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Milana Komosar (ESR2) & Tim Kalla (ESR3) introduced the field of study "Biomedical Engineering" in form of a lab tour to 8 high school students on 02. February 2024 at Technische Universität Ilmenau, Ilmenau, Germany.
On 10.01.2024, Prof. Haueisen took part in a public expert discussion round as part of the Kick-Off of the 2024 research topic “Environment and Health” at TU Ilmenau. Four experts and about 60 participants discussed current research trends including EEG for neonates.
Ana Borovac (ESR11) defended (~30 participants) her PhD thesis entitled "Towards clinically useful neonatal seizure detection algorithms" on 10.01.2024, at University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland.
Mohammad Khazaei (ESR5) defended his PhD thesis entitled "Neonatal EEG Analysis: Effects of Sleep State and HIE on Brain Dynamics, and Automated HIE Grading" on 20.12.2023, at Università degli Studi "Gabriele d'Annunzio" Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy & online.
Khadijeh Raeisi (ESR4) defended her PhD thesis entitled "Innovative Approaches for Neonatal EEG Analysis: Enhanced Seizure Detection and Neurodevelopmental Outcome Predictions" on 20.12.2023, at Università degli Studi "Gabriele d'Annunzio" Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy & online.
Milana Komosar (ESR2) & Tim Kalla (ESR 3) introduced the field of study "Biomedical Engineering" in form of a lab tour to 5 high school students on 19. December 2023 at Technische Universität Ilmenau, Ilmenau, Germany.
Milana Komosar (ESR2) & Tim Kalla (ESR 3) introduced the field of study "Biomedical Engineering" in form of a lab tour to 10 high school students on 13. December 2023 at Technische Universität Ilmenau, Ilmenau, Germany.
On 13.12.2023, Prof. Haueisen gave an Invited Keynote Speech entitled “New Approaches to Mobile Electroencephalography.” at the 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Cybernetics Technology & Applications 2023 (ICICyTA 2023), Bali, Indonesia, and remotely 13.-15.12.2023.
Prof. Patrique Fiedler gave an invited talk (30 participants) entitled "Mobile neurophysiological monitoring: novel sensors and signal processing algorithms" at Medical Information Science Vortragsreihe, Universität Augsburg; December 12th, 2023.
Prof. Patrique Fiedler gave an invited talk (40 participants) entitled “EEG in health monitoring for long-term spaceflight.” at the ANT Neuromeeting, Berlin, Germany, 01.-04.11.2023.
On 04.11.2023, Prof. Haueisen (~50 participants) gave an invited talk entitled “Flower electrodes for comfortable dry electroencephalography.” at the ANT Neuromeeting, Berlin, Germany, 01.-04.11.2023.
Xiaowan Wang (ESR 14) and Maria Luisa Tataranno gave a talk (~60 audiences) entitled “Beyond One-Size-Fits-All: Personalized Care for Neonatal Brain Injury” at UMC Utrecht Brain Center Research Day, 3rd November 2023, Utrecht, the Netherlands
On 12.10.2023, Prof. Haueisen gave an invited talk entitled “Resonance, entrainment and burst structure in MEG/EEG photic driving.” at the 170th ICB Seminar “Neurovascular Coupling Methods”, Warsaw, Poland, 12.-13.10.2023
Prof. Patrique Fiedler presented a poster (15 participants) entitled "Real-time Smartphone-Assisted EEG Electrode Localization and Augmented Reality Application" at Joint Annual Conference of the Austrian, German and Swiss Societies for Biomedical Engineering (BMT) 2023, 26.-28-09.2023, Duisburg, Germany.
Prof. Patrique Fiedler gave a talk (40 participants) entitled "Comfortable dry EEG using Flower electrodes" at Joint Annual Conference of the Austrian, German and Swiss Societies for Biomedical Engineering (BMT) 2023, 26.-28-09.2023, Duisburg, Germany.
Xiaowan Wang (ESR 14) gave a talk (~70 audiences) entitled “Early qualitative and quantitative aEEG/EEG for predicting long-term neurodevelopmental outcomes in extremely preterm infants: a 10-year cohort study” at the 5th Congress of joint European Neonatal Societies, 19-23 September 2023, Rome, Italy.
Prof. Patrique Fiedler presented a poster (30 participants) entitled "New technological and paradigm solutions for the inter-person multimodal investigation of joint action during table tennis" at mbt conference 2.0, 14th-15th September, Belgrade, Serbia, 2023.
Tim Hermans (ESR10) gave a talk (~30 participants) entitled “A robust pipeline for reliable automated sleep staging from neonatal EEG” at Neonatal Sleep Talks (NEST), 31 Aug-1 Sept 2023, Cambridge, England.
Xiaowan Wang (ESR 14) gave a talk (~40 audiences) entitled “Machine learning–derived active sleep as an early predictor of white matter development in preterm infants” at the NEonatal Sleep Talks – NEST, 31st August-1st September 2023, Cambridge, the UK.
Prof. Patrique Fiedler gave an invited talk (15 participants) entitled "Estimation of between-region phase synchronization from electrophysiological data: comparing EEG and MEG" at IEEE EMBC conference 2023, 24th-27th July, Australia, 2023.
Prof. Patrique Fiedler presented (15 participants) a poster entitled "A dry high-density surface EMG patch with 32 channels" at IEEE EMBC conference 2023, 24th-27th July, Australia, 2023.
In the framework of Summer university 2023 (8 participants), Dr.-Ing. Eva-Maria Dölker, Tim Kalla (ESR 3) and colleagues introduced the field of study "Biomedical Engineering" in form of a lab tour to high school students on 10. July 2023 at Technische Universität Ilmenau, Ilmenau, Germany. The tour was filmed by the local television channel "MDR".
An article in the leading Thuringian newspaper „Thüringer Allgemeine” appeared on 7. July 2023, where the new electrode technology developed in Ilmenau and possible application scenarios were presented. The article is based on material provided by Professor Haueisen and the press officer of TU Ilmenau.
On 1st July 2023 the Institute for Biomedical Engineering and Informatics was a part of the Ilmenau's science night (German: Ilmenauer Wissenschaftsnacht). Various research topics of the field of optoelectrophysiological medical engineering and biomedical engineering have been presented to the interested visitors.
On 22.06. 2023, Prof. Haueisen gave an interview to the local Radio Station HSF in Ilmenau, which was broadcasted on the very same day. Prof. Haueisen explained the use of dry EEG in telemedical applications.
Tim Hermans (ESR10) defended his PhD thesis (about 75 participants) entitled "Improving robustness and reliability in neonatal brain monitoring" on 21.06.2023, at Arenberg castle Leuven, Belgium & online.
Prof. Silvia Comani gave an invited talk (20 participants) entitled "Microstate analysis and neonatal EEG" at the symposium “Smart Neonatal Monitoring” on 21.06.2023, at STADIUS Center for Dynamical Systems, Signal Processing, and Data Analytics, Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT), KU Leuven, Belgium & online.
Dr. Jeroen Dudink gave an invited talk (20 participants) entitled "Beyond Observation: Quantifying Neonatal Neurobehavior in the NICU The neonatal" at the symposium “Smart Neonatal Monitoring” on 21.06.2023, at STADIUS Center for Dynamical Systems, Signal Processing, and Data Analytics, Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT), KU Leuven, Belgium & online.
Prof. Patrique Fiedler gave an invited talk (20 participants) entitled "Trockenes hochaufgelöstes EEG mit 256 Kanälen" at HNO-Kongress 2023, 17.-20.05.2023, Leipzig, Germany.
Prof. Patrique Fiedler gave an invited talk (15 participants) entitled "Body sensor networks and the trend of ubiquitous medical monitoring" at UMIT, 27.04.2023, Hall (Tirol), Austria.
