Bardia Yousefi, Ph.D.
Fischell Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland, College Park (UMD), 4117, Biomedical Sciences and Engineering (BSE) Building, 9631 Gudelsky Dr, Rockville, MD 20850 Email: byousefi [at] umd [dot] edu Tel.: +1 (240) 665-6529
Bardia Yousefi is a faculty in the A. James Clark School of Engineering 's B.S. in Biocomputational Engineering program, at the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD). He joined UMD after working at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman school of medicine . He also serves as an Adjunct Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Laval University, Quebec City. He received his second Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Computer Vision and System Laboratory (CVSL), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Laval University in 2018, and his first Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the University Malaya in 2016. His research interests involve dimensionality reduction, data mining, and machine/deep learning in various applications i.e., precision medicine (AI in medicine). He was a Vice President of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers-IEEE Young Professionals (YP) in Quebec Section Canada in 2017 and currently serves as an invited editor for Machine Learning issues in Cancers, Sensors, Infrared Physics and Technology, and Remote Sensing. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation & Measurement (TIM) journal and has authored more than 60 peer-reviewed publications in different scientific journals and proceeding conferences.
TECHNICAL TALKS
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High Dimensional Data Processing for Precision Medicine: Hype to Reality
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Division of Medical Physics, Department of Radiation Oncology,
University of Maryland Medical Center - August 12th, 2021 -
Infrared-Based Non-Invasive Computer-Aided Diagnosis for Early Detection of Breast Cancer Using Dynamic Thermography
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SHM-NDT 2020 Quebec, Canada - November 25th, 2020
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Medical AI: A Path Forward to Precision Medicine
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MichiganTech - July 24th, 2020
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Correlation-Incorporated Hierarchical Clustering of High-Dimensional Radiomic Features for Prognostic Phenotype
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Identification of EGFR-Mutated Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
Radiology North America Association (RSNA), Chicago IL - December 2nd, 2019
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Reducing High-Dimensional Radiomic Features for Prognostic Phenotype Identification of EGFR-Mutated for NSCLC
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Donor auditorium, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA - November 23rd, 2019
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Incremental Low Rank Noise Reduction for Thermal Monitoring of Human Body Using Infrared Imagery
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Desjardin auditorium, Laval University, Quebec City, Canada - September 27th, 2017
TEACHING
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- - ENBC332: Statistics, Data Analysis, and Data Visualization
University of Maryland, College Park (USG), Fall 2021.
Course materials -
- - Capstone tutorial: Datamining
University of Pennsylvania, Winter session 2020.
Toturial page -
- - Laboratory demos
- - Basic Machine Learning
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- - Electronic II(2 semesters, 2003-2004)
- - Laboratory electronic I(1 semesters, 2004)
- - Computer Architecture(2 semesters, 2004,2006)
- - Laboratory electronic II(1 semester, 2005)
- - Laboratory industrial electronics(2 semesters, 2004-2005)
- - Signal and System Analysis (1 semester, 2004)
- - Telecommunication system I(1 semester, 2006)
Department of Electrical and Robotic Engineering, Shahrood University of Technology, 2003-2006
Advanced Robotic Lab., Department of Artificial Intelligence, University Malaya, 2012-2014.
Selected publications based on their applications (quick access):
Data-mining in precision medicine Methods for pattern recognition Neural mechanism for recognition of biological movements
Data-mining in precision medicine
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Development of a radiogenomic biomarker for tumor characterization and prognosis in non-small cell lung cancer patients
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| Paper and Talke Apurva and Thomas's paper
Medical Imaging 2021: Computer-Aided Diagnosis
SPAER: Sparse Deep Convolutional Autoencoder Model to Extract Low Dimensional Imaging Biomarkers
for Early Detection of Breast Cancer Using Dynamic Thermography
Applied Sciences
Detecting vasodilation as potential diagnostic biomarker in breast cancer using deep learning-driven thermomics
Biosensors
Measuring heterogeneous thermal patterns in infrared-based diagnostic systems using sparse low-rank
matrix approximation: Comparative study
IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement
| Paper | Full text authors' version
Radiomics: A Path Forward to Predict Immunotherapy Response in Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer
Radiology: Artificial Intelligence - 2020
Impact of intravenous Contrast Enhancement on Predictive Radiomic Features in Patients With Lung Cancer
Treated With Proton Therapy
Society of Thoracic Radiology (STR) - 2020
| POSTER | Paper
Correlation-Incorporated Hierarchical Clustering of High-Dimensional Radiomic Features for Prognostic Phenotype Identification of
EGFR-Mutated Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
Radiology Society North America - 2019
| PPTX | Paper | Data Oral presentation!
