Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications

Below are selected — Manuscripts | Book Chapters | Conference Proceedings | Conference Abstracts | Invited Talks | Presentations — by Dr. Nasser Kashou

Manuscripts

  1. A Proposed Brain-, Spine-, and Mental- Health Screening Methodology (NEUROSCREEN) for Healthcare Systems: Position of the Society for Brain Mapping and Therapeutics. Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease.
  2. Multi-Echo Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping for Strategically Acquired Gradient Echo (STAGE) Imaging. Frontiers in Neuroscience: Brain Imaging Methods.
  3. Post-therapy fMRI in Adults with Symptomatic Convergence Insufficiency. Optometry & Vision Science.
  4. Imaging of convergence insufficiency treatment effects (ICITE) pilot study: Design and methods. Vision Development & Rehabilitation.
  5. Utilizing functional near-infrared spectroscopy for prediction of cognitive workload in noisy work environments, Neurophotonics.
  6. Brain lesions among orally-fed and gastrostomy-fed dysphagic preterm Infants: Can routine qualitative or volumetric quantitative MRI predict feeding outcomes? Frontiers in Pediatrics.
  7. Somatic stimulation causes fronto-parietal cortical changes in neonates: an fNIRS study. Neurophotonics.
  8. Hand Grasping and Finger Tapping Induced Similar fNIRS Cortical Responses. Neurophotonics. 
  9. Optode Placement Effects on fNIRS of Visual Cortex. Neurophotonics.
  10. Oculomotor neurocircuitry, a structural connectivity study of infantile nystagmus syndrome. PLoS One.
  11. Early Exposure to General Anesthetics: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) Study. Paediatric Anaesthesia.
  12. Interpolation-based super-resolution reconstruction: effects of slice thickness. Journal of Medical Imaging.
  13. Nonlinear neural network for hemodynamic model state and input estimation using fMRI data. Biomedical Signal Processing and Control.
  14. Esophageal Reflexes Modulate Fronto-Parietal Cerebral Cortical Response in Neonates: Novel Application of Concurrent fNIRS and Provocative Esophageal Manometry. American Journal of Physiology-Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology.
  15. Ameliorating Slice Gaps in Multislice Magnetic Resonance Images: An Interpolation Scheme. International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery.
  16. Evaluation of Interpolation Effects on Up-sampling and Accuracy of Cost functions Based Optimized Automatic Image Registration. International Journal of Biomedical Imaging.
  17. Neural Circuit involved in Idiopathic Nystagmus Syndrome Based on fMRI. Journal of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus.
  18. Relationship among FMRI, Contrast Sensitivity and Visual Acuity. Brain Research.
  19. Instruction Dependent Activation During Optokinetic Nystagmus (OKN) Stimulation: an FMRI Study at 3T. Brain Research.
  20. Depth sensitivity analysis of functional near-infrared spectroscopy measurement using three-dimensional Monte Carlo modelling-based magnetic resonance imaging. Lasers in Medical Science.

Book Chapters

  1. A Practical Guide to an fMRI Experiment, Advanced Brain Neuroimaging Topics in Health and Disease – Methods and Applications.
  2. Current Trends of FMRI in Vision Science: A Review, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging – Advanced Neuroimaging Applications.
  3. New window on optical brain imaging; Medical Development, Simulations and Applications, Selected Topics on Optical Fiber Technology.

Conference Proceedings

  1. Neurocognitive Correlates of Learning in a Visual Object Recognition Task. HCI International.
  2. The IncuLight: Solar-powered infant incubator, Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC).
  3. Spatial sensitivity of near-infrared spectroscopic brain imaging based on three-dimensional monte carlo modeling,” Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, International Conference of the IEEE.
  4. Etude de la sensibilité spatiale de la spectroscopie proche infrarouge (NIRS) au cerveau: simulation de Monte Carlo 3D basée IRM, Journées d’Etudes Algéro-Françaises en Imagerie Médicale JETIM.
  5. Using FMRI and FNIRS for localization and monitoring of visual cortex activities, Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference of the IEEE.

