Hossein Rabbani, PhD, SMIEEE
Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences
&
Medical Image & Signal Processing Research Center
Tel: 98 (31) 3792-3862Â Â Â
E-mail: h_rabbani@med.mui.ac.ir
Objective and Fields of Interest
                                    Objective: Research in multidimensional signal processing including biosignal analysis and modeling (especially medical image/volume), sparse transforms, noise reduction and estimation problem, image/video restoration, probability models of sparse domainâs coefficients.
                                    Fields of interest: Biomedical signal analysis and processing including multidimensional data, time-frequency analysis tools including x-lets, denoising, statistical signal processing, applied mathematics (currently I am focusing on Statistical & Mathematical Modeling of Medical Signals and Systems).
2013 â2014Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Duke Eye Center, Durham, United States.Â
     -     Research topic: âAutomatic Analysis of Various Types of Leakages in Fluorescein Angiograms and Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT)âÂ
     -     Supervisor: Prof. Sina FarsiuÂ
2011Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Postdoctoral Research Scholar, The University of Iowa, Iowa, United States.Â
    -      Research topic: âOptical Coherence Tomography (OCT) Image AnalysisâÂ
    -      Supervisors: Prof. Milan Sonka & Prof. Michael Abramoff
2002 â 2008Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Doctoral Researches, Bioelectrics (1st rank in entrance exam)
Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran.   Â
- Â Â Â Â Â Â Dissertation research topic: âMedical Image/Volume Noise Reduction in Multidimensional Complex Wavelet Transform Domain Using Bivariate Mixture Modelsâ
- Â Â Â Â Â Â Supervisor: Prof. Mansur Vafadust
- Â Â Â Â Â Â Passed Ph.D. courses: advanced digital signal processing, biomedical signal processing, advanced biomedical signal processing, advanced digital image processing , advanced digital communication, spread spectrum, system identification, advanced neural network.
-       Passed the qualifying examination in Sept. 2004. Â
2007Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Visiting Research Scholar, Electrical & Computer Engineering Department, Queenâs University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
 -     Research topic: âStatistical modeling of sparse domainâs coefficients and its application to medical image/volume denoisingâ
 -     Supervisor: Prof. Saeed Gazor
2000 â 2002Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Master of Science, Bioelectrics (3rd rank)
Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran.
-     Research areas: motion estimation, wavelet transform (multiwavelet, complex wavelet), image denoising, video restorations (blotches, scratches,âŚ).
-Â Â Â Â Â Dissertation research topic:Â âVideo Restoration based on Motion Estimation in Complex Wavelet Domainâ
-Â Â Â Â Â Supervisor: Prof. Mansur Vafadust
-Â Â Â Â Â Advisor: Prof. Shohreh Kasaei
-Â Â Â Â Â Passed M.Sc. courses: digital signal processing, biomedical signal processing, digital image processing, medical imaging systems, stochastic processes, statistical pattern recognition, digital control systems, bioinstrument, and neural network.
1997 â 2000 Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Bachelor of Science, Communication (1st rank)
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Isfahan University of Technology (IUT), Isfahan, Iran.
 -     Dissertation research topic: âDesigning and Constructing of Laser Communication between Two Computersâ
  2003-2013          Teaching
- Â Â Â Undergraduate level courses
(B.Sc. students, Amirkabir University of Technology):
¡     Statistics and probability
¡     Analog and digital communication systems
- Â Â Â Â Graduate level courses
(M.Sc. & Ph.D. students, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences):
¡     Advanced Biomedical Signal Processing
¡     Biological Signal & System Modeling
¡     Biomedical Signal Processing
¡     Digital Image Processing
¡     Digital Signal Processing Â
¡     Information Technology in Biomedicine
¡     Medical Image Processing & Analysis
¡     Neural Network
¡     Pattern Recognition
¡     Stochastic Processes
¡     Sparse Transforms and Their Applications in Signal Processing
¡     System Identification
¡     Advanced Biological Signal & System Modeling
¡     Convex Optimization
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Supervising and Advising
- Â Â Â Supervisor:Â
PhD dissertation researches entitled:
¡     Combination of graph based algorithms and time-frequency methods for processing of OCTs
¡     A new model based on multivariable Gaussianization of optical coherence tomography (OCT) data
¡     Seeking an appropriate feature extraction method for breast cancer recurrence prediction based on microarray gene expression data
¡     Automatic detection of acute myeloid leukemia in microscopy images using dictionary learning
¡     Automatic analysis of features of AMD in OCT images using 3D curvelet transform
¡     Automatic diagnosis of Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) by dictionary learning -based analysis of EEG signals
PhD dissertation researches entitled (in progress):
¡     3D Sparse Reconstruction of Cone-beam CT
¡     3D OCT Classification by Deep Learning
¡     Multivariate Statistical Modeling of OCT Images
¡     Sparse Representation of PH Monitoring Signals
¡     Energy-based Modeling of OCT Images
M.Sc. dissertation researches entitled:
¡     Image restoration using Gaussian mixture models with neighborhood nonlocal clustering
¡     Evaluation of the symmetricity of cup to disk ratio in left and right eyes of normal subjects
¡     Mosaicing macula OCT images and OCT optical disk
¡     Designing a dictionary for OCT images based on K-SVD algorithm using texture characteristics of retinal layers for image segmentation
¡     Automatic segmentation of corneal layer boundaries in OCT images and obtaining 3D maps of the entire thickness of cornea and inner layers
¡     Automatic detection of leishman bodies in bone marrow samples from patients with visceral leishmaniasis using level set method
