School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Hamid Soltanian-Zadeh

School of Electrical & Computer Engineering

Professor

Email: hszadeh [AT] ut.ac.ir

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Education

Ph.D.: Systems and Biomedical Eng. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, U.S.A, 1992
M.Sc.: Electrical Engineering Systems, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, U.S.A, 1990 &$& Electrical Engineering, Electronics, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, 1986
B.Sc.: Electrical Engineering, Electronics, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, 1984

Research Interests

Image Processing
Medical Image Analysis
Medical Imaging
Signal Processing
Pattern Recognition

Current Researches

Image Reconstruction and Processing
Medical Imaging
Medical Image Analysis
Signal Processing

Courses

Medical Imaging Systems
Technical Writing
Medical Image Analysis
Digital Image Processing
Advanced Digital Signal Processing
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
Medical Ultrasound
Pattern Recognition

Selected Publications

1) F. Mahmoudi, J. Shanbehzadeh, A.M. Eftekhari-Moghadam and H. Soltanian-Zadeh, "Non-segmentation Shape-Based Image Retrieval Using – Direction Histogram of Similar Edges," Journal of Tarbiat Moalem University, in press, 2005.

2) H. Soltanian-Zadeh, A. Shahrokni, M.M. Khalighi, Z.G. Zhang, R.A. Zoroofi, M. Maddah, M. Chopp, "3D Quantification and Visualization of Vascular Structures from Confocal Microscopic Images Using Skeletonization and Voxel-Coding," Computers in Biology and Medicine, in press, vol. 35, no. 8, Dec. 2005.

3) M. Maddah, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, A. Afzali-Kusha, A. Shahrokni, Z.G. Zhang, "Three-Dimensional Analysis of Complex Branching Vessels in Confocal Microscopy Images," submitted to Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, vol. 29, no. 5, Oct. 2005.

4) H. Jahanian, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, G.A. Hossein-Zadeh, "fMRI Activation Detection: Fuzzy Cluster Analysis in Wavelet and Multi-Wavelet Domains," submitted to Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 381-389, Sept. 2005.

5) M.R. Siadat, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, F. Fotouhi, K.V. Elisevich: "Content-Based Image Database System for Epilepsy," Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, vol. 79, no. 3, pp. 209-226, Sept. 2005.

6) P.D. Mitsias, M. Lu, B. Silver, D. Morris, J.R. Ewing, S. Daley, C. Lewandowski, A. Katramados, N.I. Papamitsakis, H.B. Ebadian, Q. Zhao, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, D. Hearshen, S.C. Patel, M. Chopp. "MRI-guided, open trial of abciximab for ischemic stroke within a 3- to 24-hour window," Neurology, vol. 65, no. 4, pp. 612-615. Aug. 2005.

7) K. Jafari-Khouzani and H. Soltanian-Zadeh, "Rotation-Invariant Multiresolution Texture Analysis Using Radon and Wavelet Transforms," IEEE Trans. Image Processing, vol. 14, no. 6, pp. 783-795, June 2005.

8) K. Jafari-Khouzani and H. Soltanian-Zadeh, "Radon Transform Orientation Estimation for Rotation Invariant Texture Analysis," IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Machine Intell, vol. 27, no. 6, pp. 1004-1008, June 2005.

9) L. Li, Q. Jiang, G. Ding, L. Zhang, Z.G. Zhang, J.R. Ewing, R.A. Knight, A. Kapke, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, M. Chopp, "Map-ISODATA Demarcates Regional Response to Combination rt-PA and 7E3 F(ab")2 Treatment of Embolic Stroke in the Rat," J. Magn. Reson. Imag., vol. 21, no. 6, pp.726-34, June 2005.

10) Lu M, Mitsias PD, Ewing JR, Soltanian-Zadeh H, Bagher-Ebadian H, Zhao Q, Oja-TebbeN, Patel SC, Chopp M. "Predicting final infarct size using acute and subacute multiparametric MRI measurements in patients with ischemic stroke". J Magn Reson Imaging. 2005 May 15;21(5):495-502.

