Staff profile

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I received a BSc (2005) followed by an MSc (2008) and a Ph.D. (2014) in Biomedical Engineering from Sahand University of Technology and Isfahan University of Medical Sciences in Iran. I obtained my first tenure post as an assistant professor in the Department of Advanced Technologies in Medicine at Isfahan University of Medical Sciences in 2014, and remained there for 7 years, during which I obtained valuable experience in teaching and supervision of projects at the undergraduate and graduate levels. My research in Iran was focused on machine learning for biomedical image processing through close collaboration with clinicians. I have led many successful previously-unexplored projects on medical images, including but not limited to classification and segmentation of retinal images with AI; applications of AI in CT-scan and X-ray images; and multi-modality MRI data analysis.

My two stays at Charité university hospital, Germany, and one stay at Sabanci University in Turkey were awarded by competitive research scholarships from the Einstein forum and TUBITAK, respectively. They provided me with the opportunity of face-to-face international collaborations and the invaluable experience of living abroad. At Charité, I designed AI algorithms for ocular images. The research output was highly practical and trustworthy and is currently in operation in clinical research. The work in Sabanci, on the other hand, was mostly focused on mathematical aspects and yielded the introduction of a new image transformation.

I then moved to Newcastle University, where I worked as a Research Associate in an interdisciplinary team at Newcastle University, a position that provided me the great opportunity to conduct in-depth research on the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in the detection of neurological diseases from the eye. Since July 2022, I have been with the Department of Engineering at Durham University as an Assistant Professor.

My current research is on medical image processing and I had leadership positions in multiple projects for pre-processing, segmentation, and classification of data from different organs (eye, chest, teeth, brain, heart, breast), from different modalities (OCT, Fundoscopy, CT-scan, X-ray, cone-beam CT, MRI, fMRI, and infrared), facing challenges like high dimensionality, noisiness, and imbalance.

I successfully applied for three international and two national funding bids from granting bodies such as Einstein Forum, National Institute for Medical Research Development (NIMAD), and Iran-Switzerland Research Seed Money Grant. My works yielded publication of articles in top-tier journals including Medical Image Analysis, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Information Fusion, American Journal of Ophthalmology, and others. One of the recent collaborative papers entitled “Deep-covid: Predicting covid-19 from chest x-ray images using deep transfer learning” became internationally recognised (580 citations in around 2 years) and was awarded the best paper in the Covid-domain by the Ministry of Health in Iran. Four of the outcomes are being practically used by clinicians and subsequent publications using these tools are made in medical journals. Such works can potentially yield strategic links with the ophthalmologic imaging industry, which necessarily requires generalisable and trustworthy AI.

I am an advocate of bringing research into teaching by delivering cutting-edge findings on the subject. I structure my courses (particularly graduate courses geared towards more technically and scientifically mature audiences) with tangible and state-of-the-art applications and try to address novel modifications to maintain an up-to-date, yet practical classroom. I was fortunate to develop the first run of some new modules based on my research interests.

Honors and Awards

• Top Ten Abstract Award for abstract titled "Autoencoder-Based Feature Extraction for Discrimination of Multiple Sclerosis Using Thickness Maps of Retinal Layers" in Collaborative Community on Ophthalmic Imaging (CCOI), 2023.

• Article of the Year Award for ‘COVID-19 in Iran: Forecasting Pandemic Using Deep Learning,’ in Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine, 2021.

• Best Paper Award in Covid-domain for ‘Deep-COVID: Predicting COVID-19 from chest X-ray images using deep transfer learning’ in Medical image analysis, Ministry of Health, Iran, 2021.

• Best Young USERN Office Award, 2017.

• Voluntary Contribution Award (Student Travel) by IEEE R8 VCF, 2014.

• Best Researcher Award, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, 2013.

• Ranked First in National PhD Entrance Exam in Biomedical Engineering, Iran, 2013.

• Best Paper Award from ISCEE07, Isfahan, Iran, 2007.

• Medical Data Analysis
• Machine learning / Deep Learning
• Image Processing and Computer Vision
• Time-frequency methods
• Data Acquisition and Management
• Data Quality Assessment

• 2022: Guest Editor : in Advances in Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography (Diagnostics) (2022)
• 2022: Invited talk in Turing Network Development Award at QUB - AIQ Seminar on Ophthalmic Imaging :
• 2022: Topic editor: ;in Artificial Intelligence in Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy (2022)
• 0000: Director of Student Committee in 17th Iranian Biomedical Engineering Conference (ICBME’17) (2010):
• 0000: Editorial Board Member of the 11 Iranian and the first International Conference on Machine Vision and Image Processing (MVIP) (2020):
• 0000: Head of Biomedical engineering Section in 10th Iranian Student Conference on EE (ISCEE’07) (2007):
• 0000: Invited talk in DEMON Network: "Artificial Intelligence in Eye imaging: An easy-to-use mirror of brain-related abnormalities in Dementia"
• 0000: Invited talk on 'Machine learning in Healthcare' in Institute of Physics (IOP), London:
• 0000: Section Editor in Journal of Medical Signals and Sensors (JMSS):

Chapter in book

• Hajizadeh, Fedra, Kafieh, Rahele & Tajmirriahi, Mahnoosh (2023). Introduction to Optical Coherence Tomography. In Atlas of Ocular Optical Coherence Tomography. Hajizadeh, Fedra Springer. 1-34.
• Amini, Zahra, Kafieh, Rahele, Tajmirriahi, Mahnoosh, Parsons, Zeinab & Rabbani, Hossein (2022). Application of enface image registration/alignment to introduce new ocular imaging biomarkers. In Photo Acoustic and Optical Coherence Tomography Imaging, Volume 2. IOP Publishing. 2: 3-1 - 3-23.

