February 03, 2022
Mohamad Forouzanfar
Professeur
Research axes
- Health Technologies
- Intelligent and Autonomous Systems
Areas of expertise
- Portable medical systems
- Sleep Technology
- Cardiovascular engineering
- Biosignal processing
- Medical expert systems
- Artificial intelligence
- Deep learning
Course
Supervision
- En codirection avec : Éric Granger
A machine learning framework for predicting mental-physical states and health conditions from multi-sensor sleep data, par Boshra Khajehpiri
Automne 2024
- En codirection avec : Massimiliano de Zambotti
Optimizing accoustic stimulation timing for enhanced deep speep: An analytical approach using polysomnography date, par Sepehr Sardooeinasab
Automne 2024 - En codirection avec : Rébecca Robillard
Automatic characterization of afffective states in individuals with mood disorders based on the analysis of brainheart interactions, par Mohammad Hasan Azad
Automne 2024
- Estimation de la pression artérielle sans brassard à partir de PPG à l'aide d'un réseau de neurone convolutif 2D, par Mustapha Guerinik
Automne 2023 - Développement d'un algorithme automatique pour la détection de l'apnée du sommeil à partir de signaux biomédicaux, par Abdoulaye Diallo
Été 2023
Publications
- Mohammad Hasan Azad, Rebecca Robillard, Caitlin Higginson, Jean-Marc Lina, Mohamad Forouzanfar. 2024 « Unraveling sleep EEG-ECG interactions in major depression: Preliminary results of a coherence analysis ». Affiche présentée lors de la conférence : 38th Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies (Houston, TX, USA, June 02-05, 2024)
- Saadat Izadi, Mohamad Forouzanfar. 2024 « Error correction and adaptation in conversational AI: A review of techniques and applications in chatbots ». AI vol. 5 , nº 2. p. 803-841
- Boshra Khajehpiri, Eric Granger, Massimiliano De Zambotti, Fiona C. Baker, Dilara Yuksel, Mohamad Forouzanfar. 2024 « SleepBP-Net: A time-distributed convolutional network for nocturnal blood pressure estimation from photoplethysmogram ». IEEE Sensors Journal vol. 24 , nº 12. p. 19590-19600
- Shiva Maleki Varnosfaderani, Mohamad Forouzanfar. 2024 « The role of AI in hospitals and clinics: Transforming healthcare in the 21st century ». Bioengineering vol. 11 , nº 4
- Melika Roshanfar, Amir Reza Ghiami Azad, Mohamad Forouzanfar. 2024 « Predicting fatigue life of shear connectors in steel-concrete composite bridges using artificial intelligence techniques ». Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures vol. 47 , nº 3. p. 818-832
- Bijan Roudini, Boshra Khajehpiri, Hamid Abrishami Moghaddam, Mohamad Forouzanfar. 2024 « Machine learning predicts long-term mortality after acute myocardial infarction using systolic time intervals and routinely collected clinical data ». Intelligent Medicine
- Mohammadreza Shahsavari, Niloufar Delfan, Mohamad Forouzanfar. 2024 « Localizing the origin of idiopathic ventricular arrhythmias from ECG using a recurrent convolutional neural network with attention ». IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement vol. 73
- Niloufar Delfan, Mohamad Forouzanfar. 2023 « Hybrid deep morpho-temporal framework for oscillometric blood pressure measurement ». IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics vol. 27 , nº 11. p. 5293-5301
- Kasra Nezamabadi, Neda Sardaripour, Benyamin Haghi, Mohamad Forouzanfar. 2023 « Unsupervised ECG analysis: A review ». IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering vol. 16. p. 208-224
