Submissions from 2025
PLC-Controlled Intelligent Conveyor System with AI-Enhanced Vision of Efficient Waste Sorting, Natheer Almtireen, Nathir Rawashdeh, Viraj Reddy, Max Sutton, Alexander Nedvidek, Caden Karn, and et. al.
A New Method Using Deep Learning to Predict the Response to Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy, Kristoffer A. Larsen, Zhuo He, Fernando de A Fernandes, Xinwei Zhang, Chen Zhao, Qiuying Sha, Claudio T. Mesquita, Diana Paez, Ernest V. Garcia, Jiangang Zou, Amalia Peix, Guang-Uei Hung, and Weihua Zhou
Mechatronics Design and Control of a Hybrid Flying-Ground Robot for Long-Endurance Mobility, Mutaz Ryalat, Nathir Rawashdeh, Nader Abu-Alrub, and Hisham Elmaoqet
Understanding the Influence of Image Enhancement on Underwater Object Detection: A Quantitative and Qualitative Study, Ashraf Saleem, Ali Awad, Sidike Paheding, Evan Lucas, Timothy C. Havens, and Peter C. Esselman
HAGMN-UQ: Hyper association graph matching network with uncertainty quantification for coronary artery semantic labeling, Chen Zhao, Michele Esposito, Zhihui Xu, and Weihua Zhou
Submissions from 2024
Underwater Simultaneous Enhancement and Super-Resolution Impact Evaluation on Object Detection, Ali Awad, Nusrat Zahan, Evan Lucas, Timothy C. Havens, Sidike Paheding, and Ashraf Saleem
A Review on Machine Learning for Arterial Extraction and Quantitative Assessment on Invasive Coronary Angiograms, Pukar Baral, Chen Zhao, Michele Esposito, and Weihua Zhou
A new hip fracture risk index derived from FEA-computed proximal femur fracture loads and energies-to-failure, Xuewei Cao, Joyce H. Keyak, Sigurdur Sigurdsson, Chen Zhao, Weihua Zhou, Anqi Liu, Thomas F. Lang, Hong Wen Deng, Vilmundur Gudnason, and Qiuying Sha
Introductory Chapter: Edge Computing in the Evolution of Smart Cities, Yu Chen and Ronghua Xu
PLC Multi-robot Integration via Ethernet for Human Operated Quality Sampling, Jeevan S. Devagiri, Paniz Khanmohammadi Hazaveh, Nathir Rawashdeh, Sai Revanth Reddy Dudipala, Pratik Mohan Desmuhk, and Aditya Prasad Karmarkar
Using AI-Enhanced UAVs to Detect and Size Marine Contaminations, Omer Eldirdiry, Navid Nasiri, Ahmed Al Maashari, Hadj Bourdoucen, Jawhar Ghommam, Ashraf Saleem, Ghazi Al Rawas, Amran Al-Kamzari, and Ahmed Ammari
Robotic-vision Material Handling System with a Centralized Programmable Logic Controller and Human Machine Interface, Ujwal Goulikar, Srija Gummadi, Karthik Rao Racharla, Anjani Deeksha Muddasani, and Nathir Rawashdeh
Improved Automated Quality Control of Skeletal Wrist Radiographs Using Deep Multitask Learning, Guy Hembroff, Chad Klochko, Joseph Craig, Harikrishnan Changarnkothapeecherikkal, and Richard Q. Loi
Optimal Molecular Dynamics System Size for Increased Precision and Efficiency for Epoxy Materials, Khatereh Kashmari, Sagar Patil, Josh Kemppainen, Shankara Gowtham, and Gregory Odegard
Automating an Industrial Dishwashing System Using Hardware-in-the-Loop PLC Simulation with Factory I/O, Paniz Khanmohammadi Hazaveh, Nathir Rawashdeh, Dunsten M. X. Dsouza, Joshua Olusola, Joshua Albrecht, and Eric Houck
Advancements in the Programmable Hyperspectral Seawater Scanner Measurement Technology for Enhanced Detection of Harmful Algal Blooms, John J. Langan and Jungyun Bae
