine  

27. Magnetic Resonance Imaging  

28. Medical Physics

29. Medical Research Journal, Beheshti University

30. Modarres Journal  

31. Neuroimage

32. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

33. Pattern Analysis and Applications

34. Scientia Iranica  

35. Signal processing Letters  

36. Stroke  

37. University of Mashhad Journal

38. University of Tabriz Engineering Journal

Technical Committee Member/Reviewer of Conferences

1.   Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEE) 

2.   Computer Society of Iran Computer Conference (CSICC) 

3.   Iranian Society of Biomedical Engineering (ISBME) Conference 

4.   Iranian Machine Vision and Image Processing (MVIP) Conference  

5.   International Conference on Information and Knowledge Technology (IKT)

6.   International Symposium on Telecommunications (IST)

7.   ISMRM International Conference  

8.   International Conference on Microelectronics (ICM)

9.   IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence

10. IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI)

Committee Member/Reviewer of Research Proposals

1.   National Science Foundation (NSF), USA

2.   National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA 

3.   International Agencies (Iranian and European)

4.   American Institute for Biological Sciences (AIBS), USA 

TEACHING

Graduate Courses Taught

1.    Medical Imaging Systems

2.    Medical Ultrasound

3.    Digital Image Processing 

4.    Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Analysis

5.    Advanced Digital Signal Processing

6.    Pattern Recognition

7.    Advanced Topics in Treatment and Surgery Planning

8.    Technical Writing and Professional Communication for Nonnative Speakers of English

Undergraduate Courses Taught

1.    Electronics III

2.    Signals and Systems

3.    Radiology and Radiotherapy Systems

PhD Theses Supervised

1.   Segmentation of specific brain structures using prior knowledge and deformable models (Amir Ghanei, 2001) 

2.   Wavelet analysis of brain fMRI for optimal activation detection (Gholam-Ali Hossein-Zadeh, 2003)

3.   Extracting quantitative information from SPECT images of the heart (Hassan Bagher-Ebadian, 2004)  

4.   Multi-modality database system for epilepsy including 3D segmentation and characterization of brain structures using MRI  (Mohammad-Reza Siadat, 2005) 

5.   Integrated modeling and analysis of MEG and fMRI for brain activation detection (Abbas Babajani-Feremi, 2006)

6.   Development of rotation invariant texture feature extraction methods and their applications to medical image analysis (Kourosh Jafari-Khouzai, 2006)

7.   Vascular permeability estimation in MRI using simulation studies (Effat Yahaghi, 2006)

8.   Evaluation of image quality in electrical impedance tomography by radiography (Amir Movafeghi, 2007)

9.   Design and development of intravascular MRI coils (Mohammad Mohammad-Zadeh, 2007)

10. Atlas-based segmentation of brain structures from MRI (Alireza Akhondi-Asl, 2009) 

11. Improvement of PET-CT Fused Images for Diagnosis of Liver Metastasis Using Wavelet Transform (Bahareh Shalchian, 2009)

12. Segmentation of White Matter Fiber Bubles in Diffusion Weighted MRI (Mohammad-Reza Nazem-Zadeh, 2010)

13. An Information Theory Based Approach for Evaluation of fMRI Detection Methods (Babak Afshin-Pour, 2010)

14. Stochastic Point Process Modeling and Likelihood Space Analysis of Neuronal Population (Yousef Salimpour, 2010)

15. Development of Differential Connectivity Graph for Characterization of Brain Regions Involved in Epilepsy (Ladan Amini, 2010)

PhD Theses Advised (Consulted)

1.   Intelligent methods  for correcting geometrical distortions of medical images (Emadoddin Fatemizadeh, 2003)

2.   Image indexing based on tree-structured vector quantization (Amir-Masoud Eftekhari-Moghaddam, 2004)  

3.   Image indexing and retrieval based on edge correlation (Farzad Mahmoudi, 2004)

MS Theses Supervised

1.   Segmentation of hippocampus from brain MRI using dynamic contours (Amir Ghanei, 1996)

2.   Extraction and visualization of surfaces from 3D medical images using fuzzy set theory (Mohammadreza Samadi-Broojeni, 1996)   

3.   2D sparse arrays for limited-diffraction ultrasonic beams (Nariman Majdinasab, 1996)   

4.   Ultrasound phase arrays for hyperthermia of inhomogeneous tissues (Hasan Sharifi, 1996) 

5.   Cosine transform reconstruction of MRI (Gholamali Hoseinzadeh-Dehkordi, 1997) 

6.   A parallel method for PET image reconstruction (Mehdi Rezaeian, 1997)

7.   Segmentation of normal and abnormal brain tissues in multi-parameter MRI using neural networks (Bahram Ashjei, 1997)  

8.   Model-based compression of pathologic color images using fractals (Abdolmajid Moosavi, 1997)  

9.   MRI noise suppression using anisotropic diffusion filtering (Hossein Morshedzadeh, 1997)  

10. An expert system approach for identification of hippocampus in MRI (Mohammad-Reza Siadat, 1997)  

11. Optimal nonlinear transformation for feature space analysis of brain MRI (Mahmoud Kharrat, 1998)  

12. Simulation of functional imaging using MRI (Reza Alishahi-Tabriz, 1998) 

13. Segmentation of tag lines in tagged MRI for characterization of heart motion (Fatah Moosazadeh-Gilandeh, 1998) 

14. Segmentation of liver from CT images using snakes (Abbas Babajani-Farmi, 1998) 

15. Analysis of MRI electromagnetic fields in the presence of human head (Abbas Nasiraei-Moghaddam, 1998) 

16. Optimal linear transformation for feature space analysis of brain MRI (Saeid Zare-Baghdadabadi, 1998) 

17. Image compression using fractals and vector quantization (Heshmatolah Lotfi-Azad, 1999) 

18. An information theoretic approach for multi-modality image registration (Hamidreza Shariati, 1999)  

19. Design and construction of 2D ultrasound phase arrays for hyperthermia (Ebrahim Karami, 1999)  

20. Segmentation of multiple sclerosis lesions in MRI (Mousa Shamsi, 1999)  

21. Integration of cluster analysis with deformable models for MRI segmentation (Pooya Valizadeh, 1999) 

22. MRI noise suppression using fuzzy control theory  (Mohammad Nikar, 1999)

23. Computerized ultrasonic system for nondestructive testing of rails (Alireza Taimour-Ghasemabadi, 2000) 

24. Segmentation and characterization of vascular structures from confocal microscopy images (Seyed-Ali Shahrokni, 2000) 

25. Electronic circuits for ultrasonic medical imaging using convex arrays  (Armin Alidoosti, 2001)

26. Knowledge-based segmentation of brain MRI using a digital brain atlas (Romina Nikookar, 2001) 

27. Image texture segmentation using fuzzy clustering methods (Mehdi Aghaei-Bonadkooki, 2001) 

28. Automatic grading of pathological images of prostate using multi-wavelets (Koorosh Jafari-Khozani, 2001)

29. Nonlinear transformation of multi-parameter MRI using neural networks trained  by genetic algorithm  (Arash Mohammadi, 2001)

30. Localization of brain neuronal activities using MEG and MRI  (Saeid Safilian, 2001)

31. Independent component analysis (ICA) of fMRI (Seyed-Ali-Mohammad Golestani, 2001)

32. Spectral estimation of Doppler ultrasound signals using time-frequency distributions  (Esmaeil Nazari-Paykani, 2001)

33. Analysis of MRI perfusion studies using wavelet transforms (Alireza Hesaraki, 2002)

34. Comparison of magnetization transfer images with conventional MRI (Alireza Abaei, 2002)

35. Pre-processing of magnetic resonance spectroscopic images  (Poorya Zamani, 2002)

36. Minimal system for display, processing, and archival of medical images (Bahman Tahayori, 2002)

37. Evaluation measures for fMRI analysis methods (Masoud Zia-Alinasabpoor, 2002)

38. Fast methods for skeletonization of 3D images of vasculature (Seyedeh-Mahnaz Maddah, 2002)

39. Knowledge and model-based segmentation of brain structures (Ladan Amini, 2002)

40. Minimal system for image guided brain surgery (Alireza Akhundi-Asl, 2002)

41. Information theoretic methods for noise suppression (Hesan Zeinolabedin-Rafi, 2003)

42. Analysis of magnetic resonance spectroscopic images for tissue characterization (Azadeh Yazdan-Shahmorad, 2003)

43. Fiber tracking using diffusion tensor images (DTI) (Kayvan Karimi-Gholpaygani, 2003)

44. Wavelet and clustering based analysis of fMRI (Hesamodin Jahanian, 2003)

45. Design and implementation of 3D visualization software for MRI using DVR-based methods (Dariush Momeni, 2003)

46. New method for multi-subject activation detection in fMRI (Seyed-Mohammad Shams, 2004)

47. Segmentation of Hippocampus and Amygdala  from brain MRI using rule-based deformable organisms (Mohammad-Mehdi Karimi, 2004)

48. Segmentation of brain MRI using multi-resolution methods (Mahmoud Zeydabadi, 2004)

49. Grading of pathological images of prostate using texture features (Reza Farjam, 2004)

50. Multimodality decision making system for temporal lobe epilepsy surgery (Mehdi Ghannad-Rezaei, 2005)

51. Atlas-based deformable models for segmentation of brain structures in MRI (Neamatollah Batmanghlich, 2005)

52. Estimation of fractal noise model for fMRI time series (Babak Afshinpoor, 2005)

53. Design and implementation of building blocks of hospital information system according to HL7 protocol (Mohammad-Reza Sehati, 2005)

54. Face detection using Gabor wavelet and multi-resolution histograms (Mehdi Aghagholzadeh, 2006)

55. Comparison of recent methods for localization of brain activations using MEG (Mehdi Rajabioun, 2006)

56. Differentiation of necrosis from tumor in glioma using Diffusion Tensor MRI (DT-MRI) and Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging (MRSI) (Zahra Torbatian, 2006)

57. Segmetation of brain structures from MRI using interacting deformable models (Payam Bahman-Bijari, 2006)

58. Functional MRI activation detection using spatial information and group of subjects (Mohammad Soleymani, 2006)

59. White matter crossing fiber tractography in DT-MRI using ICA and interpolation (Christine Manouk Khodaverdian, 2007)

60. Designing matched wavelets for feature extraction (Shirin Badiezadegan, 2007)

61. Estimation of MRI signal intensities in molecular imaging using labeled cells with iron particles (Alireza Mohammadi-Nejad, 2007)

62. Atlas-based estimation of white matter tracts using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) (Esmaeil Davoodi, 2007)

63. Voxel-Based morphometry (VBM) for finding brain changes in temporal lobe epilepsy (Matineh Shaker, 2008)

64. Predication of brain deformations as a result of opening the skull for neurosurgery (Hajar Hamidian, 2008)

65. Comparison of Voxel-based morphometry (VBM) and tensor-based morphometry (TBM) for finding brain changes in temporal lobe epilepsy (Amir Pourmorteza, 2008)

66. Modeling of visual information processing in the brain (Mina Gheiratmand, 2008)

67. Application of intelligent methods for multiresolution modeling of tumors for chemotherapy (Elham Bavafa-Haghighi, 2008)

68. Automatic recognition of white blood cells in hemotology images (Seyed-Hamid Reza-Tofoghi, 2009)

69. Segmentation of brain structures using geometric moment invariants and neural networks (Mostafa Jabarouti-Moghaddam, 2009)

70. Extraction of left ventricular torsion and ejection fraction using tagged MRI (Ali Mohebi, 2009)

71. Computer Aided Prognosis of Epileptic Patients Using Multi-Modality Data and Artificial Intelligence Techniques (Masoud Latifi-Navid, 2009)

72. Malignancy Determination of Brain Tumors Using Perfusion MRI (Asieh Tavakol, 2009)

73. Segmentation of Tumors in CT Images For Treatment Planning (Leila Yavari, 2010)

74. Comparison of Voxel Based Morphometry (VBM) and Tract Based Spatial Statistics (TBSS) Analysis of Diffusion Tensor MRI (DTMRI) for Epilepsy Diagnosis (Maryam Afzali-Deligani, 2010)

75. Hippocampus Shape Analysis for Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy (mTLE) Lateralization using Magnetic Resonance Images (Mohammad Esmaeil-Zadeh Fereydani, 2010)

76. Prediction of Outcome of Brain Tumors to Treatment with Anti-Angiogenic Medicine (Bevacizumab) Using Multi- Parametricl Magnetic Resonance Images (Mohammad Najafi, 2010)

77. Evaluation of Compressive Sensing Methods Using Information Theoretic Measures (Sepideh Almasi, 2010)

78. Functional Connectivity Detection in Resting-State Brain Using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (Mahdi Ramezani, 2010)

79. Activation Detection and Estimation of Hemodynamic Response Function in Functional Homogenous Regions in fMRI for Drug craving studies (Somayeh Maleki-Balajoo, 2010)

80. Analysis of Independent Components in fMRI to Achieve Maximum SNR in Activation Map (Faranak Akbarifar, 2010)

81. Estimation of Iron Concentration in Liver and Heart Tissue Using T2* MRI (Neda Gholizadeh, 2010)

82. Image Registration Using Frequency Domain Information (Majid Banaeyan, 2010)

83. Image Registration Using Spatial Domain Information (Mostafa Kazemi, 2010)

84. Analysis of CT Images of Lungs in Inspiratory and Expiratory States for Motion Modeling and Pattern Recognition of Volumetric Variations in Obstructive Diseases (Mohammad Parsa Hosseini, 2010)

85. Comprison of Diffusion Kurtosis in Healthy and Patient Subjects (Armin Iraji, 2011)

86. Operator Independent Algorithm for Prediction of Treatment Response of Brain Tumors to Treatment with Bevacizumab Using MRI (Neda Behzadfar, 2011)

87. Laplace-Beltrami Shape Analysis of Hippocampus for Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Lateralization (Rozita Shishegar, 2011)

88. Rule Extraction from Multimodality Database of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy (Mohammad Sedeghi, 2011)

89. Feature Selection for Lateralization of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Patients (Fatemeh Shirbani, 2011)

90. Intelligent Data Mining Techniques for Medical Data (Nazli Kheirabi, 2011)

91. Detection of Ball Crossing End-Line in Soccer Video (Jila Hosseinkhani, 2011)

MS Theses Advised

1-26.    Variety of topics in Signal Processing, Image Processing, Medical Imaging, and Biomedical Engineering

PUBLICATIONS

A.   Journal Articles

(accepted/published)

1.         B. Afshin-Pour, G.A. Hossein-Zadeh, S.C. Strother, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Enhancing reproducibility of fMRI statistical maps using generalized canonical correlation analysis in NPAIRS framework, Neuroimage, Accepted, Jan. 20, 2012.

2.         M.P. Hosseini, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, Sh. Akhlaghpoor, “Detection and Scoring Severity of COPD using Volumetric Analysis of Lungs in CT Images,” Iranian Journal of Radiology, Accepted, Jan. 15, 2012.

3.         H. Bagher-Ebadian, R. Jain, S.P. Nejad-Davarani, T. Mikkelsen, M. Lu, Q. Jiang, L. Scarpace, A.S. Arbab, J. Narang, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, R. Paudyal and J. R. Ewing, “Model selection for DCE-T1 studies in glioblastoma,” Magn Reson Med, Available online Dec. 2011.

4.         N.R.S. Varma, B. Janic, A. Iskander, A. Shankar, M. PI Bhuiyan, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, Q. Jiang, K. Barton, M.M. Ali, A.S. Arbab, “Endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) as gene carrier system for rat model of human glioma,” PLoS ONE, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. e30310:1-13, Jan. 23, 2012.

5.         M. Najafi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, K. Jafari-Khouzani, L. Scarpace, T. Mikkelsen, “Prediction of Glioblastoma Multiform Response to Bevacizumab Treatment Using Multi-Parametric MRI,” PLoS ONE, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. e29945:1-11, Jan. 11, 2012.

6.         E. Moghimirad, S.H. Rezatofighi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Retinal Vessel Segmentation Using Multi-Scale Medialness Function,” Computers in Biology and Medicine, Available online Nov. 17, 2011.

7.          H. Hajimolahoseini, M.R. Taban, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Extended Kalman Filter Frequency Tracker for Nonstationary Harmonic Signals,” Measurement, Available online Sept. 24, 2011, Published in vol. 45, no. 1, pp. 126-132, Jan. 2012.

8.          E. Davoodi-Bojd, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Evaluation of Diffusion Models of Fiber Tracts Using Diffusion Tensor Magnetic Resonance Imaging,” Magnetic Resonance Imaging, vol. 29, no. 9, pp. 1175-1185, Nov. 2011.

9.         H. Bagher-Ebadian, K. Jafari-Khouzani, P.D. Mitsias, M. Lu, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, M. Chopp, J.R. Ewing, “Predicting Final Extent of Ischemic Infarction Using Artificial Neural Network Analysis of Multi-Parametric MRI in Patients with Stroke,” PLoS ONE, vol. 6, no. 8, pp. e22626:1-9, Aug. 2011.

10.       Y. Salimpour, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, S. Salehi, N. Emadi, M. Abouzari, “Neuronal Spike Train Analysis in Likelihood Space,” PLoS ONE, vol. 6, no. 6, pp. e21256:1-13, June 2011.
 

11.        M.-R. Nazem-Zadeh, K. Jafari-Khouzani, E. Davoodi-Bojd, Q. Jiang, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Clustering Method for Estimating Principal Diffusion Directions,” Submitted to Neuroimage, vol. 57, no. 3, pp. 825-838, Aug. 2011. PMID: 21642005.

12.       M. Afzali, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, K.V. Elisevich, “Tract Based Spatial Statistical Analysis and Voxel Based Morphometry of Diffusion Indices in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy,” Computers in Biology and Medicine, Available Online, May 24, 2011, Published in vol. 41, no. 12, pp. 1082-1091, Dec. 2011, PMID: 216164842011.

13.       D. Mortazavi, A.Z. Kouzani, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Segmentation of Multiple Sclerosis Lesions in MR Images: A Review,” Neuroradiology, Available Online, May 17, 2011, DOI: 10.1007/s00234-011-0886-7.

14.       M.P. Hosseini, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, Sh. Akhlaghpoor, “Computer-aided diagnosis system for the evaluation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on CT Images,” Tehran University Medical Journal, vol. 68, no. 12, pp. 718-725, March 2011.

15.       C. Sidiropoulos, K. Jafari-Khouzani, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, P. Mitsias, P. Alexopoulos, T.R.S. Dipl-Psych, M. Reichel, P. Lewczuk, A. Doerfler, J. Kornhuber, “Influence of Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor and Apolipoprotein E Genetic Variants on Hemispheric and Lateral Ventricular Volume of Young Healthy Adults,” Acta Neuropsychiatrica, vol. 23, pp. 132-138, May 2011.   

16.       K. Jafari-Khouzani, K. Elisevich, K. Karvelis, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Quantitative multi-compartmental SPECT image analysis for lateralization of temporal lobe epilepsy,” Epilepsy Research, vol. 95, no. 1-2, pp. 35-50, June 2011.

17.       S.H. Rezatofighi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Automatic Recognition of Five Types of White Blood Cells in Peripheral Blood,” Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, Accepted, Published, vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 333-343, June 2011.         

18.       E. Yahaghi, Y. Nohi, A. Movafeghi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Estimation of tissue damage using exchange rate constant and magnetic resonance imaging,” Iranian Journal of Biomed. Eng., vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 1-14, Winter 2011.

19.       M. Aghagolzadeh, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, B.N. Araabi, “Information Theoretic Hierarchical Clustering,” Entropy, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 450-465, Feb. 2011.       doi:10.3390/e13020450.

20.       R. Deeb, P.N. Malani, B. Gil, K. Jafari-Khouzani, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, S. Patel, M.A. Zacharek, “3D Volumetric Measurements and Analysis of the Maxillary Sinus,” American Journal of Rhinology and Allergy, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 152-156. May 2011, PMID: 21679525.

21.       G.A. Hossein-Zadeh, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Neuroimaging in Iran: A Review,” Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 5-12, Winter 2011.

22.       K. Jafari-Khouzani, K. Elisevich, S, Patel, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Dataset of Magnetic Resonance Images of Nonepileptic Subjects and Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Patients for Validation of Hippocampal Segmentation Techniques,” Neuroinformatics, Published online, Feb. 1, 2011, Published in vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 335-346, Dec. 2011, PMID: 21286946.  

23.       L. Amini, C. Jutten, S. Achard, O. David, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, G.A. Hossein-Zadeh, P. Kahane, L. Minotti, L. Vercueil, “Directed Differential Connectivity Graph of Interictal Epileptiform Discharges,” IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng., Published online, Dec. 13, 2010, Printed in vol. 58, no. 4, pp. 884-893, 2011, PMID: 21156385.

24.       A. Babajani-Feremi A, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Development of a variational scheme for model inversion of multi-area model of brain. Part II: VBEM method,” Math. Biosci. Available Online Nov. 16, 2010, Published in vol. 229, no. 1, pp. 76-92, Jan. 2011, PMID: 21087617.

25.       A. Babajani-Feremi A, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Development of a variational scheme for model inversion of multi-area model of brain. Part I: Simulation evaluation,” Math. Biosci. Available Online Nov. 9, 2010, Published in vol. 229, no. 1, pp. 64-75, Jan. 2011, PMID: 21070788.

26.       L. Amini, C. Jutten, S. Achard, O. David, P. Kahane, L. Vercueil, L. Minotti, G.A. Hossein-Zadeh, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Comparison of five directed graph measures for identification of leading interictal epileptic regions,” Physiological Measurements, vol. 31, no. 11, pp. 1529-1546, Oct. 2010.  PMID: 20952817.

27.       M.R. Nazem-Zadeh, E. Davoodi-Bojd, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Atlas-based fiber bundle segmentation using principal diffusion directions and spherical harmonic coefficients,” IBMISPS Special Issue of Neuroimage, Published online Sept. 30, 2010, Printed, vol. 54, Suppl 1:S146-64, Jan. 2011.  PMID: 20869453.     

28.       H. Hamidian, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, R. Faraji-Dana, M. Gity, “Data-Guide for Brain Deformation during Surgery: Comparison of Linear and Nonlinear Models,” BioMedical Engineering OnLine, vol. 9, no. 51, 20 pages, Sept. 2010.  PMID: 20843360.

29.       M. Azimzadeh, R. Amiri, E. Davoodi-Bojd, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, S. Vahedi and M. Hoori, “Computer Aided Selection in Breeding Programs Using Genetic Algorithm,” Spanish Journal of Agricultural Research, Published online at www.inia.es/sjar, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 672-678, Sept. 2010.         

30.       N. Tajbakhsh, B.N. Araabi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Robust Iris Verification Based on Local and Global Variations,” EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, vol. 2010, Article ID 979058, 12 pages, Published online Aug. 2010.    doi:10.1155/2010/979058.

31.       A. Akhondi-Asl, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Two-Stage Multi-Shape Segmentation of Brain Structures Using Image Intensity, Tissue Type, and Location Information,” Medical Physics, vol. 37, no. 8, pp. 4501-4516, Aug. 2010.  PMID: 20879609.

32.       D. Pai, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, J. Hua, “Evaluation of Fiber Bundles across Subjects through Brain Mapping and Registration of Diffusion Tensor Data,” IBMISPS Special Issue of Neuroimage, Accepted May 28, 2010, Published online June 12, 2010.  PMID: 20547227.

33.       B. Afshinpour, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, G.A. Hossein-Zadeh, S. Strother, “A Mutual Information Based Metric for Evaluation of fMRI Data Processing Approaches,” Human Brain Mapping, Published online June 9, 2010, Printed in vol. 32, no. 5, pp. 699-715, PMID: 20533565.

34.       A. Akhondi-Asl, K. Jafari-khouzani, K. Elisevich, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Hippocampal Volumtery for Lateralization of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy: Automated versus Manual Methods,” Published online March 29, 2010, Neuroimage, vol. 54, Suppl 1, pp. S218-26, Jan. 2011.  PMID: 20353827.

35.       A. Babajani-Feremi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Multi-Area Neural Mass Modeling of EEG and MEG Signals,” NeuroImage, vol. 52, no. 3, pp. 793-811, Sept. 2010, PMID: 20080193.    

36.       S.E. Mahmoudi, A. Akhondi-Asl, R. Rahmani, Sh. Faghih-Roohi, V. Teymouri, A. Saboori, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Web-Based, Interactive, 2D/3D Medical Image Processing and Visualization Software,” Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, vol. 98, no. 2, pp. 172-182, May 2010.  PMID: 20022133.

37.       M. Ghannad-Rezaie, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, H. Ying, M. Dong, “Selection-Fusion Approach for Classification of Datasets with Missing Values,” Pattern Recognition, vol. 43, no. 6, pp. 2340-2350, June 2010.  PMID: 20212921.

38.       M.S. Hosseini, B.N. Araabi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Pigment Melanin: Pattern for Iris Recognition,” IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 59, no. 4, pp. 792-804, April 2010.  doi:10.1109/TIM.2009.2037996.        

39.       A.R. Mohammadi-Nejad, G.A. Hossein-Zadeh, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Quantitative Evaluation of Optimal Imaging Parameters for Single Cell Detection in MRI using Simulation,” Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Available online Jan. 12, 2010, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 408-417, April 2010.  PMID: 20022133.

40.       P.B. Bijari, A. Akhondi-Asl, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Three-Dimensional Coupled-Object Segmentation Using Symmetry and Tissue Type Information,” Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, Available online Nov. 20, 2009, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 236-249, April 2010, PMID: 19932598.

41.       M.R. Nazem-Zadeh, E. Davoodi-Bojd, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Level Set Fiber Bundle Segmentation using Spherical Harmonic Coefficients,” Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, Available online Oct. 19, 2009, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 192-202, April 2010, PMID: 19846274.

42.       A.S. Arbab, B. Janic, K. Jafari-Khouzani, A.S.M. Iskander, S. Kumar, N.R.S. Varma, R.A. Knight, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, S.L. Brown, J.A. Frank, “Differentiation of glioma and radiation injury in rats using in vitro produce magnetically labeled cytotoxic T-cells and MRI,” PLoS One, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. e9365, Feb. 2010.      

43.       K. Jafari-Khouzani, K. Elisevich, S. Patel, B. Smith, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Flair Signal and Texture Analysis for Lateralizing Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy,” Neuroimage, vol. 49, no. 2, pp. 1559-1571, Jan. 2010.  PMID: 19744564.

44.       F. Darki, A.R. Ahmadian, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, M. Zarei, M.A. Oghabian, “Improvement of White Matter Fiber Tracking Based on Diffusion Tensor MR Imaging Data Using Modified Speed Functions,” Iran J Radiol, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 231-236, Dec. 2009.

45.       B. Shalchian, H. Rajabi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Assessment of the wavelet transform in reduction of noise from the simulated PET images,” Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology, vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 223-228, Dec. 2009.  PMID: 19914973.