Conference Paper

• Sobhaninia, Zahra, Danesh, Hajar, Kafieh, Rahele, Balaji, J. Jothi & Lakshminarayanan, Vasudevan (2021), Determination of Foveal Avascular Zone Parameters Using a New Location-Aware Deep-Learning Method, in Zelinski, ME, Taha, TM & Howe, J eds, Proceedings of SPIE 11843: APPLICATIONS OF MACHINE LEARNING 2021 SPIE.
• Jorjandi, Sahar, Rabbani, Hossein, Amini, Zahra & Kafieh, Raheleh (2019), OCT Image Denoising Based on Asymmetric Normal Laplace Mixture Model, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Conference Proceedings 2019 41ST ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY (EMBC). 2679-2682.
• Mokhtari, Marzieh, Rabbani, Hossein, Mehri-Dehnavi, Alireza & Kafieh, Rahele (2017), Exact Localization of Breakpoints of Retinal Pigment Epithelium in Optical Coherence Tomography of Optic Nerve Head, PROCEEDINGS OF ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY 2017 39TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY (EMBC) IEEE Engn Med \& Biol Soc; PubMed; MEDLINE; Korean Soc Med \& Biol Engn. 1505-1508.
• Jorjandi, Sahar, Rabbani, Hossein, Kafieh, Raheleh & Amini, Zahra (2017), Statistical Modeling of Optical Coherence Tomography Images by Asymmetric Normal Laplace Mixture Model, PROCEEDINGS OF ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY 2017 39TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY (EMBC) IEEE Engn Med \& Biol Soc; PubMed; MEDLINE; Korean Soc Med \& Biol Engn. 4399-4402.
• Mahmudi, Tahereh, Kafieh, Rahele, Rabbani, Hossein, Mehri, Alireza & Akhlagi, Mohammadreza (2015), ASYMMETRY EVALUATION OF FUNDUS IMAGES IN RIGHT AND LEFT EYES USING RADON TRANSFORM AND FRACTAL ANALYSIS, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing ICIP 2015 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON IMAGE PROCESSING (ICIP) Inst Elect \& Elect Engineers; IEEE Signal Proc Soc. 163-167.
• Mahmudi, Tahereh, Kafieh, Rahele, Rabbani, Hossein, Dehnavi, Alireza Mehri & Akhlagi, Mohammadreza (2014), Comparison of macular OCTs in right and left eyes of normal people, in Molthen, RC & Weaver, JB eds, Proceedings of SPIE 9038: MEDICAL IMAGING 2014: BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS IN MOLECULAR, STRUCTURAL, AND FUNCTIONAL IMAGING SPIE; Modus Med Devices Inc; XIFIN Inc; Ventana Med Syst Inc; Intrace Med.
• Kafieh, Rahele, Rabbani, Hossein & Gazor, Saeed (2014), Combination of Graph Theoretic Grouping and Time-Frequency Analysis for Image Segmentation, International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing ICASSP 2014 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH AND SIGNAL PROCESSING (ICASSP) IEEE; IEEE Signal Proc Soc.
• Kafieh, Raheleh, Rabbani, Hossein, Abramoff, Michael & Sonka, Milan (2013), INTRA-RETINAL LAYER SEGMENTATION OF OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY USING DIFFUSION MAP, International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing ICASSP 2013 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH AND SIGNAL PROCESSING (ICASSP) Inst Elect \& Elect Engineers; Inst Elect \& Elect Engineers Signal Proc Soc. 1080-1084.
• Kafieh, Rahele & Rabbani, Hossein (2013), Optical Coherence Tomography Noise Reduction Over Learned Dictionaries with Introduction of Complex Wavelet for start dictionary, in VanDeVille, D, Goyal, VK & Papadakis, M eds, Proceedings of SPIE 8858: WAVELETS AND SPARSITY XV SPIE.
• Kafieh, Raheleh, Danesh, Hajar, Rabbani, Hossein, Abramoff, Michael & Sonka, Milan (2013), VESSEL SEGMENTATION IN IMAGES OF OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY USING SHADOW INFORMATION AND THICKENING OF RETINAL NERVE FIBER LAYER, International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing ICASSP 2013 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH AND SIGNAL PROCESSING (ICASSP) Inst Elect \& Elect Engineers; Inst Elect \& Elect Engineers Signal Proc Soc. 1075-1079.
• Kafieh, Raheleh, Rabbani, Hossein & Foroohandeh, Mehrdad (2012), Circular symmetric Laplacian mixture model in wavelet diffusion for dental image denoising, in Haynor, DR & Ourselin, S eds, Proceedings of SPIE 8314: MEDICAL IMAGING 2012: IMAGE PROCESSING SPIE; Agilent Technol; Diamond SA; DQE Instruments Inc; eMagin; Isuzu Glass Co Ltd; Medtron Inc; Ocean Thin Films Inc.
• Kafieh, Raheleh, Rabbani, Hossein, Abramoff, Michael D. & Sonka, Milan (2012), OCT Image Alignment Using Diffusion Maps, in Haynor, DR & Ourselin, S eds, Proceedings of SPIE 8314: MEDICAL IMAGING 2012: IMAGE PROCESSING SPIE; Agilent Technol; Diamond SA; DQE Instruments Inc; eMagin; Isuzu Glass Co Ltd; Medtron Inc; Ocean Thin Films Inc.
• Kafieh, Raheleh & Rabbani, Hossein (2011), WAVELET-BASED MEDICAL INFRARED IMAGE NOISE REDUCTION USING LOCAL MODEL FOR SIGNAL AND NOISE, 2011 IEEE STATISTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING WORKSHOP (SSP) IEEE. 549-552.
• Kafieh, Rahele, Sadri, Saeed, Mehri, Alireza & Raji, Hamid (2008), Discrimination of Bony Structures in Cephalograms for Automatic Landmark Detection, in Sarbazi-Azad, H, Parhami, B, Miremadi, SG & Hessabi, S eds, Communications in Computer and Information Science 6: ADVANCES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING. 609+.
• Kafieh, Rahele, Mehri, Alireza & Amirfattahi, Rassoul (2007), Detection of ventricular arrhythmias using roots location in AR-modelling, 2007 6TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION, COMMUNICATIONS \& SIGNAL PROCESSING, VOLS 1-4. 35+.
• Kafieh, Rahele, mehri, Afireza & sadri, Saeed (2007), Automatic landmark detection in-cephalometry using a modified active shape model with sub image matching, INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MACHINE VISION 2007, PROCEEDINGS Coll Signals; Natl Univ Sci \& Technol. 73+.
• Kafieh, Rahele, Sadri, Saeed, mehri, Alireza & Raji, Hamid (2007), Using a combination of model based and intelligent methods in automatic landmark detection in cephalometry, 2007 INNOVATIONS IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES, VOLS 1 AND 2 IEEE. 16+.