A Decentralized Digital Watermarking Framework for Secure and Auditable Video Data in Smart Vehicular Networks, Xinyun Liu, Ronghua Xu, and Yu Chen
AGFI-GAN: An Attention-Guided and Feature-Integrated Watermarking Model Based on Generative Adversarial Network Framework for Secure and Auditable Medical Imaging Application, Xinyun Liu, Ronghua Xu, and Chen Zhao
Economical High-speed Inspection Line for Tin-capped Glass Vials, Chanakya Nanduri, Prarthana Hegde, Amey Hukkeri, and Nathir Rawashdeh
A Comparative Efficiency Simulation of Package Sorting Systems using Factory I/O, Samuel Nwankwo, Yared Abraha, Evan Fadanelli, and Nathir Rawashdeh
Hyperspectral Image Classification with Retentive Network, Sidike Paheding, Nusrat Zahan, Abel A. Reyes, Ernesto Martinez, and Eung Joo Lee
A heuristic for task allocation and path planning of multiple tethered underwater robots considering workload balance, Abhishek Patil, Myoungkuk Park, and Jungyun Bae
The Microverse: A Task-Oriented Edge-Scale Metaverse, Qian Qu, Mohsen Hatami, Ronghua Xu, Deeraj Nagothu, Yu Chen, Xiaohua Li, Erik Blasch, Erika Ardiles-Cruz, and Genshe Chen
Ignition SCADA System for a Programmable Logic Controller Mechatronics System, Karthik Rao Racharla, Srija Gummadi, and Nathir Rawashdeh
Hardware-in-the-loop Simulation of a Programmable Logic Controller, Industrial Robots and Conveyor Systems Using RoboGuide, Nathir Rawashdeh, Rahul Bondalapati, Punyokti Patil, Gurveet Singh Ajmani, and Shivayogi Akki
Forward-Forward Algorithm for Hyperspectral Image Classification, Abel A. Reyes-Angulo and Sidike Paheding
Experiential Learning for the Mechatronics Workforce in Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Aleksandr Sergeyev, David M. Labyak, Vinh Nguyen, Paniz Khanmohammadi Hazaveh, Linda Wanless, Mark Bradley Kinney, and et. al.
A staged approach using machine learning and uncertainty quantification to predict the risk of hip fracture, Anjum Shaik, Kristoffer A. Larsen, Nancy E. Lane, Chen Zhao, Kuan Jui Su, Joyce H. Keyak, Qing Tian, Qiuying Sha, Hui Shen, Hong Wen Deng, and Weihua Zhou
A novel method combining gated SPECT and vectorcardiography to guide left ventricular lead placement to improve response to cardiac resynchronization therapy: A Proof of Concept study, Hongjin Si, Zhuo He, Saurabh Malhotra, Xinwei Zhang, Fengwei Zou, Siyuan Xue, Zhiyong Qian, Yao Wang, Xiaofeng Hou, Weihua Zhou, and Jiangang Zou
Multispectral Deep Neural Network Fusion Method for Low-Light Object Detection, Keval Thaker, Sumanth Chennupati, Nathir Rawashdeh, and Samir A. Rawashdeh
Comparison of cerebral technetium-99m-ethyl cysteinate dimer perfusion in patients with dementia with Lewy bodies and Parkinson's disease dementia, Aili Toyli, Guang Uei Hung, Chen Zhao, Qiuying Sha, Pai Yi Chiu, and Weihua Zhou
A Secure Interconnected Autonomous System Architecture for Multi-Domain IoT Ecosystems, Ronghua Xu, Deeraj Nagothu, Yu Chen, Alex Aved, Erika Ardiles-Cruz, and Erik Blasch
A Robust Deep Learning Method with Uncertainty Estimation for the Pathological Classification of Renal Cell Carcinoma Based on CT Images, Ni Yao, Hang Hu, Kaicong Chen, Huan Huang, Chen Zhao, Yuan Guo, Boya Li, Jiaofen Nan, Yanting Li, Chuang Han, Fubao Zhu, Weihua Zhou, and Li Tian
