Medical Engineer
Resume:
Reza Farjam
Bioengineering
Updated: 08/25/2012
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[Education][Field of Research & Interests][Honors and Awards][Teaching
Experience][Advised Projects][Working Experiences][Computer Skills &
Experiences][Publications]
Education:
2008-2013 PhD in Biomedical Engineering (Cancer Functional Imaging)
(Expected) PhD Dissertation: Characterization of inter- and intra tumor
heterogeneity of the physiological parameters appearing prior to and
during the course of treatment: A correlation analysis with the treatment
outcome.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
2007-2008 M.S in Computer Science (Course Taken)
Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA
2001-2004 M.S. in Biomedical Engineering (Medical Imaging) with honor.
Master s Thesis: Automatic Grading of Pathological Images of Prostate.
University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran1
1998-2001 B.S. in Biomedical Engineering (Bioelectric) with honor.
Bachelor s Thesis: Design and Constructing a XYZ Device for positioning
an X-Ray Dosimeter in the Presence of a PC Interface.
Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Science, Tehran Iran2
1
Control and Intelligent Processing Center of Excellence, Tehran, Iran
2
The most prestigious medical school in Iran offered B.S. of Biomedical Engineering
Academic and Working Experiences:
2010-present Graduate Student Research Assistant in Department of
Radiation Oncology, the University of Michigan School of Medicine.
Mainly working on a computer-aided detection system for
automatic detection of small brain metastases in post-Gd T1 MRI
and to develop new imaging biomarkers for cancer therapy
assessment.
2010 Graduate Student Instructor Assistant in BME department. BME
450, Biomedical senior design. Mainly advising the design and
construction of fMRI phantom (resulted to the best project
concept and design) and Roboroach (controlling the cockroach
movement via electrode implantation and electrical stimulation)
projects.
2009-2010 Graduate Student Instructor Assistant in BME department. BME
458, Biomedical instrumentation and design: instructing
Electronic filter design and construction, ECG design and
construction with signal acquisition and analysis, EMG design and
construction with signal acquisition and analysis, Pulse Oximetry
principles, design and construction along with advising the final
term projects including the design and construction of robotic arm,
symphony of musical instrumentation and etc.
2007-2008 Graduate Research Assistant, Henry Ford Health System,
Detroit, MI, USA. Collaboration on a psycho-neurological project
between University of Michigan, Henry Ford Health System, Wayne
State University and General Motors. The projects incorporated the
neuro-image data such as MEG and EEG to study the brain behavior
during the simulated car accidents and similar events.
2005-2006 Biomedical Engineer, Shahid Chamran Hospital, Tehran, Iran.
Most importantly, as a supervisor engineer in CCU, ICU, and
Operating Room for medical device performance monitoring. Also,
as a communicator with the different corporations such as GE and
Siemens representatives for the purpose of technology transfer to
the hospital.
2004-2005 Conference Coordinator, 3rd International Conference on
Machine Vision, Image Processing & Applications, Tehran, Iran,
February 2005.
2003 Biomedical Engineer, Shahid Chamran Hospital, Tehran, Iran.
2001 Biomedical Engineering Trainee, E.N.T Department of Hazrat
Rassol Hospital, Tehran, Iran.
Honors and Awards
2012, the recipient of the Travel Grant Award from the 2nd joint
ASTRO/RSNA Cancer Imaging and Radiation Therapy Symposium.
2012, the work entitled Physiological Imaging-Defined Response-Driven
Subvolumes of a Tumor was selected as a Newsworthy topic by the
scientific program directors of the 54th annual meeting of American
Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM 2012).
2012, Awarded the John S. Laughlin - Science Council Research
Symposium - Imaging for therapy assessment, 54th annual meeting of
American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM 2012).
2012, the Rackham travel grant Fellowship, the 54th Annual meeting of
American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM 2012).
2011, the Rackham travel grant Fellowship, the 53rd Annual meeting of
American Society for Therapeutic Radiation and Oncology (ASTRO 2011).
2010, the Rackham travel grant Fellowship, the 96th Scientific Assembly and
Annual Meeting of The Radiological Society of North America (RSNA 2010).
2009, Advisory of BME senior design projects.
2008, the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) BME Department Fellowship.
2007, NIH Graduate Research Assistantship in Henry Ford Health System.
2007, Developing and proposing a system design based on the social
theory of Ant Colony to advance the structure of Biotechnology in Iran. The
proposal has been considered by the ministry of Health of Iran to wholly
rearrangement of medical and biotechnological structure in the country.
2007, Special award for the papers Fundamentals of Modern Medicine
and Principles of Professional Researching Systems in Medicine from
the Editorial Board of Shahid Chamran Hospital, Tehran, Iran.
