Education

Degree "Candidate of Technical Science", in Computer Engineering        1994

(Equivalent to an Advanced Doctoral Degree)

Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary

Dr. Tech, (Equivalent to PhD Degree), in Computer Engineering                 1979

Technical University of Budapest, Hungary

Diploma in Electrical Engineering                1971

(Equivalent to MS Degree)

Technical University of Budapest, Hungary

Research Interests

• Autonomous skill assessment systems for laparoscopic and robotic surgery using AI methods and fuzzy logic

• Intelligent decision support systems using fuzzy logic in cyber-physical applications

• Fuzzy logic finite state machine models

• Hardware accelerators for fuzzy logic

• Reconfigurable digital systems

• Real-time embedded systems

• Fault detection, identification, and recovery from errors for autonomous agents in complex hybrid control systems

Selected Publications

Journals and Book Chapters

Fatemeh Rashidi Fathabadi, Janos L. Grantner, Saad A Shebrain, and Ikhlas Abdel-Qader, 3D Autonomous Surgeon’s Hand Movement Assessment Using a Cascaded Fuzzy Supervisor in Multi-Thread Video Processing, Published in the MDPI Sensors Journal, 2023.

Fatemeh Rashidi Fathabadi, Janos L. Grantner, Saad A Shebrain, and Ikhlas Abdel-Qader, Autonomous sequential surgical skills assessment for the peg transfer task in a laparoscopic box-trainer system with three cameras, Published in the Robotica Journal, 2023.

Fatemeh Rashidi Fathabadi, Janos L. Grantner, Saad A Shebrain, and Ikhlas Abdel-Qader, Fuzzy Logic Supervisor - A Surgical Skills Assessment System Using Multi-Class Detection of Laparoscopic Box-Trainer Instruments, Published in the Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems, 2022.

Fatemeh Rashidi Fathabadi, Janos L. Grantner, Saad A Shebrain, and Ikhlas Abdel-Qader, Box-Trainer Assessment System with Real-Time Multi-Class Detection and Tracking of Laparoscopic Instruments, using CNN, Published in Acta Polytechnica Hungarica 19, no. 2 (2022). 

Mohammed Y. Al-Gailani, Janos L. Grantner, Saad Shebrain M.D, Robert G. Sawyer M.D. and Ikhlas Abdel-Qader, Force Measurement Methods for Intelligent Box-Trainer System – Artificial Bowel Suturing Procedure, accepted for publication in Acta Polytechnica Hungarica.

Fatemah Rashidi Fathabadi, Janos L. Grantner, Ikhlas Abdel-Qader and Saad A. Shebrain M.D, Box-Trainer Assessment System with Real-Time Multi-Class Detection and Tracking of Laparoscopic Instruments Using CNN, Acta Polytechnica Hungarica, Vol. 19, No. 2, 2022, DOI: 10.12700/APH.19.2.2022.2.1

Janos L. Grantner, Aous H. Kurdi, Mohammed Al-Gailani and Ikhlas Abdel-Qader, Robert G. Sawyer, M.D. and Saad Shebrain M.D., Multi-Thread Implementation of Tool Tip Tracking for Laparoscopic Surgical Box-Trainer Intelligent Performance Assessment System, Acta Polytechnica Hungarica, Volume 16, Issue Number 9, 2019, DOI: 10.12700/APH.16.9.2019.9.10, http://www.uni-obuda.hu/journal/Issue96.htm

Aous H.Kurdi, Janos L. Grantner, and Ikhlas M. Abdel-Qader, “Fuzzy Logic Based Hardware Accelerator with Partially Reconfigurable Defuzzification Stage for Image Edge Detection,” International Journal of Reconfigurable Computing, vol. 2017, Article ID 1325493, 13 pages, 2017. doi:10.1155/2017/1325493

Janos L. Grantner, Paolo A. Tamayo, Ramakrishna Gottipati, George A. Fodor, Design of a Reconfigurable State Transition Algorithm for Fuzzy Automata, International Journal of General Systems, Online Ed., 1563-5104, Volume 37, Issue 1, first published on 09 October 2007, pages 103 – 126.