A Deep Learning Approach based on Two-channel 3DCNN Networks to Predict the Risk of Femoral Fracture using CT Images, Kaiyang Yuan, Ling Wang, Qiuyue Wei, Xiaoguang Cheng, Chen Zhao, Shaojie Tang, Hong-Wen Deng, and Weihua Zhou
Multi-scale variational autoencoder for imputation of missing values in untargeted metabolomics using whole-genome sequencing data, Chen Zhao, Kuan-Jui Su, Chong Wu, Xuewei Cao, Qiuying Sha, Wu Li, Zhe Luo, Tian Qing, Chuan Qiu, Lan Juan Zhao, Anqi Liu, Lindong Jiang, Xiao Zhang, Hui Shen, Weihua Zhou, and Hong-Wen Deng
Radiomics Nomogram Derived from Gated Myocardial Perfusion SPECT for Identifying Ischemic Cardiomyopathy, Chunqing Zhou, Yi Xiao, Longxi Li, Yanyun Liu, Fubao Zhu, Weihua Zhou, Xiaoping Yi, and Min Zhao
Model-level attention and batch-instance style normalization for federated learning on medical image segmentation, Fubao Zhu, Yanhui Tian, Chuang Han, Yanting Li, Jiaofen Nan, Ni Yao, and Weihua Zhou
Submissions from 2023
Radar Odometry for Autonomous Ground Vehicles: A Survey of Methods and Datasets, Nader J. Abu-Alrub and Nathir Rawashdeh
Design of intelligent thruster decision-making system for USVs, Waleed Al Maawali, Mostefa Mesbah, Ahmed Al Maashri, and Ashraf Saleem
RAMRL: Towards Robust On-Ramp Merging via Augmented Multimodal Reinforcement Learning, Gaurav Bagwe, Xiaoyong Yuan, Xianhao Chen, and Lan Zhang
A synchronous multi-modal data acquisition and processing system for ADAS applications using an onboard GPU, Mojtaba Bahramgiri, Daniel Fuhrmann, and Nathir Rawashdeh
Neuroevolution Application to Collaborative and Heuristics-Based Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Cohort Simulation at Uncontrolled Intersection, Frederic Jacquelin, Jungyun Bae, Bo Chen, and Darrell Robinette
Evolution of Glassy Carbon Derived from Pyrolysis of Furan Resin, Josh Kemppainen, Ivan Gallegos, Aaron Krieg, Jacob R. Gissinger, Kristopher E. Wise, Margaret Kowalik, Julia A. King, S. Gowtham, Adri van Duin, and Gregory Odegard
Simultaneously Estimating Crop Yield and Seed Composition using Multitask Learning from UAV Multispectral Data, Shahid Nawaz Khan, Maitiniyazi Maimaitijiang, Bruce Millett, Sidike Paheding, Dapeng Li, Melanie Caffe, and Peter Kovacs
Deep-learning-based Image Segmentation for Image-based Computational Hemodynamic Analysis of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms: A Comparison Study, Zonghan Lyu, Kristin King, Mostafa Rezaeitaleshmahalleh, Drew Pienta, Nan Mu, Chen Zhao, Weihua Zhou, and Jingfeng Jiang
Estimating Crop Grain Yield and Seed Composition Using Deep Learning from UAV Multispectral Data, Maitiniyazi Maimaitijiang, Bruce Millett, Sidike Paheding, Shahid Nawaz Khan, Kamila Dilmurat, Abel A. Reyes, and Peter Kovacs
Automatic extraction of coronary arteries using deep learning in invasive coronary angiograms, Yinghui Meng, Zhenglong Du, Chen Zhao, Minghao Dong, Drew Pienta, Jinshan Tang, and Weihua Zhou
Mobile disinfection robot control optimization based on far-UVC light irradiance modeling, Alireze Mohammadi, Samir Rawashdeh, and Nathir A. Rawashdeh
Application of Electrical Network Frequency as an Entropy Generator in Distributed Systems, Deeraj Nagothu, Ronghua Xu, Yu Chen, Erik Blasch, and Erika Ardiles-Cruz