2007, The paper entitled An Image Analysis Approach for Automatic
Malignancy Determination of Prostate Pathological Images was selected
as especial issue and Journal Cover in journal of Clinical Cytometry.
2001, Having been admitted to Control and Intelligent Processing Center of
Excellence, the Bioengineering department of University of Tehran through a
nation-wide entrance exam of graduate program among about 10,000 applicants
(during the 6th semester of undergraduate study).
1997, Getting a whole rank of about 200th, and about 50th (while being under
medical care due to a physical injury) among about 300,000 applicants in the
two-step Iranian Universities entrance exam (Konkour of Math & Physics).
1993-1997, having been always among the Top Students of ALBORZ college
(the most historical and largest high school in Tehran, Iran)
Field of Researches & Interests:
Cancer Functional Imaging
Image-Guided Therapy
Biomarkers in Imaging
Computer-Aided Diagnosis
Medical Imaging: MRI, perfusion and diffusion MRI, CT, Ultrasound.
Medical Image analysis especially medical images of cancer.
Machine Learning, pattern recognition, and data classification.
Neuroimaging and neuro-image data analysis, especially MEG, EEG.
Signal and Image Processing
Computer Skills & Experiences:
Programming in
- C++ and Visual C++
- Turbo Pascal
- ASSEMBLY (8051)
Applicable Software:
- MATLAB, & MEX function Programming in MATLAB
- Visualization Toolkit (vtk)
- OpenGL
- LabView
Publications:
Peer Reviewed Journals:
R. Farjam, Ch. I. Tsien, F. Y. Feng, D. G. Hassan, J. A. Hayman, T. S. Lawrence,
and Y. Cao, Physiological Imaging-Defined Response-Driven Subvolumes of a
Tumor, Accepted in international journal of radiation oncology * biology *
physics 2012.
- Patent pending
R. Farjam, H. A. Parmar, D. C. Noll, C. I. Tsien, and Y. Cao, An approach for
computer-aided detection of brain metastases in post-Gd T1-W MRI.,
Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 30 (6): 824-836, 2012.
R. Farjam, H. Soltanian-zadeh, K. Jafari-Khozani, and R. A. Zoroofi, An Image
Analysis Approach for Automatic Malignancy Determination of Prostate
Pathological Images. John Wiley InterScience, Cytometry part B (Clinical
Cytometry), 72B: 227-240, 2007.
- Selected as the special issue of the journal and chosen for journal
cover
- Introduced as an outstanding work by Biophotonics International
magazine.
Submitted/to be Submitted
R. Farjam, Ch. I. Tsien, F. Y. Feng, H. A. Parmar, J. A. Hayman, T. S. Lawrence,
and Y. Cao, Diffusion abnormality index: a new imaging biomarker for early
assessment of tumor response to therapy, to be submitted..
R. Farjam, Ch. I. Tsien, F. Y. Feng, H. A. Parmar, J. A. Hayman, T. S. Lawrence,
and Y. Cao, DCE-MRI defined subvolumes of a tumor for therapy
assessment, to be submitted.
Non-Peer Reviewed Articles:
R. Farjam, the Fundamental of Modern Medicine, 51st issue of Shahid
Chamran Hospital Monthly Magazine, Tehran, Iran, September 2006.
- Special award from the editorial board of the hospital
R. Farjam, the Bioengineering tree, roots and branches 67th issue of Iranian
Biomedical Engineering Monthly Magazine, Vol. 6, Issue 67, November 2006.
R. Farjam, Principles of Professional Researching Systems in Medicine,
52nd issue of Shahid Chamran Hospital Monthly Magazine, October 2006.
- Special award from the editorial board of the hospital
R. Farjam, Modern Medicine, Structure of Medical Researches:
Bioengineering, the hands of Medical Researches 68th issue of Iranian
Biomedical Engineering Monthly Magazine, Vol. 6, Issue 68, December 2006.
Conference Proceedings and Abstract:
R. Farjam, Ch. I. Tsien, F. Y. Feng, T. S. Lawrence, and Y. Cao, DCE-MRI
defined subvolumes of a tumor for therapy assessment, submitted to the
21th annual meeting and exhibition of international society of magnetic
resonance in medicine.
R. Farjam, Ch. I. Tsien, F. Y. Feng, D. G. Hassan, J. A. Hayman, T. S. Lawrence,
Y. Cao, The diffusion abnormality index: a new imaging biomarker for early
assessment of tumor response to therapy, the 2nd Scientific meeting of
Cancer Imaging and Radiation Therapy Symposium, February 8-9, 2013.
- The recipient of one of the four Travel Grant Awards.