46.       B. Shalchian, H. Rajabi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Fusion of PET and CT images using wavelet transform,” Hellenic Journal of Nuclear Medicine, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 238-243, Sept.-Dec. 2009.  PMID: 19936335.

47.       B. Shalchian, H. Rajabi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Noise Suppression of Simulated PET Images using Wavelet Transform,” Iranian Journal of Medical Physics, vol. 6 (2), no. 23, pp. 41-50, Summer 2009.

48.       H. Hamidian, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, R. Faraji-Dana, M. Gity, “Estimating Brain Deformation During Surgery Using Finite Element Method: Optimization and Comparison of Two Linear Models,” Journal of Signal Processing Systems for Signal Image and Video Technology, vol. 55, no. 1-3, pp. 157-167, April 2009.

49.       E. Bavafaye-Haghighi, M.J. Yazdanpanah, B. Kalaghchi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Multiscale cancer modeling: In the line of fast simulation and chemotherapy,” Mathematical and Computer Modeling, vol. 49, no. 7-8, pp. 1449-1464, April 2009.

50.       A.M. Rad, A.S.M. Iskander, B. Janic, R.A. Knight, A.S. Arbab, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “AC133+ Progenitor Cells as Gene Delivery Vehicle and Cellular Probe in Subcutaneous Tumor Models: A Preliminary Study,” BMC Biotechnology, vol. 9, no. 28, March 27, 2009.

51.       M. Soleymani, G.-A. Hossein-Zadeh, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Fixed and Random Effect Analysis of Multi-subject fMRI Data Using Wavelet Transform,” Journal of Neuroscience Methods, vol. 176, no. 2, pp. 237-245, Jan. 2009.   

52.       A. Akhondi-Asl, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Effect of Number of Coupled Structures on the Segmentation of Brain Structures,” Journal of Signal Processing Systems for Signal Image and Video Technology, vol. 54, no. 1-3, pp. 215-230, Jan. 2009.

53.       Sh. Badiezadegan, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Design and Evaluation of Matched Wavelets with Maximum Coding Gain and Minimum Approximation Error Criteria for R Peak Detection in ECG,” International Journal of Wavelets, Multiresolution, and Information Processing (IJWMIP), vol. 6, no. 6, pp. 799-825, Nov. 2008.          

54.       F. Darki, A. Ahmadian, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, M. Zarei, M.A. Oghabian, “Evaluation of Modified Fast Marching Algorithm in the Detection of Fiber Crossing Using Diffusion Tensor Imaging Data,” Iranian Journal of Medical Physics, vol. 3, no. 13, pp. 1-16, 2008 (dated winter 2007).

55.       B. Janic, ASM Iskander, A.M. Rad, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, A.S. Arbab, “Effects of Ferumoxides – Protamine Sulfate Labeling on Immunomodulatory Characteristics of Macrophage-like THP-1 Cells,” PLoS ONE online open access journal, vol. 3, no. 6, pp. e2499:1-9, June 2008.

56.       A. Babajani, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, J.E. Moran, “Integrated MEG/fMRI Model Validated Using Real Auditory Data,” Brain Topography, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 61-74, Sept. 2008.

57.       B. Afshinpour, G.A. Hossein-Zadeh, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Nonparametric Trend Estimation in the Presence of Fractal Noise: Application to fMRI Time-Series Analysis,” Journal of Neuroscience Methods, vol. 171, no. 2, pp. 340-348, June 2008.   

58.       A. Babajani, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Combined MEG and fMRI Model,” Journal of Iranian Association of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 10-33, Jan. 2008.

59.       M.R. Siadat, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Partial Volume and Distribution Estimation from Multi-Spectral Images using Continuous Representations,” Journal of Electronic Imaging, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 043001-15, Oct.-Dec. 2007.  

60.       A.M. Rad, B. Janic, A.S.M. Iskander, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, A.S. Arbab, “Measurement of Quantity of Iron in Magnetically Labeled Cells: Comparison among Different UV/VIS Spectrometry Methods,” BioTechniques, vol. 43, no. 5, pp. 627-636, Nov. 2007.       

61.       K. Jafari-Khouzani, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, F. Fotouhi, J.R. Parrish, R.L. Finley Jr. “Automated segmentation and classification of high throughput yeast assay spots,” IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 26, no. 10, pp. 1401-1411, Oct. 2007.    

62.       M.R. Siadat, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, K.V. Elisevich, “Knowledge-Based Localization of Hippocampus in Human Brain MRI,” Computers in Biology and Medicine, vol. 37, no. 9, pp. 1342-60, Sept. 2007.        

63.       A.S. Arbab, A.M. Rad, A.S.M. Iskander, K. Jafari-Khouzani, S.L. Brown, J.L. Churchman, G. Ding, Q. Jiang, J.A. Frank, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, D.J. Peck, “Magnetically Labeled Sensitized Splenocytes to Identify Glioma by MRI: A Preliminary study,” Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, vol. 58, no. 3, pp. 519-526, Sep. 2007.

64.       A.M. Rad, A.S. Arbab, A.S.M. Iskander, Q. Jiang, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Quantification of Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide (SPIO)-labeled Cells Using MRI,” Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 366-74, Aug. 2007.

65.       R. Farjam, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, K. Jafari-Khouzani, R.A. Zoroofi, “An Image Analysis Approach for Automatic Malignancy Determination of Prostate Pathological Images,” Cytometry Part B-Clinical Cytometry, vol. 72B, no. 4, pp. 227-240, July 2007.

66.       H. Soltanian-Zadeh, H. Bagher-Ebadian, J.R. Ewing, P.D. Mitsias, A. Kapke, M. Lu, Q. Jiang, S.C. Patel, M. Chopp, “Multi-Parametric ISODATA Analysis of Ischemic Lesions Using Pre- or Post-Gd T1 MRI,” Cerebrovascular Diseases, vol. 23, no. 2-3, pp. 91-102, Feb. 2007.  

67.       E. Yahaghi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, M. Shahriari, N. Fatouraei, “Leakage from blood brain barrier: effect of injection profile on plasma and extravascular concentrations,” Int. J. Sci. Res., vol. 16, pp. 217-221, Dec. 2006.     

68.       M. Soleimani, A. Movafeghi, M. H. Kargarnovin, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Hardware Design and Reconstruction Results of SUT-1 EIT System,” Int. J. Sci. Res., vol. 16, pp. 297-303, Dec. 2006.    

69.       E. Yahaghi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, M. Shahriari, N. Fatouraee, J.R. Ewing, “Estimation of Contrast Agent Concentration in Intra- and Extra-Vascular Spaces of Brain Tissue,” Mathematical Biosciences, vol. 204, Issue 1, pp. 102-118, Nov. 2006.

70.       L. Amini, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, C. Lucas, M. Gity: “Segmentation of Mid-Brain Structures Based on Active Contours,” Iranian Journal of Biomed. Eng., vol. 2, no. 5, pp. 17-34, Nov. 2006.    

71.       A. Babajani, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Integrated MEG/EEG and fMRI Model Based on Neural Masses,” IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng., vol. 53, no. 9, pp. 1794-1801, Sept. 2006.     

72.       S.M. Shams, G.A. Hossein-Zadeh, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Multi-Subject Activation Detection in fMRI by Testing the Correlation of Data with a Signal Subspace,” Magnetic Resonance Imaging, vol. 24, no. 6, pp. 775-784, June 2006.         Issue: 6

73.       E. Yahaghi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, M. Shahriari, N. Fatouraee, J.R. Ewing, “Estimation of Permeability using MRI and Simulation of Contrast agent Crossing from Abnormal Blood Brain Barrier,” Amir-Kabir Journal, vol. 16, no. 62, pp. 47-56, June 2006.

74.       M. Mohammadzadeh, M. Shahabadi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, A. Tavakoli, B. Rafiae, D. Javidneia, M.A. Oghabian. “High SNR flexible top hat monopole probe for 1.5 T MRI,” Meas. Sci. Technol. vol. 17, no. 7, pp. 1987-1994, July 1, 2006.

75.       G.L. Ding, Q. Jiang, L. Li, L. Zhang, Z.G. Zhang, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, Q.J. Li, P.A. Whitton, J.R. Ewing, M. Chopp, “Characterization of Cerebral Tissue by MRI Map ISODATA in Embolic Stroke in Rat,” Brain Research, vol. 1084, no. 1, pp. 202-209, April 21, 2006.

76.       A. Babajani, M.H. Nekooei, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Integrated MEG and fMRI Model: Synthesis and Analysis,” Brain Topography, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 101-113, Dec. 2005.          

77.       H. Soltanian-Zadeh, A. Shahrokni, M.M. Khalighi, Z.G. Zhang, R.A. Zoroofi, M. Maddah, M. Chopp, “3D Quantification and Visualization of Vascular Structures from Confocal Microscopic Images Using Skeletonization and Voxel-Coding,” Computers in Biology and Medicine, vol. 35, no. 9, pp. 791-813, Nov. 2005.

78.       A. Movafeghi, M. H. Kargarnovin, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, M. Taheri, F. Ghasemi, B. Rokrok, K. Edaalati and N. Rastkhah, “Flaw Detection Improvement of Digitized Radiographs by Morphological Transformations,” Insight (Journal of British Institute of Non-Destructive Testing), vol. 47, no. 10, pp. 625-630, Oct. 2005.

79.       M. Maddah, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, A. Afzali-Kusha, A. Shahrokni, Z.G. Zhang, “Three-Dimensional Analysis of Complex Branching Vessels in Confocal Microscopy Images,” Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, vol. 29, no. 6, pp. 487-498, Sept.-Oct. 2005.       

80.       H. Jahanian, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, G.A. Hossein-Zadeh, “fMRI Activation Detection: Fuzzy Cluster Analysis in Wavelet and Multi-Wavelet Domains,” Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 381-389, Sept. 2005.         

81.       M.R. Siadat, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, F. Fotouhi, K.V. Elisevich, “Content-Based Image Database System for Epilepsy,” Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, vol. 79, no. 3, pp. 209-226, Sept. 2005.

82.       P.D. Mitsias, M. Lu, B. Silver, D. Morris, J.R. Ewing, S. Daley, C. Lewandowski, A. Katramados, N.I. Papamitsakis, H.B. Ebadian, Q. Zhao, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, D. Hearshen, S.C. Patel, M. Chopp. “MRI-guided, Open Trial of abciximab for Ischemic Stroke within a 3- to 24-hour Window,” Neurology, vol. 65, no. 4, pp. 612-615, Aug. 23, 2005.

83.       F. Mahmoudi, J. Shanbehzadeh, A.M. Eftekhari-Moghadam and H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Non-segmentation Shape-Based Image Retrieval Using – Direction Histogram of Similar Edges,” Journal of Science, Teacher Training University, vol. 3, no. 3-4, pp. 251-270, July 2005.

84.       K. Jafari-Khouzani, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Radon Transform Orientation Estimation for Rotation Invariant Texture Analysis,” IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 27, no. 6, pp. 1004-8, June 2005.

85.       K. Jafari-Khouzani, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Rotation Invariant Multi-resolution Texture Analysis Using Radon and Wavelet Transforms,” IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 14, no. 6, pp. 783-795, June 2005.

86.       L. Li, Q. Jiang, G. Ding, L. Zhang, Z.G. Zhang, J.R. Ewing, R.A. Knight, A. Kapke, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, M. Chopp, “Map-ISODATA Demarcates Regional Response to Combination rt-PA and 7E3 F(ab')2 Treatment of Embolic Stroke in the Rat,” J. Magn. Reson. Imag., vol. 21, no. 6, pp.726-34, June 2005. 

87.       M. Lu, P.D. Mitsias, J.R. Ewing, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, H. Bagher-Ebadian, Q. Zhao, N. Oja-Tebbe, S.C. Patel, M. Chopp, “Predicting Final Infarct Size Using Acute and Subacute Multiparametric MRI Measurements in Patients with Ischemic Stroke,” J. Magn. Reson. Imag., vol. 21, no. 5, pp. 495-502, May 2005.           

88.       G.A. Hossein-Zadeh, B.A. Ardekani, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Linear and Nonlinear Modeling of the Hemodynamic System in fMRI,” International Journal of Engineering, Iranian University of Science and Technology, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 45-54, Feb. 2005.

89.       P.D. Mitsias, J.R. Ewing, M. Lu, M.M. Khalighi, M. Pasnoor, H.B. Ebadian, Q.M. Zhao, S. Santhakumar, M.A. Jacobs, N.I.H. Papamitsakis, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, D.O. Hearshen, S.C. Patel, M. Chopp, “Multi-parametric Iterative Self-Organizing MR Imaging Data Analysis Technique for Assessment of Tissue Viability in Acute Cerebral Ischemia.” Am J Neuroradiol. vol. 25, no. 9, pp. 1499-508, Oct. 2004.      

90.       A. Movafeghi, M.H. Krgarnovin, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, K. Edalati, B. Rokrok, A. Kermani and M. Seidi, “A Radiographic Calibration Method for Eddy Current Testing of Heat Exchanger Tubes,” Insight (Journal of British Institute of Non-Destructive Testing), vol. 46, no. 10, pp. 594-597, Oct. 2004.

91.       H. Soltanian-Zadeh, F. Rafiee-Rad, S. Pourabdollah-Nazhad, “Comparison of Multi-Wavelet, Wavelet, Haralick, and Shape Features for Microcalcification Classification in Mammograms,” Pattern Recognition, vol. 37, no. 10, pp. 1973-1986, Oct. 2004.

92.       G.L. Ding, Q. Jiang, L. Zhang, Z.G. Zhang, R.A. Knight, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, M. Lu, J.R. Ewing, Q.J. Li, P.A. Whitton, M. Chopp, “Multi-parametric ISODATA Analysis of Embolic Stroke and rt-PA Intervention in Rat,” Journal of The Neurological Sciences, vol. 223, no. 2, pp. 135-43, Aug. 30, 2004.

93.       P.D. Mitsias, M. Lu, D. Morris, B. Silver, C. Lewandowski, N.I. Papamitsakis, M.M. Khalighi, H.B. Ebadian, Q. Zhao, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, S. Daley, D. Hearshen, J.R. Ewing, S.C. Patel, M. Chopp. “Treatment of Acute Supratentorial Ischemic Stroke with Abciximab Is Safe and May Result in Early Neurological Improvement. A Preliminary Report.” Cerebrovascular Diseases, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 249-250, Aug. 2004.  

94.       R. Farjam, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, R.A. Zoroofi, “Wavelet-Based Determination of Malignancy of the Pathological Images of the Prostate,” WSEAS Transactions on Electronics, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 476-481, July 2004.

95.       M. Zeydabadi-Nejad, R.A. Zoroofi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Comparison of Three Gaussian Mixture Modeling and Spatial Encoding Methods for Segmenting Human Brain MRI,” WSEAS Transactions on Electronics, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 482-487, July 2004.

96.       H. Jahanian, G.A. Hossein-Zadeh, H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “Controlling the False Positive Rate in Fuzzy Clustering Using Randomization: Application to fMRI Activation Detection,” Magnetic Resonance Imaging, vol. 22, no. 5, pp. 631-638, June 2004.           

97.       L. Amini, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, C. Lucas, M. Gity: “Automatic Segmentation of Thalamus from Brain MRI Integrating Fuzzy Clustering and Dynamic Contours,” IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng., vol. 51, no. 5, pp. 800-811, May 2004.     

98.       A. Moahammadi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Reduction of MRI Dimensionality by Neural Network Trained Using Genetic Algorithm,” Journal of Faculty of Engineering, University of Tehran, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 35-49, May 2004.

99.       A. Hessaraki, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Measurement of Cerebral Blood Flow from Perfusion MRI by Singular Value Decomposition Using Smoothing Spline Interpolation.” Shahed Journal, vol. 43, pp. 11-23, March 2004.

100.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh, D.J. Peck, and D.O. Hearshen, and Renee R. Lajiness-O'Neill: “Model-Independent Method for fMRI Analysis.” IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 285-296, March 2004.  

101.     H. Bagher-Ebadian, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, S. Setayeshi, S.T. Smith: “Neural Network and Fuzzy Clustering Approach for Automatic Diagnosis of Coronary Artery Disease in Nuclear Medicine,” IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol. 51, no. 1, pp. 184-192, Feb. 2004.

102.     N. Asadi, S.K. Setarehdan, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “A Novel Hybrid Pulse-Coded Excitation Scheme to Improve Signal to Noise Ratio in Ultrasound Imaging,” International Journal of WSEAS Transactions on Biology and Biomedicine, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 126-130, Jan. 2004.

103.     M. Maddah, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, A. Afzali-Kusha, “Snake modeling and distance transform approach to vascular centerline extraction and quantification,” Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, vol. 27, no. 6, pp. 503-512, Nov.-Dec. 2003.

104.     A.M. Eftekhari-Moghadam, J. Shanbehzadeh, F. Mahmoudi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Image Retrieval Based on Index Compressed Vector Quantization,” Pattern Recognition, vol. 36, no. 11, pp. 2635-2647, Nov. 2003.

105.     G.A. Hossein-Zadeh, B.A. Ardekani, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “A Signal Subspace Approach for Modeling the Hemodynamic Response Function in fMRI,” Magnetic Resonance Imaging, vol. 21, no. 8, pp. 835–843, Oct. 2003.

106.     F. Mahmoudi, J. Shanbehzadeh, A.M. Eftekhari-Moghadam, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Image Retrieval Based on Shape Similarity by Edge Orientation Autocorrelogram,” Pattern Recognition, vol. 36, no. 8, pp. 1725-1736, Aug. 2003.

107.     G.A. Hossein-Zadeh, B.A. Ardekani, H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “Activation Detection in fMRI Using a Maximum Energy Ratio Statistic Obtained by Adaptive Spatial Filtering,” IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 22, no. 7, pp. 795-805, July 2003.

108.     K. Jafari-Khouzani, H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “Multiwavelet Grading of Pathological Images of Prostate,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 50, no. 6, pp. 697-704, June 2003.

109.     E. Karami, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, M. Kameraei, “Design and Implementation of Ultrasound Hyperthermia System for Cancer Treatment.” Journal of Faculty of Engineering at University of Tehran, vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 517-526, June 2003.

110.     E. Fatemi-Zadeh, C. Lucas, H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “Automatic Landmark Extraction from Image Data Using Modified Growing Neural Gas Network,” IEEE Trans. Info. Tech. Biomed., vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 77-85, June 2003.

111.     D.C. Morris, T. Yeich, M.M. Khalighi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, Z.G. Zhang, M. Chopp:  “Microvascular Structure after Embolic Focal Cerebral Ischemia in the Rat.”  Brain Research, vol. 972, no. 1-2, pp. 31-37, May 16, 2003.

112.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh, M. Pasnoor, R. Hammoud, M.A. Jacobs, S.C. Patel, P.D. Mitsias, R. Knight, Z.G. Zheng, M. Lu, M. Chopp: “MRI Tissue Characterization of Experimental Cerebral Ischemia in Rat,” J. Magn. Reson. Imag., vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 398–409, April 2003.          

113.     G.A. Hossein-Zadeh, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, B.A. Ardekani: “Multi-Resolution fMRI Activation Detection Using Translation Invariant Wavelet Transform and Statistical Analysis Based on Resampling,” IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 302-314, March 2003.

114.     M. Maddah, A. Afzali-Kusha, H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “Efficient Center-line Extraction for Quantification of Vessels in Confocal Microscopy Images,” Medical Physics, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 204-211, Feb. 2003.  

115.     P.D. Mitsias, R. Hammoud, M. Pasnoor, M.A. Jacobs, S. Santhakumar, N.I.H. Papamitsakis, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, M. Lu, M. Chopp, S.C. Patel: “Multi-parametric MRI ISODATA Ischemic Lesion Analysis: Correlation with the Clinical Neurological Deficit and Single Parameter MRI Techniques,” Stroke, vol. 33, no. 12, pp. 2839-2844, Dec. 2002.

116.     A. Ghanei, H. Soltanian-Zadeh:  “A Discrete Curvature-Based Deformable Surface Model with Application to Segmentation of Volumetric Images.” IEEE Trans. Info. Tech. Biomed., vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 285-295, Dec. 2002.

117.     A.M. Eftekhari-Moghadam, J. Shanbehzadeh, F. Mahmoudi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “The Effect of Correlation in IC-VQ Based Image Indexing,” Intl. Journal of Engineering Science, Iran University of Science and Technology, Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 73-88, Dec. 2002.

118.     F. Mahmoudi, J. Shanbehzadeh, A.M. Eftekhari-Moghadam, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “A shape Based Image Retrieval Scheme Using Edges Correlation,” Amirkabir Journal, Amirkabir University, Tehran, Iran, Vol. 13, No. 52, pp. 688-703, fall 2002. 

119.     A.M. Eftekhari-Moghadam, J. Shanbehzadeh, F. Mahmoudi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Image Retrieval and Indexing Based on the Genealogical Relation of TSVQ Indies,” Amirkabir Journal, Amirkabir University, Tehran, Iran, Vol. 13, No. 52, pp. 640-655, fall 2002.

120.     A.M. Eftekhari-Moghadam, J. Shanbehzadeh, F. Mahmoudi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “IC-VQ Based Image Indexing Using Contiguous Regions histogram,” Journal of Faculty of Engineering of Tabriz University, Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 11-18, Spring and Summer 2002.     

121.     E. Fatemi-Zadeh, C. Lucas, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, M.R. Hashemi-Golpayegani, “Local Transformation of Medical Images Using Voronoi Images.” Modarres Journal of Medical Sciences, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 101-113, June 2002.

122.     B. Tahayori, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, and R. A. Zoroofi, “A PC Based PACS Display Workstation with a Language Transparent Interface,” Journal of Digital Imaging, vol. 15, Suppl. 1, pp. 206-209, 2002.

123.     Z.G. Zhang, L. Zhang, W. Tsang, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, D. Morris, R. Zhang, A. Goussev, C. Powers, T. Yeich, M. Chopp: “Correlation of VEGF and Angiopoietin Expression with Disruption of Blood-Brain Barrier and Angiogenesis After Focal Cerebral Ischemia,” J. Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 379-392, April 2002.

124.     E. Fatemi-Zadeh, C. Lucas, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, M.R. Hashemi-Golpayegani, “Sensitivity Analysis of Landmarks in Medical Image Registration.” Shaahed Daaneshvar Journal, vol. 9, no. 37, pp. 33-46, March 2002.   

125.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh and D.J. Peck: “Feature Space Analysis: Effects of MRI Protocols.” Medical Physics, vol. 28, no. 11, pp. 2344-2351, Nov. 2001.     

126.     A. Ghanei, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, A. Ratkewics, F. Yin: “A 3D Deformable Model for Segmentation of Human Prostate from Ultrasound Images.” Medical Physics, vol. 28, no. 10, pp. 2147-2153, Oct. 2001.      

127.     A. Olfat and H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “A Neural Network Approach to Magnitude Retrieval.” Signal Processing, vol. 81, no. 9, pp. 1879-1888, Aug.-Sept. 2001.        

128.     M.A. Jacobs, Z.G. Zhang, R.A. Knight, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, A.V. Goussev, D.J. Peck, M. Chopp: “A Model for Multi-parametric MRI Tissue Characterization in Experimental Cerebral Ischemia With Histological Validation in Rat: Part 1.” Stroke, vol. 32, pp. 943-949, April 2001.

129.     M.A. Jacobs, P. Mitsias, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, S. Santhakumar, A. Ghanei, R. Hammond, D.J. Peck, M. Chopp, S. Patel, “Multiparametric MRI Tissue Characterization in Clinical Stroke With Correlation Clinical Outcome: Part 2.” Stroke, vol.32, pp.950-957, April 2001.

130.     A. Ghanei, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, M. Jacobs, S. Patel, “Boundary-based Warping of Brain MR Images,” Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging”, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 417-429, Sept. 2000.    

131.     M.R. Siadat, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Localization of Hippocampus in Human Brain MRI Using an Expert System.” Journal of Faculty of Engineering at University of Tehran, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 9-23, June 2000.  

132.     M.A. Jacobs, R.A. Knight, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, Z.G. Zheng, A.V. Goussev, D.J. Peck, J.P. Windham, M. Chopp: “Unsupervised Segmentation of Multi-parameter MRI in Experimental Cerebral Ischemia with Comparison to T2, Diffusion, and ADC MRI Parameters and Histopathological Validation.” Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 425-437, April 2000.       

133.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh, J.P. Windham: “Letter to the Editor: Optimal Partial Volume Estimation in MRI.” Magn. Reson. Med., vol. 42, no. 3, pp. 612-614, Sept. 1999.       

134.     M.A. Jacobs, J.P. Windham, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, D.J. Peck, R.A. Knight: “Registration and Warping of Magnetic Resonance Images to Histological Sections.” Medical Physics, vol. 26, no. 8, pp. 1568-1578, Aug. 1999.      

135.     M.A. Jacobs, R.A. Knight, J.P. Windham, Z.G. Zheng, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, A.V. Goussev, D.J. Peck, M. Chopp: “Identification of Cerebral Ischemic Lesions in Rat Using Eigenimage Filtered Magnetic Resonance Imaging.” Brain Research, vol. 837, no. 1-2, pp. 83-94, Aug. 1999.      

136.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh, J.P. Windham: “Comments on Partial-Volume Bayesian Classification of Material Mixtures in MR Volume Data Using Voxel Histograms,” IEEE Trans. Med. Imag., vol. 17, no. 6, pp. 1094-1094, Dec. 1998.       

137.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh, J.P. Windham, D.J. Peck, and T. Mikkelsen: “Feature Space Analysis of MRI.” Magn. Reson. Med., vol. 40, no. 3, pp. 443-453, Sept. 1998.       

138.     V. Nagesh, K.M.A. Welch, J.P. Windham, S. Patel, S.R. Levine, D.O. Hearshen, D.J. Peck, K.J. Robbins, L. D'Olhaberriague, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, and M.D. Boska: “Time Course of ADCw Changes in Ischemic Stroke: Beyond the Human Eye!,” Stroke, vol. 29, no. 9, pp. 1778- 1782, Sept. 1998.       

139.     A. Ghanei, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, and J.P. Windham: “Segmentation of the Hippocampus from Brain MRI Using Deformable Contours.” Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 203-216, May-June 1998. 

140.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh, D.J. Peck, J.P. Windham, and T. Mikkelsen: “Brain Tumor Segmentation and Characterization by Pattern Analysis of Multispectral NMR Images.” NMR in Biomedicine: Themed Issue Pattern Recognition Analysis of MR Data, vol. 11, no. 4/5, pp. 201-208, June-Aug. 1998.

141.     A. Ghanei, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, and J.P. Windham: “A 3D Deformable Surface Model for Segmentation of Objects from Volumetric Data in Medical Images.” Computers in Biology and Medicine, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 239-253, May 1998.