Robot Vision-based Waste Recycling Sorting with PLC as Centralized Controller, Chetan Nandre, Edwin Yazbec, Prathamesh Urunkar, Sourish Motey, Paniz Khanmohammadi Hazaveh, and Nathir A. Rawashdeh
Feasibility of Left Ventricle Lead Implantation in Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Guided by Gated SPECT and Ventricular Remodeling, Erivelton Alessandro do Nascimento, Fernando de Amorim Fernandes, Pedro Augusto Carvalho Mira, Zhuo He, Weihua Zhou, and Claudio Tinoco Mesquita
LiDAR and RGB camera based feature extraction and evaluation for adverse weather driving, Joshua Olusola, Jumana Abu-Khalaf, Sidike Paheding, and Nathir Rawashdeh
U-PEN++: Redesigning U-PEN Architecture with Multi-Head Attention for Retinal Image Segmentation, Sidike Paheding, Abel A. Reyes, Jeevan S. Devagiri, Vijayan K. Asari, and Mohammad Alam
Coordinating Tethered Autonomous Underwater Vehicles towards Entanglement-Free Navigation, Abhishek Patil, Myoungkuk Park, and Jungyun Bae
Developing a Climbing Assistive Exoskeleton, Jared Rathbum, Austin Sharky, Prathamesh Urunkar, Ashraf Saleem, and Paniz Hazaveh
Vision-based Online Defect Detection of Polymeric Film via Structural Quality Metrics, Nathir Rawashdeh, Paniz Hazaveh, and Safwan Altarazi
C-PLES: Contextual Progressive Layer Expansion with Self-attention for Multi-class Landslide Segmentation on Mars using Multimodal Satellite Imagery, Abel A. Reyes, Sidike Paheding, A. Rajaneesh, K. S. Sajinkumar, and Thomas Oommen
Radiomic-based Textural Analysis of Intraluminal Thrombus in Aortic Abdominal Aneurysms: A Demonstration of Automated Workflow, Mostafa Rezaeitaleshmahalleh, Nan Mu, Zonghan Lyu, Weihua Zhou, Xiaoming Zhang, Todd E. Rasmussen, Robert D. McBane, and Jingfeng Jiang
Radiomic-based Textural Analysis of Intraluminal Thrombus in Aortic Abdominal Aneurysms: A Demonstration of Automated Workflow, Mostafa Rezaeitaleshmahalleh, Nan Mu, Zonghan Lyu, Weihua Zhou, Xiaoming Zhang, Todd E. Rasmussen, Robert D. McBane, and Jingfeng Jiang
Multi-class plant type detection in Great Lakes region using remotely operated vehicle and deep learning, Ashraf Saleem, Ali Awad, Sidike Paheding, and Amy Marcarelli
A Non-Reference Evaluation of Underwater Image Enhancement Methods Using a New Underwater Image Dataset, Ashraf Saleem, Sidike Paheding, Nathir Rawashdeh, Ali Awad, and Navjot Kaur
Harmonic Distortion Reduction of Transformer-Less Grid-Connected Converters by Ellipsoidal-Based Robust Control, Hisham M. Soliman, Ashraf Saleem, Ehab H.E. Bayoumi, and Michele De Santis
A Supervisory Control System for a Mechatronics Assembly Station, Charan Valaboju, Manikanth Amuda, N. C.H. Sri Charan, Sushvan Reddy Gopireddy, Paniz Khanmohammadi Hazaveh, and Nathir Rawashdeh
Exploring the Boundaries: Legal and Ethical Considerations of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Penetration Testing and the CFAA, Victoria Walters and Yu Cai
Cascade Vertical Federated Learning Towards Straggler Mitigation and Label Privacy over Distributed Labels, Wensheng Xia, Ying Li, Lan Zhang, Zhonghai Wu, and Xiaoyong Yuan
Deep learning-based diagnosis of disease activity in patients with Graves’ orbitopathy using orbital SPECT/CT, Ni Yao, Longxi Li, Zhengyuan Gao, Chen Zhao, Yanting Li, Chuang Han, Jiaofen Nan, Zelin Zhu, Yi Xiao, Fubao Zhu, Min Zhao, and Weihua Zhou