Conference Abstracts

  1. Structurally Constrained Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping. ISMRM 2019.
  2. Imaging of Convergence Insufficiency Treatment Effects (I-CITE): an fMRI Study. Society for Brain Mapping and Therapeutics (SBMT), Neuroplasticity Session. Los Angeles, CA, April 20, 2017.
  3. Potential of fNIRS to monitor and assess touch therapy. Society for Brain Mapping and Therapeutics (SBMT), Neurophotonic and Brain Mapping Session. Los Angeles, CA, April 20, 2017.
  4. Assessing Neonatal Cortical and Motor Activation during Swallowing in the NICU. fNIRS 2016. Oct 13-16, 2016. Paris, France.
  5. Visual Task Learning of Familiar vs Non-Familiar Objects: An fMRI Study. 22nd Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping. Geneva, Switzerland. June 26-30, 2016.
  6. Neural Activation during Eye Movements in Convergence Insufficiency Subjects versus Normal Controls. 22nd Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping. Geneva, Switzerland. June 26-30, 2016.
  7. Somatic stimulation causes fronto-parietal cortical changes in neonates: an fNIRS study. 13th Annual World Congress of Society for Brain Mapping and Therapeutics. Miami, Florida. April 9, 2016.
  8. Hand Grasping and Finger Tapping Induced Similar Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) Cortical Responses. 13th Annual World Congress of Society for Brain Mapping and Therapeutics. Miami, Florida. April 8, 2016.
  9. A comparison of convergence- and divergence-related brain activation using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). College of Optometrists in Vision Development (COVD). 46th Annual Meeting .St. Louis, Missouri. April 12-16, 2016.
  10. A Low Cost Wireless Near Infrared Spectroscopy System using Embedded Linux. 17th International Conference on Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIR 2015). Brazil. October 18-23, 2015.
  11. Kinect Accuracy in Abdominal Surface Reconstruction for Robotic Surgery. BMES Annual Meeting. Tampa. October 7-10, 2015.
  12. Design of a Low Cost Wireless Near Infrared Spectroscopy System using Embedded Linux. BMES Annual Meeting. Tampa. October 7-10, 2015.
  13. What Does Divergence Look Like In An fMRI Study of Normal Binocular Vision Subjects? Academy. New Orleans. October 7-10, 2015.
  14. Segmentation and Analysis of Brain MRIs of Human Premature Infants with Dysphagia are Distinct. Digestive Disease Week (DDW). Washington DC. May 16–19, 2015.
  15. Volumetric Analysis of Focal Epilepsy in Children. American Clinical Neurophysiology Society (ACNS) Annual Meeting & Courses. Houston. Texas. February 3-8, 2015.
  16. Diffusion Tensor Imaging and Segmentation for Infantile Nystagmus. BMES Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas. October 22-25, 2014.
  17. Effects of Somatic Stimulation on Human Neonatal Fronto-Parietal Cerebral Cortex using Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy. Society for functional near-infrared spectroscopy (SfNIRS). Montreal. October 10-13, 2014.
  18. Evaluation of fNIRS for Assessment of the Visual and Motor Cortices in Adults. Society for functional near-infrared spectroscopy (SfNIRS). Montreal. October 10-13, 2014.
  19. Consequences of early exposure to general anesthetics on brain functions: A functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study. Society for Pediatric Anesthesia Winter Meeting, March, 2014.  Lauderdale, FL.
  20. Novel Esophago-Cortical Responses in Unsedated Human Neonates discovered upon Concurrent Provocative Manometry and Functional Near-Infared Spectroscopy (fNIRS). Digestive Disease Week 2013, A-1602121
  21. Solar powered incubator. Competition. Houston Texas Global Health Technologies Design Competition Rice University April 5, 2013.
  22. Evaluating the Accuracy of Interpolation Techniques on 3D MR Images; Pre-Processing Step to Super Resolution Reconstruction, BMES Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, October 2012.
  23. FMRI in Children with and without a History of Early Exposure to General Anesthetics. Human Brain Mapping 2011.
  24. Tractography of Infantile Nystagmus Syndrome. ARVO 2011.
  25. FMRI in Children with and without a History of Early Exposure to General Anesthetics. ASFNR 5th Annual Meeting 2011.
  26. Axial, Sagittal, and Coronal FMRI Imaging. ASFNR 5th Annual Meeting 2011.
  27. Pontine and Midbrain Echogenicity Explained: In Vivo and Ex Vivo US Anisotropy with MRI Diffusion Tensor Tractography Correlation. The American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM) 2011.
  28. Brain-Behavior relationships in Infants Born Preterm. Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) and Asian Society for Pediatric Research (ASPR) 2011.
  29. White Matter Analysis of Idiopathic Nystagmus Syndrome. Human Brain Mapping 2009.
  30. Neural Circuit involved in Idiopathic Nystagmus Syndrome Based on fMRI. ARVO 2009.
  31. Functional Near Infrared (fNIR) for Assessment of Pediatric Vision. AAPOS 2008.
  32. Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (FMRI) of Saccade vs Pursuit at 3T. ARVO 2007, Paper Presentation.
  33. Comparison of axial, sagital, and coronal imaging for simple finger tapping experiment: an FMRI case study. Human Brain Mapping 2007, Poster.
  34. Design of a near infrared sensor head for non-invasive detection of visual cortex activities. BMES 2007 Annual Meeting.
  35. Development of a non-invasive functional tool to assess vision and visual potential in preverbal children. BioOhio 2007. Best Commercial Potential Award.
  36. Cerebellar activation during fusional convergence: an FMRI study. Human Brain Mapping 2006, Poster.
  37. Non-Invasive, Real Time Monitoring of Event-Related Optical Signal (EROS) and Visual Evoked Potential (VEP) During Visual Stimulation. ARVO 2006, Paper Presentation.
  38. FMRI on Look vs Stare Optokinetic Nystagmus (OKN). ARVO 2006, Paper Presentation.