142.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh and J.P. Windham: “A Multi-resolution Approach for Intracranial Volume Segmentation from Brain Images.” Medical Physics, vol. 24, no. 12, pp. 1844-1853, Dec. 1997.

143.     D.J. Peck, J.P. Windham, L. Emery, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, D.O. Hearshen, and T. Mikkelsen: “Cerebral Tumor Volume Calculations Using Planimetric and Eigenimage Analysis.” Medical Physics, vol. 23, no. 12, pp. 2035-2042, Dec. 1996.

144.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh, J.P. Windham, and D.J. Peck: “Optimal Linear Transformation for MRI Feature Extraction.” IEEE Trans. Med. Imag., vol. 15, no. 6, pp. 749-767, Dec. 1996.

145.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh, J.P. Windham, and A.E. Yagle: “A Multidimensional Nonlinear Edge-Preserving Filter for Magnetic Resonance Image Restoration.” IEEE Trans. Imag. Proc., vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 147-161, Feb. 1995.     

146.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh and J.P. Windham: “Letter to the Editor: Mathematical Basis of Eigenimage Filtering.” Magn. Reson. Med., vol. 31, no. 4, pp. 465-466, Apr. 1994.     

147.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh, R. Saigal, J.P. Windham, A.E. Yagle, and D.O. Hearshen: “Optimization of MRI Protocols and Pulse Sequence Parameters for Eigenimage Filtering.” IEEE Trans. Med. Imag., vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 161-175, March 1994. 

148.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh, J.P. Windham, and A.E. Yagle: “Optimal Transformation for Correcting Partial Volume Averaging Effects in Magnetic Resonance Imaging.” IEEE Trans. Nuc. Sci., vol. 40, no. 4, part 1, pp. 1204-1212, Aug. 1993.     

149.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh and A.E. Yagle: “A Fast Algorithm for Extrapolation of Discrete-Time Periodic Band-Limited Signals.” Signal Processing, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 183-196, Aug. 1993. 

150.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh, J.P. Windham, D.J. Peck, and A.E. Yagle: “A Comparative Analysis of Several Transformations for Enhancement and Segmentation of Magnetic Resonance Image Scene Sequences.” IEEE Trans. Med. Imag., vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 302-318, Sept. 1992.    

151.     D.J. Peck, J.P. Windham, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, and J.R. Roebuck: “A Fast and Accurate Algorithm for Volume Determination in MRI.” Medical Physics, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 599-605, June 1992.    

152.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh and J.P. Windham: “Novel and General Approach to Linear Filter Design for CNR Enhancement of MR Images with Multiple Interfering Features in the Scene.” Journal of Electronic Imaging, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 171-182, April 1992.    

153.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh, J.P. Windham, and J.M. Jenkins: “Error Propagation in Eigenimage Filtering.” IEEE Trans. Med. Imag., vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 405-420, Dec. 1990.

B.   Technical Reports

1.            K. Jafari-Khouzani, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Radon Transform Orientation Estimation for Rotation Invariant Texture Analysis,” Technical Report TR-0105, Jan. 12, 2005.

C.   Book Chapters

1.            M. Jabarouti-Moghaddam, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Chapter 6: Medical Image Segmentation Using Artificial Neural Networks,” in Artificial Neural Networks - Methodological Advances and Biomedical Applications, pp. 121-138, K. Suzuki (Ed), InTech, Rijeka, Croatia, April 2011.      

2.            M. Ghannad-Rezaie, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Chapter 8: Interactive Knowledge Discovery for Temporal Lobe Epilepsy,” in Data Mining in Medical and Biological Research, pp. 131-148, E.G. Giannopoulou (Eds), I-Tech Education and Publishing KG, Vienna, Austria, Nov. 2008.

3.            H. Soltanian-Zadeh, K.V. Elisevich, “Hippocampus.” in Encyclopedia of Biomedical Engineering, vol. 3, pp. 1893-1913, M. Akay (Ed), John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey, April 2006.

4.            Soltanian-Zadeh, J.P. Windham, “Chapter 12: Optimal Processing of Brain MRI.” in Image Processing Techniques for Tumor Detection, pp. 295-346, R.N. Strickland (Eds), Optical Engineering Series, Marcel Dekker Inc., New York, NY, 2002.    

5.            Soltanian-Zadeh, “Chapter 10: Feature Space Analysis of MRI.” in Signal Processing for MRI and MRS, B H. Yan (Eds), Biomedical Engineering Series, Marcel Dekker Inc., New York, NY, 2002.

6.            P. Stanchev, F. Fotouhi, M. Siadat, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Chapter 7: Medical Multimedia and Multimodality Databases,” in Multimedia Mining - A High Way to Intelligent Multimedia Documents, D. Djeraba (Eds), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002.

D.   Proceeding Articles

1.         F. Khorram, H. Memarian, B. Tokhmchi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Lithological classification using image processing technique,” Presented and Published in the Proceedings of the 2012 SME Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, USA, Feb. 19-22, 2012.

2.         F. Mokhtari, Sh.K. Bakhtiari, G.A. Hossein-Zadeh, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Discriminating between brain rest and attention states using fMRI connectivity graphs and subtree SVM,” Presented at and published in the Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging 2012: Image Processing, San Diego, CA, USA, Feb. 4-9, 2012.

3.         M. Esmaeilzadeh, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, K. Jafari-Khouzani, “Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy lateralization using SPHARM-based features of hippocampus and SVM,” Presented at and published in the Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging 2012: Image Processing, San Diego, CA, USA, Feb. 4-9, 2012.

4.         A.E. Lashkari, G.A. Hossein-Zadeh, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Evaluation of Functional Connectivity in Control and ADHD Subjects by Generalized Canonical Correlation and Probabilistic Independent Component Analysis,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 18th Iranian Conference of Biomedical Engineering (ICBME’2011), Tehran, Iran, Dec. 14-16, 2011.

5.         H. Sabahi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, L. Scarpace, T. Mikkelsen, “Voxel Based Treatment Prediction Using Diffusion Anisotropy Indices and Spatial Information in Glioblastoma Multiform Tumor,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 18th Iranian Conference of Biomedical Engineering (ICBME’2011), Tehran, Iran, Dec. 14-16, 2011.

6.         Sh. Fakhraei, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, K. Jafari-Khouzani, K. Elisevich, F. Fotouhi, “Confident Surgical Decision Making in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy by Heterogeneous Classifier Ensembles,” Presented at and Published in the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM’2011), Vancouver, Canada, Dec. 11-14, 2011.

7.         A. Shojaei-Hashemi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, S. Ghaemmaghami, and M. Kamarei, “Universal Image Steganalysis against Spatial-domain Steganography based on Energy Distribution of Singular Values,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Information Technology and Applications (ICITA’2011), Sydney, Australia, Nov. 21-24, 2011.

8.         Sh. Eshaghian, G.A. Hossein-Zadeh, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Effective Supervised Classification of fMRI Activation Maps Between Populations By Spatial Descriptors,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 7th Iranian Conference on Machine Vision and Image Processing (MVIP’2011), Tehran, Iran, Nov. 16-17, 2011.

9.         M.H. Sigari, S. Abbasi-Sureshjani, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Sport Video Classification using an Ensemble Classifier,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 7th Iranian Conference on Machine Vision and Image Processing (MVIP’2011), Tehran, Iran, Nov. 16-17, 2011.

10.       M. Afzali, E. Fatemizadeh, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Effect of Different Diffusion Maps on Registration Results,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 7th Iranian Conference on Machine Vision and Image Processing (MVIP’2011), Tehran, Iran, Nov. 16-17, 2011.

11.       Z. Haydari, Y. Zhang, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Automatic Epilepsy Spike Detection from EEG Signal Using Genetic Algorithm,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM’2011), Atlanta, Georgia, USA, Nov. 12-15, 2011.

12.       S. Motiian, M. Aghababaie, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) of Power Allocation in Cognitive Radio Systems with Interference Constraints,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Broadband Network & Multimedia Technology (IC-BNMT’2011), Shenzhen, China, October 28-30, 2011.

13.       A. Shojaei-Hashemi, M. Mehdipour-Ghazi, Sh. Ghaemmaghami, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Universal Steganalysis based on Local Prediction Error in Wavelet Domain,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing (IIHMSP’2011), Dalian, China, October 14-16, 2011.

14.       S. Motiian, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Improved Particle Swarm Optimization and Applications to Hidden Markov Model and Ackley Function,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Measurement Systems and Applications (CIMSA’2011), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Sept. 19-21, 2011.

15.       A. Iraji, E. Davoodi-Bojd, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, G.A. Hossein-Zadeh, Q. Jiang, “Diffusion Kurtosis Imaging Discriminates Patients with White Matter Lesions from Healthy Subjects,” Presented at and published in the Proceedings of the 33rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC’2011), Boston, MA, USA, Aug. 30-Sept. 3, 2011, pp. 2796-2799.

16.       Sh. Fakhraei, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, F. Fotouhi, K. Elisevich, “Confidence in Medical Decision Making: Application in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Data Mining,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 17th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD’2011), San Diego, CA, USA, Aug. 21-24, 2011.

17.       J. Hosseinkhani, A.H. Bakhtiari, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, M. Kamarei, “Ball Tracking in Soccer Video Using Kalman Filter,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 13th IEEE Joint International Computer Science and Information Technology Conference (JICSIT’2011), Chongqing, China, Aug. 20-22, 2011.

18.       S. Samadi, L. Amini, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, C. Jutten, “Identification of brain regions involved in epilepsy using common spatial pattern,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop (SSP’2011), Nice, France, June 28-30, 2011, pp. 825-828.

19.       J. Hossein-Khani, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, M. Kamarei, O. Staadt, “Ball Detection with the Aim of Corner Event Detection in Soccer Video,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the Ninth IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications Workshops (ISPAW’2011), Busan, Korea, May 26-28, 2011, pp. 147-152.

20.       R. Shishegar, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, S.R. Moghadasi, “Global Shape Analysis of Hippocampus in Epilepsy Using Laplace-Beltrami Spectrum,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 19th Iranian Conference on Elec. Eng. (ICEE’2011), Tehran, Iran, May 17-19, 2011.

21.       A. Iraji, E. Davoodi-Bojd, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Superiority of the 3rd Order Approximation Model to the 2nd Order in Diffusion Kurtosis Imaging,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 19th Iranian Conference on Elec. Eng. (ICEE’2011), Tehran, Iran, May 17-19, 2011.

22.       A. Babajani-Feremi, K. Jafari-Khouzani, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Development of a variational Bayesian expectation maximization (VBEM) method for model inversion of multi-area E/MEG model,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro (ISBI’2011), Chicago, IL, USA, March 30-April 2, 2011, pp. 964-968.

23.       M.H. Sigari, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, H.R. Pour-Reza, “Analysis of Video for Detection of Speaker’s Face and Video Shots,” Presented at and Published in the Proceeding of the 16th National Computer Society of Iran Computer Conference (CSICC'2011), Tehran, Iran, March 8-10, 2011.
 

24.       M.P. Hosseini, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, Sh. Akhlaghpour, “Assessing Lung Volumetric Variation to Detect and Stage COPD,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 1st Middle East Conference on Biomedical Engineering (MECBME’2011), Sharjah, UAE, Feb. 21-24, 2011.

25.       M.P. Hosseini, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, Sh. Akhlaghpour, “A Novel Method for Identification of COPD in Inspiratory and Expiratory States of CT Images,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 1st Middle East Conference on Biomedical Engineering (MECBME’2011), Sharjah, UAE, Feb. 21-24, 2011.

26.       S.-Sh. Fakhraei, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, F. Fotouhi, K.V. Elisevich, “Consensus Feature Ranking in Datasets with Missing Values,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA’2010), Washington, DC, USA, Dec. 12-14, 2010, pp. 771-775.

27.       A. Mahmoodzadeh, H.R. Abutalebi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, H. Sheikhzadeh, “Determination of Pitch Range Based on Onset and Offset Analysis in Modulation Frequency Domain,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Telecommunications (IST’2010), Tehran, Iran, Dec. 04-06, 2010.   

28.       A. Mahmoodzadeh, H.R. Abutalebi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, H. Sheikhzadeh, “Single Channel Speech Separation with a Frame-based Pitch Range Estimation Method in Modulation Frequency,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Telecommunications (IST’2010), Tehran, Iran, Dec. 04-06, 2010.   

29.       A. Sojoudi, S.M. Shams, G.A. Hossein-Zadeh, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, B. Bogerts, K. Schiltz, M. Walter, “Spectral Clustering of Resting State fMRI Reveals Default Mode Network with Specifically Reduced Network Homogeneity in Major Depression,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 17th Iranian Conference of Biomedical Engineering (ICBME’2010), Isfahan, Iran, Nov. 03-04, 2010.  

30.       Sh. Fakhraei, H. Soltanian-Zadeh,  K. Elisevich, F. Fotouhi, “Attribute Ranking for Lateralizing Focal Epileptogenicity in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 17th Iranian Conference of Biomedical Engineering (ICBME’2010), Isfahan, Iran, Nov. 03-04, 2010.          

31.       M.P. Hosseini, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, Sh. Akhlaghpour, “Evaluation of Changes in Surface and Volume of Lung in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 17th Iranian Conference of Biomedical Engineering (ICBME’2010), Isfahan, Iran, Nov. 03-04, 2010.       

32.       M.A. Latif, A. Babajani-Feremi, D. Barkmeier, J.A. Leob, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Spatio-temporal Localization of Focal Epileptic Sources from Intracranial Electrocortical Recordings using an Independent Component Analysis (ICA) Algorithm,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 17th Iranian Conference of Biomedical Engineering (ICBME’2010), Isfahan, Iran, Nov. 03-04, 2010.  

33.       P. Zamaani, M.H. Kayvanrad, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Cardiac Cine MRI Using Compressive Sensing Principles,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 17th Iranian Conference of Biomedical Engineering (ICBME’2010), Isfahan, Iran, Nov. 03-04, 2010.  

34.       M.P. Hosseini, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, Sh. Akhlaghpour, A. Behrad, “A New Scheme for Evaluation of Air-Trapping in CT Images,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 6^th Iranian Conference on Machine Vision and Image Processing (MVIP’2010), Isfahan, Iran, Oct. 27-28, 2010.       

35.       S. Almasi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Derivation of Error Probability of Compressive Sensing Methods Based on Information Theoretic Concepts,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 6^th Iranian Conference on Machine Vision and Image Processing (MVIP’2010), Isfahan, Iran, Oct. 27-28, 2010.          

36.       M. Afzali, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Comparison of Hierarchical and Sequential Clustering Methods for Analysis of DTI Data of TLE,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 6^th Iranian Conference on Machine Vision and Image Processing (MVIP’2010), Isfahan, Iran, Oct. 27-28, 2010.         

37.       S.-Sh. Fakhraei, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, F. Fotouhi, K.V. Elisevich, “Effect of Classifiers in Consensus Feature Ranking for Biomedical Datasets,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the ACM Forth International Workshop on Data and Text Mining in Biomedical Informatics (DTMBIO) in conjunction with CIKM, Toronto, Canada, Oct. 26, 2010, pp. 67-68.

38.       Y. Salimpour, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, M.D. Abolhassani, “Extended Kalman Filtering of Point Process Observation,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 32nd Annual International IEEE EMBS Conference, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Aug. 31-Sept. 4, 2010.           

39.       N. Alaydie, F. Fotouhi, Ch.K. Reddy, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Noise and Outlier Filtering in Heterogeneous Medical Data Sources," Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2010), Bilbao, Spain, Aug. 30-Sept. 3, 2010, pp.115-119.

40.       S. Maleki-Balajoo, G.A. Hossein-Zadeh, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Parcellation of functional Magnetic Resonance Image (fMRI) Based on Finite Mixture Models via Self-Annealing Expectation Maximization,”  Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 24th International Congress and Exhibition of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS 2010), Geneva, Switzerland, June 23-26, 2010.

41.       S.H. Rezatofighi, K. Khaksari, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Automatic Recognition of Five Types of White Blood Cells in Peripheral Blood,” Published in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition (ICIAR 2010), Povoa de Varzim, Portugal, June 21-23, 2010.

42.       M. Ramezani, A. Heidari, E. Fatemizadeh, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Spectral Clustering Approach with Sparsifying Technique for Functional Connectivity Detection in the Resting Brain,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent and Advanced Systems (ICIAS 2010), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, June 15-17, 2010

43.       M. Afzali, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Comparison of Voxel-Based Morphometry (VBM) and Tractography of Diffusion Tensor MRI (DT-MRI) in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 18th Iranian Conference on Elec. Eng. (ICEE’10), Isfahan, Iran, May 11-13, 2010.

44.       M. Esmaeil-Zadeh, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, K. Jafari-Khouzani, “SPHARM-Based Shape Analysis of Hippocampus for Lateralization in Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 18th Iranian Conference on Elec. Eng. (ICEE’10), Isfahan, Iran, May 11-13, 2010.

45.       M. Najafi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, T. Mikkelsen, “Predicting Treatment Results of Brain Tumors Using Multiparametric MRI and Neural Network,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 18th Iranian Conference on Elec. Eng. (ICEE’10), Isfahan, Iran, May 11-13, 2010.

46.       S. Maleki Balajoo, G.A. Hossein-Zadeh, H. Soltanian Zadeh, “Exploratory fMRI Analysis Based on Finite Mixture Models via Self Annealing Expectation Maximization,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the Southern Biomedical Engineering Conference (SBEC 2010), College Park, Maryland, USA, April 30-May 2, 2010.

47.       E. Moghimirad, S.H. Rezatofighi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Multi-Scale Approach for Retinal Vessel Segmentation Using Medialness Function,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Macro to Nano (ISBI’10), Rotterdam, Netherlands, April 14-17, 2010.

48.       A. Akhondi-Asl, K. Jafari-Khouzani, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Multiple-Atlas-Based Automatic Segmentation of Hippocampus for Lateralization in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Macro to Nano (ISBI’10), Rotterdam, Netherlands, April 14-17, 2010.         

49.       M.R. Arbabshirani, M. Nakhkash, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Comparison of Canonical Correlation Analysis and ICA Techniques for fMRI,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Communications, Control and Signal Processing (ISCCSP’2010), Limassol, Cyprus, 3-5 March 2010.           

50.       M. Afzali, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Tract Based Spatial Statistical Analysis of Diffusion Parameters in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 16th Iranian Conference on Biomedical Engineering, Tehran, Iran, Dec. 30-31, 2009.

51.       A. Akhondi-Asl, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Integrating Location and Tissue Type Information in Entropy-Based Coupled Object Segmentation of Brain Structures,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 16th Iranian Conference on Biomedical Engineering, Tehran, Iran, Dec. 30-31, 2009.

52.       M. Najafi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, T. Mikkelsen, “Outcome Prediction of Bevacizumab Treatment of Brain Tumor Patients Using Multiparametric MRI,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 16th Iranian Conference on Biomedical Engineering, Tehran, Iran, Dec. 30-31, 2009.

53.       F. Dadashi, B.N. Araabi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Gait Recognition Using Wavelet Packet Silhouette Representation and Transductive Support Vector Machines,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 2nd International Congress on Image and Signal Processing (CISP '09), Tianjin, China, Oct. 17-19, 2009.

54.       L. Amini, C. Jutten, S. Achard, O. David, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, G.A. Hossein-Zadeh, P. Kahane, L. Minotti, L. Vercueil, “Directed Epileptic Network from Scalp and Intracranial EEG of Epileptic Patients,” Presented at and Published in the Proceeding of the IEEE International workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP), Grenoble, France, September 2-4, 2009.

55.       M. Jabarouti-Moghaddam, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Automatic Segmentation of Brain Structures Using Geometric Moment Invariants and Artificial Neural Networks,” Presented at the 21st biennial International Conference on Information Processing in Medical Imaging (IPMI’09), Williamsburg, VA, July 5-10, 2009, Published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 5636, pp. 326-337.

56.       H. Bagher-Ebadian, K. Jafari-Khouzani, P.D. Mitsias, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, M. Chopp, and J.R. Ewing, “Predicting Final Extent of Ischemic Infarction Using an Artificial Neural Network Analysis of Multiparametric MRI in Patients with Stroke,”  Presented at and Published in the Proceeding of the 2009 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN’2009), Atlanta, GA, June 14-19, 2009.

57.       N. Tajbakhsh, B.N. Araabi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Noisy Iris Verification: A Modified Version of Local Intensity Variation Method,” Presented at and Published in the Proceeding of the 3rd IAPR International Conference on Biometrics (ICB’2009), Alghero, Italy, June 2-5, 2009, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 5558, pp. 1157-1166.

58.       M. Jabarouti-Moghaddam, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Segmentation of Putamen Using Geometric Moment Invariants and Neural Networks,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 17th Iranian Conference on Elec. Eng. (ICEE’09), Tehran, Iran, May 12-14, 2009, pp. 193-198.

59.       P. Zamani, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Increasing Speed of Magnetic Resonance Imaging Using Compressive Sampling,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 17th Iranian Conference on Elec. Eng. (ICEE’09), Tehran, Iran, May 12-14, 2009, pp. 211-216.         

60.       Y. Salimpour, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Particle Filtering of Point Processes Observation with Application on the Modeling of Visual Cortex Neural Spiking Activity,” Presented at and Published in the Proceeding of the 4th International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering (NER'09), Antalya, Turkey, April 29-May 2, 2009, pp. 718-721.    

61.       L. Amini, S. Achard, C. Jutten, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, G.A. Hossein-Zadeh, O. David, L. Vercueil, “Sparse Differential Connectivity Graph of Scalp EEG for Epileptic Patients,” Presented at and Published in the Proceeding of the 17th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks  (ESANN'2009), Bruges, Belgium, April 22-24, 2009.

62.       P. Zamani, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Reconstruction of Undersampled Cardiac Cine MRI data Using Compressive Sensing Principles,” Presented at and Published in the Proceeding of the Signal Processing with Adaptive Sparse Structured Representations (SPARS’2009), Saint-Malo, France, April 06-09, 2009.

63.       S. Samadi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Symmetric Analysis of EEG and fMRI Using Nonlinear Models: A Simulation Study,” Presented at and Published in the Proceeding of the Signal Processing with Adaptive Sparse Structured Representations (SPARS’2009), Saint-Malo, France, April 06-09, 2009.

64.       M. Rajabioun, A. Babajani-Feremi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “New Method for Detection of Brain Activations from MEG Signals,” Presented at and Published in the Proceeding of the 14th National Computer Society of Iran Computer Conference (CSICC'2009), Amir Kabir University, Tehran, Iran, March 11-12, 2009.

65.       S.H. Rezatofighi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, R. Sharifian, R.A. Zoroofi, “A New Approach to White Blood Cell Nucleus Segmentation Based on Gram-Schmidt Orthogonalization,” Presented at and Published in the Proceeding of the 2009 International Conference on Digital Image Processing (ICDIP’2009), March 7-9, 2009, Bangkok, Thailand, pp. 107-111.

66.       S.H. Rezatofighi, A. Roodaki, A. Pourmorteza, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Polar Run-Length Features in Segmentation of Retinal Blood Vessels,”  Presented at and Published in the Proceeding of the 2009 International Conference on Digital Image Processing (ICDIP’2009), March 7-9, 2009, Bangkok, Thailand, pp. 72-75.

67.       M. Esmaeil-Zadeh, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, G.A. Hossein-Zadeh, “Comparison of Recent Least Square Approaches for Fusion of Multimodal Medical Images,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 15th Iranian Conference on Biomedical Engineering (ICBME’09), Mashhad, Iran, Feb. 12-13, 2009, pp. 437-442.

68.       M.R. Nazem-Zadeh, E. Davoodi-Bojd, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Effect of Spherical Harmonic Coefficients on Fiber Bundle Segmentation,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 15th Iranian Conference on Biomedical Engineering (ICBME’09), Mashhad, Iran, Feb. 12-13, 2009, pp. 392-397.

69.       M. Jabarouti-Moghaddam, R. Rahmani, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Automatic Segmentation of Putamen using Geometric Moment Invariants,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 15th Iranian Conference on Biomedical Engineering (ICBME’09), Mashhad, Iran, Feb. 12-13, 2009, pp. 372-377.

70.       E. Davoodi-Bojd, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Evaluation and Comparison of Two Models of White Matter Fibers Using DTMRI,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 15th Iranian Conference on Biomedical Engineering (ICBME’09), Mashhad, Iran, Feb. 12-13, 2009, pp. 349-354.

71.       M. Mohammadzadeh, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, M. Shahabadi, A. Tavakoli, D. von Elverfeldt, “Design of a Dual Helix Intravascular MRI Coil,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 15th Iranian Conference on Biomedical Engineering (ICBME’09), Mashhad, Iran, Feb. 12-13, 2009, pp. 467-471.

72.       A. Babajani-Feremi, S.M. Bowyer, J.E. Moran, K. Elisevich, K. Podell, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Multi-Area Integrated E/MEG and fMRI Modeling,” Presented at and published in the Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging 2009: Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, and Functional Imaging, Orlando, FL, Feb. 7-12, 2009, vol. 7262, pp. 72621V-1-11.

73.       M.-R. Siadat, R. Hammad, A. Shetty, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, I. Sethi, A. Eetemadi, K. Elisevich, “DTI Data Modeling for Unlimited Query Support,” Presented at and published in the Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging 2009: Advanced PACS-based Imaging Informatics and Therapeutic Applications, Orlando, FL, Feb. 7-12, 2009, vol. 7264, pp. 726415-1-10.

74.       A. Babajani-Feremi, S.M. Bowyer, J.E. Moran, K. Elisevich, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Variational Bayesian Framework for Estimating Parameters of Integrated E/MEG and fMRI Model,” Presented at and published in the Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging 2009: Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, and Functional Imaging, Orlando, FL, Feb. 7-12, 2009, vol. 7262, pp. 72621T-1-11.

75.       M. Rajabioun, A. Babajani-Feremi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Combinational Method for Focal Brain Activation Detection Using MEG Signal,” Presented at and published in the Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging 2009: Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, and Functional Imaging, Orlando, FL, Feb. 7-12, 2009, vol. 7262, pp. 726220-1-11.          

76.       M. Dadgostar, P.R. Tabrizi, E. Fatemizadeh, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Feature Extraction Using Gabor-Filter and Recursive Fisher Linear Discriminant with Application in Fingerprint Identification,” Presented at and Published in the Proceeding of the 7th International Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition (ICAPR’2009), Feb. 4-6, 2009, Indian Statist. Inst., Kolkata, India, pp. 217-220.

77.       S.H. Rezatofighi, R.A. Zoroofi, C. Lucas, R. Sharifian, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Automatic Recognition of Basophils in Hematological Images,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 5^th Iranian Conference on Machine Vision and Image Processing (MVIP’2008), Tabriz, Iran, Nov. 4-6, 2008.    

