Aqeel's experiment

Keep it up Aqeel!

 

          

Venture Plan Essential Boot Camp

Venture Plan Essential Boot Camp 

with SRI-International

24th-28th October 2011

Thistle, Port Dickson Resort.

SRI International workshop

New Research Grant, alhamdulillah!

Extraction of 3D Biological Complex Shape with Optical Flow using Geometrical Approach, ERGS, RM98,000.00, 24 months, Sept. 2011-2013

Congratulation to Farsad and his supervisory commitee.

     Farsad Zamani Boroujeni, Rahmita Wirza O.K. Rahmat, Norwati Mustapha, Lilly Suriani Affendey and Oteh Maskon, Automatic Selection of Initial points for Exploratory Vessel Tracing in Fluoroscopic Images, Defence Science Journal, Vol. 61, No. 5, pp 443-451, 2011. ^{(IF: 0.304)}

^{ABSTRACT
Automatic extraction of vessel centerlines is viewed as an essential process in majority of image-guided diagnostic and therapeutic applications. Among a considerable number of methods, direct exploratory  tracing method is known as an efficient solution for reliable extraction of vessel features from  two-dimensional fluoroscopic images. The first step of most automatic exploratory tracing algorithms is to  collect some candidate initial seed points as well as their initial tracing directions. To detect reliable initial  points, a validation procedure is required to filter out the false candidates and avoid unnecessary tracing.  Starting from reliable initial points, the algorithm efficiently extracts the centerline points along the initial  direction until certain pre-defined criteria are met. However, most of these algorithms suffer from  incomplete results due to inappropriate selection of the initial seed points. The conventional seed point  selection algorithms either rely merely on signal-to-noise ratio analysis, which results in a large number of  false traces, or impose a set of strict geometrical validation rules which leads to more false negatives and  as a consequence more time shall be spent on computation. This paper presents a new method for  efficient selection of initial points for exploratory tracing algorithms. The proposed method improves the  performance upon existing methods by employing a combination of geometrical and intensity-based  approaches. Moreover, it provides a tunable trade-off between the strictness of the validation procedure  and computational efficiency. The results of comparative performance with other proposed techniques are  included.} 

      ^{Keywords: Centerline extraction, coronaries, exploratory tracing, seed point detection, tracking}

Post CASD workshop

Post CASD workshop

18th August 2011

10.00 am - 4.30 pm

Seminar room, Block C, FSKTM, UPM

to finalized our proposal.

Cardiothoracic Surgery and Anaesthesia System

 

Cardiothoracic Surgery and Anaesthesia System - Training Session

22nd August 2011

10.00 am

Seminar Room, Block C

(CASD product)

Our New Logo!

CASD Research Workshop 9-10 August 2011

We did this workshop to enhance our proposals to suit the current scenario. InsyaAllah, we will getting a few more research grant.

Automatic Boundary Detection of Wall Motion in Two-dimensional Echocardiography Images

Faten A.A. Dawood , Rahmita W. Rahmat , Mohd Z. Dimon , Lili Nurliyana and Suhaini B. Kadiman

Journal of Computer Science

DOI: 10.3844/jcssp.2011.1261.1266

Volume 7, Issue 8

Pages 1261-1266

Abstract

Problem statement: Medical image analysis is a particularly difficult problem because the inherent characteristics of these images, including low contrast, speckle noise, signal dropouts and complex anatomical structures. An accurate analysis of wall motion in Two-dimensional echocardiography images is “important clinical diagnosis parameter for many cardiovascular diseases”. A challenge most researchers faced is how to speed up the clinical decisions and reduce human error of estimating accurately the true wall movements boundaries if can be done automatically will be a useful tool for assessing these diseases qualitatively and quantitatively. Approach: The proposed method involves three stages: First, the pre-processing stage for image contrast enhancement to reduce speckle-noise and to highlight certain features of interest (i.e., myocardial tissue). In the second stage, we applied the segmentation process using thresholding technique by considering a mean value of pixels intensity as a threshold value to distinct image features (e.g., Background and object). After thresholding implementation, the two most common mathematical morphology operators ‘erosion’ and ‘dilation’ are applied to improve the efficiency of the wall boundary detection process. Finally, Robert’s operator is used as edge detector to identify the wall boundaries. Results: For accuracy measurement, the experimental results of the proposed method are compared to that obtained from medical QLab system qualitatively and quantitatively. Conclusion: The results showed that our proposed method is reliable and its performance accuracy percentages are 50% more acceptable and 42% better than QLab system results.

Research and Innovation 2011 Exhibition (PRPI 2011), UPM, Serdang.