- Dilara Yuksel, Boshra Khajehpiri, Mohamad Forouzanfar, Orsolya Kiss, Devin E. Prouty, Nicole Arra, Laila Volpe, Fiona C. Baker, Massimiliano de Zambotti. 2023 « Physiological responses to acute psychosocial stress in adolescents with insomnia ». Sleep vol. 46 , nº suppl. 1. p. A70
- Mahsa Bahrami, Mohamad Forouzanfar. 2022 « Deep learning forecasts the occurrence of sleep apnea from single-lead ECG ». Cardiovascular Engineering and Technology vol. 13 , nº 6. p. 809-815
- Mahsa Bahrami, Mohamad Forouzanfar. 2022 « Sleep apnea detection from single-lead ECG: A comprehensive analysis of machine learning and deep learning algorithms ». IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement vol. 71
- Nosratallah Forghani, Keivan Maghooli, Nader Jafarnia Dabanloo, Ali Vasheghani Farahani, Mohamad Forouzanfar. 2022 « DeepPAD: Detection of peripheral arterial disease using deep learning ». IEEE Sensors Journal vol. 22 , nº 16. p. 16254-16262
- Nassibeh Golizadeh, Mahdi Golizadeh, Mohamad Forouzanfar. 2022 « Adversarial grammatical error generation: Application to Persian language ». International Journal on Natural Language Computing vol. 11 , nº 4. p. 19-28
- B. Khajehpiri, H. A. Moghaddam, M. Forouzanfar, R. Lashgari, J. Ramos-Cejudo, R. S. Osorio, B. A. Ardekani. 2022 « Survival analysis in cognitively normal subjects and in patients with mild cognitive impairment using a proportional hazards model with extreme gradient boosting regression ». Journal of Alzheimer's Disease vol. 85 , nº 2. p. 833-846
- Massimiliano de Zambotti, Mohamad Forouzanfar, Harold Javitz, Aimée Goldstone, Stephanie Claudatos, Vanessa Alschuler, Fiona C. Baker, Ian M. Colrain. 2021 « Impact of evening alcohol consumption on nocturnal autonomic and cardiovascular function in adult men and women: a dose–response laboratory investigation ». Sleep vol. 44 , nº 1
- Nosratallah Forghani, Keivan Maghooli, Nader Jafarnia Dabanloo, Ali Vasheghani Farahani, Mohamad Forouzanfar. 2021 « Intelligent oscillometric system for automatic detection of peripheral arterial disease ». IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics vol. 25 , nº 8. p. 3209-3218
- Elham Foroozanfar, Mohamad Forouzanfar, Tahereh Farkhondeh, Saeed Samarghandian, Fatemeh Forouzanfar. 2021 « ACE2 as a potential target for management of novel coronavirus (nCoV-2019) ». Current Drug Discovery Technologies vol. 18 , nº 6
- Mohamad Forouzanfar, Fiona C. Baker, Massimiliano de Zambotti, Stephanie Claudatos, Bing-Bing Chai, James Bergen, Jeffrey Lubin. 2021 « Physiological synchrony: A new approach toward identifying unknown presentation attacks on biometric systems ». IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement vol. 70
- Dilara Yuksel, Fiona C. Baker, Aimee Goldstone, Stephanie A. Claudatos, Mohamad Forouzanfar, Devin E. Prouty, Ian M. Colrain, Massimiliano de Zambotti. 2021 « Stress, sleep, and autonomic function in healthy adolescent girls and boys: Findings from the NCANDA study ». Sleep Health vol. 7 , nº 1. p. 72-78
- Massimiliano de Zambotti, Aimee Goldstone, Mohamad Forouzanfar, Harold Javitz, Stephanie Claudatos, Ian M. Colrain, Fiona C. Baker. 2020 « The falling asleep process in adolescents ». Sleep vol. 43 , nº 6
- D. Yüksel, A. Goldstone, D. Prouty, M. Forouzanfar, S. Claudatos, Q. Lee, R. Wang, T. Dulai, N. Arra, L. Volpe, I. Durley, F. Baker, M. de Zambotti. 2020 « 0916 The Use of Immersive Virtual Reality and Slow Breathing to Enhance Relaxation and Sleep in Adolescents ». Sleep vol. 43 , nº Suppl. 1. p. A348