Edited book

• Khayyam, Hamid, Madani, Ali, Kafieh, Rahele & Hekmatnia, Ali (2023). Artificial Intelligence in Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy. Basel: MDPI.

Journal Article

• Khodabandeh, Zahra, Rabbani, Hossein, Ashtari, Fereshteh, Zimmermann, Hanna G., Motamedi, Seyedamirhosein, Brandt, Alexander U., Paul, Friedemann & Kafieh, Rahele (2023). Discrimination of Multiple Sclerosis using multicenter OCT images. Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders 104846.
• Darooei, Reza, Nazari, Milad, Kafieh, Rahele & Rabbani, Hossein (2023). Optimal Deep Learning Architecture for Automated Segmentation of Cysts in OCT Images Using X-Let Transforms. Diagnostics 13(12): 1994.
• Vali, Mahsa, Nazari, Behzad, Sadri, Saeed, Pour, Elias Khalili, Riazi-Esfahani, Hamid, Faghihi, Hooshang, Ebrahimiadib, Nazanin, Azizkhani, Momeneh, Innes, Will, Steel, David H., Hurlbert, Anya, Read, Jenny C. A. & Kafieh, Rahele (2023). CNV-Net: Segmentation, Classification and Activity Score Measurement of Choroidal Neovascularization (CNV) Using Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography (OCTA). Diagnostics 13(7): 1309.
• Vali, Mahsa, Mohammadi, Massoud, Zarei, Nasim, Samadi, Melika, Atapour-Abarghouei, Amir, Supakontanasan, Wasu, Suwan, Yanin, Subramanian, Prem S., Miller, Neil R, Kafieh, Rahele & Fard, Masoud Aghsaei (2023). Differentiating Glaucomatous Optic Neuropathy from Non-Glaucomatous Optic Neuropathies Using Deep Learning Algorithms. American Journal of Ophthalmology 252: 1-8.
• Oertel, Frederike Cosima, Zimmermann, Hanna G, Motamedi, Seyedamirhosein, Chien, Claudia, Aktas, Orhan, Albrecht, Philipp, Ringelstein, Marius, Dcunha, Anitha, Pandit, Lekha, Martinez-Lapiscina, Elena H, Sanchez-Dalmau, Bernardo, Villoslada, Pablo, Palace, Jacqueline, Roca-Fernández, Adriana, Leite, Maria Isabel, Sharma, Srilakshmi M, Leocani, Letizia, Pisa, Marco, Radaelli, Marta, Lana-Peixoto, Marco Aurélio, Fontenelle, Mariana Andrade, Havla, Joachim, Ashtari, Fereshteh, Kafieh, Rahele, Dehghani, Alireza, Pourazizi, Mohsen, Marignier, Romain, Cobo-Calvo, Alvaro, Asgari, Nasrin, Jacob, Anu, Huda, Saif, Mao-Draayer, Yang, Green, Ari J, Kenney, Rachel, Yeaman, Michael R, Smith, Terry J, Cook, Lawrence, Brandt, Alexander U, Paul, Friedemann & Petzold, Axel (2023). Diagnostic value of intereye difference metrics for optic neuritis in aquaporin-4 antibody seropositive neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
• Arian, Roya, Mahmoudi, Tahereh, Riazi-Esfahani, Hamid, Faghihi, Hooshang, Mirshahi, Ahmad, Ghassemi, Fariba, Khodabande, Alireza, Kafieh, Raheleh & Khalili Pour, Elias (2023). Automatic Choroid Vascularity Index Calculation in Optical Coherence Tomography Images with Low-Contrast Sclerochoroidal Junction Using Deep Learning. Photonics 10(3): 234.
• Darooei, Reza, Nazari, Milad, Kafieh, Rahele & Rabbani, Hossein (2023). Dual-Tree Complex Wavelet Input Transform for Cyst Segmentation in OCT Images Based on a Deep Learning Framework. Photonics 10(1): 11.
• Khayyam, Hamid, Shahkhosravi, Naeim Akbari, Jamali, Ali, Naebe, Minoo, Kafieh, Rahele & Milani, Abbas S. (2023). GMDH-Kalman Filter prediction of high-cycle fatigue life of drilled industrial composites: A hybrid machine learning with limited data. Expert Systems with Applications 216: 119425.
• Afrah, Ramin, Amini, Zahra, Kafieh, Rahele & Vard, Alireza (2022). An optimized deep learning approach based on autoencoder network for P300 detection in brain computer interface systems. Medical Journal of Tabriz University of Medical Sciences 44(4): 270-280.
• Razaghi, Ghazale, Hedayati, Ehsan, Hejazi, Marjaneh, Kafieh, Rahele, Samadi, Melika, Ritch, Robert, Subramanian, Prem S. & Aghsaei Fard, Masoud (2022). Measurement of retinal nerve fiber layer thickness with a deep learning algorithm in ischemic optic neuropathy and optic neuritis. Scientific Reports 12(1): 17109.