In the framework of GirlsDay 2023 (20 participants), Dr.-Ing. Eva-Maria Dölker, Milana Komosar (ESR 2) and colleagues introduced the field of study "Biomedical Engineering" in form of a lab tour entitled "Medical engineering charged up" to high school students on 25. April 2023 at Technische Universität Ilmenau, Ilmenau, Germany. Principles of EMG, ECG and EEG measurements and the benefits of dry electrode caps were presented.
Prof. Haueisen and Prof. Fiedler in scope of the “Study information day” at Technische Universität Ilmenau on 22. April 2023 did a live presentation of the electroencephalography laboratory. They gave an overview of the INFANS project, with the demonstration of EEG dry caps, acquisition procedure, signal analysis methods, and general usages of EEG. The audience was future students, current students, and parents (about 35 participants). The audience was interested in different aspects of the project and asked questions regarding hardware, software components, and usage cases, depending on their interests.
Prof. Haueisen presented a Poster entitled “Ubiquitous electroencephalography for productive teaming” at the DFG EXC-Meeting in Chemnitz, Germany, on 17. March 2023 (about 40 participants) discussing dry EEG research.
Tim Hermans (ESR10) gave a talk (~20 participants) entitled “Algorithm development for neonatal brain signals” at STADIUS seminar, KU Leuven, 03.03.2023, Leuven, Belgium & online.
Ana Borovac (ESR11) gave a talk (~30 participants) entitled "Introduction to Machine Learning" at the Machine Learning workshop organised by the University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland, 9th February 2023.
Prof. Patrique Fiedler gave a talk (~10 participants) entitled “Noise characteristics in spaceflight multichannel EEG” at Swiss Neuromeeting 2023, 26-27.01.2023, Ovronnaz, Switzerland.
Prof. Patrique Fiedler gave an invited talk (120 participants) entitled "Rapid EEG with dry electrodes: Signal quality, reliability, and comfort – is the technology ready?" at ANT Neuro B.V., Webinar Series, 18.01.2023, online.
Ana Borovac (ESR11) gave a talk (~50 participants) entitled “Calibration of Automatic Seizure Detection Algorithms” at the 2022 IEEE Signal Processing in Medicine and Biology Symposium, 3rd December 2022, online.
Ana Borovac (ESR11) gave a talk (~10 participants) entitled “Towards clinically useful neonatal seizure detection algorithms” as part of her PhD midway evaluation at the University of Iceland, 7th November 2022.
Prof. Patrique Fiedler gave an invited talk (~50 participants) entitled “Multi-center validation of dry vs. gel-based EEG cap performance” at ANT Neuromeeting 2022, 3-5.11.2022, Berlin, Germany.
Prof. Haueisen gave a lecture series on EEG/MEG measurement and data analysis techniques for advanced Master students (7 participants) at the Università degli Studi della Campania, Naples, Italy, held remotely between 28. October 2022 and 9. November 2022.
Xiaowan Wang (ESR 14) gave a talk (~60 audiences) entitled “Active sleep as an early predictor of white matter development in extremely and very preterm infants” at the European Academy of Pediatric Societies, 7-11th October 2022, Barcelona, Spain.
Prof. Patrique Fiedler gave a talk (~40 participants) entitled “Operator experience and applicability aspects of dry EEG” at the Joint Annual Conference of the Austrian, German and Swiss Societies for Biomedical Engineering, 28-30th September 2022, Innsbruck, Austria.
Emad Arasteh (ESR15) gave a talk (~25 participants) entitled “Heart Rate Extraction of Preterm Infants from Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Signal'' at the Joint Annual Conference of the Austrian, German and Swiss Societies for Biomedical Engineering, 28-30th September 2022, Innsbruck, Austria.
Emad Arasteh (ESR15) gave a talk (~30 participants) entitled “Phase-Space Reconstruction of Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Signal to Predict Neurodevelopmental Outcomes Among Preterm Infants” at the Joint Annual Conference of the Austrian, German and Swiss Societies for Biomedical Engineering, 28-30th September 2022, Innsbruck, Austria.
Xiaowan Wang (ESR 14) gave a talk (~25 participants) entitled “The predictive role of early qualitative and quantitative (a)EEG on long-term neurodevelopmental outcome in extremely preterm infants” at the Joint Annual Conference of the Austrian, German and Swiss Societies for Biomedical Engineering, 28-30th September 2022, Innsbruck, Austria.

Ana Borovac (ESR11) gave a talk (~25 participants) entitled “Neonatal seizure detection algorithms: The effect of channel count ” at the Joint Annual Conference of the Austrian, German and Swiss Societies for Biomedical Engineering, 28-30th September 2022, Innsbruck, Austria.
Tim Hermans (ESR10) gave a talk (~25 participants) entitled “Reliability in automated sleep staging ” at the Joint Annual Conference of the Austrian, German and Swiss Societies for Biomedical Engineering, 28-30th September 2022, Innsbruck, Austria.
Mohammed-Reda Mejbar (ESR6) gave a talk (~25 participants) entitled "Evaluation of Neonatal EEG-NIRS caps contact pressure using a force sensor matrix " at the Joint Annual Conference of the Austrian, German and Swiss Societies for Biomedical Engineering, 28-30th September 2022, Innsbruck, Austria.
Mohammad Khazaei (ESR5) gave a talk (~25 participants) entitled “Toward Dynamic Functional Connectivity Characterization of the Newborn Brain” at the Joint Annual Conference of the Austrian, German and Swiss Societies for Biomedical Engineering, 28-30th September 2022, Innsbruck, Austria.
Indhika Fauzhan Warsito (ESR1) gave a talk (~25 participants) entitled “Novel dry EEG electrode and replaceable EEG electrode system” at the Joint Annual Conference of the Austrian, German, and Swiss Societies for Biomedical Engineering, 28-30th September 2022, Innsbruck, Austria.
Tim Hermans (ESR10) presented a poster (~40 participants) entitled "Measuring the hemodynamic response to spontaneous neural activity in neonates using NIRS and EEG" at the ISOTT (International Society on Oxygen Transport to Tissue) conference, Ascona, Switzerland, 18-23 September 2022.
Prof. Patrique Fiedler presented a poster (37 participants) entitled “A 256-channel dry electrode cap for rapid high-density EEG” at the 32nd International Congress of Clinical Neurophysiology (ICCN), September 4–8, 2022, in Geneva, Switzerland.
Prof. Haueisen organized a session on EEG/MEG source reconstruction and gave a talk (37 participants) at the 32nd International Congress of Clinical Neurophysiology (ICCN), September 4–8, 2022, in Geneva, Switzerland, entitled "EEG/MEG source and forward modeling."
Pierpaolo Croce gave a talk (~60 participants) entitled “Brain electrical microstates for the control of a steady motor output” at The Microstates Conference. An international conference celebrating “50 Years of Microstates – Present State and Future Directions”, 31.08-03.09.2022, Bern, Switzerland.
Antonia Thelen gave a talk (50 participants) entitled “Automatic online seizure detection in neonatal EEG" on 25th of August 2022 at the Biosignale Workshop 2022, Dresden, Germany.
Prof. Haueisen gave an invited talk at the 2022 Brain & Human Body Modeling (BHBM) Conference from 18 – 19 August 2022 at the A.A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown MA, USA. Title: A high-density 256-channel cap for dry electroencephalography. 36 participants were attending the hybrid session.
Ana Borovac (ESR11) hold a set of lectures (75 participants) entitled "Machine Learning" from August-December 2022, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland.
Saeed Montazeri Moghadam (ESR9) gave a talk (100 participants) entitled "Developing a holistic background trend for an automated monitoring of newborn EEG background: Newborn Brain State (NBS)" in the 44th International Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC), 11-15 July 2022.
