Hamid Soltanian-Zadeh, PhD

Senior Scientist/Professor


Radiology Image Analysis Lab.
Henry Ford Health System
One Ford Place, 2F
Detroit, MI 48202, USA
Phone: (313) 874-4482
Fax: (313) 874-4494
E-mail: hamids@rad.hfh.edu

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EDUCATION

FIELDS OF INTEREST

TRAINING

FACULTY APPOINTMENTS

HOSPITAL OR OTHER PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

MAJOR PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

HONORS/AWARDS

SERVICE

Editorial Board Member/Reviewer of Professional Journals

Technical Committee Member/Reviewer of Conferences

Committee Member/Reviewer of Research Proposals

TEACHING

Graduate Courses Taught

Undergraduate Courses Taught

PhD Theses Supervised

PhD Theses Advised (Consulted)

MS Theses Supervised

MS These Advised (Consulted)

PUBLICATIONS

A.   Click here to download a listing of Journal Articles, Technical Reports, Book Chapters, Proceeding Articles and Presentations/Abstracts.

 

EDUCATION

1988-1992 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

PhD, Electrical Engineering: Systems. May 1992.

Major: Signal Processing. Minor: Bioelectrical Science.

Dissertation Title: Multidimensional Signal Processing of Magnetic Resonance Scene Sequences.

 

1988-1990 MSE, Electrical Engineering: Systems.

Major: Control. Minor: Communications.

 

1988-1988 Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA

Graduate Studies in the Department of Biomedical Engineering.

 

1985-1986 University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

MSc, Electrical Engineering: Electronics, with honors.

Projects included:

- Design of a CPU board for a CAD/CAM system

- Design and implementation of a programmable controller

- Design of a portable heart monitor  

 

1978-1984 University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

BS, Electrical Engineering: Electronics, with honors.

 

FIELDS OF INTEREST

1.    Medical imaging

2.    Medical signal and image processing and analysis

3.    Pattern recognition

4.    Neural networks

 

TRAINING

1992-1993 Assistant Staff Investigator, Radiology Department, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI 48202, USA.

 

FACULTY APPOINTMENTS

Jan. 2004- Assoc. Prof. of Radiology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA.

Oct. 2005- Prof., of Elec. and Comp. Eng., University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

1998-2004 Associate Prof. of Elec. and Comp. Eng., University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

1997-2003 Assistant Prof. of Radiology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

1994-1998 Assistant Prof. of Elec. and Comp. Eng., University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

 

HOSPITAL OR OTHER PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

Jan. 2006- Level III Bioscientific Staff (Senior Scientist), Radiology Department, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI 48202, USA.

1993-2005 Levels I and II Bioscientific Staff (Assistant and Associate Scientist), Radiology Department, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI 48202, USA.

 

MAJOR PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

1. International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM)  

2. institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE, Senior Member)  

3. International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE)  

4. Society for Molecular Imaging (SMI)

5. Iranian Society of Biomedical Engineering (ISBME)

6. Iranian Society of Machine Vision and Image Processing (ISMVIP)

 

HONORS/AWARDS

1. 2009: Received “First Rank of the 10th Ibnesina Festival” from the University of Tehran Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

2. 2008: Recognized by the standing COMmittee for Scientific and TECHnological cooperation (COMSTECH) as one of the Leading Iranian Scientists and Engineers.

3. 2008-2009: Associate Member of the Academy of Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

4. 2007: Received “Distinguished Professor of the Year Award” from the Ministry of Science, Research, and Technology, Tehran, Iran.

5. 2007: Received “Distinguished Researcher of the Year Award” from the Iranian Association of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IAEEE), Tehran, Iran.

6. 2006: Received “Best Basic Research Project Honor” from the University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

7. 2006: Received “Best Applied Research Project Honor” from the University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

8. 2006: Received a “Concept Award” grant from the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program, USA.

9. 2006: Received “Best Session Presentation Award” at the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Vancouver, Canada, July 15-21, 2006.

10. 2005: Received “Best Applied Research Project Honor” from the University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

11. 2004: Received a “R01 Research Project Grant Award” grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA.

12. 2003: Was recognized as an “Outstanding Researcher” by the University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

13. 2000: Received a “Research Project Grant Award” from the National Science Foundation (NSF), USA.