• Danesh, Hajar, Steel, David H., Hogg, Jeffry, Ashtari, Fereshteh, Innes, Will, Bacardit, Jaume, Hurlbert, Anya, Read, Jenny C. A. & Kafieh, Rahele (2022). Synthetic OCT Data Generation to Enhance the Performance of Diagnostic Models for Neurodegenerative Diseases. Translational Vision Science & Technology 11(10): 10.
• Riazi, Amir Hosein, Rabbani, Hossein & Kafieh, Rahele (2022). Dynamic Brain Connectivity in Resting-State FMRI Using Spectral ICA and Graph Approach: Application to Healthy Controls and Multiple Sclerosis. Diagnostics 12(9): 2263.
• Khorasani, Amir, Kafieh, Rahele, Saboori, Masih & Tavakoli, Mohamad Bagher (2022). Glioma segmentation with DWI weighted images, conventional anatomical images, and post-contrast enhancement magnetic resonance imaging images by U-Net. Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine 45(3): 925-934.
• Tajmirriahi, Mahnoosh, Kafieh, Rahele, Amini, Zahra & Lakshminarayanan, Vasudevan (2022). A Dual Discriminator Fourier Acquisitive GAN for Generating Retinal Optical Coherence Tomography Images. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement 71.
• Saeedizadeh, Narges, Tajmirriahi, Mahnoosh, Haghani, Alireza, Amini, Zahra, Pour, Elias Khalili, Riazi-Esfahani, Hamid, Fadakar, Kaveh, Kafieh, Rahele & Rabbani, Hossein (2022). A Device-independent, Shape Preserving Retinal Optical Coherence Tomography Image Alignment Method Applying TV-Unet for RPE Layer Detection. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement 71.
• Danesh, Hajar, Maghooli, Keivan, Dehghani, Alireza & Kafieh, Rahele (2022). Synthetic OCT data in challenging conditions: three-dimensional OCT and presence of abnormalities. MEDICAL \& BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING \& COMPUTING 60(1): 189-203.
• Mahmoudi T, Radmard AR, Salehnia A, Ahmadian A, Davarpanah AH, Kafieh R & Arabalibeik H (2022). Differentiation between Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma and Normal Pancreatic Tissue for Treatment Response Assessment using Multi-Scale Texture Analysis of CT Images. Journal of Biomedical Physics and Engineering 12(6): 655-668.
• Oertel, Frederike Cosima, Specovius, Svenja, Zimmermann, Hanna G., Chien, Claudia, Motamedi, Seyedamirhosein, Bereuter, Charlotte, Cook, Lawrence, Lana Peixoto, Marco Aurelio, Fontanelle, Mariana Andrade, Kim, Ho Jin, Hyun, Jae-Won, Palace, Jacqueline, Roca-Fernandez, Adriana, Leite, Maria Isabel, Sharma, Srilakshmi, Ashtari, Fereshteh, Kafieh, Rahele, Dehghani, Alireza, Pourazizi, Mohsen, Pandit, Lekha, D'Cunha, Anitha, Aktas, Orhan, Ringelstein, Marius, Albrecht, Philipp, May, Eugene, Tongco, Caryl, Leocani, Letizia, Pisa, Marco, Radaelli, Marta, Martinez-Lapiscina, Elena H., Stiebel-Kalish, Hadas, Siritho, Sasitorn, de Seze, Jerome, Senger, Thomas, Havla, Joachim, Marignier, Romain, Cobo-Calvo, Alvaro, Bichuetti, Denis, Tavares, Ivan Maynart, Asgari, Nasrin, Soelberg, Kerstin, Altintas, Ayse, Yildirim, Rengin, Tanriverdi, Uygur, Jacob, Anu, Huda, Saif, Rimler, Zoe, Reid, Allyson, Mao-Draayer, Yang, Soto de Castillo, Ibis, Petzold, Axel, Green, Ari J., Yeaman, Michael R., Smith, Terry, Brandt, Alexander U. & Paul, Friedemann (2022). Retinal Optical Coherence Tomography in Neuromyelitis Optica (vol 8, e1068, 2021). Neurology: Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation 9(2): e1132.
• Yadav, Sunil Kumar, Kafieh, Rahele, Zimmermann, Hanna Gwendolyn, Kauer-Bonin, Josef, Nouri-Mahdavi, Kouros, Mohammadzadeh, Vahid, Shi, Lynn, Kadas, Ella Maria, Paul, Friedemann, Motamedi, Seyedamirhosein & Brandt, Alexander Ulrich (2022). Intraretinal Layer Segmentation Using Cascaded Compressed U-Nets. JOURNAL OF IMAGING 8(5): 139.
