About Me

I recently finished my PhD in Robotics and Control Lab at Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of University of British Columbia, working under supervision of Dr. Purang Abolmaesumi and Dr. Ingrid Johnsrude. I did my MSc and BSc at the Electrical Engineering Department of Sharif University of Technology.
Below is the word cloud of my research projects during my PhD:

My Citations

Publications

• M. Ramezani, "Joint source based brain imaging analysis for classification of individuals", The Univesity of British Columbia, 2014.
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• M. Ramezani, P. Abolmaesumi, A. Tahmasebi, T. Hollenstein, K. Harkness, IS. Johnsrude, "Fusion Analysis of First Episode Depression: Where Brain Shape Deformations Meet Local Composition of Tissue", Neuroimage: Clinical, 2015.
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• F. Imani, M. Ramezani, P. Mousavi, P. Abolmaesumi, , "Ultrasound-based Characterization of Prostate Cancer using Joint Independent Component Analysis", IEEE Trans Biomed Eng, 2015.
• M. Ramezani, A. Rasoulian, T. Hollenstein, IS. Johnsrude, K. Harkness, P. Abolmaesumi, "Temporal-lobe morphology differs between healthy adolescents and those with early-onset of depression", Neuroimage: Clinical, 2014.
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• M. Ramezani, K. Marble, H. Trang, I. Johnsrude, P. Abolmaesumi, "Joint Sparse Representation of Brain Activity Patterns in Multi-task fMRI Data", IEEE Trans Med Imag, 2014.
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• M. Ramezani, P. Abolmaesumi, K. Marble, H. Trang, I. Johnsrude, "Fusion Analysis of Functional MRI Data for Classification of Individuals Based on Patterns of Activation", Brain Imaging and Behavior, 2014.
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• O. Mohareri, M. Ramezani, T. Adebar,P. Abolmaesumi, SE. Salcudean, Automatic Localization of the da Vinci Surgical Instrument Tips in 3D Transrectal Ultrasound, IEEE Trans Biomed Eng, 2013.
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• M. Ramezani, A. Rasoulian, T. Hollenstein, K. Harkness, IS. Johnsrude, P. Abolmaesumi, "Joint source based analysis of multiple brain structures in studying major depressive disorder", SPIE Medical Imaging, 2014.
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• S. Nouranian, M. Ramezani, S..Mahdavi, I. Spadinger, WJ. Morris, SE. Salcudean, P. Abolmaesumi, Fast segmentation of the prostate for brachytherapy based on joint fusion of images and labels, SPIE Medical Imaging, 2014.
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M. Ramezani, A. Rasoulian, IS. Johnsrude, T. Hollenstein, K. Harkness, P. Abolmaesumi, Independent Component Analysis on Lie groups for Multi-object analysis of First Episode Depression, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP'13), Vancouver, Canada, 2013.
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M. Ramezani, A. Rasoulian, P. Abolmaesumi, T. Hollenstein, IS. Johnsrude, K. Harkness, Multi-Object Statistical Analysis of Late Adolescent Depression, SPIE Medical Imaging, 2013.
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M. Ramezani, P. Abolmaesumi, K. Marble, H. MacDonald, I. Johnsrude, Classification of Individuals Based on Sparse Representation of Brain Cognitive Patterns: a Functional MRI, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC'12), San Diego, US, 2012.
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M. Ramezani, P. Abolmaesumi, K. Marble, H. MacDonald, I. Johnsrude, Joint Sparse Representation of Brain Activity Patterns Related to Perceptual and Cognitive Components of a Speech Comprehension Task, Workshop on Pattern Recognition in NeuroImaging (PRNI'12), London, UK, 2012.
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O. Mohareri, M. Ramezani, T. Adebar, P. Abolmaesumi, S. E. Salcudean, Automatic localization and detection of da Vinci tool tips in 3D ultrasound, Information Processing in Computer-Assisted Interventions (IPCAI'12), Pisa, Italy, 2012.
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M. Ramezani, A. Heidari, E. Fatemizadeh and H. Soltanian-Zadeh, Spectral Clustering Approach with Sparsifying Technique for Functional Connectivity Detection in the Resting Brain, International Conference on Intelligent & Advanced Systems 2010(ICIAS'10). Malaysia, 2010.
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M. Ramezani, and S. Ghaemmaghami, Adaptive image Steganography with Mod-4 Embedding using Image Contrast, IEEE conference on Consumer communications and networking conference (CCNC'10), Las Vegas, USA, 2010.
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M. Ramezani, and S. Ghaemmaghami, Towards Genetic Feature Selection in Image Steganalysis, IEEE conference on Consumer communications and networking conference (CCNC'10), Las Vegas, USA, 2010.
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• M. Ramezani, and E. Fatemizadeh, Comparison of Supervised Classification Methods with Various Data Preprocessing Procedures for Activation Detection in fMRI Data. Computational Neuroscience, Optimization and Its Applications , vol. 8, pp. 75-83: Springer, New York, 2010.
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Projects

Joint Sparse Representation of Brain Activity Patterns

A data fusion method to identify common information across different functional contrasts in data from fMRI experiment.

Pose, Shape, Volume, and Tissue Composition Analysis of sMRI

Structural brain differences between adolescence and young adulthood individuals on their very first episode of MDD and healthy controls were investigated.

Automatic localization and detection of da Vinci tool tips in 3D ultrasound

A fully automatic registration technique based on accurate and automatic localization of robot tool tips pressed against the air-tissue boundary of the prostate, in 3D TRUS, was proposed.

Teaching

I have served as teaching assistant (TA) for the following courses
• Winter 2014: UBC EECE 434 : Biosignals and Systems
• Fall 2013: UBC EECE 364 : Electromagnetic Fields and Waves
• Winter 2012: UBC EECE 434 : Biosignals and Systems
• Winter 2011: UBC EECE 434: Biosignals and Systems
• Fall 2009: Sharif University: Pattern Recognition
• Fall 2008: Sharif University: Bioinstrument
• Fall 2008: Sharif University: Fundamentals of Biomedical Engineering
• Winter 2007: Sharif University: Digital Signal processing
• Spring 2007: Sharif University: Microprocessors I
• Fall 2006: Sharif University: Microprocessors I

Upcoming Conferences

• SPIE medical Imaging, Deadline: Past/li>
• International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI'15), Deadline: Past
• International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP'15), Deadline: Past