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Postdoc: Falls Regression using Wearable and Non-wearable technology

Developing deep learning models generalizable across various modalities and location.

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Publications:

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Ph.D. project: Hand Grasp Analysis in Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury Using Egocentric Video  

Quantify the grasping strategies of individuals with spinal cord injury at home and generate a report that a clinician can analyze quickly.

Publications:

  1. [Under review] Mehdy Dousty, David J. Fleet, José Zariffa, "Hand Function Redefined: A Personalized Video-Based Hand Taxonomy for Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury, 2024. [paper]

  2. [Under prepration] Mehdy Dousty, David J. Fleet, José Zariffa, "Hand Grasp Classification in the Wild", 2023.

  3. Mehdy Dousty, Andrea Bandini, Parvin Eftekhar, David J. Fleet, José Zariffa, "Grasp Analysis in the Home Environment as a Measure of Hand Function after Cervical Spinal Cord Injury", NNR, 2023 [paper]

  4. Mehdy Dousty, David J. Fleet, José Zariffa, "Hand Grasp Classification in Egocentric Video after Cervical Spinal Cord Injury", IEEE, JBHI, 2023 [paper]

  5. Andrea Bandini, Mehdy Dousty, Sander L. Hitzig, B. Catharine Craven, Sukhvinder Kalsi-Ryan, José Zariffa, "Measuring hand use in the home after cervical spinal cord injury using egocentric video", Journal of Neurotrauma, 2022 [paper]

  6. Mehdy Dousty, José Zariffa, “Tenodesis Grasp Detection in Egocentric Video”, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 2021. [Feature paper, published on the cover page] [paper]

  7. Dousty M.  and Zariffa J., "Towards Clustering Hand Grasps of Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury in Egocentric Video," 2020 42nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC), 2020. [paper]

  8. Bandini A., Dousty M and  Zariffa J. "A wearable vision-based system for detecting hand-object interactions in individuals with cervical spinal cord injury: First results in the home environment," 2020 42nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC), 2020.[paper]

Abstracts:

  1. Mehdy Dousty, David Fleet, José  Zariffa, "Customized video-based hand taxonomy for evaluating hand function in individuals with spinal cord injury", ICAIR, 2023.

  2. Andrea Bandini, Mehdy Dousty,  Sander L.Hitzig, B.Catherine Craven, Sukhvinder Kalsi-Ryan, .Jose Zariffa , “Validity of hand use measures in the home environment obtained using egocentric video analysis”, ISCoS, Vancouver, 2022

  3. Andrea Bandini, Mehdy Dousty,  Sander L.Hitzig, B.Catherine Craven, Sukhvinder Kalsi-Ryan, .Jose Zariffa , “Quantifying hand use in the home with first-person vision for individuals with tetraplegia”, RehabWeek, 2022.

  4. Mehdy Dousty, David Fleet, José  Zariffa, “Postural Analysis of the Hand in Individuals with Cervical Spinal Cord Injury Using Egocentric Video”, National Spinal Cord Injury, Niagara, 2021. [People choice award- 3rd place]

  5. Andrea Bandidin, Mehdy Dousty, José Zariffa, “ Hand-object interactions in individuals with tetraplegia living in the community via egocentric video and long-term recurrent convolutional networks”, National Spinal Cord Injury, Niagara, 2021. [Post-doctoral Category Award Winners- 1st place]

  6. Mehdy Dousty, David Fleet, José  Zariffa, “Analysis of the Hand Postures in Individuals with Cervical Spinal Cord Injury Using Egocentric Video”, Healthcare Robotics Summit at University of Toronto, 2021.

  7. Mehdy Dousty, Andrea Bandini, José  Zariffa, “Towards Summarizing Hand Use at Home After Spinal Cord Injury Using Wearable Cameras”, Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Spinal Injury Association, Louisiana, May 2020- Cancelled due to Covid-19.