11) G.A. Hossein-Zadeh, B.A. Ardekani, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, "Linear and nonlinear modeling of the hemodynamic response in fMRI," International Journal of Engineering, Iranian University of Science and Technology, vol. 15, no. 5, pp. 45-54, Feb. 2005.

12) P.D. Mitsias, J.R. Ewing, M. Lu, M.M. Khalighi, M. Pasnoor, H.B. Ebadian, Q.M. Zhao, S. Santhakumar, M.A. Jacobs, N.I.H. Papamitsakis, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, D.O. Hearshen, S.C. Patel, M. Chopp, "Multiparametric iterative self-organizing MR imaging data analysis technique for assessment of tissue viability in acute cerebral ischemia. Am J Neuroradiol. vol. 25, no. 9, pp. 1499-508, Oct. 2004.

13) A. Movafeghi, M.H. Krgarnovin, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, K. Edalati, B. Rokrok, A. Kermani and M. Seidi, "A radiographic calibration method for eddy current testing of heat exchanger tubes," Insight (Journal of British Institute of Non-Destructive Testing), vol. 46, no. 10, pp. 594-597, Oct. 2004.

14) H. Soltanian-Zadeh, F. Rafiee-Rad, S. Pourabdollah-Nazhad, "Comparison of Multi-Wavelet, Wavelet, Haralick, and Shape Features for Microcalcification Classification in Mammograms," Pattern Recognition, vol. 37, no. 10, pp. 1973-1986, Oct. 2004.

15) R. Farjam, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, R.A. Zoroofi, "Wavelet-Based Determination of Malignancy of the Pathological Images of the Prostate," WSEAS Transactions on Electronics, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 476-481, July 2004.

16) M. Zeydabadi-Nejad, R.A. Zoroofi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, "Comparison of Three Gaussian Mixture Modeling and Spatial Encoding Methods for Segmenting Human Brain MRI," WSEAS Transactions on Electronics, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 482-487, July 2004.

17) H. Jahanian, G.A. Hossein-Zadeh, H. Soltanian-Zadeh: "Controlling the False Positive Rate in Fuzzy Clustering Using Randomization: Application to fMRI Activation Detection," Magnetic Resonance Imaging, vol. 22, pp. 631–638, June 2004.

18) L. Amini, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, C. Lucas, M. Gity: "Automatic Segmentation of Thalamus from Brain MRI Integrating Fuzzy Clustering and Dynamic Contours," IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng., vol. 51, no. 5, pp. 800-811, May 2004.

19) A. Moahammadi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, "Reduction of MRI Dimensionality by Neural Network Trained Using Genetic Algorithm," Journal of Faculty of Engineering, University of Tehran, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 35-49, May 2004.

20) A. Hessaraki, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, "Measurement of cerebral blood flow from perfusion MRI by singular value decomposition using smoothing spline interpolation." Shahed Journal, vol. 43, pp. 11-23, March 2004.

21) H. Soltanian-Zadeh, D.J. Peck, and D.O. Hearshen, and Renee R. Lajiness-O"Neill: "Model-Independent Method for fMRI analysis." IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 285-296, March 2004.

22) H. Bagher-Ebadian, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, S. Setayeshi, S.T. Smith: "Neural Network and Fuzzy Clustering Approach for Automatic Diagnosis of Coronary Artery Disease in Nuclear Medicine," IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol. 51, no. 1, pp. 184-192, Feb. 2004.

23) N. Asadi, S.K. Setarehdan, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, "A Novel Hybrid Pulse-Coded Excitation Scheme to Improve Signal to Noise Ratio in Ultrasound Imaging," International Journal of WSEAS Transactions on Biology and Biomedicine, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 126-130, Jan. 2004.

24) M. Maddah, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, A. Afzali-Kusha: "Snake modeling and distance transform approach to vascular centerline extraction and quantification," Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, vol. 27, no. 6, pp. 503-512, Nov.-Dec. 2003.

