Staff Profile
Professor Kianoush Nazarpour
Background
I am Visiting Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the School of Engineering.
Research
My research is on upper-limb prosthetics. I have close collaborations with the Intelligent Sensing Laboratory.
Teaching
I do not have any teaching duties at Newcastle University.
Publications
- Dupan S, McNeill Z, Sarda E, Brunton E, Nazarpour N. Discrimination of transcutaneous electric nerve stimuli is modulated by their temporal pattern. 2020. In Preparation.
- Krasoulis A, Nazarpour K. Discrete action control for prosthetic digits. 2020. Submitted.
- Roy R, Mahadevappa M, Nazarpour K. An EOG-based vision system for prosthetic grasp. 2020. Submitted.
- Ameri R, Ferdowsi S, Alameer A, Abolghasemi V, Nazarpour K. Classification of the Chinese handwritten numbers with supervised projective dictionary pair learning. 2020. Submitted.
- Krasoulis A, Nazarpour K. Myoelectric digit action decoding with multi-label multi-class classification: an offline analysis. Scientific Reports 2020. Submitted.
- Silveira C, Brunton E, Escobedo-Cousin E, Gupta G, Whittaker R, O'Neill A, Nazarpour K. W:Ti flexible transversal electrode array for peripheral nerve stimulation: A feasibility study. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering 2020, 28(10), 2136-2143.
- Dyson M, Dupan S, Jones H, Nazarpour K. Learning, generalisation, scalability of abstract myoelectric control. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering 2020, 28(7), 1539-1547.
- Zuo S, Schmalz J, Özden MÖ, Gerken M, Su J, Niekiel F, Lofink F, Nazarpour K, Heidari H. Ultrasensitive Magnetoelectric Sensing System for Pico-Tesla MagnetoMyoGraphy. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems 2020, 14(5), 971-984.
- Zuo S, Heidari H, Farina D, Nazarpour K. Miniaturized magnetic sensors for implantable magnetomyography. Advanced Materials Technologies 2020, 5(6).
- Abbasi A, Yazdanbakhsh F, Khaleghi Tazji H, Aghaei P, Svoda Z, Nazarpour K, Fraga Vieira M. A comparison of coordination and its variability in lower extremity segments during treadmill and overground running at different speeds. Gait & Posture 2020, 79, 139-144.
- Blana D, van den Bogert AJ, Murray WM, Ganguli A, Krasoulis A, Nazarpour K, Chadwick EK. Model-Based Control of Individual Finger Movements for Prosthetic Hand Function. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering 2020, 28(3), 612-620.
- Krasoulis A, Vijayakumar S, Nazarpour K. Multi-grip classification-based prosthesis control with two EMG-IMU sensors. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems & Rehabilitation Engineering 2020, 28(2), 508-518.
- Alameer A, Degenaar P, Nazarpour K. Objects and scenes classification with selective use of central and peripheral image content. Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation 2020, 66, 102698.
- Krasoulis A, Vijayakumar S, Nazarpour K. Effect of user adaptation on prosthetic finger control with an intuitive myoelectric decoder. Frontiers in Neuroscience 2019, 13, 891.
- Brunton EK, Silveira C, Rosenberg J, Schiefer MA, Riddell J, Nazarpour K. Temporal Modulation of the Response of Sensory Fibers to Paired-Pulse Stimulation. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering 2019, 27(9), 1676-1683.
- Zuo S, Nazarpour K, Heidari H. Device Modelling of MgO-Barrier Tunnelling Magnetoresistors for Hybrid Spintronic-CMOS. IEEE Electron Device Letters 2018, 39(11), 1784-1787.
- Wang Y, Tatinati R, Adhikari K, Huang L, Nazarpour K, Ang WT, Veluvolu KC. Multi-step prediction of physiological tremor with random quaternion neurons for surgical robotic applications. IEEE Access 2018, 6, 42216-42226.
- Dyson M, Barnes J, Nazarpour K. Myoelectric control with abstract decoders. Journal of Neural Engineering 2018, 15(5), 056003.
- Silveira C, Brunton E, Spendiff S, Nazarpour K. Influence of nerve cuff channel count and implantation site on the separability of afferent ENG. Journal of Neural Engineering 2018, 15(4), 046004.
- Abolghasemi V, Chen M, Alameer A, Ferdowsi S, Chambers JA, Nazarpour K. Incoherent dictionary pair learning: Application to a novel open-source database of Chinese numbers. IEEE Signal Processing Letters 2018, 25(4), 472-476.
- Jones H, Nazarpour K. Gaining NHS ethical approval from the perspective of a biomedical engineering team. British Journal of Healthcare Management 2018, 24(2), 71-76.
- Brunton E, Blau CW, Nazarpour K. Separability of neural responses to standardised mechanical stimulation of limbs. Scientific Reports 2017, 7, 11138.
- Krasoulis A, Kyranou I, Erden MS, Nazarpour K, Vijayakumar S. Improved prosthetic hand control with concurrent use of myoelectric and inertial measurements. Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2017, 14, 71.
- Ghazaei G, Alameer A, Degenaar P, Morgan G, Nazarpour K. Deep learning-based artificial vision for grasp classification in myoelectric hands. Journal of Neural Engineering 2017, 14(3), 036025.
- Tatinati S, Nazarpour K, Ang WT, Veluvolu KC. Multi-dimensional modeling of physiological tremor for active compensation in hand-held surgical robotics. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics 2017, 64(2), 1645-1655.