Prof. Patrique Fielder presented a poster (~20 participants) entitled “Validation of a dry high-density EEG cap with 256 channels” at 44th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC '22), 11.-15.07.2022, Glasgow, UK.
Prof. Haueisen gave a talk at the IUPESM World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering from 12 – 17 June 2022 in Singapore. Authors: Thomas Fröhlich, Johannes Sindram, Jens Haueisen, Alexander Hunold. Title: Force measurement of electrodes on a human head model. 45 participants were attending the hybrid session.
Prof. Haueisen gave a talk for Master and PhD students (30 participants) at the School of Biomedical Engineering and Health Sciences, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 15.06.2022, entitled "Electric and magnetic measurements and stimulation of the human brain."
Andrew Ng Chuen Rue gave a talk (~40 participants) entitled “Multi-center comparison of gel-based and dry EEG caps performance” at IUPESM World Congress on Medical Physics & Biomedical Engineering, 12.-17.06.2022, Singapore.
Patrique Fiedler gave a talk (40 participants partially on-site and online) entitled "A high-density 256-channel cap for dry electroencephalography" on 13th of June 2022 at the IUPESM World Congress on Medical Physics & Biomedical Engineering 2022, Singapore, Singapore.
Milana Komosar (ESR2) in scope of the “Study information day” at Technische Universität Ilmenau on 11. June 2022 did a live presentation of the electroencephalography laboratory. She gave an overview of the INFANS project, with the demonstration of EEG dry caps, acquisition procedure, signal analysis methods, and general usages of EEG. The audience was future students, current students, and parents (about 20 participants). The audience was interested in different aspects of the project and asked questions regarding hardware, software components, and usage cases, depending on their interests.
Xiaowan Wang (ESR14) gave a talk (1000 participants) entitled "The predictive role of early dual-channel (a)EEG on long-term neurodevelopmental outcome in EP infants" at Organization for Human Brain Mapping
(OHBM) 2022, Online, 07.-08.06.2022.
Emad Arasteh (ESR15) gave a talk (35 participants) entitled "TOHOP Start Project: Cerebral autoregulation statues for preterm Infants and related neurodevelopmental outcomes" within INFANS project: 30.05.-01.06.2022, INFANS+AI-4-NICU summer school, Helsinki, Finland.
Naser Hakimi (ESR13) gave a talk (35 participants) entitled "Heart rate extraction from neonatal near infrared spectroscopy signals" within INFANS project: 30.05.-01.06.2022, INFANS+AI-4-NICU summer school, Helsinki, Finland.
Ana Borovac (ESR11) gave a talk (35 participants) entitled "Validating a neonatal seizure detection algorithm on an independent data set" within INFANS project: 30.05.-01.06.2022, INFANS+AI-4-NICU summer school, Helsinki, Finland.
Tim Hermans (ESR 10) gave a talk (35 participants) entitled "Algorithm development for neonatal brain signals" within INFANS project: 30.05-01.06.2022, INFANS+AI-4-NICU summer school, Helsinki, Finland.
Saeed Montazeri Moghadam (ESR9) gave talk (35 participants) entitled "A fully automated bedside trend for monitoring neonatal cortical activity” within INFANS project: 30.05-01.06.2022, INFANS+AI-4-NICU summer school, Helsinki, Finland.
Amirreza Asayesh (ESR8) gave a talk (35 participants) entitled "Developing disposable aEEG cap for Infant recordings at the NICU" within INFANS project: 30.05.-01.06.2022, INFANS+AI-4-NICU summer school, Helsinki, Finland.
Mohammad Khazaei (ESR5) gave a talk (35 participants) entitled "Transient Functional Networks in Healthy and Asphyxiated Neonates" within INFANS project: 30.05.-01.06.2022, INFANS+AI-4-NICU summer school, Helsinki, Finland.
Milana Komosar (ESR2) gave a talk (35 participants) entitled "Combined EEG and NIRS Acquisition" within INFANS project: 30.05.-01.06.2022, INFANS+AI-4-NICU summer school, Helsinki, Finland.
Indhika Fauzhan Warsito (ESR1) gave a talk (35 participants) entitled "Novel dry electrode for EEG-NIRS: preliminary study" within INFANS project: 30.05.-01.06.2022, INFANS+AI-4-NICU summer school, Helsinki, Finland.
Prof. Haueisen gave an invited lecture (30 participants) at 6th European Congress on Radiation Protection, remotely, 31.05.2022, entitled "Transcranial Electric and Magnetic Stimulation".
On the occasion of the visit of the State Secretary of Thuringia on 20.05.2022 in Ilmenau, Prof. Haueisen and co-workers gave a laboratory demonstration and discussed with political stakeholders and journalists on novel approaches to brain measurements using EEG.
Xiaowan Wang (ESR14) gave a talk (20 participants) entitled "Real-time assessment of preterm sleep in the NICU: The application of neuromonitoring and artificial intelligence" at hybrid X-talk of Brain Center UMC Utrecht: From research to Care, Utrecht, Netherlands, 13.05.2022.
Saeed Montazeri Moghadam (ESR9) gave a talk (15 participants) entitled “Neonatal EEG analysis package" at 3rd BABA symposium, 13.05.2022 in Helsinki, Finland.
Tim Hermans (ESR10) presented a poster (60 participants) entitled "AI as a tool for automated analysis of neonatal brain signals" at Departmental Day of the department of Development and Regeneration, KU Leuven, 10.05.2022, Leuven, Belgium.
Patrique Fiedler gave a talk (30 participants) entitled “Elektrophysiologische Untersuchungen in der Raumfahrt" on 9th of May 2022 within the talk series Aktuelle Herausforderungen der Elektrischen Energietechnik, Ilmenau, Germany.
Prof. Sabine Van Huffel gave an invited public lecture (100 participants) "CHALLENGES in SMART PATIENT MONITORING: from Raw Data to Decision Support" in the 47th Arkansas Spring Lecture Series, University of Arkansas, Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, Fayetteville, USA, May 4-6, 2022.
In the framework of GirlsDay 2022 (45 participants), Dr.-Ing. Eva-Maria Dölker introduced the field of study "Biomedical Engineering" in form of a virtual live lab tour entitled "Medical engineering under electrical voltage" to high school students on 28. April 2022 at Technische Universität Ilmenau, Ilmenau, Germany. Principles of EMG, ECG and EEG measurements and the benefits of dry electrode caps were presented.
Prof. Patrique Fiedler gave an interview in "Freies Wort" (local newspaper with about 52.000 sold copies), Ilmenau, Germany (21.03.2022).
Prof. Haueisen gave a series of four lectures (7 participants) in a PhD course organized by the Università Degli Studi Gabriele d'Annunzio di Chieti-Pescara 02. – 03.03.2022, entitled "Dry electrodes for Electroencephalography."
Tim Hermans (ESR10) presented a poster (60 participants) entitled "Assessing maturational effects on brain dynamics in preterm neonates using microstate analysis" at 13th International Newborn Brain Conference, 10-12.02.2022 in Florida, USA (online).
Saeed Montazeri Moghadam (ESR9) gave a talk (400 participants) entitled "Newborn Brain State (NBS): Developing a holistic background trend for an automated monitoring of newborn EEG background" at 13th International Newborn Brain Conference, 10.-12.02.2022 in Florida, USA (online).
Amirreza Asayesh (ESR8) gave a presentation and poster (+200 participants) entitled "Developing a disposable aEEG cap for NICU" at 13th International Newborn Brain Conference, 10.-12.02.2022 in Florida, USA (online).
Prof. Haueisen gave an online lecture „Bioelektrische und biomagnetische Signale des Gehirns“ for pupils in the framework of the Science day at TU Ilmenau on 09.02.2022 (15 participants).
