EECE Researchers’ selected to receive the 2022 IEEE BioCAS Transactions Best Paper Award

Congratulations to Dr. Hisham Daoud and Dr. Magdy Bayoumi, recipients of The Biomedical Circuits and Systems (BioCAS) Transactions Best Paper Award for 2022.

The Biomedical Circuits and Systems Best Paper Award recognizes the best paper published in the “Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems” publication. The award is based on general quality, originality, contributions, subject matter and timeliness.

Dr. Daoud is currently a faculty member with the University of Louisiana. His research interest includes biomedical signal processing, machine learning, deep learning, and neuromorphic computing.

Dr. Bayoumi is currently the Department Head of W. H. Hall Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is the Hall Endowed Chair in computer engineering. He was the Director of the Center for Advanced Computer Studies and the Department Head of Computer Science Department. He was also, the Loflin Eminent Scholar Endowed Chair in computer science, all at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette where he has been a faculty member since 1985. He has authored/coauthored about 600 research papers and more than 10 books.

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Excerpt from the Abstract:

"Epilepsy is one of the world's most common neurological diseases. Early prediction of the incoming seizures has a great influence on epileptic patients' life. In this paper, a novel patient-specific seizure prediction technique based on deep learning and applied to long-term scalp electroencephalogram (EEG) recordings is proposed. The goal is to accurately detect the preictal brain state and differentiate it from the prevailing interictal state as early as possible and make it suitable for real time."

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