¡     Evaluation of asymmetricity of right and left eyes of normal subjects using extracted features from optical coherence tomography (OCT) and color fundus images
¡     Automatic diagnosis of malaria based on complete circle-ellipse fitting search algorithm
¡     Automatic segmentation and recognition of lung nodules in thoracic CT images using active contour modeling and convex hull
¡     Segmentation of enhanced depth imaging optical coherence tomography (EDI-OCT) images using graph cut algorithm based on Gaussian mixture model of wavelet features
¡     Forming projection images from retinal layers on the 3D optical coherence tomography (OCT) data and fusion of them using curvelet transform to form an optimal projection image
¡     Evaluation of image pre-compensation methods for enhancing visual efficiency in the presence of higher order ocular optical aberrations
¡     Extraction of 15-lead ECG signal from vectorcardiogram (VCG) signal using partial linear transformation for providing information from posterior side of the heart
¡     Detection of foveal avascular zone (FAZ) based on curvelet transform for grading of diabetic retinopathy
¡     Extraction of nucleolus candidate zone in white blood cells of peripheral blood smear images using curvelet transform
¡     A comparison between hp version of finite element method with EIDORS for electrical impedance tomography
¡     A comparison between ECG and VCG signals for detection of ischemia location
¡     Estimation of somatosensory evoked potentials with multi-adaptive filters
¡     A contourlet-based watermarking method for medical images
¡     Automatic detection of diabetic retinopathy by extraction of retinal image features in curvelet domainÂ
¡     Estimating depth of anesthesia based on wavelet transform and neuro-fuzzy systems
¡     Microcalcification detection in mammographic images using fractal model in wavelet domainÂ
¡     Persian script character recognition using PCA
¡     A comparison between ECG and VCG for detection of ischemia
¡     Automatic detection and recognition of lung nodule in CT image based on active contour
¡     Complexity analysis of EEG signals for Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) diagnosis
¡     3D segmentation of proximal enamel lesions in micro-ct images
¡     Automatic analysis of tracheal acoustic signals for apnea detection and introducing new clinical indices of depth of sedation
¡    Statistical modeling of 3D OCT data by mixture model
       B.Sc. dissertation research entitled:
¡     Angle detection for biomaterial based on image processing
- Â Â Â Advisor: M.Sc. dissertation researches entitled:
¡   Transform based ellipse detection in microscopic images using elliptical basis functions
¡  Automatic extraction and recognition of myeloma cell in microscopic bone marrow aspiration images
¡  Extraction of candida fungus from pap smear images based on ridgelet transform for vulvovaginal candidiasis diagnosis
¡  Extraction of vessels, optic disc and fovea avascular zone from fundus fluorescein angiogram based on Hessian analysis of directional curvelet subbands
¡  Medical image compression with multi-wavelet
¡  A new adaptive technique for fast and accurate estimation of SSAEP
 Honors
                                                -     My grades in entrance exam of universities were: Mathematics: 98%, Physics: 86.7%, Chemistry:  91.2%.
¡     I had this opportunity to choose all of the best universities in Iran.
-Â Â Â Â Â B.Sc. Degree with the honor of the 1st rank from Isfahan University of Technology.
-Â Â Â Â Â M.Sc. Degree with the honor of the 3rd rank from Amirkabir University of Technology.
-Â Â Â Â Â 1st rank in the Ph.D. entrance exam of Amirkabir University of Technology in bioelectrics.
-Â Â Â Â Â 1st rank in the Ph.D. entrance exam of Isfahan University of Technology in communication engineering.
-Â Â Â Â Â Outstanding selected Ph.D. thesis by Iranian Society for Biomedical Engineering.
-Â Â Â Â Â The winner of national prize of âYoung Assistant Professorsâ.
IEEE Senior Member
Signal Processing Society, Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Circuits and Systems Society, Computer Society
SPIE member
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
IEEE Signal Processing Letters
IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience & Remote Sensing
IEEE Transactions on Circuits & Systems for Video Technology
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics-Part B: Cybernetics
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems
IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
IET Image Processing Journal
IET Signal Processing Journal
IET Computer Vision
Pattern Recognition
Signal Processing
Computers in Biology & Medicine
Digital Signal Processing
Biomedical Signal Processing & Control
Pattern Recognition Letters
Ultrasonics
Journal of Biophotonics
Journal of Biomedical Optics
Measurement
Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine,
Journal of Visual Image Communication & Representation
Applied Optics
Optics Letters
Journal of the Optical Society of America A
Biomedical Optics Express
PLOS ONE
Journal of Medical Systems
The Computer Journal
Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing
Neural Computing & Applications
Journal of Applied Mathematics
EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing
Signal, Image and Video Processing (Springer)
Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing (Springer)
Circuits, Systems & Signal Processing (Springer)
Current Medical Imaging Reviews
International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence
Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences
Measurement Science Review
Electronics Letters
SPIE Journal of Medical Imaging
Complexity
Progress in Electromagnetic Research (PIER)
BMC Open
BMC Medical Imaging
Iranian Journal on Electrical & Computer Engineering
Editorial Board Member:
Journal of Isfahan Medical School
Journal of Medical Signals and Sensors (Editor-in-Chief)
Publications
International Journal Papers
R. Kafieh, H. Rabbani, M. Sonka, M. D. Abramoff, "Intra-Retinal Layer Segmentation of 3D Optical Coherence Tomography Using Coarse Grained Diffusion Map", Medical Image Analysis, accepted, vol. 17, no. 8, pp. 907-928, Dec. 2013.
