Assef Zare

Dr. Assef Zare

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Academic Career Length

15Years (2012-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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ASAfshin Shoeibi
Afshin Shoeibi
MKMarjaneh Khodatars
Marjaneh Khodatars
NGNavid Ghassemi
Navid Ghassemi
MJMahboobeh Jafari
Mahboobeh Jafari
PMParisa Moridian
Parisa Moridian
U Rajendra AcharyaU Rajendra Acharya
U Rajendra Acharya
A variety of screening approaches have been proposed to diagnose epileptic seizures, using electroencephalography (EEG) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) modalities. Artificial intelligence encompasses a variety of areas, and one of its branches is deep learning (DL). Before the rise of DL, conventional machine learning algorithms involving feature extraction were performed. This limited their performance to the ability of those handcrafting the features. However, in DL, the extraction of features and classification are entirely automated. The advent of these techniques in many areas of medicine, such as in the diagnosis of epileptic seizures, has made significant advances. In this study, a comprehensive overview of works focused on automated epileptic seizure detection using DL techniques and neuroimaging modalities is presented. Various methods proposed to diagnose epileptic seizures automatically using EEG and MRI modalities are described. In addition, rehabilitation systems developed for epileptic seizures using DL have been analyzed, and a summary is provided. The rehabilitation tools include cloud computing techniques and hardware required for implementation of DL algorithms. The important challenges in accurate detection of automated epileptic seizures using DL with EEG and MRI modalities are discussed. The advantages and limitations in employing DL-based techniques for epileptic seizures diagnosis are presented. Finally, the most promising DL models proposed and possible future works on automated epileptic seizure detection are delineated.

19 November 2021 in Sensors
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AMAnis Malekzadeh
Anis Malekzadeh
AZAssef Zare
Assef Zare
MYMahdi Yaghoobi
Mahdi Yaghoobi
HKHamid Reza Kobravi
Hamid Reza Kobravi
RARoohallah Alizadehsani
Roohallah Alizadehsani
Epilepsy is a brain disorder disease that affects people’s quality of life. Electroencephalography (EEG) signals are used to diagnose epileptic seizures. This paper provides a computer-aided diagnosis system (CADS) for the automatic diagnosis of epileptic seizures in EEG signals. The proposed method consists of three steps, including preprocessing, feature extraction, and classification. In order to perform the simulations, the Bonn and Freiburg datasets are used. Firstly, we used a band-pass filter with 0.5–40 Hz cut-off frequency for removal artifacts of the EEG datasets. Tunable-Q Wavelet Transform (TQWT) is used for EEG signal decomposition. In the second step, various linear and nonlinear features are extracted from TQWT sub-bands. In this step, various statistical, frequency, and nonlinear features are extracted from the sub-bands. The nonlinear features used are based on fractal dimensions (FDs) and entropy theories. In the classification step, different approaches based on conventional machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) are discussed. In this step, a CNN–RNN-based DL method with the number of layers proposed is applied. The extracted features have been fed to the input of the proposed CNN–RNN model, and satisfactory results have been reported. In the classification step, the K-fold cross-validation with k = 10 is employed to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed CNN–RNN classification procedure. The results revealed that the proposed CNN–RNN method for Bonn and Freiburg datasets achieved an accuracy of 99.71% and 99.13%, respectively.

13 December 2021 in Big Data and Cognitive Computing
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AMAnis Malekzadeh
Anis Malekzadeh
AZAssef Zare
Assef Zare
MYMahdi Yaghoobi
Mahdi Yaghoobi
RARoohallah Alizadehsani
Roohallah Alizadehsani
This paper proposes a new method for epileptic seizure detection in electroencephalography (EEG) signals using nonlinear features based on fractal dimension (FD) and a deep learning (DL) model. Firstly, Bonn and Freiburg datasets were used to perform experiments. The Bonn dataset consists of binary and multi-class classification problems, and the Freiburg dataset consists of two-class EEG classification problems. In the preprocessing step, all datasets were prepossessed using a Butterworth band pass filter with 0.5–60 Hz cut-off frequency. Then, the EEG signals of the datasets were segmented into different time windows. In this section, dual-tree complex wavelet transform (DT-CWT) was used to decompose the EEG signals into the different sub-bands. In the following section, in order to feature extraction, various FD techniques were used, including Higuchi (HFD), Katz (KFD), Petrosian (PFD), Hurst exponent (HE), detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA), Sevcik, box counting (BC), multiresolution box-counting (MBC), Margaos-Sun (MSFD), multifractal DFA (MF-DFA), and recurrence quantification analysis (RQA). In the next step, the minimum redundancy maximum relevance (mRMR) technique was used for feature selection. Finally, the k-nearest neighbors (KNN), support vector machine (SVM), and convolutional autoencoder (CNN-AE) were used for the classification step. In the classification step, the K-fold cross-validation with k = 10 was employed to demonstrate the effectiveness of the classifier methods. The experiment results show that the proposed CNN-AE method achieved an accuracy of 99.736% and 99.176% for the Bonn and Freiburg datasets, respectively.

30 January 2021 in Journal of Vibration and Control
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SMSeyede Zeynab Mirrezapour
Seyede Zeynab Mirrezapour
AZAssef Zare
Assef Zare
MHMajid Hallaji
Majid Hallaji
This study presents a new fractional sliding mode controller based on nonlinear fractional-order proportional integral derivative controllers to synchronize fractional-order chaotic systems with uncertainties and affected by disturbance. According to the proposed control approach, a new fractional order control law is presented which ensures robust and stable synchronization of chaotic systems in the presence of uncertainties of the master and slave systems and bounded disturbance according to Lyapunov theorem. The proposed sliding mode controller is used to synchronize two non-smooth chaotic jerk systems affected by disturbance and uncertainty. Simulation results verify effectiveness and robustness of the proposed control law.

7 June 2021 in Sensors
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AJAli Akbar Kekha Javan
Ali Akbar Kekha Javan
MJMahboobeh Jafari
Mahboobeh Jafari
ASAfshin Shoeibi
Afshin Shoeibi
AZAssef Zare
Assef Zare
MKMarjaneh Khodatars
Marjaneh Khodatars
Juan M. Górriz SáezJuan M. Górriz Sáez
Juan M. Górriz Sáez
In this paper, a novel medical image encryption method based on multi-mode synchronization of hyper-chaotic systems is presented. The synchronization of hyper-chaotic systems is of great significance in secure communication tasks such as encryption of images. Multi-mode synchronization is a novel and highly complex issue, especially if there is uncertainty and disturbance. In this work, an adaptive-robust controller is designed for multimode synchronized chaotic systems with variable and unknown parameters, despite the bounded disturbance and uncertainty with a known function in two modes. In the first case, it is a main system with some response systems, and in the second case, it is a circular synchronization. Using theorems it is proved that the two synchronization methods are equivalent. Our results show that, we are able to obtain the convergence of synchronization error and parameter estimation error to zero using Lyapunov’s method. The new laws to update time-varying parameters, estimating disturbance and uncertainty bounds are proposed such that stability of system is guaranteed. To assess the performance of the proposed synchronization method, various statistical analyzes were carried out on the encrypted medical images and standard benchmark images. The results show effective performance of the proposed synchronization technique in the medical images encryption for telemedicine application.

1 January 2017 in International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems
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NSNarges Shafaei
Narges Shafaei
AKAli Vahidian Kamyad
Ali Vahidian Kamyad
AZAssef Zare
Assef Zare