• Lu, Angelo, Zimmermann, Hanna G., Specovius, Svenja, Motamedi, Seyedamirhosein, Chien, Claudia, Bereuter, Charlotte, Lana-Peixoto, Marco A., Fontenelle, Mariana Andrade, Ashtari, Fereshteh, Kafieh, Rahele, Dehghani, Alireza, Pourazizi, Mohsen, Pandit, Lekha, D'Cunha, Anitha, Kim, Ho Jin, Hyun, Jae-Won, Jung, Su-Kyung, Leocani, Letizia, Pisa, Marco, Radaelli, Marta, Siritho, Sasitorn, May, Eugene F., Tongco, Caryl, De Seze, Jerome, Senger, Thomas, Palace, Jacqueline, Roca-Fernandez, Adriana, Leite, Maria Isabel, Sharma, Srilakshmi M., Stiebel-Kalish, Hadas, Asgari, Nasrin, Soelberg, Kerstin Kathrine, Martinez-Lapiscina, Elena H., Havla, Joachim, Mao-Draayer, Yang, Rimler, Zoe, Reid, Allyson, Marignier, Romain, Cobo-Calvo, Alvaro, Altintas, Ayse, Tanriverdi, Uygur, Yildirim, Rengin, Aktas, Orhan, Ringelstein, Marius, Albrecht, Philipp, Tavares, Ivan Maynart, Bichuetti, Denis Bernardi, Jacob, Anu, Huda, Saif, de Castillo, Ibis Soto, Petzold, Axel, Green, Ari J., Yeaman, Michael R., Smith, Terry J., Cook, Lawrence, Paul, Friedemann, Brandt, Alexander U., Oertel, Frederike Cosima & GJCF Int Clinical Consortium NMOSD (2022). Astrocytic outer retinal layer thinning is not a feature in AQP4-IgG seropositive neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders. JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY NEUROSURGERY AND PSYCHIATRY 93(2): 188-195.
• Mahmoudi, Tahereh, Kouzahkanan, Zahra Mousavi, Radmard, Amir Reza, Kafieh, Raheleh, Salehnia, Aneseh, Davarpanah, Amir H., Arabalibeik, Hossein & Ahmadian, Alireza (2022). Segmentation of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) and surrounding vessels in CT images using deep convolutional neural networks and texture descriptors. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS 12(1): 3092.
• Tajmirriahi, Mahnoosh, Amini, Zahra, Rabbani, Hossein & Kafieh, Rahele (2022). An Interpretable Convolutional Neural Network for P300 Detection: Analysis of Time Frequency Features for Limited Data. IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL 22(9): 8685-8692.
• Mahmudi, Tahereh, Kafieh, Raheleh, Rabbani, Hossein, Mehri, Alireza & Akhlaghi, Mohammad-Reza (2021). Evaluation of Asymmetry in Right and Left Eyes of Normal Individuals Using Extracted Features from Optical Coherence Tomography and Fundus Images. JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SIGNALS \& SENSORS 11(1): 12-23.
• Oertel, Frederike Cosima, Specovius, Svenja, Zimmermann, Hanna G., Chien, Claudia, Motamedi, Seyedamirhosein, Bereuter, Charlotte, Cook, Lawrence, Lana Peixoto, Marco Aurelio, Fontanelle, Mariana Andrade, Kim, Ho Jin, Hyun, Jae-Won, Palace, Jacqueline, Roca-Fernandez, Adriana, Leite, Maria Isabel, Sharma, Srilakshmi, Ashtari, Fereshteh, Kafieh, Rahele, Dehghani, Alireza, Pourazizi, Mohsen, Pandit, Lekha, D'Cunha, Anitha, Aktas, Orhan, Ringelstein, Marius, Albrecht, Philipp, May, Eugene, Tongco, Caryl, Leocani, Letizia, Pisa, Marco, Radaelli, Marta, Martinez-Lapiscina, Elena H., Stiebel-Kalish, Hadas, Siritho, Sasitorn, de Seze, Jerome, Senger, Thomas, Havla, Joachim, Marignier, Romain, Calvo, Alvaro Cobo, Bichuetti, Denis, Tavares, Ivan Maynart, Asgari, Nasrin, Soelberg, Kerstin, Altintas, Ayse, Yildirim, Rengin, Tanriverdi, Uygur, Jacob, Anu, Huda, Saif, Rimler, Zoe, Reid, Allyson, Mao-Draayer, Yang, Soto de Castillo, Ibis, Petzold, Axel, Green, Ari J., Yeaman, Michael R., Smith, Terry, Brandt, Alexander U. & Paul, Friedemann (2021). Retinal Optical Coherence Tomography in Neuromyelitis Optica. NEUROLOGY-NEUROIMMUNOLOGY \& NEUROINFLAMMATION 8(6): e1068.
• Kafieh, Rahele, Arian, Roya, Saeedizadeh, Narges, Amini, Zahra, Serej, Nasim Dadashi, Minaee, Shervin, Yadav, Sunil Kumar, Vaezi, Atefeh, Rezaei, Nima & Javanmard, Shaghayegh Haghjooy (2021). COVID-19 in Iran: Forecasting Pandemic Using Deep Learning. COMPUTATIONAL AND MATHEMATICAL METHODS IN MEDICINE 2021: 6927985.
• Tazarjani, Hamidreza Dehghan, Amini, Zahra, Kafieh, Rahele, Ashtari, Fereshteh & Sadeghi, Erfan (2021). Retinal OCT Texture Analysis for Differentiating Healthy Controls from Multiple Sclerosis (MS) with/without Optic Neuritis. BIOMED RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2021: 5579018.