R. Kafieh, H. Rabbani, F. Hajizadeh, M. Ommani, S. Kermani, "An Accurate Multimodal 3D Vessel Segmentation Method Based on Brightness Variations on OCT Layers and Curvelet Domain Fundus Image Analysis", IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 60, no. 10, pp. 2815-2823, Oct. 2013.
M. Sheikhhosseini, H. Rabbani, M. Zekri, A. Talebi, "Automatic Diagnosis of Malaria Based on Complete Circle-Ellipse Fitting Search Algorithm", Journal of Microscopy, vol. 252, no. 3, pp. 189-203, 2013.
H. Danesh, R. Kafieh, H. Rabbani, F. Hajizadeh, âSegmentation of Choroidal Boundary in Enhanced Depth Imaging OCTs Using a Multiresolution Texture Based Modeling in Graph Cutsâ, Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine, Article ID 479268, 2013.
SH. Hajeb, H. Rabbani, MR. Akhlaghi, "A New Combined Method Based on Curvelet Transform and Morphological Operators for Automatic Detection of Foveal Avascular Zone", Signal, Image & Video Processing (Springer), 2013.
H. Rabbani, M. Sonka, M. D. Abramoff, "Optical Coherence Tomography Noise Reduction Using Anisotropic Local Bivariate Gaussian Mixture Prior in 3-D Complex Wavelet Domain", International Journal of Biomedical Imaging, vol. 2013, Article ID 417491, 23 pages.
M. Golabakhsh, H. Rabbani, "Vessel Based Registration of Fundus and OCT Projection Images of Retina Using a Quadratic Registration Model", IET Image Processing, vol. 7, no. 8, pp. 768-776, Nov. 2013.
M. Etehadtavakol, E.Y.K. Ng, V. Chandranc, H. Rabbani, "Separable and Non-separable Discrete Wavelet Transform based Texture Features and Image Classification of Breast Thermograms", Infrared Physics & Technology, vol. 61, pp. 274-286, Nov. 2013.
R. Kafieh, H. Rabbani, M. Sonka, M. D. Abramoff, âCurvature Correction of Retinal OCTs Using Graph-Based Geometry Detection", Physics in Medicine & Biology, vol. 58, pp. 2925-2938, 2013.
H. Rabbani and S. Gazor, "Local Probability Distribution of Natural Signals in Sparse Domains," International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, accepted, 2013.
H. Rabbani, S. Gazor, "Video Denoising in 3-D Complex Wavelet Domain Using Local Bessel K-Form Prior", IET Image Processing, vol. 6, no. 9, pp. 1262-1274, Dec. 2012.
M. Esmaeili, H. Rabbani, A. M. Dehnavi, A. Dehghani, âAutomatic Detection of Exudates and Optic Disk in Retinal Images Using Curvelet Transform", IET Image Processing, vol. 6, no. 7, pp. 1005-1013, Oct. 2012.
SH. Hajeb, H. Rabbani, MR. Akhlaghi âDiabetic Retinopathy Grading by Digital Curvelet Transform", Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine, vol. 2012, Article ID 761901, 11 pages, 2012.
SH. Hajeb, H. Rabbani, A. M. Dehnavi, MR. Akhlaghi, SH. H. Javanmard, âAnalysis of Foveal Avascular Zone for Grading of Diabetic Retinopathy Severity Based on Curvelet Transform", Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology (Springer), vol. 250, no. 11, pp. 1607-1614, Nov. 2012.
R. Soltanzadeh, H. Rabbani, A. Talebi, âExtraction of Nucleolus Candidate Zone in White Blood Cells of Peripheral Blood Smear Images Using Curvelet Transformâ, Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine, vol. 2012, Article ID 574184, 12 pages, 2012.
M. Esmaeili, H. Rabbani, A. Mehri, âAutomatic Optic Disk Boundary Extraction by the Use of Curvelet Transform and Deformable Variational Level Set Modelâ, Pattern Recognition, vol. 47, no. 7, pp. 2832-2842, July 2012.
H. Rabbani, M. P. Mahjub, E. Farahabadi, A. Farahabadi, A. Mehri, âAn Entropy-Based Method for Ischemia Diagnosis Using ECG Signal in Wavelet Domainâ, Journal of Research in Medical Sciences, vol. 16, no. 11, pp. 1473-1482, 2011.
Hossein Rabbani, âStatistical modeling of low SNR magnetic resonance images in wavelet domain using Laplacian prior and two-sided Rayleigh noise for visual quality improvementâ, Measurement Science Review, vol. 11, no. 4., pp. 125-130, 2011.
Farhad Rahimi and Hossein Rabbani, "A dual adaptive watermarking scheme in contourlet domain for DICOM images", BioMedical Engineering OnLine, 10:53, 2011.
A. Mehri, E. Farahabadi, H. Rabbani, A. Farahabadi, M. P. Mahjub, N. Rajabi, âDetection and Classification of Cardiac Ischemia by Using Vectorcardiogram Signal via Neural Networkâ, Journal of Research in Medical Sciences, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 136-142, 2011.
H. Rabbani, S. Gazor, âImage Denoising Employing Local Mixture Models in Sparse Domainsâ, IET Image Processing, vol. 4, no. 5, pp. 413-428, Oct. 2010.
H. Rabbani, M. Vafadoost, S. Gazor, R. Nezafat, âWavelet-Based 3D Medical Image Denoising Using Bivariate Laplacian Mixture Modelâ, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 56, no. 12, pp.2826-2837, Dec. 2009.
