Azadeh Kushki

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Books

  1. A. Kushki, K.N. Plataniotis, A. N. Venetsanopoulos, "WLAN Positioning Systems: Principles and Application in Location-based Services", Cambridge University Press, 2012. 

Book Chapters

  1. M. Nikjoo, A. Kushki, C. Steele, and T. Chau, “Classification of physiological signals using reputation-based neural network classifier combinations”, Artificial Neural Networks, 2010.

  2. A. Kushki, K.N. Plataniotis, "Nonparametric Techniques for Pedestrian Tracking in Wireless Local Area Networks", in Handbook on Sensor and Array Processing, S. Haykin and K.J.R. Liu, Eds., IEEE-Wiley, 2009.

  3.  A. Kushki, K.N. Plataniotis, A. N. Venetsanopoulos, "Indoor Positioning with Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN)", in the Encyclopedia of Geographical Information Science, S. Shekhar and H. Xiong, Eds., Springer, pp.566-571, 2007.


Journal Papers Accepted or Published

  1. A. Kushki, A. Andrews, S. Power, G. King, T. Chau, "Classification of Activity Engagement in Individuals with Severe Physical Disabilities using Signals of the Peripheral Nervous System”, to appear in PLoS One (impact factor 4.41), 2012.

  2. S. Power, A. Kushki, and T. Chau, “Intersession consistency of single-trial classification of the prefrontal response to mental arithmetic and the no-control state by NIRS”, to appear in PLoS One, 2012.

  3. H. Schwellnus, H. Carnahan, A. Kushki, H. Polatajko, C. Missiuna, T. Chau, “The effect of pencil grasp on the speed and legibility of handwriting before and after a 10-minute copy task in typically developing children and children with dysgraphia”, to appear in the Australian Occupational Therapy Journal,  2011.

  4. H. Schwellnus, H. Carnahan, A. Kushki, H. Polatajko, C. Missiuna, T. Chau, “The writing forces associated with four pencil grasp patterns in Grade 4 children”, to appear in the American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 2011.

  5. S. Moghimi, A. Kushki, S. Power, A. M. Guerguerian, T. Chau, "Automatic detection of a prefrontal cortical response to emotionally-rated music using multi-channel near-infrared spectroscopy", to appear in the Journal of Neural Engineering, 2012.

  6. C. Merey, E. Sejdic, A. Kushki, G. Berall, T. Chau, "Quantitative classification of pediatric swallowing through accelerometry”, to appear in the Journal of Neuroengineering and Rehabilitation, 2012.

  7. A. Kushki, T. Chau, E. Anagnostou,“Handwriting Difficulties in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders – A Scoping Review”, to appear in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders (5-year impact factor: 4.4), 2011.

  8. A. Kushki, H. Schwellnus, F. Ilyas,T. Chau, “Changes in Kinetic and Kinematic Features of Handwriting Over a Prolonged Writing Task in Children with and without Dysgraphia”, to appear in Research in Developmental Disabilities (impact factor: 4.41, #1 journal in rehabilitation), 2011.

  9. A. Kushki, J. Fairely, S. Merja, G. King, T. Chau, “Comparison of Blood Volume Pulse and Skin Conductance Responses to Mental and Affective Stimuli at Different Anatomical Sites”, to appear in Physiological Measurement,2011.

  10. A. Myrden, A. Kushki, E. Sejdic, A.-M. Guerguerian, T. Chau, “A Brain-Computer Interface Based on Bilateral Transcranial Doppler Ultrasound”, to appear in PLoS One(impact factor 4.41),2011.

  11. H. Schwellnus, Heather Carnahan, A. Kushki, Helene Polatajko, Cheryl Missiuna, T. Chau, “The Effect of Pencil Grasp on the Speed and Legibility of Handwriting in Children”, to appear in the American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 2011.

  12. S. Power,A. Kushki, T. Chau, “Toward a system-paced NIRS-BCI: Differentiating Prefrontal Activity Due to Mental Arithmetic and Mental Singing from A No-Control State”, to appear in the Journal of Neural Engineering, 2011.

  13. L. Gane, S. Power,A. Kushki, T. Chau, “Thermal Imaging of the Periorbital Regions During the Presentation of an Auditory Startle Stimulus”, to appear in PLoS One(impact factor 4.41), 2011.

  14. A. Kushki, K.N. Plataniotis, A.N. Venetsanopoulos, "Intelligent Dynamic Radio Tracking in Indoor Wireless Local Area Networks", IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (5-year impact factor: 3.96), 9(3), 405-413, 2009.

  15. A. Kushki, M. Ajmal, and K.N. Plataniotis, “A Hierarchical Fuzzy Aggregation Scheme for Presentation Slide Retrieval”, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, 2009. 

  16. A. Kushki, K.N. Plataniotis, A.N. Venetsanopoulos, "Kernel-based Positioning in Wireless Local Area Networks", IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (5-year impact factor: 3.96), 6(6), pp.689-705, 2007. 

  17. M. Almaoui, A. Kushki, K.N. Plataniotis, "Metadata-driven Multimedia Transcoding for Distance Learning", Springer/ACM Multimedia Systems Journal, 12(6), pp.505-520, 2007. 

  18. P. Androutsos, A. Kushki, K.N. Plataniotis, A.N. Venetsanopoulos, “Aggregation of Color and Shape Features for Hybrid Query Generation in Content Based Visual Information Retrieval”, Signal Processing Journal, 85(2), pp.385-393, 2005.

