Publications

Book Chapters

Blind Source Separation in Assessing Tumor Pharmacokinetics (Chapter 13) [PDF] [HTML]
Author:      Hatef Mehrabian
Book Title: Frontiers of Medical Imaging (Part II)
Editor:       Chi Hau Chen (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth)
Publisher:  World Scientific Publishing (WSPC), Imperial College Press, 2014.

 

Journal Articles

[1] Mehrabian, H., Da Rosa, M., Haider, M. A., and Martel, A. L., “Pharmacokinetic analysis of prostate cancer using independent component analysis”, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), 33 (10), pp. 1236-1245, 2015.[PDF] [HTML]

[2] Mehrabian, H., Chopra, R., and Martel, A. L., “Calculation of intravascular signal in dynamic contrast enhanced MRI using adaptive complex independent component analysis”, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 32 (4), pp. 699-710, 2013.[PDF] [HTML]

[3]  Mehrabian, H., Chandrana, C., Pang, I., Chopra, R., and Martel, A. L., “Arterial input function calculation in dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI: an in vivo validation study using co-registered contrast-enhanced ultrasound imaging”, European Radiology 22 (8), pp. 1735-1747, 2012.[PDF] [HTML]

[4] Mehrabian, H., Lindvere, L., Stefanovic, B., and Martel, A. L., “A constrained independent component analysis technique for artery-vein separation of two-photon laser scanning microscopy images of the cerebral microvasculature”, Medical Image Analysis, 16 (1), pp. 239-251, 2012.[PDF][HTML]

[5]  Mehrabian, H., Campbell, G.  and Samani, A., “A constrained reconstruction technique of hyperelasticity parameters for breast cancer assessment ”, Physics in Medicine and Biology , 54 (24), pp. 7489-7508, 2010. [PDF][HTML]

 

Conference Papers

[1]   Mehrabian, H.,  Desmond K. L., Sahgal A., Soliman H., Martel A. L., and Stanisz, G. J., “Intracellular-extracellular water exchange as a biomarker of tumor response to stereotactic radiosurgery”, 24th Annual Meeting of International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), Singapore, Singapore, May 07-13, 2016. (Summa Cum Laude Award) [HTML]

[2]   Mehrabian, H.,  Desmond K. L., Martel A. L., Sahgal A., Soliman H., and Stanisz, G. J., “Chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) and relaxometry as biomarkers for assessing response of brain metastases to stereotactic radiosurgery”, 24th Annual Meeting of International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), Singapore, Singapore, May 07-13, 2016.[HTML]

[3]   Desmond, K. L., Mehrabian, H.,  Sahgal A., Soliman H., and Stanisz, G. J., “CEST Metrics for Assessing Early Response to Stereotactic Radiosurgery in Human Brain Metastases”, 24th Annual Meeting of International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), Singapore, Singapore, May 07-13, 2016.[HTML]

[4]   Desmond, K. L., Mehrabian, H.,  Chavez, S., Sahgal A., Soliman H., and Stanisz, G. J., “Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer (CEST) Metrics for Assessment of Early Response to Stereotactic Radiosurgery in Human Brain Metastases”, 24th Annual Meeting of International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), Toronto, ON, Canada, March 30-31, 2016. (Magna Cum Laude Award) [HTML]

[5]   Desmond, K. L., Mehrabian, H.,  Chavez, S., Sahgal A., Soliman H., and Stanisz, G. J., “Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer (CEST) Metrics for Assessing Early Response to Stereotactic Radiosurgery in Human Brain Metastases”, Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer Symposium (PENN-CEST 2015), Philadelphia, PA, USA, October 25-28, 2015.[PDF]

[6]   Mehrabian, H.,  Martel, A. L., Le Floc’h J., Soliman H.,, Sahgal, A., and Stanisz, G. J., “Quantification of Water Exchange Between Intravascular and Extravascular Components Using Independent Component Analysis”, 23rd Annual Meeting of International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Toronto, ON, Canada, May 30- June 05, 2015.[PDF][HTML]

[7]   Mehrabian, H., Haider, M. A., and Martel, A. L., “Local Vascular Input Function for Pharmacokinetic Modeling of Prostate Cancer”, Joint Annual Meeting of ISMRM-ESMRMB, Milan, Italy, May 10-16, 2014.[PDF][HTML]

[8]   Mehrabian, H., Haider, M. A., and Martel, A. L., “Assessing the Effects of Decreasing Temporal Resolution on Pharmacokinetic Analysis Using a Local Vascular Input Function”, Joint Annual Meeting of ISMRM-ESMRMB, Milan, Italy, May 10-16, 2014.[PDF][HTML]

[9] Mehrabian, H., Haider, M. A., and Martel, A. L., “Using Independent components analysis to calculate intravascular contrast agent concentration in prostate cancer”, Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, IEEE International Symposium on, San Francisco, CA, USA, April 7-11, 2013.[PDF]