- Adhikari K, Tatinati S, Ang WT, Velovulu KC, Nazarpour K. A quaternion weighted Fourier linear combiner for modeling physiological tremor. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering 2016, 63(11), 2336-2346.
- Alameer A, Ghazaei G, Degenaar P, Chambers JA, Nazarpour K. Object recognition with an elastic net-regularized hierarchical MAX model of the visual cortex. IEEE Signal Processing Letters 2016, 28(8), 1062-1066.
- Khushaba RN, Al-Timemy A, Kodagoda S, Nazarpour K. Combined influence of forearm orientation and muscular contraction on EMG pattern recognition. Expert Systems with Applications 2016, 61, 154-161.
- Tatinati S, Nazarpour K, Ang WT, Veluvolu KC. Ensemble framework based real-time respiratory motion prediction for adaptive radiotherapy applications. Medical Engineering & Physics 2016, 38(8), 749-757.
- Pistohl T, Joshi D, Ganesh G, Jackson A, Nazarpour K. Artificial proprioceptive feedback for myoelectric control. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering 2015, 23(3), 498-507.
- Graziadio S, Nazarpour K, Gretenkord S, Jackson A, Eyre J. Greater intermanual transfer in the elderly suggests age-related bilateral motor cortex activation is compensatory. Journal of Motor Behavior 2015, 47(1), 47-55.
- Hall TM, Nazarpour K, Jackson A. Real-time estimation and biofeedback of single-neuron firing rates using local field potentials. Nature Communications 2014, 5, 5462.
- Nazarpour K, Cipriani C, Farina D, Kuiken T. Guest Editorial: Advances in control of multi-functional powered upper-limb prostheses. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering 2014, 22(4), 711-715.
- Pistohl T, Cipriani C, Jackson A, Nazarpour K. Abstract and Proportional Myoelectric Control for Multi-Fingered Hand Prostheses. Annals of Biomedical Engineering 2013, 41(12), 2687-2698.
- Nazarpour K, Al-Timemy AH, Bugmann G, Jackson A. A note on the probability distribution function of the surface electromyogram signal. Brain Research Bulletin 2013, 90, 88-91.
- Sanei S, Ferdowsi S, Nazarpour K, Cichocki A. Advances in Electroencephalography Signal Processing. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine 2013, 30(1), 170-176.
- Nazarpour K, Barnard A, Jackson A. Flexible cortical control of task-specific muscle synergies. Journal of Neuroscience 2012, 32(36), 12349-12360.
- Jackson A, Nazarpour K. Motor learning explored with myoelectric and neural interfaces. In: Gollhofer, A., Taube, W., Nielsen, J.B, ed. Routledge Handbook of Motor Control and Motor Learning. Routledge, 2012, pp.71-89.
- Nazarpour K, Ethier C, Paninski L, Rebesco JM, Miall RC, Miller LE. EMG prediction from motor cortical recordings via a Non-Negative Point Process Filter. IEEE Transactions Biomedical Engineering 2012, 59(7), 1829-1838.
- Ghaderi F, Nazarpour K, McWhirter JG, Sanei S. Removal of Ballistocardiogram Artifacts Using the Cyclostationary Source Extraction Method. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering 2010, 57(11), 2667-2676.
- Nazarpour K, Praamstra P, Miall RC, Sanei S. Steady-state movement related potentials for brain-computer interfacing. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering 2009, 56(8), 2104-2113.
- Mohseni HR, Nazarpour K, Wilding EL, Sanei S. The application of particle filters in single trial event-related potential estimation. Physiological Measurement 2009, 30(10), 1101-1116.
- Praamstra P, Kourtis D, Nazarpour K. Simultaneous preparation of multiple potential movements: opposing effects of spatial proximity mediated by premotor and parietal cortex. Journal of Neurophysiology 2009, 102(4), 2084-2095.
- Lo JL, Sanei S, Nazarpour K. An adaptive source-channel coding with feedback for progressive transmission of medical images. International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications 2009, 519417.
- Nazarpour K, Mohseni HR, Hesse CW, Chambers JA, Sanei S. A novel semiblind signal extraction approach for the removal of eye-blink artifcat from EEGs. EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2008, 2008, Article no. 98.
- Nazarpour K, Wongsawat Y, Sanei S, Chambers JA, Oraintara S. Removal of the eye-blink artifacts from EEGs via STF-TS modeling and robust minimum variance beamforming. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering 2008, 55(9), 2221-2231.
- Nazarpour K, Sharafat AR, Firoozabadi SM. Application of higher order statistics to surface electromyogram signal classification. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering 2007, 54(10), 1762-1769.
- Olsen J, Day S, Dupan S, Nazarpour K, Dyson M. 3D-Printing and upper-limb prosthetic sockets: promises and pitfalls. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering 2021, 29, 527-535.
- Wu H, Dyson M, Nazarpour K. Arduino-based myoelectric control: Towards longitudinal study of prosthesis use. Sensors 2021, 21(3), 1-13.
- Garske CA, Dyson M, Dupan S, Nazarpour K. Perception of game-based rehabilitation in upper limb prosthetic training: Survey of users and researchers. JMIR Serious Games 2021, 9(1), e23710.
- Williams I, Brunton E, Rapeaux A, Liu Y, Luan S, Nazarpour K, Constandinou TG. SenseBack-An Implantable System for Bidirectional Neural Interfacing. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems 2020, 14(5), 1079-1087.