Invited Talks

  1. Brain Computer Interface with Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS). 19th Annual World Congress of Society for Brain Mapping and Therapeutics (SBMT). Brain, Spine and Mental Disorders. March 13, 2022.
  2. Medical Image Registration in Mixed Reality (MR). 19th Annual World Congress of Society for Brain Mapping and Therapeutics (SBMT). Brain, Spine and Mental Disorders. March 13, 2022.
  3. Functional and Structural MRI for Surgical Planning in Epilepsy. 19th Annual World Congress of Society for Brain Mapping and Therapeutics (SBMT). Brain, Spine and Mental Disorders. March 11, 2022.
  4. Cortical Brain Mapping using Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS). G20-Neuroscience20 Brain-Spine-Mental-Health. Oct. 30th -31st 2021 Rome – Italy (Virtual).
  5. Health Informatics: Program Development, Leadership & Global Health. NSU Florida. July 23, 2021
  6. The Role of Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) in Neural Engineering. 17th/18th Annual World Congress of Society for Brain Mapping and Therapeutics (SBMT). Brain, Spine and Mental Disorders. July 8th – July 11th
  7. Brain Imaging: Medical Engineering & Clinical Applications. Zenith Academy. Oct. 15th 2020.
  8. Clinical Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Brain Applications & Medical Engineering. Acibadem University. Oct. 13th
  9. The Role of Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) & Neuroimaging for Therapy. Neuroimaging of speech, language, and music. OSU. March 16, 2020.
  10. Introduction to Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI). Human Brain Imaging Series: Lecture 2. KAUST. April 28, 2018.
  11. Introduction to Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS). Human Brain Imaging Series: Lecture 1. KAUST. April 26, 2018.
  12. Introduction to Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS). Neuroimaging Seminar. OSU. March 8, 2018.
  13. The Role of Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) & Neuroimaging for Therapy. UoG. Jan. 15, 2018.
  14. Filtered Back-Projection for Computed Tomography. UoG. Jan. 15, 2018.
  15. The Role of Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) in Neural Engineering. FIT. Nov. 13, 2017.
  16. FNIRS and Holistic Brain Therapy. HAL International memorial Conference 2nd in conjunction with 29th International Congress of Pediatrics. October 27, 2017.
  17. Global NIRS. 1st Mexican Symposium on Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Neuroimaging (MexNIRS), Cholula, Puebla, México, October 20-21 2017.
  18. Therapeutic Assessment and Monitoring: Potential of Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS). fNIRS Seminar Series OSU. September 14, 2017.
  19. Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS): Therapeutic Brain Monitoring. Brain Health Alliance Virtual Institute (BHAVI) Summer 2017 Education Program. August 21, 2017.
  20. Potential of fNIRS to monitor and assess touch therapy. Society for Brain Mapping and Therapeutics (SBMT), Neurophotonic and Brain Mapping Session. Los Angeles, CA, April 20, 2017.
  21. Imaging of Convergence Insufficiency Treatment Effects (I-CITE): an fMRI Study. Society for Brain Mapping and Therapeutics (SBMT), Neuroplasticity Session. Los Angeles, CA, April 20, 2017.
  22. Non-Invasive Functional & Structural MRI: A Multidisciplinary Approach. HAL International memorial Conference 1st in conjunction with 28th International Congress of Pediatrics. October 21, 2016.
  23. Non-Invasive Functional & Structural MRI: Recommended Considerations. Brain Health Alliance Virtual Institute (BHAVI) Summer 2016 Education Program. August 23, 2016.
  24. Somatic stimulation causes fronto-parietal cortical changes in neonates: an fNIRS study. SBMT Young Investigator Award (YIA). Miami, Florida. April 9, 2016.
  25. Hand Grasping and Finger Tapping Induced Similar Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) Cortical Responses. SBMT Neuro-Photonics. Miami, Florida. April 8, 2016.
  26. A Multidisciplinary Approach to Brain Imaging: Recommended Considerations. Medpace. Cincinnati, Ohio. February 24, 2016.