Naser Hakimi (ESR13) gave a presentation (80 participants) entitled "Heart rate extraction from neonatal near infrared spectroscopy signals": 28.01.2022, Neonatal Neurology Symposium 2022, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Prof. Fiedler gave a talk entitled "EEG signal quality and noise characteristics in spaceflight" at ANT Neuromeeting 2022; January 27th – 28th, Online, 2022.
Emad Arasteh (ESR15) gave an introduction (45 participants) about the start of his PhD project at the 2nd Topical Workshop "Neonatal EEG" – 26th January 2022, online.
Xiaowan Wang (ESR14) gave a talk (50 participants) entitled "Automated sleep state assessment based on
quantitative EEG analysis in early preterm infants" at hybrid 23rd Neonatal Neurology Symposium, Utrecht, Netherlands, 28.01.2022.
Prof. Patrique Fiedler gave an invited talk (25 participants on-site, 40 participants online) entitled talk „Body-Sensor-Netzwerke und der Trend des omnipräsenten medizinischen Monitorings“ at the Science Forum of the Technische Universität Ilmenau, Ilmenau, Germany, 12.01.2022.
Ana Borovac (ESR11) gave a talk (100 participants) entitled "Influence of human-expert labels on a neonatal seizure detector based on a convolutional neural network" in Data-Centric AI Workshop as part of the NeurIPS 2021, 14th of December 2021.
Saeed Montazeri Moghadam (ESR9) gave a talk (23 participants) entitled “A classifier for the neonatal EEG background" at 2nd BABA symposium, 05.12.2021 in Helsinki, Finland.
Ana Borovac (ESR11) hold a set of lectures (25 participants) entitled "Machine Learning" from August-December 2021, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland.
Dr.-Ing. Eva-Maria Dölker and Milana Komosar (ESR2) gave a talk entitled "Medizintechnik unter Spannung" for pupils in the framework of Kinder- und Jugenduni, TU Ilmenau, Germany (100 participants) on 26th of November 2021.
Prof. Haueisen gave an online lecture on EEG in the framework of “Virtuelle Infotage Studieren in Thüringen“ 04.-06.11.2021 (12 participants).
Naser Hakimi (ESR13) gave a poster presentation (150 participants) entitled "Signal quality index algorithms for quantitatively assessing fNIRS signal quality": 19.10.2021, fNIRS 2021, Society of fNIRS Virtual Conference.
Amirreza Asayesh (ESR8) gave an abstract and poster (+100 participants) entitled "Developing a disposable aEEG cap" 14.10-15.10.2021, Brain and Mind Symposium, Helsinki, Finland.
Prof. Haueisen gave an invited lecture (203 participants) at 4th International Conference on Applied Engineering (ICAE 2021), remotely, 13.10.2021, entitled "New recording and data analysis techniques for Electroencephalography".
Prof. Fiedler gave a talk (45 participants) entitled "Rapid High-Density EEG with Dry Multipin Electrodes" at BMT 2021 (55th DGBMT Annual Conference on Biomedical Engineering) 05.-07.10.2021, Hannover, Germany.
Mohammed-Reda Mejbar (ESR6) gave at talk (45 participants) entitled"A novel compliant adaptive cap for combined monitoring of EEG and fNIRS in neonates." at BMT 2021 (55th DGBMT Annual Conference on Biomedical Engineering) 05.-07.10.2021, Hannover, Germany.
Milana Komosar (ESR2) gave a talk (40 participants) entitled "Dry EEG recordings for detection of left, right hand, tongue and feet movements" at BMT 2021 (55th DGBMT Annual Conference on Biomedical Engineering) 05.-07.10.2021, Hannover, Germany.
Indhika Fauzhan Warsito (ESR1) gave a talk (45 participants) entitled "Influence of silver/silver chloride electroless plating on the Shore hardness of polyurethane substrates for dry EEG electrodes" at BMT 2021 (55th DGBMT Annual Conference on Biomedical Engineering) 05.-07.10.2021, Hannover, Germany.
Prof. Sabine Van Huffel gave an invited webinar (150 participants) entitled "Biomedical Data Processing: Challenges in newborn brain protection" in the framework of the Faculty Development Program "Artificial Intelligence for Speech and Bio-signal Processing", Dept. of ECE, IIIT Dharwad, Karnataka, India, Sept. 20-24, 2021.
A. Failla presented a poster entitled "The relation among interhemispheric synchrony, microstructural development of the corpus callosum in extremely preterm infants" at 4th jENS Virtual Congress – joint European Neonatal Societies, 14-18.09.2021, online.
Prof. Gunnar Naulaers gave an invited talk (30 participants) entitled "Neonatal NIRS: new directions, old device"at 2nd Summer School within INFANS project: 06.-10. September 2021, “Advanced Functional Diagnostics in Neonatology”, online.
Liucija Svinkunaite (MSc) gave an invited talk (30 participants) entitled "NIRS signal properties and analysis" at 2nd Summer School within INFANS project: 06.-10. September 2021, “Advanced Functional Diagnostics in Neonatology”, online.
Prof. Filippo Zappasodi gave an invited talk (30 participants) entitled "EEG microstates as a tool for studying the temporal dynamics of whole-brain neuronal networks"at 2nd Summer School within INFANS project: 06.-10. September 2021, “Advanced Functional Diagnostics in Neonatology”, online.
Dr. Gabriella Tamburro gave an invited talk (30 participants) entitled "Cardiac Artefact removal from adult and neonatal EEG: problems and solutions"at 2nd Summer School within INFANS project: 06.-10. September 2021, “Advanced Functional Diagnostics in Neonatology”, online.
Prof. Silvia Comani gave an invited talk (30 participants) entitled "Physiological artefact removal from EEG using data driven methods"at 2nd Summer School within INFANS project: 06.-10. September 2021, “Advanced Functional Diagnostics in Neonatology”, online.
Prof. Sampsa Vanhatalo gave an invited talk (30 participants) entitled "Developing wearable methods for infant’s neurological assessment"at 2nd Summer School within INFANS project: 06.-10. September 2021, “Advanced Functional Diagnostics in Neonatology”, online.
Maria Luisa Tataranno gave an invited talk (30 participants) entitled "The predictive value of aEEG/EEG in term and preterm infants"at 2nd Summer School within INFANS project: 06.-10. September 2021, “Advanced Functional Diagnostics in Neonatology”, online.
Filipe Costa (ESR15) gave an update talk(30 participants) about his PhD project containg the topics of cerebral vascular autoregulation in preterm infants at 2nd Summer School within INFANS project: 06.-10. September 2021, “Advanced Functional Diagnostics in Neonatology”, online.
Xiaowan Wang (ESR14) gave a talk (30 participants) entitled "Automated analysis of dual-channel (a)EEG in preterm infants: applications in sleep staging and outcome prediction" (30 participants) at 2nd Summer School within INFANS project: 06.-10. September 2021, “Advanced Functional Diagnostics in Neonatology”, online.
Naser Hakimi (ESR13) gave an update talk(30 participants) about his PhD project containing the topics: Machine learning-based signal quality index, Heart rate extraction from motion-contaminated functional near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) signals, Respiratory rate estimation from functional NIRS signals and Non-linear Bayesian filtering for the recovery of corrupted NIRS waveform at 2nd Summer School within INFANS project: 06.-10. September 2021, “Advanced Functional Diagnostics in Neonatology”, online.
Elizaveta Genke (ESR12) gave a talk (30 participants) entitled "NIRS Analysis Toolbox"at 2nd Summer School within INFANS project: 06.-10. September 2021, “Advanced Functional Diagnostics in Neonatology”, online.