R. Farjam, Ch. I. Tsien, F. Y. Feng, D. G. Hassan, J. A. Hayman, T. S. Lawrence,
Y. Cao, Physiological Imaging-Defined Response-Driven Subvolumes of a
Tumor, 54th annual meeting of American Association of Physicists in Medicine
(AAPM), July 29 to August 2, 2012.
- Selected of John S. Laughlin - Science Council Research
Symposium: imaging for therapy assessment
- Selected as a Newsworthy topic by the scientific program directors
R. Farjam, Ch. I. Tsien, F. Y. Feng, D. G. Hassan, J. A. Hayman, T. S. Lawrence,
Y. Cao, A better means for assessment of brain metastasis response to
radiation therapy, 53rd annual meeting of American Society for Therapeutic
Radiation and Oncology (ASTRO), October 2-6, 2011.
R. Farjam, D. C. Noll, H. A. Parmar, C. I. Tsien, and Y. Cao, A New Approach
for Computer-Aided Detection of Subclinical Brain Metastases in Post-Gd T1-
weighted MRI., 96th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of The
Radiological Society of North America, November 28 - December 03, 2010.
R. Farjam, J.E. Moran, S. Seaman, R.A. Young, N. Tepley, L. Hsieh, S.M.
Bowyer, Imaging of Brain Activities Related to Reaction Times in Driving
Simulation, International conference on Biomagnetism, Japan, 2008.
S. M. Bowyer, J. E. Moran, R. Farjam, R. A. Young, N. Tepley, L. Hsieh,
Language Processes during Overt and Covert Speech in a Simulated Driving
Task, International conference on Biomagnetism, Japan, 2008.
R. Farjam, H. Soltanian-zadeh, Yassaman Khademi, Computerized Gleason
Grading of Prostate Pathological Samples the 8th Annual congress of
pathology & the 2nd Annual congress of Iranian cancer Association, November
2006
R. Farjam, H. Soltanian-zadeh, and R. A. Zoroofi, K. Jafari-Khozani, Tree-
Structured Grading of Pathological Images of Prostate. Medical Imaging
2005, Proc. Of SPIE (SPIE, Bellingham, WA, 2005), Vol. 5747, pp. 840-851.
R. Farjam, H. Soltanian-zadeh, and R. A. Zoroofi, Automatic Grading of
Prostate Pathological Samples Using Texture Analysis. The 3rd Conference on
Machine Vision and Image Processing & Applications, Tehran, Iran, February
2005.
R. Farjam, R. A. Zoroofi, and H. Soltanian-zadeh, Unsupervised Texture
Segmentation Using Roughness in Wavelet Domain. The 2nd IEEE-GCC
International Conference, Bahrain, November, 2004.
R. Farjam, H. Soltanian-zadeh, and R. A. Zoroofi, Wavelet Based
Determination of Malignancy of the Pathological Images of the Prostate.
WSEAS Trans. on Electronics, Issue 3, Vol. 1, July 2004.
R. Farjam, R. A. Zoroofi, and H. Soltanian-zadeh, Unsupervised Texture
Segmentation Using Roughness Energy in the Wavelet Domain. The 5th
International Conference on Intelligent System, No. 149, Mashad, Iran, October
2002.
Talk and Presentation
R. Farjam, An Introduction to Statistical Analysis, Physics seminar,
Department of Radiation Oncology, the University of Michigan Health System,
April 2011.
R. Farjam, A new approach for computer-aided detection of small brain
metastases in post-Gd T1 weighted MRI, Physics seminar, Department of
Radiation Oncology, the University of Michigan Health System, Feb 2012.
Patents Pending (disclosure)
Yue Cao, Reza Farjam, and Peng Wang, U.S. Provisional Application No.
61/656,323, Title: Subvolume Identification for Prediction of Treatment
Outcome.
Membership
American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)
Reference: Upon request!
Hamid Soltanian-Zadeh, PhD.
Prof. of Elec. and Comp. Eng.
Director of Control and Intelligent Processing Center of Excellence
President of the Iranian Society of Machine Vision and Image Processing (ISMVIP)
Chairman of the Iran Section of the IEEE
University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
Phone: +98-21-611*-****,
Fax: +98-21-887*-****,
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Yue Cao, PhD.
Prof. and Head of Functional Imaging,
Departments of Radiation Oncology, Radiology and Biomedical Engineering,
The University of Michigan,
519 W William St,
Ann Arbor, MI, 48103, USA,
Phone: 734-***-****
Fax: 734-***-****
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Douglas C. Noll, PhD.
Prof. and Chair,
Department of Biomedical Engineering,
The University of Michigan,
1107 Gerstacker, 2200 Bonisteel Blvd.,
Ann Arbor MI, 48109, USA,
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