  8. Mehdy Dousty, Ryan Visée, José  Zariffa , “Extracting wrist angle of individuals with spinal cord injury from the egocentric video” National Spinal Cord Injury, Niagara, Oct 2019.

  9. Mehdy Dousty, Ryan Visée, José  Zariffa, “Validation of Hand Joint Estimation in Egocentric Video Using OpenPose” Toronto Rehabilitation Institute research day, Toronto, Jan 2019.

 

Others:

  1. Our research is featured in Biomedical Engineer-University of Toronto Magazine 2021 and 2019:                           https://discover.bme.utoronto.ca/a-helping-hand-for neurorehabilitation/   https://discover.bme.utoronto.ca/research-gallery-2019/

  2. Our research team won 100k in Rehabilitation Innovation Challenge, created in collaboration with MaRS Discovery https://praxisinstitute.org/new-horizons-innovative-technologies-are-changing-the-landscape-of-sci-rehabilitation/

 

M.Sc project: Large-scale Information Processing During Spontaneous Brain Activity Revealed by Cross-Frequency Coupling

Information flow across multiple spatiotemporal scales with Hilbert-Huang transform and graph theory

Publications:​

  1. Roberto C. Sotero, Lazaro M. Sanchez-Rodriguez, Narges Moradi, Mehdy Dousty, “Estimation of Global and Local Complexities of Brain Networks: A Random Walks Approach”, Network Neuroscience, 2020.[paper]

  2. Narges Moradi, Mehdy Dousty, Roberto C.Sotero, “Adaptive global signal regression in resting state network”, Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2019.[paper]

  3. Roberto C. Sotero, Lazaro M. Sanchez-Rodriguez, Mehdy Dousty, Yasser Iturria-Medina, Jose M. Sanchez-Bornot, “Cross-frequency interactions during diffusion on brain networks are facilitated by scale-free properties”, Frontiers in Physics, 2019.[paper]

  4. Lazaro M. Sanchez-Rodriguez, Yasser Iturria-Medina, Erica A. Baines, Sabela C. Mallo-Lopez, Mehdy Dousty, Roberto C. Sotero, “Design of optimal nonlinear network controllers for Alzheimer's disease, PLOS Computational Biology, 2018.[paper]

  5. Dousty M., Diaz R.C, “Constraining end effects in empirical mode decomposition via a Nash nonlinear grey Bernoulli model”, The 16th International IEEE Conference on Electronics, Information, and Communication, Phuket, January 2017.[paper]

  6. Dousty M, Daneshvar S., Diaz R.C, “Multifocus Image fusion via the Hartley transform”, 29th conference on IEEE Electrical and Computer Engineering, Vancouver, May 2016. [paper]

Abstracts:​

  1. Mehdy Dousty, Roberto C.Sotero,” Large scale information processing during spontaneous brain activity revealed by cross-frequency coupling”, AREADNE, Greece, 2018.

  2. Narges Moradi, Mehdy Dousty, Roberto C.Sotero, “Adaptive global signal regression in resting state network”, ISMRM, Paris, 2018.

  3. Narges Moradi, Mehdy Dousty, Roberto C.Sotero, ,Empirical mode decomposition based global signal regression for resting-state functional connectivity MRI, Resting state and brain connectivity, Montreal, 2018.

  4. Dousty M., Diaz R.C, “Integration and segregation of phase-amplitude coupling networks during spontaneous activity” OHBM 2017, Vancouver, June 2017.

 

B.Sc project: Heart Depolarization in Responce to Sound Interference using ECG Signals

Heart synchoronization with sound using wavelet decompostion

Publications:​

  1. Dousty M., Daneshvar S., Haghjoo M., “The effects of sedative music, arousal music and silence on electrocardiography signals”, Journal of ELECTROCARDIOLOGY, 2011.[paper]

  2. M. Dousty and S. Daneshvar, “The Effect of a Different Kind of Music and Silences on Electrical Heart Working” Proceeding of 17th Iranian Conference on IEEE Biomedical Engineering (ICBME 2010), November 2010.[paper]

 

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