78.       M. Dadgostar, P. Roshani-Tabrizi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, E. Fatemizadeh, “Fingerprint Recognition Based on Gabor Filter and FLD/RFLD Transformation,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 5^th Iranian Conference on Machine Vision and Image Processing (MVIP’2008), Tabriz, Iran, Nov. 4-6, 2008.         

79.       M.R. Nazem-Zadeh, E. Davoodi-Bojd, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Fiber Bundle Segmentation Using Level-Set Method and Spherical Harmonic Coefficients,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 5^th Iranian Conference on Machine Vision and Image Processing (MVIP’2008), Tabriz, Iran, Nov. 4-6, 2008.         

80.       M. Gheiratmand, H. Khaloozadeh, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Optimization of Intermediate Layer Features of the HMAX Object Recognition Model,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 5^th Iranian Conference on Machine Vision and Image Processing (MVIP’2008), Tabriz, Iran, Nov. 4-6, 2008.    

81.       S.H. Rezatofighi, R.A. Zoroofi, R. Sharifian, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Segmentation of Nucleus and Cytoplasm of White Blood Cells Using Gram-Schmidt Orthogonalization and Deformable Models,” Published in the Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Signal Processing (ICSP'08), Beijing, China, Oct. 26-29, 2008.      pp. 801-805.    

82.       S.H. Rezatofighi, A. Roodaki, R.A. Zoroofi, R. Sharifian, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Automatic Detection of Red Blood Cells in Hematological Images Using Polar Transformation and Run-length Matrix,” Published in the Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Signal Processing (ICSP'08), Beijing, China, Oct. 26-29, 2008.      pp. 806-809.    

83.       M. Gheiratmand, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, H. Khaloozadeh, “Towards an Inclusive Computational Model of Visual Cortex,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (IEEE BIBE 2008), Athens, Greece, Oct. 8-10, 2008, vol. 1-2, pp. 671-675.

84.       L. Amini, R. Sameni, C. Jutten, G.A. Hossein-Zadeh, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “MR Artifact Reduction in the Simultaneous Acquisition of EEG and fMRI of Epileptic Patients,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 2008 European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO-2008), Lausanne, Switzerland, Aug. 25-29, 2008.         

85.       N. Tajbakhsh, B.N. Araabi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “An Intelligent Decision Combiner Applied to Noncooperative Iris Recognition,” Presented at and Published in the Proceeding of the 11th International Conference on Information Fusion(ICIF’2008), Cologne, Germany, June 30-July 3, 2008.

86.       N. Tajbakhsh, B.N. Araabi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Feature Fusion as a Practical Solution toward Noncooperative Iris Recognition,” Presented at and Published in the Proceeding of the 11th International Conference on Information Fusion (ICIF’2008), Cologne, Germany, June 30-July 3, 2008.

87.       H. Hamidian, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, R. Faraji-Dana, M. Gity, “Estimating Brain Deformation During Surgery Using Finite Element Method: Comparison of Two Linear Models,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 22nd International Congress and Exhibition of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS’2008), Barcelona, Spain, June 25-28, 2008.

88.       M. Shaker, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Atlas-Based Segmentation of Brain Structures in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Using Optimized Voxel-Based Morphometry,” Presented at and Published in the 22nd International Congress and Exhibition of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS’2008), Barcelona, Spain, June 25-28, 2008.

89.       H. Hamidian, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, R. Faraji-Dana, M. Gity, “Comparison of Two Linear Models for Estimating Brain Deformation during Surgery Using Finite Element Method,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2008), Hong Kong, June 1-6, 2008, pp. 4089-4094.

90.       A. Akhondi-Asl, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Constrained Optimization of Nonparametric Entropy-Based Segmentation of Brain Structures,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 5^th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Macro to Nano (ISBI’08), Paris, France, May 14-17, 2008, vol. 1-4, pp. 41-44.       

91.       E. Davoodi-Bojd, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Atlas Based Segmentation of White Matter Fiber Bundles in DT-MRI Using Fractional Anisotropy and Principal Eigen Vectors,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 5^th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro (ISBI’08), Paris, France, May 14-17, 2008, vol. 1-4, pp. 879-882.   

92.       A. Akhondi-Asl, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Effect of the Number of Coupled Structures on the Segmentation of Brain Structures from MRI,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 16th Iranian Conference on Elec. Eng. (ICEE’08), Tehran, Iran, May 13-15, 2008.  

93.       M. Pourahmadi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Speech Enhancement Using Combination of Blind Source Separation and Kalman Filtering,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 16th Iranian Conference on Elec. Eng. (ICEE’08), Tehran, Iran, May 13-15, 2008.           

94.       E. Yahaghi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Evaluation of Intracellular Water Exchange on MRI Relaxation Time Using Lee Model,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 16th Iranian Conference on Elec. Eng. (ICEE’08), Tehran, Iran, May 13-15, 2008.

95.       H. Banizaman, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Adaptive Traffic Prediction in Self-Sizing Networks Using Wavelets,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 16th Iranian Conference on Elec. Eng. (ICEE’08), Tehran, Iran, May 13-15, 2008.   

96.       M. Shaker, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Automatic Segmentation of Brain Structures from MRI Integrating Atlas-Based Labeling and Level Set Method,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the  21st Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE’2009), Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, May 4-7, 2008, vol. 1-4, pp. 1755-1758.       

97.       H. Jahanian, A. Yazdan-Shahmorad, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “4D Wavelet Noise Suppression of MR Diffusion Tensor Data,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 33^rd IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP’2008), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, March 30-April 4, 2008,vol. 1-12, pp. 509-512.

98.       M. Shaker, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Voxel-Based Morphometric Study of Brain Regions from Magnetic Resonance Images in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation (SSIAI’2008), Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, March 24-26, 2008, pp. 209-212.         

99.       H. Hamidian, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, R. Faraji-Dana, M. Gity, “Optimization of Two Linear Models for Estimating Brain Deformation During Surgery Using Finite Element Method,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 2008 International Workshop on Signal Processing and its Applications (WOSPA’2008), United Arab Emirate, March 18-20, 2008.

100.     H. Hamidian, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, A. Akhondi-Asl, R. Faraji-Dana, “Comparison of Linear and Nonlinear Models for Estimating Brain Deformation Using Finite Element Method,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 13th International CSI Computer Conference (ICSICC’2008), Kish Island, Iran, March 9-11, 2008, Advances in Computer Science and Engineering, vol. 6, pp. 340-347.

101.     H. Banizaman, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “A Novel Approach in Adaptive Traffic Prediction in Self-Sizing Networks Using Wavelets,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 13th International CSI Computer Conference (ICSICC’2008), Kish Island, Iran, March 9-11, 2008, Advances in Computer Science and Engineering, vol. 6, pp. 763-768.

102.     E. Davoodi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Grid Based Registration of Diffusion Tensor Images Using Least Square Support Vector Machines,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 13th International CSI Computer Conference (ICSICC’2008), Kish Island, Iran, March 9-11, 2008, Advances in Computer Science and Engineering, vol. 6, pp. 621-628.

103.     A. Pourmorteza, S.H. Reza-Tofighi, A. Roodaki, A. Yazdani, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Context-Dependent Segmentation of Retinal Blood Vessels Using Hidden Markov Models,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 13th International CSI Computer Conference (ICSICC’2008), Kish Island, Iran, March 9-11, 2008, Advances in Computer Science and Engineering, vol. 6, pp. 348-355.

104.     A. Babajani-Feremi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, J. Moran, “Validation of Proposed Integrated MEG and fMRI Model Using Real Data,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 14th Iranian Conference on Biomedical Engineering (ICBME’08), Tehran, Iran, Feb. 13-14, 2008.

105.     P. Zamani, B. Williams, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, F. Bahrami, “Extracting Motion Primitives from Persian Handwriting Data,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 14th Iranian Conference on Biomedical Engineering (ICBME’08), Tehran, Iran, Feb. 13-14, 2008.

106.     A.R. Mohammadi-Nejad, G.A. Hossein-Zadeh, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Evaluating Effects of Imaging Parameters on Single Cell Detection in Molecular MRI via Simulation,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications (ICSPC’07), Dubai, United Arab Emirates Nov. 24-27, 2007, vol. 1-3, pp. 588-591.

107.     A. Eetemadi, M.-R. Siadat, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, F. Fotouhi, K.V. Elisevich, “Content-Based Support Environment (C-BASE): Data Preparation and Similarity Measurement,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'07), Omaha, NE, USA, October 28-31, 2007.   pp. 145-150.

108.     M.-R. Siadat, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, F. Fotouhi, A. Eetemadi, K.V. Elisevich, “Data Modeling for Content-Based Support Environment (C-BASE): Application on Epilepsy Data Mining,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'07), Omaha, NE, USA, October 28-31, 2007.    pp. 181-186.

109.     A.-R. Mohammadi-Nejad, G.-A. Hossein-Zadeh, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Evaluation of Bold Sensitivity Using a Realistic MRI Simulator,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 2007 Joint Meeting of the 6th International Symposium on Noninvasive Functional Source Imaging of the Brain and Heart and the International Conference on Functional Biomedical Imaging (NFSI & ICFBI), Hangzhou, China, Oct. 12-14, 2007, pp. 268-271.

110.     M. Aghagolzadeh, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, B. Araabi, A. Aghagolzadeh, “A Hierarchical Clustering Based on Mutual Information Maximization,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'07), San Antonio, TX, USA, Sept. 16-19, 2007, vol. 1-7, pp. 277-280.  

111.     S. M. Hosseini, B. N. Araabi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Shape Analysis of Stroma for Iris Recognition,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 2nd IAPR/IEEE Int. Conf. Biometrics (ICB), Seoul, Korea, Aug. 27-29, 2007, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Advances in Biometrics, vol. 4642, pp. 790-799, Springer Verlag, 2007.

112.     F. Dargi, M.A. Oghabian, A. Ahmadian, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, M. Zarei, A. Boroomand, “Modified Fast Marching Tractography Algorithm and Its Ability to Detect Fiber Crossing,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 29th IEEE EMBS Annual International Conference, Lyon, France, Aug. 23-26, 2007, pp. 319-322.

113.     Sh. Badizadegan, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Designing Matched Wavelets with the Maximum Coding Gain Criterion for R Peak Detection in ECG Signal,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 15th Iranian Conference on Elec. Eng. (ICEE’07), Tehran, Iran, May 15-17, 2007, pp. 44-49.

114.     M. Ghannad-Rezaie, K. Jafari-Khouzani, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Recovery Limitations of MEG Source Localization Model for Epilepsy,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro (ISBI’07), Arlington, Virginia, April 12-15, 2007, vol. 1-3, pp. 1088-1091.     

115.     A. Yazdan-Shahmorad, H. Jahanian, S. Patel, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Automatic Brain Tumor Segmentation Using Tissue Diffusivity Characteristics,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro (ISBI’07), Arlington, Virginia, April 12-15, 2007, vol. 1-3, pp. 780-783.         

116.     A. Akhoundi-Asl, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Nonparametric Entropy-Based Coupled Multi-Shape Medical Image Segmentation,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 4^th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Macro to Nano (ISBI’07), Arlington, Virginia, April 12-15, 2007, vol. 1-3, pp. 1200-1203. 

117.     Ch. Khodaverdian, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Fast Independent Component Analysis and Tensor Deflection for Estimating Multiple Fibers per Voxel,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference of Iran Computer Society (CSICC’2007), Tehran, Iran, Feb. 20-22, 2007, pp. 220-225.

118.     Ch. Khodaverdian, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Estimation of Multiple Fibers per Voxel Using Fast Independent Component Analysis,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 13th Iranian Conference on Biomedical Engineering (ICBME’07), Tehran, Iran, Feb. 21-22, 2007, pp. 92-97.

119.     S.E. Mahmoudi, V. Taimouri, A.H. Simjour, Sh. Faghi-Rouhi, N. Asadi, M.R. Nazem-Zadeh, M.R. Sehati, A. Akhundi-Asl, G.A. Hosein-Zadeh, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Web-Based Software for 2D and 3D Processing and Display of Medical Images,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 13th Iranian Conference on Biomedical Engineering (ICBME’07), Tehran, Iran, Feb. 21-22, 2007, pp. 133-139.

120.     P. Bahman-Bijari, A. Akhundi-Asl, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Coupled Object Segmentation Using Entropy and Fuzzy Characteristics of Tissues,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 13th Iranian Conference on Biomedical Engineering (ICBME’07), Tehran, Iran, Feb. 21-22, 2007, pp. 25-30.

121.     Z. Torbatian, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Extraction of Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging (MRSI) Characteristic Using Wavelet Transform,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 13th Iranian Conference on Biomedical Engineering (ICBME’07), Tehran, Iran, Feb. 21-22, 2007, pp. 112-117.

122.     F. Dargi, M.A. Oghabian, A. Ahmadian, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, M. Zarei, “Diffusion Tensor Digital Phantom for Crossing Fiber Detection,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the Fourth Iranian Conference on Machine Vision and Image Processing (MVIP’2007), Mashhad, Iran, Feb. 14-15, 2007, pp. P1-1-8.

123.     S.M. Hosseini, B. Najar-Araabi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Classification of Iris Color Images Using Hue Co-occurrence Matrix: A Step Towards Robust Human Identification,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the Fourth Iranian Conference on Machine Vision and Image Processing (MVIP’2007), Mashhad, Iran, Feb. 14-15, 2007, pp. P2-1-8.

124.     S. Badizadegan, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Designing Matched Wavelets for R Peak Detection in ECG Signal,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the Third Cairo International Biomedical Engineering Conference (CIBEC'06), Cairo, Egypt, Dec. 21-24, 2006.

125.     Z.Torbatian, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “MR Spectroscopy Guided Brain Tumor Detection and Evaluation Using Fuzzy Clustering,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the Third Cairo International Biomedical Engineering Conference (CIBEC'06), Cairo, Egypt, Dec. 21-24, 2006.

126.     L. Amini, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, E. Fatemi-Zadeh, G.A. Hossein-Zadeh, “Automatic Landmark Generation for Nonlinear Registration of Anatomical and Functional Brain MRI,”  Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the Third Cairo International Biomedical Engineering Conference (CIBEC'06), Cairo, Egypt, Dec. 21-24, 2006.

127.     Ch. Khodaverdian, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “DTI Crossing Fibers Estimation Using Fast Independent Component Analysis,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the Third Cairo International Biomedical Engineering Conference (CIBEC'06), Cairo, Egypt, Dec. 21-24, 2006.

128.     P. Bahmanbijari, A. Akhoundi-Asl, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Interactive Coupled Object Segmentation Using Symmetry and Distance Constraints,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the Third Cairo International Biomedical Engineering Conference (CIBEC'06), Cairo, Egypt, Dec. 21-24, 2006.

129.     M. Aghagolzadeh, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, B. N. Araabi, and A. Aghagolzadeh, “Finding the Number of Clusters in a Dataset Using an Information Theoretic Hierarchical Algorithm,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (IEEE ICECS), Nice, France, Dec. 10-13, 2006, vol. 1-3, pp. 1336-1339.

130.     A. Mehrtash, Sh. Vahdat, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Fuzzy Edge Preserving Smoothing Filter Using Robust Region Growing,”  Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Vancouver, Canada, July 15-21, 2006.        Received Best Session Presentation Award.

131.     M. Ghannad-Rezaie, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, M.-R. Siadat, K.V. Elisevich, “Medical Data Mining using Particle Swarm Optimization for Temporal Lobe Epilepsy,”  Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Vancouver, Canada, July 15-21, 2006.

132.     V. Taimouri, G.A. Hossein-Zadeh, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Spatially Adaptive Kernels for Adaptive Spatial Filtering of fMRI Data,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Network, Vancouver, Canada, July 16-21, 2006, vol. 1-10, pp. 1384-1388.

133.     M. Aghagolzadeh, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, B.N. Araabi, “Multiscale Face Detection: A New Approach to Robust Face Detection,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, Vancouver, Canada, July 16-21, 2006, vol. 1-5, pp. 1229-1234.

134.     M. Soleymani, G.A. Hossein-Zadeh, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Fixed and Random Effect Analysis of Multi-subject Spatial Activation Maps in Wavelet Domain,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Network, Vancouver, Canada, July 16-21, 2006, vol. 1-10, pp. 1389-1392.

135.     H. Fatemi-Shariatpanahi, N. Batmanghelich, A.R.M. Kermani, M. Nili-Ahmadabadi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Distributed Behavior-based Multi-agent System for Automatic Segmentation of Brain MR Images,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Network, Canada, July 16-21, 2006, vol. 1-10, pp. 4535-4542.

136.     P.B. Bijari, A.R. Akhoundi-Asl, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Refinement of Active Contour Based Thalamus Segmentation Using Genetic Algorithm,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 7th Annual Research Congress of Iranian Medical Sciences Students, Tehran, Iran, May 30-June 1, 2006.   pp. 434-436.

137.     Z. Torbatian, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “DT-MRI Noise Reduction Based on 2D Anisotropic Diffusion Filtering,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 7th Annual Research Congress of Iranian Medical Sciences Students, Tehran, Iran, May 30-June 1, 2006.     pp. 430-431.

138.     S. Badizadegan, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “R Peak Detection in ECG Signal Using Matched Wavelets,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 7th Annual Research Congress of Iranian Medical Sciences Students, Tehran, Iran, May 30-June 1, 2006.      pp. 428-429.

139.     A. Babajani, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Using Real MEG and fMRI Data for Parameter Estimation of the Integrated Model,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 14th Iranian Conference on Elec. Eng. (ICEE’06), Tehran, Iran, May 16-18, 2006.

140.     M. Rajabioun, A. Babajani, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “New Weighting Method for Reducing Noise Sensitivity of MEG Inverse Problem,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 14th Iranian Conference on Elec. Eng. (ICEE’06), Tehran, Iran, May 16-18, 2006.

141.     P.B. Bijari, A.R. Akhoundi-Asl, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Thalamus Segmentation in MRI Using Region and Gradient Information in Level sets,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 14th Iranian Conference on Elec. Eng. (ICEE’06), Tehran, Iran, May 16-18, 2006.

142.     S. Badizadegan, Z. Torbatian, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Extraction of ECG Characteristic Points by Wavelet Transform,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 14th Iranian Conference on Elec. Eng. (ICEE’06), Tehran, Iran, May 16-18, 2006.

143.     K. Jafari-Khouzani, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, K. Elisevich, “Hippocampus Volume and Texture Analysis for Temporal Lobe Epilepsy,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology (EIT’2006), Mich. State Univ., East Lansing, MI, May 7-10, 2006, pp. 394-397.

144.     M.-R. Siadat, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, K. Elisevich, “Rule-Based Decision-Making Framework for Knowledge-Based Anatomical Landmark Localization (K-BALL),” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro (ISBI’06), Arlington, Virginia, April 6-9, 2006, vol. 1-3, pp. 1368-1371.

145.     M.-R. Siadat, K. Elisevich, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, K. Jafari-Khouzani, S. Bowyer, “Subdural and Depth Electrode Placement in the Brain for Validation of MEG in Partial Epilepsy,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging 2006: Visualization, Image-Guided Procedures, and Display, San Diego, CA, Feb. 12-14, 2006, vol. 6141, pp. 61412A1-8.      

146.     A. Babajani, M.H. Nekooei, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Extended Neural Mass Model for Integrated Modeling of EEG/MEG and fMRI,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of Iran Computer Society (CSICC’2006),  Tehran, Iran, Jan. 24-26, 2006.

147.     M. Rajabioun, A. Babajani, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “A New Method for Solving MEG Inverse Problem,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of Iran Computer Society (CSICC’2006),  Tehran, Iran, Jan. 24-26, 2006. 

148.     M.R. Sehati, R.A. Zoroofi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Design and Implementation of a Standard Radiology Information Management System Expandable to Other Clinical Information Systems,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of Iran Computer Society (CSICC’2006),  Tehran, Iran, Jan. 24-26, 2006.       

149.     M. Mohammadzadeh, M. Shahabadi, S.A. Ghasempour-Shirazi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Design and Simulation of Quad-Loop Probe for Intravascular MRI at 1.5 Tesla,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering (ICBME’2005), Singapore, Dec. 7-10, 2005.

150.     Y. Salimpour, M.D. Abolhassani, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Auditory Wavelet Transform,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 3rd European Medical and Biological Engineering Conference (EMBEC'05), Prague, Czech Republic, Nov. 20-25, 2005.  

151.     E. Yahaghi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, M. Shahriarei, N. Fatouraee, “Estimation of Blood Brain Barrier Permeability by Statistical and Analytical Methods,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 3rd European Medical and Biological Engineering Conference (EMBEC'05), Prague, Czech Republic, Nov. 20-25, 2005, pp. 1896-1 to 1896-4.

152.     M. Ghannad-Rezaie, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, R.A. Zoroofi, “Seizure Prediction Using Kalman Filtering in State Space,” Presented at and published in the Proceedings of the 12th Iranian Conference on Biomedical Engineering (ICBME’05), Tabriz, Iran, Nov. 16-18, 2005.

153.     B. Afshin-Pour, G.A. Hossein-Zadeh, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Comparison of Time and Wavelet Domain Approaches in Non-parametric Detrending of fMRI Time-Series,” Presented at and published in the Proceedings of the 12th Iranian Conference on Biomedical Engineering (ICBME’05), Tabriz, Iran, Nov. 16-18, 2005.            pp. 244-249.

154.     M. Aghagolzadeh, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, B.N. Araabi, “Information-Based Clustering Using Renyi’s Entropy and Scatter Matrices,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the International Symposium on Telecommunications (IST’2005), Shiraz, Iran, Sept. 10-12, 2005.

155.     M. Ghannad-Rezaie, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, K. Jafari-Khouzani, M.-R. Siadat, R.A. Zoroofi, K.V. Elisevich, “MRI-SPECT Data Fusion for Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Surgery Candidate Selection,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the Seventh IASTED International Conference on. Signal and Image Processing (SIP’2005), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, Aug. 15-17, 2005, pp. 128-132.

156.     H. Jahanian, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, G.A. Hosssein-Zadeh, “Statistical Inference in Fuzzy Cluster Analysis of Functional MRI,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the Seventh IASTED International Conference on. Signal and Image Processing (SIP’2005), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, Aug. 15-17, 2005, pp. 133-135.

157.     M. Aghagolzadeh, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, B.N. Araabi, “New Information-Based Clustering Method Using Renyi’s Entropy And Fuzzy C-Means Clustering,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the Seventh IASTED International Conference on. Signal and Image Processing (SIP’2005), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, Aug. 15-17, 2005, pp. 410-413.

158.     N. Batmanghelich, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, B.N. Araabi, “Knowledge-based Segmentation: Using Simultaneous Shape Priori and Histogram Information to Segment Brain Structures,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the Seventh IASTED International Conference on. Signal and Image Processing (SIP’2005), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, Aug. 15-17, 2005, pp. 414-419.

159.     H. Jahanian, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, G.A. Hosssein-Zadeh, “Noise Suppression of fMRI Time-Series in Wavelet Domain,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the Seventh IASTED International Conference on Signal and Image Processing (SIP’2005), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, Aug. 15-17, 2005, pp. 136-138.

160.     M. Ghannad-Rezaie, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, M.-R. Siadat, K.V. Elisevich, “Soft Computing Approaches to Computer Aided Decision Making for Temporal Lobe Epilepsy,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the IEEE NAFIPS Annual Conference on Soft Computing for Real World Applications, Detroit, Michigan, June 26-28, 2005, pp. 42-45.

161.     M.R. Siadat, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, F. Fotouhi, K.V. Elisevich, “Uncertain Decision-Making Schemes for Knowledge-Based Anatomical Landmark Localization (K-BALL),” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the IEEE NAFIPS Annual Conference on Soft Computing for Real World Applications, Detroit, Michigan, June 26-28, 2005, pp. 37-41.

162.     K. Jafari-Khouzani, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, R. Finley, F. Fotouhi, “Neural Network Scoring of Spots in X-Gal and –leu Plates,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the IEEE NAFIPS Annual Conference on Soft Computing for Real World Applications, Detroit, Michigan, June 26-28, 2005, pp. 46-50.

163.     Sh. Faghie-Roohi, R.A. Zoroofi, Sh. Akhlaghpour, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Colonoscopy Image Processing,” Presented at and published in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Information and Knowledge Technology (IKT’2005), Tehran, Iran, May 24-26, 2005.           

164.     M.R. Sehati, R.A. Zoroofi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “New Method for Designing Object-Oriented Software Basis for Hospital Information Systems,” Presented at and published in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Information and Knowledge Technology (IKT’2005), Tehran, Iran, May 24-26, 2005.  

165.     H. Jahanian, S.M. Shams, G.A. Hossein-Zadeh, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Feature Space Analysis for Group Inference in fMRI Data,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 13th Iranian Conference on Elec. Eng. (ICEE’05), Zanjan, Iran, May 10-12, 2005.

166.     E. Yahaghi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, M. Shahriarei, N. Fatouraei, “Leakage form Blood Brain Barrier: Effect of Injection Profile on Plasma and Extravascular Concentrations,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Biological and Medical Physics (ICBMP’2005), Al-Ain, UAE, March 27-30, 2005.   

167.     M. Soleimani, A. Movafeghi, M. H. Kargarnovin, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Hardware Design and Reconstruction Results of SUT-1 EIT System,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Biological and Medical Physics (ICBMP’2005), Al-Ain, UAE, March 27-30, 2005.      

168.     A. Khadivi, K. Nazarpour, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “sEMG Classification For Upper-Limb Prosthesis Control Using Higher Order Statistics,” Presented at and published in the Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP’2005), Philadelphia, PA, March 18-23, 2005.

169.     M. Solaymani, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “A Method for Noise Reduction of Video Images,” Presented at and published in the Proceedings of the Third Iranian Conference on Machine Vision and Image Processing (MVIP’2005), Tehran, Iran, Feb. 23-24, 2005.            pp. 165-172.

170.     M. Emadi-Andani, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, B. Najar-Araabi, “Automatic Human Recognition using Static Parameters of Body in Walking,” Presented at and published in the Proceedings of the Third Iranian Conference on Machine Vision and Image Processing (MVIP’2005), Tehran, Iran, Feb. 23-24, 2005.          pp. 240-245.

171.     B. Afshin-Pour, G.A. Hossein-Zadeh, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Non-Parametric Trend Estimation in Fractal Noise using Wavelet Transform,” Presented at and published in the Proceedings of the Third Iranian Conference on Machine Vision and Image Processing (MVIP’2005), Tehran, Iran, Feb. 23-24, 2005.            pp. 371-377.

172.     S.A.M. Golestani, G.A. Hossein-Zadeh, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Clustering of Parametric Maps for Evaluation of fMRI Analysis Methods,” Presented at and published in the Proceedings of the Third Iranian Conference on Machine Vision and Image Processing (MVIP’2005), Tehran, Iran, Feb. 23-24, 2005.            pp. 378-385.