H. Rabbani, âImage Denoising in Steerable Pyramid Domain Based on a Local Laplace Priorâ, Pattern Recognition, vol. 42, pp. 2181-2193, Sept. 2009.
H. Rabbani, M. Vafadoost, S. Gazor, P. Abolmaesumi, "Speckle Noise Reduction of Medical Ultrasound Images in Complex Wavelet Domain Using Mixture Priors", IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 55, no.9, pp. 2152-2160, Sept. 2008.
H. Rabbani, M. Vafadoost, "Image/Video Denoising Based on a Mixture of Laplace Distributions with Local Parameters in Multidimensional Complex Wavelet Domain", Signal Processing, vol. 88, pp. 158-173, Jan. 2008. H. Rabbani, M. Vafadoost, "Wavelet Based Image Denoising Based on a Mixture of Laplace Distributionsâ, Iranian Journal of Science & Technology, Transaction B., Engineering, vol. 30, no. B6., pp. 711-733, 2006.
Book Chapters
Alireza Mehri Dehnavi, Nilufar Salehpour, Hossein Rabbani, Eiman Farahabadi, Amin Farahabadi, Automatic Analysis of Vectorcardiogram Signal for Detection of Cardiovascular Diseases, Cardiovascular Disease, ISBN 978-1-922227-28-7, Publisher: iConcept Press, 2013.
Hossein Rabbani, Alireza Mehri Dehnavi and Mehrab Ghanatbari, Estimation the Depth of Anesthesia by the Use of Artificial Neural Network, Artificial Neural Networks - Methodological Advances and Biomedical Applications, ISBN 978-953-307-243-2, Edited by: Kenji Suzuki, Publisher: InTech, April 2011.Â
Selected International Conference Papers
          R. Shams, H. Rabbani, âA comparison between x-lets in denoising cDNA microarray imagesâ, in Proc. IEEE 2014 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Florence, Italy, May 4-9, 2014, pp. 2483-2487.
          R. Kafieh, H. Rabbani, âCombination of graph theoretic grouping and time-frequency analysis for image segmentation with an example for EDI-OCTâ, in Proc. IEEE 2014 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Florence, Italy, May 4-9, 2014, pp. 5115-5119.
A. Soltani, S. Sadri, H. Rabbani, A. Doost-Hosseini, "Vessel Centerlines Extraction from Fundus Fluorescein Angiogram Based on Hessian Analysis of Directional Curvelet Subbands", accepted in IEEE 2013 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Vancouver, Canada, May 26-31, 2013.
R. Kafieh, H. Danesh, H. Rabbani, M. Sonka, M. D. Abramoff, "Vessel Segmentation in Images of Optical Coherence Tomography Using Shadow Information and Thickening of Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer", accepted in IEEE 2013 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Vancouver, Canada, May 26-31, 2013.
R. Kafieh, H. Rabbani, M. Sonka, M. D. Abramoff, âIntra-Retinal Layer Segmentation of Optical Coherence Tomography Using Diffusion Mapâ, accepted in IEEE 2013 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Vancouver, Canada, May 26-31, 2013.
R. Kafieh, H. Rabbani, M. D. Abramoff, M. Sonka, âOCT image alignment using diffusion mapsâ, accepted in IEEE 2013 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Vancouver, Canada, May 26-31, 2013.
Raheleh Kafieh, Hossein Rabbani, âOptical coherence tomography noise reduction over learned dictionaries with introduction of complex wavelet for start dictionaryâ, accepted in Wavelets & Sparsity XV, Part of SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, California, United States Aug. 25-29, 2013.
R. Shams, H. Rabbani, âA comparison between x-lets in denoising cDNA microarray imagesâ, accepted in Applications of Digital Image Processing XXXVI, Part of SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, California, United States Aug. 25-29, 2013.
SH. Hajeb, H. Rabbani, âAutomatic detection of micro-aneurysms in retinal images based on curvelet transform and morphological operationsâ, accepted in Applications of Digital Image Processing XXXVI, Part of SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, California, United States Aug. 25-29, 2013.
Hossein Yousofi, Hossein Rabbani, Peyman Adibi, âAutomatic fuzzy based level set method for segmentation of Barrett's esophagus in endoscopy imagesâ, accepted in Applications of Digital Image Processing XXXVI, Part of SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, California, United States Aug. 25-29, 2013.
Raheleh Kafieh, Hossein Rabbani, âCombination of graph theoretic grouping and time-frequency analysis for image segmentation with an example for EDI-OCTâ, accepted in Applications of Digital Image Processing XXXVI, Part of SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, California, United States Aug. 25-29, 2013.
Tahereh Mahmudi, Raheleh Kafieh, Hossein Rabbani, âComparison of macular OCTs in right and left eyes of normal peopleâ, accepted in Applications of Digital Image Processing XXXVI, Part of SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, California, United States Aug. 25-29, 2013.
Monireh Sheikhhosseini, Hossein Rabbani, Maryam Zekri, Ardeshir Talebi, âAutomatic diagnosis of malaria by use of least square circle-ellipse fitting searchâ, accepted in Applications of Digital Image Processing XXXVI, Part of SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, California, United States Aug. 25-29, 2013.
Omid Sarrafzadeh, Hossein Rabbani, Ardeshir Talebi, âThe best features selection for Leukocytes classification in blood smear microscopic imagesâ, accepted in Applications of Digital Image Processing XXXVI, Part of SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, California, United States Aug. 25-29, 2013.
SH. Gashmard, A. Mehri, H. Rabbani, "A New Combined Method for Character Recognizing in Farsi Printed Scripts Using PCA", in Proc. ACM International Workshop on Natural Language Processing, Aug. 3-5, 2012, Chennai, India, pp. 812-815.