Ana Borovac (ESR11) gave a talk (30 participants) entitled "Aggregation of machine-learned predictions for neonatal seizure detection" at 2nd Summer School within INFANS project: 06.-10. September 2021, “Advanced Functional Diagnostics in Neonatology”, online.
Tim Hermans (ESR10) gave a talk (30 participants) entitled "Analysis of neurovascular coupling in neonates with asphyxia"at 2nd Summer School within INFANS project: 06.-10. September 2021, “Advanced Functional Diagnostics in Neonatology”, online.
Saeed Montazeri Moghadam (ESR9) gave a talk (30 participants) entitled "A classifier for the neonatal EEG background: A systematic approach from expert scoring to clinical visualization" at 2nd Summer School within INFANS project: 06.-10. September 2021, “Advanced Functional Diagnostics in Neonatology”, online.
Amirreza Asayesh (ESR8) gave a talk (30 participants) entitled "Developing Long-Term Electrode-Cap System For Infants EEG Recording At NICU"at 2nd Summer School within INFANS project: 06.-10. September 2021, “Advanced Functional Diagnostics in Neonatology”, online.
Mohammed-Reda Mejbar (ESR6) gave a talk (30 participants) entitled "A novel compliant adaptive cap for combined monitoring of EEG and fNIRS in neonates"at 2nd Summer School within INFANS project: 06.-10. September 2021, “Advanced Functional Diagnostics in Neonatology”, online.
Mohammad Khazaei (ESR5) gave a talk (30 participants) entitled "Transient Brain States in the Neonatal EEG"at 2nd Summer School within INFANS project: 06.-10. September 2021, “Advanced Functional Diagnostics in Neonatology”, online.
Khadijeh Raeisi (ESR4) gave a talk (30 participants) entitled "A Graph Convolutional Neural Network For The Automated Detection of Seizures In the Neonatal EEG"at 2nd Summer School within INFANS project: 06.-10. September 2021, “Advanced Functional Diagnostics in Neonatology”, online.
Laura Smets (ESR3) gave a talk (30 participants) entitled "Automated detection and removal of flat line segments and large amplitude fluctuations in neonatal EEG"at 2nd Summer School within INFANS project: 06.-10. September 2021, “Advanced Functional Diagnostics in Neonatology”, online.
Milana Komosar (ESR2) gave talk (30 participants) entitled "Dry EEG recordings for detection of left, right hand, tongue and feet movements" at 2nd Summer School within INFANS project: 06.-10. September 2021, “Advanced Functional Diagnostics in Neonatology”, online.
Indhika Fauzhan Warsito (ESR1) gave talk (30 participants) entitled "Flower electrode: a novel dry electrode design" at 2nd Summer School within INFANS project: 06.-10. September 2021, “Advanced Functional Diagnostics in Neonatology”, online.
In the framework of the “open doors” of the Technische Universität Ilmenau on 27.08.2021 a live demonstration on electroencephalography was performed using dry electrodes. The presentations included a guided lab tour for approx. 20 participants.
Prof. Haueisen gave a talk (30 participants).at the "Last Minute Infotag" online event of the Technische Universität Ilmenau, 27th August 2021, online.
Prof. Haueisen gave an invited lecture (250 participants) at International Conference on Medical Devices and Technology and International Conference on Biosciences and Medical Engineering, remotely, 29.06.2021, entitled "Dry electrodes for Electroencephalography."
Tim Hermans (ESR10) presented a poster (50 participants) entitled "Neurovascular coupling using wavelet coherence in neonates with asphyxia" at ISOTT (International Society on Oxygen Transport to Tissue), 26-30.07.2021, online.
Prof. Haueisen gave a talk (30 participants) at the “Virtual study information day” online event of the Technische Universität Ilmenau, 26th of June 2021, online.
Mohammad Khazaei (ESR5) presented a poster (20 participants) entitled "Microstate Alterations Associated with Seizure Events in Full-term Neonates" at Annual meeting of Organization of Human Brain Mapping, 21.-25.06.2021, online.
Khadijeh Raeisi (ESR4) presented a poster (20 participants) entitled "EEG Microstates Distinguish Active and Quiet Sleep During the Neonatal Period" at Annual meeting of Organization of Human Brain Mapping, 21.-25.06.2021, online.
Laura Smets (ESR3) presented a poster (20 participants) entitled "Automatic selection and deletion of artefactual segments in neonatal EEG" at Annual meeting of Organization of Human Brain Mapping, 21.-25.06.2021, online.
Prof. Sabine Van Huffel gave an invited webinar (about 200 participants) entitled "Machine Learning for neonatal brain monitoring" in the framework of 12th International Newborn Brain Conference Series, organized by the Neonatal Brain Society, May 20, 2021.
Prof. Fiedler gave a talk entitled "Sensors for rapid and self-applied EEG" at 8th International BCI Meeting; June 7th – 9th 2021, online.
Prof. Sabine Van Huffel gave an invited webinar (45 participants) entitled "Biomedical Data Processing: Challenges in newborn brain protection"in the framework of SFB1261 Kolloquium, Institute for Materials Science, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany, on May 6, 2021.
Prof. Haueisen gave a series of four lectures (10 participants) in a PhD course organized by the Università Degli Studi Gabriele d'Annunzio di Chieti-Pescara, remotely, 26. – 29.04.2021, entitled "Dry electrodes for Electroencephalography."
Prof. Jens Haueisen gave a talk (30 participants) at the “HIT@Home” online open doors event of the Technische Universität Ilmenau, 24th of April 2021, online.
In the framework of GirlsDay 2021 (43 participants), Dr.-Ing. Eva-Maria Dölker introduced the field of study "Biomedical Engineering" in form of a virtual lab tour entitled "Medical engineering charged up" to high school students on 22. April 2021 at Technische Universität Ilmenau, Ilmenau, Germany. Principles of EMG, ECG and EEG measurements and the benefits of dry electrode caps were presented.
Sabine Van Huffel and Maarten De Vos chaired the online symposium "Epileptic seizure monitoring: towards a wearable solution", Arenberg castle, Leuven, Belgium, April 19, 2021 (275 participants).
Tim Hermans (ESR10) gave a talk together with Dries Hendrikx (40 participants) entitled “Measuring neurovascular coupling at the bedside in the NICU” at STADIUS seminar, KU Leuven, 16.04.2021, online.
Naser Hakimi gave talk (250 participants) entitled "fNIRS signal quality estimation by means of a machine learning algorithm trained on morphological and temporal features" at SPIE Photonics West BiOS conference 11638: Biophotonics in Exercise Science, Sports Medicine, Health Monitoring Technologies, and Wearables II, 116380F (5 March 2021), online.
Laura Smets (ESR3) gave a talk (50 participants) entitled "Automatic selection and deletion of artefactual segments in neonatal EEG" at Dutch Conference on Biomedical Engineering, 28.-29.02.2021, online.
Prof. Haueisen gave a lecture (77 participants) in a Webinar organized by ANT Neuro, remotely, 24.02.2021, entitled "HD-EEG with dry electrodes."
Naser Hakimi (ESR13) gave a talk (120 participants) entitled "Heart rate estimation from motion-contaminated functional near infrared spectroscopy signals" at 8th Dutch Bio-Medical Engineering Conference, 29.01.2021, online.
M. SofíaSappia (ESR13) gave a talk (50 participants) entitled "Respiratory rate estimation from functional near infrared spectroscopy signals" at 8th Dutch Bio-Medical Engineering Conference, 29.01.2021, online.
Prof. Haueisen gave a lecture (91 participants) at the 2021 ANT Neuro Technology Review Meeting, remotely, 28.-29.01.2021, entitled "Two decades of collaboration towards innovation in neurodiagnostic technologies."