Impact of Interobserver Variability in Manual Segmentation of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) on Computed Tomography
Radiology Society North America - 2019
| PPTX | Paper | Data Oral presentation!
Incremental Low Rank Noise Reduction for Robust Infrared Tracking of Body Temperature during Medical Imaging
,Electronics-Design and Application of Biomedical Circuits and Systems - 2019
code | PPTX | fullpaper download | Data
CHCA of High-Dimensional Radiomic Features for Prognostic Phenotype Identification of EGFR-Mutated NSCLC
,Penn Pendergrass Symposium - 2019
| POSTER | Best paper award (Magna cum laude)!
Correlative hierarchical clustering-based low-rank dimensionality reduction of radiomics-driven phenotype in non-small cell lung cancer
,SPIE-Medical Imaging - 2019
code | PPTX | fullpaper download | Data
Automated assessment and tracking of human body thermal variations using unsupervised clustering
,Applied Optics - 2017
code | PPTX | fullpaper download | Video-Demo | Draft version
Unsupervised Automatic tracking of Human Body Thermal changes
,Advanced Infrared Technology and Applications (AITA - 2015) (Pisa, Italy)
code | PPTX | fullpaper download
Development of computer-aided detection of breast lesion using gabor-wavelet BASED features in mammographic images
,In Control System, IEEE International Conference on Computing and Engineering (ICCSCE) (Penang,Malaysia)- 2013
code | PPTX | fullpaper download
Visibility Enhancement of Digital Dental X-Ray for RCT Application Using Bayesian Classiffer and Two Times Wavelet Image Fusion
,Journal of American Science- 2012
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Vessel segmentation in X-ray angiographic images using Hessian based vesselness filter and wavelet based image fusion
,Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Information Technology and Applications in Biomedicine- 2010
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Methods for pattern recognition
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My second Ph.D. thesis on Hyperspectral infrared data-mining
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Laval Unversity (My special thanks to MIVIM, LVSN, and beautiful Quebec)
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Comparative analysis on mineral identification in LWIR hyperspectral imagery
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Baltimore MD, USA
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Comparison assessment of low rank sparse-PCA based-clustering/classification for automatic mineral identification in long wave infrared
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hyperspectral imageryInfrared Physics & Technology-2018
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Continuum removal for ground based LWIR hyperspectral infrared imagery applying non-negative matrix factorization
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Applied Optics-2018 Optical Society of America
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Mineral Identification in LWIR Hyperspectral Imagery Applying Sparse based Clustering
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QIRT Journal-2018
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Modified algorithm for mineral identification in LWIR hyperspectral imagery
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In SPIE Commercial, Scientific Sensing and Imaging. International Society for Optics and Photonics-2017
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Mineral identification in hyperspectral imaging using Sparse-PCA
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In SPIE Commercial+ Scientific Sensing and Imaging-2016
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Emissivity retrieval from indoor hyperspectral imaging of mineral grains
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In SPIE Commercial+ Scientific Sensing and Imaging-2016
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Infrared Non-Destructive Testing via Semi-Nonnegative Matrix Factorization
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15th International Workshop on Advanced Infrared Technology and Applications (AITA 2019), Florence, Italy
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute Proceedings-2019 | fullpaper download -
Low-Rank Sparse Principal Component Thermography (Sparse-PCT): Comparative assessment on detection of subsurface defects
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Infrared Physics & Technology-2019
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Automatic IRNDT Inspection Applying Sparse PCA-based Clustering
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CCECE 2017 Winsdor
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Thermography data fusion and nonnegative matrix factorization for the evaluation of cultural heritage objects and buildings
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Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry-2018
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Application of Deep Learning in Infrared Non-Destructive Testing
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QIRT 2018
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Thermochemical Monitoring of Brucite Carbonation Using Passive Infrared Thermography
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Chemical Engineering and Processing Journal-2018
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Comparative analysis on Thermal Non-Destructive Testing Imagery applying Candid Covariance-Free Incremental Principal
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Component Thermography (CCIPCT)
Infrared Physics & Technology