• Montazerin, Mansooreh, Sajjadifar, Zahra, Pour, Elias Khalili, Riazi-Esfahani, Hamid, Mahmoudi, Tahereh, Rabbani, Hossein, Movahedian, Hossein, Dehghani, Alireza, Akhlaghi, Mohammadreza & Kafieh, Rahele (2021). Livelayer: a semi-automatic software program for segmentation of layers and diabetic macular edema in optical coherence tomography images. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS 11(1): 13794.
• Ashtari, Fereshteh, Ataei, Akram, Kafieh, Raheleh, Khodabandeh, Zahra, Barzegar, Mahdi, Raei, Marzieh, Dehghani, Alireza & Mansurian, Marjan (2021). Optical Coherence Tomography in Neuromyelitis Optica spectrum disorder and Multiple Sclerosis: A population-based study. MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS AND RELATED DISORDERS 47: 102625.
• Fard, Masoud Aghsaei, Safizadeh, Mona, Shaabani, Amirreza, Kafieh, Rahele, Hojati, Sahar, Afzali, Marjan, Suwan, Yanin, Ritch, Robert & Moghimi, Sasan (2021). Automated Evaluation of Parapapillary Choroidal Microvasculature in Pseudoexfoliation Syndrome and Pseudoexfoliation Glaucoma. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF OPHTHALMOLOGY 224: 178-184.
• Ashtari, Fereshteh, Ataei, Akram, Kafieh, Raheleh, Khodabandeh, Zahra, Barzegar, Mahdi, Raei, Marzieh, Dehghani, Alireza & Mansurian, Marjan (2021). Optical Coherence Tomography in Neuromyelitis Optica spectrum disorder and Multiple Sclerosis: A population-based study (vol 47, 102625, 2021). MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS AND RELATED DISORDERS 54: 103116.
• Tajmirriahi, Mahnoosh, Kafieh, Rahele, Amini, Zahra & Rabbani, Hossein (2021). A Lightweight Mimic Convolutional Auto-Encoder for Denoising Retinal Optical Coherence Tomography Images. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INSTRUMENTATION AND MEASUREMENT 70: 4503908.
• Lu, A., Zimmermann, H. G., Specovius, S., Motamedi, S., Chien, C., Lana-Peixoto, M. Aurelio, Fontenelle, M. Andrade, Ashtari, F., Kafieh, R., Pandit, L., Dcunha, A., Kim, H., Hyun, J. -W., Leocani, L., Pisa, M., Radaelli, M., Siritho, S., May, E. F., Tongco, C., de Seze, J., Senger, T., Palace, J., Roca-Fernandez, A., Stiebel-Kalish, H., Asgari, N., Soelberg, K. K., Martinez-Lapiscina, E. H., Havla, J., Mao-Draayer, Y., Rimler, Z., Reid, A., Marignier, R., Calvo, A., Altintas, A., Tanriverdi, U., Ringelstein, M., Albrecht, P., Tavares, I. M., Bichuetti, D., Jacob, A., Huda, S., de Castillo, I. S., Petzold, A., Green, A. J., Yeaman, M. R., Smith, T. J., Cook, L., Paul, F., Brandt, A. U., Oertel, F. C. & GJCF Int Clinical Consortiu (2021). Absence of astrocytic outer retinal layer thinning in AQP4-IgG seropositive neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders. MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS JOURNAL 27(2\_SUPPL, 2\_, SI): 493-495.
• Tahani, Bahareh, Rashno, Abdoireza, Haghighi, Hamed, Monirifard, Rasoul, Khomami, Hooman Nosrati & Kafieh, Rahele (2020). Automatic Evaluation of Crown Preparation Using Image Processing Techniques: A Substitute to Faculty Scoring in Dental Education. JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SIGNALS \& SENSORS 10(4): 239-248.
• Kafieh, Rahele, Saeedizadeh, Narges, Arian, Roya, Amini, Zahra, Serej, Nasim Dadashi, Vaezi, Atefeh & Javanmard, Shaghayegh Haghjooy (2020). Isfahan and Covid-19: Deep spatiotemporal representation. CHAOS SOLITONS \& FRACTALS 141: 110339.
• Kermani, Saeed, Oghli, Mostafa Ghelich, Mohammadzadeh, Ali & Kafieh, Raheleh (2020). NF-RCNN: Heart localization and right ventricle wall motion abnormality detection in cardiac MRI. PHYSICA MEDICA-EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL PHYSICS 70: 65-74.
• Mousavi, Elahe, Kafieh, Rahele & Rabbani, Hossein (2020). Classification of dry age-related macular degeneration and diabetic macular oedema from optical coherence tomography images using dictionary learning. IET IMAGE PROCESSING 14(8): 1571-1579.
• Minaee, Shervin, Kafieh, Rahele, Sonka, Milan, Yazdani, Shakib & Soufi, Ghazaleh Jamalipour (2020). Deep-COVID: Predicting COVID-19 from chest X-ray images using deep transfer learning. MEDICAL IMAGE ANALYSIS 65: 101794.