25) A.M. Eftekhari-Moghadam, J. Shanbehzadeh, F. Mahmoudi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, "Image Retrieval Based on Index Compressed Vector Quantization," Pattern Recognition, vol. 36, no. 11, pp. 2635-2647, Nov. 2003.

26) G.A. Hossein-Zadeh, B.A. Ardekani, H. Soltanian-Zadeh: "A Signal Subspace Approach for Modeling the Hemodynamic Response Function in fMRI," Magnetic Resonance Imaging, vol. 21, no. 8, pp. 835–843, Oct. 2003.

27) F. Mahmoudi, J. Shanbehzadeh, A.M. Eftekhari-Moghadam, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, "Image Retrieval Based on Shape Similarity by Edge Orientation Autocorrelogram," Pattern Recognition, vol. 36, no. 8, pp. 1725-1736, Aug. 2003.

28) G.A. Hossein-Zadeh, B.A. Ardekani, H. Soltanian-Zadeh: "Activation Detection in fMRI Using a Maximum Energy Ratio Statistic Obtained by Adaptive Spatial Filtering," IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 22, no. 7, pp. 795-805, July 2003.

29) K. Jafari-Khouzani, H. Soltanian-Zadeh: "Multiwavelet Grading of Pathological Images of Prostate," IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 50, no. 6, pp. 697-704, June 2003.

30) E. Karami, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, M. Kameraei, "Design and Implementation of Ultrasound Hyperthermia System for Cancer Treatment." Journal of Faculty of Engineering at University of Tehran, vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 517-526, June 2003.

31) E. Fatemi-Zadeh, C. Lucas, H. Soltanian-Zadeh: "Automatic Landmark Extraction from Image Data Using Modified Growing Neural Gas Network," IEEE Trans. Info. Tech. Biomed., vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 77-85, June 2003.

32) D.C. Morris, T. Yeich, M.M. Khalighi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, Z.G. Zhang, M. Chopp: "Microvascular structure after embolic focal cerebral ischemia in the rat." Brain Research, vol. 972, no. 1-2, pp. 31-37, May 2003.

33) H. Soltanian-Zadeh, M. Pasnoor, R. Hammoud, M.A. Jacobs, S.C. Patel, P.D. Mitsias, R. Knight, Z.G. Zheng, M. Lu, M. Chopp: "MRI Tissue Characterization of Experimental Cerebral Ischemia in Rat," J. Magn. Reson. Imag., vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 398–409, April 2003.

34) G.A. Hossein-Zadeh, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, B.A. Ardekani: "Multi-Resolution fMRI Activation Detection Using Translation Invariant Wavelet Transform and Statistical Analysis Based on Resampling," IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 302-314, March 2003.

35) M. Maddah, A. Afzali-Kusha, H. Soltanian-Zadeh: "Efficient Center-line Extraction for Quantification of Vessels in Confocal Microscopy Images," Medical Physics, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 204-211, Feb. 2003.

36) A. Ghanei, H. Soltanian-Zadeh: "A Discrete Curvature-Based Deformable Surface Model with Application to Segmentation of Volumetric Images." IEEE Trans. Info. Tech. Biomed., vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 285-295, Dec. 2002.

37) A.M. Eftekhari-Moghadam, J. Shanbehzadeh, F. Mahmoudi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, "The Effect of Correlation in IC-VQ Based Image Indexing," Intl. Journal of Engineering Science, Iran University of Science and Technology, Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 73-88, Dec. 2002.

38) F. Mahmoudi, J. Shanbehzadeh, A.M. Eftekhari-Moghadam, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, "A shape Based Image Retrieval Scheme Using Edges Correlation," Amirkabir Journal, Amirkabir University, Tehran, Iran, Vol. 13, No. 52, pp. 688-703, fall 2002.

39) A.M. Eftekhari-Moghadam, J. Shanbehzadeh, F. Mahmoudi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, "Image Retrieval and Indexing Based on the Genealogical Relation of TSVQ Indies," Amirkabir Journal, Amirkabir University, Tehran, Iran, Vol. 13, No. 52, pp. 640-655, fall 2002.