Janos L. Grantner, George Fodor, Dimiter Driankov, Marek J. Patyra, Application of the Fuzzy State Fuzzy Output Finite State Machine to the Problem of Recovery from Violation of Ontological Assumptions, (invited paper), International Journal of Smart Engineering System Design, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 177-199, 2000.

Marek J. Patyra, Janos L. Grantner, Hardware Implementations of Digital Fuzzy Logic Controllers, Information Sciences Applications, North Holland, Vol. 113, No. 1-2, November 1998, pp. 19-54.

Marek J. Patyra, Janos L. Grantner, Kirby Koster, Digital Fuzzy Logic Controller: Design and Implementation, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Vol. 4, No. 4, November 1996, pp. 439- 459.

Janos L. Grantner, Parallel Algorithm for Fuzzy Logic Controller, in the book Fuzzy Logic: Implementation, and Applications (Eds. M. J. Patyra, D. M. Mlynek), John Wiley and Sons, and B. G. Teubner Publishers, 1996, ISBN Wiley: 0 471 95059 9, pp. 177-195.

J. Grantner, M. Patyra, M. Stachowicz, Intelligent Fuzzy Controller for Event-Driven Real Time Systems and Its VLSI Implementation, in the book Fuzzy Control Systems, (Eds. A. Kandel, G. Langholz), CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 1995, ISBN: 0-8493-4496-4, pp 161-179.

Proceedings of Peer-Reviewed Conferences

Fatemeh Rashidi Fathabadi, Janos L. Grantner, Saad Shebrain M.D. and Ikhlas Abdel-Qader, Two-level Fuzzy Logic Evaluation System for Surgeon’s Hand Movement Using Object Detection, in the Electronic Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence Conference (2022 SSCI), December 4-7, 2022, Singapore, Singapore.

Mohsen Mohaidat, Janos L Grantner, Saad A Shebrain and Ikhlas Abdel-Qader, Multi-Class Detection and Tracking of Intracorporeal Suturing Instruments in an FLS Laparoscopic Box Trainer Using Scaled-YOLOv4, in the Electronic Proceedings of the 2022 ISVC Conference, October 35, 2022, San Diego, CA, Chapter 16 in the Book titled Advances in Visual Computing, ISVC 2022 Conference Proceedings, Part I, LNCS 13598, Springer Nature.

Mohsen Mohaidat, Janos L Grantner, Saad A Shebrain and Ikhlas Abdel-Qader, Instrument Detection for the Intracorporeal Suturing Task in the Laparoscopic Box Trainer Using Single-Stage Object Detectors, in the Electronic Proceedings of the 22nd Annual IEEE International Conference on Electro Information Technology (EIT 2022), Minnesota State University, Mankato, MN, May 19 - 21, 2022.

Fatemeh Rashidi Fathabadi, Janos L. Grantner, Saad Shebrain M.D. and Ikhlas Abdel-Qader, Two-level Fuzzy Logic Evaluation System for Surgeon's Hand Movement Using Object Detection, 2022 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI ) 

Fatemeh Rashidi Fathabadi, Janos L. Grantner, Saad Shebrain M.D. and Ikhlas Abdel-Qader, Surgical Skill Training and Evaluation for a Peg Transfer Task in a Three Camera Based-Laparoscopic Box-Trainer System, in the Electronic Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Computer Science and Computational Intelligence (CSCI), December 15-17, 2021, Las Vegas, NV, USA .

Koloud Al-Khamaiseh, Janos L. Grantner, Ikhlas Abdel-Qader and Saad Shebrain M.D.,

Towards Automatic Visual Test in Laparoscopic Box Trainer Using Cross-Stage Partial Network, 2021 International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA2021), Gold Coast, Australia, 29 November - 1 December 2021, in the Electronic Proceedings.

Fatemeh Rashidi Fathabadi, Janos L. Grantner, Saad A Shebrain M.D. and Ikhlas Abdel-Qader, Surgical Skill Assessment System Using Fuzzy Logic in a Multi-Class Detection of Laparoscopic Box-Trainer Instruments, in the Electronic Proceedings, 2021 IEEE SMC Conference, 17-21 October 2021, Melbourne, Australia, in the Electronic Proceedings.