173.     R. Farjam, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, R.A. Zoroofi, “Automatic Grading of Pathological Images of Prostate Using Texture Analysis,” Presented at and published in the Proceedings of the Third Iranian Conference on Machine Vision and Image Processing (MVIP’2005), Tehran, Iran, Feb. 23-24, 2005.        pp. 386-393.

174.     S. Orafa, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Design of Case-Based Reasoning Control Systems using Pattern Recognition Methods,” Presented at and published in the Proceedings of the Third Iranian Conference on Machine Vision and Image Processing (MVIP’2005), Tehran, Iran, Feb. 23-24, 2005.        pp. 537-543.   

175.     M. Ghannad-Rezaei, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “New Distributed Pattern Recognition Method in Wireless Sensory Networks,” Presented at and published in the Proceedings of the Third Iranian Conference on Machine Vision and Image Processing (MVIP’2005), Tehran, Iran, Feb. 23-24, 2005.        pp. 544-551.

176.     M. Zeydabadinezhad, R.A. Zoroofi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Segmentation of Brian Tissue in MRI using Gaussian Mixture Modeling,” Presented at and published in the Proceedings of the Third Iranian Conference on Machine Vision and Image Processing (MVIP’2005), Tehran, Iran, Feb. 23-24, 2005.            pp. 552-559.

177.     N. Batmanghelich, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, B. Najar-Araabi, “Automatic Brain Structure Segmentation in MRI using Medial Representation of Interacting Contours,” Presented at and published in the Proceedings of the Third Iranian Conference on Machine Vision and Image Processing (MVIP’2005), Tehran, Iran, Feb. 23-24, 2005.    pp. 560-567.

178.     L. Amini, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, C. Lucas, M. Gity, “Segmentation of Red Nucleus from Brain MRI Using Dynamic Models,” Presented at and published in the Proceedings of the Third Iranian Conference on Machine Vision and Image Processing (MVIP’2005), Tehran, Iran, Feb. 23-24, 2005.        pp. 577-584.

179.     A. Babajani, M.H. Nekooei, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Exploring Relationship between fMRI and MEG Using a New Model,” Presented at and published in the Proceedings of the Third Iranian Conference on Machine Vision and Image Processing (MVIP’2005), Tehran, Iran, Feb. 23-24, 2005.        pp. 600-607.

180.     H. Jahanian, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, G.A. Hossein-Zadeh, “Wavelet Transform Denoising for fMRI Analysis,” Presented at and published in the Proceedings of the Third Iranian Conference on Machine Vision and Image Processing (MVIP’2005), Tehran, Iran, Feb. 23-24, 2005.            pp. 608-613.   

181.     K. Jafari-Khouzani, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, K. Elisevich, “Texture Analysis of High-Resolution FLAIR Images for TLE,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging 2005: Image Processing, Pt. 1-3, vol. 5747, pp. 1348-1355, San Diego, CA, Feb. 15-17, 2005.   

182.     K. Jafari-Khouzani, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, K. Elisevich, “MRI and SPECT Fusion for Epilepsy Lateralization,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging 2005: Physiology, Function, and Structure from Medical Images, Pts 1 and 2, vol. 5746, no. 1, pp. 662-669, San Diego, CA, Feb. 15-17, 2005.         

183.     R. Farjam, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, R. A. Zoroofi, K. Jafari-Khouzani, “Tree-Structured Grading of Pathological Images of Prostate,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging 2005: Image Processing, Pt 1-3, vol. 5747, no. 1, pp. 840-851, San Diego, CA, Feb. 12-17, 2005.    

184.     B. Afshinpour, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, G.A. Hossein-Zadeh, C. Lucas, “General Linear Model Estimation in fMRI Using Genetic Algorithm in the Frequency Domain,” Proceedings of the 10th Annual Computer Society of Iran Computer Conference (CSICC’2005), Tehran, Iran, Feb. 15-17, 2005.        pp. 68-75.

185.     A. Babajani, M.H. Nekooei, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Integrated MEG and fMRI Model,” Proceedings of the 10th Annual Computer Society of Iran Computer Conference (CSICC’2005), Tehran, Iran, Feb. 15-17, 2005.   pp. 76-84.

186.     M. Zeydabadinezhad, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, R.A. Zoroofi, “Brian MR Image Segmentation by Gaussian Mixture Modeling,” Presented at and published in the Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE GCC Conference, Bahrain, Nov. 23-25, 2004.

187.     A. Yazdan-Shahmorad, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, R.A. Zoroofi, “Comparing Wavelet and Wavelet Packet Feature Spaces in MRSI Brain Tumor Characterization,” Presented at and published in the Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE GCC Conference, Bahrain, Nov. 23-25, 2004.

188.     R. Farjam, R.A. Zoroofi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Unsupervised Texture Segmentation Using Roughness in Wavelet Domain,” Presented at and published in the Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE GCC Conference, Bahrain, Nov. 23-25, 2004.

189.     S.M. Shams, G.A. Hossein-Zadeh, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Group Inference in fMRI using Canonical Correlation Analysis,” Presented at and published in the Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE GCC Conference, Bahrain, Nov. 23-25, 2004.

190.     M.M. Karimi, N. Batmanghelich, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, C. Lucas, “A 3-D Deformable Surface Method for Automatic Hippocampus-Amygdala Complex Segmentation,” Presented at and published in the Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Rome, Italy, Oct. 16-22, 2004, vol. 6, pp. 3725-3729.

191.     S.M. Shams, G.A. Hossein-Zadeh, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Activation Detection in Multi-Subject Studies of fMRI Using GLRT,” Presented at and published in the Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Rome, Italy, Oct. 16-22, 2004, vol. 5, pp. 2778-2782.

192.     R. Farjam, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, R.A. Zoroofi, “Wavelet-Based Determination of Malignancy of Pathological Images of Prostate,” Presented at and published in the Proceedings of the 4th WSEAS Int. Conf. on Signal, Speech and Image Processing (ICOSSIP 2004), Izmir, Turkey, Sept. 14-16, 2004.

193.     M. Zeydabadi-Nejad, R.A. Zoroofi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Comparison of Three Gaussian Mixture Modeling and Spatial Encoding Methods for Segmenting Human Brain MRI,” Presented at and published in the Proceedings of the 4th WSEAS Int. Conf. on Signal, Speech and Image Processing (ICOSSIP 2004), Izmir, Turkey, Sept. 14-16, 2004.

194.     M.M. Karimi, N. Batmanghelich, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, C. Lucas, “Improvement of Simplex Meshes Model for 3D Hippocampus Segmentation,” Presented at and published in the Proceedings of the 4th IASTED International Conference on Visualization, Imaging, and Image Processing (VIIP 2004), Marbella, Spain, Sept. 6-8, 2004, pp. 631-635.

195.     M. Mohammadzadeh, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, M. Shahabadi, A. Tavakoli, “Novel Double-Turn Loop Probe for Intravascular MRI,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 26th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, San Francisco, CA, Sept. 1-5, 2004, vol. 2, pp. 1151-1154.

196.     A. Yazdan-Shahmorad, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, R.A. Zoroofi, “MRSI Brain Tumor Characterization Using Wavelet and Wavelet Packets Feature Spaces and Artificial Neural Networks,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 26th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, San Francisco, CA, Sept. 1-5, 2004, vol. 3, pp. 1810-1813.

197.     M. Mohammadzadeh, M. Shahabadi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, A. Tavakoli, “A Novel Open-Ended Intravascular MRI Loop Probe,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 26th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, San Francisco, CA, Sept. 1-5, 2004, vol. 2, pp. 1148-1150.

198.     A. Movafeghi, A.R. Nateghi, M. Soleimani, M.H. Kargarnovin, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Image reconstruction algorithms for SUT-1 EIT System,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of XII International Conference on Electrical Bio-Impedance, V Electrical Impedance Tomography, Gdansk, Poland, June 20-24, 2004, pp. 579-582.

199.     H. Jahanian, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, G.A. Hossein-Zadeh, “Controlling the False Positive Detection Rate in Fuzzy Clustering of fMRI data,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of 2^nd IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: Macro to Nano (ISBI’2004), Arlington, Virginia, April 15-18, 2004, vol. 1-2, pp. 388-391.           

200.     M. Zeydabadi, R.A. Zoroofi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Multi-Resolution Automatic Segmentation of T1-Weighted Brain MR Images,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of 2^nd IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: Macro to Nano (ISBI’2004), Arlington, Virginia, April 15-18, 2004, vol. 1-2, pp. 165-168.

201.     G.A. Hossein-Zadeh, A. Golestani, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Clustering-based Framework for Comparing fMRI Analysis Methods,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of 2^nd IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: Macro to Nano (ISBI’2004), Arlington, Virginia, April 15-18, 2004, vol. 1-2, pp. 1008-1011.

202.     H.Z. Rafi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Mutual Information Restoration of Multi-spectral Images Using A Generalized Neighborhood Operation,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of Fourth International ICSC Symposium on Engineering of Intelligent Systems (EIS’2004), Madeira, Portugal, Feb. 29-March 2, 2004.

203.     D. Momeni, R.A. Zoroofi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Fast Fault Detection of Industrial Products Using Shear and Warp Algorithm,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of 6^th SMEIR, Tehran, Iran, Feb. 2004.

204.     D. Momeni, R.A. Zoroofi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Using Volume Rendering for Nondestructive Testing,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of 6^th SMEIR, Tehran, Iran, Feb. 2004.

205.     H. Jahanian, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, G.A. Hossein-Zadeh, “Novel Approach to Control False Positive Rate in Fuzzy Cluster Analysis of fMRI,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging 2004: Physiology, Function, and Structure from Medical Images, vol. 5369, no. 1, pp. 644-651, San Diego, CA, Feb. 14-19, 2004.  

206.     M. Siadat, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, F. Fotouhi, K. Elisevich, “Bayesian Landmark Identification in Medical Images,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging 2004: Image Processing Conference, Pts. 1-3, vol. 5370, pp. 628-639, San Diego, CA, Feb. 17-19, 2004.           

207.     H. Jahanian, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, G.A. Hossein-Zadeh, M. Siadat “ROC-Based Determination of the Number of Clusters for fMRI Activation Detection,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging 2004: Image Processing Conference, vol. 5370, no. 1, pp. 577-586, San Diego, CA, Feb. 14-19, 2004.           

208.     K. Jafari-Khouzani, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, K. Elisevich, S. Patel, “Comparison of 2-D and 3-D Wavelet Features for Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Lateralization,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging 2004: Physiology, Function, and Structure from Medical Images, vol. 5369, no. 1, pp. 593-601, San Diego, CA, Feb. 14-19, 2004.

209.     M. Zeydabadi, R.A. Zoroofi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Improving Automatic Segmentation of MR Brain Images with Wavelet and EM Algorithm,” Presented at and published in the Proceedings of the 9th Annual Computer Society of Iran Computer Conference, Tehran, Iran, February 2004.          

210.     M.H. Nekooei, A. Babajani, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Evaluating Linear MEG Inverse Problem Methods Based on Distributed Source Model and Developing an Efficient Combinative Method,” Presented at and published in the Proceedings of the 11th Iranian Biomedical Engineering Conference, Tehran, Iran, Feb. 17-18, 2004.    

211.     N. Asadi, S.K. Setarehdan, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Improving the Quality of Ultrasound Echo Signals Using Coded Excitations,” Presented at and published in the Proceedings of the 11th Iranian Biomedical Engineering Conference, Tehran, Iran, Feb. 17-18, 2004.           

212.     M. Zeydabadi, R.A. Zoroofi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Automatic Segmentation of Brain Tissues From MR Images Using Wavelet Extended EM Algorithm,” Presented at and published in the Proceedings of the 11th Iranian Biomedical Engineering Conference, Tehran, Iran, Feb. 17-18, 2004.         

213.     G.A. Hossein-Zadeh, A.M. Golestani, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Evaluation of fMRI Analysis Methods Through a Clustering-Based Approach,” Presented at and published in the Proceedings of the 11th Iranian Biomedical Engineering Conference, Tehran, Iran, Feb. 17-18, 2004.  

214.     M.S. Shams, G.A. Hossein-Zadeh, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Evaluating the Correlation between fMRI Data and the Bases of a Signal Subspace through a Likelihood Ratio Test,” Presented at and published in the Proceedings of the 11th Iranian Biomedical Engineering Conference, Tehran, Iran, Feb. 17-18, 2004.

215.     E. Yahaghi, A. Movafeghi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, M. Shahriarei, N. Fatouraee, M. Gity, “Simulation of Blood Brain Barrier Using Statistical Methods,” Presented at and published in the Proceedings of the 11th Iranian Biomedical Engineering Conference, Tehran, Iran, Feb. 17-18, 2004.  

216.     M. Mohammadzadeh, A. Tavakoli, M. Shahabadi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Design and Construction of a New and Improved Intravascular MRI Probe for Vascular Imaging,” Presented at and published in the Proceedings of the 11th Iranian Biomedical Engineering Conference, Tehran, Iran, Feb. 17-18, 2004.    

217.     N. Asadi, S.K. Setarehdan, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “A Novel Hybrid Pulse-Coded Excitation Scheme to Improve Signal to Noise Ratio in Ultrasound Imaging.”  Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 4th WSEAS International Conference on Automation and Information (ICAI'03), Tenerife, Spain, Dec. 19-21, 2003.

218.     H.Z. Rafi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Generalized Perona-Malik Equation Based on Entropy Maximization,” Image and Vision Computing New Zealand 2003 (IVCNZ03), Palmerston North, New Zealand, Nov. 26-28, 2003.

219.     E. Yahaghi, A. Movafeghi, M. Shahriarei, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “A Simulation to Tissue Homogeneity Model for Capillary of Brain By Statistical Method,” Presented at and published in the Proceedings of the IEEE EMBS Asian-Pacific Conference on Biomedical Engineering 2003, Keihanna, Japan, Oct. 20-22, 2003, pp. 216-217.

220.     R. Farjam, R.A. Zoroofi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Unsupervised Texture Segmentation Using Un-smoothness Energy in Wavelet Domain.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Intelligent Systems (CIS 2003), Mashhad, Iran, Oct. 14-16, 2003.

221.     M. Zeydabadi, R.A. Zoroofi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Multi-resolution Segmentation of Brain MRI.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Intelligent Systems (CIS 2003), Mashhad, Iran, Oct. 14-16, 2003.

222.     D. Momeni, R.A. Zoroofi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Fast Volume Rendering Using Spatial Correlation.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Intelligent Systems (CIS 2003), Mashhad, Iran, Oct. 14-16, 2003.

223.     K. Karimi-Golpayegani, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Evolutionary Algorithm for Improving SNR of Principal Eigenvector of Diffusion Tensor in DTMR.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Intelligent Systems (CIS 2003), Mashhad, Iran, Oct. 14-16, 2003.

224.     H.Z. Rafi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Mutual Information Restoration of Multispectral Images,” 10th International Workshop on Systems, Signals and Image Processing (IWSSIP'03), Prague, Czech Republic, Sept. 10-11, 2003.

225.     M. Lu, Z. Gang Zhang, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, N. Oja-Tebbe, M.M. Khalighi, D. Morris, M. Chopp,” Paired Test on Unpaired Data: An Application in Analyzing Vascular Morphological Difference Between Regions,” Joint Statistical Meetings-Statistical Computing Section, USA, Aug. 2003, pp. 2189-2197.       

226.     A. Yazdan-Shahmorad, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, R.A. Zoroofi, P. Zamani, “Wavelet-Based Methods for Analysis of Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging (MRSI) Data.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Sydney, Australia, Aug. 24-29, 2003.

227.     A. Yazdan-Shahmorad, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, R.A. Zoroofi, P. Zamani, “MRSI Brain Lesion Characterization Using Wavelet Transform and Fuzzy Clustering.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Sydney, Australia, Aug. 24-29, 2003.

228.     H. Jahanian, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, G.A. Hossein-Zadeh, “fMRI Activation Detection Using Fuzzy Clustering on a Multi-wavelet Based Feature Space.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Sydney, Australia, Aug. 24-29, 2003.

229.     K. Karimi-Golpayegani, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Trajectory-Based Method for Nerve Bundle Tracking in Diffusion Tensor MR Data.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Sydney, Australia, Aug. 24-29, 2003.

230.     T. Kowsari, M. Nili-Ahmadabadi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “A Real-Time Geometrical Obstacle Detection Algorithm for a Monocular Mobile Robot,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR 2003), Portugal, June 30-July 3, 2003, pp. 828-833.

231.     S.H. Ghafouri, J. Shanbehzadeh, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Layer-by-Layer Compression of TSVQ Indices and Its Application in Internet,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 11th Iranian Conference on Elec. Eng. (ICEE’03), Shiraz, Iran, May 6-8, 2003, pp. 381-387.

232.     F. Mahmoudi, J. Shanbehzadeh, A.M. Eftekhari-Moghadam, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “A New Non-Segmentation Shape-Based Image Indexing Method,” Published in the Proceedings of IEEE ICASSP 2003, vol. 3, pp. 17-20, Hong Kong, April 6-10, 2003.

233.     M. Khaleghian, A.R. Akhoundi-Asl, M. Nili-Ahmadabadi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Design and Implementation of Robotic System for Neurosurgery,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 8^th Computer Society of Iran Conference, pp. 274-281, Mashhad, Iran, Feb. 25-27, 2003.

234.     M. Siadat, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, F. Fotouhi, K. Elisevich, “Multi-modality Medical Image Database for Temporal Lobe Epilepsy,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging 2003: PACS and Integrated Medical Information Systems: Design and Evaluation, San Diego, CA, Feb. 17-20, 2003, vol. 5033, pp. 487-498.    (Received Honorable Mention Award)

235.     K. Jafari-Khouzani, M. Siadat, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, K. Elisevich, “Texture Analysis of Hippocampus for Epilepsy,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging 2003: Physiology and Function: Methods, Systems, and Applications, San Diego, CA, Feb. 17-20, 2003, vol. 5031, pp. 279-288.          

236.     A.N. Moghaddam, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Mapping of Magnetic field Inhomogeneity and Removal of its Artifact from MR Images,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging 2003: Image Processing Conference, Pts. 1-3, San Diego, CA, Feb. 17-20, 2003, vol. 5032, pp. 780-787.         

237.     A. Gooya, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, M. Kamaraei, “Rotational Motion Artifact Correction in MRI Using Genetic Algorithm,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of Second Iranian Conference on Image processing and Machine Vision, Tehran, Iran, Feb. 13-14, 2003, vol. 2, pp. 140-145.

238.     H. Jahanian, G.A. Hossein-Zadeh, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Hemodynamic Response Function and Fuzzy Clustering for fMRI Activation Detection,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of Second Iranian Conference on Image processing and Machine Vision, Tehran, Iran, Feb. 13-14, 2003, vol. 2, pp. pp. 30-37.

239.     T. Kowsari, M. Nili-Ahmadabadi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Optical Flow-Based Algorithm for Real Time Obstacle Detection in a Mobile Robot,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of Second Iranian Conference on Image processing and Machine Vision, Tehran, Iran, Feb. 13-14, 2003, vol. 2, pp. 85-93.

240.     L. Amini, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, C. Lucas, “Computer Vision Segmentation of Brain Structures from MRI Based on Deformable Contour Models,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of Second Iranian Conference on Image processing and Machine Vision, Tehran, Iran, Feb. 13-14, 2003, vol.2, pp. 337-344.

241.     M. Rezaeian, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Parallel PET Image Reconstruction Based on SAGE Maximum Likelihood Expectation Maximization Algorithm,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of Second Iranian Conference on Image processing and Machine Vision, Tehran, Iran, Feb. 13-14, 2003, vol.2, pp. 154-161.

242.     M. Zia-Alinasabpour, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, G.A. Hossein-Zadeh, “Comparison of fMRI Activation Detection Methods,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of Second Iranian Conference on Image processing and Machine Vision, Tehran, Iran, Feb. 13-14, 2003, vol.2, pp. 204-210.

243.     A.R. Akhoundi-Asl, M. Khaleghian, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, Nili-Ahmadabadi, “Intra-Operative Use of Three-Dimensional MRI in Neurosurgery,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of Second Iranian Conference on Image processing and Machine Vision, Tehran, Iran, Feb. 13-14, 2003, vol.2, pp. 22-29.

244.     M. Siadat, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, F. Fotouhi, K. Elisevich, “Multimedia Human Brain Database System for Surgical Candidacy Determination in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy with Content-Based Image Retrieval,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging 2003: Storage and Retrieval for Media Databases Conference, Santa Clara, CA, Jan. 22-23, 2003, vol. 5021, pp. 417-428.    

245.     A.M. Eftekhari-Moghadam, J. Shanbehzadeh, F. Mahmoudi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, A New Image Retrieval Scheme Based on the IC-VQ Compressed Images,” International Arab Conference on Information Technology ACIT'2002, pp. 122-129, Doha, Qatar, Dec. 2002.

246.     M. Lu, Z.G. Zhang, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, N. OjaTebbe, M.M. Khalighi, D. Morris, M. Chopp, “Paired test on unpaired data: an application in analyzing vascular morphological difference between regions,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the ASA Joint Statistical Meetings, Statistical Computing Section, pp. 2189-2197, Aug. 11-15, 2002, New York, NY.

247.     M. Maddah, A. Afzali Kushaa, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Efficient Medial Curve Extraction of Microvascular Structures in Confocal Microscopy Images,” Proc. of International Conference on Diagnostic Imaging and Analysis, Shanghai, China, pp. 119-124, August 2002.

248.     L. Amini, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, C. Lucas, “Segmentation of Specific Brain Structures from MRI,” Proc. of International Conference on Diagnostic Imaging and Analysis, Shanghai, China, pp. 113-118, August 2002.

249.     M.M. Khalighi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, J.R. Ewing: ARMA Modeling for Estimation of Permeability from Perfusion MRI. Presented at and published in the Proceedings of the first IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging Macro to Nano, pp. 793-796, Washington, DC, July 7-10, 2002.

250.     M. Maddah, A. Afzali-Kusha, H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “Fast centerline extraction for quantification of vessels in Confocal Microscopy images,” Presented at and published in the Proceedings of the first IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging Macro to Nano, pp. 461-464, Washington, DC, July 7-10, 2002.

251.     P. Zamani, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Tissue Characterization by Fuzzy Clustering of Wavelet Denoised MRSI Data.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of BioMed 2002 Conference, pp. 9-11, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, June 5-8, 2002.

252.     A. Hessaraki, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Measurement of Cerebral Blood Flow from Perfusion Magnetic Images by Wavelet Transform.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of BioMed 2002 Conference, pp. 176-179, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, June 5-8, 2002.

253.     A. Mohammadi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “MRI Feature Extraction by a Genetically Optimized Neural Network” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 4th Irano-Armanian Workshop on Neural Networks, Tehran, Iran, May 20-22, 2002.   

254.     H. Bagher-Ebadian, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, S. Setayeshi, “Neural Network approach to Diagnose of Coronary Artery Disease in Nuclear Medicine.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 4th Irano-Armanian Workshop on Neural Networks, Tehran, Iran, May 20-22, 2002.        

255.     A. Golestani, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Comparing Detection Methods, Analysis of Variance and Independent Component Analysis, for fMRI Analysis.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 10th Iranian Conference on Elec. Eng. (ICEE’02), pp. 213-221, Tabriz, Iran, May 14-16, 2002.

256.     A. Hessaraki, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Measurement of Cerebral Blood Flow from Perfusion MRI by Analyzing Singular Values Using Smoothing Spline Interpolation.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 10th Iranian Conference on Elec. Eng. (ICEE’02), pp. 230-237, Tabriz, Iran, May 14-16, 2002.

257.     P. Zamani, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Abnormal Tissue Segmentation Using Fuzzy Clustering of Denoised Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Images by Wavelet Transform.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 10th Iranian Conference on Elec. Eng. (ICEE’02), pp. 238-245, Tabriz, Iran, May 14-16, 2002.

258.     F. Mahmoudi, J. Shanbehzadeh, A.M. Eftekhari Moghadam, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Image retrieval independent of color and lighting using histogram of similar edges.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 10th Iranian Conference on Elec. Eng. (ICEE’02), pp. 408-415, Tabriz, Iran, May 14-16, 2002.

259.     M. Eftekhari Moghadam, J. Shanbehzadeh, F. Mahmoudi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Indexing compressed images based on IC-VQ using correlated region histogram.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 10th Iranian Conference on Elec. Eng. (ICEE’02), pp. 416-423, Tabriz, Iran, May 14-16, 2002.

260.     B. Tahayori, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, R. A. Zoroofi, “Medical Image Display, Processing, and Archiving System.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 10th Iranian Conference on Elec. Eng. (ICEE’02), pp. 265-271, Tabriz, Iran, May 14-16, 2002.

261.     B. Borgheai, R. A. Zoroofi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Automatic Segmentation of Bone from Soft Tissues Using PCNN.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 10th Iranian Conference on Elec. Eng. (ICEE’02), pp. 272-279, Tabriz, Iran, May 14-16, 2002.

262.     B. Tahayori, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, R.A. Zoroofi, A PC-based PACS Display Workstation with a Language Transparent Interface, Presented at the 19^th Symposium for Computer Applications in Radiology (SCAR’2002), Cleveland, Ohio, April 2002, Published in the Journal of Digital Imaging: the Official Journal of the Society for Computer Applications in Radiology, vol. 15, Supp. 1, pp. 206-209, 2002.

263.     A.M. Eftekhari-Moghadam, J. Shanbehzadeh, F. Mahmoudi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Compressed Domain Image Retrieval,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 7^th Computer Society of Iran Conference, pp. 48-55, Tehran, Iran, March 2002.

264.     F. Mahmoudi, J. Shanbehzadeh, A.M. Eftekhari Moghadam, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Content Based Image Retrieval Using Correlation of Edges,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 7^th Computer society of Iran Conference, pp. 40-47, Tehran, Iran, Feb. 26-28, 2002.

265.     E. Fatemi-Zadeh, C. Lucas, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, and S.M.R. Hashemi-Golpayegani: “Local warping of medical images using EBF neural network.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 7^th Computer Society of Iran Conference, pp. 48-55, Tehran, Iran, Feb. 26-28, 2002.

266.     E. Fatemi-Zadeh, C. Lucas, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, and S.M.R. Hashemi-Golpayegani: “Extraction of landmarks from medical images using developing cellular neural network.”  Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 7^th Computer Society of Iran Conference, pp. 48-55, Tehran, Iran, Feb. 26-28, 2002.

267.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh, G.A. Hossein-Zadeh, B.A. Ardekani, “fMRI activation detection in wavelet signal subspace.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging 2002: Physiology and Function from Multidimensional Images Conference, San Diego, CA, Feb. 24-28, 2002, vol. 4683, pp. 352-362.  