N. Salehpour, A. Mehri, H. Rabbani, M. Behjati, âPartial Linear Transformation of Vectorcardiogram to 12 Lead Electrocardiogram Signalsâ, in Proc. IEEE 12th International Conference on Bioinformatics & Bioengineering, Larnaca, Cyprus, November 11-13, 2012, pp. 91-94.
M. Golabakhsh, H. Rabbani, M. Esmaeili, âDetection and Registration of Vessels of Fundus and Oct Images Using Curvelet Analysisâ, in Proc. IEEE 12th International Conference on Bioinformatics & Bioengineering, Larnaca, Cyprus, November 11-13, 2012, pp. 594-597.
N. Salehpour, A. Mehri, H. Rabbani, M. Behjati, âPosterior ECG: Producing a new electrocardiogram signal from vectorcardiogram using partial linear transformationâ, in Proc. IEEE 12th International Conference on Bioinformatics & Bioengineering, Larnaca, Cyprus, November 11-13, 2012, pp. 95-98.
J. Jalili, H. Rabbani, R. Kafieh, A. Mehri, âForming Projection Images From Each Layer of Retina Using Diffusion Map Based OCT Segmentationâ, in Proc. 11th IEEE International Conference on Information Science, Signal Processing and their Applications, Quebec, Canada, 2012, pp. 930-934.
S. Mohammadpour, A. Mehri, H. Rabbani, V. Lakshminarayanan, âA Pre-Compensation Algorithm for Different Optical Aberrations Using an Enhanced Wiener Filter and Edge Taperingâ, in Proc. 11th IEEE International Conference on Information Science, Signal Processing and their Applications, Quebec, Canada, 2012, pp. 935-939.
R. Kafieh, H. Rabbani, M. Forouhandeh, Circular symmetric Laplacian mixture model in wavelet diffusion for dental image denoising, accepted in SPIE Medical Imaging , California, 2012.
E. Farahabadi, A. Farahabadi, H. Rabbani, M. Parsa Mahjoub, âDetection of QRS Complex in Electrocardiogram Signal Based on a Combination of Hilbert Transform, Wavelet Transform and Adaptive Thresholding,â in Proc. IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics, China, 2012, pp. 170-173.
E. Farahabadi, A. Farahabadi, A. Mehri Dehnavi, H. Rabbani, M. Parsa Mahjoub, âIschemia Detection via Dynamic Time Warping and Fuzzy Rulesâ, in Proc. IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics, 2012, pp. 166-169.
H. Rabbani, S. Gazor, âLocal probability distribution of natural signals in sparse domainsâ, in Proc. 2011 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Prague Congress Centre (PCC), May 22-27, 2011, pp. 1289-1292,
The Winner of ICASSP 2011 Travel Grant.
R. Kafieh, H. Rabbani, âWavelet-Based Medical Infrared Image Noise Reduction Using Local Model for Signal and Noiseâ, in Proc. 2011 IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing (SSP2011), Nice, France, 2011, pp. 549-552.
A. Shirazi, H. Ahmadi Noubari, A. Mehri Dehnavi and H. Rabbani, "Application of wavelets and fractal-based methods for detection of microcalcification in mammograms: a comparative analysis using neural network", Proc. SPIE 8285, 82857E, 2011.
M. Esmaili, H. Rabbani, A. Mehri, A. Dehghani, âA new curvelet transform based method for extraction of red lesions in digital color retinal imagesâ, in Proc. 2010 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Hong Kong, 26-29 Sept. 2010, pp. 4093-4096, The Winner of IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Grant.
H. Rabbani, âVideo deblurring in complex wavelet domain using local Laplace prior for enhancement and anisotropic spatially adaptive denoising for PSF detectionâ, in Proc. 2010 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Hong Kong, 26-29 Sept. 2010, pp. 3329-3332.
M. Ghanatbari, A. Mehri Dehnavi, H. Rabbani, A. Mahuri, âA comparative study of the output correlations between wavelet transform, neural and neuro fuzzy networks and BIS index for depth of anesthesiaâ, accepted in IEEE Symposium on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ISIEA 2010), Malaysia, 3-6 Oct. 2010, pp.655-659.
F. Rahimi, H. Rabbani, âA Visually imperceptible and robust image watermarking scheme in contourlet domainâ, in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing, China, 24-28 Oct. 2010, pp. 1817-1820.
R. Soltanzadeh, H. Rabbani, âClassification of three types of red blood cells in peripheral blood smear based on morphologyâ, in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing, China, 24-28 Oct. 2010, pp. 707-710.
P. Akbary, H. Rabbani, âRemoving power line interference and ECG signal from EMG signal using matching pursuitâ, in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing, China, 24-28 Oct. 2010, pp. 1714-1717.
A. Farahabadi, E. Farahabadi, H. Rabbani, A. Mehri, M. P. Mahjoob, âAn entropy-based method for ischemia diagnosis using ECG signal in wavelet domainâ, in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing, China, 24-28 Oct. 2010, pp. 195-198.
A. Shirazinowdeh, H. Ahmadinoubari, A. Mehridehnavi and H. Rabbani, âApplication of wavelets and fractal-based methods for detection of Microcalcification in Mammograms: A Comparative Analysis using Neural Networkâ, accepted in 2010 International Conference on Signal and Information Processing, 14-15 Dec. 2010, China.