14. 1997-2003: Received multiple “Honorable Mention Awards” for the best poster presentation at the SPIE Medical Imaging Conference, San Diego, CA, USA.

15. 1993: Received a “First Award” grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA.

16. 1993: Was recognized as an “Outstanding Researcher” by the Department of Justice, USA.

17. 1988-1992: Honor Student (with highest GPA and most publications) during the graduate studies in the field of Electrical Engineering: Systems, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

18. 1987: Honor Student (with highest GPA) during the graduate studies in the field of Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA 

19. 1978-1986: Honor Student (first rank) during the undergraduate and graduate studies in the field of Electrical Engineering: Electronics, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

20. 1978,1979: Ranked 40 and 14, respectively, among over 112,000 participants in the national universities entrance exam in the field of Physics and Mathematics, Iran.

21. 1966-1978: Honor student (first rank) in primary, secondary, and high schools at the city and state levels, Yazd, Iran.

 

SERVICE

 

Editorial Board Member/Associate Editor/Reviewer of Professional Journals

1. Amir Kabir Journal  

2. Applied Soft Computing

3. BMC Medical Imaging

4. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

5. Computer Vision and Image Understanding

6. Engineering Journal of Ferdowsi University

7. EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing

8. Faculty of Engineering Journal, University of Tehran  

9. IEEE Trans. Biomedical Eng.

10. IEEE Trans. Fuzzy Systems

11. IEEE Trans. Image Processing

12. IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging

13. IEEE Trans. Signal Processing  

14. Information Sciences

15. International Journal of Biomedical Imaging  

16. International Journal of Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology

17. International Journal of Image and Graphics

18. Journal of Zhejiang University SCIENCE

19. Journal of Iranian Society of Biomed. Eng.

20. Iranian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering

21. Iranian Journal of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

22. Iranian Journal of Radiology

23. Journal on Applied Signal Processing

24. Journal of Engineering  

25. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

26. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine  

27. Magnetic Resonance Imaging  

28. Medical Physics

29. Medical Research Journal, Beheshti University

30. Modarres Journal  

31. Neuroimage

32. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

33. Pattern Analysis and Applications

34. Scientia Iranica  

35. Signal processing Letters  

36. Stroke  

37. University of Mashhad Journal

38. University of Tabriz Engineering Journal

 

Technical Committee Member/Reviewer of Conferences

1. Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEE) 

2. Computer Society of Iran Computer Conference (CSICC) 

3. Iranian Society of Biomedical Engineering (ISBME) Conference 

4. Iranian Machine Vision and Image Processing (MVIP) Conference  

5. International Conference on Information and Knowledge Technology (IKT)

6. International Symposium on Telecommunications (IST)

7. ISMRM International Conference  

8. International Conference on Microelectronics (ICM)

9. IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence

10. IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI)

 

Committee Member/Reviewer of Research Proposals

1. National Science Foundation (NSF), USA

2. National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA 

3. International Agencies (Iranian and European)

4. American Institute for Biological Sciences (AIBS), USA 

 

TEACHING

Graduate Courses Taught

1.    Medical Imaging Systems

2.    Medical Ultrasound

3.    Digital Image Processing 

4.    Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Analysis

5.    Advanced Digital Signal Processing

6.    Pattern Recognition

7.    Advanced Topics in Treatment and Surgery Planning

8.    Technical Writing and Professional Communication for Nonnative Speakers of English

 

Undergraduate Courses Taught

1.    Electronics III

2.    Signals and Systems

3.    Radiology and Radiotherapy Systems

 

PhD Theses Supervised

1. Segmentation of specific brain structures using prior knowledge and deformable models (Amir Ghanei, 2001) 

2. Wavelet analysis of brain fMRI for optimal activation detection (Gholam-Ali Hossein-Zadeh, 2003)

3. Extracting quantitative information from SPECT images of the heart (Hassan Bagher-Ebadian, 2004)  

4. Multi-modality database system for epilepsy including 3D segmentation and characterization of brain structures using MRI  (Mohammad-Reza Siadat, 2005) 

