Biomedical Signals and Systems (BSS) Research Group

Introduction

The Biomedical Signal and Systems (BSS) research group at Department of Electrical Engineering, NUST College of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering focuses on research activities related to design, analysis, simulation and implementation of Biomedical systems and devices. The areas of interest are, but not limited to: study, acquisition, analysis, processing and display of Biomedical signals (EEG, ECG, Ultrasound, XRay, MRI etc); study, design and implementation of Biomedical systems or devices; Biomedical image processing; and in general any application of engineering for medical science. Over the years, expertise in these areas has been developed through conducting multiple undergraduate projects, postgraduate research theses, and department projects in collaboration with medical institutions.

Teams

Publications (Journal Papers)

1. Muhammad Najam Dar, Muhammad Usman Akram, Ahmad Rauf Subhani, Sajid Gul Khawaja, Constantino Carlos Reyes-Aldasoro, and Sarah Gul. “Insights from EEG analysis of evoked memory recalls using deep learning for emotion charting.” Scientific Reports 14 (1), p 17080, 2024. (IF: 4.6)
2. Syeda Noor-Ul-Huda Safder, Muhammad Usman Akram, Muhammad Najam Dar, Aliya Ashraf Khan, Sajid Gul Khawaja, Ahmad Rauf Subhani, Imran Khan Niazi, and Sarah Gul. “Analysis of EEG signals using deep learning to highlight effects of vibration-based therapy on brain.” Biomedical Signal Processing and Control 83, p 104605, 2023. (IF: 5.1)
3. Wajid Mumtaz, Hafeez Ullah Amin, Abdul Qayyum, and Ahmad Rauf Subhani. “EEG-based assistive robotics for rehabilitation.” Frontiers in Neurorobotics 16, p 952495, 2022. (IF: 2.6)
4. F. Naqvi, S. S. A. Ali, N. Yahya, M. A. Yasin, Y. Hafeez, A. R. Subhani, S. H. Adil, U. M. Al Saggaf, and M. Moinuddin, “Real-Time Stress Assessment Using Sliding Window Based Convolutional Neural Network”, MDPI Sensors, 20 (16), p 1-17, 2020. (IF: 3.30)
5. Xia, A. S. Malik, and A. R. Subhani, “A physiological signal-based method for early mental-stress detection”, Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, 46, p 18-32, 2018. (IF: 2.78)
6. Ahmad Rauf Subhani, Nidal Kamel, Mohamad Naufal Mohamad Saad, Nanda Nandagopal, Kenneth Kang and Aamir Saeed Malik, “Mitigation of Stress: New Treatment Alternatives”, Cognitive Neurodynamics, 12(1), p 1-20, 2018. (IF: 1.828)
7. Hafeez Ullah Ullah Amin, Aamir S Malik, Wajid Mumtaz and Ahmad R Subhani, “Classification of EEG signals based on pattern recognition approach”, Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 11, 103, 2017. (IF: 1.82)
8. Ahmad Rauf Subhani, Wajid Mumtaz, Mohamad Naufal bin Mohamad Saad, Nidal Kamel and Aamir Saeed Malik, “Machine Learning Framework for the Detection of Mental Stress at Multiple Levels”, IEEE Access, 5, p 13545-13556, 2017. (IF: 3.24)
9. Humaira Nisar, Aamir Saeed Malik, Rafi Ullah, Seong-O Shim, Abdullah Bawakid, Muhammad Burhan Khan, Ahmad Rauf Subhani, “Tracking of EEG activity using motion estimation to understand brain wiring”, Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 823, p 159-174, 2015. (IF: 2.0)
10. Ahmad Rauf Subhani, Likun Xia and Aamir Saeed Malik, “Association of EEG Scalp Potential with Autonomic Nervous System”, Advanced Science Letters, 19 (5), p 1340-1344, 2013. (IF: 1.25)
11. Hafiza Saira Javed, Shahzad Amin Sheikh, “ECG as biometric using autocorrelation of normalized R-R interval” 8th International Conference on Intelligent Systems (IS), 2016, IEEE, 1109/IS.2016.7737387, Nov 2016.
12. Kamran Yousouf, Usman Akram, Usman Ali, Shahzad Amin Sheikh,” Assessment of papilledema using fundus images” International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques (IST), 2016 , IEEE, 10.1109/IST.2016.7738273, Oct 2016.

Publications (Conference Papers)

1. Ahmad Rauf Subhani, Aamir Saeed Malik, Nidal Kamel and Mohamad Naufal bin Mohamad Saad, “Using resting state coherence to distinguish between low and high stress groups”, 6th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent and Advanced Systems (ICIAS), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Aug. 15–17 2016.
2. Ahmad Rauf Subhani, Aamir Saeed Malik, Nidal Kamel, Naufal Saad and D Nandagopal, “Experimental evidence for the effects of the Demand-Control model on the cognitive arousal: An EEG based study”, 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Milan, Italy, Aug. 25-29 2015.
3. Hafeez Ullah Amin, Aamir Saeed Malik, Ahmad Rauf Subhani, Nasreen Badruddin and Weng-Tink Chooi, “Dynamics of Scalp Potential and Autonomic Nerve Activity during Intelligence Test”, 20th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP), Daegu, South Korea, Nov. 3-7, 2013.
4. Ahmad Rauf Subhani, Likun Xia, Aamir Saeed Malik and Zahiruddin Othman, “Quantification of Physiological Disparities and Task Performance in Stress and Control Conditions”, 35th IEEE conference of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (EMBC), Osaka, Japan, Jul. 3-7, 2013.
5. Ahmad Rauf Subhani, Likun Xia and Aamir Saeed Malik, “Association of Autonomic Nervous System and EEG Scalp Potential during Playing 2D Grand Turismo 5”, 34th IEEE conference of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (EMBC), San Diego, California, USA, Aug.28-Sep.01, 2012.
6. Ahmad Rauf Subhani, Likun Xia, Aamir Saeed Malik, “Association of Mental Stress with Video Games”, 4th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent & Advanced Systems (ICIAS), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Jun. 12-14, 2012.
7. Ahmad Rauf Subhani, Likun Xia, Aamir Saeed Malik, “EEG Signals to Measure Mental Stress”, 2nd International Conference on Behavioral, Cognitive and Psychological Sciences (BCPS 2011), Maldives, Nov. 25-27, 2011
8. R. Subhani, L. Xia, and A. S. Malik, “Evaluation of mental stress using physiological signals”, National Postgraduate Conference, Malaysia, Sept 19, 2011.
9. Wajid Mumtaz and Ahmad Rauf Subhani, “Adaptive Noise Cancellation: A Comparison of Adaptive Filtering Algorithms Aiming Fetal ECG Extraction”, 2nd World Congress on Computer Science and Information Engineering (CSIE), Changchun, China, Jun. 17-19, 2011.
10. Saad Azhar Ali, Farhan Aziz, Ahsan Yasin and Ahmad Rauf Subhani, “Automatic Vehicle Identifier”, 14th WSEAS International Conference on Systems, Corfu Island, Greece Jul. 23-25, 2010.

Collaborations