- Fiona C. Baker, Mohamad Forouzanfar, Aimée M. Goldstone, Stephanie A Claudatos, Harold Javitz, John Trinder, Massimiliano de Zambotti. 2019 « 0684 Impact of hot flash-associated sleep disruption on the cardiovascular system in perimenopausal women ». Sleep vol. 42 , nº Suppl. 1. p. A274
- Fiona C. Baker, Mohamad Forouzanfar, Aimée Goldstone, Stephanie A. Claudatos, Harold Javitz, John Trinder, Massimiliano de Zambotti. 2019 « Changes in heart rate and blood pressure during nocturnal hot flashes associated with and without awakenings ». Sleep vol. 42 , nº 11
- Massimiliano de Zambotti, Ellen Smith, Aimee Goldstone, Mohamad Forouzanfar, Stephanie Claudatos, Maureen Gil, Vanessa Alschuler, Yun Qi Lim, Leonardo Rosas, Devin Prouty, Lena Kardos, Ian Colrain, Fiona Baker. 2019 « 0137 The falling asleep process in adolescents ». Sleep vol. 42 , nº Suppl. 1. p. A56
- Mohamad Forouzanfar, Fiona C. Baker, Ian M. Colrain, Aimée Goldstone, Massimiliano de Zambotti. 2019 « Automatic analysis of pre-ejection period during sleep using impedance cardiogram ». Psychophysiology vol. 56 , nº 7
- Dilara Yüksel, Ellen Smith, Yun Qi Lim, Aimee Goldstone, Stephanie Claudatos, Mohamad Forouzanfar, Vanessa Alschuler, Maureen Gil, Ian M. Colrain, Devin Prouty, Massimiliano de Zambotti, Fiona Baker. 2019 « 0112 First night effect on sleep and heart rate in adolescent boys and girls: Findings from the NCANDA study ». Sleep vol. 42 , nº Suppl. 1. p. A46
- M. Colrain, A. Goldstone, M. Forouzanfar, F. C. Baker, S. Claudatos, M. Gil, V. Alschuler, Y. Q. Lim, L. Rosas, D. Prouty, M. de Zambotti. 2018 « Effect of evening alcohol intake on nocturnal cardiovascular function in normal adults ». Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research vol. 42 , nº suppl. 1
- Mohamad Forouzanfar, Fiona C. Baker, Massimiliano de Zambotti, Corey McCall, Laurent Giovangrandi, Gregory T. A. Kovacs. 2018 « Toward a better noninvasive assessment of preejection period: A novel automatic algorithm for B-point detection and correction on thoracic impedance cardiogram ». Psychophysiology vol. 55 , nº 8
- Seddigheh Baktash, Mohamad Forouzanfar, Izmail Batkin, Miodrag Bolic, Voicu Z. Groza, Saif Ahmad, Hilmi R. Dajani. 2017 « Characteristic ratio-independent arterial stiffness-based blood pressure estimation ». IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics vol. 21 , nº 5. p. 1263-1270
- Mohamad Forouzanfar, Mohamed Mabrouk, Sreeraman Rajan, Miodrag Bolic, Hilmi R. Dajani, Voicu Z. Groza. 2017 « Event recognition for contactless activity monitoring using phase-modulated continuous wave radar ». IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering vol. 64 , nº 2. p. 479-491
- Mohamad Forouzanfar, Hilmi R. Dajani, Voicu Z. Groza, Miodrag Bolic, Sreeraman Rajan, Izmail Batkin. 2016 « Bayesian fusion algorithm for improved oscillometric blood pressure estimation ». Medical Engineering and Physics vol. 38 , nº 11. p. 1300-1304
- Mohamed Mabrouk, Sreeraman Rajan, Miodrag Bolic, Mohamad Forouzanfar, Hilmi R. Dajani, Izmail Batkin. 2016 « Human breathing rate estimation from radar returns using harmonically related filters ». Journal of Sensors vol. 2016
- Mohamad Forouzanfar, Saif Ahmad, Izmail Batkin, Hilmi R. Dajani, Voicu Z. Groza, Miodrag Bolic. 2015 « Model-based mean arterial pressure estimation using simultaneous electrocardiogram and oscillometric blood pressure measurements ». IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement vol. 64 , nº 9. p. 2443-2452