268.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh, K. Jafari-Khouzani, “Multiwavelet grading of prostate pathological images.'' Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging 2002: Image Processing Conference, San Diego, CA, Feb. 24-28, 2002, vol. 4684, pp. 1130-1138.

269.     A. Shademan, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Information Fusion Approach for Detection of Brain Structures in MRI.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging 2002: Image Processing Conference, , San Diego, CA, Feb. 24-28, 2002, vol. 4684, pp.1622-1628.  

270.     M.M. Khalighi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, C. Lucas, “Unsupervised MRI Segmentation with Spatial Connectivity.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging 2002: Image Processing Conference, San Diego, CA, Feb. 24-28, 2002, vol. 4684, pp. 1742-1750.  

271.     M. Zargari, M. Chaheh, R.A. Zoroofi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, H. Ghafoorian: “Design and Implementation of Digital X-ray Radiography for Dental Applications.” Presented at and published in the Proceedings of the 10th Iranian Biomedical Engineering Conference, Oct. 31- Nov. 1, 2001, Tehran, Iran.

272.     A. Foruzan, R.A. Zoroofi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “Design and Implementation of a Picture Archiving and Communication System for Medical Images.” Presented at and published in the Proceedings of the 10th Iranian Biomedical Engineering Conference, Oct. 31- Nov. 1, 2001, Tehran, Iran.

273.     E. Nazari-Paykani, H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “Power Spectrum Estimating of Doppler Ultrasound Signal Using Time-Frequency Distribution.” Presented at and published in the Proceedings of the 10th Iranian Biomedical Engineering Conference, Oct. 31- Nov. 1, 2001, Tehran, Iran.

274.     K. Jafari-Khouzani and H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “Automatic Grading of Pathological Images of Prostate Using Multiwavelet Transform.” Presented at and published in the Proceedings of EMBC2001 23rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Oct. 25-28, 2001, Istanbul, Turkey, vol. 23, pp. 2545-2548.

275.     K. Jafari and H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “Comparison of Feature Extractors for Automatic Grading of Prostate Pathological Images.” Presented at and published in the Proceedings of the 9th Iranian Conference on Elec. Eng. (ICEE'01), pp. 54-1 to 54-8, Tehran, Iran. May 8-10, 2001.           

276.     R. Nikoukar and H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “Segmentation of Multi-parametric Brain MRI Using Probabilistic Atlas and Inter-pixel Correlation.” Presented at and published in the Proceedings of the 9th Iranian Conference on Elec. Eng. (ICEE'01), pp. 16-1 to 16-8, Tehran, Iran. May 8-10, 2001.

277.     M. Nikar and H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “New Fuzzy Filter for MRI Noise Suppression.” Presented at and published in the Proceedings of the 9th Iranian Conference on Elec. Eng. (ICEE'01), pp. 56-1 to 56-8, Tehran, Iran. May 8-10, 2001.

278.     K. Jafari and H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “Automatic Grading of Prostate Pathological Images Using Multi-wavelet Feature.” Presented at and published in the Proceedings of the First Iranian Conference on Machine Vision and Image Processing (MVIP'01), pp. 44-51, Birjand, Iran. Mar 7-9, 2001.   

279.     N. Mehrseresht and H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “MRI Geometric Distortion Correction Using Edge Information.” Presented at and published in the Proceedings of the First Iranian Conference on Machine Vision and Image Processing (MVIP'01), pp. 71-78, Birjand, Iran. Mar 7-9, 2001.           

280.     M. Aghaei-Banadkouki and H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “Image Texture Segmentation Using Gabor Filters, Genetic Algorithm, and Fuzzy Clustering.” Presented at and published in the Proceedings of the First Iranian Conference on Machine Vision and Image Processing (MVIP'01), pp. 52-61, Birjand, Iran. Mar 7-9, 2001.  

281.     G.A. Hossein-Zadeh and H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “Detection of Active Brain Regions During Finger Movement Using fMRI Analysis.” Presented at and published in the Proceedings of the First Iranian Conference on Machine Vision and Image Processing (MVIP'01), pp. 62-70, Birjand, Iran. Mar 7-9, 2001.   

282.     K. Jafari and H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “Comparison of Crisp and Fuzzy Cooccurrence Matrices for Feature Extraction from Pathological Images of Prostate.” Presented at and published in the Proceedings of the Sixth International Annual Computer Society of Iran Computer Conference (CSICC'01), pp. 329-335, Isfahan, Iran. Feb 20-22, 2001.           

283.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh, M. Kharrat, D.J. Peck: “Polynomial transformation for MRI feature extraction,” Presented at and published in the Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging 2001: Image Processing Conference, San Diego, CA, Feb. 18-22, 2001, vol. 4322, no. 2, pp. 1151-1161.

284.     A. Shahrokni, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, R.A. Zoroofi: “Fast skeletonization algorithm for 3D elongated objects,” Presented at and published in the Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging 2001: Image Processing Conference, San Diego, CA, Feb. 18-22, 2001, vol. 4322, pp. 323-330.

285.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh, A. Shahrokni, R.A. Zoroofi: “Voxel-coding method for quantification of vascular structure from 3D images,” Presented at and published in the Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging 2001: Physiology and Function from Multidimensional Images Conference, San Diego, CA, Feb. 18-22, 2001, vol. 4321, pp. 263-270.           

286.     A. Ghanei, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, K. Elisevich, J.A. Fessler: “A Knowledge-based Deformable Surface Model with Application to Segmentation of Brain Structures in MRI,” Presented at and published in the Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging 2001: Image Processing Conference, San Diego, CA, Feb. 18-22, 2001, vol. 4322, pp. 356-365.

287.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh, R. Hammoud, M. A. Jacobs, S. C. Patel, P. D. Mitsias, R. Knight, Z. G. Zheng, M. Lu, M. Pasnoor, M. Chopp: “Tissue characterization in cerebral ischemia using multiparameter MRI,” Presented at and published in the Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging 2001: Physiology and Function from Multidimensional Images Conference, San Diego, CA, Feb. 17-22, 2001.       

288.     M. R. Siadat, H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “Partial volume estimation using continuous representations,” Presented at and published in the Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging 2001: Image Processing Conference, San Diego, CA, Feb. 18-22, 2001, vol. 4322, pp. 1025-1034.  

289.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh, S. Pourabdollah-Nazhad, F. Rafiee-Rad: “Shape-based and texture-based feature extraction for classification of microcalcifications in mammograms,” Presented at and published in the Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging 2001: Image Processing Conference, San Diego, CA, Feb. 18-22, 2001, vol. 4322, pp. 301-310.

290.     H. Sharifi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “New 2D ultrasound phased-array design for hyperthermia cancer therapy,” Presented at and published in the Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging 2001: Ultrasonic Imaging and Signal Processing Conference, San Diego, CA, Feb. 18-22, 2001, vol. 4325, pp. 473-482.          

291.     A. Olfat and H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “A New Image Restoration and Noise Suppression Method Using Kalman Filtering.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 8th Iranian Conference on Elec. Eng., Isfahan, Iran, May 2000.          

292.     S. Pour-Abdollah, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, and F. Raee-Rad: “Classification of Mammographic Microcalcifications Using Shape Features.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 8th Iranian Conference on Elec. Eng., Isfahan, Iran, May 2000.

293.     E. Karami and H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “Design and Implementation of Ultrasound Phased Arrays for Cancer Therapy.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 8th Iranian Conference on Elec. Eng., Isfahan, Iran, May 2000.          

294.     M.M. Khalighi and H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “A New MRI Segmentation Method Based on K-means Clustering and Pixel Correlation.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 9th Iranian Conference on Biomedical Eng., Tehran, Iran, pp. 409-413, March 2000.  

295.     M. Shamsi and H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “Segmentation of Multiple Sclerosis Lesions from Brain MRI Using Expectation Maximization.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 9th Iranian Conference on Biomedical Eng., Tehran, Iran, pp. 414-418, March 2000.  

296.     P. Valizadeh and H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “Automated Segmentation of Brain MRI Using Clustering and Deformable Models.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 9th Iranian Conference on Biomedical Eng., Tehran, Iran, pp. 429-433, March 2000.   

297.     S. Pour-Abdollah, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, and F. Raee-Rad: “Microcalcification Classification in Mammograms Using Shape and Texture Features.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 9th Iranian Conference on Biomedical Eng., Tehran, Iran, pp. 434-438, March 2000.       

298.     R. Omrani and H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “Compression of ECG with a Low Bit Rate.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 9th Iranian Conference on Biomedical Eng., Tehran, Iran, pp. 476-479, March 2000.

299.     R. Omrani and H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “Data Preparation for Transmitting ECG on Telephone Lines.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 9th Iranian Conference on Biomedical Eng., Tehran, Iran, pp. 480-484, March 2000.        

300.     A. Nasiraei and H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “Simulation and Correction of MRI Distortions Created by Static Magnetic Field Inhomogeneity.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 9th Iranian Conference on Biomedical Eng., Tehran, Iran, pp. 485-489, March 2000.  

301.     E. Fatemi-Zadeh, C. Lucas, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, and S.M.R. Hashemi-Golpayegani: “A New Method for Local Warping of Brain MRI Based on Voronoi Images.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 9th Iranian Conference on Biomedical Eng., Tehran, Iran, pp. 510-514, March 2000.        

302.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh, D.J. Peck, and D.O. Hearshen, and Renee R. Lajiness-O'Neill: “Optimal Linear Filter for fMRI Analysis.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging 2000: Image Processing Conference, San Diego, CA, Feb. 2000, vol. 3979, pp. 787-797.   

303.     P. Valizadeh and H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “A Clustering-Guided Deformable Model for MRI Segmentation.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging 2000: Image Processing Conference, San Diego, CA, Feb. 13-17, 2000, vol. 3979, no. 24, pp. 1528-1537.           

304.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh, S. Pourabdollah-Nezhad, and F. Rafiee-Rad: “Texture feature extraction methods for microcalcification classification in mammograms.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging 2000: Image Processing Conference, San Diego, CA, Feb. 2000, vol. 3979, pp. 982-989.            (Received Honorable Mention Award)

305.     M.R. Siadat and H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “Partial Volume Estimation: An Improvement for Eigenimage Method.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging 2000: Image Processing Conference, San Diego, CA, Feb. 13-17, 2000, vol. 3979, pp. 646-655.

306.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh, L. Scarpace, and D.J. Peck: “Feature Space Analysis: Effects of MRI Protocols.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging 2000: Image Processing Conference, San Diego, CA, Feb. 13-17, 2000, vol. 3979, pp. 1492-1503.   (Received Honorable Mention Award)

307.     A. Ghanei, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, and M. Jacobs: “Boundary-based Warping of Brain MR Images.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging 2000: Image Processing Conference, San Diego, CA, Feb. 13-17, 2000, vol. 3979, pp. 1257-1267.  

308.     A. Nasiraei and H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “Correction of MRI Distortions Created by Static Magnetic Field Inhomogeneity.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of IPM Medical Image Processing Seminar, Tehran, Iran, Nov. 1999.    

309.     S. Pour-Abdollah, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, and F. Raee-Rad: “Microcalcification Classification in Mammograms Using Texture Features.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of IPM Medical Image Processing Seminar, Tehran, Iran, Nov. 1999.

310.     P. Valizadeh and H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “A New Hybrid Method for MRI Segmentation.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of IPM Medical Image Processing Seminar, Tehran, Iran, Nov. 1999.        

311.     E. Fatemi-Zadeh, C. Lucas, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, and S.M.R. Hashemi-Golpayegani: “Local Warping of Brain MRI Using MLP Neural Networks.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of IPM Medical Image Processing Seminar, Tehran, Iran, Nov. 1999. 

312.     F. Rafiee-Rad, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, M. Rahmati, and S. Pour-Abdollah: “Microcalcification Classification in Mammograms Using Multiwavelet Features.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of SPIE Annual Meeting: Wavelet Applications in Signal and Image Processing VII, Denver, CO, July 19-23, 1999, vol. 3813, pp. 832-841.           

313.     R. Alishahi and H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “Simulation of BOLD Functional MRI.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 7th Iranian Conference on Elec. Eng.: Biomedical Eng. Section, pp. 87-94, Tehran, Iran, May 1999.

314.     R. Alishahi and H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “Simulation of Diffusion MRI.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 7th Iranian Conference on Elec. Eng.: Biomedical Eng. Section, pp. 103-110, Tehran, Iran, May 1999.        

315.     A. Nasiraei, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, and R. Faraji-Dana: “Estimation of Electromagnetic Fields in MRI Systems Using Finite Difference.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 7th Iranian Conference on Elec. Eng.: Biomedical Eng. Section, pp. 95-102, Tehran, Iran, May 1999.

316.     M. Kharrat and H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “Performance of MLP Neural Networks for Reducing Dimensionality of Brain MRI Feature Space.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 7th Iranian Conference on Elec. Eng.: Biomedical Eng. Section, pp.127-134, Tehran, Iran, May 1999.        

317.     A. Babajani and H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “A Novel Method for Segmentation of Body Structures in CT Images.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 7th Iranian Conference on Elec. Eng.: Biomedical Eng. Section, pp. 143-150, Tehran, Iran, May 1999.

318.     E. Fatemi-Zadeh, C. Lucas, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, and S.M.R. Hashemi-Golpayegani: “Automatic Landmark Extraction from MRI Using Growing Neural Gas Model.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 7th Iranian Conference on Elec. Eng.: Biomedical Eng. Section, pp. 151-157, Tehran, Iran, May 1999.

319.     H. Lotfi-Azad and H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “Image Compression Using Vector Quantization and Fractals.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 7th Iranian Conference on Elec. Eng.: Communication Systems Section, pp. 407-414, Tehran, Iran, May 1999.  

320.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh, R. Nezafat, and J.P. Windham: “Is There Texture Information in Standard Brain MRI?” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging 1999: Image Processing Conference, San Diego, CA, Feb. 1999, vol. 3661, pp. 737-748.         

321.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh and M.R. Siadat: “Knowledge-Based Localization of Hippocampus in Human Brain MRI.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging 1999: Image Processing Conference, San Diego, CA, vol. 3661, pp. 1646-55, Feb. 22-25, 1999 (Received Honorable Mention Award).

322.     A. Ghanei and H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “Homothetical Warping of Brain MR Images.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging 1999: Image Processing Conference, San Diego, CA, Feb. 22-25, 1999, vol. 3661, pp. 1448-1454.

323.     M. Kharrat and H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “A Nonlinear Approach to MRI Feature Extraction.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the Fourth International Annual Computer Society of Iran Computer Conference (CSICC'99), Tehran, Iran, Jan. 1999.   

324.     S. Zare and H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “A Linear Minimum Mean Square Error Transformation for Reduction of MRI Feature Space Dimension.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the Fourth International Annual Computer Society of Iran Computer Conference (CSICC'99), Tehran, Iran, Jan. 1999.   

325.     F. Mousa-Zadeh and H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “Cardiac Motion Estimation from Tagged MRI.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the Fourth International Annual Computer Society of Iran Computer Conference (CSICC'99), Tehran, Iran, Jan. 1999.   

326.     A. Ghanei and H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “Warping Brain MR Images Using Deformable Contours.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 1998 International Computer Symposium (ICS'98), Tainan, Taiwan, Dec. 1998.

327.     R. Nezafat and H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “Multiwavelet Based Feature Extraction for MRI Segmentation.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of SPIE Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, July 1998, vol. 3458, pp. 182-191.     

328.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh, J.P. Windham, and D.J. Peck: “Brain Tumor Segmentation by Linear Combination of Multi-spectral MR Images.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the Sixth Iranian Conference on Elec. Eng., Tehran, Iran, May 1998.

329.     A. Olfat and H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “Improving HOS Spectral Estimation by Kalman Filtering and Optimization Methods.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the Sixth Iranian Conference on Elec. Eng., Tehran, Iran, May 1998.

330.     H. Morshed-Zadeh and H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “A New Nonlinear Anisotropic Filter for MRI Noise Suppression.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the Sixth Iranian Conference on Elec. Eng., Tehran, Iran, May 1998.           

331.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh, J.P. Windham, L. Scarpace, and T. Murnock: “Reproducibility of MRI Segmentation Using a Feature Space Method.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging 1998: Image Processing Conference, San Diego, CA, Feb. 23-26, 1998, vol. 3338, pp. 522-532.     

332.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh, J.P. Windham, D.J. Peck, and L. Emery: “Combining Cluster Analysis with Supervised Segmentation Methods for MRI.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging 1998: Image Processing Conference, San Diego, CA, Feb. 23-26, 1998, vol. 3338, pp. 1411-1421. 

333.     G.A. Hossein-Zadeh and H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “Simulation of MRI with Field Nonuniformities.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging 1998: Physics of Medical Imaging, San Diego, CA, Feb. 1998, vol. 3336, pp. 771-782.         

334.     G.A. Hossein-Zadeh and H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “DCT Acquisition and Reconstruction of MRI.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging 1998: Image Processing Conference, San Diego, CA, Feb. 23-26, 1998, vol. 3338, pp. 398-407.

335.     M.R. Siadat and H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “An Intelligent Approach for Locating Hippocampus in Human Brain MRI.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Applied Informatics (AI'98), IASTED, Germany, Feb. 1998, pp. 24-26.           

336.     B. Ashjaei and H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “Unsupervised Competitive Neural Network Methodologies for Segmentation of Magnetic Resonance Images.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the Third International Annual Computer Society of Iran Computer Conference (CSICC'97), Tehran, Iran, Dec. 1997.   

337.     G.A. Hossein-Zadeh, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, A. Ghodrati, A. Babajani, “Magnetic Resonance Imaging Through Wavelet Transform,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the Third International Annual Computer Society of Iran Computer Conference (CSICC'97), Tehran, Iran, Dec. 1997.           

338.     M.R. Siadat and H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “An Intelligent System for Locating Hippocampus in Human Brain MRI.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the Third International Annual Computer Society of Iran Computer Conference (CSICC'97), Tehran, Iran, Dec. 1997.         

339.     M. Mousavi and H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “A Combined Method for the Compression of Pathological Colored Images.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the Third International Annual Computer Society of Iran Computer Conference (CSICC'97), Tehran, Iran, Dec. 1997.

340.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh and J.P. Windham: “Computerized Analysis of Magnetic Resonance Images.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the Tenth Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis, Lappeenranta, Finland, pp. 133-139, June 1997.  

341.     B. Ashjaei and H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “A Comparative Study of Segmentation Methodologies for Magnetic Resonance Imaging.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the Tenth Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis, Lappeenranta, Finland, pp. 141-148, June 1997.

342.     H. Sharifi and H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “Phased Array Design for Hyperthermia Cancer Therapy.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the Fifth Iranian Conference on Elec. Eng., Tehran, Iran, May 1997.

343.     J. Asgari and H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “A Proof for Stability of Real Polynomials Inside the Unit Circle.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the Fifth Iranian Conference on Elec. Eng., Tehran, Iran, May 1997.

344.     G.A. Hossein-Zadeh, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Fast Discrete Cosine Transform Based Magnetic Resonance Imaging,” 21st Seminar of Intelligent Systems, IPM, Tehran, Iran, 1997.           

345.     H. Moosavion, M.R. Alsharif, and H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “Implementation of An Active Noise Cancellation System.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the Fifth Iranian Conference on Elec. Eng., Tehran, Iran, May 1997.

346.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh, J.P. Windham, and L. Robbins: “Semi-Supervised Segmentation of MRI Stroke Studies.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging 1997: Image Processing Conference, Newport Beach, CA, Feb. 1997, vol. 3034, pp. 437-448.   

347.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh, J.P. Windham, and D.J. Peck: “Feature Space Analysis of MRI.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging 1997: Image Processing Conference, Newport Beach, CA, Feb. 1997, vol. 3034, pp. 26-37.

348.     J.P. Windham, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, and D.J. Peck: “Eigenimage Filtering of Heterogeneous Lesions.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging 1997: Image Processing Conference, Newport Beach, CA, Feb. 1997.          

349.     B. Ashjaei and H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “Neural Network Methodologies for Segmentation of Magnetic Resonance Images.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 8th Iranian Conference on Biomedical Eng., Tehran, Iran, Dec. 1996.   

350.     K. Farzan, B. Moshiri, H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “MRI Data Fusion Using Fuzzy Integral.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 8th Iranian Conference on Biomedical Eng., Tehran, Iran, Dec. 1996.

351.     N. Majdi-Nassab, H. Shari, M.A. Oghabian, H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “Comparison of Electrical Impedance Tomography Using Circular and Elliptical Models.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 8th Iranian Conference on Biomedical Eng., Tehran, Iran, Dec. 1996.

352.     A. Ghanei and H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “A 3D Dynamic Contour Model for Segmentation of Hippocampus from Brain MRI.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 8th Iranian Conference on Biomedical Eng., Tehran, Iran, Dec. 1996.

353.     M. Rezaeian and H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “A New Multi-Grid Method for PET Image Reconstruction Using EM Algorithm.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 8th Iranian Conference on Biomedical Eng., Tehran, Iran, Dec. 1996.

354.     G.A. Hossein-Zadeh and H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “Simulation of Spin-Echo MRI.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 8th Iranian Conference on Biomedical Eng., Tehran, Iran, Dec. 1996.  

355.     A. Ghanei and H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “A Deformable Model for Segmentation of Hippocampus from Brain MRI: Improvements and Extension to 3D.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 1996 Iranian Conference on Computers, Tehran, Iran, Dec. 1996.           

356.     M.R. Samadi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, C. Lucas: “Surface Tracking by Decision Trees.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 1996 Iranian Conference on Computers, Tehran, Iran, Dec. 1996.  

357.     A. Ghanei, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, and J.P. Windham: “Deformable Model for Segmentation of Hippocampus from Brain MRI: Improvements and Extension to 3D.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE Medical Imaging Conference, San Francisco, CA, Nov. 1996, vol. 3, pp. 1797-1801.    

358.     B. Ashjaei and H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “Adaptive Clustering Techniques for Segmentation of Magnetic Resonance Images.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the ISRF-IEE International Conference on Intelligent and Cognitive Systems, Neural Networks Symposium, Tehran, Iran, Sept. 1996.          

359.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh and J.P. Windham: “Linear Filter Design for CNR Enhancement of MR Images with Multiple Interfering Features.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 1996 International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'96), Lausanne, Switzerland, Sept. 1996, vol. 2, pp. 241-244.

360.     A. Ghanei, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, and J.P. Windham: “Automatic Segmentation of Hippocampus from Brain MRI Using Deformable Contours.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 1996 International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'96), Lausanne, Switzerland, Sept. 1996, vol. 2, pp. 245-248.

361.     B. Ashjaei and H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “A Comparative Analysis of Neural Network Methodologies for Segmentation of Magnetic Resonance Images.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 1996 International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'96), vol.2, pp. 257-60, Lausanne, Switzerland, Sept. 1996.         

362.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh , J.P. Windham, D.J. Peck: “Optimal Linear Transformation for MRI Feature Extraction.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis, San Francisco, CA, June 1996, pp. 64-73.         

363.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh and J.P. Windham: “Streaking Artifact Correction in Computed Tomography.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the Fourth Iranian Conference on Elec. Eng., Tehran, Iran, May 1996.          

364.     B. Ashjaei and H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “Segmentation of Normal and Abnormal Brain Tissues from MRI Using Multi-Layer Perceptron Neural Networks.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the Fourth Iranian Conference on Elec. Eng., Tehran, Iran, May 1996.           

365.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “Extrapolation of Discrete-Time Band-Limited Signals.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the Fourth Iranian Conference on Elec. Eng., Tehran, Iran, May 1996.

366.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh, J.P. Windham, and J. Soltanianzadeh: “CT Artifact Correction: An Image Processing Approach.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging 1996: Image Processing Conference, Newport Beach, CA, Feb. 1996, vol. 2710, pp. 477-485.

367.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh: MRI Computer Aided Diagnosis: “A Feature Space Approach.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the First Annual Computer Conference of Computer Society of Iran, Tehran, Iran, Dec. 1995.

368.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh and J.P. Windham: “Linear Filter Design for CNR Enhancement of MR Images with Multiple Interfering Features.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 1995 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, San Francisco, CA, Oct. 1995, vol. 3, pp. 1402-1406.

369.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh and J.P. Windham: “Optimal Feature Space for MRI.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 1995 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, San Francisco, CA, Oct. 1995, vol. 3, pp. 1438-1442.

370.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh and J.P. Windham: “Linear Filter Design for CNR Enhancement of MR Images with Multiple Interfering Features in the Scene.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the Third Iranian Conference on Elec. Eng., Tehran, Iran, May 1995.

371.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “Intelligent Methods of Medical Image Processing.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the Workshop on Intelligent Systems, Tehran, Iran, April 1995. 

372.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh, J.P. Windham, and F. Chen: “Automated Contour Extraction for Medical Image Registration and Segmentation.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging 1995: Image Processing Conference, San Diego, CA, Feb. 1995.  

373.     J.P. Windham, D.J. Peck, and H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “Reproducibility Study for Volume Estimations in MRI of the Brain Using the Eigenimage Algorithm.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging 1995: Image Processing Conference, San Diego, CA, Feb. 1995.           

374.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh and J.P. Windham: “Automated Contour Extraction Using a Multi-Scale Approach.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the Workshop on Computer Vision, Islamabad, Pakistan, Jan. 1995.

375.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh and J.P. Windham: “A New Approach for MRI Feature Extraction.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 7th Iranian Conference on Biomedical Engineering, Tehran, Iran, Dec. 1994.

376.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh and J.P. Windham: “Optimal Transformation for Magnetic Resonance Image Segmentation and Partial Volume Extraction.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 7th Iranian Conference on Biomedical Engineering, Tehran, Iran, Dec. 1994.  

377.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh, J.P. Windham, and F. Chen: “Automated Contour Extraction Using a Multi-Scale Approach.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 1994 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Norfolk, VA, Nov. 1994, vol. 4, pp. 1797-1801.

378.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh, J.P. Windham, and D.J. Peck: “Semi-Automatic Brain Morphometry in CT.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 1994 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Norfolk, VA, Nov. 1994, vol. 4, pp. 1812-1816.

379.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh, J.P. Windham, and D.J. Peck: “Semi-Automatic Brain Morphometry from CT Images.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging 1994: Image Processing Conference, Newport Beach, CA, vol. 2167, pp. 413-426, Feb. 1994.           

380.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh, J.P. Windham, D.J. Peck, and A.E. Yagle: “A Comparative Analysis of Several Transformations for Enhancement and Segmentation of Magnetic Resonance Images.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the IEEE Medical Imaging Conference, San Francisco, CA, Nov. 1993, vol. 3, pp. 1759-1763.

381.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh, J.P. Windham, and A.E. Yagle: “A Multi-Dimensional Non-Linear Edge-Preserving Filter for Magnetic Resonance Image Restoration.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, San Francisco, CA, Nov. 1993, vol. 3, pp. 1595-1599.  