5. Integrated modeling and analysis of MEG and fMRI for brain activation detection (Abbas Babajani-Feremi, 2006)

6. Development of rotation invariant texture feature extraction methods and their applications to medical image analysis (Kourosh Jafari-Khouzai, 2006)

7. Vascular permeability estimation in MRI using simulation studies (Effat Yahaghi, 2006)

8. Evaluation of image quality in electrical impedance tomography by radiography (Amir Movafeghi, 2007)

9. Design and development of intravascular MRI coils (Mohammad Mohammad-Zadeh, 2007)

10. Atlas-based segmentation of brain structures from MRI (Alireza Akhondi-Asl, 2009) 

11. Improvement of PET-CT Fused Images for Diagnosis of Liver Metastasis Using Wavelet Transform (Bahareh Shalchian, 2009)

12. Segmentation of White Matter Fiber Bubles in Diffusion Weighted MRI (Mohammad-Reza Nazem-Zadeh, 2010)

13. An Information Theory Based Approach for Evaluation of fMRI Detection Methods (Babak Afshin-Pour, 2010)

14. Stochastic Point Process Modeling and Likelihood Space Analysis of Neuronal Population (Yousef Salimpour, 2010)

15. Development of Differential Connectivity Graph for Characterization of Brain Regions Involved in Epilepsy (Ladan Amini, 2010)

 

PhD Theses Advised (Consulted)

1. Intelligent methods  for correcting geometrical distortions of medical images (Emadoddin Fatemizadeh, 2003)

2. Image indexing based on tree-structured vector quantization (Amir-Masoud Eftekhari-Moghaddam, 2004)  

3. Image indexing and retrieval based on edge correlation (Farzad Mahmoudi, 2004)

 

MS Theses Supervised

1. Segmentation of hippocampus from brain MRI using dynamic contours (Amir Ghanei, 1996)

2. Extraction and visualization of surfaces from 3D medical images using fuzzy set theory (Mohammadreza Samadi-Broojeni, 1996)   

3. 2D sparse arrays for limited-diffraction ultrasonic beams (Nariman Majdinasab, 1996)   