- Mohamad Forouzanfar, Hilmi R. Dajani, Voicu Z. Groza, Miodrag Bolic, Sreeraman Rajan, Izmail Batkin. 2015 « Oscillometric blood pressure estimation: Past, present, and future ». IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering vol. 8. p. 44-63
- Mohamad Forouzanfar, Hilmi R. Dajani, Voicu Z. Groza, Miodrag Bolic, Sreeraman Rajan, Izmail Batkin. 2014 « Ratio-independent blood pressure estimation by modeling the oscillometric waveform envelope ». IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement vol. 63 , nº 10. p. 2501-2503
- Mohamad Forouzanfar, Saif Ahmad, Izmail Batkin, Hilmi R. Dajani, Voicu Z. Groza, Miodrag Bolic. 2013 « Coefficient-free blood pressure estimation based on pulse transit time-cuff pressure dependence ». IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering vol. 60 , nº 7. p. 1814-1824
- Mohamad Forouzanfar, Hilmi R. Dajani, Voicu Z. Groza, Miodrag Bolic, Sreeraman Rajan. 2011 « Feature-based neural network approach for oscillometric blood pressure estimation ». IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement vol. 60 , nº 8. p. 2786-2796
- Azar Tolouee, Hamid Abrishami Moghaddam, Mohamad Forouzanfar, Masumeh Gity, Rahil Garnavi. 2011 « Image based diagnostic aid system for interstitial lung diseases ». Expert Systems with Applications vol. 38 , nº 6. p. 7755-7765
- Armin Eftekhari, Mohamad Forouzanfar, Hamid Abrishami Moghaddam, Javad Alirezaie. 2010 « Block-wise 2D kernel PCA/LDA for face recognition ». Information Processing Letters vol. 110 , nº 17. p. 761-766
- M. Forouzanfar, H. Abrishami-Moghaddam, M. Dehghani. 2010 « A new effective approach for enhancement of SAR images based on extraction of interscale dependencies in the wavelet domain ». Geosciences vol. 19 , nº 76. p. 9-16
- Mohamad Forouzanfar, Hamid Abrishami Moghaddam, Masoumeh Gity. 2010 « A new multiscale Bayesian algorithm for speckle reduction in medical ultrasound images ». Signal, Image and Video Processing vol. 4 , nº 3. p. 359-375
- Mohamad Forouzanfar, Nosratallah Forghani, Mohammad Teshnehlab. 2010 « Parameter optimization of improved fuzzy c-means clustering algorithm for brain MR image segmentation ». Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence vol. 23 , nº 2. p. 160-168
- Armin Eftekhari, Hamid Abrishami Moghaddam, Mohamad Forouzanfar, Javad Alirezaie. 2009 « Incremental local linear fuzzy classifier in fisher space ». EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing vol. 2009 , nº 1
- Mohamad Forouzanfar, Hamid Abrishami Moghaddam, Sona Ghadimi. 2008 « Locally adaptive multiscale bayesian method for image denoising based on bivariate normal inverse gaussian distributions ». International Journal of Wavelets, Multiresolution and Information Processing vol. 6 , nº 4. p. 653-664
- Mohammad Ali Rezaei, Parviz Abdolmaleki, Zahra Karami, Ebrahim Barzegari Asadabadi, Mohammad Amin Sherafat, Hamid Abrishami-Moghaddam, Marziyeh Fadaie, Mohammad Forouzanfar. 2008 « Prediction of membrane protein types by means of wavelet analysis and cascaded neural networks ». Journal of Theoretical Biology vol. 254 , nº 4. p. 817-820
- Massimiliano De Zambotti, Fiona C. Baker, Mohamad Forouzanfar, Bhaskar Ramamurthy, Laurie Menoud. 2023-10-31 « Systems and methods involving predictive modeling of hot flashes ». Brevet américain US 11,804,301.