382.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh and A.E. Yagle: “A Fast Algorithm for Extrapolation of Discrete Time Periodic Band-Limited Signals.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 1993 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 1993, vol. 3, pp. 591-594.

383.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh, J.P. Windham, and D.J. Peck: “MRI Feature Extraction Using a Linear Transformation.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging 1993: Image Processing Conference, Newport Beach, CA, Feb. 1993, vol. 1898, pp. 487-500.           

384.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh, J.P. Windham, and A.E. Yagle: “Optimal Transformation for Correcting Partial Volume Averaging Effects in Magnetic Resonance Imaging.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of IEEE Medical Imaging Conference, Orlando, Florida, Oct. 1992, Published in the Conference Record, vol. 2, pp. 1289-1291, 1992.

385.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh, R. Saigal, A.E. Yagle, J.P. Windham, and D.O. Hearshen: “Optimization of MRI Protocols and Pulse Sequence Parameters for Eigenimage Filtering.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the IEEE Medical Imaging Conference, Orlando, Florida, Oct. 1992, Published in the Conference Record, vol. 2, pp. 1325-1327, 1992.

386.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh and A.E. Yagle: “A Wavenumber Domain Kalman Filtering Approach to One Dimensional Phase Retrieval.” Presented at and Published in the proceedings of the 1990 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 1990, vol. 3, pp. 1555-1558.

387.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “Electrical Stimulation of Paralyzed Muscles.” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the First Iranian Conference on Biomedical Engineering, Tehran, Iran, May 1988.   

E.   Presentations and Abstracts

1.         V. Wasade, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, E. Davoodi-Bojd, M. Afzali, K. Jafari-Khouzani, K.V. Elisevich, “Tract-Based Spatial Statistics Analysis of Diffusion Parameters in Unilateral and Bilateral Temporal Lobe Epilepsy,” Presented at and Published in the Abstract Book of the 65th Annual Meeting of the American Epilepsy Society, Baltimore, MD, USA, Dec. 2-6, 2011.

2.         M.H. Sigari, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Semantic Video Analysis Using Intelligent Systems,” Presented at the 4th Broadcast Engineering Conference, Tehran, Iran, Nov. 20-22, 2011.

3.         H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Analysis of Medical Images for Epilepsy,” Invited Talk at the University of Kufa School of Medicine, Kufa, Iraq, Nov. 20, 2011.

4.         H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Novel Magnetic Resonance Imaging Techniques for Noninvasive Characterization of Anatomy, Physiology, and Function,” Invited Talk at the University of Karbala School of Medicine, Karbala, Iraq, Nov. 17, 2011.

5.         H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Electrical Engineering: Interdisciplinary Fields and Related Challenges,” Invited Talk at the Engineering Sciences Group, Academy of Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Nov. 9, 2011.

6.         H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Scientific Activities in the Iran Section of IEEE,” Invited Talk at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Azad University, Yazd, Iran, Nov. 3, 2011.

7.         H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Segmentation and Characterization of Blood Vessels in Brain and Retina,” Invited Talk at the School of Cognitive Science, Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics (IPM), Tehran, Iran, Oct. 16, 2011.

8.         H. Soltanian-Zadeh, A.M. Rad, A.S.M. Iskander, B. Janic, R.A. Knight, A.S. Arbab, “Cord blood derived endothelial progenitor cells as gene delivery vehicle and cellular probe in mouse model of human breast cancer,” Presented at the DOD Breast Cancer Research Program Meeting: Era of Hope 2011, Orlando, FL, USA, Aug. 2-5, 2011.

9.         G.A. Hossein-Zadeh, Sh. Es’haghian, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, H. Ekhtiari, “Differentiation of Spatial Patterns of Brain Activation in Addicted and Normal Subjects Using Invariant 3D Moments,” Presented at and Published in the Abstract Book of the 5th National Congress on Addiction Biology, Tehran, Iran, June 22-24, 2011, page 23.

10.       S. Maleki, G.A. Hossein-Zadeh, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, H. Ekhtiari, “Identification of Brain Regions in Addiction Using Detection-Estimation Analysis of fMRI,” Presented at and Published in the Abstract Book of the 5th National Congress on Addiction Biology, Tehran, Iran, June 22-24, 2011, page 53.

11.       S. Bendix, K. Jafari-Khouzani, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, S. Croll, Q. Jiang, M. Cerghet, “Comparison of Diffusion Parameters along Corticospinal Tracts of Multiple Sclerosis Patients and Healthy Subjects,” Presented at and Published in the Abstract Book of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June 1-4, 2011.

12.       H. Ghadiri, M.B. Shiran, M.R. Ay, H. Zaidi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Bone material decomposition by energy resolved CT: application in CT-based attenuation correction of PET data,” Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the 3th International Nuclear Medicine Congress and 15th Iranian Congress of Nuclear Medicine, Tehran, Iran, May 19-21, 2011.

13.       A. Babajani-Feremi, R. Jain, J. Narang, A.S. Arbab, K. Jafari-Khouzani, M-R. Nazem-Zadeh, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Patlak Model Selection Using Dynamic Contrast Enhanced T1-weighted MR Measurement of Vascular Permeability,” Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the ISMRM’2011, Montréal, Québec, Canada, May 7-13, 2011, pp. 2050.

14.       N.R. Varma, A. Iskander, A. Shankar, B. Janic, K. Barton, M.M. Ali, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, Q. Jiang, and A.S. Arbab, “Use of Endothelial Progenitor Cells as Gene Carrier and Multimodal Imaging Probes,” Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the ISMRM’2011, Montréal, Québec, Canada, May 7-13, 2011, pp. 2313.

15.       E. Davoodi-Bojd, M. Nazem-Zadeh, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, Q. Jiang, “Fiber Bundle Segmentation Using Major Diffusion Orientations in Reduced Position Orientation Space,” Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the ISMRM’2011, Montréal, Québec, Canada, May 7-13, 2011, pp. 3964.

16.       M. Nazem-Zadeh, K. Jafari-Khouzani, A. Babajani-Fermi, S.P. Nejad-Davarani, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, Q. Jiang, “Clustering Method for Estimating Principal Diffusion Directions,” Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the ISMRM’2011, Montréal, Québec, Canada, May 7-13, 2011, pp. 3966.
 

17.       A. Babajani-Feremi, V. Gumenyuk, C. Jefferson, T. Roth, C.L. Drake, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Study of Chronic Short Sleep Using Brain Connectivity Analysis of EEG Data,” Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the 8th Annual Research Symposium of Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, May 12-13, 2011.    

18.       K. Jafari-Khouzani, K. Elisevich, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “FLAIR-SPECT Fusion for Lateralizing Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy,” Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the 8th Annual Research Symposium of Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, May 12-13, 2011.           

19        H. Bagher-Ebadian, R. Jain, S.P. Nejad-Davarani, T. Mikkelsen1, M. Lu, L. Scarpace, A.S. Arbab, Q. Jiang, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, R. Paudyal, J.R. Ewing, “Model Selection in DCE-T1 Studies in Human Glioblastoma Multiforme,” Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the 8th Annual Research Symposium of Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, May 12-13, 2011.      

20.       Sh. Fakhraei, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, F. Fotouhi, K. Elisevich, “Consensus Feature Ranking in Human Brain Image Database System (Datasets with Missing Values),” Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the 8th Annual Research Symposium of Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, May 12-13, 2011.

21.       H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Noninvasive Characterization of Brain Tissue, Anatomy, Physiology, and Function in Epilepsy,” Invited Talk at the Henry Ford Health System Epilepsy Conference, Detroit, MI, April 6, 2011.

22.       H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Noninvasive Tissue Characterization Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging,” Invited Talk at the 10^th Conference of Biophysical Chemistry, Jahrom, Iran, Feb. 22-24, 2011.     

23.       H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “IEEE and Power Electronics and Drive Systems,” Invited Talk at the 2nd Power Electronics, Drive Systems & Technologies Conference (PEDSTC’2011), Tehran, Iran, Feb. 16-17, 2011.

24.       H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Advanced Methods for Segmentation of Blood Vessels in Retina,” Invited Talk at Ophthalmic Physics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging in Ophthalmology, Tehran, Iran, Feb. 10, 2011.           

25.       H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Quantitative Analysis of MRI for Noninvasive Lateralization of Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy,” Invited Talk at the First International Epilepsy Congress, Mashhad, Iran, Dec. 10-13, 2010.  

26.       H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Localization of Deep Focal Epileptogenecity Using Intracranial Electrocorticogram and Independent Component Analysis,” Invited Talk at the First International Epilepsy Congress, Mashhad, Iran, Dec. 10-13, 2010.     

27.       H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Analysis of Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Images for Abnormality Detection,” Invited Talk at the School of Cognitive Science, Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics (IPM), Tehran, Iran, Nov. 14, 2010.     

28.       H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Detection of Abnormality in White Matter Fiber Bundles using DT MRI,” Invited Talk at the 17th Iranian Conference of Biomedical Engineering (ICBME’2010), Isfahan, Iran, Nov. 04, 2010.

29.       H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Neuroimaging and Multi-Modality Analysis,” Invited Talk at the 6th Iranian Conference on Machine Vision and Image Processing (MVIP’2010), Isfahan, Iran, Oct. 28, 2010.         

30.       H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Analysis,” Invited Talk at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, Aug. 9, 2010.

31.       B. Afshin-Pour, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, G.A. Hossein-Zadeh, C. Grady, S.C. Strother, “Enhancing the reproducibility of fMRI statistical maps using generalized canonical correlation analysis in the NPAIRS framework,” Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the 16th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Barcelona, Spain, June 6-10, 2010, NeuroImage, Supplement 1, July 2010, p. S194.

32.       K. Jafari-Khouzani, A. Akhondi-Asl, K. Elisevich, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Automated Segmentation of Hippocampus Using Multiple Atlas for Lateralization in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy,” Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the 7th Annual Research Symposium of Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, May 13-14, 2010.    

33.       A. Babajani-Feremi, S. Bowyer, J. Moran, K. Elisevich, K. Podell, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Develop and Evaluate an Integrated E/MEG and fMRI Multi-Area Model,” Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the 7th Annual Research Symposium of Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, May 13-14, 2010.      

34.       A. Akhondi-Asl, A. Ray, K.V. Elisevich, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “DTI-Based Lateralization in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy,” Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the 7th Annual Research Symposium of Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, May 13-14, 2010.        

35.       M.R. Nazem-Zadeh, K. Jafari-Khouzani, Q. Jiang, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Clustering Method for Estimating Principal Diffusion Directions,” Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the 7th Annual Research Symposium of Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, May 13-14, 2010.       

36.       P. Mitsias, M. Lu, H. Bagher-Ebadian, J.R. Ewing, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, A. Kapke, M. Chopp, “Multiparametric MRI ISODATA Analysis in the Assessment of Acute Ischemic Stroke,” Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the International Stroke Conference 2010, San Antonio, Texas, Feb. 23-26, 2010.

37.       H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Advances in Digital Image Processing,” Invited Talk at the 3rd Broadcast Engineering Conference, Tehran, Iran, Dec. 19, 2009.

38.       A. Ray, A. Akhondi-Asl, K. Elisevich, H. Soltanian-Zadeh H, “Diffusion Tensor Imaging of Parahippocampal Gyrus as a Lateralizing Tool in Intractable Temporal Lobe Epilepsy,” Presented at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the American Epilepsy Society, Published in Epilepsia, vol. 50, Suppl. 11, pp. 74-75, Nov. 2009. 

39.       H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Segmentation and Characterization of Fiber Bundles of the Brain using Diffusion MRI,” Invited Talk at the School of Cognitive Science, Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics (IPM), Tehran, Iran, Nov. 08, 2009.     

40.       M.-R. Nazem-Zadeh, E. Davoodi-Bojd, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Atlas-based Fiber Bundle Segmentation Using Principal Diffusion Directions and Spherical Harmonic Coefficients,” Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the 6th IBMISPS World Congress for Brain Mapping and Image Guided Therapy, Boston, MA, Aug. 26-29, 2009.           

41.       D. Pai, J. Hua, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Evaluation of specific fiber bundles using brain mapping and registration of diffusion tensor data,”  Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the 6th IBMISPS World Congress for Brain Mapping and Image Guided Therapy, Boston, MA, Aug. 26-29, 2009.         

42.       A. Akhondi-Asl, A. Ray, K. Elisevich, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Diffusion Tensor Imaging Characteristic of Parahippocampal gyrus in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy,” Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the 6th IBMISPS World Congress for Brain Mapping and Image Guided Therapy, Boston, MA, Aug. 26-29, 2009.      

43.       A. Akhondi-Asl, K. Jafari-khouzani, K. Elisevich, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Automatic Segmentation of Hippocampus for lateralization in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy,” Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the 6th IBMISPS World Congress for Brain Mapping and Image Guided Therapy, Boston, MA, Aug. 26-29, 2009.     

44.       E. Davoodi-Bojd, M.-R. Nazem-Zadeh, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Atlas-Based Segmentation of White Matter Fiber Bundles Using Reduced Position Orientation Space (RPOS),” Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the 6th IBMISPS World Congress for Brain Mapping and Image Guided Therapy, Boston, MA, Aug. 26-29, 2009.           

45.       D.A. Jacobson, R. Lajiness-O'Neill, P. Lewandowski, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, D. Hearshen, “Neural Substrates of Social Functioning in Individuals with Velocardofacial Syndrome (VCFS),” Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, San Francisco, California, June 18-22, 2009, NeuroImage, vol. 47, Supplement 1, July 2009, p. S194.  

46.       B. Afshinpour, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, G.A. Hossein-Zadeh, S. Strother, “Mutual Information Based Metric for Evaluation of fMRI Data Processing Approaches,” Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, San Francisco, California, June 18-22, 2009, NeuroImage, vol. 47, Supplement 1, July 2009, p. S81.     

47.       H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Role of Neuroimaging in Biomedical Engineering,” Invited Talk at the Shahed University, Tehran, Iran, May 26, 2009.        

48.       A. Akhondi-Asl, K. Jafari-Khouzani, K. Elisevich, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Lateralization in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Using Automatic Segmentation of Hippocampus,” Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the 6th Annual Research Symposium of Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, May 14-15, 2009.    

49.       K. Jafari-Khouzani, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, K. Elisevich, “Comparison of SPECT Intensity Features and MRI Volume Measures for Lateralization in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy,” Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the 6th Annual Research Symposium of Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, May 14-15, 2009.    

50.       A. Babajani-Feremi, S. Bowyer, J. Moran, K. Elisevich, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Parameter Estimation of Integrated E/MEG and fMRI Model Based on Variational Bayesian Framework,” Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the 6th Annual Research Symposium of Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, May 14-15, 2009.        

51.       H. Jahanian, K. Elisevich, A. Yazdan-Shahmorad, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “White Matter Tractography by Diffusion Tensor Imaging in Insular Epilepsy,” Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the ISMRM’2009, Hawai'i, USA, April 18-24, 2009, pp. 3413 (winner of best poster competition).

52.       H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Multi-Modality Analysis of Neuroimaging Data,” Invited Talk at the Rotman Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, March 20, 2009.

53.       H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Computer Vision and Image Processing Algorithms for Medical Imaging Applications,” Invited Talk at the School of Cognitive Science, Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics (IPM), Tehran, Iran, March 12, 2009.     

54.       S.A. Ali, A. Iskander, B. Janic, K. Jafari-Khouzani, S. Kumar, R.A. Knight, J. Frank, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, S. Brown, “Cytotoxic T-cells as Cellular Probes to Differentiate Glioma from Radiation Injury by MRI," Presented at the 94^th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA’2008), Chicago, IL, USA, Nov. 30-Dec. 5, 2008.  

55.       A. Shirani, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, M.A. Sahraian, “Application of artificial intelligence techniques in the diagnosis and assessment of multiple sclerosis,” Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the 5^th International MS Congress of Iran, Tehran, Iran, Nov. 13-14, 2008.

56.       H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “State-of-the-art in Neuro-Imaging and Analysis,” Invited Talk at the 5th Iranian Conference on Machine Vision and Image Processing (MVIP’2008), Tabriz, Iran, Nov. 4-6, 2008.         

57.       H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Image Guided Intervention: Neuroimaging Advances and Challenges,” Invited Talk at the Second Iranian Imaging Informatics Conference, Tehran, Iran, Oct. 15-17, 2008.

58.       M.R. Nazem-Zadeh, E. Davoodi-Bojd, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “White Matter Tract Segmentation Using Spherical Harmonic Coefficients,” Presented at the Second Iranian Imaging Informatics Conference, Tehran, Iran, Oct. 15-17, 2008.         

59.       H. Khosravi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “MEG Source Localization via Bayesian Kernels,” Presented at the Second Iranian Imaging Informatics Conference, Tehran, Iran, Oct. 15-17, 2008.     

60.       M. Esmaeil-Zadeh, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, G.A. Hossein-Zadeh, “Comparison of Recent Least Square Approaches for Fusion of Multimodal Medical Images,” Presented at the Second Iranian Imaging Informatics Conference, Tehran, Iran, Oct. 15-17, 2008.     

61.       H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Overview of Multi-Area Model for Integrated Analysis of MEG and fMRI,” Invited Talk at the School of Cognitive Science, Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics (IPM), Tehran, Iran, Oct. 12, 2008.   

62.       A. Babajani-Feremi, J.E. Moran, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Integrated MEG and fMRI Model: Synthesis, Analysis, and Validation Using Auditory Data,” Invited Talk at the 10th International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON X), Bodrum, Turkey, Sept. 1-5, 2008.

63.       L. Amini, S. Achard, Christian Jutten, G.A. Hossein-Zadeh, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Connectivity Analysis of EEG Recordings for Epileptic Patients,” Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the 10th International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON X), Bodrum, Turkey, Sept. 1-5, 2008.

64.       A. Babajani-Feremi, J.E. Moran, S.M. Bowyer, K. Elisevich, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Using Variational Bayesian Expectation Maximization (VBEM) Method for Multi-Area Integrated MEG/fMRI Model,” Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the 16th International Conference on Biomagnetism (BIOMAG’2008), Sapporo, Japan, August 25-28, 2008.   

65.       D.A. Jacobson, R. Lajiness-O’Neill, D. Hearshen, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, J. Gadowski, F. Pierson, “The Role of Amygdala in Social Functioning of Individuals With Velocarido-facial Syndrome,” Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the 15th International Scientific Meeting of the VCFS Educational Foundation, Inc., Troy (Detroit), Michigan, July 18-20, 2008.           

66.       H. Soltanian-Zadeh, A.M. Rad, B. Janic, A.S.M. Iskander, R.A. Knight, A.S. Arbab, “Magnetically labeled transgenic endothelial progenitor cells and dendritic cells as probes for cellular MRI and gene delivery vehicles,” Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the DOD Breast Cancer Research Program Meeting: Era of Hope, Baltimore, MD, USA, June 25-28, 2008.

67.       A.M. Rad, B. Janic, A.S.M. Iskander, M.R. Siadat, A.S. Arbab, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Efficacy of Gene Delivery and Expression of Transgenic Stem and Dendritic Cells Using SPECT,” Presented at the Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) 55^th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, FL, USA, June 14-18, 2008 and Published in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine, Vol. 49, Sup. 1 (1353), pp. 319P, June 2008.

68.       H.B. Ebadian, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, S. Setayeshi, “A Hierarchical Fuzzy Clustering Model for Myocardial Segmentation in Cardiac SPECT Images,” Presented at the Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) 55^th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, FL, USA, June 14-18, 2008 and Published in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine, Vol. 49, Sup. 1 (496), pp. 124P, June 2008.       

69.       H.B. Ebadian, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, S. Setayeshi, “Re-orientation of the Left Ventricle’s Long-Axis in Cardiac SPECT Images Using a Statistical Recursive Method,” Presented at the Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) 55^th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, FL, USA, June 14-18, 2008 and Published in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine, Vol. 49, Sup. 1 (1708), pp. 406P, June 2008.

70.       H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Neuroimage Analysis Research,” Presentation to the Radiology Residents, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI, USA, June 11, 2008. 

71.       B. Shalchian, H. Rajabi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Assessment of the Wavelet Transform in Reduction of Noise from the Simulated PET Images,” Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the 8^th Iranian Congress of Medical Physics, Tehran, Iran, May 28-29, 2008.

72.       H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “International Experience on Education of Biomedical Engineering Including Bioelectric,” Invited Talk at the Iranian Academy of Sciences, Tehran, Iran, May 28, 2008.

73.       H. Bagher-Ebadian, K. Jafari-Khouzani, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, J.R. Ewing, “A Blood Circulatory Model to Estimate the Arterial Input Function in MR Brain Perfusion Studies,” Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the ISMRM’2008, Toronto, Ontario, Canada,  May 3-9, 2008, pp. 3260.

74.       A. Babajani-Feremi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, J. Moran, “Validation of Integrated EEG/MEG and fMRI Model Using Real Data,” Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the 5th Annual Research Symposium of Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, April 25, 2008. 

75.       A.M. Rad, A.S.M. Iskander, B. Janic, R.A. Knight, A.S. Arbab, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Comparison Between Transgenic Endothelial Progenitor Cells and Dendritic Cells in Gene Delivery and Their Expressions,” Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the 5th Annual Research Symposium of Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, April 25, 2008.

76.       H. Bagher-Ebadian, K. Jafari-Khouzani, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, J.R. Ewing, “Blood Circulatory Model to Estimate Arterial Input Function in Brain MR Perfusion Study,” Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the 5th Annual Research Symposium of Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, April 25, 2008.         

77.       K. Jafari-Khouzani, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, K. Elisevich, “SPECT Analysis of Hippocampus and Amygdale of Lateralization in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy,” Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the 5th Annual Research Symposium of Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, April 25, 2008.

78.       H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Neuroimaging: Opportunities and Challenges,” Invited Talk at the 14th Iranian Conference on Biomedical Engineering (ICBME’08), Tehran, Iran, Feb. 13-14, 2008.

79.       H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Multi-Modality Image Analysis for Temporal Lobe Epilepsy,” Invited Talk at the Experts Symposium on Quantitative Neuroimaging, Tehran, Iran, Nov. 25, 2007.

80.       H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Multimodality Integration in Neuroimaging,” Invited Talk at the School of Cognitive Science, Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics (IPM), Tehran, Iran, Oct. 28, 2007.  

81.       B. Shalchian, H. Rajabi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, F. Kalantari, “Noise Reduction in Simulated PET Images Using Wavelet and Thresholding Method,” Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the 4th International Conference on Imaging Technologies in Biomedical Sciences, Milos Island, Greece, Sept. 22-28, 2007, pp. 21.

82.       A.M. Rad, A.S.M. Iskander, R.A. Knight, M.-R. Siadat, B. Janic, A.S. Arbab, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Hematopoietic Stem Cells and its Lineage as Gene Delivery Vehicle and Cellular Probes in Subcutaneous Tumor Models,” Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the Joint Molecular Imaging Conference, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, Sept. 8-11, 2007.

83.       B. Janic, A.S.M. Iskander, A.M. Rad, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, A.S. Arbab, “Effect of Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide Labeling on Immunological Characteristics of Macrophage-like THP-1 Cells,”  Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the Joint Molecular Imaging Conference, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, Sept. 8-11, 2007.

84.       A.-R. Mohammadi-Nejad, G.-A. Hossein-Zadeh, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Deriving the Point Spread Function of MR Pulse Sequences for Molecular Imaging through a Realistic Simulator,”  Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the Joint Molecular Imaging Conference, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, Sept. 8-11, 2007.

85.       M. Shaker, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “White Matter Abnormalities and Changes of Gray Matter Concentration in Hippocampus, Amygdala, and Entorhinal Cortex of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Patients,” Presented at the First Iranian Imaging Informatics Conference, Tehran, Iran, Sept. 6-7, 2007 (Received best presentation award of the conference).

86.       A.M. Rad, A.S.M. Iskander, M.R. Siadat, B. Janic, A.S. Arbab, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “SPECT Imaging of Transgenic Stem Cells and Dendritic Cells for Gene Delivery,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) 54^th Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, June 2-6, 2007.   

87.       Z. Torbatian, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Integrated Cluster Analysis of DTI and MRSI for Brain Tumors,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the Joint Annual Meeting ISMRM-ESMRMB, Berlin, Germany, May 19-25, 2007.

88.       A.S. Arbab, A.M. Rad, A.S.M. Iskander, K. Jafari-Khouzani, S.L. Brown, G. Ding, Q. Jiang, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, D.J. Peck, “Magnetically Labeled Sensitized Splenocytes to Identify Glioma by MRI,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the Joint Annual Meeting ISMRM-ESMRMB, Berlin, Germany, May 19-25, 2007.

89.       A.M. Rad, A.S.M. Iskander, R.A. Knight, M.R. Siadat, B. Janic, A.S. Arbab, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Magnetically Labeled Transgenic Endothelial Progenitor and Dendritic Cells as Probes for Cellular MRI and Gene Delivery Vehicles,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the Joint Annual Meeting ISMRM-ESMRMB, Berlin, Germany, May 19-25, 2007.

90.       H. Bagher-Ebadian, J.R. Ewing, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, P.D. Mitsias, K. Jafari-Khouzani, M. Chopp, “Predicting Final Infract Size and Pattern of 3-Month Lesion in MRI for Patients with Ischemic Stroke: Using Artificial Neural Network Technique,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the Joint Annual Meeting ISMRM-ESMRMB, Berlin, Germany, May 19-25, 2007.

91.       H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Multi-Modality Integration: from MRI to E/MEG and fMRI,” Invited Talk at the 4^th Annual Meeting of the Association of European Psychiatrists (AEP): Neuroimaging Section, Santander, Spain, May 3-4, 2007.

92.       S.A. Ali, A.M. Rad, A.S.M. Iskander, K. Jafari-Khouzani, S.L. Brown, G. Ding, Q. Jiang, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, D.J. Peck, “Magnetically Labeled Sensitized Splenocytes to Identify Glioma by MRI,” Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the 4th Annual Research Symposium of Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, April 13, 2007. 

93.       M. Ghannad-Rezaie, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, K. Elisevich, “Data Mining from Epilepsy Database using PSO,” Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the 4th Annual Research Symposium of Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, April 13, 2007.         

94.       B. Janic, A.S.M. Iskander, A.M. Rad, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, A.S. Arbab, “Immunomodulatory characteristics of magnetically labeled macrophage like THP-1 cells,” Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the 4th Annual Research Symposium of Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, April 13, 2007.

95.       M. Siadat, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Using B-Splines to Estimate Partial Volume,” Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the 4th Annual Research Symposium of Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, April 13, 2007.

96.       K. Jafari-Khouzani, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, K. Elisevich, S. Patel, “Three-Dimensional Wavelet Analysis for TLE Lateralization,” Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the 4th Annual Research Symposium of Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, April 13, 2007.  

97.       A.M. Rad, A.S.M. Iskander, R.A. Knight, M.R. Siadat, B. Janic, A.S. Arbab, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Endothelial progenitor and dendritic cells as probes for cellular MRI and gene delivery vehicles,” Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the 4th Annual Research Symposium of Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, April 13, 2007. 

