• Non-invasive photo acoustic approach for human bone diagnosis 

  Thella, Ashok Kumar; Rizkalla, James; Helmy, Ahdy; Suryadevara, Vinay Kumar; Salama, Paul; Rizkalla, Maher (Elsevier, 2016-08-03)

  The existing modalities of bone diagnosis including X-ray and ultrasound may cite drawback in some cases related to health issues and penetration depth, while the ultrasound modality may lack image quality. Photo acoustic ...
• A Distributed Ledger for Supply Chain Physical Distribution Visibility 

  Wu, Haoyan; Li, Zhijie; King, Brian; Ben Miled, Zina; Wassick, John; Tazelaar, Jeffrey (MDPI, 2017-11-02)

  Supply chains (SC) span many geographies, modes and industries and involve several phases where data flows in both directions from suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, retailers, to customers. This data flow is necessary ...
• Electromagnetic Simulation of Non-Invasive Approach for the Diagnosis of Diabetic Foot Ulcers 

  Borkar, Roshen; Rizkalla, James; Kwon, Youngmin; Salama, Paul; Rizkalla, Maher (Elsevier, 2018)

  Diabetic foot ulcers are systemic diseases that affect all blood vessels within the human body. From major blood vessels to microvasculature, hardening, thickening, and narrowing of blood vessels ultimately results to ...
• Nuclei Segmentation of Fluorescence Microscopy Images Using Three Dimensional Convolutional Neural Networks 

  Ho, David Joon; Fu, Chichen; Salama, Paul; Dunn, Kenneth W.; Delp, Edward J. (IEEE, 2017-07)

  Fluorescence microscopy enables one to visualize subcellular structures of living tissue or cells in three dimensions. This is especially true for two-photon microscopy using near-infrared light which can image deeper into ...
• Curriculum innovations through advancement of MEMS/NEMS and wearable devices technologies 

  Shayesteh, S.; Rizkalla, M.E.; El-Sharkawy, M. (2017)

  State of the art technologies using both micro- and nano-electromechanical systems (MEMS and NEMS) and wearable and Internet of Things (IoT) devices have impacted our daily lives in applications including wearable devices ...
• Vehicle-Pedestrian Dynamic Interaction through Tractography of Relative Movements and Articulated Pedestrian Pose Estimation 

  Mueid, Rifat; Christopher, Lauren; Tian, Renran (IEEE, 2016-10)

  To design robust Pre-Collision Systems (PCS) we must develop new techniques that will allow a better understanding of the vehicle-pedestrian dynamic relationship, and which can predict pedestrian future movements. This ...
• CentFlow: Centrality-Based Flow Balancing and Traffic Distribution for Higher Network Utilization 

  Challa, R.; Jeon, S.; Kim, D. S.; Choo, H. (IEEE, 2017)

  Next-generation networks (NGNs) are embracing two key principles of software defined networking (SDN) paradigm functional segregation of control and forwarding plane, and logical centralization of the control plane. A ...
• Segmentation of fluorescence microscopy images using three dimensional active contours with inhomogeneity correction 

  Lee, Soonam; Salama, Paul; Dunn, Kenneth W.; Delp, Edward J. (IEEE, 2017-04)

  Image segmentation is an important step in the quantitative analysis of fluorescence microscopy data. Since fluorescence microscopy volumes suffer from intensity inhomogeneity, low image contrast and limited depth resolution, ...
• Alternative Breed of Three-Phase Four-Wire Shunt Compensators based on Cascaded Transformer with Single Dc-link 

  de Almeida Carlos, Gregory A.; Jacobina, Cursino B.; dos Santos Jr., Euzeli C. (IEEE, 2017-03)

  This paper introduces a new breed of four-wire (4W) multilevel shunt compensator to deal with either harmonic or reactive power compensation. The converter configurations are generalized for K-stages and the main benefits ...
• Boundary Segmentation For Fluorescence Microscopy Using Steerable Filters 

  Ho, David Joon; Salama, Paul; Dunn, Kenneth W.; Delp, Edward J. (SPIE, 2017)

  Fluorescence microscopy is used to image multiple subcellular structures in living cells which are not readily observed using conventional optical microscopy. Moreover, two-photon microscopy is widely used to image structures ...
• Does Bad News Spread Faster? 

