Yasser M. Kadah, Ph.D.

 

Contact Information

Office Address: Emory University - Hospital Annex , 531 Asbury Circle Suite N305, Atlanta GA 30322-4600

Home Address: 1488-C Willow Lake Drive NE, Atlanta GA 30329   

Phone: 404-712-2697 (w)                                        

Fax: 404-712-2707

Email: ykadah @ bme.emory.edu / yk42 @ mail.gatech.edu (remove spaces)                                 

 

Education

Degree

Academic Major

School

Thesis / Honors Project Title

Year

B.Sc.

Biomedical Engineering

Cairo University

Computer-Assisted Diagnosis in Ultrasound Imaging (Project)

1989

M.Sc.

Biomedical Engineering

Cairo University

Design of Linear Array Ultrasound Machine (Thesis)

1992

Ph.D.

Biomedical Engineering

(EE Minor)

University of Minnesota

Novel Reconstruction Techniques in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (Thesis)

1997

 

  

Work Experience

*   Research Associate, Emory University/Georgia Tech W.H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Dec. 2002:Present. (Research in Magnetic resonance imaging)

*   Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt - September 2003:Present. (Currently on leave of absence)

*   Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt - September 1998: September 2003. (Teaching and supervision of graduate students)

*   General Manager, Research and Development, International Electronics – Biomedical Division, Cairo, Egypt – August 1998: Dec. 2002. (Member of the team that designed and manufactured the first Egyptian ultrasound imaging system among other activities)

*   Post-Doc Associate, Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, Department of Radiology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota - 1998. (Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging).

*   Visiting Research Professor, Electrical Engineering Dept., University of Louisville, Kentucky – 1997-1998.

*   Research assistant, Department of Radiology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota  – 1996:1997. (Magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy)

*   Research Assistant, Engineering Math and Computer Science Dept., University of Louisville, KY, 1993.

*   Full-time lecturer assistant, Systems and Biomedical Engineering Dept., Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt - 1989:1998 (on-leave of absence between 1993-1998 for Ph.D. study and post-doc training).

*   Consultant, International Electronics-Cairo and Universal Sonics (Now DRS)-New Jersey for BIO-CALC package development on VLCUS-1000 ultrasound machine - 1994:1995

*   Senior design engineer, WISSAM Electronic Design and Manufacturing, Cairo, Egypt - May 1991:January 1993.

*   Biomedical Engineer, summer internship in U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit 3 (NAMRU-3), Cairo, Egypt - 1988. (PM and repair for biomedical equipment)

*   Biomedical Engineer, summer internship in Arab Contractors Medical Center, Cairo, Egypt - 1987. (clinical engineering, PM and repair for biomedical equipment)

 

 

 

Honors/Professional Affiliations

 

*   Elected Senior Member, IEEE (2003)

*   Awarded the E.K. Zaviosky Stipend from the ISMRM 10th Scientific Meeting in Honolulu (2002)

*   Listed in Marquis Who’s Who in the World (2002)

*   Awarded the international IDB Merit Scholarship for distinguished scientists from the Islamic Development Bank, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (1993-1996).

*   Top of 1989 graduation class at the Systems and Biomedical Engineering Department, Cairo University, Egypt.

*   Holds the current record for highest undergraduate GPA (3.98/4.0) at the Systems and Biomedical Engineering Department, Cairo University.

*   Academic Achievement Award from Cairo University (1984-1989).

*   Awarded a student travel stipend from IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control (UFFC) society to attend 1995 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, Seattle, Washington.

*   Awarded a student travel stipend from the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) to attend the annual meeting of the society of 1996.

*   Member of the Egyptian Syndicate of Engineers (1989-present).

*   Member, the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) (1996-present)

*   Member, the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) (2001-present)

*   Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) (2001-2003)

*   Reviewer to a number of journals including IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging, IEEE Trans. Biomedical Engineering, Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing, IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems Part II and Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU) 

 

 

Courses Taught

 

*   Ultrasound Imaging Theory and Instrumentation (senior year biomedical engineering majors graduation projects) (1998-2002).

*   Magnetic Resonance Imaging Theory and Instrumentation (senior year biomedical engineering majors) (1998-2002).

*   Digital Signal Processing (graduate students) (2000-2002).

*   Biomedical Image Processing (graduate students) (1998-2000).

*   Systems I: Matrix Computation (graduate students) (2001-2002).

 

 

 

Graduate Students

 

Past

*   Ahmed S. Fahmy (M.Sc. 2000): Now a Ph.D. student at the Johns Hopkins University.

*   Khaled Z. Abdel-Monem (M.Sc. 2000): Now a Ph.D. student at the Johns Hopkins University.

*   AbdEl-Monem El-Sharkawy (M.Sc. 2001): Now a Ph.D. student at the Johns Hopkins University.

*   Ahmed M. Ghanem (M.Sc. 2001): Now a Lecturer Assistant at Helwan University.

*   Ayman M. Khalifa (M.Sc. 2001): Now a Lecturer Assistant at Helwan University and a senior engineer at Diagnosoft.

*   Ahmed H. Abou-Zeid (M.Sc. 2001): Now a Marketing manager, Chemilab Medical.

*   Nahed H. Solouma (Ph.D. 2001): Now an Assistant Professor at National Laser Institute, Cairo University and Helwan University.

*   Mohamed I. Owis (Ph.D. 2001): Now an Assistant Professor at Cairo University.

*   Bassem K. Ouda (Ph.D. 2002): Now an Assistant Professor at Cairo University.

*   Nour S. Shabrawy (M.Sc. 2002): Now a Customer Support Manager, Alkan Medical.

*   Ayman A. Abaza (M.Sc. 2002): Now a lecturer assistant, Cairo University.

*   Diaa Yosry (M.Sc. 2002): Now a Researcher at Electronics Research Institute.

*   Ahmed M. Nasr (M.Sc. 2002): Now Service Manager, Fatemia Medical.

*   Mohamed Mostafa (M.Sc. 2002): Now Product Specialist, Philips Medical Systems.

*   Momen Abou-Alwafa (M.Sc. 2002): Now a Product Specialist, Toshiba Middle East.

*   Mona Hamed (M.Sc. 2002): Now a Ph.D. student at Cairo University.

*   Yasser Sherif (Ph.D. 2002): Now an Assistant Professor at Laser Institute, Cairo Univ.

*   Tamer Youssef (M.Sc., 2003): Now a Ph.D. student at the Johns Hopkins University.

*  Refaat E. Gabr (M.Sc., 2003): Now a lecturer assistant, Cairo University.

*  Zyad Farouk (M.Sc., 2003): Now a senior engineer at IBE Tech and Diagnosoft.

*  Walid Elatabany (M.Sc., 2004): Now a lecturer assistant at Helwan University.

*  Nader Metwally (M.Sc., 2004): Now a Ph.D. student at Georgia Tech/Emory University.

 

Current

*   Haitham Mohamed (M.Sc., Artifact suppression techniques in MRI – Expected graduation date: Summer 2004)

*  Ashraf Mahroos (M.Sc., Electromagnetic design for MRI - – Expected graduation date: Fall 2004).

*  Mai Mabrook (M.Sc., Image processing strategies for retinal image tracking - Expected graduation date: NA)

*   Mona Hamed (Ph.D., New strategies for diagnosing cardiac abnormalities from ECG signals – Expected graduation date: NA)

 

 

 

Patents

 

*    Xiaoping Hu and Yasser Kadah, “Method and apparatus for spatial encoding using pseudo-Fourier imaging,”  U.S. Patent No. US 6,573,714 B1, June 3, 2003. PDF

 

 

Journal Publications

 

1.     Yasser M. Kadah, AbdEl-Monem El-Sharkawy, and Abou-Bakr M. Youssef, “Navigator echo motion artifact suppression in synthetic aperture ultrasound imaging,”  IEEE Trans. on Biomedical Engineering, Accepted May 2004 (in press).

2.     Yasser M. Kadah, “Adaptive denoising of event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging data using spectrum subtraction,” IEEE Trans. on Biomedical Engineering, Accepted Feb. 2004 (in press).

3.     Nour Shabrawy, Ahmed S. Mohamed, Abou-Bakr M. Youssef and Yasser M. Kadah, “Study of the origin of contrast in functional magnetic resonance imaging using Monte Carlo methods,” Journal of Engineering and Applied Science, Cairo University Press, Accepted Oct. 2003 (in press).

4.     Yasser M. Kadah, Ayman Abaza, Ahmed Fahmy, Abou-Bakr M. Youssef, Keith Heberlein, and Xiaoping Hu, “Floating navigator echo (FNAV) for in-plane 2D translational motion estimation,” Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, vol. 51, pp. 403-407, Feb. 2004.  PDF

5.     Xiangyang Ma, Yasser M. Kadah, Stephen M. LaConte, and Xiaoping Hu, “Enhancement of measured diffusion anisotropy in Gray matter by eliminating CSF contamination with FLAIR”, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, vol. 51, pp. 423-427, Feb. 2004.   PDF

6.     Yasser S. Fawzi, Abo-Bakr M. Youssef, Mohamed H. El-Batanony, and Yasser M. Kadah, “Determination of the optical properties of a two-layer tissue model by detecting photons migrating at progressively increasing depths,” Applied Optics, vol. 42, no. 31, pp. 6398-6411, Nov. 2003.  PDF

7.     Khaled Z. Abdel-Monem, Abou-Bakr M. Youssef and Yasser M. Kadah, “Real-time speckle reduction and coherence enhancement in ultrasound imaging via nonlinear anisotropic diffusion,” IEEE Trans. on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 49, no. 9, pp. 997-1014, Sept. 2002.  PDF

8.      Nahed H. Solouma, Abou-Bakr M. Youssef, Yehia A. Badr, and Yasser M. Kadah, “A new real-time retinal tracking system for image-guided laser treatment,” IEEE Trans. on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 49, no. 9, pp. 1059-1067, Sept. 2002.  PDF

9.      Mohamed I. Owis, Ahmed Hammad, Abou-Bakr M. Youssef, and Yasser M. Kadah, “Study of features based on nonlinear dynamical modeling in ECG arrhythmia detection and classification,” IEEE Trans. on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 49, no. 7, pp. 733-736, July 2002.   PDF

10.  Mohamed I. Owis, Abou-Bakr M. Youssef, and Yasser M. Kadah, “Characterization of ECG signals based on blind source separation,” Med. Biol. Eng. Comput., vol. 40, no. 5, pp. 557-564, September 2002. PDF

11.  Yasser M. Kadah and Xiaoping Hu, "Algebraic reconstruction for magnetic resonance imaging under B0 inhomogeneity," IEEE Trans. Med. Imag., vol. 17, no.3, pp. 362-70, 1998.   PDF

12.  Yasser M. Kadah and Xiaoping Hu, "Simulated phase evolution rewinding (SPHERE): a technique for reducing B0 inhomogeneity distortion in MRI," Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, vol. 38, pp. 615-627, 1997. PDF

13. Yasser M. Kadah and Xiaoping Hu, "Pseudo-Fourier imaging: A technique for spatial encoding in MRI," IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging, vol. 16, no. 6, pp.893-902, Dec. 1997.   PDF

14.  Yasser M. Kadah and Ahmed H. Tewfik, "Efficient design of ultrasound true-velocity flow mapping," IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine, vol. 15, no. 5, pp. 118-125, Sept. 1996.   PDF

15. Yasser M. Kadah, Aly. A. Farag, Jacek M. Zurada, Ahmed M. Badawi, and Abou-Bakr M. Youssef, "Classification algorithms for quantitative tissue characterization of diffuse liver disease from ultrasound images," IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 466-478, August 1996.   PDF

 

Conference Publications

 

1.     Yasser M. Kadah, Xingyang Ma, Xiaoping Hu, “Robust Multi-Component Diffusion Tensor Estimation Using Projection Pursuit Regression”, Proc. ISMRM 12th Annual Meeting, Kyoto, Japan, p. 1220, May 2004. PDF

2.     Yasser M. Kadah, Danli Wang, and Xiaoping Hu, “High-Resolution T2*-Weighted Imaging Using Asymmetric Spin Echoes,” Proc. ISMRM 12th Annual Meeting, Kyoto, Japan, p. 998, May 2004. PDF

3.     Keith Heberlein, Yasser M. Kadah and Xiaoping Hu, “Segmented Spiral Parallel Imaging Using GRAPPA,” Proc. ISMRM 12th Annual Meeting, Kyoto, Japan, P. 328, May 2004. PDF

4.     Xingyang Ma, Stephen Laconte, Yasser M. Kadah and Xiaoping Hu, “Adaptive Control Grid Interpolation of DTI Data,” Proc. ISMRM 12th Annual Meeting, Kyoto, Japan, p. 1214, May 2004. PDF

5.     S. M. LaConte, S. Peltier, Y. Kadah, and X. Hu, “Detecting nonlinear dynamics of functional connectivity,” Proc. SPIE Medical Imaging 2004, San Diego, Feb. 2004.

6.     S. Peltier, S. LaConte, Y. Kadah, and X. Hu, “Robust ICA analysis for model-free functional connectivity detection,” Proc. SPIE Medical Imaging 2004, San Diego, Feb. 2004.

7.     Y. S. Fawzy, A. B. Youssef, M. Batanoni, Y.M. Kadah, “Determination of the optical properties of layered tissues based on detecting the photons migrated within each layer: application to two-layer model,” Proc. The European Conference on Biomedical Optics (ECBO), Munich, Germany, June 2003.

8.     Tamer Youssef, Stephen Laconte, X. Hu and Yasser M. Kadah, “Adaptive Suppression of Random and Physiological Noise in Event-Related fMRI data using Nonparametric spectrum  subtraction,”  Proc. ISMRM 11th Annual Meeting, p. 387, Toronto, May 2003. PDF

9.     Tamer Youssef, Stephen Laconte, Xiaoping Hu and Yasser M. Kadah, “Robust ordering of independent components for temporal event-related fMRI data analysis,” Proc. ISMRM 11th Annual Meeting, Toronto, p. 490, May 2003. PDF

10. Haitham M. Ahmed, Refaat E. Gabr, Keith Heberlein, Xiaoping Hu and Yasser M. Kadah, “New strategy for simultaneous suppression of intra- and inter-slice motion,” Proc. ISMRM 11th Annual Meeting, Toronto, p. 1060, May 2003. PDF

11. Tamer Youssef, Abou-Bakr M. Youssef, Stephen M. Laconte, Xiaoping P. Hu and Yasser M. Kadah, “Robust ordering of independent components in functional magnetic resonance imaging time series data using Canonical correlation analysis,” Proc. SPIE Medical Imaging 2003, San Diego, February 2003. PDF

12. Tamer Youssef, Abou-Bakr M. Youssef, Stephen M. Laconte, Xiaoping Hu and Yasser M. Kadah, “Nonparametric suppression of random and physiological noise components in functional magnetic resonance imaging using cross-correlation spectrum subtraction,” Proc. SPIE Medical Imaging 2003, San Diego, February 2003. PDF

13. Naglaa Abdel-Wahed, Abdel-Wahab S. Ahmed, Shaaban Gadallah, Nahed H. Solouma, and Yasser M. Kadah, “Computer-assisted radiographic characterization of alloimplant materials used as bone substitutes in dentistry,” Proc. SPIE Medical Imaging 2003, San Diego, February 2003.  PDF

14. Haitham M. Ahmed, Refaat E. Gabr, Abou-Bakr M. Youssef, Keith Heberlein, Xiaoping P. Hu and Yasser M. Kadah, “Combined intra- and inter-slice motion artifact suppression in magnetic resonance imaging,” Proc. SPIE Medical Imaging 2003, San Diego, February 2003.  PDF

15. Zyad Farouk, Abou-Bakr M. Youssef and Yasser M. Kadah, “Successive optimization for fast phase aberration correction,” Proc. SPIE Medical Imaging 2003, San Diego, February 2003.  PDF

16. Hesham Desoky, Abou-Bakr M. Youssef and Yasser M. Kadah, “Reconstruction using optimal spatially variant kernel for B-mode ultrasound imaging,” Proc. SPIE Medical Imaging 2003, San Diego, February 2003.  PDF

17. Hany Hussein, Abou-Bakr M. Youssef and Yasser M. Kadah, “Encoded multiple simultaneous aperture acquisition for improved signal-to-noise ratio in ultrasound imaging,” Proc. SPIE Medical Imaging 2003, San Diego, February 2003.  PDF

18. Ahmed Elnokrashy, Abou-Bakr M. Youssef and Yasser M. Kadah, “Nonparametric clutter rejection in Doppler ultrasound using principal component analysis,” Proc. SPIE Medical Imaging 2003, San Diego, February 2003.  PDF

19. Yasser M. Kadah, Stephen Laconte, and Xiaoping Hu, “Denoising of event-related fMRI data based on rician noise model for robust analysis using ICA,” ISMRM 10th Scientific Meeting, Honolulu, May 2002.  PDF  

20. Yasser M. Kadah, Keith Heberlein, and Xiaoping Hu, “Floating navigator echo for in-plane translational motion estimation,” ISMRM 10th Scientific Meeting, Honolulu, May 2002.  PDF  

21. Yasser M. Kadah, Shantanu Sarkar, and Xiaoping Hu, “A New Model-Based Algebraic Solution to the Gridding Problem,” ISMRM 10th Scientific Meeting, Honolulu, May 2002.  PDF 

22. Ahmed S. Fahmy, Bassel S. Tawfik and Yasser M. Kadah, “Gridding Using Optimal Spatially Variant Kernel,” ISMRM 10th Scientific Meeting, Honolulu, May 2002.  PDF

23. Ayman M. Khalifa, Abou-Bakr M. Youssef, and Yasser M. Kadah, “RF Pulse Design Using Combinatorial Optimization,” ISMRM 10th Scientific Meeting, Honolulu, May 2002.  PDF  

24. Yasser M. Kadah, “A New Solution to the Gridding Problem,” Proc. SPIE Medical Imaging, San Diego, Feb. 2002. PDF  

25. Yasser M. Kadah, “Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Color Doppler Information Using Independent Component Analysis,” Proc. SPIE Medical Imaging, San Diego, Feb. 2002.   PDF 

26. Diaa Yosry, Abou-Bakr M. Youssef, and Mohamed S. El-Sherif, and Yasser M. Kadah, “Improved Cardiac Wall Motion Tracking Based on Harmonic Phase Technique,” Proc. SPIE Medical Imaging, San Diego, Feb. 2002.   PDF  

27. Ahmed S. Fahmy, Bassel S. Tawfik, and Yasser M. Kadah, “Image reconstruction using shift-variant resampling kernel for magnetic resonance imaging,” Proc. SPIE Medical Imaging, San Diego, Feb. 2002.  PDF  

28. Yasser M. Kadah, “Robust Analysis of Event-Related Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Data Using Independent Component Analysis,” Proc. SPIE Medical Imaging, San Diego, Feb. 2002.   PDF 

29. Mohamed I. Owis, Ahmed H. Abou-Zeid, Abou-Bakr M. Youssef, and Yasser M. Kadah, “Robust feature extraction from ECG signals based on nonlinear dynamical modeling,” Proc. 23rd Annual Int. Conf. IEEE Eng. Med. Biol. Soc. (EMBC’01), Istanbul, Turkey, Oct. 2001.   PDF 

30. Bassem K. Ouda, Bassel S. Tawfik, Abou-Bakr M. Youssef and Yasser M. Kadah, “Adaptive denoising technique for robust analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging data,” Proc. 23rd Annual Int. Conf. IEEE Eng. Med. Biol. Soc. (EMBC’01) , Istanbul, Turkey, Oct. 2001.  PDF  

31. Ayman K. Abdalla, Abou-Bakr M. Youssef and Yasser M. Kadah, “Optimal design of RF pulses with arbitrary profiles in magnetic resonance imaging,” Proc. 23rd Annual Int. Conf. IEEE Eng. Med. Biol. Soc. (EMBC’01), Istanbul, Turkey, Oct. 2001.  PDF  

32. Nahed H. Solouma, Abou-Bakr M. Youssef, Yehia A. Badr, and Yasser M. Kadah, “Robust computer-assisted laser treatment using real-time retinal tracking,” Proc. 23rd Annual Int. Conf. IEEE Eng. Med. Biol. Soc. (EMBC’01), Istanbul, Turkey, Oct. 2001.  PDF  

33. Yasser M. Kadah, “Adaptive signal-preserving denoising of ER-fMRI data using spectrum subtraction,” Proc. ISMRM/ESMRMB Joint Annual Meeting, Glasgow, Scotland, April 2001.  PDF 

34. Abdel-Moneim Alsharkawy, Abou-Bakr M. Youssef, and Yasser M. Kadah, “Navigator Echo Based In-Slice Motion Artifact Suppression in Ultrasound Images based on Synthetic Aperture,” Proc. SPIE Med. Imag., San Diego, Feb. 2001.  PDF