  27. A Multidisciplinary Approach to Brain Imaging: Recommended Considerations. Brain Health Alliance Virtual Institute (BHAVI) Summer 2015 Education Program. August 18, 2015.
  28. Cautionary Tales: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Brain Imaging. Nationwide Children’s Hospital Research Institute. Jadcherla Lab. Columbus, Ohio. August 6, 2015.
  29. Non-Invasive Functional & Structural Neuroimaging: A Multidisciplinary Perspective. AHEAD. July 15, 2015.
  30. Non-Invasive Functional & Structural Neuroimaging: A Multidisciplinary Perspective. Engineers Club. July 14, 2015.
  31. Non-Invasive Functional & Structural Neuroimaging: A Multidisciplinary Perspective. 2015 Neuroscience Symposium.  Perkins & Will. May 19, 2015.
  32. Utilizing Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) to Understand Eye Movements. Annual Meeting of Project Lead the Way. November 20, 2014.
  33. Neuroimaging in Pediatrics: Dysphagia Protocol. Nationwide Children’s Hospital Research Institute. Jadcherla Lab. Columbus, Ohio. October 25, 2013.
  34. Neuroimaging for Pediatric Population: Oculomotor Function. Frontiers in Pediatric Research. Sept. 20, 2013.
  35.  Neuroimaging Research Applications using Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) with Focus on Oculomotor Function. Undergraduate Engineering Seminar. September 19, 2013.
  36. Can Neuroimaging Aid in Understanding Nystagmus? RHCP Branch Call Tech Talk. September 18, 2013.
  37. Can Neuroimaging Aid in Understanding Infantile Nystagmus Syndrome? 3rd International Nystagmus Research Workshop. September 5-7, 2013 Cosener’s, Abingdon, England.
  38. Biomedical Imaging. Learning Community Seminar. September 12, 2012.
  39. Medical X-Ray Machine Operator Didactic Course. July 5-6, 2012.
  40. Neuroimaging Research Applications using Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) with Focus on Oculomotor Function. Undergraduate Engineering Seminar. May 1, 2012.
  41. Medical X-Ray Machine Operator Didactic Course. March 12-14, 2012.
  42. Neuroimaging Research Applications using Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) with Focus on Oculomotor Function. PhD Research Seminar Series. March 9, 2012.
  43. Clinical Neuroimaging. ACMS Seminar at KAUST. May 29, 2011.
  44. The use of DSP/COMM in the Medical Field. IEEE Lecture Series: Communications and DSP. The Ohio State University. November 22, 2010.
  45. Current Studies in FMRI and Eye Movements. Vision Science Seminar Series. The Ohio State University. April 6, 2010.
  46. FMRI and Eye Movements (EM). Comprehensive Engineering & Science of Biomedical Images (CESBMI) IEEE EMBS Lecture Series. The Ohio State University. April 06, 2009.
  47. Introduction to FMRI and Updates. 5th Annual OSUMC MRI Seminar March 14, 2009.
  48. FMRI Research and Binocular Vision Function. Vision Science Seminar Series March 5, 2009.
  49. Utilization of Near Infrared (NIR) Light for Assessment of Cortical Function in Pediatrics. Nationwide Children’s Hospital Research Seminar Series. February 19, 2008.
  50. Highlighting differences in optokinetic nystagmus (OKN): a functional magnetic resonance (FMRI) study. Ophthalmology Research Day. June 15, 2007.
  51. The eye, brain and FMRI. Biomedical Engineering Seminar Series. The Ohio State University. May 24, 2007.
  52. FMRI research at Columbus Children’s Hospital. Columbus Children’s Hospital Research Seminar Series. January 30, 2007.
  53. Understanding the visual pathway in order to set up an FMRI experiment. Biomedical Engineering Seminar Series January 5, 2006.

Presentations

  1. Case Study: Pre-Surgical Planning FMRI. Nationwide Children’s Hospital Epilepsy Surgery Conference. Weekly from April 2009 through September 2009.
  2. Radiological Research Possibilities. Nationwide Children’s Hospital Radiology Noon Conference. May 14, 2009.
  3. Preparing and Giving a Good Scientific Talk. Nationwide Children’s Hospital Radiology Summer Research Seminar. June 15, 2009.
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