- Izmail Batkin, Saif Ahmad, Miodrag Bolic, Voicu Groza, R. Dajani Hilmi, Mohamad Forouzanfar. 2015-02-24 « Apparatus and method for electrocardiogram-assisted blood pressure measurement ». Brevet canadien CA 2776204.
- Mohamad Forouzanfar, Hamid Abrishami-Moghaddam. 2011 « Ultrasound speckle reduction in the complex wavelet domain ». In Principles of Waveform Diversity and Design. p. 558-577. Institution of Engineering and Technology
- Armin Eftekhari, Mojtaba Ahmadieh Khanesar, Mohamad Forouzanfar, Mohammad Teshnehlab. 2009 « Incremental locally linear fuzzy classifier ». In Applications of Soft Computing. p. 305-314. Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- Nosratallah Forghani, Mohamad Forouzanfar, Armin Eftekhari, Shahab Mohammad-Moradi, Mohammad Teshnehlab. 2009 « Application of particle swarm optimization in accurate segmentation of brain MR images ». In Particle Swarm Optimization. p. 203-222. IntechOpen
- Shahab Mohammad-Moradi, Hamid Khaloozadeh, Mohamad Forouzanfar, Ramezan Paravi Torghabeh, Nosratallah Forghani. 2009 « Swarm intelligence in portfolio selection ». In Particle Swarm Optimization. p. 223-232. IntechOpen
- Mahsa Bahrami, Mohamad Forouzanfar. 2021 « Detection of sleep apnea from single-lead ECG : Comparison of deep learning algorithms ». IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications (MeMeA) (Lausanne, Switzerland - En ligne, June 23-25, 2021) Institute of Electrical and Electonics Engineers
- Nosratallah Forghani, Keivan Maghooli, Nader Jafarnia Dabanloo, Ali Vasheghani Farahani, Mohamad Forouzanfar. 2021 « Automated, portable, and low-cost system for home screening of peripheral arterial disease ». IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications (MeMeA) (Lausanne, Switzerland - En ligne, June 23-25, 2021) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
- M. Hasan Azad, R. Farzam, H. Sadeghi, N. Zarif Yussefian, M. Forouzanfar. 2021 « Toward continuous estimation of cardiorespiratory parameters in oscillometry : A simulation study ». IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications (MeMeA) (Lausanne, Switzerland - En ligne, June 23-25, 2021) Institute of Electrical and Electonics Engineers
- Mohamad Forouzanfar, Fiona C. Baker, Ian M. Colrain, Massimiliano de Zambotti. 2019 « Automatic artifact detection in impedance cardiogram using pulse similarity index ». 41st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC) (Berlin, Allemagne, July 23-27, 2019) IEEE
- Mohamad Forouzanfar, Fiona C. Baker, Ian M. Colrain, Massimiliano de Zambotti. 2019 « Electroencephalographic slow-wave activity during sleep in different phases of blood pressure and respiration oscillations ». 41st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC) (Berlin, Allemagne, July 23-27, 2019) IEEE
- Mohamad Forouzanfar, Massimiliano de Zambotti, Aimée Goldstone, Fiona C. Baker. 2018 « Automatic detection of hot flash occurrence and timing from skin conductance activity ». 40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC) (Honolulu, HI, USA, July 18-21, 2018) IEEE
- David Abolarin, Mohamad Forouzanfar, Voicu Z. Groza, Sreeraman Rajan, Hilmi R. Dajani, Emil M. Petriu. 2016 « Model-based filtering and compression of oscillometric blood pressure pulses ». IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications (MeMeA) (Benevento, Italy, May 15-18, 2016) IEEE
- Hamed Samimi, Mohamad Forouzanfar, Hilmi R. Dajani. 2015 « Automatic recognition of speech-evoked brainstem responses to English vowels ». IASTED International Conference on Computational Intelligence (CI 2015) (Innsbruck, Austria, Feb. 16-17, 2015) Acta Press