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Thermal NDT applying Candid Covariance-Free Incremental Principal Component Thermography (CCIPCT)
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In SPIE Commercial+ Scientific Sensing and Imaging. International Society for Optics and Photonics-2017(USA)
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Quantitative assessment in thermal image segmentation for artistic objects
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In SPIE O3A: Optics for Arts, Architecture, and Archaeology-2017(Munich, Germany)
code | PPTX | fullpaper download -
Infrared Non-Destructive Testing via Semi-Nonnegative Matrix Factorization
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15th International Workshop on Advanced Infrared Technology and Applications (AITA 2019), Florence, Italy
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute Proceedings-2019 | fullpaper download -
Low-Rank Sparse Principal Component Thermography (Sparse-PCT): Comparative assessment on detection of subsurface defects
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Infrared Physics & Technology-2019
PPTX | fullpaper download -
Automatic IRNDT Inspection Applying Sparse PCA-based Clustering
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CCECE 2017 Winsdor
code | PPTX | fullpaper download -
Thermography data fusion and nonnegative matrix factorization for the evaluation of cultural heritage objects and buildings
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Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry-2018
PPTX | fullpaper download -
Application of Deep Learning in Infrared Non-Destructive Testing
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QIRT 2018
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Thermochemical Monitoring of Brucite Carbonation Using Passive Infrared Thermography
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Chemical Engineering and Processing Journal-2018
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Hierarchical segmentation of Urban Satellite Imagery,
Int. J. Appl. Earth Observation & Geoinformation- 2014
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A novel fuzzy based method for 3D buildings modelling in urban satellite imagery,
IEEE IEEE Conference on Open Systems - 2011
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A Hierarchical Fuzzy Based Approach for Face Detection,
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2008 2nd International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering - 2008
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Component Based Method for Face Detection Using Bayesian Discrimination Function,
IJCSNS International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security-2009
code | PPTX | fullpaper download
UP
Neural mechanism for recognition of biological movements
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My first Ph.D. thesis on Human Action Recognition using Slow Feature Analysis
Department of Artifical Intelligence- University of Malaya(special thanks to ARLab., UM, and nice people of Malaysia)
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A Dual Fast and Slow Feature Interaction in Biologically Inspired Visual Recognition of Human Action,
Applied Soft Computing
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Slow feature action prototypes effect assessment in mechanism for recognition of biological movement ventral stream
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International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation - 2016
Author version | PPTX | fullpaper download -
Bio-Inspired Human Action Recognition using Hybrid MaxProduct Neuro-Fuzzy Classiffer and Quantum-Behaved PSO
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Informatica - 2013
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Comparative study on Interaction of form and motion processing streams by applying two different classiffers in Mechanism for
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Recognition of Biological Movement
The Scientific World Journal- 2014
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Development of Biological Movement Recognition by Interaction between Active Basis Model and Fuzzy Optical Flow Division,
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The Scientific World Journal- 2014
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Biological inspired human action recognition
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In Robotic Intelligence In Informationally Structured Space (RiiSS), 2013 IEEE
code | PPTX | fullpaper download
Grants
- Xi-Care: eXplainable intelligent system for Cardiovascular disease management among women in primary Care
2020/4-2021/3; NPI: S Abbasgholizadeh-Rahimi, Co-Investigators: P Pluye, R Grad, R Rodriguez, H Bergman, I Vedel, MP Gagnon, SH Yousefi, P Ghadiri; Knowledge User: J Legare; Collaborators: M Alizadeh, B Yousefi, G Bisleri, Y Quintana, J Salmeron; Funding Sources: Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)-Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR), Project Grant-PA: Patient-Oriented Research: Early-Career Investigator; Total Funding: $100K (in cash) + $152,500 (in-kind).
- TransMedTech excellent grant
,University of Montreal Hospital Research Center (CRCHUM) -2018 (100,000$ two years).
- Research Associate Grade 7 position
,in Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning, UK (2018).
- FRQ-NT (Fonds de Recherche du Qu ebec - Nature et Technologies)
,Laval University, Canada (2014-2017).
- HIR (High Impact Research) grant
,Contract No. UM.C/HIR/MOHE/FCSIT/10, University Malaya, Malaysia (2012-2014).
- IPPP (Institute of Research Management & Services)
,Malaysian flagship research grant, Wisma R&D, University Malaya, Malaysia (2012).