Postdoctoral Researcher at Biomedical Image Analysis Group, A.I Virtanen Institute, Faculty of Health Sciences, Kuopio (2022 – present) and Interactive Technologies, School of Computing, Joensuu (2020 – 2022). Leader of proof-of-concept project from 04.2022-11.2022 in collaboration with HUMEA laboratory, Department of Technical Physics, and the Microsurgery Center of Eastern Finland at Kuopio University Hospital. Actively working on statistical signal processing, interactive medical technologies, cognitive neuroscience (sustained attention / vigilance, psychophysiological stress) and mental state monitoring, multi-modal data analysis and decision fusion for data-driven surgery, microsurgery image synthesis using generative adversarial networks, and adaptive EEG-based brain-computer interfaces (BCIs).
Publications
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Unpacking the Broad Landscape of Intraoperative Stressors for Clinical Personnel: A Mixed-Methods Systematic Review
Lee, Ahreum; Torkamani-Azar, Mastaneh; Zheng, Bin; Bednarik, Roman. 2023. Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare. 6: 1953-1977 -
Automated tool detection with deep learning for monitoring kinematics and eye-hand coordination in microsurgery
Koskinen, Jani; Torkamani-Azar, Mastaneh; Hussein, Ahmed; Huotarinen, Antti; Bednarik, Roman. 2022. Computers in biology and medicine. 141: -
Methods and Measures for Mental Stress Assessment in Surgery: A Systematic Review of 20 Years of Literature
Torkamani-Azar, Mastaneh; Lee, Ahreum; Bednarik, Roman. 2022. IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics. 26: 4436-4449 -
EEG Emotion Recognition via Graph-based Spatio-Temporal Attention Neural Networks
Sartipi, Shadi; Torkamani-Azar, Mastaneh; Cetin, Mujdat. Teoksessa: -(toim.) , 2021. 2021 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC). s. 571-574. IEEE