Aous H. Kurdi, Janos L. Grantner and Ikhlas Abdel-Qader, Versatile Hardware Architecture of a Support Platform for Spatial Image Processing Accelerators using Xilinx SoCs, 2021 IEEE INES Conference, July 7-9, 2021, on-line only, in the Electronic Proceedings, pp 109-114.

Fatemeh Rashidi Fathabadi, Janos L. Grantner, Saad Shebrain M.D. and Ikhlas Abdel-Qader, Multi-Class Detection of Laparoscopic Instruments for the Intelligent Box-Trainer System Using Faster R-CNN Architecture, 2021 IEEE SAMI Conference, January 21-23, 2021, on-line only, in the Electronic Proceedings, pp 149-154.

Aous H. Kurdi, Janos L. Grantner, Ikhlas Abdel-Qader, Hardware Accelerator for Edge Detection, 2020 IEEE INES Conference, July 08-10, 2020, on-line only, in the Electronic Proceedings, pp 79-84.

Janos L. Grantner, Aous H. Kurdi, Mohammed Al-Gailani, Ikhlas Abdel-Qader, Robert G. Sawyer, M.D. and Saad Shebrain M.D., Multi-Thread Implementation of Tool Tip Tracking for Laparoscopic Surgical Box-Trainer Intelligent Performance Assessment System, 2019 IEEE INES Conference, April 25-27, 2019, Godollo, Hungary, in the electronic Proceedings, pp 131-136.

Janos L. Grantner, Aous H. Kurdi, Mohammed Al-Gailani, Ikhlas Abdel-Qader, Robert G. Sawyer, M.D. and Saad Shebrain M.D., Intelligent Performance Assessment System for Laparoscopic Surgical Box-Trainer, 2018 WCCI/FUZZ-IEEE Conference, July 8-13, 2018, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in the Electronic Proceedings.

Janos L. Grantner, Sean T. Fuller and Jozsef Dombi, Fuzzy Automaton Model with Adaptive Inference Mechanism for Intelligent Decision Support Systems, 2016 World Congress on Computational Intelligence/2016 FUZZ-IEEE Conference, July 24-29, 2016, Vancouver, Canada, Proceedings pp 2377-2384

Aous H. Kurdi and Janos L. Grantner, Pipelined Hardware Architecture for a Fuzzy Logic Based Edge Detection System, The 6th World Conference on Soft Computing, May 22-25, 2016, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA, Proceedings pp 114-120.

Janos L. Grantner and Chinh K. Nguyen, Flexible Decision Support System Using Dynamic Partial Reconfiguration Technology, 2014 World Congress on Computational Intelligence/2014 FUZZ-IEEE Conference, July 6-11, 2014, Bejing, China, Proceedings pp 2270-2278

Janos Grantner, Bradley Bazuin, Claudia Fajardo, Richard Hathaway, Jumana Al-shawawreh, Liang Dong, Mathew P. Castanier and Shabbir Hussain, Linguistic Model For Engine Power Loss, IEEE SSCI 2013, 2013 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence in Vehicles and Transportation Systems, April 16-19, 2013, Singapore, IEEE Catalog Number: CFP13COIUSB, ISBN: 978-1-4673-5847-7, paper SS-0783.

Janos Grantner et al, Linguistic Model For Axle Fatigue, WCCI 2012/ FUZZ-IEEE 2012, World Congress on Computational Intelligence 2012, June 10-25, 2012, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, IEEE Catalog Number: CFP12FUZ-USB, ISBN: 978-1-4673-1505-0, pp 959-966.

Janos Grantner et al, Condition Based Maintenance for Light Trucks, IEEE SMC 2010 Conference, October 10-13, 2010, Istanbul, Turkey, Proceedings on CD, ISBN: 978-1-4244- 6587-3, pp 336-342.

Janos L. Grantner and George A. Fodor, Takagi-Sugeno Type Fuzzy Automaton Model, WCCI 2010/FUZZ-IEEE 2010 World Congress on Computational Intelligence 2010, July 17-23, 2010, Barcelona, Spain, pp 3004-3009.

Janos L. Grantner and George A. Fodor, TS-Type Fuzzy Automaton for Supervisory Control, Proceedings of the 2008 International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications (NOLTA 2008), September 7-10 2008, Budapest, Hungary, ISBN: 978-4-88552-234-5 C3055, pp 400-403.