Multi-view information fusion using multi-view variational autoencoder to predict proximal femoral fracture load, Chen Zhao, Joyce H. Keyak, Xuewei Cao, Qiuying Sha, Li Wu, Zhe Luo, Lan Juan Zhao, Qing Tian, Michael Serou, Chuan Qiu, Kuan Jui Su, Hui Shen, Hong Wen Deng, and Weihua Zhou
Spatial-temporal V-Net for automatic segmentation and quantification of right ventricle on gated myocardial perfusion SPECT images, Chen Zhao, Shi Shi, Zhuo He, Saurabh Malhotra, Cheng Wang, Zhongqiang Zhao, Xinli Li, Haixing Wen, Shaojie Tang, Yanli Zhou, and Weihua Zhou
AGMN: Association Graph-based Graph Matching Network for Coronary Artery Semantic Labeling on Invasive Coronary Angiograms, Chen Zhao, Zhihui Xu, Jingfeng Jiang, Michele Esposito, Drew Pienta, Guang-Uei Hung, and Weihua Zhou
The influence of arm positions on mechanical dyssynchrony measured by gated myocardial perfusion imaging, Zhongqiang Zhao, Cheng Wang, Zeyu Peng, Ju Bu, Chunxiang Li, Dianfu Li, Weihua Zhou, Rongsheng Lu, Lijun Tang, and Yong Li
Automatic reorientation by deep learning to generate short-axis SPECT myocardial perfusion images, Fubao Zhu, Guojie Wang, Chen Zhao, Saurabh Malhotra, Min Zhao, Zhuo He, Jianzhou Shi, Zhixin Jiang, and Weihua Zhou
Works from 2022
Assessment of Sentinel-2 and Landsat-8 OLI for Small-Scale Inland Water Quality Modeling and Monitoring Based on Handheld Hyperspectral Ground Truthing, Qasem Abdel, Mohammed N. Assaf, Abdulla Al-Rawabdeh, Sameer Arabasi, and Nathir A. Rawashdeh
Compact CNN-based road weather condition detection by grayscale image band for ADAS, Nader J. Abu-Alrub, Albara D. Abu-Shaqra, and Nathir Rawashdeh
Object detection in degraded LiDAR signals by synthetic snowfall noise for autonomous driving, Albara D. Abu-Shaqra, Nader J. Abu-Alrub, and Nathir Rawashdeh
A novel drone-based system for accurate human temperature measurement and disease symptoms detection using thermography and AI, Ahmed Al Maashri, Ashraf Saleem, Hadj Bourdoucen, Omer Eldirdiry, and Ahmed Al Ghadani
A Secure Software Engineering Design Framework for Educational Purpose, Abel A.Reyes Angulo, Xiaoli Yang, Quamar Niyaz, Sidike Paheding, and Ahmad Y. Javaid
Short- and mid-term forecasts of actual evapotranspiration with deep learning, Ebrahim Babaeian, Sidike Paheding, Nahian Siddique, Vijay K. Devabhaktuni, and Markus Tuller
Hitch Angle Estimation for Trailer Backup System – An Object Detection and Tracking Approach, Mojtaba Bahramgiri, Saeid Nooshabadi, Kunle Olutomilayo, and Daniel Fuhrmann
Augmented Reality and Artificial Intelligence in industry: Trends, tools, and future challenges, Jeevan S. Devagiri, Sidike Paheding, Quamar Niyaz, Xiaoli Yang, and Samantha Smith
Deep-Learning-Incorporated Augmented Reality Application for Engineering Lab Training, John Estrada, Sidike Paheding, Xiaoli Yang, and Quamar Niyaz
Heuristic Sensing Schemes for Four-Target Detection in Time-Constrained Vector Poisson and Gaussian Channels, Muhammad Fahad and Daniel Fuhrmann
Sensing Method for Two-Target Detection in Time-Constrained Vector Gaussian Channel, Muhammad Fahad and Daniel Fuhrmann
Work-in-Progress: Enabling Secure Programming in C++ & Java through Practice Oriented Modules, Kenneth Andrew Guernsey, Jacob Matthew Tietz, Quamar Niyaz, Xiaoli Yang, Ahmad Y. Javaid, and Sidike Paheding
