Mindwatch update: Physiological characterization of electrodermal activity enables scalable near real-time autonomic nervous system activation inference
CML graduate student Rafiul Amin and Rose published a near real-time algorithm for inferring nervous system activation using skin conductance in PLOS Computational Biology. This work has received vast media attention and has been outlined by Yahoo news , MSN, Gadgets and Wearables, Global Health News Wire, News Azi, The Mirage, News Medical Life Science, Medical Republic, and Medical Xpress.
Mindwatch: Hybrid Decoders for Inferred Arousal Events and External Influences
An open access book on “Bayesian Filter Design for Computational Medicine: A State-Space Estimation Framework” authored by Dilranjan S. Wickramasuriya and Rose T. Faghih is to be published by Springer in April 2024.
Rose Served as Expert Panelist
Rose served as an expert panelist at the 2022 National Science Foundation Cyber Physical Systems Principal Investigator meeting as part of the mini-workshop on “Artificial Intelligence (AI) for healthcare“, and 2022 IEEE Healthcare Innovations – Point of Care Technologies (HI-PoCT) conference on the challenges and opportunities in the point-of-care technologies.
Rose was Interviewed by Various Media Outlets as a Wearables Expert
Rose explained the ability of wearables such as MINDWATCH to improve quality of health and reduce hospitalizations in Renal and Urology News and outlined the potential of wearables in determining the stress for The Washington post. She also shared insights on the role of wearable technology on mental health in an interview with verywellmind. Read on The Washington Post, Renal and Urology News, and verywellmind.
Invited Talks and Research Seminars
Rose Faghih presented CML’s research at NYU Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) (video), NYU Science Talks Science Talk on Intelligent Bio-X Interfaces, NYU Biomedical Engineering Colloquium, University of Houston Biomedical Engineering Seminar, Psychoneuroendocrinology and Immunology Research Consortium Seminar at the University of Arkansas’s department of Psychological Science and MIT Neural Signal Processing Seminar.
Rose was inducted into the inaugural class of the Early Career Distinguished Alumni (ECDA) Society at the A. James Clark School of Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park
Rose was inducted into the inaugural class of the Early Career Distinguished Alumni (ECDA) Society at the A. James Clark School of Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park. Read in UMD News here. The announcement reads, “The ECDA Society recognizes the innovations, leadership, and impact made by Maryland Engineering alumni 40 years and under. The chosen alumni are at the forefront of their respective fields and have demonstrated excellence in leadership, innovation, entrepreneurship, and service.” Earlier this year, UMD reported on Rose’s move to NYU.
CML Generated a Wearable Exam Stress Dataset
A new dataset, “A Wearable Exam Stress Dataset for Predicting Cognitive Performance in Real-World Settings,” comprising physiological signals measured using wearables to estimate stress was generated by CML. Research based on this dataset has been published in IEEE Healthcare Innovations in Point of Care Technology (HIPOCT) and can be accessed here. Read more on ScienceDaily.
CML Journal Publications and Media Feature
Several articles were published by CML this year, in journals including IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, IEEE Access, Frontiers in neuroscience, IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology, Frontiers in Endocrinology, PLoS Computational Biology, andJournal of the Endocrine Society.
CML research work on the estimation of emotional valence from facial electromyogram measurements in Frontiers in Neuroscience. This work was completed as part of a course project for the graduate course titled “State-Space Estimation with Physiological Applications.”
The work was also featured in a research brief by NYU Tandon School of Engineering.
Recent CML paper “Sparse system identification of leptin dynamics in women with obesity” has been featured by Medical Xpress and labroots. The paper studied the differences in leptin hormone dynamics before and after treatment in obese women, and the causality relationship between leptin and the stress hormone, cortisol.
Read the article in Medical Xpress and labroots.
Research by Rose Faghih and students of CML in collaboration with researchers at the National Institute of Health studied the effects of disruption of sleep on the secretion of growth hormone in pubertal children. This work was published in the Journal of Endocrine Society and is part of a body of CML research pertaining to the study of neuroendocrinal hormones in various populations.
Read the Journal of Endocrine Society article.
CML research work titled “Enhancement of closed-loop cognitive stress regulation using supervised control architectures“ in the IEEE Journal of Open Engineering in Biology and Medicine. Media feature by Medical Xpress reads: “Feeling overwhelmed, anxious and agitated are among the symptoms associated with high levels of cognitive stress…” Read the article on Medical Xpress.
CML Conference Publications and Presentations
- CML research was presented at 2022 IEEE Healthcare Innovations and Point of Care Technologies (HI-POCT) and 56th Annual Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers.
- Doctoral student Saman Khazaei presented research on cognitive arousal estimation from wearables at 48th Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference (NEBEC 2022) and NYU Langone Medical AI Seminar Series (also known as ClubMedAI).
CML Participation in IEEE Conference Spotlighted in University of Houston News
University of Houston news covered the spotlight of research papers by members of CML in a conference. The article reads: “Four students and a faculty member affiliated with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the Cullen College of Engineering had their research papers spotlighted at the 2021 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC). Rose Faghih, Ph.D., formerly an Assistant Professor at UH, is an author on the papers and oversaw the work…”
Read in UH News here