Janos L. Grantner and George A. Fodor, A TS-Type Fuzzy Automaton for Software Agents, NAFIPS 2008 Conference, NY, NY, 19-22 May 2008, in CD, IEEE Catalog Number: CFP08750-CDR, ISBN: 978-1-4244-2352-1, paper reference #: 50084.

Janos L. Grantner, George A. Fodor, Ramakrishna Gottipati, Norali Pernalete and Sandra Edwards, Intelligent Decision Support System, IFSA 2007 World Congress, Cancun, Mexico, 18-21 June 2007, in Advances in Soft Computing, vol. 41, Analysis and Design of Intelligent Systems, Patricia Melin, Oscar Castillo, Eduardo Gomez Ramirez, Janusz Kacprzyk and Witold Pedrycz (Eds.), ISBN: 978-3-540-72431-5, pp 549-557.

Janos L. Grantner, Paolo Tamayo, Ramakrishna Gottipati and George A. Fodor, Reconfigurable Fuzzy Automaton for Software Agents, WCCI 2006/FUZZ-IEEE 2006, World Congress on Computational Intelligence 2006, Vancouver, BC, Canada, July 16-21, 2006, Conference Proceedings on DVD, ISBN: 0-7803-9489-5, pp 6928-6934.

J. L. Grantner, P. A. Tamayo, R. Gottipati, G. A. Fodor, Design of a Reconfigurable State Transition Algorithm for Fuzzy Automata, NAFIPS’05, June 22-25, 2005, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Proceedings on CD

J. L. Grantner, R. Gottipati, N. Pernalete, S Edwards, G. A. Fodor, Intelligent Decision Support System for Eye-Hand Coordination Assessment, FUZZ-IEEE'05 Conference, May 25-25, 2005, Reno, Nevada, Proceedings on CD.

J. Grantner, G. Fodor, R. Gottipati, Fuzzy Logic Enabled Software Agents for Supervisory Control, invited paper, FUZZ-IEEE'04 Conference, July 25-29, 2004, Budapest, Hungary, Proceedings on CD.

J. L. Grantner, G. A. Fodor, Fuzzy Automaton for Intelligent Hybrid Control Systems, 2002 World, Congress on Computational Intelligence, WCCI'02/FUZZ-IEEE’02, May 12-17, 2002, Hilton Hawaiian Village Hotel, Honolulu, HI, in the CD Proceedings, ISBN: 0-7803-7281-6.

J. L. Grantner and G. Fodor, The Virtual Fuzzy Automaton Approach to the Problem of Global State Evaluation in Multitask Control Systems, 1999 IEEE International Fuzzy Systems Conference, FUZZ-IEEE'99, August 22-25, 1999, Seoul, Korea, Proceedings, Vol. 1, pp. 283- 288.

G. A. Fodor, J. L. Grantner, D. Driankov, The Implications of the Object/UML Approach to the Problem of Fault Detection and Isolation in Dynamical Systems, 1999 IEEE International Conference on Control Applications and IEEE International Conference on Computer Aided Control System Design, CACSD-IEEE'99, August 22-27, 1999, Hapuna- Beach Prince Hotel, Island of Hawaii, HI, Proceedings, pp. 176-181.

J. L. Grantner, P. E. Parker, G. A. Fodor, Intelligent Process Monitoring for Paper Machines, The Second International Conference on Intelligent Processing and Manufacturing of Materials - IPMM'99, July 10-15, 1999, Hilton Hawaiian Village Hotel, Honolulu, HI, Proceedings, Vol. 2, pp. 895-900.

J. L. Grantner, G. A. Fodor, D. Driankov, The Virtual Fuzzy State Machine Approach - A Domain-Independent Fault Detection and Recovery Method for Object-based Control Systems, 18th International Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society - NAFIPS'99, June 10-12, 1999, New York, NY, Proceedings, pp. 158-162.

J. L. Grantner and G. Fodor, Execution Monitoring of Domain-Independent Controllers for Hybrid Systems, AAAI 1999 Spring Symposium Series, Hybrid Systems and AI: Modeling Analysis and Control of Discrete + Continuous Systems, March 22-24, 1999, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, AAAI Technical Report SS-99-05, pp. 77-82.