Xiaowan Wang (ESR14) and Filipe Costa (ESR15) gave an introductory presentation (20 participants) entitled "INFANS PhD Training Programme for Early stage researchers (International, Interdisciplinary, Intersectoral)" about the INFANS PhD programme at the workshop "Neonatal Neurology in the Netherlands and Belgium" on 22th January 2021.
Dr. Frank Zanow gave an online lecture (50 participants) entitled "The future of mobile EEG and pervasive neurotech in neuroscience and mental health applications" at the Neurotech 2020 conference, 04.12.2020.
Prof. Sabine Van Huffel gave an invited seminar (80 participants) entitled "Challenges in neonatal monitoring" at Stadius Center for Dynamical Systems, Signal Processing, and Data Analytics, Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT), KU Leuven, 02.12.2020, Leuven, Belgium.
Laura Smets (ESR3) gave a video presentation (180 participants) entitled "Quantification of dysmature EEG as a way to assess perinatal stress in neonatal EEG" at annual symposium: National Day of Biomedical Engineering, Royal Belgian Academy Brussels, 29.11.2020, Brussels, Belgium
Dr. Thewissen and Prof. Gunnar Naulaers organized a research symposium about "Future study and new EEG studies" with 25 participants between KU/UZ Leuven and UMC Utrecht, 23.11.2020.
Prof. Haueisen gave a lecture (34 participants) at the 7th International Conference on Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation, remotely, 11.11.2020, entitled "Modelling of the current flow in the visual system."
Indhika Fauzhan Warsito (ESR 1) introduced INFANS project and related topics to 95 followers through Linkedin following his experience for one year developing "Soft dry electrode for infant EEG", Germany, 21.10.2020.
Tim Hermans (ESR10) assisted in the workshop for kids (25 participants) entitled “Control a video game with your brain” at the Kinderuniversiteit (“children’s university”), KU Leuven, 03.10.2020, Leuven, Belgium.
Dr. Uwe Graichen presented a poster remotely entitled "A new approach to improve the SNR of evoked potentials using a SPHARA-based spatial filter" at 54th Annual Conference of the German Society for Biomedical Engineering on 29.09.2020.
Milana Komosar (ESR2) presented INFANS related topics to 19 participants in the study entitled "EEG measurements for detecting ERD/ERS during motor execution and imagery tasks" at the Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany, 29.09.2020.
Anneleen Dereymaeker gave a talk (50 participants) entitled "Automated sleep analysis as brain maturity index in congenital cardiomyopathy" at Neonatal Sleep Symposium (virtual symposium) between Leuven-Cork-Melbourne-London-Helsinki, 22.09.2020.
Amir Hossein Ansari gave a talk (50 participants) entitled "Deep learning for neonatal quiet sleep detection with limited EEG channels." at Neonatal Sleep Symposium (virtual symposium) between Leuven-Cork-Melbourne-London-Helsinki, 22.09.2020.
Mario Lavanga defended his PhD thesis "Advanced models for monitoring stress and development trajectories in premature infants" at Arenberg castle, KU Leuven with 60 participants, 15.09.2020.
Prof. Maarten De Vos gave an invited lecture (500 participants) entitled "Automated seizure detection" at the German Epilepsy Society meeting (DFGE) in Freiburg, Germany, 06.09.2020.
Filipe Gonçalves Costa (ESR15) presented a poster (60 participants) entitled "All Eyes on the Brain; Monitoring and Protecting the preterm Baby" at 9th International Summer School in Biomedical Engineering: Noninvasive dynamic brain imaging in infants, children, and adults, 05.-11.08.2020 in Erfurt, Germany.
Xiaowan Wang (ESR14) presented a poster (60 participants) entitled "Sleep staging and brain maturation in preterm infants: the value of computational EEG features" at 9th International Summer School in Biomedical Engineering: Noninvasive dynamic brain imaging in infants, children, and adults, 05.-11.08.2020 in Erfurt, Germany.
Naser Hakimi (ESR13) presented a poster (60 participants) entitled "Signal Quality Index: an algorithm for quantitative assessment of fNIRS signal quality" at 9th International Summer School in Biomedical Engineering: Noninvasive dynamic brain imaging in infants, children, and adults, 05.-11.08.2020 in Erfurt, Germany.
Elizaveta Genke (ESR12) presented a poster (60 participants) entitled "Blood pressure estimation with NIRS" at 9th International Summer School in Biomedical Engineering: Noninvasive dynamic brain imaging in infants, children, and adults, 05.-11.08.2020 in Erfurt, Germany.
Ana Borovac (ESR11) presented a poster (60 participants) entitled "Improving human-computer interface for EEG/NIRS monitoring" at 9th International Summer School in Biomedical Engineering: Noninvasive dynamic brain imaging in infants, children, and adults, 05.-11.08.2020 in Erfurt, Germany.
Tim Hermans (ESR10) presented a poster (60 participants) entitled "Algorithms for automatic assessment of neonatal EEG and NIRS" at 9th International Summer School in Biomedical Engineering: Noninvasive dynamic brain imaging in infants, children, and adults, 05.-11.08.2020 in Erfurt, Germany.
Saeed Montazeri Moghadam (ESR9) presented a poster (60 participants) entitled "Automatic classification of background EEG activity in neonates with HIE" at 9th International Summer School in Biomedical Engineering: Noninvasive dynamic brain imaging in infants, children, and adults, 05.-11.08.2020 in Erfurt, Germany.
Ivan Lazarov (ESR7) presented a poster (60 participants) entitled "Optimization of an SVM based neonatal seizure detection algorithm for online analysis" at 9th International Summer School in Biomedical Engineering: Noninvasive dynamic brain imaging in infants, children, and adults, 05.-11.08.2020 in Erfurt, Germany.
Mohammed-Reda Mejbar (ESR6) presented a poster (60 participants) entitled "Concepts for optimizing neonatal EEG cap functionality using lattice structure and additive manufacturing" at 9th International Summer School in Biomedical Engineering: Noninvasive dynamic brain imaging in infants, children, and adults, 05.-11.08.2020 in Erfurt, Germany.
Mohammad Khazaei (ESR5) presented a poster (60 participants) entitled "Microstate characterization of the functional dynamics in the neonatal brain during active and quiet sleep stages" at 9th International Summer School in Biomedical Engineering: Noninvasive dynamic brain imaging in infants, children, and adults, 05.-11.08.2020 in Erfurt, Germany.
Khadijeh Raeisi (ESR4) presented a poster (60 participants) entitled "Capability of EEG Microstate Features to Classify Pathological and Physiological States of the Neonatal Brain" at 9th International Summer School in Biomedical Engineering: Noninvasive dynamic brain imaging in infants, children, and adults, 05.-11.08.2020 in Erfurt, Germany.
Milana Komosar (ESR2) presented a poster (60 participants) entitled "ERD/ERS during motor execution and motor imagery using 64 dry electrodes" at 9th International Summer School in Biomedical Engineering: Noninvasive dynamic brain imaging in infants, children, and adults, 05.-11.08.2020 in Erfurt, Germany.
Indhika Fauzhan Warsito (ESR1) presented a poster (60 participants) entitled "Soft dry electrode for infants EEG" at 9th International Summer School in Biomedical Engineering: Noninvasive dynamic brain imaging in infants, children, and adults, 05.-11.08.2020 in Erfurt, Germany.
Dr. Jörn M. Horschig gave an invited talk (60 participants) entitled "Data sharing and reporting and statistical fallacies" at 9th International Summer School in Biomedical Engineering: Noninvasive dynamic brain imaging in infants, children, and adults, 05.-11.08.2020 in Erfurt, Germany.