• Specovius, Svenja, Zimmermann, Hanna G., Oertel, Frederike Cosima, Chien, Claudia, Bereuter, Charlotte, Cook, Lawrence J., Lana Peixoto, Marco Aurelio, Fontenelle, Mariana Andrade, Kim, Ho Jin, Hyun, Jae-Won, Jung, Su-Kyung, Palace, Jacqueline, Roca-Fernandez, Adriana, Diaz, Alejandro Rubio, Leite, Maria Isabel, Sharma, Srilakshmi M., Ashtari, Fereshte, Kafieh, Rahele, Dehghani, Alireza, Pourazizi, Mohsen, Pandit, Lekha, Dcunha, Anitha, Aktas, Orhan, Ringelstein, Marius, Albrecht, Philipp, May, Eugene, Tongco, Caryl, Leocani, Letizia, Pisa, Marco, Radaelli, Marta, Martinez-Lapiscina, Elena H., Stiebel-Kalish, Hadas, Hellmann, Mark, Lotan, Itay, Siritho, Sasitorn, de Seze, Jerome, Senger, Thomas, Havla, Joachim, Marignier, Romain, Tilikete, Caroline, Cobo Calvo, Alvaro, Bichuetti, Denis Bernardi, Tavares, Ivan Maynart, Asgari, Nasrin, Soelberg, Kerstin, Altintas, Ayse, Yildirim, Rengin, Tanriverdi, Uygur, Jacob, Anu, Huda, Saif, Rimler, Zoe, Reid, Allyson, Mao-Draayer, Yang, de Castillo, Ibis Soto, Yeaman, Michael R., Smith, Terry J., Brandt, Alexander U., Paul, Friedemann & GJCF Int Clinical Consortium NMOSD (2020). Cohort profile: a collaborative multicentre study of retinal optical coherence tomography in 539 patients with neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders (CROCTINO). BMJ OPEN 10(10): e035397.
• Fard, Masoud Aghsaei, Salabati, Mirataollah, Mahmoudzadeh, Raziyeh, Kafieh, Rahele, Hojati, Sahar, Safizadeh, Mona, Moghimi, Sasan, Ritch, Robert & Subramanian, Prem S. (2020). Automated Evaluation of Parapapillary Choroidal Microvasculature in Ischemic Optic Neuropathy and Open Angle Glaucoma. INVESTIGATIVE OPHTHALMOLOGY \& VISUAL SCIENCE 61(3): 35.
• Oertel, F. C., Specovius, S., Zimmermann, H., Chien, C., Motamedi, S., Cook, L., Lana-Peixoto, M. A., Fontenelle, M., Kim, H. J., Hyun, J. -W., Palace, J., Roca-Fernandez, A., Ashtari, F., Kafieh, R., Pandit, L., D'Cunha, A., Aktas, O., Ringelstein, M., May, E., Tongco, C., Leocani, L., Pisa, M., Radaelli, M., Martinez-Lapiscina, E., Stiebel-Kalish, H., Siritho, S., De Seze, J., Senger, T., Havla, J., Marignier, R., Nerrant, E., Calvo, A. Cobo, Bichuetti, D., Tavares, I., Asgari, N., Soelberg, K. K., Altintas, A., Tanriverdi, U., Jacob, A., Huda, S., Rimler, Z., Mao-Draayer, Y., De Castillo, I. Soto, Green, A., Yeaman, M., Smith, T., Brandt, A. & Paul, F. (2020). Optical coherence tomography in aquaporin-4-IgG positive neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders: a collaborative multi-center study. MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS JOURNAL 26(3\_SUPPL, 3\_, SI): 33-34.
• Danesh, Hajar, Maghooli, Keivan, Dehghani, Alireza & Kafieh, Rahele (2020). Automatic production of synthetic labelled OCT images using an active shape model. IET IMAGE PROCESSING 14(15): 3812-3818.
• Jalili, Jalil, Rabbani, Hossein, Dehnavi, Alireza Mehri, Kafieh, Raheleh & Akhlaghi, Mohammadreza (2020). Forming Optimal Projection Images from Intra-Retinal Layers Using Curvelet-Based Image Fusion Method. JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SIGNALS \& SENSORS 10(2): 76-85.
• Teyfouri, Niloufar, Rabbani, Hossein, Kafieh, Raheleh & Jabbari, Iraj (2020). An Exact and Fast CBCT Reconstruction via Pseudo-Polar Fourier Transform-Based Discrete Grangeat's Formula. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON IMAGE PROCESSING 29: 5832-5847.
• Hojati, Sahar, Kafieh, Rahele, Fardafshari, Parisa, Fard, Masoud Aghsaei & Fouladi, Hatef (2020). A MATLAB package for automatic extraction of flow index in OCT-A images by intelligent vessel manipulation. SOFTWAREX 12: 100510.
• Kafieh, Rahele, Rabbani, Hossein & Unal, Gozde (2019). Bandlets on Oriented Graphs: Application to Medical Image Enhancement. IEEE ACCESS 7: 32589-32601.