  19. A. Kushki, P. Androutsos, K.N. Plataniotis, A.N. Venetsanopoulos, “Retrieval From Artistic Repositories Using a Decision Fusion Framework”, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (5-year impact factor: 4.14), 13(2), pp.277-292, 2004.

  20. A. Kushki, P. Androutsos, K.N. Plataniotis, A.N. Venetsanopoulos, “Query Feedback for Interactive Image Retrieval”, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (5-year impact factor: 3.19), 14(5), pp.644-655, May 2004.

Conference Papers and Presentations

  1. A. Kushki, M. Pla Mobarak, E. Drumm, N. Tanel, T. Chau, E. Anagnostou, “Investigating the Autonomic Nervous System Response to Anxiety in Children with ASD”, International Meeting for Autism Research (poster presentation) , May 2012.

  2. B. Batorowicz, G. Teachman, G. King, G., B. Gibson, P. Rigby, B. Mistry, L. Thompson, M. McMain-Klein, A. Kushki, T. Chau, M. Pinto, M., "A toolbox of innovative techniques and instruments to assess youth’s activity settings”, the 15th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (presentation), 2012s.

  3. K.A.R. Doyle-Thomas, A. Kushki, E. G. Duerden, M.J. Taylor, J.P. Lerch, L.V. Soorya, A.T. Wang, J. Fan, E. Hollander, E. Anagnostou, “The Effect of Age and Symptom Severity on Brain Surface Area on Autism Spectrum Disorders”, International Meeting for Autism Research, 2012.

  4. A. Kucukelbir, A. Kushki, K.N. Plataniotis, "A new stochastic estimator for tremor frequency tracking", to appear in the proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2009. 

  5. A. Kushki, K.N. Plataniotis, and A.N. Venetsanopoulos, "Sensor Selection for Mitigation of RSS-based Attacks in Wireless Local Area Network Positioning", to appear in the proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2008.

  6. M. Ajmal, A. Kushki, K.N. Plataniotis, "Time-Compression of Speech in Informational Talks using Spectral Entropy", to appear in the proceedings of the Eighth International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS 2007), 2007.

  7. A. Kushki, K.N. Plataniotis, A.N. Venetsanopoulos, "Location Tracking in Wireless Local Area Networks with Adaptive Radio Maps", in proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), vol.5, pp.741-744, 2006. 

  8. A. Kushki, K.N. Plataniotis, A.N. Venetsanopoulos, C. Regazzoni, "Radio Map Fusion for Indoor Positioning in Wireless Local Area Networks", in proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Information Fusion, vol.2, pp.1311-1318, 2005.

  9. A. Kushki, P. Androutsos, A.N. Venetsanopoulos, "Interactive Image Retrieval By Query Fusion", in proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), vol.3, pp.465-468, 2004.

  10. P. Androutsos, A. Kushki, , K.N. Plataniotis, A.N. Venetsanopoulos, "Practical MPEG-7 image indexing & retrieval for undergraduates", in proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), vol. 5, pp.1037-1040, 2004. 

  11. A. Kushki, P. Androutsos, K.N. Plataniotis, A.N. Venetsanopoulos,"A Unified Framework for Similarity Calculation Between Images", in proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), vol.2, pp.9-12, 2004.

  12. M. Almaoui, A. Kushki, K. N. Plataniotis, "Adaptive Multimedia Transcoding Using Cached XSLT Instances", in proceedings of 22nd Biennial Symposium on Communications, 2004.

  13. P. Androutsos, A. Kushki, K.N. Plataniotis, A.N. Venetsanopoulos, D. Androutsos, "Distributed MPEG-7 image indexing using small world user agents",in proceedings of the Internal Conference on mage Processing (ICIP'04), vol.1, pp.641 - 644, 2004.

  14. P. Androutsos, A. Kushki, K.N. Plataniotis, A.N. Venetsanopoulos,“A Decision Fusion Framework for Content-Based Image Retrieval”, in proceedings of WSEAS International Conference, 2003.

  15. A. Kushki, P. Androutsos, K. Plataniotis, and A. Venetsanopoulos, “Fuzzy aggregation of image features in content-based image retrieval,” in proceedings of the International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2002.

  16.  P. Androutsos, A. Kushki, K.N. Plataniotis, and A.N. Venetsanopoulos, “Fuzzy aggregation of palette colors for hybrid querying of fine art image databases,” in proceedings of International Conference on Digital Signal Processing, 2002.

Articles Submitted to Journals and Conferences 

  1. J. Torres-Solis, A. Kushki, and T. Chau, “A Mediated Reality Location Aware (MERLA) System to Facilitate Indoor Topographical Orientation”, submitted to Journal of Location-based Services, 2010.

  2. A. Kushki, E. Sejdic, A. Fleury, D. Sritharan, E. Anagnostou, T. Chau, “Investigating Age-Related Changes in Temporal Characteristics of Metronomically-Paced and Self-Paced Repetitive Circle Drawing”, submitted to Human Movement Science (under revision), 2010. 

  3. A. Kushki, S. Haykin, "The Cognitive Mobile Assistant", submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (under revision),2009.

Other Contributions

  1. A. Kushki, "A Cognitive Radio Tracking System for Indoor Environments", Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, 2008. 

  2. A. Kushki, “An Interactive Framework for Content-Based Image Retrieval”, M.A.Sc. Thesis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada, 2003. (pdf)