Kouhyar Tavakolian

Electric Circuits I and II, 2015-2018

Machine Learning Applications in Biomedical Engineering 2016-2020

Capstone Senior Design Projects 2018-2021

Biomedical Instrumentation, 2018-2021

Physiology and Anatomy for Biomedical Engineers, 2019-2021

Biomedical Signal and Image Processing

Noninvasive cardiology methods: Seismocardiography, Ballistocardiography and Apexcardiography

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Patents:

[1] Andrew P. Blaber, Kouhyar Tavakolian, Alexander Laurin, “Cardio-Postural Assessment System” US 20150112209, publication date: April 23 2015.

[2] Nicholas Wilson, Kouhyar Tavakolian “System and Methods for Pilot/Operator Navigation Augmentation and Physiological Monitoring” US20160332567, June 2019.

Selected Journal Papers:

[1] H. Taheri Gorji, S. M. Shahabi, Akshay Sharma, Lucas Q. Tande, Kaylee Husarik, Jianwei Qin, Diane E. Chan, Insuck Baek, Moon S. Kim, Nicholas MacKinnon, Jeffrey Morrow, Stanislav Sokolov, Alireza Akhbardeh, Fartash Vasefi, Kouhyar Tavakolian. Combining Deep Learning and Fluorescence Imaging to Automatically Identify Fecal Contamination on Meat Carcasses. 12, Article number: 2392 (2022), Scientific Report, February 2022.

[2] P. Dehkordi, E. P. Bauer, K. Tavakolian, Z. G Xiao, A. P. Blaber, F. Khosrow-Khavar, Detecting Coronary Artery Disease Using Rest Seismocardiography and Gyrocardiography, Frontiers in Physiology, Vol. 12, Page 2009, December 2021.

[3] J. Chauvin, R Duran, K. Tavakolian, A. Akhbardeh, N. Mackinnon, J. Qin, D. Chan, C, Hwang, I. Baek, M. S. Kim, R. B. Isaacs, A. G. Yilmaz, J. Roungchun, R. S. Hellbrg and F. Vasefi. Simulated Annealing-Based Hyperspectral Data Optimization for Fish Species Classification: Can the Number of Measured Wavelengths Be Reduced? Appl. Sci. 2021, 11, 10628. https://doi.org/10.3390/app112210628

[4] M. Sueker, K. Stromsodt, H. Taheri Gorji, F. Vasefi, N. Khan, T. Schmit, R. Varma, N. Mackinnon, S. Sokolov, A. Akhbardeh, B. Liang, J. Qin, D. E. Chan, I. Baek, M. S. Kim, K. Tavakolian. Handheld multispectral fluorescence imaging system to detect and disinfect surface contamination. Sensors. 2021; 21(21):7222. https://doi.org/10.3390/s21217222.

[5] M R Mohebbian, Seyed Shahim Vedaei, Khan A. Wahid, Member, Anh Dinh, Hamid Reza Marateb, K. Tavakolian. Fetal ECG Extraction from Maternal ECG using Attention-based CycleGAN. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Accepted for publication, August 2021.

[6] D. Xu, M. Trembley, A. Verma, K. Tavakolian, N. Goswami, A. Blaber. Cardio-postural interactions and muscle-pump baroreflex are severely impacted by 60-day Bedrest Immobilization. Scientific Reports. 10:12042, July 2020

[7] P. Kheirkhah Dehkordi, K. Tavakolian, M. Jafari Tadi; V. Zakeri, F Khosrow-khavar. Investigating the Estimation of Cardiac Time Intervals Using Gyrocardiography. Institute of Physics, Journal of Physiological Measurement, 41(5), June 2020

[8] V. Zakeri, K. Tavakolian, P. Dehkordi, F. Khosro-khavar, “The repeatability of estimated systolic time intervals in healthy subjects using seismocardiogram and electrocardiogram” Institute of Physics, Physiological Measurement, Jan 2020.  

[9] P. Dehkordi, EP Bauer, K. Tavakolian K, V. Zakeri, AP Blaber, F. Khosrow-Khavar. Identifying Patients with Coronary Artery Disease Using Rest and Exercise Seismocardiography.Frontier in Physiology, vol 10, Sep 2019.  

[10] A. K. Verma, P. N. Aarotale, P. Dehkordi, J. Lou, and K. Tavakolian. Effect of Ischemic Stroke on Pulse Rate Variability as a Surrogate of Heart Rate Variability during Orthostatic Challenge.?Brain Sci. 2019;9(7):162. Published 2019 Jul. 

[11] A. K. Verma, D. Xu, A. Garg, A. P. Blaber, and K. Tavakolian. Effect of Aging on Muscle-Pump Baroreflex of Individual Leg Muscles during Standing. Frontiers in Physiology/Autonomic Neuroscience. Volume 10, July 2019.  