• Mokhtari, Marzieh, Rabbani, Hossein, Mehri-Dehnavi, Alireza, Kafieh, Raheleh, Akhlaghi, Mohammad-Reza, Pourazizi, Mohsen & Pang, Leyuan (2019). Local comparison of cup to disc ratio in right and left eyes based on fusion of color fundus images and OCT B-scans. INFORMATION FUSION 51: 30-41.
• Oertel, F. C., Specovius, S., Zimmermann, H. G., Chien, C., Motamedi, S., Cook, L., Martinez-Lapiscina, E. H., Lana Peixoto, M. A., Fontenelle, M. A., Palace, J., Roca-Fernandez, A., Siritho, S., Altintas, A., Tanriverdi, U., Jacob, A., Huda, S., Marignier, R., Nerrant, E., Calvo, A. Cobo, de Seze, J., Senger, T., Pandit, L., Dcunha, A., de Castillo, I. S., Bichuetti, D., Tavares, M., May, E. F., Tongco, C., Havla, J., Leocani, L., Pisa, M., Ashtari, F., Kafieh, R., Aktas, O., Ringelstein, M., Albrecht, P., Kim, H. J., Hyun, J. -W., Asgari, N., Soelberg, K., Mao-Draayer, Y., Stiebel-Kalish, H., Rimler, Z., Reid, A., Yeaman, M., Smith, T. J., Brandt, A. U., Paul, F. & GJCF Int Clinical Consortium NMOSD (2019). An international retrospective multi-center study of retinal optical coherence tomography in neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders: the CROCTINO study. MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS JOURNAL 25(2, SI): 709-711.
• Kafieh, Rahele, Amini, Zahra, Rabbani, Hossein, Baghbaderani, Bahareh Kaviani, Salafian, Bahareh, Mazaheri, Fatemeh & Mokhtari, Marzieh (2019). Automatic Multifaceted Matlab Package for Analysis of Ocular Images (AMPAO). SOFTWAREX 10: 100339.
• Oghli, Mostafa Ghelich, Mohammadzadeh, Ali, Kafieh, Raheleh & Kermani, Saeed (2018). A hybrid graph-based approach for right ventricle segmentation in cardiac MRI by long axis information transition. PHYSICA MEDICA-EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL PHYSICS 54: 103-116.
• Rabbani, Hossein, Kafieh, Rahele, Jahromi, Mahdi Kazemian, Jorjandi, Sahar, Dehnavi, Alireza Mehri, Hajizadeh, Fedra & Peyman, Alireza (2016). Obtaining Thickness Maps of Corneal Layers Using the Optimal Algorithm for Intracorneal Layer Segmentation. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL IMAGING 2016: 1420230.
• Kafieh, Raheleh, Rabbani, Hossein, Hajizadeh, Fedra, Abramoff, Michael D. & Sonka, Milan (2015). Thickness Mapping of Eleven Retinal Layers Segmented Using the Diffusion Maps Method in Normal Eyes. JOURNAL OF OPHTHALMOLOGY 2015: 259123.
• Kafieh, Raheleh, Rabbani, Hossein & Selesnick, Ivan (2015). Three Dimensional Data-Driven Multi Scale Atomic Representation of Optical Coherence Tomography. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MEDICAL IMAGING 34(5): 1042-1062.
• Danesh, Hajar, Kafieh, Raheleh, Rabbani, Hossein & Hajizadeh, Fedra (2014). Segmentation of Choroidal Boundary in Enhanced Depth Imaging OCTs Using a Multiresolution Texture Based Modeling in Graph Cuts. COMPUTATIONAL AND MATHEMATICAL METHODS IN MEDICINE 2014: 479268.
• Kafieh, Raheleh, Rabbani, Hossein, Hajizadeh, Fedra & Ommani, Mohammadreza (2013). An Accurate Multimodal 3-D Vessel Segmentation Method Based on Brightness Variations on OCT Layers and Curvelet Domain Fundus Image Analysis. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING 60(10): 2815-2823.
• Kafieh, Raheleh, Rabbani, Hossein, Abramoff, Michael D. & Sonka, Milan (2013). Intra-retinal layer segmentation of 3D optical coherence tomography using coarse grained diffusion map. MEDICAL IMAGE ANALYSIS 17(8): 907-928.
• EtehadTavakol, Mahnaz, Chandran, Vinod, Ng, E. Y. K. & Kafieh, Raheleh (2013). Breast cancer detection from thermal images using bispectral invariant features. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THERMAL SCIENCES 69: 21-36.
• Kafieh, Raheleh, Rabbani, Hossein, Abramoff, Michael D. & Sonka, Milan (2013). Curvature correction of retinal OCTs using graph-based geometry detection. PHYSICS IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 58(9): 2925-2938.
• Kafieh, R., Lotfi, T. & Amirfattahi, Rassoul (2011). Automatic detection of defects on polyethylene pipe welding using thermal infrared imaging. INFRARED PHYSICS \& TECHNOLOGY 54(4): 317-325.