Dr. Willy Colier gave an invited talk (60 participants) entitled "Near-infrared spectroscopy" at 9th International Summer School in Biomedical Engineering: Noninvasive dynamic brain imaging in infants, children, and adults, 05.-11.08.2020 in Erfurt, Germany.
Prof. Jens Haueisen gave an invited talk (60 participants) entitled "Dry electrodes for EEG" at 9th International Summer School in Biomedical Engineering: Noninvasive dynamic brain imaging in infants, children, and adults, 05.-11.08.2020 in Erfurt, Germany.
Gardar Thorvardsson gave an invited talk (60 participants) entitled "Distributed architecture for EEG intelligence" at 9th International Summer School in Biomedical Engineering: Noninvasive dynamic brain imaging in infants, children, and adults, 05.-11.08.2020 in Erfurt, Germany.
Maria Luisa Tataranno gave an invited talk (60 participants) entitled "Cerebral neuromonitoring in preterm infants" at 9th International Summer School in Biomedical Engineering: Noninvasive dynamic brain imaging in infants, children, and adults, 05.-11.08.2020 in Erfurt, Germany.
Prof. Thomas Philip Runarsson gave an invited talk (60 participants) entitled "Human-expert-in-the-loop AI" at 9th International Summer School in Biomedical Engineering: Noninvasive dynamic brain imaging in infants, children, and adults, 05.-11.08.2020 in Erfurt, Germany.
Prof. Sampsa Vanhatalo & Anton Tokariev gave invited talks (60 participants) entitled "Newborn network analyses" and "What it takes to tackle the INFANS challenge: building an EEG monitor for the clinician" at 9th International Summer School in Biomedical Engineering: Noninvasive dynamic brain imaging in infants, children, and adults, 05.-11.08.2020 in Erfurt, Germany.
Prof. Maarten De Vos gave invited talks (60 participants) entitled "Machine learning approaches in neonatal monitoring" and "Printed EEG Electrodes" at 9th International Summer School in Biomedical Engineering: Noninvasive dynamic brain imaging in infants, children, and adults, 05.-11.08.2020 in Erfurt, Germany.
Prof. Silvia Comani gave an invited talk (60 participants) entitled "Artefact Removal in electrophysiological signal processing" at 9th International Summer School in Biomedical Engineering: Noninvasive dynamic brain imaging in infants, children, and adults, 05.-11.08.2020 in Erfurt, Germany.
Prof. Sabine Van Huffel gave invited talks (60 participants) entitled "Challenges in neonatal EEG monitoring" and "Cerebral autoregulation techniques using NIRS" at 9th International Summer School in Biomedical Engineering: Noninvasive dynamic brain imaging in infants, children, and adults, 05.-11.08.2020 in Erfurt, Germany.
Prof. Haueisen gave an invited lecture (about 125 participants) in the distinguished lecturer series at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Johor Bahru, Malaysia, 20.07.2020, entitled “Resonance and entrainment in the brain.”
In the framework of the university information day of the Technische Universität Ilmenau on 07.07.2020 Prof. Haueisen gave a talk and a Q&A session for about 20 interested future students, which included the topics of electroencephalography and online brain activity reconstruction.
Dr. Thewissen and Prof. Gunnar Naulaers organized a research symposium about "EEG sleep detection" with 25 participants between KU/UZ Leuven and UMC Utrecht, 25.06.2020.
Prof. Haueisen gave an invited lecture (about 45 participants) at 8th International Conference on Information Technology in Biomedicine, Remotely and at Kamien Slaski, Poland, 16.06.2020, entitled "Resonance and entrainment in the brain."
In the framework of the “virtual open doors” of the Technische Universität Ilmenau on 25.04.2020, Prof. Haueisen gave a talk and a Q&A session for about 15 interested future students, which included the topics of electroencephalography and online brain activity reconstruction.
Dr. Thewissen and Prof. Gunnar Naulaers organized a research symposium about "Autoregulation" with 25 participants between KU/UZ Leuven and UMC Utrecht, 20.02.2020.
Ofelie De Wel defended her PhD thesis (about 65 participants) entitled "Advanced solutions for neonatal sleep analysis and the effects of maturation" at Arenberg castle, Leuven, Belgium, 05.02.2020.
Dries Hendrikx gave a talk (20 participants) entitled "Neurovascular coupling and graph theory" at Symposium Research meeting Oxford-Leuven, 21.01.2020, Leuven, Belgium.
Liesbeth Thewissen gave a talk (20 participants) entitled "Cerebral autoregulation during propofol administration" at Symposium Research meeting Oxford-Leuven, 21.01.2020, Leuven, Belgium.
Mario Lavanga gave a talk (20 participants) entitled "Stress classification with sleep-state and bradycardias" at Symposium Research meeting Oxford-Leuven, 21.01.2020, Leuven, Belgium.
Ofelie De Wel gave a talk (20 participants) entitled "Advanced solutions for neonatal sleep analysis and the effects of maturation" at Symposium Research meeting Oxford-Leuven, 21.01.2020, Leuven, Belgium.
Tim Hermans (ESR 10) gave a talk (20 participants) entitled "Neurovascular coupling" at Symposium Research meeting Oxford-Leuven, 21.01.2020, Leuven, Belgium.
Amir Hossein Ansari gave a talk (20 participants) entitled "Neoguard and seizure detection" at Symposium Research meeting Oxford-Leuven, 21.01.2020, Leuven, Belgium.
Prof. Samspa Vanhatalo gave an invited talk (about 60 participants) at ANT Neuromeeting 2020, Beaune, France, 16.01.2020, entitled "Novel ways to assess sleep and brain maturation in the newborn".
Prof. Sabine Van Huffel gave an invited talk (about 60 participants) at ANT Neuromeeting 2020, Beaune, France, 16.01.2020, entitled "Advanced solutions for neonatal sleep analysis and perinatal stress monitoring".
Dr. Jeroen Dudink gave an invited talk (about 60 participants) at ANT Neuromeeting 2020, Beaune, France, 16.01.2020, entitled "aEEG in the NICU: a neonatologist perspective".
Prof. Gunnar Naulaers gave an invited talk (about 60 participants) at ANT Neuromeeting 2020, Beaune, France, 15.01.2020, entitled "Introduction to neonatology".
Dr. Jörn M. Hörschig gave an invited talk (about 60 participants) at ANT Neuromeeting 2020, Beaune, France, 15.01.2020, entitled "NIRS signal analysis".
Dr. Uwe Graichen gave an invited talk (about 60 participants) at ANT Neuromeeting 2020, Beaune, France, 15.01.2020, entitled "Spatial harmonic decomposition".
Prof. Sabine Van Huffel gave an invited talk (about 60 participants) at ANT Neuromeeting 2020, Beaune, France, 15.01.2020, entitled "Blind source separation".
Prof. Sabine Van Huffel coordinated the workshop on Multimodal Biomedical Signal Processing (about 40 participants) at KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 05.12.2019.
Prof. Haueisen gave an invited lecture (about 30 participants) at Zewail University and City of Science and Technology, Giza, Egypt, 1.12.2019, entitled “Biomedical Engineering Research at TU Ilmenau”.
Prof. Sabine Van Huffel organized the Two-Day Symposium "Annual IEEE EMBS Benelux Chapter Symposium" - Artificial Intelligence in Health Care at 28.-29.11.2019 in Leuven (about 80 participants) and Brussels (about 300 participants), Belgium with further contribution in form of invited talks and poster presentations.
On 8th November 2019 the Institute for Biomedical Engineering and Informatics was a part of the Long Night of the Sciences (German: Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften). At the airport terminal in Erfurt, various research topics of the field of optoelectrophysiological medical engineering and biomedical engineering have been presented to the interested visitors.