4. Ultrasound phase arrays for hyperthermia of inhomogeneous tissues (Hasan Sharifi, 1996) 

5. Cosine transform reconstruction of MRI (Gholamali Hoseinzadeh-Dehkordi, 1997) 

6. A parallel method for PET image reconstruction (Mehdi Rezaeian, 1997)

7. Segmentation of normal and abnormal brain tissues in multi-parameter MRI using neural networks (Bahram Ashjei, 1997)  

8. Model-based compression of pathologic color images using fractals (Abdolmajid Moosavi, 1997)  

9. MRI noise suppression using anisotropic diffusion filtering (Hossein Morshedzadeh, 1997)  

10. An expert system approach for identification of hippocampus in MRI (Mohammad-Reza Siadat, 1997)  

11. Optimal nonlinear transformation for feature space analysis of brain MRI (Mahmoud Kharrat, 1998)  

12. Simulation of functional imaging using MRI (Reza Alishahi-Tabriz, 1998) 

13. Segmentation of tag lines in tagged MRI for characterization of heart motion (Fatah Moosazadeh-Gilandeh, 1998) 

14. Segmentation of liver from CT images using snakes (Abbas Babajani-Farmi, 1998) 

15. Analysis of MRI electromagnetic fields in the presence of human head (Abbas Nasiraei-Moghaddam, 1998) 

16. Optimal linear transformation for feature space analysis of brain MRI (Saeid Zare-Baghdadabadi, 1998) 

17. Image compression using fractals and vector quantization (Heshmatolah Lotfi-Azad, 1999) 

18. An information theoretic approach for multi-modality image registration (Hamidreza Shariati, 1999)  

19. Design and construction of 2D ultrasound phase arrays for hyperthermia (Ebrahim Karami, 1999)  

20. Segmentation of multiple sclerosis lesions in MRI (Mousa Shamsi, 1999)  

21. Integration of cluster analysis with deformable models for MRI segmentation (Pooya Valizadeh, 1999) 

22. MRI noise suppression using fuzzy control theory  (Mohammad Nikar, 1999)

23. Computerized ultrasonic system for nondestructive testing of rails (Alireza Taimour-Ghasemabadi, 2000) 

24. Segmentation and characterization of vascular structures from confocal microscopy images (Seyed-Ali Shahrokni, 2000) 

25. Electronic circuits for ultrasonic medical imaging using convex arrays  (Armin Alidoosti, 2001)

26. Knowledge-based segmentation of brain MRI using a digital brain atlas (Romina Nikookar, 2001) 

27. Image texture segmentation using fuzzy clustering methods (Mehdi Aghaei-Bonadkooki, 2001) 

28. Automatic grading of pathological images of prostate using multi-wavelets (Koorosh Jafari-Khozani, 2001)

29. Nonlinear transformation of multi-parameter MRI using neural networks trained  by genetic algorithm  (Arash Mohammadi, 2001)

30. Localization of brain neuronal activities using MEG and MRI  (Saeid Safilian, 2001)

31. Independent component analysis (ICA) of fMRI (Seyed-Ali-Mohammad Golestani, 2001)

32. Spectral estimation of Doppler ultrasound signals using time-frequency distributions  (Esmaeil Nazari-Paykani, 2001)

33. Analysis of MRI perfusion studies using wavelet transforms (Alireza Hesaraki, 2002)

34. Comparison of magnetization transfer images with conventional MRI (Alireza Abaei, 2002)

35. Pre-processing of magnetic resonance spectroscopic images  (Poorya Zamani, 2002)

36. Minimal system for display, processing, and archival of medical images (Bahman Tahayori, 2002)

37. Evaluation measures for fMRI analysis methods (Masoud Zia-Alinasabpoor, 2002)

38. Fast methods for skeletonization of 3D images of vasculature (Seyedeh-Mahnaz Maddah, 2002)

39. Knowledge and model-based segmentation of brain structures (Ladan Amini, 2002)

40. Minimal system for image guided brain surgery (Alireza Akhundi-Asl, 2002)

41. Information theoretic methods for noise suppression (Hesan Zeinolabedin-Rafi, 2003)

42. Analysis of magnetic resonance spectroscopic images for tissue characterization (Azadeh Yazdan-Shahmorad, 2003)

43. Fiber tracking using diffusion tensor images (DTI) (Kayvan Karimi-Gholpaygani, 2003)

44. Wavelet and clustering based analysis of fMRI (Hesamodin Jahanian, 2003)

45. Design and implementation of 3D visualization software for MRI using DVR-based methods (Dariush Momeni, 2003)

46. New method for multi-subject activation detection in fMRI (Seyed-Mohammad Shams, 2004)

47. Segmentation of Hippocampus and Amygdala  from brain MRI using rule-based deformable organisms (Mohammad-Mehdi Karimi, 2004)

48. Segmentation of brain MRI using multi-resolution methods (Mahmoud Zeydabadi, 2004)

49. Grading of pathological images of prostate using texture features (Reza Farjam, 2004)

50. Multimodality decision making system for temporal lobe epilepsy surgery (Mehdi Ghannad-Rezaei, 2005)

51. Atlas-based deformable models for segmentation of brain structures in MRI (Neamatollah Batmanghlich, 2005)

52. Estimation of fractal noise model for fMRI time series (Babak Afshinpoor, 2005)

53. Design and implementation of building blocks of hospital information system according to HL7 protocol (Mohammad-Reza Sehati, 2005)

54. Face detection using Gabor wavelet and multi-resolution histograms (Mehdi Aghagholzadeh, 2006)

55. Comparison of recent methods for localization of brain activations using MEG (Mehdi Rajabioun, 2006)

56. Differentiation of necrosis from tumor in glioma using Diffusion Tensor MRI (DT-MRI) and Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging (MRSI) (Zahra Torbatian, 2006)

57. Segmetation of brain structures from MRI using interacting deformable models (Payam Bahman-Bijari, 2006)

58. Functional MRI activation detection using spatial information and group of subjects (Mohammad Soleymani, 2006)

59. White matter crossing fiber tractography in DT-MRI using ICA and interpolation (Christine Manouk Khodaverdian, 2007)

60. Designing matched wavelets for feature extraction (Shirin Badiezadegan, 2007)

61. Estimation of MRI signal intensities in molecular imaging using labeled cells with iron particles (Alireza Mohammadi-Nejad, 2007)