[10] Mehrabian, H., Pang, I., Chopra, R., and Martel, A. L., “An adaptive complex independent component analysis to analyze dynamic contrast enhanced-MRI”, Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, IEEE International Symposium on, Barcelona, Spain, May 2-5, 2012.[PDF]

[11] Mehrabian, H., Pang, I., Chandrana, C., Chopra, R., Martel, A.L., "Automatic mask generation using independent component analysis in dynamic contrast enhanced-MRI", Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, IEEE International Symposium on, Chicago, IL, USA, March 30 - April 2, 2011.[PDF]

[12] Mehrabian, H., Lindvere, L., Stefanovic, B., and Martel, A. L., “Deconvolution of dynamic dual photon microscopy images of cerebral microvasculature to assess the hemodynamic status of the brain”, in Medical Imaging 2011: Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, and Functional Imaging, Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 7965, 79650A-1, 2011.[PDF]

[13] Mehrabian, H., Lindvere, L., Stefanovic, B., and Martel, A. L., “A temporally constrained ICA (TCICA) technique for artery-vein separation of cerebral microvasculature”, in Medical Imaging 2010: Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, and Functional Imaging, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 7626, 762622, 2010.[PDF]

[14] Mehrabian, H., Samani, A., "Constrained hyperelastic parameters reconstruction of PVA (Polyvinyl Alcohol) phantom undergoing large deformation" in Medical Imaging 2009: Visualization, Image-Guided Procedures, and Modeling, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 7261, 72612G, 2009.[PDF]

[15] Mehrabian, H., Karimi, H., Samani, A., "Accurate optical flow field estimation using mechanical properties of soft tissues" in Medical Imaging 2009: Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, and Functional Imaging, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 7262, 72621B, 2009.[PDF]

[16] Mehrabian,  H., Samani, A., "An iterative hyperelastic parameters reconstruction for breast cancer assessment" in Medical Imaging 2008: Physiology, Function, and Structure from Medical Images, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 6916, 69161C, 2008.[PDF]

[17] Mehrabian, H., Hashemi-Tari, P., “Pupil Boundary Detection for Iris Recognition Using Graph Cuts”, Proceedings of Image and Vision Computing New Zealand 2007, pp. 77–82, Hamilton, New Zealand, December 2007.[PDF]

[18] Mehrabian,  H., Poursaberi, A., Araabi, B. N., “Feature Extraction for Iris Recognition Using Gabor Filters and Daubechies2 Wavelet Transform and Sensitivity Analysis”, 4th Iranian Conference on Machine Vision and Image Processing (MVIP), February 2007, Mashhad, Iran.[PDF]

[19] Mehrabian, H., Poursaberi, A., Araabi, B. N., “Iris Boundary Detection for Iris Recognition Using Laplacian Mask and Hough Transform”, 4thIranian Conference on Machine Vision and Image Processing (MVIP), February 2007, Mashhad, Iran.[PDF]

[20] Ashouri, A., Mehrabian, H., "Optimizing Fuzzy Controller for Reverse Pendulum System Using Genetic Algorithm". 2nd ECESYMP paper contest, Tehran, Iran, February 2006.[PDF]

 

Abstracts

[21]   Mehrabian, H., Haider, M. A., and Martel, A. L., “Pharmacokinetic Modeling of Prostate Tumor Using Independent Component Analysis”, 12th Imaging Network of Ontario Symposium, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, March 24-25, 2014.

[22]   Mehrabian, H., Haider, M. A., and Martel, A. L., “Local vascular input function (VIF) calculation for prostate cancer assessment”, Imaging Applications in Prostate Cancer Workshop, London, ON, Canada, November 15, 2013.

[23]   Mehrabian, H., Haider, M. A., and Martel, A. L., “Pharmacokinetic analysis of prostate cancer using independent components analysis”, Imaging Applications in Prostate Cancer Workshop , London, ON, Canada, November 16, 2012.

[24]   Mehrabian, H., Chandrana, C., Pang, I., Chopra, R., and Martel, A. L., “Calculating arterial input function in dynamic contrast enhanced-MRI of tumors: A validation study”, Invited to the Canadian Student Health Research Forum (CSHRF). Winnipeg, MB, Canada, June 12-14, 2012.

 

Theses

Ph.D. Thesis: “Application of Independent Component Analysis (ICA) in Pharmacokinetic Modeling of Tumors Using Dynamic Contrast Enhanced (DCE)-MRI”, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Supervised by Dr. Anne L. Martel, February 2014.[PDF]

M.E.Sc. Thesis: “Soft tissue hyperelastic parameter reconstruction for breast cancer assessment”, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada.
Supervised by Dr. Abbas Samani, December 2008.[PDF]

B.Sc. Thesis: “Design and Implementation of an Iris Recognition algorithm based on Iris Image Analysis”, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
Supervised by Dr. Babak N. Araabi, August 2005 (In Persian).[PDF]