40) A.M. Eftekhari-Moghadam, J. Shanbehzadeh, F. Mahmoudi, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, "IC-VQ Based Image Indexing Using Contiguous Regions histogram," Journal of Faculty of Engineering of Tabriz University, Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 11-18, Spring and Summer 2002.

41) E. Fatemi-Zadeh, C. Lucas, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, M.R. Hashemi-Golpayegani, "Local Transformation of Medical Images Using Voronoi Images." Modarres Journal of Medical Sciences, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 101-113, June 2002.

42) B. Tahayori, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, and R. A. Zoroofi, "A PC Based PACS Display Workstation with a Language Transparent Interface," Journal of Digital Imaging, vol. 15, Suppl. 1, pp. 206-209, 2002.

43) Z.G. Zhang, L. Zhang, W. Tsang, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, D. Morris, R. Zhang, A. Goussev, C. Powers, T. Yeich, M. Chopp: "Correlation of VEGF and Angiopoietin Expression with Disruption of Blood-Brain Barrier and Angiogenesis After Focal Cerebral Ischemia," J. Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 379-392, April 2002.

44) E. Fatemi-Zadeh, C. Lucas, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, M.R. Hashemi-Golpayegani, "Sensitivity Analysis of Landmarks in Medical Image Registration." Shaahed Daaneshvar Journal, vol. 9, no. 37, pp. 33-46, March 2002.

45) H. Soltanian-Zadeh and D.J. Peck: "Feature Space Analysis: Effects of MRI Protocols." Medical Physics, vol. 28, no. 11, pp. 2344-2351, Nov. 2001.

46) A. Ghanei, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, A. Ratkewics, F. Yin: "A 3D Deformable Model for Segmentation of Human Prostate from Ultrasonic Images." Medical Physics, vol. 28, no. 10, pp. 2147-2153, Oct. 2001.

47) A. Olfat and H. Soltanian-Zadeh: "A Neural Network Approach to Magnitude Retrieval." Signal Processing, vol. 81/9 pp. 1879-1888, Aug. 2001.

48) M.A. Jacobs, Z.G. Zhang, R.A. Knight, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, A.V. Goussev, D.J. Peck, M. Chopp: "A Model for Multi-parameteric MRI Tissue Characterization in Exprimental Cerebral Ischemia With Histological Validation in Rat: Part 1." Stroke, vol. 32, pp. 943-949, April 2001.

49) M.A. Jacobs, P. Mitsias, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, S. Santhakumar, A. Ghanei, R. Hammond, D.J. Peck, M. Chopp, S. Patel, "Multiparametric MRI Tissue Characterization in Clinical Storke With Correlation Clinical Outcome: Part 2." Stroke, vol.32, pp.950-957, April 2001.

50) A. Ghanei, H. Soltanian-Zadeh: "A Discrete Curvature-Based Deformable Surface Model with Application to Segmentation of Volumetric Images." IEEE Trans. Info. Tech. Biomed., vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 285-295, Dec. 2002.

51) G.L. Ding, Q. Jiang, L. Zhang, Z.G. Zhang, R.A. Knight, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, M. Lu, J.R. Ewing, Q.J. Li, P.A. Whitton, M. Chopp, "Multiparametric ISODATA analysis of embolic stroke and rt-PA intervention in rat," Journal of Neurological Sciences, vol. 223, no. 2, pp. 135-43, Aug. 2004.

52) P.D. Mitsias, M. Lu, D. Morris, B. Silver, C. Lewandowski, N.I. Papamitsakis, M.M. Khalighi, H.B. Ebadian, Q. Zhao, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, S. Daley, D. Hearshen, J.R. Ewing, S.C. Patel, M. Chopp. "Treatment of Acute Supratentorial Ischemic Stroke with Abciximab Is Safe and May Result in Early Neurological Improvement. A Preliminary Report." Cerebrovascular Diseases, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 249-250, Aug. 2004.