Z. Mirzadeh, R. Mehri, H. Rabbani, âA fast method for video deblurring based on a combination of gradient methods and denoising algorithms in Matlab and C environmentsâ, accepted in IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging 2010, San Jose Convention Center San Jose, Proc. SPIE Vol. 7529, CA United States, 17 - 21 January 2010.
M. Esmaili, H. Rabbani, A. Mehri, A. Dehghani, âExtraction of retinal blood vessels by curvelet transformâ, in Proc. 2009 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Cairo, Egypt, Nov. 7-11, 2009, pp. 3353-3356, The Winner of IEEE ICIP Student Author Participation Award.
M. Esmaili, H. Rabbani, A. Mehri, A. Dehghani, âAutomatic optic disk detection by the use of curvelet transformâ, accepted in 9th IEEE International Conference on Information Technology and Applications in Biomedicine (ITAB), Cyprus, 5-7 November, 2009.
M. Ghanatbari, A. Mehri, H. Rabbani, A. Mahuri, âEstimating the depth of anesthesia by applying sub-parameters to an artificial neural network during general anesthesiaâ, accepted in 9th IEEE International Conference on Information Technology and Applications in Biomedicine (ITAB), Cyprus, 5-7 November, 2009.
A. Farahabadi, E. Farahabadi, H. Rabbani, A. Mehri, M. P. Mahjoob, âNoise removal from Electrocardiogram Signal Employing an Artificial Neural Network in Wavelet Domainâ, accepted in 9th IEEE International Conference on Information Technology and Applications in Biomedicine (ITAB), Cyprus, 5-7 November, 2009.
H. Rabbani, âShape adaptive estimation of variance in steerable pyramid domain and its application for spatially adaptive image enhancementâ, in Proc. 2009 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Taipei, Taiwan, April 19 - 24, 2009.
H. Rabbani, âImage denoising in steerable pyramid domain based on a local Laplace priorâ, Accepted in IEEE Signal Processing Society 2008 International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, MMSP 2008, Queensland, Australia, Oct. 8-10, 2008.
H. Rabbani, âVideo denoising in 3-D complex wavelet domain using local Bessel K-form prior and MAP estimatorâ, Accepted in IEEE International Conference in Multimedia & Expo (ICME), Hannover, Germany, June 23-26, 2008.
H. Rabbani, âImage denoising in complex wavelet domain employing a mixture of bivariate Cauchy models with local parametersâ, Accepted in 16th European Conference on Signal Processing (Eusipco2008), Lausanne, Switzerland, August 25-29, 2008.
H. Rabbani, âStatistical modeling of low SNR magnetic resonance images in wavelet domain using Laplacian prior and two-sided Rayleigh noise for visual quality improvementâ, in Proc. 5th IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Information Technology and Application in Biomedicine in conjunction with 2nd International Symposium & Summer School on Biomedical and Health Engineering, Shenzhen, China, May 30-31, 2008.
H. Rabbani, âAbdominal CT image denoising based on a Laplace distribution with local variance in steerable pyramid domainâ, in Proc. 5th IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Information Technology and Application in Biomedicine in conjunction with 2nd International Symposium & Summer School on Biomedical and Health Engineering, Shenzhen, China, May 30-31, 2008.
H. Rabbani, âA fast method for despeckling in wavelet domain using Laplacian prior and Rayleigh noiseâ, in Proc. 5th IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Information Technology and Application in Biomedicine in conjunction with 2nd International Symposium & Summer School on Biomedical and Health Engineering, Shenzhen, China, May 30-31, 2008.
H. Rabbani, âVideo noise reduction employing a Bessel k-form prior with local parameters for modeling contourlet coefficientsâ, Accepted in SPIE International Conference on Mathematics of Data/Image Pattern Recognition, Compression, and Encryption with Applications XI, San Diego, CA, 10-14 Aug., 2008.
H. Rabbani, M. Vafadoost, I. Selesnick, âLocal Cauchy distribution for video denoising in 3D complex wavelet domainâ, in Proc. SPIE International Conference on Applications of Digital Image Processing XXX, vol. 6696, San Diego, California, USA, Aug. 26â30, 2007.
H. Rabbani, M. Vafadoost, I. Selesnick, âVideo denoising based on a Laplace distribution with local variance in 3D complex wavelet domainâ, in Proc. SPIE International Conference on Wavelets XII, vol. 6701, San Diego, California, USA, Aug. 26â30, 2007.
H. Rabbani, M. Vafadoost, I. Selesnick, âModeling statistical properties of wavelets using a mixture of bivariate Cauchy models and its application for image denoising in complex wavelet domainâ, in Proc. SPIE International Conference on Wavelets XII, vol. 6701, San Diego, California, USA, Aug. 26â30, 2007.
H. Rabbani, M. Vafadoost, S. Gazor, âImage denoising in curvelet transform domain using Gaussian mixture model with local parameters for distribution of noise free coefficientsâ, in Proc. 4th IEEE-EMBS International Summer School and Symposium on Medical Devices and Biosensors (ISSS-MDBS 2007), Catharine's College, Cambridge, UK, Aug. 19-22, 2007.
H. Rabbani, M. Vafadoost, S. Gazor, âMedical volume noise reduction employing a Laplace distribution with local variance for modeling contourlet coefficientsâ, in Proc. 4th IEEE-EMBS International Summer School and Symposium on Medical Devices and Biosensors (ISSS-MDBS 2007), Catharine's College, Cambridge, UK, Aug. 19-22, 2007.
H. Rabbani, M. Vafadoost, S. Gazor "A simple inter- and intrascale statistical model for video denoising in 3-d complex wavelet domain using a local Laplace distribution", Accepted in International workshop on Video Processing and Recognition, Canada, May 28-30, 2007.