62. Atlas-based estimation of white matter tracts using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) (Esmaeil Davoodi, 2007)

63. Voxel-Based morphometry (VBM) for finding brain changes in temporal lobe epilepsy (Matineh Shaker, 2008)

64. Predication of brain deformations as a result of opening the skull for neurosurgery (Hajar Hamidian, 2008)

65. Comparison of Voxel-based morphometry (VBM) and tensor-based morphometry (TBM) for finding brain changes in temporal lobe epilepsy (Amir Pourmorteza, 2008)

66. Modeling of visual information processing in the brain (Mina Gheiratmand, 2008)

67. Application of intelligent methods for multiresolution modeling of tumors for chemotherapy (Elham Bavafa-Haghighi, 2008)

68. Automatic recognition of white blood cells in hemotology images (Seyed-Hamid Reza-Tofoghi, 2009)

69. Segmentation of brain structures using geometric moment invariants and neural networks (Mostafa Jabarouti-Moghaddam, 2009)

70. Extraction of left ventricular torsion and ejection fraction using tagged MRI (Ali Mohebi, 2009)

71. Computer Aided Prognosis of Epileptic Patients Using Multi-Modality Data and Artificial Intelligence Techniques (Masoud Latifi-Navid, 2009)

72. Malignancy Determination of Brain Tumors Using Perfusion MRI (Asieh Tavakol, 2009)

73. Segmentation of Tumors in CT Images For Treatment Planning (Leila Yavari, 2010)

74. Comparison of Voxel Based Morphometry (VBM) and Tract Based Spatial Statistics (TBSS) Analysis of Diffusion Tensor MRI (DTMRI) for Epilepsy Diagnosis (Maryam Afzali-Deligani, 2010)

75. Hippocampus Shape Analysis for Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy (mTLE) Lateralization using Magnetic Resonance Images (Mohammad Esmaeil-Zadeh Fereydani, 2010)

76. Prediction of Outcome of Brain Tumors to Treatment with Anti-Angiogenic Medicine (Bevacizumab) Using Multi- Parametricl Magnetic Resonance Images (Mohammad Najafi, 2010)

77. Evaluation of Compressive Sensing Methods Using Information Theoretic Measures (Sepideh Almasi, 2010)

78. Functional Connectivity Detection in Resting-State Brain Using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (Mahdi Ramezani, 2010)

79. Activation Detection and Estimation of Hemodynamic Response Function in Functional Homogenous Regions in fMRI for Drug craving studies (Somayeh Maleki-Balajoo, 2010)

80. Analysis of Independent Components in fMRI to Achieve Maximum SNR in Activation Map (Faranak Akbarifar, 2010)

81. Estimation of Iron Concentration in Liver and Heart Tissue Using T2* MRI (Neda Gholizadeh, 2010)

82. Image Registration Using Frequency Domain Information (Majid Banaeyan, 2010)

83. Image Registration Using Spatial Domain Information (Mostafa Kazemi, 2010)

84. Analysis of CT Images of Lungs in Inspiratory and Expiratory States for Motion Modeling and Pattern Recognition of Volumetric Variations in Obstructive Diseases (Mohammad Parsa Hosseini, 2010)

85. Comprison of Diffusion Kurtosis in Healthy and Patient Subjects (Armin Iraji, 2011)

86. Operator Independent Algorithm for Prediction of Treatment Response of Brain Tumors to Treatment with Bevacizumab Using MRI (Neda Behzadfar, 2011)

87. Laplace-Beltrami Shape Analysis of Hippocampus for Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Lateralization (Rozita Shishegar, 2011)

88. Rule Extraction from Multimodality Database of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy (Mohammad Sedeghi, 2011)

89. Feature Selection for Lateralization of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Patients (Fatemeh Shirbani, 2011)

90. Intelligent Data Mining Techniques for Medical Data (Nazli Kheirabi, 2011)

91. Detection of Ball Crossing End-Line in Soccer Video (Jila Hosseinkhani, 2011)

 

MS Theses Advised

1-26. Variety of topics in Signal Processing, Image Processing, Medical Imaging, and Biomedical Engineering