[12] N. D. Wilson, B. Guragain, A. K. Verma, L. Archer, and K. Tavakolian. Blending Human and Machines: Feasibility of Measuring Fatigue through Aviation Headset. Human Factors. Human Factors, June 10 2019.  

[13] C. Wang, B. Guragain, A. K. Verma, L Archer, S Majumder, A Mohamud, E Flaherty-Woods, G Shapiro, R Myers, M Almashir, M Lenne, J Kuo, S Yan, N Wilson, K. Tavakolian. Spectral Analysis of EEG during Microsleep Events Annotated via Driver Monitoring System to Characterize Drowsiness. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, August 13th 2019.  

[14] P. Dehkordi, F. Khosrow-khavar, M. Di-Rienzo, O. Inan, J Zanetti, V. Zakeri, S. Schmidt, K. Sorensen, M Borairi, K. Tavakolian. Comprehensive Multimodal Investigation of Cardiac Events Extracted from Dorsoventral Seismocardiogram: A Reproducibility and Repeatability Study” Frontiers in Physiology, Vol 10, August 2019.  

[15] A Verma, D Xu, Michelle Burner, A Garg, N Gwasami, A Blaber, K Tavakolian, “Blood Pressure Regulation during 2-g Centrifugation at Feet is Analogous to Standing" to be considered for publication in Frontiers in Physiology, section Environmental, Aviation and Space Physiology” Frontier in Physiology, accepted for publication May 2018.

[16] A. Verma, D. Xu, A. Garg, A. Cote, N. Goswami, A.P. Blaber and K. Tavakolian “Non-linear Heart Rate and Blood Pressure Interaction in Response to Lower-Body Negative Pressure” Frontiers in Physiology, Vol. 8, Article 767, October 2017.

[17] A Verma, A Garg, D Xu, A.P. Blaber and K. Tavakolian “Skeletal Muscle Pump Drives Control of Cardiovascular and Postural Systems”  Scientific Reports, Vol. 7, March 2017.

[18] N. A. Nafiul, T. Tabassum, R. Fazel-Rezai and K. Tavakolian, “Vertical Ground Reaction Force Marker for Parkinson's Disease” Accepted for publication, Plos One, April 2017. 

[19] D. Xu, A. K. Verma, A. Garg, M. Bruner, A. P. Blaber, and K. Tavakolian “Significant role of the cardio-postural interaction in blood pressure regulation during standing”, Journal of Applied Physiology, submitted, Jan 2017.

[20] J Wahlstrm, I Skog, P Hndel, F Khosrow-khavar, K. Tavakolian, P Stein, A Nehorai “A Hidden Markov Model for Seismocardiography”  IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Jan 2017.

[21] F. Khosrow-khavar, K. Tavakolian, C. Menon, “Automatic and Robust Segmentation of Seismocardiogram for Noninvasive Estimation of Cardiac Time Intervals” IEEE Transaction in Biomedical Engineering, September 2016.

[22] Vahid Zakeri, Alireza Akhbardeh, Nasim Alamdari, Reza Fazel-Rezai, Mikko Paukkunen, Kouhyar Tavakolian “Analyzing Seismocardiogram Cycles to Identify the Respiratory Phases” IEEE Transaction on Biomedical Engineering, October 2016.

[23] Laurin, Alexandre; Khosrow, Farzad; Blaber, Andrew; Tavakolian, Kouhyar “Accurate and consistent automatic seismocardiogram annotation without concurrent ECG”, Physiological Measurement, Institute of Physics, Vol. 37, pp. 1588-1604, July 2016. 

[24] Farzad Khosrow-khavar, Kouhyar Tavakolian, Carlo Menon, “Automatic and Robust Segmentation of Seismocardiogram for Noninvasive Estimation of Cardiac Time Intervals” Accepted for publication, IEEE Transaction in Biomedical Engineering, September 2016.

[25] Kouhyar Tavakolian, “Systolic Time Intervals and New Measurement Methods”, Cardiovascular Engineering and Technology, Springer, June 2016, Volume 7, Issue 2, pp 118–125.

[26] Farzad Khosrow-khavar, Kouhyar Tavakolian, Andrew P. Blaber, Reza, Fazel-Rezai, John M Zanetti and Carlo Menon “Automatic Annotation of Seismocardiogram with Higher Frequency Precordial Accelerations” IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 1428-1434, July 2015.

[27] Farzad Khosrow-khavar, Kouhyar Tavakolian, Andrew P. Blaber, Reza, Fazel-Rezai, John M Zanetti and Carlo Menon “Automatic Annotation of Seismocardiogram with Higher Frequency Precordial Accelerations” IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 1428-1434, July 2015.