H. Rabbani, M. Vafadoost, I. Selesnick, S. Gazor " Image denoising employing a mixture of circular symmetric Laplacian models with local parameters in complex wavelet domain", in Proc. 32nd IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Hawaiâi Convention Center, Honolulu, USA, April 15 - 20, 2007.
H. Rabbani, M. Vafadoost "Image denoising in complex wavelet domain using a mixture of bivariate Laplacian distributions with local parameters ", in Proc. of SPIE Visual Information Processing XVI, vol. 6575, USA, April 9-13, 2007.
H. Rabbani, M. Vafadust, S. Gazor, "Image denoising based on a mixture of Laplace distributions with local parameters in complex wavelet domain", in Proc. 13th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Atlanta, October 8-11, 2006.
H. Rabbani, M. Vafadust, I. Selesnick, S.Gazor "Image denoising based on a mixture of bivariate Laplacian models in complex wavelet domain", in Proc. IEEE Signal Processing Society 2006 International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, MMSP 2006, Victoria, BC, Canada, October 3-6, 2006.
H. Rabbani, M. Vafadoost, S. Gazor, I. Selesnick, "Image denoising based on a bivariate Cauchy distribution with local scaling factor in complex wavelet domain", in Proc. IEEE Signal Processing Society 12th Digital Signal Processing Workshop & 4th Signal Processing Education Workshop, Jackson Lake Lodge, Wyoming, USA, September 24-27, 2006.
H. Rabbani, M. Vafadust, S. Gazor "Medical image noise reduction using a mixture of bivariate Gaussian distributions with local parameters in complex wavelet domain", in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Engineering , Singapore, December 11-14, 2006.
H. Rabbani, M. Vafadoost, I. Selesnick, "Wavelet based image denoising with a mixture of Gaussian distributions with local parameters", in Proc. 48th IEEE International Symposium ELMAR-2006 focused on Multimedia Signal Processing and Communications, Zadar, CROATIA, June 07-09, 2006.
H. Rabbani, M. Vafadust, S. Gazor, "Video denoising based on a bivariate Cauchy distribution in 3-d complex wavelet domain", in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and its Applications, United Arab Emirates, February 12 â 15, 2007.
Selected National Conference Papers
MR. Naeemabadi, N. Amirahmadi Chomachar, M. R. Hosseini, H. Rabbani, âOnline heart rate measurement using 8-bit microcontrollers in mobile monitoringâ, in Proc. 19th Iranian Conference of Electrical Engineering (ICEE2011), 17-19 May 2011, Amirkabir Univ. of Technology, Tehran, Iran.
SH. Gashmard, A. Mehridehnavi and H. Rabbani, âPersian script character recognition using PCAâ, in Proc. 17th Iranian Conference of Biomedical Engineering (ICBME2010), 3-4 November 2010, Isfahan, Iran.
A. Farahabadi, E. Farahabadi, H. Rabbani, A. Mehri, M. P. Mahjoob, âAnalysis of Frank VCG and Synthesized VCG for Selection of Optimal Vector Cardiogramâ, in Proc. 17th Iranian Conference of Biomedical Engineering (ICBME2010), 3-4 November 2010, Isfahan, Iran.
F. Rahimi, H. Rabbani, S. Kermani, âA Dual Adaptive Watermarking Scheme in Contourlet Domain for DICOM Imagesâ, in Proc. 17th Iranian Conference of Biomedical Engineering (ICBME2010), 3-4 November 2010, Isfahan, Iran.
A. Shirazinowdeh, H. Rabbani, A. Mehridehnavi and H. Ahmadinoubari, âDetection of Cancerous Zones in Mammograms using Fractal Modeling and Classification by Probabilistic Neural Networkâ, in Proc. 17th Iranian Conference of Biomedical Engineering (ICBME2010), 3-4 November 2010, Isfahan, Iran.
M. Esmaeili, H. Rabbani, A. Mehri, A. Dehghani, âEnhancement of Retinal Images using Curveletsâ, in Proc. 17th Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEE2009), Iran University of Science and Technology, 12 -14 May, 2009.
M. Ghanatbari, H. Rabbani, âSalt & Pepper Noise Reduction Based on Neural Network and Recursive Gaussian Filterâ, in Proc. 5th Iranian Conference on Machine Vision and Image Processing (MVIP2008), University of Tabriz, 4-6 November 2008.
H. Rabbani, M. Vafadoost, " Video Denoising Based on a Gaussian Distributions with Local Variance in 3-D Complex Wavelet Domain", in Proc. of 12th International Computer Society of Iran Computer Conference (CSICC 2007), Tehran, 20-22 February 2007.
H. Rabbani, M. Vafadoost, "Edge Detection with Complex Wavelet Transform", in Proc. 7th Iranian Congress of Medical Physics, Ahwaz, 13-15 February 2007.
H. Rabbani, M. Vafadoost, S. Kasaei, "Scratch Removal with Kalman Filter in Complex Wavelet Domain", in Proc. 11th International Computer Society of Iran Computer Conference (CSICC 2006), Tehran, 24-26 January 2006.
H. Rabbani, M. Vafadoost, S. Kasaei,"Scratch Removal with Kalman Filter in 3D Wavelet Domain", in Proc. 11th International Computer Society of Iran Computer Conference (CSICC 2006), Tehran, 24-26 January 2006.
L. Ghaedi, A. Mehri, H. Rabbani, "A Nonlinear Adaptive Method for Removal of Power-line Noise from ECG", in Proc. 12th Iranian Conference of Biomedical Engineering (ICBME2005), Tabriz, 16-18 November 2005.
M. Daliri, H. Rabbani, M. Rafinia, "Angle Detection for Biomaterial based on Image Processing Methods", in Proc. 7th Annual Research Congress of Iranian Medical Sciences Students, Tehran, 30 May-1 June 2006.
National Journal Papers
Z. Amini, H. Rabbani, "EEG- based Seizure detection by Gaussian Process model", Journal of Isfahan Medical School, accepted, 2013.
SH. Gashmard, A. Mehri, H. Rabbani, âCharacter Recognition in Farsi Printed Scripts Using Principal Componentâ, Journal of Isfahan Medical School, vol. 29, no. 174, special issue (biomedical engineering), 2012.
F. Rahimi, H. Rabbani, S. Kermani, âComparison between Medical Image Watermarking in Wavelet, Contourlet, Curvelet and Complex Wavelet Domainsâ, Journal of Isfahan Medical School, vol. 29, no. 171, 3rd week, March 2012.
R. Soltanzadeh, H. Rabbani, A. Talebi, âAutomatic Extraction of Nucleus and Cytoplasm in White Blood Cells of Peripheral Blood Smearâ, Journal of Isfahan Medical School, vol. 29, no. 174, special issue (biomedical engineering), 2012.
H. Rabbani, âDebluring of medical ultrasonic images using Lease Squared Method for Detection and Non-Isotropic Window-Based Denoising and Wavelet-based Denoising for Enhancementâ, Iranian Journal of Biomedical Engineering, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 1-14, 2010.
H. Rabbani, M. Vafadoost, "Abdominal CT Image Enhancement in Complex Wavelet Domain Using MMSE Estimator and Laplacian Mixture Prior", Iranian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 162-169, 2010.
H. Rabbani, M. Vafadoost, S. Kasaei, "Edge Detection Using Complex Wavelet Transform", Esteghlal Journal of Engineering, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 17-35, 2009.
H. Rabbani, M. Vafadoost, "Wavelet Based Image Denoising with Local Mixture Laplace Model", Amirkabir Journal of Science and Technology, vol. 66, pp. 81-88, 2007.
A. Farahabadi, E. Farahabadi, H. Rabbani, M. Rezvani, "An Automatic Method for Measuring The Angle of Lumbar Lordosis", accepted.
Submitted Papers (Under Review)
"Selection of The Best Features For Leukocytes Classification in Blood Smear Microscopic Images"
"Posterior ECG: Extracting V7,V8,V9 leads of Electrocardiogram Signal from Vectorcardiogram Using Partial Linear Transformation"
"Image Analysis in In-Vivo Stem Cell Tracking", accepted.
"R Peak Detection in Electrocardiogram Signal Based on an Optimal Combination of Wavelet Transform, Hilbert Transform and Adaptive Thresholding", accepted.
"The hp-version of Finite element method for Electrical Impedance Tomography with EIDORS", accepted.
"Interdisciplinary Researches in Iran", accepted.
"Classification of Benign and Malignant Lesions in Mammograms Based on Detection of Cancerous Zones Using Fractal Modeling and Wavelet Transform"
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Under Preparation Papers
"Statistical Modeling of Speckle in Optical Coherence Tomography Images"
"Automatic Symptomatic Exudate-Associated Derangement (SEAD) Detection in Optical Coherence Tomography"
"A New Curvelet Based CAD-System for Automatic Detection of Diabetic Retinopathy"
"Image Modeling Using Spherically Invariance Random Processes"
"Gauss-Taylor Expansion: A New Model for Statistical Modeling of Images in Sparse Domains"
"On the Local EM Algorithm"
"A New Speckle Noise Reduction Method in a Bayesian Framework"
"A Two-Step Video Denoising Method Based on an Accurate Estimation of Local Variance in a Bayesian Framework "
"A New Curvelet Transform Based Method for Extraction of Red Lesions in Digital Color Retinal Images".
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References
Prof. Mansur Vafadust
Tell: 98 (21) 6454-2362
Fax: 98 (21) 6646-8186
Email: vmansur@aut.ac.ir
Prof. Shohreh Kasaei
Tell: 98 (21) 6616-4631
Fax: 98 (21) 6607-2570
Email: skasaei@sharif.edu
Prof. Saeed Gazor
Tell: (613) 533-6591
Fax: (613) 533-6615
Email: saeed.gazor@ece.queensu.ca
http://www.ece.queensu.ca/faculty/gazor/index.html
Prof. Ivan Selesnick
Tell: (718) 260-3416
Fax: (718) 260-3906
Email: selesi@poly.edu
Prof. Reza Nezafat
Tell: (617) 667-1747
Fax: (617) 975-5480
Email: rnezafat@bidmc.harvard.edu
https://connects.catalyst.harvard.edu/Profiles/display/Person/16607
Prof. Purang Abolmaesumi
Tell: (613) 533-2767
Fax: (613) 533-6513
Email: purang@cs.queensu.ca
http://media.queensu.ca/purang/
Prof. Michael D. Abramoff
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Fax: (319)-335-6028
Email: michael-abramoff@niowa.edu
http://webeye.ophth.uiowa.edu/dept/biograph/Abramoff.htm
Prof. Milan Sonka
Tell: (319)-335-6052
Fax: (319)-335-6028
Email: milan-sonka@uiowa.edu
http://www.engineering.uiowa.edu/~sonka/
Prof. Sina Farsiu
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Fax: (919)-684-8983
Email: sina.farsiu@duke.edu