98.       A.S.M. Iskander, B. Janic, R.A. Knight, A.M. Rad, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, A.S. Arbab, “Migration of SPIO Labeled EPCs and Angiogenic Factors,”  Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the 4th Annual Research Symposium of Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, April 13, 2007.

99.       H. Jahanian, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Multi-subject fMRI analysis using fuzzy clustering,” Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the 4th Annual Research Symposium of Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, April 13, 2007.

100.     H. Bagher-Ebadian, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Analytical Method for Cardiac SPECT Simulation,”  Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the 4th Annual Research Symposium of Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, April 13, 2007.         

101.     A. Yazdan-Shahmorad, H. Jahanian, S. Patel, L. Scarpace, T. Mikkelsen, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Segmentation of Brain Tumors Using Different Tensor Imaging,”  Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the 4th Annual Research Symposium of Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, April 13, 2007.         

102.     H. Bagher-Ebadian, J.R. Ewing, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, P.D. Mitsias, K. Jafari-Khouzani, M. Chopp, “Predicting Final Infract Size and Pattern of 3-Month Lesion in MRI For Patients with Ischemic Stroke:  Using Artificial Neural Network Technique,” Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the 4th Annual Research Symposium of Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, April 13, 2007.         

103.     A. Babajani-Feremi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Integrated Model for Simultaneous Analysis of EEG or MEG with fMRI,” Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the 4th Annual Research Symposium of Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, April 13, 2007.  

104.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Multi-Modality Image Analysis in Epilepsy,” Invited Talk at the School of Cognitive Science, Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics (IPM), Tehran, Iran, Feb. 25, 2007.

105.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Machine Vision and Image Processing in Medical Imaging,” Invited Plenary Talk at the Fourth Iranian Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference (MVIP'07), Mashhad, Iran, Feb. 14-15, 2007.

106.     F. Dargi, M.A. Oghabian, A. Ahmadian, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, M. Zarei, “Designing a Testing Framework for Assessing the Robustness of White Matter Fiber Tracking Algorithms,” Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the 4th Congress of Iranian Radiological Sciences Association (IRSA), Tehran, Iran, Jan. 18, 2007, pp. 26.

107.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Multi-Modality Image Analysis for Epilepsy,” Invited Talk at the Third Cairo International Biomedical Engineering Conference (CIBEC'06), Cairo, Egypt, Dec. 21-24, 2006.

108.     R. Farjam, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, Y. Khademi, “Computerized Gleason Grading of Prostate Pathological Samples,” Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the 8th Annual Congress of Pathology and 2nd Annual Congress of Iranian Cancer Association, Tehran, Iran, Nov. 2-4, 2006.          

109.     M.R. Siadat, M. Nomani, A. Eetemadi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, F. Fotouhi, K.V. Elisevich, "HIPAA Compliant and Secured Content-Based Support Environment for Temporal Lobe Epilepsy," Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the 11th World Congress on Internet in Medicine Conference (Mednet 2006), Toronto, Canada, Oct. 14-19, 2006.

110.     S.A. Mohammadi-Rad, A.S.M. Iskander, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, A.S. Arbab, “Comparison of Cellular Labeling Efficiency of New USPIO Agent Ferumoxtran-10 and SPIO Agent Ferumoxides,” Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular Imaging, Howaii, USA, Aug. 30-Sept. 2, 2006.

111.     S.A. Mohammadi-Rad, A.S.M. Iskander, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, A.S. Arbab, “Efficient Method for Measuring Iron in Magnetically Labeled Cells Used in Cellular MRI,” Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular Imaging, Howaii, USA, Aug. 30-Sept. 2, 2006.

112.     A.S. Arbab, A.M. Rad, A.S.M. Iskander, S.L. Brown, S. Panda, K.A. Ledbetter, J.R. Ewing, T. Mikkelsen, J.A. Frank, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, D.J. Peck, “Magnetically Labeled Endothelial Progenitor Cells to Differentiate Glioma from Radiation Necrosis,”  Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular Imaging, Howaii, USA, Aug. 30-Sept. 2, 2006.

113.     A.S. Arbab, A.M. Rad, A.S.M. Iskander, S. Panda, K.A. Ledbetter, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, D.J. Peck, “Cellular MRI to Detect the Migration of Magnetically Labeled Stem Cell Derived Dendritic Cells to Glioma,” Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular Imaging, Howaii, USA, Aug. 30-Sept. 2, 2006.

114.     S.L. Brown, A.M. Rad, A.S.M. Iskander, J.L. Churchman, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, A.S. Arbab, “Cellular MRI to Differentiate Glioma from Radiation Necrosis Using Sensitized Splenocytes,” Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular Imaging, Howaii, USA, Aug. 30-Sept. 2, 2006.

115.     A.S. Arbab, A.M. Rad, A.S.M. Iskander, S.L. Brown, S. Panda, K.A. Ledbetter, G. Ding, J.R. Ewing, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, D.J. Peck, “Differentiation of Glioma from Radiation Necrosis by MRI Using Magnetically labeled cells,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 14th Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), Seattle, WA, May 6-12, 2006.

116.     H. Jahanian, S. Shams, G. A. Hossein-Zadeh, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Multisubject fuzzy cluster analysis of functional MRI,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 14th Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), Seattle, WA, May 6-12, 2006.

117.     N. Batmanghelich, M.M. Karimi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “3-D Deformable Surface Model for Automatic Segmentation of Hippocampus-Amygdala Complex,” Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the 3rd Annual Research Symposium of Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, April 21, 2006.         

118.     M. Ghannad-Rezaie, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, K. Elisevich, “Flexible Rule Extraction Algorithm for Surgery Candidate Selection for Temporal Lobe Epilepsy using Swarm Intelligence,” Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the 3rd Annual Research Symposium of Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, April 21, 2006. 

119.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh, M. Siadat, K. Elisevich, “Construction of Rules for Knowledge-Based Anatomical Landmark Localization (K-BALL),” Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the 3rd Annual Research Symposium of Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, April 21, 2006.  

120.     M. Siadat, K. Elisevich, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, K. Jafari, S. Bowyer, “Subdural and Depth Electrode Placement in the Brain for Validation of MEG in Partial Epilepsy,” Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the 3rd Annual Research Symposium of Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, April 21, 2006.         

121.     K. Jafari-Khouzani, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, K. Elisevich, “MRI and SPECT Fusion for Epilepsy Lateralization,” Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the 3rd Annual Research Symposium of Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, April 21, 2006. 

122.     A.M. Rad, A.S. Arbab, A.S.M. Iskander, Q. Jiang, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Comparison of Relaxation Effects of Different Labeled Cells with Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles,” Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the 3rd Annual Research Symposium of Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, April 21, 2006.  

123.     A.S.M. Iskander, A.M. Rad, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, A.S. Arbab, “Cellular MRI to Differentiate Glioma from Radiation Necrosis in Rat Brain,”  Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the 3rd Annual Research Symposium of Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, April 21, 2006.  

124.     H. Jahanian, G.A. Hossein-Zadeh, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “A Novel Feature Space for Fuzzy Cluster Analysis of Functional MRI,” Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the 3rd Annual Research Symposium of Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, April 21, 2006.  

125.     S. Pourabdollah-Nejad D., H. Soltanian-Zadeh, L. Wang, Z.G. Zhang, R.L. Zhang, S.R. Gregg, M. Chopp, “Design of a software Tool for Quantification of Neuronal Characteristics in 2D Microscopic Images of Cultured Cells,”  Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the 3rd Annual Research Symposium of Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, April 21, 2006.           

126.     A. Yazdan-Shahmorad, H. Jahanian, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Noise suppression in magnetic resonance diffusion tensor imaging,”  Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the 3rd Annual Research Symposium of Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, April 21, 2006.

127.     A.M. Rad, A. Iskander, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, A.S. Arbab, “Efficient Magnetic Labeling of Cells with New USPIO Agent Combidex,” Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the 2006 Annual Conference of the Academy of Molecular Imaging, Orlando, FL, March 25-29, 2006.   

128.     A.S. Arbab, S.L. Brown, A. Iskander, A.M. Rad, S. Panda, K.A. Ledbetter, J.R. Ewing, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, D.J. Peck, “Cellular Magnetic Resonance Imaging to Differentiate Glioma from Radiation Injury in Rat Brain,” Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the 2006 Annual Conference of the Academy of Molecular Imaging, Orlando, FL, March 25-29, 2006.      

129.     A.S. Arbab, S.L. Brown, A.M. Rad, J.L. Churchman, G.L. Ding, Q. Jiang, J.R. Ewing, D.J. Peck, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Detection of the Margin of Glioma by MRI Using Magnetically Labeled Sensitized Splenocytes,” Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the Fourth Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular Imaging, Cologne, Germany, Sept. 7-10, 2005.

130.     A. Mohammadi-Rad, A.S. Arbab, Q. Jiang, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Quantitation of Intracellular and Free Iron Using MRI of Labeled Gliosarcoma (9L) and T-cells,” Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the Fourth Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular Imaging, Cologne, Germany, Sept. 7-10, 2005.

131.     A.S. Arbab, S.L. Brown, A.M. Rad, J.L. Churchman, G. Ding, Q. Jiang, J.R. Ewing, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, D.J. Peck, “FePro Labeled Splenocytes as Cellular Probe for MRI to Delineate the Margin, Early Detection of Recurrent or Metastatic Glioma,” Presented at and Published in the Proceedings of the 13th Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), Miami, FL, May 7-13, 2005.

132.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh, P.D. Mitsias, M.M. Khalighi, M. Lu, H.B. Ebadian, J.R. Ewing, Q. Zhao, S.C. Patel, M. Chopp, “Relationships among ISODATA, DWI, MTT, and T2 Lesions in Stroke,” Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the 2nd Annual Research Symposium of Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI, April 15, 2005.

133.     K. Jafari-Khouzani, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, and K. Elisevich, “Texture Analysis of High-resolution FLAIR Images for TLE,” Presented at the 2nd Annual Research Symposium of Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI, April 15, 2005.     

134.     A.M. Rad, A.S. Arbab, J. Quan, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Effect of Intracellular SPIO on T2 Signal Intensity and T2 Map: Comparison with Free SPIO,” Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the 2nd Annual Research Symposium of Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, April 15, 2005.

135.     A.S. Arbab, A.M. Rad, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, D.J. Peck, “MRI of Angiogenesis in Xenografted Tumors Using Ferumoxides Labeled Endothelial Progenitor Cells,” Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the 2nd Annual Research Symposium of Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI, April 15, 2005.   

136.     L. Li, Q. Jiang, G. Ding, L. Zhang, Z.G. Zhang, J.R. Ewing, R.A. Knight, A. Kapke, M. Lu, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, M. Chopp, “Map-ISODATA Demarcates Regional Response to Combination rt-PA and 7E3 F(ab')2 Treatment of Embolic Stroke in the Rat,” Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the 2nd Annual Research Symposium of Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI, April 15, 2005.       

137.     M. Siadat, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, F. Fotouhi, K. Elisevich, “Medical Image Database for Temporal Lobe Epilepsy,” Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the 2nd Annual Research Symposium of Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI, April 15, 2005.       

138.     A. Mohammadi-Rad, S.A. Ali, Q. Jiang, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Effect of Intracellular SPIO on R2 Map: Comparison with Free SPIO,” Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the 2005 Annual Conference of the Academy of Molecular Imaging, Orlando, FL, March 18-23, 2005.   

139.     G.A. Hossein-Zadeh, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Activation detection in fMRI using wavelet transform,” Invited Talk at the First Iranian Symposium on Wavelet Transform and Its Applications, Faculty of Engineering, University of Tehran, Feb. 2, 2005.

140.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Structural Segmentation of MRI and Analysis of fMRI,” Invited Talk at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA, Jan. 18, 2005.

141.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Molecular Imaging and Analysis,” Invited Talk at the Applied Biology Congress, Azad University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran, Sept. 28-30, 2004.

142.     A. Mohammadi-Rad, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, Q. Jiang, S. Gautam, “Quantitative Studies for Molecular Imaging Using MRI,” Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the Third Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular Imaging, St. Louis, MO, Sept. 9-12, 2004.

143.     M. Siadat, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, F. Fotouhi, K. Elisevich, “Multimedia Human Brain Database System for Temporal Lobe Epilepsy with Content-Based Management, Navigation, and Retrieval,” Presented at and Published in the Abstracts of the BISTIC-BICON-NIH Biomedical Informatics for Clinical Decision Support: A Vision for the 21st Century, Bethesda, MD, June 21-22, 2004.

144.     M. Lu, P.D. Mitsias, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, J.R. Ewing, H.B. Ebadian, Q.M. Zhao, N. Oja-Tebbe, S.C. Patel, M. Chopp, “Predicting tissue outcome using early multi-parametric MRI in patients with ischemic stroke,” Presented at the 29th International Stroke Conference, San Diego, CA, February 5-7, 2004, Stroke, vol. 35, no. 1, p. 268.

145.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh, P.D. Mitsias, M.M. Khalighi, M. Lu, H.B. Ebadian, J.R. Ewing, S.C. Patel, M. Chopp: "Relationships among ISODATA, DWI, MTT, and T2 Lesions in Stroke." Presented at and published in the Proceedings of the 11th Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), Toronto, Canada, July 10-16, 2003.

146.     G.A. Hossein-Zadeh, H. Jahanian, H. Soltanian-Zadeh: "Using Features of Hemodynamic Response in Fuzzy Cluster Analysis of fMRI." Presented at and published in the Proceedings of the 11th Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), Toronto, Canada, July 10-16, 2003.

147.     L. Amini, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, C. Lucas: "Automated Segmentation of Brain Structure from MRI." Presented at and published in the Proceedings of the 11th Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), Toronto, Canada, July 10-16, 2003.

148.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh, K. Jafari-Khouzani, “Multiwavelet grading of prostate pathological images.'' Presented at the 3^rd Annual Symposium of Michigan Prostate Research Colloquium: Advances in Prostate Cancer, Detroit, MI, March 29, 2003, vol. 4684, pp. 1130-1138.

149.     J.M. Gorell, N. Gelman, E.M. Spickler, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, A. Kapke, E.L. Peterson, “3T MRI measures of nigral volume and of transverse and longitudinal relaxation rates in Parkinson’s disease,” Presented at the Movement Disorder Society’s 7^th International Congress of Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders, Miami, FL, November 10-14, 2002, vol. 17, p. S160.

150.     D.J. Peck, D.0.           Hearshen, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, C. Dodge, L. Scarpace, Tom Mikkelsen, “Segmentation of Partial Volume Differences in Gliomas Using Dynamic Contrast MRI” Presented at and published in the Book of Abstracts of the 10th Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), Honolulu, Howaii, May 18-24, 2002.

151.     G.A. Hossein-Zadeh, B.A. Ardekani, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “An Adaptive Anisotropic Spatial Filtering Method for fMRI Data Analysis,” Presented at and published in the Book of Abstracts of the 10th Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), Honolulu, Howaii, May 18-24, 2002.

152.     B.A. Ardekani, G.A. Hossein-Zadeh, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Trend Removal from fMRI Time-Series Using Translation Invariant Wavelet Transform,” Presented at and published in the Book of Abstracts of the 10th Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), Honolulu, Howaii, May 18-24, 2002.

153.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “Image Processing and Computer Vision Algorithms for Medical Imaging,” Invited Talk at the Graduate Seminar Course, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, Jan. 22, 2002.

154.     D.J. Peck, D.O. Hearshen, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, L. M. Scarpace, C. Dodge, T. Mikkelsen: “Segmentation of Brain Tumor Boundaries using Pattern Recognition of Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy,” Presented at the 87th Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), Chicago, IL, Nov. 25-30, 2001.

155.     D.J. Peck, T. Mikkelsen, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, C. Dodge, D.O. Hearshen: “Analysis of Perfusion in Gliomas using Dynamic Contrast MRI,” Presented at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), Salt Lake City, Utah, July 22-26, 2001.       

156.     M. Pasnoor, P. D. Mitsias, S.C. Patel, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, S. Santhakumar, R. Hammoud, N. H. Papamistsakis, M. Lu, M.A. Jacobs, D. Peck, M. Chopp, “Multi-parametric MRI ISODATA of Human Stroke Segments the Ischemic Lesion According to Degree of Ischemic Injury.” Presented at and published in the Book of Abstracts of the 9th ISMRM Meeting, pp. 1431, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, April 21-27, 2001.        

157.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh, L. Smith, D.J. Peck, D. O. Hearshen, L. Scarpace, T. Mikkelsen, “Feature Space Analysis of MRI: Active Brain Tumors versus Radiation Necrosis,” Presented at and published in the Book of Abstracts of the 9th ISMRM Meeting, pp. 2296, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, April 21-27, 2001.       

158.     D.J. Peck, D.O. Hearshen, L. Scarpace, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, T. Mikkelsen. “Segmentation of Brain Tumor Boundaries using Pattern Recognition of Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy,” Presented at and published in the Book of Abstracts of the 9th ISMRM Meeting, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, April 21-27, 2001.   

159.     R. Hammoud, P. D. Mitsias, S.C. Patel, M. Pasnoor, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, S. Santhakumar, N. Ih. Papamistsakis, M.A. Jacobs, D. J. Peck, M. Lu, I. Duhaini, M. Chopp, “Lesion defined by Multiparametric MRI ISODATA correlates well with neurological deficit and PWI.” Presented at the 26th International Stroke Conference, vol. 32, pp. 349-350, Fort Lauderdale, FL, Jan. 2001.     

160.     P. D. Mitsias, M. Pasnoor, R. Hammoud, M.A. Jacobs, S. Santhakumar, N. Ih. Papamistsakis, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, M. Lu, M. Chopp, S.C. Patel, “Multi-parametric MRI Defines Tissue Signatures Compatible with Reversible Acute Cerebral Ischemia,” Presented at the 26th International Stroke Conference, vol. 32, p. 348, Fort Lauderdale, FL, Jan. 2001.    

161.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh, R. Hammoud, M.A. Jacobs, M. Lu, S.C. Patel, P. D. Mitsias, M. Pasnoor, R. Knight, Z.G. Zheng, M. Chopp, “Multiparameter MRI ISODATA characterizes ischemic damage,” Presented at the 26th International Stroke Conference, vol. 32, p. 343, Fort Lauderdale, FL, Jan. 2001.        

162.     A. Ghanei, A. Ratkewics, F. Yin, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “A 3D Deformable Model for Segmentation of Human Prostate from Ultrasonic Images.” Presented at the World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering WC2000, Chicago, IL, July 2000.           

163.     D.J. Peck, D.O. Hearshen, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, Renee R. Lajiness-O'Neill, “Analysis of fMRI using a Linear Filter.” Presented at the World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering WC2000, Chicago, IL, July 2000.          

164.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “Robotics in Biomedical Engineering,” Invited Talk at ROBOSHOP'2000, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, May 31, 2000.        

165.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “Medical Image Analysis.” Invited Talk at the 3rd Students Computer Engineering Conference, Amir Kabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, May 11, 2000.     

166.     M.A. Jacobs, S. Patel, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, P. Mitsias, D.J. Peck, A. Ghanei, R. Hammoud, I. Duhaini, M. Chopp, “Segmentation of Clinical Stroke with Multiparameter MRI,” 8th ISMRM Meeting, Denver, CO, April 2000.      

167.     M.A. Jacobs, R.A. Knight, D.J. Peck, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, Z.G. Zheng, A.V. Goussev, R. Hammoud, I. Duhaini, M. Chopp, “Tissue Characterization of Multiparameter MRI with Histopathological Validation in Experimental Cerebral Ischemia in Rat,” 8th ISMRM Meeting, Denver, CO, April 2000.     

168.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “Medical Imaging and Analysis.” Invited Talk at the International Millennium Seminar, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, March 2000.     

169.     M.A. Jacobs, Z.G. Zheng, R.A. Knight, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, P.D. Mitsias, S. Patel, Q. Jaing, A.V. Goussev, M. Chopp, “Multiparameter MRI Tissue Staging in Experimental Cerebral Ischemia in Rat,” 25th International Stroke Meeting, New Orleans, LA, Feb. 2000, vol. 31, no. 1, p. 346.

170.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “Designing MLP Neural Networks for Phase or Magnitude Retrieval.” Invited Talk at the Institute for Studies in Physics and Mathematics (IPM), Tehran, Iran, Dec. 1999.  

171.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “Medical Image Analysis Using Neural Networks.” Invited Talk at Joint Iranian and Armenian Workshop on Neural Networks, IPM, Tehran, Iran, Nov. 1999.     

172.     M.A. Jacobs, J.P. Windham, Z.G. Zheng, R.A. Knight, D.J. Peck, N. Jiang, A.V. Goussev, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, M. Chopp, “Unsupervised Segmentation of Multi-Parameter MRI in Experimental Cerebral Ischemia in Rat with Histopathological Validation,” ISMRM-99, April 1999.  

173.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “An Expert System for Localization of Brain Structures from MRI.” Invited Talk at the Institute for Studies in Physics and Mathematics (IPM), Tehran, Iran, April 1999.  

174.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “Neural Networks for Signal and Image Processing.” Invited Talk at the University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, Feb. 1999.      

175.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “Multi-Wavelets for MRI Feature Extraction.” Invited Talk at the Institute for Studies in Physics and Mathematics (IPM), Tehran, Iran, Oct. 1998.         

176.     K.M.A. Welch, V. Nagesh, J.P. Windham, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, K.J. Robbins, D.J. Peck, J.A. Nelson, M.D. Boska, D.O. Hearshen, S.R. Levine, S. Patel: “Calculation of Average ADC in Acute Human Stroke Foci is Insensitive to Pseudonormalized and High ADC Regions of Diffusion-Weighted Images,” Abstract Published in Neurology, vol. 50, no. 4, pp. A442-A443, Apr. 1998.

177.     V. Nagesh, J.P. Windham, K.M.A. Welch, D.J. Peck, M.D. Boska, and H. Soltanian-Zadeh, “A Semi-Automatic Approach to Quantitatively Classifying Stroke Regions.” Presented at Brain 1997, Baltimore, WA, June 1997, Summary Published in the J. Cerb. Blood Flow and Metab., vol. 17-S1, pp. S110, 1997.

178.     M.R. Samadi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, and C. Lucas: “Surface Extraction Using Fuzzy Set Theory.” Presented at the Fifth Iranian Conference on Elec. Eng., Tehran, Iran, May 1997. 

179.     M. Rezaeian and H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “Time-Frequency Analysis of Noise.” Presented at the Fifth Iranian Conference on Elec. Eng., Tehran, Iran, May 1997.        

180.     V. Nagesh, J.P. Windham, K.M.A. Welch, M.D. Boska, and H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “Quantitative Classification of Stroke: A Semi-Automatic Approach.” Presented at the Fifth Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), Vancouver, B.C., Canada, April 1997, Summary Published in the Proc. of ISMRM Fifth Scientific Meeting, Vol. 1, pp. 420, 1997.      

181.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh, J.P. Windham, and D.J. Peck: “Optimal Feature Space for MRI: Application to Tumor Patients.” Presented at the 38th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), Anaheim, CA, July 1996, Abstract Published in Med. Phys., vol. 23, No. 6, pp. 1134, June 1996.  

182.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “Parallel Processing and its Applications in Medical Imaging.” Invited Talk at Amir Kabir University, Tehran, Iran, Dec. 1995.     

183.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “Medical Image Processing.” Invited Talk at Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, May 1995.   

184.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh, J.P. Windham, and F. Chen: “Automated Contour Extraction Using a Multi-Scale Approach.” Presented at the Second Annual Meeting of the Society of Magnetic Resonance (SMR), San Francisco, CA, August 1994.

185.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh, J.P. Windham, and D.J. Peck: “Semi-Automatic Brain Morphometry in CT.” Presented at the 36th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), Anaheim, CA, July 1994, Abstract Published in Med. Phys., vol. 21, No. 6, pp. 926, June 1994.

186.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh, J.P. Windham, and F. Chen: “Automated Contour Extraction Using a Multi-Scale Approach.” Presented at the 36th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), Anaheim, CA, July 1994, Abstract Published in Med. Phys., vol. 21, No. 6, pp. 892, June 1994.       

187.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh, J.P. Windham, and D.J. Peck: “An Optimal Feature Extraction Method for MRI.” Presented at the 35th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), Washington, DC, Aug. 1993, Abstract Published in Med. Phys., vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 893, May/June 1993.        

188.     J.P. Windham, D.J. Peck, and H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “Reproducibility Study for Volume Estimations in MRI of the Brain Using the Eigenimage Algorithm.” Presented at the 35th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), Washington, DC, Aug. 1993, Abstract Published in Med. Phys., vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 893, May/June 1993. 

189.     J.P. Windham, K. Karvelis, D. Wang, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, and D.J. Peck: “Ejection Fraction Estimation Using Filtered First Pass Studies.” Presented at the 1993 Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, June 1993, Abstract Published in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine, vol. 34, No. 5, pp. 97P, 1993.      

190.     J.P. Windham, D.J. Peck, and H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “Segmentation of Soft Tissue for 3D Visualization with MRI.” Presented at the 78th Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), Chicago, IL, Dec. 1992, Abstract Published in Radiology, vol. 185(P), pp. 175-176, 1992.     

191.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh and A.E. Yagle: “A Fast Algorithm for Extrapolation of Discrete Time Periodic Band-Limited Signals.” Presented at the Fifth Digital Signal Processing Workshop, Starved Rock State Park, Illinois, Sep. 1992. 

192.     J.P. Windham, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, and D.J. Peck: “Delineation of Internal Structure in Cerebral Tumors Using MRI.” Presented at the 34th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), Calgary, Canada, Aug. 1992, Abstract Published in Med. Phys., vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 844, May/June 1992.           

193.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh, J.P. Windham, and D.J. Peck: 'Magnetic Resonance Image Restoration Using a New Multi-Dimensional Non-Linear Edge-Preserving Filter.” Presented at the 34th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), Calgary, Canada, Aug. 1992, Abstract Published in Med. Phys., vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 782, May/June 1992.

194.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh, J.P. Windham, and D.O. Hearshen: “Pre-Processing of MR Image Sequences Using a New Edge-Preserving Multi-Dimensional Filter.” Presented at and Published in the Book of Abstracts of the 10th Annual Meeting of the Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (SMRM), vol. 2, pp. 748, San Francisco, CA, August 1991.  

195.     J.P. Windham, D.J. Peck, and H. Soltanian-Zadeh: “A Vector Subspace Method for Tissue Characterization Using MRI Sequences.” Presented at the 33rd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), San Francisco, CA, July 1991, Abstract Published in Med. Phys., vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 619, May/June 1991.  

196.     H. Soltanian-Zadeh, J.P. Windham, D.J. Peck, and A.E. Yagle: “Performance Analysis of Several Filters for Enhancement and Segmentation of MRI.” Presented at the 33rd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), San Francisco, CA, July 1991, Abstract Published in Med. Phys., vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 619, May/June 1991.

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