Dr. Patrique Fiedler presented dry electrode prototypes and job flyers and lead discussions at the ANT Neuro company booth (~100 visitors) at the Annual Conference of the Society of Neuroscience 2019, Chicago, IL, USA, 19.-23.10.2019.
Dr. Frank Zanow and Dr. Patrique Fiedler gave an invited talk (about 30 participants) "The future of mobile EEG in neuroscience and mental health applications" at Symposium "Neuroimaging in psychedelics - what we can learn from EEG, fMRI and neuroplasticity studies", Prague, Czech Republic, 16.10.2019.
Tim Hermans (ESR10) assisted in the workshop for kids (25 participants) entitled “Control a video game with your brain” at the Kinderuniversiteit (“children’s university”), KU Leuven, 12.10.2019, Leuven, Belgium.
On 27th September 2019, the University "G. d’Annunzio of Chieti-Pescara" organized the Researchers’ Night 2019 event in downtown Chieti. On that occasion, Prof. Silvia Comani and Dr. Gabriella Tamburro presented a poster explaining the scientific and training purposes of the INFANS project to the general public. A huge attendance of hundreds of common people, students and professionals attended the event.
Prof. Haueisen gave an invited tutorial lecture (about 30 participants) at the 27th International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks (SoftCOM 2019) in Split, Croatia, 19.-21.09.2019, entitled “New Recording and Data Analysis Techniques for Electroencephalography”.
Prof. Haueisen gave an invited key note lecture (about 200 participants) at the 4th International Conference on Basic and Clinical Multimodal Imaging (BaCI) in Chengdu, China, 10.-14.09.2019, entitled “Dry electrodes for Electroencephalography”.
During a visit of a member of the German Parliament and the state authorities of the free state of Thuringia, Prof. Haueisen informed politicians about the scientific work at TU Ilmenau including the development of dry electrodes and the INFANS project. The visit took place on 28. August 2019 at TU Ilmenau.
Prof. Sabine Van Huffel is theme keynote speaker on the topic "Challenges in neonatal brain monitoring" at the 41th annual IEEE Symposium of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 2019), Berlin, July 23-27, 2019 (about 3000 participants).
Dr. Patrique Fiedler presented dry electrode prototypes and job flyers and lead discussions at the ANT Neuro company booth (~100 visitors) at the 41th annual IEEE Symposium of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 2019), Berlin, July 23-27, 2019 (about 3000 participants).
In the framework of the 19th „Traumberufetag“ (Day of dream jobs) Dr. Uwe Graichen presented the study program and current research of the Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Informatics, Technische Universität Ilmenau on 27.06.2019 at Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium in Taucha, Germany (about 16 participants).
Dr. Patrique Fiedler gave a talk entitled “Advanced signal analysis for clinical neurology“ (about 10 participants) at the Journées de Neurophysiologie Clinique JNC in Nancy, France on 20.06.2019.
Prof. Haueisen gave an invited opening lecture (about 80 participants) at the 7th International Conference on Information Technology in Biomedicine Kamien Slaski, Poland, 17.06.2019, entitled “Dry electrodes for Electroencephalography”.
Dr. Frank Zanow gave a talk entitled “The future of pervasive neuromonitoring“ (about 5 participants) on 17.06.2019 at a Workshop hold in Hongkong, China.
Prof. Gunnar Naulaers gave a talk entitled “Neonatal brain monitoring: past – present – future” (about 40 participants) at the Neonatal brain monitoring workshop in Leuven, Belgium on 27.05.2019.
In the framework of the 3-annual exhibit “Mile of Technology” / “Lange Nacht der Technik” at the Technische Universität Ilmenau on 11.05.2019, live demonstrations on various bio signal acquisition technologies including electroencephalography were performed by project fellows of the INFANS project, using dry electrode technology, visual stimulation as well as online artefact rejection and source reconstruction. The future requirements, advantages and potential new applications of novel dry biosignal electrodes for the use within the INFANS project have been demonstrated and discussed showing several prototypes of previous projects. Impacts on current and future research were highlighted in relation to other ongoing projects at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Informatics (BMTI). The event was open to a broad public audience of more than 15 000 visitors, including families, school and university students, scientists, media representatives and journalists. To summarize, the feedback on the research and education at the BMTI as well as in the frame of the INFANS project was very positive.
Dr. Franz Zanow gave a talk entitled “The future of pervasive neuromonitoring” (about 5 participants) at a workshop in Santiago, Chile on 10.05.2019.
Prof. Haueisen gave an invited lecture (about 250 participants) at the 2nd China Symposium on “Cognition and Brain Regulation” 2019 entitled „Analysis of large EEG data sets: online analysis and deep learning“ in Shanghai, China, 28.04.2019.
In the framework of the “open doors” of the Technische Universität Ilmenau on 13.04.2019 live demonstration on electroencephalography and online brain activity reconstruction were performed using single dry electrodes and cap prototypes. The dry electrode caps will form the basis for the development of electrode caps for infants within the INFANS project. The presentations included guided lab tours and live demonstrations for approx. 25 groups of about 5-10 persons each. Furthermore, the INFANS project was covered as an example research project in two general talks on research and education at the BMTI (45 min, audience 200 people each). The audience included future students, current students, parents and employees of the university.
On 05.04.2019, Prof. Haueisen gave a lecture entitled “Bioelectric and biomagnetic signals of the brain” to the general public (about 80 participants) in the frame of the academy for senior citizens.
Prof. Sabine Van Huffel gave an Invited Talk “Processing human brain signals: Algorithms and Applications”. f-tales symposium on ``Neuro-sense and sensibility: Advances in sensing, analyzing , and curing the brain'', Leuven, April 1-2, 2019 (about 200 participants).”
On the occasion of the visit of Minister of Health of Thuringia, the vice minister of Health of Lithuania, and the Councillor of Mazovia on 01.04.2019 in Ilmenau, Prof. Haueisen gave a talk entitled “Individualized rehabilitation techniques for patients with acquired brain damage using telemedicine” (about 30 participants) and discussed with political stakeholders on novel approaches to brain measurements.
Prof. Haueisen gave a talk entitled “Biomedical Engineering research at TU Ilmenau” (about 20 participants) at the Universitas Indonesia (UI), Jakarta, Indonesien, 08.03.2019.
Prof. Haueisen gave an invited lecture entitled “The future of Biomedical Engineering” (about 30 participants) at the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Johor Bahru, Malaysia, 05.03.2019.
Prof. Sabine Van Huffel and Prof. Gunnar Naulaers attended The 11th International Conference on Brain Monitoring & Neuroprotection in the Newborn on February 7 – 9, 2019 at the Sheraton Sand Key, Clearwater Beach, FL, USA and presented 4 posters on neonatal brain monitoring research.
Prof. Haueisen gave an invited lecture (about 60 participants) at the ChildBrain conference 2019 entitled „Dry multipin electrodes for Electroencephalography“ in Leuven, Belgium, 06.02.2019.
Prof. Haueisen presented the INFANS project on 19.01.2019 at the ANT Neuromeeting, January 16-19, 2019, in Beaune, France.
About 40 scientists were in the audience and discussed about planned developments.
Dr. Patrique Fiedler gave a talk entitled “Soft electrodes for biopotential measurement “ (about 30 participants) at the ANT Neuromeeting, January 16-19, 2019, in Beaune, France on 16.01.2019.
Prof. Silvia Comani was invited to give a lecture at the International Summer School on Technologies and Signal Processing in Perinatal Medicine (http://sites.ieee.org/tsppm-2018/) that was held in Pula (Cagliari, Sardinia) from July 2nd, 2018, until July 6th, 2018. On that occasion, Prof. Comani presented the INFANS project to the audience, composed of about 60 professors and young researchers from all over the world.