Mechatronics Bachelor Curriculum Development in Light of Industry 4.0 Technology Needs: Contrasting US and German University Curricula, Paniz Hazaveh, Aleksandr Sergeyev, and Nathir Rawashdeh
On the use of Bayer Sensor Color Cameras in Digital Image Correlation, Ala Hijazi, Ahmad Al-Masri, and Nathir Rawashdeh
Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Cohort Speed Control Optimization via Neuroevolution, Frederic Jacquelin, Jungyun Bae, Bo Chen, Darrell Robinette, Pruthwiraj Santhosh, Joshua Orlando, and Daniel Knopp
Real Time Predictive and Adaptive Hybrid Powertrain Control Development via Neuroevolution, Frederic Jacquelin, Jungyun Bae, Bo Chen, Pruthwiraj Santhosh, Troy Kraemer, and Bonnie Henderson
A Smart Parallel Gripper Industrial Automation System for Measurement of Gripped Work Piece Thickness, Erik Kocher, Chukwuemeka George Ochieze, Ahmat Oumar, Travis Winter, Aleksandr Sergeyev, Mark Gauthier, and Nathir Rawashdeh
An Industrial Pneumatic and Servo Four-axis Robotic Gripper System: Description and Unitronics Ladder Logic Programming, Zongguang Liu, Chrispin Johnston, Aleksi Leino, Travis Winter, Aleksandr Sergeyev, Mark Gauthier, and Nathir Rawashdeh
Jamming Detection and Classification in OFDM-based UAVs via Feature- and Spectrogram-tailored Machine Learning, Y. Li, J. Pawlak, J. Price, K. Al Shamaileh, Q. Niyaz, S. Paheding, and V. Devabhaktuni
Automatic identification of end-diastolic and end-systolic cardiac frames from invasive coronary angiography videos, Yinghui Meng, Minghao Dong, Xumin Dai, Haipeng Tang, Chen Zhao, Jingfeng Jiang, Shun Xu, Ying Zhou, Fubao Zhu, Zhihui Xu, and Weihua Zhou
UVC and far-UVC light disinfection ground robot design for sterilizing the coronavirus on vertical surfaces, Alireze Mohammadi, Austin Kucharski, and Nathir Rawashdeh
Medical Image Segmentation Using U-Net and Progressive Neuron Expansion, Sidike Paheding, Abel A. Reyes, Mohammad Alam, and Vijayan K. Asari
GAF-NAU: Gramian Angular Field encoded Neighborhood Attention U-Net for Pixel-Wise Hyperspectral Image Classification, Sidike Paheding, Abel A. Reyes, Anush Kasaragod, and Thomas Oommen
An Algorithm for Task Allocation and Planning for a Heterogeneous Multi-Robot System to Minimize the Last Task Completion Time, Abhishek Patil, Jungyun Bae, and Myoungkuk Park
Operation of a Controllable Force-sensing Industrial Pneumatic Parallel Gripper System, Brian Piechocki, Chelsey Spitzner, Namratha Karanam, Travis Winter, Aleksandr Sergeyev, Mark Gauthier, and Nathir Rawashdeh
In situ Passive Infrared Thermography Application for the Assessment of Localized Mechanical Properties of Tungsten Inert Gas-Welded Inconel 625 Alloys, Nathir A. Rawashdeh, Anas M. Atieh, and Diala Bani Mostafa
Camera–Lidar sensor fusion for drivable area detection in winter weather using convolutional neural networks, Nathir Rawashdeh, Jeremy Bos, and Nader J. Abu-Alrub
Gabor Filter-Embedded U-Net with Transformer-Based Encoding for Biomedical Image Segmentation, Abel A. Reyes, Sidike Paheding, Makarand Deo, and Michel Audette
Gesture Controlled Collaborative Robot Arm and Lab Kit, Abel A. Reyes, Skylar Reinhardt, Tony Wise, Nathir Rawashdeh, and Sidike Paheding