[28]  Omer T. Inan, Pierre-Francois Migeotte, Kwang-Suk Park, Mozziyar Etemadi, Kouhyar Tavakolian, Ramon Casanella, John Zanetti, Jens Tank, Irina Funtova, G. Kim Prisk, Marco Di Rienzo “Ballistocardiography and Seismocardiography: A Review of Recent Advances” IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 1414-1427, July 2015.    

[29] Kouhyar Tavakolian, Geoff Houlton, Guy A. Dumont, Andrew P. Blaber, ‘Precordial vibrations provide noninvasive detection of early-stage hemorrhage’ Journal of Shock, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, Vol. 41, No. 2, pp. 91:96, Feb 2014.

[30] Parastoo K. Dehkordi, Kouhyar Tavakolian, Marcin Marzencki, Marta Kaminska, Bozena Kaminska “Assessment of Respiratory Flow and Efforts Using Upper-Body Accelerations Considering the Sleep Apnea Syndrome” Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing, Springer, Vol. 52, No. 8, June 2014.

[31] Marcin Marzencki, Behrad Kajbafzadeh, Farzad Khosrow-khavar, Kouhyar Tavakolian, Maxim Soleimani-Nouri, Jaap Hamburger, Bozena Kaminska and Carlo Menon, "Low frequency mechanical actuation accelerates reperfusion in-vitro" BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2013, 12:121.

[32] Marcin Marzencki, Behrad Kajbafzadeh, Farzad Khosrow-khavar, Kouhyar Tavakolian, Bozena Kaminska, and Carlo Menon “Diastolic Timed Vibrator: Noninvasive Pre-Hospitalization Treatment of Acute Coronary Ischemia” IEEE Transaction on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 313:324, June 2013.

[33] Kouhyar Tavakolian, Farzad Khosrow-Khavar, Marcin Marzencki, Behrad Kajbafzadeh, Andrew P Blaber, Bozena Kaminska, Carlo Menon “Precordial acceleration signals improve the performance of diastolic timed vibrations” Medical Engineering & Physics, Elsevier, S1350-4533(12)00316-5, January 2013.

[34] Viatcheslav Gurev, Kouhyar Tavakolian, Jason Constantino, Bozena Kaminska, Andrew P. Blaber, Natalia A. Trayanova "Mechanisms Underlying the Isovolumic and Ejection Peaks in Seismocardiogram Morphology" Journal of Medical and Biological Engineering, May 2011, 32(2):103-110. 

[35] Yindar Chuo, Marcin Marzencki, Benny Hung, Camille Jaggernauth, Kouhyar Tavakolian, Philip Lin, and Bozena Kaminska, "Mechanically Flexible Wireless Multisensor Platform for Human Physical Activity and Vitals Monitoring" IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, Oct 2010, pp 281-294.

[36] Marcin Marzencki, Kouhyar Tavakolian, Yindar Chuo, Benny Hung, Philip Lin, and Bozena Kaminska, "Miniature Wearable Wireless Real-time Health and Activity Monitoring System with Optimized Power Consumption" Journal of Medical and Biological Engineering, 30(4): 227-235, May 2010.

[37] Yindar Chuo, Kouhyar Tavakolian, and Bozena Kaminska "Evaluation of a novel integrated sensor system for synchronous measurement of cardiac vibrations and cardiac potentials"   Journal of Medical Systems, Springer, 34(4): 445-455, Oct 2009. 

[38] Kouhyar Tavakolian, Ali Vaseghi, Bozena Kaminska, "Improvement of ballistocardiogram processing by inclusion of respiration information" Journal of Physiological Measurement, Institute of Physics, 29 (2008) 771-781. 

[39] Siamak Rezaei, Kouhyar Tavakolian, A.M.Nasrabadi, S.K.Setarehdan, “Different classification techniques considering brain computer interface applications” Institute of Physics(IOP),  Journal of Neural Engineering 3 (2006) 139-144. 

[40] Kouhyar Tavakolian, Faranak M.Zadeh, Yindar Chuo, Ali Vaseghi, Bozena Kaminska, “Development of a Novel Contactless Mechanocardiograph Device” International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications, vol. 2008, Article ID 436870, 5 pages, 2008. 

Professional Engineering, British Columbia, Canada

Dean's Research Professor, College of Engineering and Mines, UND

Senior IEEE member, Member since the year 2000 and the young affinity chair of red river valley section.

Ph.D. Engineering Science, 2010

Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada     

M.Sc. Computer Science, 2005

University of Northern British Columbia, Canada

M.Sc.  Electrical Engineering, 2003

University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

B.Sc. Biomedical Engineering, 2000

Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran