A bio-inspired quantization scheme to convert a pre-trained convolutional neural network to a spiking neural network, with the aim of minimizing the computational load for execution on neuromorphic processors.
M. Khoei, A. Yousefzadeh, A. Pourtaherian et. al, IEEE AICAS 2020      

Successful automated detection of the needle immediately after insertion is necessary to allow the physician identify and correct any misalignment of the needle and the targeat at early stages, which reduces needle passes and improves health outcomes. In our method, very short needles are detected with tip localization errors of less than 0.7 mm for lengths of only 5 mm and 10 mm at 0.2 mm and 0.36 mm voxel sizes, respectively.
A. Pourtaherian et. al, IJCARS 2018            IJCARS MICCAI best paper award
A. Pourtaherian et. al, MICCAI 2017  

A framework based on deep learning models for segmenting object instances in 3D point cloud data by predicting their 3D bounding box and simultaneously segmenting all the points inside each box.
F. Zanjani, A. Pourtaherian et. al, Neurocomputing 2020  (in press)

A novel 3-D Gabor wavelet transformation is introduced and optimally designed for revealing the instrument voxels in the volume, while remaining generic to several medical instruments and transducer types. Experiments on diverse data sets, including in vivo data from patients, show that for a given transducer and an instrument type, high detection accuracies are achieved with position errors smaller than the instrument diameter in the 0.5-1.5-mm range on average.
A. Pourtaherian et. al, IEEE TMI 2017    
A. Pourtaherian et. al, IEEE ICIP 2014  

A Faster RCNN framework, enabling continuous monitoring for infant discomfort detection. 
C. Li, A. Pourtaherian et. al, IEEE ICCE 2020   
C. Li, A. Pourtaherian et. al, SPIE 2019   

A fast planar object segmentation algorithm for depth images avoiding any surface normal calculation. This method first extracts 3D edges, then it localizes the lines falling between these edges and finally, it merges all the points on each pair of the intersecting lines into a plane.
H. Hemmat, A. Pourtaherian et. al, SPIE/IS&T EI 2015   

A real-time tracking framework based on traditional computer vision and HOG features. An object detector is trained online in the first video frame and is used to localize the object in subsequent frames. Occlusion-handling and drift-correction techniques control the classifier update strategy over time to cope with object appearance changes.
A. Pourtaherian et. al, IEEE ICIP 2013