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Appointment

Dr. Shameer Aslam

Dr. Shameer Aslam

Senior Research Fellow

Department: Amrita Advanced Centre for Epilepsy, Neurology
Qualification:MTech in Signal Processing and BTech in Electronics and Communication Engineering

About Me

Shameer holds MTech in Signal Processing from National Institute of Technology (NIT), Calicut. During his masters he worked on several projects based on biomedical signal processing like Stereo-EEG, scalp-EEG, ECG, EMG, and MRI. His MTech thesis was based on Stereo-EEG signal analysis using graph theory to detect epileptogenic zone. Pursuing his interest, he joined Amrita Advanced Centre for Epilepsy (AACE). Currently, he is working as
Senior Research Fellow at AACE, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi.

Master Thesis Guided

  • 2021, Bhawana Chaudhary, M.Sc. in Neuroelectrophysiology – Outcome in MRI negative frontal lobe epilepsy: Advanced analysis techniques
  • 2022, Navami Ajith, M.Sc. Neuroelectrophysiology – Molecular image analysis in presurgical evaluation of drug resistant focal epilepsy: A retrospective study

Research Interest

  • Neuroimaging in epilepsy: Structural MRI, Functional MRI, DTI, PET, SPECT.
  • Development of diagnostic tools for neuroimaging
  • Brain network analysis
  • Biomedical signal processing
  • Machine learning

Advanced Courses & Training

  • Online Workshop BESA Research by BESA research team, 9 – 13 May, 2022
  • SPM fMRI/MRI/VBM, University College London, 17 – 19 May, 2021
  • MATLAB course, CETPA Infotech Pvt. Ltd. (Roorkee), 24 July – 20 August, 2014
  • Industrial training in the Department of Testing and Night Vision, Bharat Electronics Limited Camera (Kotdwara), 23 June – 19 July, 2014
  • Sixth Sense Gesture Control, IQB Technologies (Tehri), 29 – 30 March, 2014
  • Embedded System course, CETPA Infotech Pvt. Ltd. (Dehradun), 20 June – 17 July, 2013

Previous projects and experience

  • Developed PASCOM: An automated PET analysis tool for detecting hypometabolism
  • Statistical asymmetry analysis of volumetric MRI and FDG PET for detecting temporal lobe epilepsy
  • fMRI source localization and connectivity analysis
  • PASCOM in MRI negative epilepsy
  • PASCOM in bilateral temporal lobe epilepsy
  • SPM (Statistical Parametric Mapping) Toolbox and scripting
  • Lead-DBS: A Toolbox for Deep Brain Stimulation electrode reconstruction and current simulation
  • T1-weighted MRI Brain texture analysis
  • Stereo-EEG implantation device and MATLAB toolbox for device operation
  • Localization of epileptogenic zone using graph theory
  • Low-Cost Research Platform for EMG Pattern Recognition-Based Prosthetic Hand
  • Sparse Bayesian Classification of EEG for Brain–Computer Interface
  • De-Noising of ECG signal
  • Perceptual Image Fusion
  • Face recognition based attendance system (using MATLAB & embedded system
  • Automatic cooling system (using MATLAB & Embedded System)
  • Speed Checker (using Embedded System)

Publications

Journal Articles

  • Aslam S, Damodaran N, Rajeshkannan R, Sarma M, Gopinath S, Pillai A. Asymmetry
    index in anatomically symmetrized FDG PET improves epileptogenic focus detection in pharmacoresistant epilepsy. J Neurosurg. 2022 Aug 5:1-9. doi: 10.3171/2022.6.JNS22717.
    Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35932262
  • Aslam, S., Rajeshkannan, R., Sandya, C. J., Sarma, M., Gopinath, S., Pillai, A. "Statistical asymmetry analysis of volumetric MRI and FDG PET in temporal lobe epilepsy." Epilepsy Behavior, 134, 108810 (2022).
  • Jayapaul, Pushkaran, Shameer Aslam, Bindhu Mangalath Rajamma, Siby Gopinath, and Ashok Pillai. "Contralateral insular epileptogenic hub causing seizure relapse after opercular focal cortical dysplasia surgery and response to radiofrequency thermocoagulation: illustrative case." Journal of Neurosurgery: Case Lessons 2, no. 5 (2021)

Peer-reviewed Conference Articles

  • G. Nithin, Shameer Aslam, P. S. Sathidevi, P. M. Ameer, Siby Gopinath,K. Radhakrishnan,and Harilal Parasuram. 2018. Localization of epileptogenic zone: A graph theoretical approach. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Vision, Image
    and Signal Processing (ICVISP 2018). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 64, 1–5

Conference Presentations

  • "Statistical asymmetry analysis of volumetric T1 MRI and 18F FDG PET in temporal lobe epilepsy" - ILAE NAEC 2022 (Poster presentation)
  • "Voxel-based asymmetry analysis of FDG PET improves epileptogenic zone detection" - ILAE NAEC 2022
  • "Hippocampal Volumetric Analysis in Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Patients" - ECON 2020 (Ahmedabad)