PUBLICATIONS

  • Ali Ahmadvand, Jason Ingyu Choi, and Eugene Agichtein. “Contextual Dialogue Act Classification for Open-Domain Conversational Agents”, In Proceedings of the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pp. 1273-1276. ACM, 2019. [Link]
  • Ali Ahmadvand, Harshita Sahijwani, Jason Ingyu Choi, and Eugene Agichtein. “ConCET: Entity-Aware Topic Classification for Open-Domain Conversational Agents”, In proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), ACM, 2019. [Link]
  • Jason Ingyu Choi, Ali Ahmadvand, and Eugene Agichtein. “Offline and Online Satisfaction Prediction in Open-Domain Conversational Systems”, In proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), ACM, 2019. [Link]
  • Ali Ahmadvand, Ingyu Choi, Harshita Sahijwani, Justus Schmidt, Mingyang Sun, Sergey Volokhin, Zihao Wang, and Eugene Agichtein. “Emory IrisBot: An Open-Domain Conversational Bot For Personalized Information Access”, Proc. Alexa Prize, 2018. [Link]
  • Wang, Zihao, Ali Ahmadvand, Jason Ingyu Choi, Payam Karisani, and Eugene Agichtein. “Emersonbot: Information-focused Conversational AI Emory university at the Alexa Prize 2017 Challenge”, Proc. Alexa Prize, 2017. [Link]
  • Ali Ahmadvand, Supreeth Prajwal, Shamim Nemati, Falgun H. Chokshi, "Performance of Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Classification of Acute Territorial Infarct on Brain MRI: A Pilot Study for Computer Vision in Stroke Neuroimaging". SIIM Scientific Conference on Machine Intelligence in Medical Imaging, Fall 2016.
  • Ali Ahmadvand, Mohamad Reza Daliri,”Invariant Texture Analysis Using Spatial Filter Bank in Multi Resolution Analysis”, Image and Vision Computing, ELSEVIER, 2015. [Link]
  • Ali Ahmadvand, Mohammad Reza Daliri, “Rotation Invariant Texture Classification Using Extended Wavelet Channel Combining and LL channel Filter banks”, Knowledge-Based Systems, ELSEVIER, 2015. [Link]
  • Ali Ahmadvand, Mohamad Reza Daliri, “Improving the Runtime of MRF Based Method for MRI Image Segmentation”, Applied Mathematics and Computation, ELSEVIER, 2015. [Link]
  • Ali Ahmadvand, Mohamad Reza Daliri, “A Review on Texture Analysis Methods in Biomedical image Analysis" OMICS J Radiology, OMICS GROUP, 2016. [Link]
  • Ali Ahmadvand, Mohammad Sharififar, Mohamad Reza Daliri, “Supervised Segmentation of MRI Brain Images Using Combination of Multiple Classifiers”, Australasian Physical & Engineering Sciences in Medicine, SPRINGER, 2015. [Link]
  • Ali Ahmadvand, Peyman Kabiri, “Multi Spectral MRI Image Segmentation Using Markov Random Field Model”, Signal, Image and Video Processing, SPRINGER, 2014. [Link]
  • Ali Ahmadvand, Mohamad Reza Daliri, “Brain MR Image Segmentation Methods and Applications”, OMICS J Radiology, OMICS GROUP, 2014. [Link]
  • Ali Ahmadvand, Mohammadtaghi Hajiali, Rahim Ahmadvand, Mohammad Reza Mosavi, “An Novel Ensemble Based Method for MRI Brain Image Segmentation”, International Conference on Knowledge-Based Engineering and Innovation (KBEI), IEEE conference, 05 Nov - 06 Nov 2015. [Link]
  • Mohammadtaghi Hajiali, Ali Ahmadvand, Mohammad Reza Mosavi, Kamran Shahanaghi “Estimation of Project Completion Time using Proper Fuzzy Combination of Regression Methods”, International Conference on Knowledge-Based Engineering and Innovation (KBEI), IEEE conference, 05 Nov - 06 Nov 2015. [Link]
  • Ali Ahmadvand, Mohammadtaghi Hajiali, Rahim Ahmadvand, Mohammad Reza Mosavi, “A Novel LBP Based Method for Invariant Texture Classification”, International Conference on Knowledge-Based Engineering and Innovation (KBEI), IEEE conference, 05 Nov - 06 Nov 2015. [Link]
  • Ali Ahmadvand, Mohammad Reza Daliri, Mohammadtaghi Hajiali, “DCS-SVM: a novel semi-automated method for human brain MR image segmentation”, Biomedical Engineering/Biomedizische Technik, 2015. [Link]
  • Jaber Zafari, Fatemeh Javani Jouni, Ali Ahmadvand, Parviz Abdolmaleki, Malihe Soodi, Rezvan Zendehdel” Investigation of Genes Expression in Differentiated Cells Derived Bone Marrow Stem Cells During Bone Morphogenetic Protein-4 Treatments With Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy”, spectrochimica acta part A: molecular and biomolecular spectroscopy, ELSEVIER, 2015. [Link]
  • Ali Ahmadvand, Sahar Yousefi, Mohammad Taghi Manzuri Shalmani, “A novel Markov Random Field Model Based on Region Adjacency Graph for T1 Magnetic Resonance Imaging Brain Segmentation”, Internation Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology, WIELY, 2017.
  • Ali Ahmadvand, Sayyed Mohammmad Reza Zahiri, Mohammad Reza Daliri, “DCSMRF: A Novel Ensemble Based Segmentation Method for MRI Brain images ”, Multimedia Tools and Applications, SPRINGER, 2015.