- Mohamad Forouzanfar, Hilmi R. Dajani, Voicu Z. Groza, Miodrag Bolic. 2014 « Model-based oscillometric blood pressure estimation ». IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications (MeMeA) (Lisbon, Portugal, June 11-12, 2014) IEEE
- Mohamad Forouzanfar, Balakumar Balasingam, Hilmi R. Dajani, Voicu Z. Groza, Miodrag Bolic, Sreeraman Rajan, Emil M. Petriu. 2012 « Mathematical modeling and parameter estimation of blood pressure oscillometric waveform ». IEEE Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications (MeMeA) (Budapest, Hungary, May 18-19, 2012) IEEE Computer Society
- B. Balasingam, M. Forouzanfar, M. Bolic, H. Dajani, V. Groza, S. Rajan. 2011 « Arterial blood pressure parameter estimation and tracking using particle filters ». IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications (Bari, Italy, May 30-31, 2011) IEEE
- M. Forouzanfar, H. R. Dajani, V. Z. Groza, M. Bolic, S. Rajan. 2010 « Comparison of feed-forward neural network training algorithms for oscillometric blood pressure estimation ». 4th International Workshop on Soft Computing Applications (SOFA) (Arad, Romania, July 15-17, 2010) IEEE
- Mohamad Forouzanfar, Hilmi R. Dajani, Voicu Z. Groza, Miodrag Bolic, Sreeraman Rajan. 2010 « Adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system for oscillometric blood pressure estimation ». IEEE International Workshop on Medical Measurements and Applications (MeMeA) (Ottawa, ON, Canada, Apr. 30 - May 01, 2010) IEEE Computer Society
- A. R. Barghaei, Mohamad Forouzanfar, Hamid Abrishami Moghaddam. 2009 « شخیص بیماری دیابت با استفاده از کرنل وابسته به داده ». 16th Iranian Conference Biomedical Engineering (ICBME) (Mashhad, Iran, Dec. 29-30, 2009) CIVILICA
- A. Eftekhari, H. Abrishami-Moghaddam, M. Forouzanfar. 2009 « A generalized matrix-based framework for face recognition ». 17th Iranian Conference on Electric Engineering (ICEE) (Tehran, Iran, May 11-13, 2009) Iran University of Science and Technology
- Mohamad Forouzanfar, Hilmi R. Dajani, Voicu Z. Groza, Miodrag Bolic, Sreeraman Rajan. 2009 « Oscillometric blood pressure estimation using principal component analysis and neural networks ». IEEE Toronto International Conference - Science and Technology for Humanity (TIC-STH'09) (Toronto, ON, Canada, Sept. 26-27, 2009) IEEE Computer Society
- A. Tolouee, H. Abrishami-Moghaddam, R. Garnavi, M. Forouzanfar, M. Giti. 2008 « Texture analysis in lung HRCT images ». Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA) (Canberra, ACT, Australia, Dec. 01-03, 2008) IEEE Computer Society
- Nosratallah Forghani, Mohamad Forouzanfar, Elham Forouzanfar. 2007 « MRI fuzzy segmentation of brain tissue using IFCM algorithm with particle swarm optimization ». 22nd International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS) (Ankara, Turkey, Nov. 07-09, 2007) IEEE Computer Society
- M. Forouzanfar, H. A. Moghaddam. 2007 « A directional multiscale approach for speckle reduction in optical coherence tomography images ». International Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEE) (Lahore, Pakistan, Apr. 11-12, 2007) IEEE Computer Society
- Mohamad Forouzanfar, Hamid Abrishami Moghaddam, Maryam Dehghani. 2007 « Speckle reduction in medical ultrasound images using a new multiscale bivariate Bayesian MMSE-based method ». IEEE 15th Signal Processing and Communications Applications (SIU) (Eskisehir, Turkey, June 11-13, 2007) IEEE Computer Society
- Youness Aliyari Ghassabeh, Nosratallah Forghani, Mohamad Forouzanfar, Mohammad Teshnehlab. 2007 « MRI fuzzy segmentation of brain tissue using IFCM algorithm with genetic algorithm optimization ». IEEE/ACS International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA) (Amman, Jordan, May 13-16, 2007) IEEE