Research 

- Respiratory signal classification and synchronization with virtual medical animations to assist lung cancer patients

- Image classification via run-time voice transcript in smart phones

- New framework for language model in Information Retrieval.

 

Publications

Journal Papers:

- A. Abushakra and M. Faezipour, “An Automated Approach Towards Estimating Lung Capacity from Respiration Sounds”, accepted to appear in IEEE Journal on Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine, 2013.

 - A. Abushakra and M. Faezipour, “Acoustic Signal Classification of Breathing Movements to Virtually Aid Breath Regulation” submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in BioMedicine (TITB), June 2012, Under Second Revision.

Conference Papers:

- A. Abushakra and M. Faezipour, “Conceptual Framework of a Virtual Reality Environment to Assist Lung Cancer Patients”, accepted to appear in Proceedings of the  IEEE EMBS Micro and Nanotechnology in Medicine Conference (MNM’12), Westin Maui, HI, Dec. 2012.

- A. Abushakra and M. Faezipour, “Estimating Lung Capacity from Acoustic Signal of Respiration”, accepted to appear inProceedings of the  IEEE EMBS Micro and Nanotechnology in Medicine Conference (MNM’12), Westin Maui, HI, Dec. 2012.

- A. Abushakra and M. Faezipour, “Lung Capacity Estimation Through Acoustic Signal of Breath”, in Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Conference on BioInformatics and BioEngineering (BIBE), pp. 386-391, Larnaca, Cyprus, Nov. 2012.

- A. Abushakra and M. Faezipour, “An Automated Approach Towards Estimating Lung Capacity from Respiration Sounds”, in Proceedings of the IEEE Healthcare Innovations Conference (HIC’12), pp.232-235 , Houston, TX, Nov. 2012.

-A. Abushakra, M. Faezipour, and A. Abumunshar, “Efficient Frequency-Based Classification of Respiratory Movements”, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology (EIT’12), pp.1-5 , Indianapolis, IN, May 2012.

- Y.Chen, A. Abushakra and J. lee, “Vision-based Horizon Detection and Target Tracking for UAVs in Traffic Surveillance” in 4th International IEEE Annual Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems,Washington, DC, October, 2011,

Posters

- The American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Northeast Section Conference 2012, UMass Lowell , MA, USA” Breathing Movement Classification Using MFCCs by Ahmad Abushakra and  Miad Faezipour and Anas Abumunshar and Prabir K. Patra”

- Faculty Research Day 2012, Bridgeport , CT, USA” Breathing Movement Classification Using MFCCs by Ahmad Abushakra and  Miad Faezipour and Anas Abumunshar and Prabir K. Patra”

- The American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Northeast Section Conference 2011, University of Hartford, CT, USA, ” Vision-based Horizon Detection and Target Tracking for UAVs by Ahmad Abushakra and Yingju Chen”