1. Rahmita Wirza, Faten A. Dawood. Lili Nurliyana Abdullah, Suhaini Kadiman, Mohd. Zamrin Dimon, Silver Medal, Invention, Research and Innovation 2011 Exhibition, 24-26 July 2011, UPM Serdang, “Automatic Boundary Detection of Wall Motion in Two-dimensional Echocardiography”
2. Rahmita Wirza, Farsad Zamani Baroujeni, Norwati Mustapha, Lilly Suriani Effendey, Oteh Maskon, Silver Medal, Invention, Research and Innovation 2011 Exhibition, 24-26 July 2011, UPM Serdang, “Automated System for Identification and Quantification of Lesions in Coronary Arteriograms”

Progress Supervisory Committee Meeting, series

Aqeel presentation

                  

Farsad presentation

Dr Lilly Suriyani Effendey and
Dr Norwati Mustapha are
Farsad's co-supervisor

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ramlan, Dean,
 is Aqeel's co-supervisor

Progress Supervisory Committee Meeting, series

7th May 2011, at seminar room, block C, FSKTM, UPM

Progress Supervisory Committee Meeting

3rd May, 9 am. Zaher and Anas Progress Supervisory Committee Meeting with Dr Iqbal and Dr Rahmita.

Few things were discussed. These comments will be discussed later with the other members of supervisory committee.

Research Methodology in CS

Saying that SDLC is a research methodology is grossly wrong. Just simple argue to this statement; Research methodology in CS are;

1.       Theoretical/Formal
2.       Modeling
3.       Experimental
4.       Simulation


There is different between Research process and Research methodology. However saying that SDLC is a Research Process is also not that exact. 


For further clarification please attend Research Methodology in CS class. 

INTEGRATED HETEROGENEOUS MEDICAL DATABASES FOR CARDIOTHORACIC SURGERY SYSTEMS

This is our main focus research. There are numbers of research activities are active, which we plan to plug in later. There are so many things that need to explore and research within this research. There are many students interested to joint in, there are enough data to be use, and we have complete expert in our team. Unfortunately we need research grant to support our activities. With enough grant, this project will go beyond imagination.

The beginning

Meet and Discuss.

Wednesday, 16 March 2011, 2.30 pm

Automated Generated 3D Reconstruction of Coronary Artery Tree in Angiogram Images and Applications

Congratulation to Hassan and his supervisory committee for getting Gold Medal in Malaysia Technology Exhibition (MTE).

 

Thank you Hassan for presenting this project by yourself while I am away. Congratulation and thank you from my deepest heart! 

This is not an end for our project, it is just a beginning.

Have a nice journey back home, Zeena.....

Have a nice journey back home, Zeena. You are our first graduate student. Thank you for being a wonderful student.

Faten, me, Zeena and Anas

Faten, Zeena, A.P. Dr. Mohd. Zamrin and Anas

Faten, Zeena, A.P. Dr. Mohd. Zamrin and Hassan

Fatin, me, Zeena and Hassan

These are her list of output:

1. Zinah Rajab Hussein, Rahmita Wirza Rahmat, Lili Nurliyana, M. Iqbal Saripan and Mohd. Zamrin Dimon, Quantitative Detection of Left Ventricular Wall Motion Abnormality by Two-Dimensional Echocardiography, Computer and Information Science Journal, Vol. 3, No. 2, 2010.
2. Zinah Rajab Hussein, Rahmita Wirza Rahmat, Lili Nurliyana, M. Iqbal Saripan and Mohd. Zamrin Dimon, Pre-processing Importance for Extracting Contours from Noisy Echocardiagraphic Images, International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security, vol. 9., No. 3, March 2009, pp 134-137
3. Zinah Rajab Hussein, Rahmita Wirza Rahmat, Lili Nurliyana Abdullah, M. Iqbal Saripan,   Mohd Zamrin Dimon, Contours Extraction of Echocardiographic Images based on Pre-processing,  Advanced Technology Congress 2009,(ATCi 2009), Malaysia, 2009
4. Zinah Alussi, Rahmita Wirza, D.M. Zamrin, Echocardiograph Imaging, The Influence of Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis on Echocardiograph Interpretation Informatics, released by LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing (2010-10-29)-ISBN-13:978-3-8433-58788-1
5. Zinah Rajab Hussein, Rahmita Wirza Rahmat, Lili Nurliyana Abdullah, M Iqbal Saripan, D M Zamrin, Improved and Qualitative Detection of The Left Ventricular Wall Motion Using Optical Flow, The 12^th Annual Scientific Meeting, Malaysian Association for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Kuala Lumpur, 9-10 October 2009
    

Audience Statistic for this blog.

Congratulation to the Team!

Integrated Heterogeneous Medical Database Cardiothoric Surgery System

Congratulation to the team effort for successfully filed this system. The next step is to enhance the system and meet uniquest  and highly demand Medical Database Cardiothoracic Surgery System. We will inject research elements, rules and results in this system. We hope and doa' for our research budget proposal approve.

IP Status	:	Pending Patent
Filed Date	:	2010-12-22
Application No.	:	PI2010006145
Country Filing	:	Malaysia
Apllicant	:	Universiti Putra Malaysia
Granted Date	:	0000-00-00
IP Number	:	-

Software Concept presentation

Mr Tajul represent his concept system

Dr Tie and Dr Bie, tired of wearing their thinking hat.

 

MOA discussion

5th January 2011, 2.30 pm, TNCPI meeting room, ICC, UPM, chair by Mr Industri Saion the Deputy Director of ICC. Attended by Dr Suhaini and Legal Advisor from IJN, Dr. Mohd. Zamrin (PPUKM), and Dr. Md Nasir and me from FSKTM, UPM.