  Fang, Anna; Ben-Miled, Zina (IEEE, 2017-01)

  Bad news travels fast. Although this concept may be intuitively accepted, there has been little evidence to confirm that the propagation of bad news differs from that of good news. In this paper, we examine the effect of ...
• Building a surface atlas of hippocampal subfields from high resolution T2-weighted MRI scans using landmark-free surface registration 

  Cong, Shan; Rizkalla, Maher; Salama, Paul (IEEE, 2016-10)

  The hippocampus is widely studied in neuroimaging field as it plays important roles in memory and learning. However, the critical subfield information is often not explored in most hippocampal studies. We previously proposed ...
• Smart Unit Care for Pre Fall Detection and Prevention 

  Thella, Ashok Kumar; Suryadevara, Vinay Kumar; Rizkalla, Maher; Hossain, Gahangir (IEEE, 2016-07)

  Generally falls may occur from moving or resting postures. This may include slipping from bed and fall from a sitting, or from running or walking. The pre-fall is a non-equilibrium state of human position that may lead to ...
• A Public-Key Approach of Selective Encryption for Images 

  Jiang, Feng; Salama, Paul; King, Brian (2017)

  Data security protection is essential for most multimedia data transmissions today. Classical multimedia content protection is dominated by symmetric encryption methods. This paper explores the possibility of public-key ...
• Pedestrian Protection Using the Integration of V2V and the Pedestrian Automatic Emergency Braking System 

  Tang, Bo; Chien, Stanley; Huang, Zhi; Chen, Yaobin (IEEE, 2016-11)

  Vehicle to Vehicle (V2V) communication systems enable vehicles to communicate with each other and use the shared information to make safety related decisions. However, the safety improvement of the current V2V systems only ...
• Asset Allocation with Swarm/Human Blended Intelligence 

  Christopher, Lauren; Boler, William; Wieczorek, Calvin; Crespo, Jonah; Witcher, Paul; Hawkins, Scot A.; Stewart, James (IEEE, 2016-10)

  PSO has been used to demonstrate the near-real-time optimization of frequency allocations and spatial positions for receiver assets in highly complex Electronic Warfare (EW) environments. The PSO algorithm computes optimal ...
• Infrared Reflectivity of Pedestrian Mannequin for Autonomous Emergency Braking Testing 

  Haran, Terence; Chien, Stanley (IEEE, 2016-11)

  In order to be able to evaluate the performances of different Autonomous Emergency Braking (AEB) systems for pedestrian crash avoidance and mitigation, a standard surrogate pedestrian mannequin needs to be developed. One ...
• Design of a Highly Efficient Microinverter 

  Nezamuddin, Omar; Crespo, Jonah; dos Santos, Euzeli C., Jr. (IEEE, 2016-06)

  This paper proposes a grid-tied single-phase photovoltaic (PV) microinverter consisting of five-level four-switch (5L-4S) DC-AC converter fed by an isolated fly-back DC-DC converter. The microinverter utilizes a split-coil ...
• Two-Stage Method for Optimal Operation of a Distributed Energy System 

  Xue, Jie; Zhou, Jue; Chen, Yaobin (IEEE, 2016-11)

  In this paper, a gas turbine-based distributed energy system (DES) model is developed for the design of operation planning. An operation mode aimed to optimize the operation of this DES is proposed. A multi-objective cost ...
• Leveraging proxy mobile IPv6 with SDN 

  Raza, Syed M.; Kim, Dongsoo S.; Shin, DongRyeol; Choo, Hyunseung (IEEE, 2016-09)

  The existing Proxy Mobile IPv6 suffers from a long handover latency which in turn causes significant packet loss that is unacceptable for seamless realtime services such as multimedia streaming. This paper proposes an ...

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